They listen to her story.

"At bleeding last." Dawn exclaims in response to Spike. "Someone 'oo speaks proper, like what I can. Wouldya Adam 'n Eve it, the 'ole manor is chocker wiv bleeding seppos? Couldn't cotton me spiel when I needed an oppo."

"Dawn's relieved someone speaks cockney." Spike translated. "She tried asking for help, but everyone spoke American and couldn't understand her."

"Never mind that, ask her what happened." Buffy demanded impatiently.

"Please, Buffy darling, don't shout like that at William." Joyce chided her daughter. "He's trying to help. I think he was very brave to go to all that trouble to get a soul and it shows he's always been a good boy at heart."

Neither Buffy or Giles knew how to respond to this. Spike looked gratefully and lovingly up at Joyce, the head of the Summer family filling the void in his life for a mother figure. Spike had turned his own mother into a vampire, invited her to team up with himself and Drusilla and finally staked her through the heart when she rejected him. To say that Spike had oedipal issues was a gross understatement. When Spike travelled to Vienna in the nineteenth twenties and had therapy sessions with Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis suffered a mental breakdown and spent several months in a sanitorium. Spike then sought solace in a bierkeller and ran into a disturbed young Austrian called Adolf...but that's another story entirely.

"I'd just left jah see an was strolling 'long the frog on me jack when a gavva 'ollers out for me to 'old me 'orses." Dawn was explaining to Spike, in atrociously garbled slang. "Nah right off I seed 'e was a lah di dah 'ome counties gent, jus like Mr 'oighty toighty there."

"She left school and was walking along the road on her own." Spike said helpfully. "A man dressed as a police officer with an upper class British accent, stopped her."

"This nonce said 'e was a mucker o' Giles." Dawn said, pointing Giles out accusingly. "But next fing I know, 'es got 'is sherberts on me noddies an' squirting shite in me boat."

"He said he was a friend of Giles." Spike supplied. "But then he grabbed her and sprayed her in the face with something."

"I got it 'ere." Dawn said, proudly producing the aerosol that Ethan had dropped. "The bleeding Charlie Chester dropped it when I kneed 'is nadgers. Arter that I 'ad it away on me toes."

"Dawn fought back and got the spray can that did this to her." Spike supplied. "Then she ran home."

"It's got to be Ethan Rayne." Giles announced, "He was reported missing recently and is obsessed with **** on me and anyone close to me."

Giles took the spray can from Dawn and lifted his glasses to peer at the label, his face went white.

"SLUTTY SCHOOLGIRL BAD – Naughty bad girl, wild, horny, favours many sexual partners, enlarged fake breasts, piercings, tattoos, favours dark colouring, leather, requires strict discipline from master Spankings will subdue for short times

NB: DOES NOT play well with good girls."

"Oh dear." Giles said quietly and handed the can to Joyce.

"Oh dear." Joyce echoed, paling instantly once she had read the can and passed it to Buffy.

"Oh dear." Said Buffy, looking shocked and gave the can to Spike.

"Well fuck me sideways." Spike swore.