It's tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior
year – thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately – Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not
helping her studies is the fact that lately she's been exhausted, waking up each morning feeling more tired than she did the night before.
To
make matters even worse, she's tasked with investigating the
disappearance of a child... a little girl who happens to have gone
missing mere hours before a child vampire surfaced in Sunnydale,
accompanied by a wheelchair-bound male who fits Spike's description
perfectly.
Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of
staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target
of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting
aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the
sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates
Snyder's odd behavior. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon
dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to
the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As
sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize
that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.
