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Buffy and Willow have a talk...

A massive thanks to Pixiecorn for going over this chapter for me, your awesome girl! Also a huge thanks to Edgehead for the amazing banner.
Chapter 3

Secrets revealed

Several weeks had passed since Buffy’s arrival in Sunnydale. She had managed to settle into a comfortable routine and it seemed like most of the gang had taken to her well. Giles started a strict but fun training program that took up most of her days whilst her nights were spent patroling with the help of Spike, although she never mentioned it to the rest of the gang that he tagged along.

Dawn had taken a real shine to her, inviting her over to the house for dinner and to watch movies with her. Buffy had even started Dawn into a training program of her own, saying that it was better to be prepared for any and every situation. Dawn had been so excited. She had begged Faith to teach her how to fight numerous times but she had always refused, saying that she didn’t need to worry about learning to fight as it was her job to protect her.

Tara had been helping her to get around the Sunnydale University campus, showing her to her classes and hanging out with her during lunch breaks. Over the weeks the two had become quiet close. Xander and Anya had spent time with her too; mostly taking her to the Bronze- the local 'hot spot' she was told- to relax after or before patrols.

In fact the only one she'd hardly spent any time with was Willow. Every time Buffy tried to talk to her Willow would mutter something about being busy and would take off, always with her head in a book. Buffy was worried that Willow saw her as someone who was trying to take her best friends spot in the group and was desperate to reassure her that was not the case at all.

“Willow could we talk?” She asked, standing in front of the red head who was sitting at the round table in the middle of the magic box.

“Actually I’m…” she started, shutting her book and moving to stand.

“Busy… " Buffy smiled sadly. "Yeah I know but this will only take a second, I promise.” She watched Willow nervously look around like she was being cornered. “I won’t bite.” Buffy couldn't help but laugh.

“Sure.” Willow sighed, smiling shyly following Buffy into the back training room. Shutting the door so they could be alone, Buffy turned to face Willow.

“Willow, I get the feeling that you don’t really like me being here.”

“No Buffy it’s not that it’s just…” Willow started, sighing sadly, unsure of how to finish.

“You miss her.”

“Every second.” Willow nodded. “She was my best friend for so long and now she’s gone and I keep thinking what if I could have done something more? If Tara hadn’t been crazy with what Glory did to her," she looked away. "If I wasn’t solely focused on that then maybe I could have done more... I could have saved her.”

“You can’t think like that, Willow. Faith did what she had to, to save Dawn and the world and if she is anything like me she would do it again if she had to.”

“I know she would.”

“Tara is the love of your life and she needed your help and even though you're a powerful witch you are only one person.” Willow nodded, feeling tears burn in her eyes. “I understand the pain you must be feeling… A couple of years ago I died and the people I left behind struggled to move on.”

“Giles told me how you drowned.”

“Oh no not then." She shook her head and let out a sad laugh, thinking back. "That was a life time ago. I was sixteen that night when I was ambushed and thrown into the river." She met Willows wide eyes. "This was when I was twenty three. I was dead for a couple of months Willow, not minutes.” Willow looked up, stunned.

“What? How did you die? How did you come back?” She stuttered, desperate for answers.

“When I was first adopted by the council and taken back to England I was sent to live with my watcher Merrick and his wife Cassandra. His best friend Jeffery was also a watcher and he had a son the same age as me named Pike, we become great friends immediately. It was easy being around him." She smiled at the memories. "He already knew about vampires and watchers and that I was the slayer. When we where fifteen Anna become part of our very small group after I saved her life one night from a group of vampires. I'd seen her around school but we had never talked before but after that the three of us were inseparable. When I died a year later everyone truly started to understand just how dangerous my job was. I thought Pike would stop talking to me, scared of feeling the pain if I was to ever die and you know, stayed that way.” Buffy laughed. Willow couldn’t help but laugh also.

“Instead he asked me out and we dated for seven years." She took in a deep breath, fighting back tears. "He proposed, I think we started to think I was invincible. W-when a master vampire named Lothos came to town my watcher got really worried, wanted me to stay indoors. I of course refused to put any one in danger by not continuing my nightly patrols but I made sure that Pike and Anna stayed off the streets. I ran into Lothos a few times but it seemed we were very closely matched. O-one night Pike went out and got captured, Lothos sent one of his minions to tell me.” Taking a deep breath Buffy tried to continue.

“I knew it was a trap but by then Anna had been studying witchcraft for quite a while, going on six years and I was hoping that with her and Merrick as backup I would be able to save him. I broke through Lothos' defenses and was able to free Pike before I was….overpowered…. I yelled at Anna to run and take Pike to safety. He was injured badly and needed hospital care and I knew if they stayed and tried to save me they would have been killed too. Merrick refused to leave and the last thing I remember seeing before being killed was him trying to save me.” She whispered, remembering the man who had been a father to her for ten years fighting to save her life.

“Did he make it?”

“No." She whispered. "I later found out that he had his neck broken.” She brushed the tears from her eyes before they could reach her cheeks.

“Buffy I’m so sorry… You knew it was a trap but you still went in there knowing you might not make it out.”

“I couldn’t leave him there, Will. He was my everything. He'd been there for me through so much, helped me fight demons and vampires, apocalypse after apocalypse. When my adoptive mom Cassandra got sick and passed away he was there through it all, I loved him so much…He was my Dawn.” Willow nodded, finally understanding.

“So Anna got him to safety?”

“Yeah he was badly hurt and had lost a lot of blood but she got him to the hospital and he made it” Buffy smiled

“How did you come back though?”

“Anna wouldn’t give up. She was determined to bring me back but the council refused to help her, they said the magic’s needed were dark and would bring someone back from the dead that was unnatural. They forbade her from doing it but she didn’t listen. She found a spell and started collecting the ingredients in secret, not even Pike knew what she had planned and once she found the last Urn of Osiros there was no stopping her. By the time the council realized what she'd been up to it was too late, the spell had been cast and I was back.”

“But it all worked out." Willows eyes lit up. "I-I mean you came back fine.” Willow argued.

“All magic has consequence, Willow. The forces Anna channeled and the lines she crossed, she was lucky the spell didn’t kill her. The magic she used was dark and it changed her. She started doing spells for everything, even the everyday little things. The council started to worry about her, we all did and when a friend of hers was brutally raped she snapped and tracked down the guy that did it and killed him using magic. It didn't take long for the council step in and contact a coven who was able to bind her magic.”

“Oh my god.” Willow gasped. “What happened to her?”

“The council sent her to the coven for a type of rehab. I visited just before moving here and she’s doing well.”

“Wow. I mean… wow.”

“Yeah.”

“Well what happened to the urn?”

“The council took it and hid it," she shrugged. "I’m not sure where.”

Willow’s mind was racing. There was a way to bring Faith back. She's been looking for months now and finally she had found something. She knew things had gone badly for Anna but she was stronger than that and she knew she could control her magic. All that mattered was that she got Faith back. If she could just hack into the council’s database she could find the urn and it wouldn’t be hard to find the spell now that she knew something about it.

“Willow, I know you miss Faith and that everything inside you is probably screaming to get her back but before you go making rash decisions, find out where she is first." She brushed a few loose strands away from her face that had fallen loose from her bun and turned to leave. "I would hate for you to make Anna’s mistake.” She whispered.

“What was Anna’s mistake?”

Buffy didn’t bother to turn and face her as she replied.

“Thinking that I was in a hell dimension when I was really in heaven.” Willow couldn’t stop the gasp that escaped her or her muffled 'no' as she watched Buffy leave the training room and back out into the shop.


Chapter End Notes:
Yes i am alive and still writing lol Sorry it has been so, so long since i updated but my muse has been a bit down and out lately but now i'm back and writing again so i hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think : )



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