Prologue: The Beginning of All

In the beginning of all, the mortal realm was empty. No life was there. No demons. No angels.

But then the power of darkness discovered this realm and sent his minions out to take it over, just like it did with so many others. But this realm was different than the others. It had a power contained in it that was greater than both the powers of Order and Chaos together. And it used it. It created life. It didn't want to have other creatures on its surface. But most lifeforms were either destroyed or not bothersome enough to be anything else than ignored.

But then the Mortal Realm created mankind.

The first humans were strong enough to survive and intelligent enough to understand the mortal realm and help it to banish the demons from this place.

And they fought a war. Hiding and always trying to get the overhand over the evil powers here. But they weren't strong enough. They had managed to repel some of those creatures but the highest powers of evil noticed what happened here and sent out the army they used in their eternal conflict against the powers of the light.

And it was a disaster for the Mortal Realm. Almost all humans were killed before the things changed. It was when the forces of light found out what happened here. They studied this realm. Tried to find out why it tried to defend itself from the powers of evil. And it sent ambassadors to this realm. Tried to find what gave it the strength to create life.

But these ambassadors were fought and expelled from here not knowing that this realm may have found an ally in its war against the forces of evil.

But the forces of light didn't give up. They had found out what powers this place used and wanted to use them for themselves or at least prevent the darkness from achieving them.

And they made an offer to the mortal realm. They wanted to help this realm banish all demons from it by sending out two warriors that would connect to this realm and use its powers to defeat the demons. All it wanted for that was a place to rest and recover during the war between them and the darkness.

And the mortal realm accepted. It selected its best warriors and they were given the powers of the two best warriors in heaven. The first received the power to fight the demons the second to use the magic of the mortal realm.

And they fought. Fought together to banish all demons from this place. And succeeded. But the forces of evil didn't want to loose this place as they saw the way to win over the power of light with the powers contained herein. So it created passageways to this realm. Hellmouths. And was able to return to the Mortal Realm. Only to be banished again from this world.

But the forces of evil still didn't give up. They started to fight in darkness, hiding from the powers and attacking when they didn't expect it.

So the Mortal Realm closed the Hellmouths but couldn't destroy them. The demons that were still here managed to hide. They started to use the human bodies as container for their essence. And managed to survive the counterattack of the powers of good, so that they could hide until the evil powers managed to reopen the Hellmouths and attack again.

Those two fighters for good were a Warrior-adept of using combat weapons of all kinds from hand to hand to men big swords-and a Sorceress-adept in using all kinds of magic. Both linked together through the power of the mortal realm and protecting it from the beginning by wandering from one body to the next and using the powers they had, to keep the evil forces in this place at bay.

Until the evil entered this realm again...

Chapter 1: Thoughts and Dreams

It was a quite typical summer day in Sunnydale. And there were no demons or vampires left since the incident with the mayor. Most left before the Ascension of the mayor and the rest left after Buffy and the rest of the graduates had foiled the Ascension. So it has been quite quiet in the underworld and Buffy and her friends could do what high school graduate's did during the holidays. They hung around, learned for college (well at least a little) and talked about this and that. Mostly they just hung around together.

Oz was out on a gig in Chicago and Cordelia had left Sunnydale after graduation. So there were only Buffy, Willow and Xander and well... Giles left in Sunnydale. But he was trying to get a job at the library at the UC Sunnydale... for 3 weeks now. And he really wasn't very lucky at that. In the beginning the college was grateful to find somebody to keep an eye at the library but after they heard where he worked before they said that they had to think about it again. And now Giles tried to convince them to let him work there because else he would have been without a work and... well let's just say that he really tried to stay near Buffy even though he wasn't her Watcher anymore.

Well this wasn't really a typical day since Xander wanted to make a self-finding trip through the states and he wanted to leave next Monday, which was in 4 days. So the gang stayed a little more together than normal to have as much time together as possible before he left.

But that Xander wanted to leave wasn't the reason why Buffy gazed at Willow. She just was there looking at Willow and listened to one of her cute babbles; well at least Buffy thought that they were cute. She didn't even know why she thought that she just did. And she also didn't really hear what Willow said; she was just listening to her voice and gazed at her. She was completely lost in the sound of Willows voice.

Buffy had had such thoughts before. She liked Willows voice and the way she sometimes started to babble uncontrolled. But she always had shrugged those thoughts off and told herself that that was just imagination and that this was only because Willow was her friend... but that couldn't be all that she felt for Willow... FRIENDSHIP. It was just a too strong feeling she had, especially in the last three weeks after school had ended. Or blown up whatever you call it.

"Buffy? Buffy? Can you hear me?" Willow asked a hand on Buffy's shoulder shaking her softly. Buffy felt the warmth of Willow's hand and she liked it.

"Buffy? C'mon, you can tell me. What's wrong?" Willow asked her again shaking a little more this time.

Buffy startled a little then saw the worried look in Willow's eyes and then shrugged those feelings off again.

"Hmm...? Oh sorry, I was just in thoughts. What did you say?"

"I was just asking Xander what he thought he wanted to do on his trip when I noticed that you had left this planet." Willow smiled. "So what's wrong? You only have that look when you don't know what to do with a problem and since there are no monsters or demons or sixty feet long snakes that want to eat us for breakfast... or any vampires that want to eat you for dinner...". She was babbling again and Buffy thought it was kinda funny... and cute --that feeling again-- " and since there is no nothing here that could harm you, you must have a problem with something else. Is it maybe something I did?" Willow became less self-confident with that question and Buffy could see it.

"NO, no, it's nothing you did or Xander or even Oz or Cordy, I just was thinking about this and that." Buffy answered. She knew it wasn't the truth because she knew that it had something to do with Willow, something very special about Willow. But she couldn't tell Willow her thoughts about her and she didn't like it when Willow was sad about her or anything else. All these thoughts rushed through Buffy's brain without stopping long enough for her to think about them. All she knew was that they were there.

"No, Will it has nothing to do with something you did. It's just about the Ascension and what almost happened here. I'm glad it's over and I was just thinking about it, and Faith and..." she trailed off.

"Oh..." was all Willow could say.

"Now are you two ladies gonna stop living in the past? Because it is past and we can do nothing to make it undone. And by the way I was just telling you two what I think I should do on my trip, but if nobody wants to hear it then finnneee...." he said drawing the last word out.

"Sorry" both the slayer and the hacker said in chorus. "Go on tell us about your plans in finding yourself." Buffy teased with a smirk on her face. That got a glare back from Xander but he started to talk again and Buffy could start to think about what the last few minutes had brought up in here.

Willow turned back to Xander and started listening and he told her all about what he planned to do and where he planned to go and so on. The whole talk about that took about 45 minutes before Buffy --she couldn't hear this any longer-- said, " How bout a film night, my mother isn't at home and we could borrow a few films and watch them. That way we could kinda say goodbye to you Xander and you could finally stop boring me with this. This is your trip not mine." Buffy grinned and received a look that could kill her from Xander but he then agreed and Willow said that she had to get something from home before but that she would be there later.

So they split up. Willow went home and Buffy and Xander headed for the next video store to borrow a few films.

Willow went home slower than she had thought but with her mind at this level of activity she just couldn't concentrate on that enough. She just had to think about what just had happened to her as she saw Buffy so... well... sad. She had looked in Buffy's eyes and she had felt a sting as she saw the worries in her eyes.

She wasn't sure what really happened or why but she was sure that she had to think about it. She had to think a lot about it. And that was the reason why she had told Buffy she had to go home first.

She walked through the streets from the park to her house and when she arrived there she didn't even notice it as she was still thinking about her, about Buffy. She just stood in front of the house until her mother saw her and came out.

"Why are you standing out here? You should get in, dinner is ready."

Willow was startled out of her thoughts when her mother put her hands on her shoulders and asked her what was wrong. She wasn't even near an answer as her mother brought her back to earth.

"Pardon? Mom? What are you doing here?" she asked still thinking she was in the park.

"Willow are you fine? You're at home. Now come in dinner is ready." Her mother answered.

Willow looked at her surroundings and noticed where she was, then she remembered what she had done and what she had promised Buffy.

"I'm fine mom just a little in thoughts. May I sleep over at Buffy's? Xander is going to leave on Monday and we want to have a last video night before he leaves." Willow said

"Is Ms. Summers at home?" was all her mother asked.

"I'm not sure but I think that Buffy mentioned that she's in the gallery and that she'll come home a little late."

"Well... ok but call me when you are there ok?"

"Sure mom. No problem." Willow said and headed for her room to get the present she had bought for Xander. She had wanted to give it to him before he left but she thought now that this would be a better occasion for that. She went up and fetched the small amulet she had left on her desk. She opened it to make sure the photo was still inside and then headed back down to the kitchen and said goodbye to her mom. Then she headed out and began to walk towards Buffy's house.

She began to think again but made sure that she noticed at least a little of her surroundings on her way to Buffy to avoid the same experience she just had in front of her own house.

The doorbell rang and Buffy headed to open it. Willow was outside and smiled as she saw Buffy. She entered the Summer's home and headed for the living room.

"What took you so long Will?" Xander asked as he heard the hello's she and Buffy exchanged.

"Had to fetch your 'Don't-forget-us-because-we-are-your-best-friends' amulet I bought you", Willow smirked.

"You bought me what?"

"An amulet. I have played witch a little and put a protection spell on it." She smirked again.

"Well I think that comes in really handy because I can use protection since I don't always want to look behind my back if any vamp is there, right Buffy?" he asked looking at her.

"Sure, protection is always good."

Willow headed to Xander and handed the amulet to him. "Open it." Willow suggested.

He did as he was told and froze as he saw the photo inside. It showed all of the gang: him, Willow, Buffy, Oz, Giles and.... Cordelia.

After the incident between him and Willow and the break up between him and Cordelia he hadn't been amongst those who talked well about her. Well not until the prom night. Willow noticed the looks between him and Cordy that night and even though she wasn't sure why they were friendly and what had happened she knew that they belonged together.

And after she had noticed the small heart necklace she always seemed to carry after that, she definitely knew that something had happened between them again. And that was the reason for her to use a photo with her on it.

After a moment Xander looked up to Willow, tears in his eyes and just said "Thank you. Thank you very much Will."

She looked over to Buffy and noticed the look in her eyes and mouthed 'Cordelia' and Buffy understood. She had also seen those looks between them that night and she was sure the only reason why they weren't together again yet was because Cordy had left town.

"Ok, enough tears for now this is meant to be a video night and I think we can start now", Buffy suggested and the other two agreed.

The girls sat on the couch and Xander in the chair and watched 'The Net' with Sandra Bullock, one of Willow's favorites, and she was smiling almost the whole film. Almost. Because as she noticed the look in Buffy's eyes, as she noticed the same look as in the afternoon she just couldn't concentrate on the film any longer. She fell back into those thoughts she had on her way home and what could have happened to her. As Buffy noticed that Willow wasn't smiling to the film anymore she looked into her eyes and smiled a hope-giving smile and Willow smiled back and turned back to the TV and started to look again.

They looked about 4 other films before they all were sleeping. Buffy woke up at about 5am and got blankets for her friends and then went to bed to think about everything.

She dreamed.

She stood on a cemetery but she wasn't sure which one, all she saw were graves, no names no nothing just the graves.

She started to walk towards a person. It was Willow. She stood in front of a grave looking down and cried. Buffy read the name. It was her own. She asked Willow what happened. She answered that she just died. No vampires. No demons. No accidents. She just died. Buffy put her arm around Willow and told her that she wouldn't die. She wouldn't leave Willow alone with all those demons around. She wouldn't leave. Then the grave disappeared and she suddenly stood in the gym. Alone. She wore the dress she wore in the prom night. Then Willow came in. Also in her prom dress. They stood there for what seemed an eternity then music started. A slow song. Then Buffy started to dance with Willow. She didn't know why she just did. Their faces neared, their lips met and...

She woke up.

"What the hell just happened?" she asked herself. Then she turned over and slept on.

Next morning she woke up and smelled the scent of pancakes and got up. She always had liked pancakes but hadn't had any in a while. Mostly because she just wasn't good enough in the kitchen and her mom didn't make them often.

She went down and into the kitchen and sat down at the table.

"Morning" Willow said. Buffy noticed that she was happy. Not so loaded with thoughts like yesterday.

"Morning Will, did you make those pancakes?"

"Yep, I love pancakes but my mom doesn't have the ingredients at home so I don't come to make them often." She smiled.

"I love them too, I'm just an absolute anti-cook." Buffy said and smiled too. She didn't even notice it. She just smiled as she saw that Willow smiled too. A few long moments they just stood there smiling before Xander broke the silence as he entered the kitchen.

"Mmmhhhh.. Pancakes, how wonderful. Just the right thing to start a day. Where's your syrup Buffy?"

"Second cupboard from right, above the refrigerator." She answered still smiling at Willow.

Xander headed to fetch the syrup and noticed the gazes the two girls exchanged.

"Are you two in some kind of telepathic conversation or what. C'mon lets munch these pancakes and get back to the TV to finish what we started yesterday." Xander said.

Buffy gave him a look and then started to pile the pancakes on her plate. Willow finished the rest of the dough she had made for the pancakes and then grabbed a plate and started to get some of the delicious pieces too. After about 20 minutes of munching, almost gulping, and a few tries to talk during that time, which all ended up in a disaster as one of them swallowed the wrong way and coughed and the other two started to laugh and swallowed the wrong way too and everything almost coming back up. They stopped trying to talk after the third incident and just kept on eating.

Then they headed back into the living room and put in another film. 'The Fifth Element' one of Xander's favorites and both girls could guess why. With a smile they sat onto the sofa and started watching.

After another 5 films, it must have been about 6pm then, they all headed home and Buffy had enough time with her thoughts now.

Xander and Willow headed to Willow's house first and then Xander went home too.

"And how was the day sweetheart?" her mother asked.

"Films, films and more films..." Willow answered with exaggerated boredom, a smirk on her face that showed that it was a joke.

Her mother smiled and told her that dinner was ready in about one hour and that she should take a shower before she joined. Willow agreed in that and headed to her room to undress and get her toiletries and then went into the bathroom. She turned on the water and then went in and just stood there and let the warm water run over her face. She liked it when she could do that, she loved it and she did it whenever she could.

But today it was a bit different. She had a strange dream last night. She dreamed that she stood on a graveyard in front of Buffy's grave and she was crying. Then suddenly Buffy showed up beside her and asked her how she had died. Willow didn't know how she just knew that she died during her sleep. Then Buffy told her that she would never leave Willow alone and her tears weren't any longer tears of sadness about a tragic loss but they were tears of happiness now. The next thing she remembered was that she was dancing with Buffy. A slow song. On the prom. Beautiful dresses. And then Buffy kissed her. That was when she woke up. She had been happy after that dream, she didn't know why but she was. She had thought a few times during the day about that but since she wasn't alone she shrugged it off and assured herself to think later about it when she was alone.

Now she was alone, thinking about this and about what that kiss could have meant. By the time her mother called her to come down she was not a singe inch closer to the answer than before. After dinner she went to bed in the hope that the answer would come in the sleep.

It didn't.

It only threw more questions into the small redheaded brain of Willow.

But the strangest thing was that dream she had.

She woke up in a bed. Buffy was in there too, snuggled up to her. She also seemed to have just woke up. Then both startled as they saw each other, jumping out of the bed. Then Willow noticed the shock in Buffy's eyes. It wasn't the shock that she just had woken up, snuggled into her best friend. It was the shock that somebody has when they discover something they never had thought possible. Willow noticed that she also was shocked.

She knew why her Buffy was shocked; both had the same look on their faces. Then she became aware of something that she just had thought. She thought 'HER Buffy' and it all came over her all in one moment of perfect clarity.

She hadn't thought it because this was her dream and that wasn't the real Buffy. At least she thought that after she woke up. She had that special thought because she needed Buffy. Her Buffy. She... she... she couldn't speak it out she couldn't even think of it even though she knew it was there. She was sure it was there and then she noticed that same thing in Buffy's eye. Then she said it. She didn't even notice that she had said it until it was out and that thing that came from Buffy at the same time made her realize what had just happened.

"I LOVE YOU BUFFY" she said in her dream. At the same time Buffy "I LOVE YOU WILLOW".

They were just about to get closer together when she woke up.

She shot up, unable... unwilling to accept what just had happened and went into the bathroom. She stood there, in front of the basin and spilled cold water over her face.

Then, when she was able to get a clear thought it shot into her mind.

"I love you Buffy Summers and I don't know what I'm going to do now", was all that she could say.

She stood there for at least 10 minutes spilling cold water onto her face trying to get a clear thought except that 'I love Buffy' thought into her mind. It didn't work. Then she went back to bed. Just as she laid down the phone rang. It was Buffy.

"Will, are you ok?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Why are you calling me so late?"

"I don't know. I just had this strange dream. I was worried about you. You're really fine?"

"Yes I'm fine, you can go back and sleep now."

"Ok, sorry for waking you up."

"You didn't wake me, I had a nightmare but don't worry I'm fine."

"Ok, hope you have a better sleep now. Good night."

"Night Buffy."

Chapter 2: Denied Discoveries?

Two months later...

Buffy sat together with Willow in their dorm room --Willow had hacked into the computer of the college and made sure that they were both together in a room that was near the entrance so that she could do her slaying job without being too much disturbed-- and were studying. Well at least she tried to study. It was the first week on college and so she hadn't too much to do but even that was awful hard with Willow just mere meters away from her in front of her own desk and doing some research in the net. She hadn't been able to concentrate on studying since Willow had entered the room. And she exactly knew why.

'God I love her' Buffy thought. 'Stop, Buffy stop. You can't do this, she's your best friend and you know that she won't return your feelings for her, so stop thinking about that!'

But she couldn't. Not after her dream that night after the "good bye party" for Xander.

She could still remember every single second. She and Willow together in her bed, snuggled into each other's warmth. Then she had noticed that it was Willow next to her in the bed and startled. She had jumped out of the bed --'Ohhh... what a fool have I been to do that.'-- and looked into Willows eyes.

She saw the love that they held seeming to reflect the love that she had finally accepted only seconds before. And then she wanted to kiss her. Ohhh... she really had wanted that badly but she woke up before their lips had met and she cursed herself for waiting too long.

But here she was now in the college with her one and only love just at the other side of the room and unable to do anything else than think about the love she felt for Willow.

'Stop, Buffy you have do learn for the semester or you will completely fail and then you will loose her because she will leave and you will have to stay here, so stop thinking about this and LEARN!!' she scolded herself.

Willow didn't feel even a little better. She loved Buffy and had accepted that long time ago but she had not allowed herself to tell Buffy about her feelings, fearing that if she didn't feel the same she would reject her.

She didn't want to loose the friendship they both had and she was sure that it would end if she told Buffy about her feelings. So she just kept quiet and tried to do some research for Giles. She really tried but, no matter how much she tried to concentrate, she failed. Then she had enough and shut the notebook and decided to take a shower. She was always able to calm down and think a little more clearly when she could feel the hot water run over her skin. She undressed, slipped into her bathrobe and fetched her toiletry bag and headed for the showers.

'Well at least it's 3am. There shouldn't be any people in the showers.'

And she was right. She went in, turned the water on then slipped out of her robe, turned the lights off --she preferred to shower in the dark since she was once caught masturbating in the shower and she felt safer when the lights were off, it gave her some time to recover before somebody noticed her-- and then slipped under the hot water, letting it cover her skin and pour down her body.

It really helped her and she could feel the worries and the sorrows fall off of her. And she used that relief to think what she would do. She thought about her feelings -like so often since that dream that had let her accept her love for Buffy- and about what she should do about them.

During the shower, she didn't come any closer to an answer than she was over two months ago. But at least she was able to calm down and was full of energy again. She dried herself off and headed back to her room. There she found Buffy lying on her bed her eyes staring onto the ceiling.

"A penny for your thoughts." Willow offered with a smile.

"Hmmm..? Oh sorry. Just thinking about... wait the penny first." Buffy said sitting up with a grin on her features, which Willow thought, was absolutely charming.

"Buffy!" Willow said playfully.

"Ok, ok, sorry..." her grin slowly fading to a shy smile "... I was just thinking about if it is possible to find the one true love. You know that one that is there when you need someone to listen and cheers you up when you are sad. The one you can tell everything and trust without a thought."

Willow's mood was slowly becoming worse. 'Angel, that must be why she was so distracted over the summer. And you thought it was because of you. Never be so selfish Willow, it only hurts you more!'

"I think that it is possible to find the true love, but that many just don't look for it or want to wait until it comes to them not knowing that love never comes, it has to be found."

"Yeah, I was just wondering if I'll ever be able to find and to live with my true love."

"You will find it because you are looking for it, I can see it in your eyes."

"Yeah you're probably right but I don't want to find the one for me when it is too late, I couldn't hurt that person. You know if I find the one and tell him how much I feel and then die the very next day while slaying."

"You will find true love, hey maybe she's even already here and then you don't even have to look for long just peek around the corner and maybe he's there." Willow said, cursing herself for that not necessary mistake she made as she mentioned that her lover could be a woman.

"You're absolutely right Will, why think about it and not just go and look for it. Thank you Willow, you have..." Buffy said trailing off. 'What did she say? She mentioned that my true love could already be here, that I just had to look and see her. She said that my true love could be a woman. But she can't know it, it's impossible. I never told her or anyone else how I feel. Except if...' Buffy was unable to finish that thought. 'No that's not possible she can't love me, it's impossible. I must just have not listened correctly that's all. Yes I haven't listened and thought that she said something I wanted to hear, that's it. Yes, it must have been my imagination.'

"Buffy?"

"...really helped me with this." Buffy finished the sentence.

"That's what I'm here for, now sleep and tomorrow you'll go out and find her."

'DAMN, what's wrong with me, Willow you have to be more careful about what you say.'

'There!! There it was again! She said <find her>. That can't be a coincidence. No she must know something I don't know. I'll have to keep an eye on her.' Buffy thought slightly frowning.

"Buffy is everything ok?"

"Yes sure everything ok." Buffy said falling back onto the bed and staring onto the ceiling. 'I really have to keep an eye on her.'

'Damn, she must have suspected something. Stupid Willow, why did you have to let that slip out? I really hope that she doesn't find out about my feelings. I couldn't live any longer if I loose our friendship by not controlling myself enough.'

Buffy had watched Willow now for over a week, trying to find out what she had meant as she said that she had to go out and find a woman as true love. And with the help of her slayer senses she had noticed some changes Willow had made since she had last observed her. She noticed how distracted Willow was when Buffy was near her. She saw something in her eyes that she couldn't recognize. She even noticed that Willow sometimes seem to avoid her, especially after more or less private discussions between them or after longer research periods.

Actually every time when she and Willow seemed to get a little closer. But Buffy still couldn't say why Willow did that but the suspect, that it was because of Buffy herself, became more and more present in her mind. And Buffy wasn't really sure if that was a good or a bad thing. She hoped --God she really, really hoped-- that it was a good thing. She didn't want to, she never wanted to loose her friendship with Willow. Not even at cost of being able to tell her her feelings and then spending a hot night together. She didn't want to loose that friendship that she had built up in over three years of being together. Never.

Willow on the other side had noticed --even without any slayer senses--, that Buffy's behavior had changed since their talk about the true love. She had tried not to act other than normal but Willow could still see that Buffy was kind of watching her. She on the other hand tried to act the same as before, tried even harder not to let any words slip out that could reveal her true feelings, especially after she had noticed that change in Buffy's eyes, in her whole body language.

'God, why do you let me go through this? What have I done to deserve the loss of our friendship? Please tell me, so that I can correct it and avoid loosing Buffy's affection, her friendship.'

This really was a hard time for both of them and they had to go through it together to manage it.

Chapter 3: Revealed feelings

Willow was sitting in front of her desk and was searching for some information about a new demon that seemed to be in town when Buffy came into their shared room. Willow turned around and faced the center of her world and almost choked when she saw Buffy. She was wearing her prom dress. The one Buffy had worn on that day in the gym while dancing with Angel. But this time it was only for Willow. Buffy came in moved over to Willow and offered her her hand.

"May I ask for this dance, my dear?"

Willow stood up looked at Buffy and started to dance with her. They danced slow to the music she was listening to. Then Buffy moved closer and brushed over Willow's so sweet lips. Willow returned the kiss and lost herself in it. She prayed that this moment would never end.

Then she woke up. A smile on her face but tears in her eyes, she looked at the clock and then let her eyes sweep through her dorm room. Buffy was nowhere and she hadn't returned yet. Otherwise her clothes would either be on the floor or in the trash but they weren't there. Willow was getting worried.

"My god, it's much too late. Buffy should have been here over two hours ago."

Just then the door flew open and Buffy trembled in, her clothes soaked in blood.

"God, Buffy what happened?"

"Um.. I'd say I had a collision with the evil side."

"Please Buffy, it's not the time for joking. Let me take a look at your wounds."

Buffy let herself be helped onto the bed and started to take some of the clothes off but had to stop that because of the pains that shot through her body with every single move. In the meanwhile Willow got the first aid kit and called Giles -actually she just pushed a button on the emergency pager but that was actually the same- and then used the scissors to cut off Buffy's clothes to be able to aid her cuts.

"Ok, now tell me, what has happened?" Willow told Buffy.

She only sighed and then started to tell the story.

"I was just on my way back as I heard that scream from the woods. I started to run towards the sound and was suddenly on a clearing. There I saw something I never had seen before. A girl maybe 13 or 14 years old hanging in the air, seemingly by magic cause there was no rope there or anything, right over a blue fire that seemed to crawl up her legs and slowly eat her up. I started to run towards the girl to rescue her when I was suddenly hit by... Ouch that hurts..."

"Sorry"

"Well, as I was just telling, I was hit by something from the side. I was completely thrown out of balance and crashed into the grass, then I looked over to what had hit me and saw nothing. Then I got up and wanted to run to that girl when I suddenly ran into something and then I saw something.

Well I thought that I had seen something cause it was kinda invisible. I saw some kind of distortion in the air and then I was hit again, flying good ten feet back. Then I tried to hear it and could..." ...Buffy hissed... " ...and could say that something was there but I wasn't really sure what or where. So I tried to close my eyes and only rely on what I heard. And it worked. Well at least a little, cause I was able to beat that whateveritwas up and then I heard it run away. By the time I was finished with that THING and opened my eyes again the clearing was completely empty. No girl, no fire, no screams or whimpers. It was completely empty as if there had never been anything there."

"Hmm... you say everything was gone and that thing was invisible?" Giles asked startling Buffy, who had thought she was still alone with Willow. After she had started to tell what happened she had closed her eyes and had concentrated on Willow's tender touch and how good it felt to be touched by her.

She had used her warmth to forget the bruises and cuts and sores she had. And she was really surprised that Giles had made it to them so fast.

"Yeah that thing was invisible and as I left that clearing I really had the feeling that it was a trap and that I just surprised that demon enough to retreat and let me alone. I think that's the only reason why I'm still here, alive."

She looked into Willow's eyes and saw the worries in there and finally knew what that special secret was that she was holding. She smiled at her and let herself feel completely free and comfortable in Willow's arms.

"Well it seems that we now at least have a clue what demon this could be that is here now and I really hope that it is the only one but I think that we won't have so much luck this time."

After a short pause he continued.

Willow, you stay here and keep an eye over Buffy and Buffy you stay here. Don't go back out and try to kill that thing alone. I'll go to the library and start looking for any hints that may tell us what we have here and what we can do about it." he said taking his glasses off and starting to rub his eyes.

"Ok, sure, no problem. I'll stay here with Will watching over me and you get the info. I need some rest anyway."

After Giles had left, Buffy sat there looking at Willow almost staring at her. And she had a smile on her face that she only could have because she finally knew what was wrong with Willow. Well actually not wrong but different than in the past.

As Willow looked up from the cuts and bruises over Buffy's body, almost lost into the smoothness of her skin and admiring how beautiful even the bruises on Buffy's body were, and saw the smile and the look in Buffy's eyes she knew that she didn't have to worry about their friendship anymore. She saw that the old Buffy was back, the one she had fell in love with. But what then came shocked her more than anything else she had seen or heard before could ever have done.

Chapter 4: Changing relationships

Buffy leaned forward and brushed her lips ever so slightly over Willow's.

"I love you too Willow Rosenberg."

A few moments of silence followed where Willow was absolutely still before she broke it.

"What?" Willow asked unable to believe what she just had heard... had felt.

"I love you too" Buffy answered her smile showing how happy she was and how seriously she meant that.

Willow blushed.

"Please pinch me... ...Ouch.. ok, so I'm not dreaming"

"No you aren't, I love you"

"I-I-I lo... I love you too"

"I know"

"B-but how?"

"Well you remember that talk we had three weeks ago, that one about the true love?"

Willow blushed even more, almost glowing bright red by now.

"W-well y-yes"

"And I'm sure that you have noticed that I was keeping an eye on you since then."

"Yes"

"Well I was trying to figure out why you had said that I should look for a 'her' as true love. And I noticed that you have changed and that you were acting differently when I was near you. More closed as if you were hiding something. At first I thought that it might be something I had done and that it wasn't good what that could have been.

But then just about ten minutes ago I saw that you were really worried about me and that you were more caring than even my mother had ever been to me. And then I knew that the only reason why you would act so was because you loved me. And I mean more than a friend does. And that's why I decided to tell you my feelings." Buffy's smile seemed to be a wide grin by now.

"I love you more than anything else Buffy."

"And I love you."

They moved together and their lips met again, both where they had wished them selves for so long.

After that Willow moved onto Buffy's bed joining her new lover and kissed her, more passionately this time. They deepened their kiss when Willow parted her lips inviting Buffy's tongue into her own mouth, tasting her lips sucking on them and sucking on her tongue. Buffy in return explored Willows mouth and every single curve of her lips and tongue. She enjoyed the sweet taste of Willow and started a fight in the only place where she was equal with her 'enemy'. Willow encountered that small battle between their tongues and let a low moan out. Buffy groaned in return to the pleasures she knew Willow received from her. As they finally broke apart to get breath it was the happiest moment in their lives.

"Wow, Willow where did you learn that?"

"Learned what? I only responded to what you did", she answered still breathing heavily.

"Well then I have to ask myself where I have learned that", she said with a grin on her features that --Willow could finally think about that without feeling bad-- was absolutely cute and charming.

"I know that I have never kissed like this before so I really have no idea where it came from." Buffy finished the sentence.

The redhead smiled and snuggled close up to Buffy letting herself go and feel the protection the Slayer gave her. They talked a little about this and that before they both fell into a sleep full of dreams that they both knew would now come true. Now that they were together.

But there was one dream that was different than the others. One that was special, both in its content and by the way they had that dream. It was again one of those dreams -not the first one and surely not the last one- which they both shared. A dream that were in both minds at the same time, connecting them together more than normal love could ever had.

It was Saturday morning as Giles called them that he had found something and that they should come and see it themselves. So as they entered his house and saw the frowned face Giles had, they exactly knew that it was even worse than they had expected.

"Hello Buffy... Willow" he said nodding towards them, "if you would please follow me."

"That bad?" Buffy asked.

He just nodded and lead them into his own small library, which mostly contained the books that have been 'rescued' from the Sunnydale High library before the ascension. He told them to take a seat and then went out to get a few books that he had used to find out about what was going on.

"This must be really bad, did you see that concern on his face?" Willow asked.

"Mmm hmmm"

"Well that means that I may have to get active and see what I can do." Willow smiled.

"I'm sure my little wicca will do what she can to help me." Buffy smiled back.

As Giles came back he had at least a half dozen books in his arms. He handed them one and told them to open it. They did as told and Giles started to talk about what they saw.

"Well as you can see, or better, as what most think it looks like, this demon is a very unique one simply by that that it is invisible, well at least to the human eye. Most demons can see it and we suppose that is because of the infrared part of the spectrum that most are able to see..."

"Please Giles, all I actually want to know is how I can kill it." Buffy insisted.

"Well, Buffy as much as I know that you don't like this part of the discussion, as much I am sure that you should listen to it this time." Buffy just nodded cause she knew that it must be bad if Giles started to talk that way. "Well as I just started to explain we aren't really sure how it looks like because all those drawings are based on the description of other demons that were interrogated by the Council and most of them weren't really in the constitution to give exact answers. That also means that we don't have much information about that and since my connection to the Council is broken I have no way to find out if they know more by now."

He made a short break and then continued.

"I may have a chance to find some information in the college library but I can't promise anything. But what I do know is that the one you had that encounter with is only the first of many, kind of a scout. He checks the surroundings and tells the leaders what they have to expect. And as I have mentioned before all information I have is based on earlier incidents, and from not really cooperative demons and that means that the council was not able to capture one of those neither living nor dead, at least not before I had been fired.

And that is the problem. We know what they are and that most of them are encountered in fairly large numbers. We have a few clues about how they look like and what other abilities they have but not many. And that means that we have to find out what we have to do with them. It is known that they mostly just pass through the areas they were seen, or better, noticed in, but since this is the Hellmouth I suppose that they will stay for a while."

"You mentioned that they are visible in infrared light. Are you sure about that?" Willow asked.

"Well, quite sure, yes. But I don't know how that could help us... Oh yes, why didn't I have that idea. That is it. That's how we'll be able to fight them."

"Well we can fight them but you also said that they are mostly encountered in large numbers which means that we need some help. I can't fight against ten or more at the same time, even if I could see them. And I know what I'm talking about."

"Well maybe I can help there." the redhead said reading in one of the book Giles had gave them. "I'm not really sure if I can keep them from attacking you but here is a spell that can banish them back to hell. The only problem is that I have to create a gateway for that and it is said here that no demon would ever go near one of those. That means that you have to attack them and force them near one of those gateways, I can do the rest from then." Willow looked up into Buffy's eyes and started to smile.

"Well as long as I don't have to fight more than one or two at the same time I think I can handle that. But if there are more than that -"

"Hey that's it. That's the way we can handle this." Willow interrupted attracting both Giles and Buffy's attention with that. Then she looked up and blushed lightly.

"Sorry"

"No prob Will, just tell us what you have found out." Buffy assured her.

"Well with a few extra ingredients and some help from Giles.." she said pointing her head towards him ".. I can do the same trick they do with us and make the gateway invisible to them. And here's another spell that allows me to project a fake of that gateway to another point near the original one."

"Well that means that all I have to do is get them near that -for them invisible- gateway and then you'll suck them into it, right? I hope it won't suck me to hell. I really have no desire to go there"

"No, absolutely not. It only affects demons. The only problem is that I can't open a hidden one, I have to open a gateway and then hide it and that means that you have to lure them towards it."

"Damn and I hoped this could be an easy do." Buffy sighed.

Chapter 5: A discovered connection

After that discussion at Giles they headed to ask Xander if he could somehow get a few infrared glasses from the local military base. They both giggled as they thought about how his 'Self discovery trip' had ended.

He started to drive south and soon enough arrived in LA where he had no other idea than to stop by at Cordelia and --what actually seemed quite the right thing but was nevertheless still funny-- spent a --quoting him-- 'Hot, steamy and loving night' together. They both appreciated that because it told them that they were right with them.

They really belonged together. And that's why it wasn't really a surprise that Cordy soon after she arrived in Sunnydale to first of all visit Xander and then only a few days later move from the motel she lived in, into Xander's house and stay near him almost all the time. It was just the right thing they thought.

"Hey, Buffy, Willow nice to see you. How are you doing?" he asked as soon as he opened the door, then noticed that both girls were holding hands and started to smile. Well actually he didn't smile he grinned. A really large grin.

"It was really time that that happened. It was getting boring around you two. Always focussing on the other and forgetting the rest of the world. I felt kinda left out."

"What do you mean Xander?" Buffy asked. He just nodded down onto their hands.

"You know exactly what I mean but don't worry I won't tell anyone until you two have decided to tell the people yourself."

Both girls looked into the eyes of their new lover then down onto their hands still holding each other then Buffy wanted to let Willow's hand go but the hacker just held it tighter and gave her an assuring look and she suddenly heard Willow's voice.

'You can trust him. If he says he won't tell anyone then he won't.'

She knew that Willow didn't say anything, at least not as long as she hadn't gone under the ventriloquists. She wondered what just had happened but let that thought fall as soon as Xander reentered her head with his next question.

"So what can I do for you two? Let me guess: there is either another threat in town or you two don't know what to do."

"Another threat, Xander." Willow said entering the house. She saw Cordelia come down the stairs in a bath coat her hair still wet.

"Hi, Buffy, Willow, what's going on?"

"Just another threat that disturbs our peace my honey."

Both the slayer and the hacker looked at themselves and thought in unison 'Honey?' both hearing the other and then looked at Xander and waited for an answer. After a few moments Buffy asked "Honey?"

"Hey, what to do against fate?" he said smiling widely.

He told them to wait in the living room while he led Cordelia into the kitchen where they saw them starting to kiss then turned around to themselves.

"He really must fallen for her if he didn't hear you before."

"Mmm hmmm. Wait. What do you mean? I didn't say anything."

"You did. I clearly heard it."

"No. You asked him. But he really must be in love when he didn't hear you the first time."

"I didn't say anything the first time. You did. I know that you must have said something cause I heard you."

"Hmmmm... this is strange."

They both fell silent for a few seconds before Willow heard Buffy say 'What the hell is going on here?' but she didn't see her mouth move. Not a singe move.

"Um... Buffy... I think I heard you think."

"What?"

"Well you didn't move your mouth but I heard you say 'What the hell is going on here?' And I don't think that you said that, cause your mouth didn't move and if I can hear you think it is possible that you can hear me too... when I think I mean and that -"

"Willow, you're babbling, you're babbling... but I think you may be right about this. I think we should ask Giles later. But for now let's keep quiet, ok?"

"Ok"

"So is that all you need?" Xander asked after they had told him what was going on here.

"Well... no. We also need your support as a member of the group. Yours and Cordy's of course." Willow smiled.

"Well I think we can manage that and I'll go tonight and get those IR-glasses you need. I hope that this won't become my second home in future cause with every visit the chance is increasing that I get caught. And I suppose no one wants that."

"Well..." Cordelia threw in, a playful smile on her face.

"Cordy. If you don't like me then why are you here?" He said the same smile on his face.

Only moments later they were kissing and forgot completely about the other two girls in the room, who quietly but sure started to giggle and headed towards the front door.

"Just don't forget it Xander. I need those if I wanna fight them." Buffy called back and then left the house with Willow tugging her out. There they started to laugh and only moments later were in their arms kissing just as passionately as their friends inside.

'We have to get away from here before somebody finds us' Buffy thought.

"Yeah" Willow mumbled between their kisses. "We really have to", she added as they broke apart.

"Let me guess, you heard me again."

"Seems so."

"Then let's get to Giles and ask him about this."

"I think I have a better idea about what we could do now", the hacker said looking towards Xander's house. 'We could do the same they are just doing.'

"Willow you're so naughty" Buffy said and started to giggle uncontrollably. She had heard what Willow had thought and she liked it.

She was still laughing when the redhead heard her 'Will, please help me I can't stop.' She answered that by tugging Buffy's lips to her own, kissing her. Then they both headed back to the dorm as fast as they could. Both wanting the other one, be part of the other one and satisfy their hidden desires with all the pleasures they were able to give.

It took about five minutes at the speed they were running to arrive in their room. But it took only five seconds before they were laying on the bed kissing each other and, more or less effective, undressing.

But not for long cause Willow pushed her lover up and said "Slowly" before she sat up took off her pullover and her bra and exposing the two most perfect breasts Buffy had ever seen. She leaned forward kissed Willow on her lips, her jaw, her neck, her collarbone and slowly moved down to her breasts. She took one nipple into her mouth and started to lick and suck it, while teasing the other with her hand, rubbing it with her palm. She heard Willow groan with pleasure and she could feel the nipples harden while she moved her mouth from one to the other, always kissing the way she moved along. After a few minutes of teasing, licking and sucking, and listening to the sounds that left Willow's throat, she stood up and undressed the rest of her clothes, starting with her top (she hadn't worn a bra today), then moving off her pants and her panties in one move. Stepping out of them she leaned forward, placed a kiss on Willow's mouth and then went down to take off her skirt, shortly followed by her knickers. She moved back up and kissed her love and stayed there for what seemed an eternity before they broke apart to get some of the badly needed oxygen. Then Willow took over the control. She turned them around so that she was on top now and stared over Buffy's body, admiring every single curve, every single spot on it. She then leaned down and started to kiss her. Over and over. She started at the blondes' mouth placing a passionate kiss there and then worked her way over her face planting small kisses everywhere. She started moving down her neck, over her breasts, sucking one into her mouth and then continued with the other. She felt them get erect and heard Buffy's moan as she lightly bit into one of them to stimulate it. The wicca then moved farther down and passed her navel planting small kisses around it before burying her tongue into it. The slayer let out a low moan as she felt Willow's tongue. The hacker continued the path she was on and neared the slayers abdomen and pelvic bone. She skipped that -as she had to admit with a smile- very wet part in the middle and started to kiss the inner thighs on both sides. Buffy groaned in pleasure but was sure that she couldn't take that teasing much longer.

"Go ahead Willow I won't bite you, well... at least not if you go ahead" she said smiling down to her looking into her eyes and seeing the love there.

Willow didn't let that be said twice. She kissed Buffy's clit then started to rub over her lips and inhaled the scent Buffy's moisture had left. The slayer moaned as soon as Willow used two fingers and started to shove them up her center and then went down to lick Buffy's wetness. Buffy started to buck and move up into Willow's cunning tongue.

'Oh god, Willow. You have a talent for this.'

The redhead took the slayers throbbing clit into her mouth and sucked it.

'You think?'

It didn't take long until Buffy came yelling out Willow's name but the wicca kept on with her motion until her spasms had stopped. She then moved up to kiss her lover and Buffy could smell her own scent and taste her own liquid and she licked off Willow's face and kissing every spot on it after that.

"My turn" Buffy said grinning.

She switched positions with Willow and did the same the little redhead had done. Willow screamed as she came, pushing Buffy's head into her hips and bucking in pleasure feeling an orgasm that she never had felt before. After that they dropped next to each other on the bed snuggling close into the center of their world and inhaling the scent of their love. They kissed and both said in chorus, "I love you."

It was also the last thought of them before they both fell asleep, completely exhausted. Both heard what the other thought and both knew that they had a more than special connection together. The last time they had a dream they shared, they didn't know of the connection they had and that that dream was shared.

This time though, they knew it and this time they knew that what they saw wasn't just a dream created by their own minds but the entire life of their love. They shared their lives and all that was part of it. The good times as well as the bad times and both knew that they needed each other to prevent the other from dying by these feelings. These feelings that were so long buried and now all returned to the surface. But now that they were together they knew that they could move on and cope with those things... Together.

Chapter 6: New Powers and new Problems

This night Willow accompanied Buffy during her sweep through the graveyards of Sunnydale. She neither wanted to be alone in the dorm nor leave her Slayer do this alone. 'Her Slayer'. How that sounded. It was in some way strange to think of Buffy that way.

But she liked it. Although if she had been asked six months ago if she was -as she still liked to formulate it- 'kinda gay' then the first and only thing she would have answered had been 'No way'. But so much had changed since then. She had fallen for her best friend. And Oz... It was strange to think about him now; now that he had left.

*** "It is safer for you if I leave. I have to find out how to reverse this and I can't do this here where I have to be worried about you." ***

It really wasn't nice of him to just leave. But she could understand him now. He probably had noticed that she had changed after he returned from that gig in Chicago. Must have noticed that her love for him wasn't the same anymore. And after a few talks -that were mostly like talking against a wall because she hadn't really listened to him then; she had just too much to think about Buffy at that moment- he had told her that he had to leave. She had been totally destroyed after that. It took a few days before she had even left her room again. 'Heh' It was in a special way funny to think about that now. It was actually Buffy's urging that had convinced her to leave her room and go out again. 'Buffy... GOD how much I love her. If she hadn't been there then, then I would have probably stayed in my room for the rest of the holidays.'

Buffy turned around to her. She had heard that last thought. "I love you too"

Willow smiled but then noticed Buffy's attention getting focused to something else. She saw her switch into slayer mode. That was her sign to hide. She walked to a group of bushes but then felt a hand on her arm. She turned her head and saw Buffy shaking her head slightly as ever.

'Don't go there. The sound came from that direction and I don't want to loose you to whatever is there.'

Buffy had concentrated and tried to project her thoughts into Willow's brain. She saw her nodding and knew that she had been heard. Willow fell back and the slayer headed with a small detour towards the bushes. She heard the wicca start to chant and wondered what she did.

Then she saw it. A demon, about seven feet tall that faced her and seemed to observe them. He didn't seem to notice Buffy's change of actions though. She thanked her wicca for her abilities and then started an attack. The demon seemed quite surprised to see her throwing a high foot at him and yanked back but not enough. She hit him on what seemed part of his shoulder and had Buffy been a normal human then her leg would probably have been shattered now. But she wasn't, she was the slayer and that gave her the ability to hit the demon hard enough to throw it onto the ground. She jumped onto it crushing her knee into the throat of that whateveritwas and punched it a few times into the face. A little dizzied but not beaten yet it yanked Buffy off and threw her ten feet towards Willow.

"NO!! Buffy!"

She held her hands up and that seemed to stop Buffy's flight. She was shocked and lost her concentration just long enough to let Buffy fall onto the ground. The slayer jumped up and wanted to attack the demon to finish it but couldn't see it anymore. Suddenly she was hit hard flying another ten feet and just mere inches past a tree. She knew that it must have been the same kind of demon that had attacked her only a week ago. What had Giles called it? Illusion Weaver. Well it surely did use illusions to hide itself. But Willow had shown her that it wasn't always invisible. Either had she made it visible or disabled its illusions but whatever it was she had to repeat it.

"Will, do it again!"

"Wha- what? Do what again?"

'Make him visible!'

She understood and started to chant again. A few moments later they could both see the demon. Or at least the rest that was still left. They saw it run through the trees and beyond vision.

"That was close."

"Buffy are you ok?" Willow asked, a very worried look on her features.

"Yes I'm ok, just a little dizzy. You?"

"I'm fine, it didn't attack me."

"Ok I think that we were able to scare it away but I am sure that we shouldn't stay here for long. Let's get to Giles and tell him 'bout this."

Willow nodded and they headed towards his house.

"By the way, where did you find that spell?"

"To make him visible?"

"Mmm hmmm"

"It was in one of the books Giles gave us. It was quite hidden although and I just found it through pure luck."

"Can you think of doing that when the 'Big Battle' starts?"

"Probably not. And I would have to cast it for every single demon again. It hasn't got any area effect to affect more than one of those hideous beasts. I still don't think that I already have the power to do it more than for two or three anyway. And I have to concentrate on the gateway spell and that is quite difficult and... and I'm babbling right?"

"As sure as you are Willow Rosenberg and as sure as I love you with all your pros and cons."

Willow started to smile and moved closer to Buffy, then leaned over and kissed her.

They went the rest of the way in silence enjoying the warmth of their partner and the closeness that they shared.

At Giles house they started to tell him about what had happened and then about that strange thing that had stopped Buffy's flight. But he didn't have any idea what that could have been except that in someway Willow's abilities had grown. After another 15 minutes of talking and trying to explain what had happened Xander knocked and entered, three IR-glasses in a box he carried.

"Sorry but I couldn't take more. It would have been too suspicious even for the Hellmouth."

"It's ok, I think it should be enough. Buffy if you could please get the book over there. I have to find out what Willow and I need for the spell."

"Sure"

After about 3 more hours of research and a shopping trip to the local -which was at the moment the only- magic store to get the ingredients and picking Cordy up on the way back to Giles' house they decided to call it a night. Xander and Cordy went back to -meanwhile- their shared house and Willow and Buffy decided to stay at Willow's house cause her parents were out of town, which was not that unusual, it was simply closer than the dorm. They stopped on their way to buy some ice cream and borrow a few videos -those that were not already part of Willow's parents steadily growing collection- and then left the Hellmouth outside for the night as they entered the house. They really didn't want to go out now and lucky them, it stayed outside.

"How bout this?" Buffy asked holding one of the borrowed videos up.

"Hmmm? Oh sure, although I probably wont pay much attention to it."

"Willow..." It was a playful voice and the redheads reaction to it was exaggerated seriousness, which soon was followed by loud laughter. They both really enjoyed the others presence and Buffy had to admit that Willow was absolutely right. They really didn't pay any attention to the video. They just sat on the couch and were kissing through the whole film and beyond the end of it. Forgetting all around them. After a while they both fell to sleep and were grateful that they would wake up next morning in the arms of each other.

It was about 3am as Buffy woke up. She thought she had heard something. She checked the surroundings once and then a second time with the IR-glasses on. She didn't find anything and decided to go back to bed. She went upstairs as a small moan caught her attention. She went back into the living room, picked Willow up and carried her up into her bed. Soon after that they were both asleep snuggled into their love and enjoying the others warmth.

But what they didn't know was that they were being observed. And it wasn't one of the local voyeurs that did that. Nor one of the 'good demons' as there were a few in town -though only very few. It was one of the better scouts that had learned to avoid most tracking devices or similar and knew exactly what to do now. It continued its observation for a few minutes and then left to report this new development to his master.

'The slayer and another girl together. This is really interesting. And by the way she looked at that little redhead it must be love. Love... such an unnecessary emotion. Just distracting and dangerous. It makes her vulnerable. Well I should be grateful for that.'

With that last thought it rushed into the darkness leaving the two lovers another night to enjoy themselves before they would die...

Chapter 7: A forced separation

"Hmmm... that is an interesting thing. Love you say?"

"Those were the words master."

"Then let's get started. Gather your best soldiers and do your best to follow my will."

"Yes my master." And with that the scout left the inner circle of their members and the leaders of the Rholtha clan. He would do whatever was needed to succeed and fulfill the hopes and needs of his masters.

He smiled at the thought what he would do with that little slayer as soon as she was one of them. He probably would make her his and play with her until he didn't want her anymore and then just kill her. It wasn't really the best idea to kill a member, especially if he had managed to turn a slayer but he had enough time to think about that as soon as he had her on his side. He had scarcely thought about the way he served his master but it was surely enjoying to be one of the best and as such have some freedom about what he did and how he did it. And he used every opportunity to receive more of that freedom and maybe even one time to be elected into the leadership. But for now all he would do was to capture that girl and turn that slayer.

Willow woke up and noticed the warmth of Buffy's body behind her. It was so comforting. She sighed at the thought of needing to get up early and do some research to learn the last few spells to cast the gateway and hide it. 'Hmmm... 6:22 I still have some time.' She turned around to face Buffy and started to gaze at her. 'So beautiful. It took too long for us to notice.'

She sighed again and slowly entangled herself from Buffy, careful not to wake her up, and then started to get dressed. Then she went back to the bed and kissed 'her slayer' on the forehead and smiled, then headed for the door and stopped in the doorway to take a last look before she left the room.

She went down and into the kitchen to set up some dough for a few pancakes and fried a few of them. She wrote a short message where she was and then left the house.

Just outside, she was suddenly knocked down by something very large. Her last thought before she fell into unconsciousness was 'BUFFY!! Help!'

Buffy startled in her dream. She was dancing with Willow in the Bronze and suddenly heard her. 'BUFFY!! Help!' She looked into the eyes of Willow scared that something bad had happened when she saw her fade away. "Willow wait." It was her last thought before she woke up. Her eyes shot open and she scanned the room but Willow wasn't there. She was really worried now.

"Willow? Willow, are you here?"

No answer. She headed down just to find the door open. Leaving the house she found Willow's laptop outside on the floor. Her mouth was suddenly dry.

"Oh my god, Willow..." she exhaled.

Giles was getting worried. He had agreed with Willow that they would meet at his house at 7 o'clock. It was now 7:30. Just then he heard the phone ring.

"Hello? Buffy? No she's not here... No I haven't seen her... yes I'll call when I see her. Buffy- Buffy calm down. Now tell me what's wrong."

After a short talk on the phone about what she had found, Buffy got dressed and ran over to Giles.

Giles heard a knock and went to open the door. Unsurprisingly Buffy was outside. He let her in and she just went over to the couch and took a seat.

"It's all my fault. It's all my fault. I didn't protect her, you know Giles? That's what I normally should do. And now those demons have her." she said with tears welling in her eyes.

She gave him a note.

'We have your little red-haired friend. If you want her back then come to the south graveyard at midnight. Alone!'

"Well first of all this is not your fault. You can't be everywhere. And second how could you have known that this would happen? You are the Slayer and not the Oracle of Sunnydale. You cannot know everything."

"Maybe not, but I could have protected HER. After all, we have spent the..." she stopped herself before she could say too much and let her head sink into her hands and started to cry.

Willow woke up in what seemed to be a tent, built around a tree. She tried to get up but then noticed that she was tied up against that tree. Then suddenly a demon appeared in front of her, almost if he had just been created out of thin air, a small distortion effect seemed to surround it.

"Ahhh... our little slayer-friend is awake. You should better not try to leave this place. You would be dead before you had moved even one foot."

That demon looked at her with a look that could be best identified as a smile. She stopped struggling and took a closer look at it and tried her best to project that picture in Buffy.

"You know, at least some of you could at least try to use a little hygiene?"

"Heh. Funny. You're tied against a tree, caught by a bunch of demons and you think about hygiene."

"Well it's the best... actually... the only thing I can think of, as long as you're here. And since I'm not dead yet, I suppose that you need me for something."

"True my little girl. We need your presence to trap the slayer. But don't think that we need you longer than that. And the more you do to anger me, the sooner you'll be dead. I don't think that the slayer will do much to avoid our trap. Not with that look in her eyes."

"What look?"

"Love, my dear. Love. It's the only thing that causes people to risk their lives for somebody else without thinking. And your little slayer had that look. And we'll use it against her. So if you prefer to live long enough to see her a last time, then keep quiet and don't even think about fleeing."

With that it vaporized again only leaving a small trail of waved air behind it as it left.

"You have spent.... what?"

Buffy ignored him, unable to calm down. The only person she could think of at the moment was kidnapped by a group of invisible demons. She was probably the only person that was knowledgeable enough, beside of Giles, to open such a gateway. And Buffy couldn't even think of what she would do if Willow would die.

"Buffy? Buffy, come on, tell me what you wanted to say."

Buffy's head shot up as an image entered it. She could see a demon that seemed to talk but couldn't hear anything.

'Willow? Willow are you there?'

'Oh god Buffy. Am I glad to hear you.'

'Willow, I'll get you out of there. I'll get you out.'

'Buffy, I'm tied up against a tree and from that what I hear there are just too many to fight. Don't risk your life if all you could do here would be to die.'

'Willow I will not allow you to think about that. We'll find a way to get you out and I will not let you be harmed.'

Her connection was cut off as Giles put a hand on her shoulder and shook her.

"Buffy? Buffy?" He had a concerned look on his face. "Buffy, tell me what you mean. I'm here and I'll listen to whatever you have to say."

"Wha- What? Oh sorry, I was just talking to Willow. She doesn't want me to rescue her. She says it is a trap."

"Buffy what are you talking about? Willow isn't here."

'Should I tell him? It would surely help us to find a solution but I really don't want to go through that whole 'why?' discussion.'

'Buffy, tell him. He will understand.'

Buffy was startled by Willow entering her head again but was fast enough back in Giles living room to see his puzzled face.

'Ok Buffy, then let's tell him' she encouraged to herself.

"Well... it's quite complicated but to say it in its shortest form Willow and I have... sorta a telepathic connection. I really don't know how or why but it's there. It started after I had..." trailing off Buffy wished she hadn't said that last sentence.

"After what?" Giles frowned at the thought that such a thing could be possible but listened to her.

"Uh... well... I think it started after Willow and I... ah... kind of..." she hesitated. She really didn't want to go that far. " ummm... had... I think it started after our visit here on Saturday." she said, relieved that she found way to avoid telling him that she and Willow were together. She was simply not that far yet.

"Hmmm seems another thing that Willow has developed lately."

"Yeah Willow..."

"And you're now in contact with her?"

"Sort of."

"Well then I think I know a way how we can free her."

"Really? That's great. How?"

"Well we'll just tell her what she shall do and none of the demons should actually notice."

"Seems like a great idea. When shall we start?"

"Seems like our little redhead has accepted the way things will go." the demon said appearing in front of Willow.

"No, I'm just imagining how it will be when Buffy arrives here. In a good-for-me-bad-for-you kind of way."

The demon let out a loud laughter and then pierced her up with glowing green eyes.

"You have such a fantasy. It will be a pleasure to see you die."

"I don't really think that that would be a pleasure from your seat in the lounge in hell." she said a wicked smile growing across her face.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that she will send you all back to hell before you have any opportunity to see me die."

"You really have a great fantasy. Maybe I'll turn you and not kill you. It would be of advantage to have such a person in our clan."

"Go to hell!"

"Nah, I don't think so. Been there and came back. But I'll make sure that you'll land there", and with that it vaporized again.

'Willow? Can you hear me?'

'Buffy! Oh I'm so glad to hear you.'

'Nice to hear that but I think me and Giles know a way to rescue you.'

'How?'

'Do you think you can send me a short look at the surroundings?'

'Sure, though there's not much to say other than that I'm in a tent tied against a tree.', and with that she let Buffy see through her eyes.

"Ok here's the thing. Willow is tied up against a tree. I'd say about four or five feet thick and she is in a tent about seven or eight yards from one side to the other."

"Ok, then the next step."

'Willow you think you can check if there are any of those demons inside of the tent? I mean with that spell you used yesterday.'

'Should be no problem.'

Buffy heard Willow chant, although she was actually too far away to be able to do that. But she could hear her think the words. After a few minutes of chanting and Giles slowly getting worried she heard Willow talk to her again.

'No demons inside but two a few feet outside guarding the entrance.'

'Okay should be enough for now. We'll tell you the spell to create a gateway inside the tent so that you can keep it open. And hide it. Then all you have to do is lure a few of them into the tent. That should give us the distraction we need to find and rescue you. I just hope that none of those beasts comes in just in that moment.'

'Yeah, ok Buffy. But be careful.'

'You know me. I'm the always-careful slayer.'

With that she opened her eyes and spoke up to tell Giles the development. After a few minutes of explaining he stood up and went to get the book where the spell was listed in. In the meanwhile Buffy went back to talking to Willow through their connection. A connection for which she thanked all gods she knew now.

Interlude: The time it takes

The two fighters for good soon recognized that they couldn't live forever. Not with their powers. They would be killed sometime during their fight. So they decided to make sure that the powers they held could be given to the next life. To a new human that would be able to fight the dark side and keep them at bay to not allow them to take the mortal realm again.

But they soon found out that it wasn't as easy to give those powers to the next human in the line as they had hoped. They found out that it was much more difficult to give all the powers to two single humans to continue their fight than to split their powers up and give them to a group of humans. And then, when the time came, they would be able to focus the powers and give them to two humans who then would be able to prevent the big attack that hell had sworn to do. They had to find out how to do such a thing and then give the powers to the next.

It has then been decided that in every generation there will be a group of humans that would be able to receive and use parts of the gifts that those two had received from the Powers of Light. It has been decided that those would from then on fight the evil and push them back as long as possible and those humans were given the all the power that was needed to fulfill their destiny. And a conscience that would not let them turn to the dark side.

But hell would once strike again and the two fighters for the mortal realm knew that. They could even figure out when it would strike again. And they knew they had to prevent the Powers of Darkness from reentering this realm. But they also knew that there would be smaller fights to regain control over what the demons had lost. Fights that would not be won if the Warriors for that time weren't given enough power.

So they took advantage of that and decided to give the special fighters sometimes more power. The problem was that it was more difficult to summon the magic than to summon the strength.

And so it came that every 720 years a Sorcerer was born with more powers than normal and every 144 years a Warrior was born with more strength than normal. But due to the attack that all knew would come they needed more to fight it back.

Every 3600 years hell would be able to open a new entrance to the mortal realm and be able to enter it without any problems. And to avoid that, it was necessary to give the two fighters for that event the powers that the first two also had. It was the time when all the powers the mortal realm had were concentrated in those two fighters for the existence of the mortal realm. But it was necessary for that that those two fighters fought together. It was the only hope this realm had.

And to make sure that those two would fight together the first Warrior and the first Sorceress asked the mortal realm to connect them so that the future fighters would be connected in the same way. It was a connection that could only be activated by love and would, once active, bond those two together for eternity, making their souls immortal and, as soon they gave the powers to the next generation, their body's would be the same. It was a gift that the mortal realm gave them. A gift they received for their holy duty. All those that managed to find the other and fall in love with them would be able to live forever.

Together.

Chapter 8: Special powers

Willow woke up on a small hill. She looked up and saw a willow tree on the top. She started to walk towards it when she noticed another person nearing it from the other side. She looked at the other person and recognized her.

"Buffy!"

"Willow!"

They ran towards each other and met on the top just beside the tree and hugged and kissed the other.

"Willow are you ok? I mean you seem ok, but... this... your still tied up against that tree aren't you?"

Willow nodded.

"Well then I suppose we're haveing a dream", Buffy smiled. She was happy to see her lover again, even if it was only a dream.

"But why are we here? Did you do that Will?"

"You are here because we brought you here. You need to learn a few things before you go on", a new voice spoke up startling both girls. They looked into the direction the voice came from and saw two people standing there. A man, seemingly in some kind of armor, and a woman in a wide robe, that seemed to float around her feet.

"And you are...?" Buffy asked.

"We were the first fighters for this realm." The woman spoke this time.

"What do you mean? The first fighters?"

"Well... to explain that it would take too long. We will do that another time, but for now you must know who you are and why you are here."

"We're waiting."

"Ok to take the short way, you two are keepers of the powers we once held. They were used to fight the evil and prevent them from taking this realm. We have found out that we couldn't do this forever so we gave them to humans that from then on would fight for what we have fought. Every 3600 years the Powers of Darkness are able to open an entrance to this world without any help from this side. This will happen soon and you two are the only ones that can stop that."

"Ok I know that I have saved the world often enough but can't such a thing be done by an other slayer?"

"No, just because you two are the only ones that hold these powers and for the next 3600 years they will not return. It was simply too difficult for us to summon all the powers we had and give them to the next humans. So what we did was give small amounts of the powers to certain humans. A few received the gifts to cast magic like you Willow.

Others have received the gifts of great strength and fast healing like you Buffy. You and your fellows the other slayers weren't the only ones that received those gifts, but you were those that were noticed by mankind. This is just to explain why the 'Council' thinks all slayers are women. But so much for that. You two have taken the first step to use those powers and preventing the Chaos from entering this realm."

"What step?" Willow, who had been quiet until now, asked.

"By falling in love," the man said. "The only way we knew to, sorry if this sounds rude, force the fighters that would follow us to fight together was to connect them. We asked this realm to help us and this sort of connection you two have is the answer. It started as you two both found out that you love each other. Not the conscious part of your soul, but your heart. You have had shared dreams before you both knew it. The dream where your consciousness finally accepted the love was one of them."

"You mean... THAT was a shared...?" Both girls asked in unison, their eyes widening.

"Yes it was. But this is only the beginning of everything. We came here and brought you to this place to tell you who you are and to warn you, that the time you will need what you have received will come soon. You two have just started to know the powers you two hold. Buffy you are much stronger and faster than you ever thought and Willow your magic is just starting to show itself. Now that you are together you will be able to use those powers. But you still need training. This place here is a place that exists in the real world out there too. It is a place that we have once created and that is hidden, so that only the special fighters, like you two, are able to find it. It is a place where you can train and learn to control your powers. As soon as you wake up you will know where to go. We will wait there for you to help you on your way."

"But... but... Willow is still tied up against that tree and I can't just go there after I wake up. Not when I know that she is still in danger."

Willow smiled as she heard that. She knew it was something that Buffy said automatically, mostly because she was her best friend for over 3 years now, but she was still happy that she could hear it.

"You still have enough time to free her. There is not such a hurry for what you have to do but know that the time, when the evil will enter, will come."

And with that the two people disappeared. Willow looked into Buffy's eyes and was a little shocked about what she had just found out.

"Hey, seems like we're more special than we thought." Buffy smiled

"Yeah. I just hope that you'll come soon. I miss you too much."

"Hey, now I'm here. Maybe it's not the same but I am here. And I will not leave you if it is in any way avoidable."

With that Buffy kissed her lover and they started to lay down onto the grass, slipping one piece of clothing off after the other. It was a wonderful time for both of them and although they knew that they would wake up separated from each other, they didn't think about it. They just laid in the grass and loved each other. In more than just one way.

"I love you Will."

"And I love you."

With that both woke up, one in her bed in Giles house, the other tied against a tree. Both sweating and both smiling. Buffy had her hand between her legs and so had Willow. They were both glad about what they had found out and that they, although they were separated, were able to spend the night together.

Now that they knew that they were more than they had thought, they had to learn to control their powers.

"You think they will join us?" the woman asked, again standing under the willow tree.

"They will. And they will prevent once more the destruction of this world."

"I just hope they will come together sooner than we have. I hated the time we were separated."

"So did I my love, so did I."

Chapter 9: Freeing Willow

"Ok, so that is all that we need?"

"Yes. This and your connection with Willow, and we should be able to open one of the gateways in the tent she's in. All we then have to do is to be fast enough there to free her so that she can open another gateway and then we should be able to-"

"Yes Giles, I think we got that. Ok then I'll tell Will that we're ready here."

"Ah.. yes, do that."

'Will, can you hear me?'

'No I can't but I will play the game. Ok so you are ready there?'

'Always up for a joke huh? And I thought that was Xander's way of thinking. Ok so we'll start now. Are you alone?'

'Just a second. Hmmm... yes, no demon in here.'

"She's ready."

"Then let's start."

"Poor little redhead. Seems your friend doesn't love you as much as we thought."

Willow was startled as the demon appeared in front of her.

"What do you mean?"

"She didn't come. And she wasn't here. That means that she won't come. Bad for you. That means we have no use for you anymore."

'Buffy, hurry. I think they'll kill me if I'm not fast enough out of here.'

"Oh, believe me. She loves me. But she isn't stupid enough to step into a trap. And just for your information, Buffy and I had a wonderful night together."

"Oh, you mean that you thought you had her love... and I assume you also thought that you spent the night together. Ah, yes I can smell your arousal. But masturbation isn't the same than spending the night together and I would assume you know that."

"You don't seem to understand. I am more than you think. And I won't let you or anybody else hurt my Buffy."

And with that her head dropped, only to come up again a few seconds later, her eyes glowing and chants leaving her mouth. She didn't know where it came from, she just continued with what she was doing. The rope she was tied against started to glow and then fell off. She looked at the demon, her eyes almost drilling into its head. It couldn't move, couldn't speak. Then she raised her hands and threw the Weaver out of the tent. It smashed against a tree and was immediately dead.

'NOW Buffy!!'

She heard Buffy's words in her head but didn't have any time to listen to them. The guards ran into the tent and Willow did the same with them as with their comrade before. Then she started to feel a power. She couldn't resist it and started to chant again. She felt the energy streaming through her body and leaving her hands as she slowly opened the gateway.

Just in the moment when she was finished another two demons stepped into the doorway. If the gateway hadn't have sucked them into it she wouldn't even have noticed them.

'Buffy, the hide spell!'

"Fast Giles, I need the hiding spell!"

"Just a second. Ah yes here."

Buffy took a short look at the spell in front of her and sent the picture of it to Willow.

She heard her as she used it. Then she saw through her eyes as the gateway started to disappear.

'Will, stay there. I'm coming. I'll be there as fast as I can.'

'Sure Buffy, no problem.'

She could almost see the smile her wicca must have had on her face now.

"Ok Giles, time to go."

She stood up grabbed the sword and the weaponry bag beside her and headed out of the door, shortly followed by Giles, Xander and Cordelia.

Buffy checked if the glasses were correctly adjusted. Then she jumped out of the bush she was hiding in and ran as fast as she could towards the tent where Willow would wait for her. On her way she kicked 3 of the Illusion Weavers down and managed to slice their heads off. Satisfied with her work she continued her run towards her friend.

The closer she came to the tent the more she noticed that there didn't seem to be any of those demons left that attacked her.

'Damn they must have found out that there is a gateway in there. Or they're just scared. Whatever it is I should be grateful for it.'

Then she was hit and thrown through the air. She didn't know where it came from cause she thought she had checked everything in that direction. She did a second sweep with her glasses as she landed but wasn't able to see anything.

"Oh, little slayer... you don't really think I'm stupid enough to let you see me. I know how to avoid such things." What then followed could only be identified by maniacal laughter. Then she felt it. A prank --it couldn't be described as anything else-- that lifted her up into the air and threw her good 30 feet over to the tent.

"Big mistake, you bastard." 'Willow, you think you can make that one visible?'

'I can try, but I have to know where it is to track him down.'

'Ok next time he lifts me up you'll know where it is.'

'Buffy you can't be serious. He could kill you if you let him that near.'

'I really don't think I have a choi-'

Buffy was kicked over half the clearing and crashed right into a tree. The sword she had managed to hold until then dropped as the impact drove the air out of her lungs.

Willow, who now knew where the demon was started to chant the short spell and only a few seconds later she and Buffy could see this one. It was bigger than the last one, almost 10 feet high. And it was fast. Almost too fast, but Buffy managed to get up in time and duck under the punch away. And now that she could see it, it wasn't difficult for the slayer to repel the attacks. And after a little help from Willow, who managed to stop all the movements like with the first one, Buffy managed to break its neck and the demon dropped into a lumpy heap on the ground.

"Willow, do you think you could open a really big one above the clearing?" the slayer said walking over to her lover and with an almost wicked smile on her face.

"Ahh..hmm.. I think I could try that."

"You don't try it. Do it or don't do it that's all I want from you."

"Sure."

With that Willow started to chant, gathering all her energy together and a gateway formed. First small but steadily growing it sucked one demon after the other into it. Screams of agony could be heard throughout the whole forest. Soon the clearing was absolutely quiet except for the walking sounds of the rest of the Scoobies who came towards them. Willow collapsed on the floor completely exhausted. Buffy jumped over to her and caught her just in time to prevent her from dropping on to the ground.

'Hey Buffy, you think we should tell them now?'

'Why tell them and not show them?'

That was enough for Buffy to let her smile become wicked. Willow smiled back and only seconds later they stood there, kissing as if they had been years apart. Giles froze and just looked dumbfounded at the scene that was playing in front of him. Xander walked up to his side.

"Now just say you didn't know that."

"Know what?" Cordelia asked, as she was walking up to the other two. Xander just pointed at the two girls in front of him. The answer he received was Cordy's jaw hanging open while she stared at what just happened in front of her.

"Now come on, don't tell me I was the only one that knew this."

"Ah..yes... well... I think we should gather our stuff and go back home. And you two have quite some explaining to do, little girls."

"Giles, first we aren't 'little girls' anymore and second I think Willow and I have something else to do before, but we'll be there soon. And, no Giles, it is not what you think. I'll explain it later. But now we have a small date with some really old people."

"So here are we now. What to do next?"

"Now we'll teach you to work with what you have." A new voice entered the quietness around the willow tree.

Epilogue: Explaining

Giles and Cordelia listened carefully to what the two lovers told them. Xander had gone into the kitchen to get something to eat after the part concerning the 'lovers' had started.

"So you two have the same powers as those two, and they were the first on this realm?" Giles asked.

"More or less. They weren't the first humans here; they were the first real fighters for this world. They were humans that were given the powers from the 'Mortal Realm' combined with the knowledge and some power of the heavenly forces...yeah I think that's what they called it. They told us that in some cases the powers are more on the side of the magic, in other cases the Warrior gets more of it. But together we have exactly the same powers as they had."

"And you say that they are immortal?" this time it was Cordelia who asked.

"They are and we will be, as soon as we give the powers to the next generation. Or at least that is what they told us." Willow smiled. She very much liked the thought of being able to stay with Buffy for such a long time.

"And tell me again why you don't do this now, but later?"

"Because they said that it was a little too difficult to give the powers they had to only two humans of the next generation. They had to split it up and every 3600 years when the 'Powers of Darkness', as they called it, are able to open a portal to this world, they have enough strength to focus all the power again into two humans. And in this cycle, Willow and I are those two chosen ones, as silly as this may sound at the moment. And in the next 3600 years they will be too weak to focus those powers again."

"Ok, I think I understand this now. Did they tell you when you will have encounter this threat?"

"Except for 'soon'? No. They just said that we would have enough time to learn to control our powers. But from what I have seen how strong Wills already is I don't know how long that could be."

"Well I hope we have enough time to work this out. I really don't want to battle hell all too soon. I think we really have earned us a short break." Cordy said.

"Ah.. yes...well it seems that we have always underestimated you two. I am just glad that you are on our side."

"Giles you don't have to do that. Don't you see that you're embarrassing them?" Xander came back with a piece of cake and a huge pile of whipped cream on top.

'You know, as much as I like it how Giles looks when he's blushing, I really know better ways of using this time.' Buffy squeezed Willows hand.

"Buffy!"

"Yes?"

'You know exactly what I meant.'

'Do I?'

'Yes you do Buffy. And don't play this game, they all know about what we have.'

"Ok, ok, you are absolutely right Wills."

"Well...I think we know enough for the moment. I just have to find out what we can do to help you two in the coming fight."

"Giles we really appreciate your help, but we have no clue what will happen ourselves. We will meet Birgit and Christopher in a few days and then we'll try to find a few things out that will help us but until then you can relax. You don't have to explain everything. Especially not those things that you wouldn't be able to find anyway without more details."

"Well...maybe you're right. I think we should stop this debate for now and just enjoy the peace we have at the moment."

"Thanks Giles. You know Buffy, I think we should go back to the dorm. I still have some homework I have to do."

"Sure, anything else Giles?"

"No... no I don't think so."

"Ok then we'll see ya tomorrow. Bye Giles, Bye Xandman, Cordy."

"Yes tomorrow." Giles muttered.

With a few 'byes' hanging in the air Willow was being tugged out of the house just to stop there and be kissed.

"You know I like the way you think about homework lately."

"What do you mean?"

'Do the words: "I still have some homework I have to do with Buffy, on Buffy," remind you of something?'

Willow blushed. "I...you know that I... I just wanted to-" Buffy stopped her babble mode with a fast kiss.

"I know exactly what you meant. And as much as I like it here, it is although a little too public."

"Yeah I think your right. Come on I... WE have some homework to do."

Willow squeezed Buffy's hand and ran with her off to the dorm. They still had a few issues that they had to discuss but that would have to wait until after the 'Homework'.

The End