Chapter 3
Watcher's Council :
Inside a dark cell, a petite redhead lay on a small bed and slowly began to stir.
"Uh, what happened? That’s the last time I drink alcohol while taking my antidepressants. Uggh… I don't think I'm in Sunnydale, Toto."
Willow got up only to find that her legs were chained to the bed. After a few moments of intense fear, she found she was able to get up and walk around the small dark room.
"Well, this bums." Willow looked around and screamed at the top of her lungs. "Help! Someone help meeee!" Staggering to the floor, still feeling nauseous for some reason and extremely dizzy, the young witch closed her eyes.
The door to the room opened and a man who she had once met before walked into the room. The redhead staggered to the back of the small room and tried to
look menacing.
"You don't come any closer. I'm a big bad witch and will turn you into a roach if you try to touch me."
"Ms. Rosenberg, I'm afraid even if you were to use your well known magic skills on me you would soon find your powers are being blocked. Don't worry, they won’t go to waste, I promise you that."
"Buffy will come for me and she will kick your ass from wherever we are to the other side of the world."
"I'm afraid not. The slayer won’t be a problem… you see, she believes you're dead. When we took you, we made sure to hide all evidence of your taking. No one’s coming to save you."
Willow dropped to her knees and held onto them as the door slammed shut and began whimpering loudly with fear. "Tara, I miss you. I wish you were here to find me."
: Sunnydale :
Cordelia walked into the guest room of her father’s house looking upon the form of the young girl Cammy sleeping on the bed. Cammy opened her eyes and looked up at Cordelia with a curious look on her face.
"I just needed a nap. Anything up?"
"Nope. Angel emailed me saying it'd be best to go to Buffy's house and make myself known so it won’t be too weird that I'm here in Sunnydale. What’s with that, I mean, all this cloak and dagger stuff?"
Cammy turned to stare at Cordelia, her jade green eyes looking intense.
"If the slayer knows I am here to find my sister's lover's kidnappers and that Willow isn't dead the group who I believe have her might just kill her. This
way we can make sure no one of his group is around to find us."
"I hate being put into danger! Why do I always work with people with dangerous lives, first Buffy and her group, then Angel and his, and now you?"
Cordelia walked out, got into her rented car, and drove to the home of Buffy Summers. She went and knocked on the door. Giles opened it, his mouth falling open in total surprise upon seeing the former high school diva.
"Cordelia… it’s been so long. How are you?"
"I'm good. I'm here with my cuzin. I heard about Willow. Sorry I couldn't get here sooner, Angel has been keeping us all extremely busy. Anyway, I came to see the others."
"Come in. Come in. Buffy's sleeping and Dawn's out with Xander."
Giles walked back inside, handing a cup of tea to Cordelia, and sat himself down in a chair.
"I wish there was a better reason for this meeting than the death of a friend. We have been in bad shape since the loss of Willow's girlfriend Tara. She was murdered a year ago."
"I heard Willow went from Oz to a girl. I'm sorry about her loss."
Giles looked at Cordelia sadly, "Tara and Willow had just got gotten back together after a few months of being separated after Willow went on a magic addiction binge. We were looking for Warren Mears and his friends, they called themselves the Trio. Buffy humiliated them and sent two of them to the police for a robbery but Warren escaped and came to kill Buffy he fired blindly shooting Buffy and a lone bullet got Tara who was in hers and Willows room. Tara died in Willows arms then she went berserk in little time she went and killed Warren nearly killed everyone and almost ended the world but was stopped thanks to Xander. Now she's dead."
Cordeila looked at him with a shocked look on her face then straightened herself up.
"I'm here for a few days. I’d like to see Buffy and give my condolences. I know me and Willow weren't the best of friends, but I guess with working with Angel and seeing death of good friends. I feel sad that I never got to say I'm sorry to her."
"I'm sure Buffy and Xander will be happy to see you again. I'm curious, does your cousin know about things?"
"Oh, no. She just knows that Sunnydale isn't a safe place and that we bonded a bit over it. You know basic Scooby tellings."
"Ah, good. Well I was about to head out and get some dinner for the others."
"I'll be back later. Maybe Buffy will be up by then."
Cordelia got up, gave the older man a hug and headed out to her car.
: Sunnydale hotel :
Tara slowly began waking up and jumped in fright as she found herself in a bed naked.
"Yo, blondie. It’s Faith, don't be afraid, I'm not here to hurt you. Angel sent me and Spike to watch over you."
The young slayer walked slowly around the room and gently sat on the edge of the bed looking intently at the blonde witch.
Tara blushed deeply, pulled the covers up higher, and looked to Faith remembering little of the one time where Faith was inside Buffy’s body and all the fun events around that.
"Where am I?"
"Sunnydale. Do you remember anything?"
"No, not really, last thing that I remember is going to Buffy's and forgiving Willow about some stuff that happened between us and then being with her. Then, looking out the window to see Buffy and Xander talking then a sharp pain and then nothing else."
"Me and Spike will fill you in later. Now you just need to rest things are a bit hard to figure out. Anyway there’s a bag of clothes for you to wear and some food for you to eat."
"Thanks Faith." Faith quickly turned around giving Tara some amount of privacy but smirking all the same. Tara got up slowly and began putting on her clothes and nibbling at some salad and sub sandwiches.
"No prob."
: Cordelia's home :
Walking out of Cordelia's father’s home, Cammy walked down the street to the address that she was given and came upon a house just as a car pulled up. A young man got out with a brunette teen both looking horrible. She looked at him and realized that his attention was caught on her and that the young man began walking toward her.
"Hello, can I help you? Please, let me help you."
"Xander, don't hit on her. I thought you were trying to get Anya back?"
"I'm not hitting on her. She looked lost."
"Excuse me, sir, but I'm standing right here."
Xander blushed deep red and began to stammer.
"Sorry. Is there something I can do to help you?"
"Oh, no, I'm just looking around. My cousin used to live here in Sunnydale. I just wanted to roam around."
"Oh, well, be careful, this place isn't good to people. Good people don't last long here."
Xander looked down, took Dawn’s hand, and walked inside the house.
"Yeah, I know good people die here, but I will do whatever I can to make sure one good soul doesn't die, if just for my late sister’s sake."
Cammy puts her shades back on and walked away keeping a visual of the house that held a family in pain.
: Thailand :
"Master, she’s been sighted in Sunnydale."
"Good. Send my hunters after them."
"Yes, my lord."
: Sunnydale hotel :
Tara sat at the table and listened, her face-growing pale as Faith told her what had been happening to her friends and the kidnapping of her girl.
"Angel thinks we need to keep you here until you’re ready to go look for Willow. We aren’t quite ready yet so you just rest up."
"I understand, Faith. I’m no good until my magical energies regain themselves."
"Well, Spike's staying here. Don’t worry he won’t hurt you. I think he’s afraid of your Goddess more than anything."
Tara nodded feeling a sense of calm inside her at the mention of Faith and Spike protecting her as she slowly recovered her strength and energies.
"Take care, Faith. Be careful."
"I always am careful, T. Now, get some rest."
: Buffy's home :
Sitting in the kitchen, Xander and Buffy chatted about Cordelia's visit.
"So Cordelia visited. I think we should go get her and have a get-together over Willow and Tara's graves so we can all be together."
"Sure, Buff. Even though there were some hard feelings we were all Scoobies and should be together for Willow and Tara."
Buffy nodded, said goodnight, and headed up to Dawn's room. She curled up by her sister's sleeping form, closed her eyes, and slept.
: Watcher's Council :
"We got a message from Shadowlaw. They are going to send us two sorcerers: one Ethan Rayne and one Amy Madison both have prior knowledge of the witch and the Slayer."
"Good. Soon we will begin to take the witches power and leave her a broken husk."
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