Becoming What, Exactly?: Part 16
by Theory Queen
Willow reported back to Giles at the end of the day. "It's all set; I found our sculptor," she informed him.

"What? Oh, uh, good. I've acquainted Father Joe with our information, so we'll be ready to perform the ceremony as soon as the body is finished. Which reminds me - how soon will the body be finished?"

"All right!" Xander came out abruptly from behind a bookcase. "Listen, you two, I've had it! What is going on that no one is telling me about? What is this with a body, and Cordelia's statue which doesn't exist, and just everything?"

Giles looked at Willow. "Cordelia is the sculptor?"

"Um, yeah, she's all I could find, and -"

"HELLO!" Xander shouted. "I'm having a need-to-know tantrum here! What is going on?"

"Giles, I think we have to tell him now."

"Very well. I guess you're right."

At the end of the briefing, Xander sat back in his chair. "Wow," was all he managed to say for a while. Then, "Are you both crazy?"

"No, Mr. Harris, we are not crazy. It may be a possibility to rescue Angel from hell and give him a human body."

"And we've got a priest to help us and everything!" Willow chirped.

Xander smiled for the first time all day. "What'll your parents say to that?" he teased. "Ira Rosenberg's only daughter consorting with Catholics?"

"But you're okay with… the rest of it?" Willow wanted to clear that up.

"It's not really up to me, is it? And anyway, if what we think happened really happened, the guy's in hell. He will have definitely paid his debt to society, even if you guys really do succeed." He swiped Willow's apple and bit into it with a grin. "Not that I think you'll succeed, or anything."


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