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Part Four
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Every time they blinked or looked away there was only one passage for them to go by. It went that way, them being herded into some unknown destination. Untill finally an opening appeared in the long passage they were walking down. Xander and Giles walked through it. Xander looked to his left and saw Willow and Angel sitting on the floor lent against one of the stacks.
"Willow!" Xander yelled.
Willow and Angel looked his way. Willow let out a high pitched screech and jumped up and slamed into him even harder than she had Angel. Xander scooped her up and lifted her over his head showering her with kisses. He put her on the ground and she was blushing furiously. Angel stood up and brushed invisible dust off his pants. Giles came up to him. Angel eyed the two. If he and Willow were both dead and here, why not them too?
"You two died." Giles stated, not a question.
Angel noded. Xander put a protective arm around Willow. She looked up to him questioning the same. He nodded and squeezed her arm reasuringly.
"What about Buffy?" Giles asked.
"She was there with me. Things didn't look all that good when I left. I didn't see her die but I don't see how she could have made it." Angel said not meeting Giles' eyes. "We haven't seen her either." He finished.
"Nor have we." Giles said.
"Giles where are we?" Willow asked. He shook his head.
"We all died. Perhaps this is some afterlife." He groped for an answer.
"If so then why is dead boy here. I mean he's a vampire. It seems to me that we all shouldn't be going to the same place." Xander accused. Willow elbowed him.
"The boy has a point." He looked around. "Anyway this doesn't look like heaven, at least from what I wsa told." Angel said.
"Oh I don't know. It is rather." Giles stopped as he encountered stares from everyone. "Well, yes, yes. I see." He floundered.
Xander explained to Willow what had happened to bring them here.
"Maybe we should follow it. If we get to the end of it, what ever it is, it will all be over. Or maybe understand what's going on." She ventured helfully.
"Yes. That would seem to be the most sound of the possibilities. Anyway we can't just stay here forever." Giles said.
Angel had alrealy started walking their path made up for them already.
"Or find Buffy." He said.
Buffy sat for a moment as the book slammed shut.
"That's it." He announced.
Buffy blinked not sure she understood. After she had just spent forever and a day listening to every mistake or 'bad' things she had ever done. Most of it was lying, which she had to do because of her double life t thing. Pride, another of her charactar flaws, was something she never trulyt got to work out. And finaly but no least of all, lust and impure thoughts. A whole lot of nice thoughts about Angel. Which, she thought, was not all that bad a thing since she didn't act of them, all that much. Well, except for the kissing.
"Really? Over? Over over? As in no more books?" She asked. He noded giving her a look that was usually reserved for Giles. "Well, what now?" She asked felling as if she had been sent to the principal for burning down the gym. Which of course had been on the list.
"Now I get to decide where you go." He told her.
She frowned. "How come you get to do that?" She asked.
"Because it's my job." He told her shortly. Buffy opened up her mouth about to speak. "Because it just is."
Buffy was frowning again. The man lent back inwardly sighing. "All you listed was the bad things. How come you didn't list the good ones? They're important too." She pointed out.
"I don't make the rules. I just abide by them." He said shuffling through the papers on his desk.
"And I break them." Buffy said with a smile. "I'm the Slayer. I've saved the world a few times, major communities and people's lives the rest of the time." She paused. "I should be exempt." She concluded.
"You are not exempt. No one is." He said stopping. "Now if you would just sit there quietly, I'm going to debate your after life."
Buffy stayed quite. She didn't know what to say to that.
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