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It was Spike who ended the kiss this time. 'Dru will go crazy if she finds out,' he thought, 'well, crazier, anyway.' He looked down at Willow, who met his gaze. He sighed and pulled her closer. He was surprised when she let him, resting her head on his chest.
"This is going to be complicated, pet," he admitted as he petted her head. She just nodded silently and tightened her grip around his waist.
Willow stood on her balcony, in the arms of her archenemy for quite some time before she lifted her head and spoke.
"I had a dream the other night. Giles said it was linking me to my soul mate." Spike was puzzled by her choice of topic, but went along with it.
"Oh?"
"Yeah. I dreamed Oz died," she said sadly.
"He's your boyfriend, I take it?" Willow gulped.
"Yeah." Spike moved a little and looked off.
"I had a dream yesterday as well." Willow looked up at him.
"What happened in yours?"
"You Slayer pal killed Dru. I told you about it already." Willow suddenly pulled away from him.
"Oh no..." she moaned softly. "Oh no, no no no no no..." Spike moved to her, but she turned away from him, putting her hands to her forehead.
"Willow, what's wrong?" She looked up at him, her eyes pained.
"What did she say?"
"What did who say?"
"Buffy. In your dream."
"How do you know she said anything?" This was really starting to creep Spike out.
"Just tell me what she said, dammit!" Willow had tears springing to her eyes, although she wasn't sure if they were of sadness, horror, joy, or something else. Spike could see she was upset.
"She said 'she's coming for you, she wants you.' I couldn't figure out what it meant." Willow suddenly just let her tears flow. He pulled her to him, and this time she let him. She buried her face in his chest and just sobbed. He kissed her head.
"It's all right, pet, it's alright." He wasn't very good at consoling people. Especially not his enemies. But he had a feeling there was something she needed to tell him, but she'd wait until she was good and ready.
* * *
The vampire had heard enough. He'd been walking past the Rosenberg house, when he thought he'd heard Spike's voice. He had stopped, and heard his entire conversation with the redheaded friend of the Slayer. 'Good,' he thought, 'Maybe now he'll get rid of that nutsoid Drusilla.' The vampiress had been ordering the minions to do all kinds of useless things since Angelus had gone to hell. They were getting sick of it.
But Spike and the girl had said something about her having a boyfriend. Oz, they called him. The name sounded familiar, but he couldn't place it.
'If I know one thing about the Slayer's friends, it's that they're loyal,' he thought, 'She'll never leave this Oz guy for Spike as long as he's around. Time to feed.' That vampire ran off down the street, to gather a couple buddies and go Oz-hunting.
* * *
"Willow?" The call came from inside. Willow wiped at her eyes and pulled away from Spike.
"My mom." She opened the balcony door and poked her head in. "What?" she called.
"Xander's here. Hon, weren't you just over there?" Willow panicked, and then heard Xander give some explanation.
Closing her eyes in silent thanks to her friend, she called down to her mother, "I'll be right there!" She turned back to Spike.
"You have to go. I've heard it before." He started to turn away. Willow grabbed his sleeve.
"Will you come back?" She didn't' believe she was asking this. But she had to know.
"Do you want me to?" She considered. It was easy to read his face. He wanted to come back, but he was trying hard to hide it.
"Tomorrow, sunset," she said. He leaned over and kissed her one more time, then jumped over the rail of the balcony. She leaned over it and watched him stroll down the street.
A knock on her bedroom door reminded her that Xander was there. She quickly went inside, rubbing her face, hoping she looked normal.
"Come in," she called. Xander poked his head in.
"Will! We've been worried sick! Giles said you ran off after you found out what the dream meant, and you weren't here when Oz came to pick you up and -" Xander stopped when he noticed Willow had silent tears running down her cheeks.
"Oh, hey, Will, I'm sorry...please don't' cry." He went over and hugged her. She sniffled.
"Giles told you what it meant?"
"Yeah, he explained everything." Willow had to ask the question whose answer she feared the most.
"Does Oz know?" she whispered, her voice barely audible. Xander took her by the shoulders and looked her straight in the eye.
"Oz knows. And he's worried sick about you. He's terrified something had happened to you. We all were, but he was being uncharacteristically snappy, so I took that as a sign of worry. My bets are he doesn't care. He loves you, Will." Willow looked down. Xander squeezed her shoulder. "Do you want to call him, or should I?" Willow shook her head.
"I'll have to talk to him eventually." She slowly sat down and picked up the phone. Hands shaking, she dialed Oz's number and left a message letting him know she was alive.
When she was finished, she and Xander headed for the Bronze, hoping to catch Oz there.
* * *
Oz entered the crowded club and scanned the crowd for the dark red hair that could only belong to Willow. Not spotting her, he went upstairs, only to find the same results. He stood above, looking down on the crowd and sighed.
'Willow, where ARE you?' he thought. He was worried about her. If anything had happened to her, if those damn vampires had laid a hand on her...Well, he knew he really wasn't in a position to do anything about the vampires without being killed himself, but sometimes he wondered why he had bothered waking up in the morning before he met Willow. She was everything to him now.
Suddenly, he thought he saw a flash of red below. Bounding down the stairs, he headed out into the back alley.
"Willow!" he cried. "Willow!" He didn't see her. He didn't see anyone. Until it hit him from behind.
Oz landed on the ground with a grunt, feeling an enormous weight on top of him. The weight rolled off and he scrambled to get up. Turning, he saw it was a vampire. He turned to run, but there were two more vampires blocking his escape route.
'Crap,' he thought to himself. He didn't have a cross, and he only had the one stake Giles had given him. He was pretty sure he couldn't take on three vampires at once. He was doomed.
One of the vampires blocking the alleyway lunged at him. Oz held up the stake, and managed to get the vampire in the shoulder. It fell to the ground, yelping in pain. It only took it a few moments to heal and be back on its feet.
The next one leaped at Oz, and before he could get a shot at it with the stake, the one behind him leaped at him. Oz fell to the ground under their weight, struggling to keep his neck clear of teeth.
All of a sudden, he heard the screaming sound that meant a vampire had turned to dust. The other two vampires were abruptly thrown off him. Blinking, he saw them run away, then looked up at his savior, right into the face of....
"Buffy?" he asked.
"In the flesh," the blond Slayer said. She took a quick bow and held out a hand to help him up.
"Boy am I glad to see you! I thought I was dead for sure."
"You probably would have been. Where's Willow?" She looked around.
"That's kinda why I was here. We're not sure." Buffy looked concerned immediately.
"What do you mean 'we're not sure'?"
"I thought it was self-explanatory, but maybe we should go find Giles so he can tell you what's going on." Buffy nodded.
"Which way?"
"Um, let's try the cemetery first." Buffy didn't argue, but trotted off down the alley, Oz right behind her.
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