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Willow awoke with a start. She had woken up from another bad dream. It had confused her. She had to talk to Giles, and she had to talk to him now.
She glanced over at Buffy. The Slayer was sleeping peacefully. Willow scribbled a note to her, and taped it to her computer screen, where Buffy would see it. She quickly dressed and headed out.
Since it was only 7, she knocked quietly on Giles' door. She wanted to pound and scream, but she also didn't want to draw any attention. So she rang the bell several times, until he finally came to the door.
"Willow, what is it? Ah, I mean, come in. Where's Buffy?" Giles was dressed in a robe and slippers. His hair was mussed and he didn't have his glasses on.
"At my house. Sorry I woke you. But I had another dream."
"Another? Was it similar to the one you had before?"
"Yes. It was almost the same one, except..." Willow hesitated. If she told him this, she'd have to tell him everything.
"Except what?" he inquired.
"Except it wasn't Oz that died. It was Spike."
"Good gracious...this is certainly...interesting." She could see Giles trying to fit pieces into a puzzle he didn't quite have all the pieces to. He was also trying to be sensitive, but finding it hard to restrain his revulsion at the mention of Spike.
"Giles, there's something you should know about, before you start cross-referencing," Willow began. Giles looked up at her, waiting for her to continue. She took a deep breath.
"Last night, when I ran off, I didn't know where I was going. I ended up in front of this big mansion, which just happened to be the new vampire hang-out." Giles nodded, grimacing as he remembered the time he had spent in the house.
"Please go on."
"Well, I was sitting there, just trying to figure out what to do next, when Spike came out of the house. And he was trying to get me to tell him what Buffy had planned for him and Drusilla, because he had had a dream that Buffy killed her, and-" Willow hesitated, "And then I kissed him."
She sat shaking, waiting for Giles to give her some kind of response. He just sat, frozen, staring at her. He didn't reprimand her, he didn't forgive her, he just stared at her. And that was worse than anything.
"Giles, talk to me! I didn't mean to do it, it just...happened." She had to continue with the story though.
"I ran away after that. I went home. He was there. We spoke, out on my balcony. I didn't invite him in, so at least some part of my brain was working. And he said...he had the same dream, Giles! He had the soul mate dream! Buffy killed Drusilla and said 'she's coming for you and she wants you'!" Willow had tears running down her cheeks as she related her tale.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." She didn't know what else to say. How could she explain that she was beginning to get fuzzy feelings for a vampire? Not just any vampire, Spike, of all demons! After a few moments of silence, Giles spoke:
"Spike doesn't have a soul, Willow." He looked thoughtful. Willow tried to follow his meaning.
"I know, but what does that have to do with it?" Giles suddenly became very animated.
"Spike has no soul. It-it left his body when the demon took it over. If he has no soul, he has no soul mate. If anything, it would be a demon mate, if there is such a thing."
"But he did have a soul. And why else would we both have had the dream?"
"Perhaps Ranka was confused by the demon-possession and lack of soul." Giles disappeared into his room of books again.
"Ranka? Who's Ranka?"
"Ranka is the mythological being who sends prophetic dreams. He sends prophecies to the Slayer, and evidently he sends the soul mate dreams as well." He returned with the volume that had held the answer to her dream before.
"So you mean, Spike's soul before he was Spike is my soul mate? Not the Spike now?"
"No, it's impossible. His soul would have been reincarnated by now. But with his body still living, there was a-a slight mishap in the, the dream department, if you will."
"Is that why I had the second dream? To kinda fix the mistake?"
"Yes. Yes, I believe that's right. We'll have to analyze your dream of course, to make certain it was valid, but I believe we may be on to something..."
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