Oz drove as fast as the speed limits allowed--faster, actually. Dawn kept glancing nervously over her shoulder, remembering the car chase on the highway after Tara died--when Willow was hunting down Andrew and Jonathan, demanding vengeance.
God, she'd been worse about it than Anya--and who was the demon? Of course, there was no telling what an evil Willow would do this time around. She might still be pissed at Jonathan--or she might be pissed at someone else.
"Could you drive any faster?" Xander leaned over to look at the speedometer.
"Well, I could, but there are other those other cars." Oz returned to his silence. Xander and Dawn returned to their worrying.
Oz screeched to a halt. Everything else had stopped--and Willow stood in front of him. A very different Willow than the one he'd left on the Sunnydale Campus. Longer hair, less conservative clothes.... And much more powerful.
"Um.... It's...."
"Willow!" Dawn shrank down in the backseat, remembering when Willow had tried to re-elevate her to "key" status.
Xander got out of the van. He'd talked her out of her homicidal instincts once, he could do it again--maybe.
"Xander!" Willow rushed to him, hugging him. "Thank God you're okay!"
"Yeah. Um, Will, not that I mind, but when did you become a traffic cop?"
"Well, I wanted to find you guys. And I did. It's just that I wanted to talk to you also. See? And I am!"
"So... You aren't all scary, black-haired, killer Willow?"
"Well, for about five seconds.... But not now!" She hurried to correct any misimpressions.
"That's... That's good. Wait. What about everyone else?" Xander wondered if the spell had worn off.
"I don't know. Everyone else seems.... Angel and Spike lost their souls again. And I need to talk without the time thingy, so I'm going to take us all to my place."
"Okay.... Dawn, Oz, van and all?"
"Oz? Oz is here? When did he get here? And... And why didn't you tell me?" Her face went from serious mode to frown.
"I took him by the house when we found you guys all unconscious. Dawn cast a spell... A spell to let you see your true enemies. Only it backfired, hitting all of her friends and making them their worst selves. Oz translated the full thing. We've got to reverse the spell, Will."
"Xander.... It'll be hard. That's really strong magic. And I'd kinda like to do a soul restoration first, before Angelus and William the Bloody go back to their regularly scheduled slaughtering."
"Willow. Oz came back to see you." He knew that he was changing the subject, but this seemed important too.
"He did?" Willow was confused. Yeah, she was over him--lesbian and all that--but Oz was something different... Someone different from most guys she'd ever met. It was hard to describe how she felt about him. He was.... Special.
"Um. Okay. But, we've got to get out of Rome. Now. Buffy and Faith are roaming together--ha, roaming in Rome--and they're back to full bad Slayer status."
"So not a sight I want to see again. Or get squeezed out of me. Lead the way, oh Wicca Will." The two of them got back into the van. She teleported it away--really freaking out Oz and Dawn--back to her house.
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