Giles looked outside the window. It was Willow--the other Willow, not their sweet little bookworm. And she was carrying....
"Dear God." He nearly abandoned all caution to rush out the front door, but stopped himself. If she'd been brought here, it was too late already.
"Hey, Watcher-man. She was fun to play with. At least, that's what my Will tells me." Xander. The other Xander, not the one that used to antagonize him daily.
"Get out."
"I can't even get in.... Neither can Will." Behind him, the red-haired vampire smiled, shaking her head.
"Good. I don't intend to change that."
"Huh. You're a really miserable watcher if you couldn't even watch over your own charges. Buffy.... Faith.... Man, it must suck to be you. Wish I could hear what you'll tell the Council this time around."
"You won't. You'll be dead before they know."
Vamp-Xander laughed. "Who's going to kill me? You? That'd be a laugh. Wait--it already is." He kept laughing and left.
He and Vamp-Willow walked down the street together, leaving the dead body of a Slayer--his Slayer--in the grassy front yard.
Giles looked up to see its image walking across the driveway.
"Buffy?"
"Hey, Giles." She walked up the steps, registering that the front door was open. "What's going on?"
"You didn't see it?"
"Didn't see what?"
"Your.... Your body. Buffy, you're dead."
Slowly, Buffy turned around to see one of her worst nightmares--her own dead body. It was the other her, of course. "They got tired of playing."
"Buffy, they mentioned Faith. They have Faith."
Buffy walked to the body, checking it for fang holes--"neck rupture", as the other citizens would call it.
"Damn them."
"They already have been." A hint of dry, cynical, morbid humor crept through. It was all they had left to them.
She picked up her body, taking it into her house. They would bury her--somewhere that she could be remembered. And they had to find Faith, before she was the next beaten corpse dumped on the lawn.
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