Title: Seraph's Dream

Author: Rosario

Rating: PG-13

Distribution: Please let me know

Feedback: Yes please, I'm new at this...

Summary: An older friend of Xander and Willows is given a vision by the Powers that in five years Willow will kill Xander and destroy the world.

Spoilers: Starting with Episode 6.22 Grave and moving through Season Two, will continue through the later Seasons.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, except for Seraph, who is my creation. Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles and the others, as well as some of the dialog are property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, the WB and UPN. This is purely for fun, no money from it at all. No copyright infringement is intended.

Seraph's Dream

Part One:

My dreams don't usually start like this.

There is usually a period of time where I can feel myself falling asleep, where my conscious and unconscious mind meet for a moment, as two passing on a lonely street. Then the perceptions of closed eyes, and a silent room give way to the imaginary world of the dream.

I usually dream that I am a superhero, or perhaps a character in a teen drama. You know, the character that everyone on the show doesn't care about but the fans adore, since he's kind of shy but contains a wealth underneath his sad eyes and quiet demeanor.

I got the nickname Seraph last year, my senior year. It was the last few days before graduation, and I was doing some jump kicks out in the courtyard of the school. In all fairness I was just goofing off, but I TRIED to look cool. At one point I tried this jump reverse crescent kick into a spinning kick. It actually worked, and it just so happened that two underclassmen walked by to see it. I knew them, Willow from computer club, and Xander from...well if you know Willow you know Xander. When I landed after the kick, I saw them staring at me in shock, I keep the fact that I have taken Martial Arts throughout high school something of a secret. I lamely thought of it as my "secret weapon" or something like that.

Xander chuckled at Willow's reaction, she said, "Wow..I mean you're like a Seraph or something...well minus the fire and six wings but still very Seraph-y"

She named me.

I can still see her grin, the way she looked at him, with affection and a hint of fear, I knew she had a crush on him for the longest time, he never saw it. I don't think he wanted to. Her eyes showed warmth and innocence.

That is what is so horrible about this dream.

Instead of the gentle transition from awake to sleep, I am thrown in, at first I could not tell I was dreaming,Then I realized it, but still the dream continued.

I was in this white temple-like place with long pointed archways that go off into infinity. There are two people there, their eyes a deep shade of blue and their skin a mix of copper and gold. "You are Truth" they said quietly in unison.

"I don't understand" Obviously my response.

"Your world is ending in rage and sorrow"

"Huh?"

"Witness your future" Then I saw a bright flash.

I saw Willow, shrouded in black clothes with her hair and eyes matching. She looked like she was raising some temple with lots of blue lightning coming off her fingertips. Most people would dismiss this as sheer fantasy, but I've lived in Sunnydale for awhile, and there is something very strange about this town. So strange in fact that this seems plausible in my mind's eye. I see a hole in the Earth, where a short blond girl and a shorter brunette who look like sisters are hacking through some sort or creature in order to get out to Willow.

The world shakes as terrible fire seeps out from the temple. Willow laughs, I have never heard anything so terrifying as that laugh.

Xander walks over the ridge towards Willow, begging her to stop. The dialog burns in my mind.

"Willow please, you can't do this"

"It's better this way Xander, no one need suffer anymore."

"You'll kill everybody, Buffy, Dawn...everyone"

"You too Xander, you'll die too" she chuckled some more.

"I know that, and it scares me. please Will, stop this."

"Why should I? After all, no one cared about me! Buffy was always jealous of my power, and tried to take everything away from me. Remember the Summer of our Junior year? The Cibo Matto concert at the Bronze? When she just about mated with you on the dance floor knowing full well how I felt about you? That was just the first time, I can count a hundred times where she interfered, her coming into our lives destroyed them"

"I remember the concert, I'm sorry Willow, I didn't know"

"Sure you did, Xander, you knew. You were just too wrapped up in your precious slayer to care. Or should I say slayers? I was never good enough for you, yet you always came back to good old reliable Willow. You never cared about anyone but yourself."

"That's not true Willow, I loved you, I still do."

"Sure you do Xander..." the contempt she moves in her voice saddens me, she looks a little older, but not much. What could have happened in a few short years to that bright eyed innocent?

"I love you"

"Shut up! You're a liar"

"I'm not lying, and if this is the end of the world, I want to be with my best friend. More than anyone else you're... the love of my life"

"No!" A wild arch of blue fire leaps from her hand and hits Xander in the chest, he falls over.

"Killing me won't change that Will, I love you."

"Shut up! Just Shut Up!" More fire erupts from her hands,

"I love you."

"Stop Saying That!!" Willow began to thrash, as fiery bolt upon fiery bolt leapt upon Xander until he stopped moving. It looks as though he was still trying to tell her he loved her, even in his last breath. She starts to scream, and cry as lightning strikes all around her. It begins to rain. The blood from Xander's body seeping into the earth. Eventually she realizes he's not moving anymore, and rushes over to him, muttering apologizes and sobbing. After seeing that he was gone. She looked up and the absence of light in her eyes was hard to witness.

She wanted to die, and she was going to take everyone with her.

Then she finishes a chant and the fire erupts from the temple, and I see Sunnydale burn, and the flash spreads. That's when the world flashes and I return to the white room with the two golden people. They speak to me quietly.

"That is five years from now by your reckoning."

Am I going insane?

"You are the Hope, take this as proof for your waking mind" They hand me an old watch.

With a flash I'm awake, the details of the dream instead of fading becoming more clear.

I want to believe it's just a dream, I chant that over and over, hoping that I can convince myself.

I can't. I'm still clutching the watch.

In five years, Willow Rosenburg kills her best friend and destroys the world. I am the only person who knows, and the only person who can stop it.

Lucky Me.

End Part One