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Paradise for a day
Chapter 1: Buffy
By: Hope
"I'll never forget…I'll never forget…" Her own voice filled her head. Buffy opened her eyes and looked around. Where was she? She slowly sat up, still looking around when she saw them, when she saw herself and Angel standing in front of her, holding each other, crying.
Buffy didn't dare speak; she had had dreams like this before, especially since…since she came back. "I'll never forget Angel…" Buffy…the other buffy kept saying to herself as Angel held her; she kept saying it as though she were trying to convince herself.
Angel's eyes drifted to the clock, Buffy looked at it, 3 seconds to 9 am…. 2…. 1…She looked back at them, they were both crying, holding onto each other as tight as they could…and then...buffy remembered this now. She had been in L.A. visiting her dad for the weekend, right after she had found out that Angel was in Sunnydale and didn't see her, she was there to confront him about it, tell him that she thought they should stay away from each other, the reason why he originally moved. She was standing in the doorway to his office; her hand was just departing from the doorknob.
Angel looked disoriented, like he didn't know where he was anymore but then he looked at buffy, and then at the clock. It was 9 a.m. but they were in different clothes…After buffy finished telling Angel about whatever she had come there to tell him at the time, a demon burst in through the window and Angel automatically grabbed the clock and smashed it against the crystal on the demons forehead and he was dead. Angel said that he had been catching up on his reading so he knew what to do but…
"Buffy…." A voice whined. Buffy opened her eyes and saw Dawn sitting over her. "About time! Sheesh you'd sleep through the apocalypse if you weren't like the slayer and all."
Buffy sat up and looked at her sister. "What do you want?" She said yawning. "I missed the bus and Willow is still in her room sulking, so I need you to drive me to school." She said while looking around Buffy's room, eyeing a particular necklace of Buffy's.
"Alright, go downstairs and get all of your stuff ready, I'll be down there in 5 minutes." She said. Dawn was already down the hallway by the time she finished her sentence. "Kids…" buffy, whispered. Once she was like that, about millennia ago though. Buffy walked over to her closet and just took the first thing off the hanger that she could find.
It was a red sundress that her dad had gotten her a while ago when they went on one of their "I'm sorry I don't see you more often" shopping sprees. It had little flowers on it, it was pretty buffy wondered why she hadn't worn it more often. She slipped it on and walked towards the mirror, beginning to attempt to brush out her bed hair. Buffy looked into the mirror and stared at herself. Everything here was so wrong. Nothing was the way it used to be, willow living in her mother's bedroom, Anya and Xander getting married…. Giles back in England. It was almost too much for Buffy to bear but she somehow managed to speed through her life, acting as though she was ok, acting as though there was nothing wrong with her. Just acting like she was the old Buffy Summers. "BUFFY!" Dawn screamed up the stairs impatiently. Buffy snapped out of her trance and grabbed her purse.
"Coming." She walked out the door and stopped outside of Willow's room. "Hey Will, can I come in?" she pushed the door open and found her friend sitting on the bed reading.
"Oh, hi buffy." Willow held up a weak smile as she put down the book.
"Hey, I'm going to drive Dawn to school, do you need anything? I'm going to stop by the Magi…"
"Actually, I do need some things from there." Willow recited some words in latin and a pen and paper appeared in front of her. She took them and began writing down various ingredients for some kind of spell. She got up and handed it to Buffy, "you could just tell Anya to add it to my bill."
"Will…I don't think that…" Buffy hesitated. "actually, I'll be back by 11 latest…I'll try to get the stuff for you." She said, walking out of the room and closing the door behind her with the paper in her hand.
Buffy saw something inside of Willow that she remembered to well…when Angel left her…when Angel left her she broke down, but not in front of her friends. She wouldn't let them see her like that, especially after what had just happened with Faith and everything else that had gone wrong that year. Willow was truly heartbroken from what happened with Tara and Buffy didn't want to see Willow break down, now wasn't the time to complain about her using too much magic.
"About time." Dawn complained as Buffy finally made her way down the stairs.
"Sorry, had to tell Willow I was going." She said as she grabbed her coat and walked out the door with Dawn behind her, talking about some evil teacher that she was pretty sure was some kind of demon because he assigned so much homework.