Silence Cicatrix
Ms Trick
In between electing herself to tell Angel about Buffy's death and the moment when she actually comes face to face with him, Willow finds that the between moments hurt more. Those quiet hours where the silence taunts you to think of your best friend's death; the silence stabs at those tender, sore spots and especially when you have no distractions.
Willow noiselessly panicswhen she finds she hastrapped herself. While everybody else can somehow start shoving their life along again, no matter how painful,she must finish this mission first. And because of an empty hotel, the mission has not even started. So her life freezes amidst the agony of being left behind.
Unable to move on, she wanders around all of the Hyperion Hotel, every floor, and looks in every room searching for something to take her mind off her task. She knows what she'll say, having practiced it throughout the car ride and she remembers having to pull over a couple of times because her tears had threatened her impeccable driving record.
Willow waits for five hours before Angel returns. In those five hours she has collapsed sobbing, laughed hysterically, and ends up sitting quietly, hands folded like the good girl she always has been, feeling all the death in the world inside her heart.