Takes place six years after "Grave", season 7 never happened.
I do not own anything from Buffy the vampire slayer. It all belongs to Joss Whedon.
Chapter 1: The Reunion
When Buffy arrived at the small airport in England she was exhausted from the 15 hour long flight. She could never really relax when she was on an airplane because she knew she didn´t have any controll over it. It was very typical of her to feel uncomfortable because of something small like that.
When she got of the plane she expected Giles to be waiting for her, but she couldn't see him anywhere. After about half an hour she decided to try to call him, maybe he was too caught up in a book or something and forgot all about her coming to visit today. When nobody answered she started to get a little nervous, but quickly dismissed the feeling as another of her paranoid ones she used to have whenever she was lacking control.
After five minutes she heard a very familiar and embarassing sound which she quickly identified as her cellphone ringing.
"I'm a barbiegirl in a barbiewooorld"
'Okay', she thought to herself, blushing slightly, 'Next time Dawn asks if she can borrow your cellphone, just buy a new one for her. It would save you from alot of humiliation.'
She answered the phone and when she heard that it was Giles who called she immediately relaxed a little whitout even noticing that she had been a bit tensed.
"Oh, hi Giles."she said.
"Hello Buffy." Giles said with the familiar english accent, "I'm terribly sorry that I couldn't come and pick you up at the airport. I'm rather busy at the moment but I'm quite sure that you will be able to find the way by yourself if I just tell you how to get here. It's acctually within walking distance from where you are."
"Ok, just give me the instructions and I will be on my way." Buffy answered and hoped that she wouldn't embarass herself by getting lost on her way there.
After some quick instructions she headed of in the direction Giles had told her to go. It was a very beautiful spring day and Buffy enjoyed walking around in the little town. She couldn't figure out why they had an airport in a little town like this but was very happy they did, because walking here from some big city didn't sound very appealing.
Buffy walked for about 15 minutes and just enjoyed looking at the beautiful landscape that was surrounding her. When she walked through a park she decided to sit down on a bench for a while and just savour the view and the calm that she somehow felt just by being far away from Sunnydale.
After sitting there a little while she suddenly noticed a little girl that was running around and playing with some friends. Buffy sensed something familiar about this girl and found it nearly impossible to look away from her. There was something about her, her fiery red hair and the way she acted that made her remember some painful memories of her best friend.
'Willow', she thought. Not a day had passed without Buffy somehow being reminded of her. It was over six years since she last met her friend.
As she continued watching the little girl she started to think about Willow and why she had left. It was after Taras death, when Willow went crazy and tried to end the world. She left for England with Giles to learn more about magic and how to control her powers. She stayed there for over a month, but one day she just disappeared, she left without even saying goodbye. They had looked for her everywhere but there weren't any signs indicating where she might have gone. After a while they started thinking that maybe she had done something stupid, driven by grief. Slowly everybody started to realize that they problably wouldn't see her ever again, she might not even be alive. Buffy had refused to belive them, she stayed locked up in her room for a week, just crying and refused to talk to anyone, she didn't even eat. The only thing she could think during that time was that she never got to tell Willow how much she really loved her. She would never get the chance to admit her true feelings for the redhead, but she knew deep down inside that she would never stop loving her.
She sat on the bench and let her emotions flow freely as she recalled all the memories she had of the redhead. She was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even notice when the little girl she had watched earlier sat down next to her on the bench.
"Hi." she said, drawing Buffys focus back to the present. "How come you're so sad?" she asked, staring into Buffys eyes with a piercing blue gaze. Buffy was distracted for a while, those eyes seemed so familiar. She just continued to watch the girl with a confused look on her face and forgot to answer the question she was asked.
"My mommy says I'm not allowed to talk to stangers because they might be dangerous and want to hurt me, but I don't think that you would want to do that, right?" the girl said ignoring the fact that Buffy hadn't answered her previous question. "But technically you wouldn't be a stranger if I knew your name, perhaps we could be friends instead. Would you like to be my friend?" she continued without even taking a breath of air.
The girl looked at her with an expectant look and Buffy regained her consciousness.
"I would love to be your friend." she said holding out her hand to the girl, "I'm Buffy."
The girl took her hand and looked up at her with a smile. "Buffy," she said, "that's a funny name."
"Yeah, I guess so." Buffy replied with a smile. "But you know, this is kind of unfair, you know what to call me but I don't know what to call you."
"My mommy always calls me 'T' and I really like it so I think you could do that to." The girl looked up at Buffy but suddenly she started to look around as if she was looking for something or rather someone. "I have to go," she said, "mommy is looking for me. I can go get her so she can meet you too, I really want her to meet you since your my new friend. Do you want to meet her to?" she asked Buffy with almost a pleading look.
"Of course I would like to meet her." she said with a smile. "I can wait here while you go get her, is that ok?"
The girl nodded and ran off. Buffy was still a little confused over how she knew that her mother was looking for her, she hadn't heard anyone call for her. She watched the little redhead as she ran up to a woman nearby. The woman wasn't facing Buffy but she could still tell that the girl had inherited a lot of features from her mother, they had the same fiery red hair. She heard the girl speak the her mother with excitement in her voice.
"Mommy I made a new friend, I want you to meet her, she is sitting over there on the bench." The girl was exstatic and continued to talk about her friend. "She even has a crazier name than you mom, her name is Buffy, isn't that strange?"
With that the woman slowly turned around and Buffy found herself looking into a beautiful pair of emerald eyes she hadn't seen in over 6 years.