Hi there :-)

My first Buffy fic, I hope someone reads this.

It is set in season 2 when Angelus is trying to hurt Buffy but it is Willow and Xander centric (Not sure if they´ll be friend or more yet).

Willow couldn´t stop crying.

She thought it was impossible to lose as much liquid as she surely had over the past two days without perishing, but then it wasn't like part of her hadn't died.

She looked around her dark room, listening to the empty house and her own irregular breathing. She finally understood what Buffy had meant when she told her the loss of Angel had ripped out a piece of her heart. Willow clutched at her chest as she sobbed again; she could practically feel it bleeding out into her chest.

To think that only two weeks ago all had been well...

Angel had had a soul and lived happily with Buffy.

To think that two days ago they had been fighting him, yes, but at least they had been together, she, Xander and Buffy. Side by side as it was supposed to be. Friends for life.

Until Angelus had destroyed all that.

Until he had gone and taken the person she cared for most in this world without batting an eyelash.

Two days later, with Buffy immobile due to her injuries and Giles holed up in the library doing pointless research –after all there was no turning back time – she was left alone to mourn Xander.

She didn´t know just how long she´d been crouched on the floor in her dark room, blankly staring at a picture that showed her and Xander in grade school with wet eyes when she heard it. A soft knock on her balcony door.

Willow whirled around, her heart almost stopping.

He was back.

God, was he going to torture her every night for the rest of her life?

Despite herself, she stood and walked over to the door. Her teary face was met by tousled black hair and a goofy grin.

"Hey there, sleepy head.", Xander grinned, his teeth flashing unnaturally white in the moonlight.

Willow wished she would just have died along with him.

There, hope I didnt confuse you. So Angelus took Xander away by making him a vampire.

Care to find out how it came to that and what he is planning? Let me know please :-)