Disclamer: I don't own anyone in this story, and I'm making no money from it.
"Xander.." Willow spoke softly from behind the kitchen counter; Her face only mildly reflected the true horror she had just discovered.
"Yeah Will?" His face didn't pull away from the TV.
"Xander, this is important." Nothing truly major had happened since the months following the end of Sunnydale, other then the Scoobies all getting a place together in Nevada. This trend was shattered with just a few words, "It's about Anya."
Xander got up so fast he nearly fell out of his chair. He hadn't spoken a word about her since the day she died. "That's my girl; always doing the stupid thing," he had said after finding out she died to save someone else. No one ever brought it up again they knew it would be too painful. "What about her?"
A long pause followed. Willow couldn't find the words for what she had to say. "I've been reading these texts about the afterlife.. And there is a hell dimension where all demons… current and former go when they die." She felt like such a huge statement should have taken longer to say, but that's really all it took.
For a moment Xander just looked at her. "But she died saving the world, surely that--"
"No exceptions." she cut in in hushed tones. She knew what this was to him. Everyone had tiptoed around Xander since after it all happened, and Willow herself went to great lengths to find a way to replace his missing eye, which she did, to try to keep his mind off of it. Now, however, something worse then her death had presented itself, and something had to be said.
"What do we do?" He asked. He had switched back into Scoobie mode as if the months hadn't passed.
"Well… I don't know. I should--" Her eyes went black, and her fingers twitched as if volts of electricity coursed through her.
" THE WITCH, THE ANGEL, THE DEMON, AND THE VESSEL, ALL TIED WITHIN THE GRANDKA SHADOW, EACH FEELING THE PAIN OF THE LAST, AND THE ONE AFTER THEM. THE QUAD-NEXUS HOLDS WITHIN THEIR DEATHS THE FATE OF THE WORLD. THE BLACKENING OF THE SKY SHALL BE THE FIRST PRECURSOR, THE NEXT THREE WILL BE LESS AMBIGUOUS, THESE WORDS ARE WARNING, THE QUAD-NEXUS MUST BE FOUND AT THE GRANDKA TEMPLE BEFORE THE PASSING OF THE FIRST SIGN. OGACI TEMRAZ, RENTHOU CLENTHO."
Her eyes went back to normal and she suddenly seemed somehow much smaller. Before anything else could happen she fell to the floor and broke into sobs. Xander moved to help her but with a wave of her hand he was immobilized.
"What… what the hell was that?" He asked, not trying to move anymore. She stopped suddenly and franticly searched for a pen while repeating the last for words she had said, she somehow knew they were very important. "Will, what was that? Quad-Nexus? Fill me--" She waved her hand and said "silence," which caused him to stop talking. Giving up the search for a pen she said the words aloud and suddenly they burnt themselves into the counter.
"I have no idea what that was. That outburst, possession, whatever the hell it was supercharged me. I haven't had this much power since…" She couldn't find the words. "I have to call Giles." She waved her hand at Xander and he could move and talk once more. He looked at her with a pain and also a fear. She picked up the phone, then turned just in time to see Giles appear with a green flash in the living room just behind her. "Giles, something is going on and I--"
"Don't worry Willow, I've been informed. We must get to L.A. Angel needs us." He looked at her. "Have you been crying? I never realized that you would cry at the prospect of Angel being in danger. Oh, I'm missing something, aren't I?" In the middle of his misguided out poor his face had filled with a sudden recognition.
Willow and Xander just looked at him, the phone still in her hand, him still in the kitchen. "Don't worry, I'm pretty sure we all are." Xander said slumping against the door frame.
"You go first." Willow said hanging up the phone. Her head was still tilted to the side.
He obviously had planed what to say and this confusion had cut into his stride. "Well.. The coven I practice with in England sensed something earlier today, then Buffy called me soon after to tell me that Angel had basically called to say goodbye. The coven supplied me with their powers again like when.. Well you know, so I teleported here. Something is going on in L.A. on an apocalyptic level. Now what on earth is going on here?" He finished.
"I think I had a… prophecy. It really gave me the wiggins." He scoffed a little at this word he had heard so many times, yet never really come to understand. "It gave me a major mystical boost, I mean heavy duty magic." Her eyes pulsed black then back again. She fell to her knees. "Wesley.. Giles. It's already started. We have to get Buffy."
Giles was taken aback by this news, he really had expected more time, so this declaration of Willows was a shock.. "She is already on a flight there. I've--"
"No, you don't understand, Wesley is Dead. This has started," black was bleeding into the whites of her eyes as she walked toward Giles and Xander, "We don't have time for Airplanes" she said, grabbing them both by their shirts, and then they all vanished.
