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Willow had always been there. She was glad to fight the good fight. There were so many losses along the way. Friends came and gone. She had endured more pain through the years than most of us experience in a lifetime. She just didn't know how much more she could take though. Giles asked Willow to go to Brunswick, Maine and gather some rare items from a shop called the next dimension. The owner a real peculiar sort refused to sell anything without meeting her customers first. Willow thought this would be a good opportunity for her to get away from everything for awhile and collect her thoughts.

Willow found herself at the little shop on the outer edges of town. She didn't notice anything exceptional about the shop. It was an old brick building covered with moss cracked and worn with a big picture window up front that said The Next Dimension. Candles, crystals, and drying herbs adorned the large front window. As Willow entered the building, she noticed that the interior of the building was in a similar state of disrepair. It was also heavily decorated with candles, incents, herbs, and mystical items the likes of the young wiccan had never seen before.

She walked down the store's front counter taking in the sights, when her focus became centered on a series of crystals. They looked like dew drops on a spider web. The web it's self hung a skewed of several of the stores various items. Something about this glistening web seems to call for her.

Suddenly she realized there was a young woman at the other end of the counter trying to get her attention. The woman was dressed in a halter top and jeans with dark brown hair pulled up in a bun on top of her head.

"I have been expecting you." The woman announced as she walked over to Willow.

"Huh," Willow mumbled still in deep thought and captivated by the strange shimmering crystals that lay before her.

"My name is Alissa, owner of this fine shop and you must be Willow," she smiled extending her hand to Willow. "Giles said that you were coming. I have his items ready to go. Those things aren't the real reason you are here now, are they."

"No .. I mean Yes," Willow began to speak but was immediately interrupted.

Alissa smiled pointing to the web. "I see you have noticed my crystals, very beautiful. It is called a Web of destiny." The woman took Willow by the hands as she spoke, turning them palm side up in front of her. The lady then began to carefully pick up the web, placing it across Willows open palms. "it has the ability to show you your heart's desire. It can answer any question. Clear any mind." Alissa stated as she closed Willows hands over the crystals.

"Now close your eyes, and think about what is on your heart," Alissa whispered.

Willow hesitated on momentarily as she considered what was requested of her. Alissa was a friend of Giles. Something inside of Willow told her this is what she needed to do. As Willow closed her eyes a wind seemed to blow the shop door open a blow around all around her.

She opened her eyes to find Alissa gone and a lady standing next to her. She looked human, but her eyes were a glowing icy blue.

"I am Nessa I am a creature of the fates, here to assist you," the woman bowed as she spoke. "You wish to see a world where you never existed. You wonder if the ones you love would have been better off without you. You wonder if she would have lived."

Willow began to sob. "Glory only hurt her because she was with me and my friends. If she was never in the house with me Warren would have never shot her. SSShe," Willow could barely speak through her sobs. "She could have had a normal life."

"That is what I am here for, to show you the importance of your life and destiny. In the world that I will show you now, you were never born. Where can I take you first?" the woman extended her hand.

"To Tara. I need to see Tara." Willow wiped the tears from her eyes and took the woman hand.

"As you wish," She nodded