A/N: Yes I already have WAY too many stories on the go but I started another one. Sue me. Or don't, considering I'm saving up to upgrade my rubbishy computer.

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Summary: When Angel destroys the Gem of Amara he sends dimensions spinning away from each other, and Willow and Spike together, but not in a good way.

Setting: Early season 4, the Initative doesn't exist, Spike is evil evil evil, no chip, no soul, no Buffy loving.

Warnings: Nothing in this chapter, I am intending many warnings in future chapters though. If I ever get around to writing them that is.

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"And that's it?"

"And that's it."

Willow looked around the room and was met by a group of hopeful faces looking back at her. It wasn't fair. When it came to the apocolypse Buffy was supposed to be the one with the powers to stop it, not her. And yet, once again the fates had decided it was all up to her.

It must be something to do with Angel, she had to help out last time he caused an apocolypse and she'd been dragged into another one caused by him, although it obviously wasn't his fault this time. Well ok, it was his fault, but he didn't mean to cause it, he still had his soul, this was nothing like the trouble he had caused with Acathla when he was Angelus.

That didn't make her situation any better though, it wasn't as if she had any fish to lose this time anyway. Maybe it wasn't the fact that Angel was involved, maybe it was Whistler. But Whistler was only involved because Angel was invovled, so that brought her back to where she was before. But seeing as Angel was involved in this so much, surely he should be the one coming with her, she still didn't get where Spike was involved with all of this.

"But why Spike?"

"Willow I've explained this already," the look on Angel's face was easy for anyone to read, the guilt for getting Willow mixed up in this and the pain at the damage Spike could cause the girl in a week. "You need a demon to accompany you. I can't go because my demon is tampered by the soul, but the spell works best with someone connected to me. Spike is the closest match we're going to get."

Willow nodded distantly, not paying much attention, she knew it all already, it had been explaine dover and over, yet she was still searching for a way to solve this differently. She looked over to the corner where Whistler was stood, not looking pleased or smug exactly, just like he knew something. Some tiny little thing that could change this for them. But if he did he wasn't going to tell them. Sensing her eyes on him he gave her a quick grin before stepping forward and grabbing the attention of the rest of the group.

"Come on already. You know you have to make a decision and you know what decision it's going to have to be, so can you kids get on with it and cast the spell? I've got places to go, people to see."

Although Whistler's reminder was met with nothing but dirty looks, and an amused one from Spike's direction, it did remind them all of what needed to be done. If they were going to cast the spell it had to be done now. Once again the heads turned to Willow, waiting for her final answer.

"Let me go through this. Just once more. Angel crushed the Gem of Amara, that set out a shockwave of powerful energy to all of the vampires, we need another gem so that we can cast the spell to return that power. There's only one gem in this dimension so we have to get it from another dimension..." Whistler rolled his eyes at the time she was taking to explain it all so he cut in once again.

"The only way to travel to another dimension is to have the perfect balance of good and evil. The Slayer can't go due to the fact that she's died before and that puts her off the charts for some unkown reason that the Powers That Be see fit. And besides the spell has to be cast by a witch. You cast the spell that joins you and Spike here as one then you cast the spell to send you into the other dimension a week before the gem is due to arrive in Sunnydale in that dimension. You grab the gem and using it's power you cast the reversal spell."

He made it sound so simple. Well ok, not particuarly simple, but more simple than it actually was she was sure. The thing that scared her the most was the joining spell with her and Spike. It would make her his. They could undo the spell when they returned, but the reversal was a one time only thing so she would have to stay joined to him the week that they were in the alternate dimension before.

She wasn't exactly sure how it would work, but she knew he would be able, to a certain extent, know what she was feeling, and she would have a 'need' for him. Angel hadn't said much about that, just looked even more guilty and he already felt pretty bad so she hadn't wanted to press it.

They had cast a spell to find the exact location of the gem in that dimension at this time so it was a simple matter of sending them back a week before in the alternate dimension so they had enough time to plan how and when they were going to grab the ring and then they would be back home. But while the spell was working she would belong to Spike, and be under his control. A fact that the Scooby gang wasn't very pleased about.

However seeing as the spell was only sending them back a week and then after the week had passed for them they would appear back in front of the scooby gang. So it would have been a week since she had seen them, but no more than a couple of minutes give or take, since they had seen her. However apparantly she wouldn't age, not that she'd age much in a week anyway, but something to do with the laws of time meant that she wouldn't get a second older so it meant she was adding a week onto her life. Though most likely it wouldn't be a particuarly pleasant week.

But it was just a week. She could deal with it. Willow stood up and walked over to the spell ingrediants that had been layed out.

"Ok. Lets do this."

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Coming up next chapter: The spell that joins Willow and Spike has some unusual side affects. Side affects no one, apart from the two vampires were expecting. Willow and Spike are sent to the alternate dimension but it seems that Giles' calculations were slightly off. And where exactly did Whistler fit into all of this again?

Well, that's what I intend to put in the next chapter, but it does of course depend on how many reviews I'm going to be getting...

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