Chapter 2: Jaunted

Summary: In the episode Blood Ties, when Willow and Tara teleported Glorificus away they had no idea where they were sending her, in their desire to protect Dawn they sent Glory very far away indeed.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or technologies from BTVS or The Jaunt that are used in this drabble and I am not making any money off of it.

If you want to know more about The Jaunt, a short story by Stephen King then I suggest looking at the Wikipedia page but I've included a few hints and minor spoilers that should give you an idea of what I'm writing about.

So, where did you send her?

Not sure, that's one of the kinks

Tara, Willow and the rest of the Scoobies weren't entirely sure what to expect after Glory was teleported away but it most certainly was not to have both a sleeping Ben and an unknown, sobbing woman pop into existence about 5 seconds later. Ben's story, once he was awake, that he and Glorificus had been forced the share the same body and switch back and forth but that he could now sense that she had been removed didn't seem too unusual, which on reflection said some significant things about their lives on the hellmouth. It was the mysterious woman who had the more unusual story once the Scoobies managed to calm her down enough that she was capable of coherent speech.

Her story about being from the 24th century and being shoved into a teleportation machine called a Jaunt Portal by her husband was one thing but it was the fact that the awake mind perceived the journey as an eternity while the physical trip added to the fact that there was no destination portal for her to appear back at that truly horrified them. The fact that her mind had only perceived her time in that state of limbo as being a few minutes was probably the only reason she hadn't gone completely insane.

Sunnydale mental ward, 5 seconds after teleportation:
Anywhere else it would have been thought of as unusual that a catatonic woman had suddenly appeared laying on one of the beds in the Ward but this was Sunnydale. Either the Orderlies knew about the unusual occurrences that happened in town and just put it down as another piece of supernatural weirdness or they were ignorant and justified it as her having been admitted earlier in the day and there just being a paperwork error not letting them know. Whether they were ignorant or aware of the supernatural did not affect the orderlies' behavior towards the young blond on the bed. The young woman was their patient and she was attended to as best they could.

2 years later when the town was being evacuated just prior to it becoming a giant hole in the ground the young lady was forgotten due to a paperwork error of her never being officially admitted in the first place. When Willow activated the Potentials and Spike's amulet sealed the hellmouth there was a mystical shock wave that finally killed the body that had once called itself Glorificus and sent her soul to wherever it is that the souls of dead Hell goddesses go.