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Part Ten

Angel stood at the open door of Willow's bedroom, a gentle smile playing on his lips as he cast his gaze over the scene before him. The redhead lay sleeping peacefully in the centre of the bed, one hand on the pillow beside her head and the other resting across her stomach. At her feet, Dawn lay curled up, a blanket over her and twitching slightly in her own sleep.

Just as Spike and Lorne joined him, a beam of moonlight managed to make its way through the closed curtains and onto the faces of the two sleeping girls.

"What the...!" Spike reacted first to the unexpected result.

Dawn was now surrounded by a sparkling white aura – almost as the beam had been a key itself and activated her mystical reality of not truly being human but the Key.

Yet it was the way the moonbeam behaved around the sleeping redhead that was the most shocking to the watching vampires and Pylean.

Willow was now surrounded by a silver aura that sparkled so brightly, the two vampires actually took a step back from it as if it would burn them like sunlight but sharp vampire eyes had also caught the fact that it was not complete – almost as if something running interference like a rogue radio signal.

Seconds later the beam disappeared almost as mysteriously as it had appeared but it left behind two mystified vampires and an aura-reader demon that was suddenly realising they had just possibly been given the Rosetta stone to the mystery of what was happening to her.

Spike repeated his first incredulous statement. "What the...?"

"I have the feeling that we are going to need precious to be awake for that one." Lorne stepped forward. "If what I now suspect is right, she is the only one with the strength, even as she is, to cast the spell I need."

"Surely Wesley could..." Angel began as he moved to the bedside and sat down beside the sleeping girls. Almost as she knew that he was there, Willow reached out for his hand and slipped her fingers into his. He immediately tightened his hold on them as he felt both the heat and the tremors winding their way through her slender frame.

"Any other time, English would be alright but..." Lorne shook his head. "Just take my word for it sweet cheeks, something tells me we need precious there to cast this one."

"You're not making ruddy sense," Spike growled as he now joined them as well – just as the others in the house suddenly made their way upstairs. "Oh great, the Mickey Mouse gang is here as well."

"William." It was just one word but the use of his real name by his sire was enough to silence the younger vampire as the elder turned to look at the other three members of his team now standing around the bed as well. "What's wrong?"

"Cordelia had another vision just about five minutes ago." Wesley replied as he helped the Seer sit down on the bedside near Dawn's feet. "And to add to the strangeness..."

"It wasn't painful." Cordelia finished. "It was almost... well, joyful."

The three that had been in the bedroom with the two, still surprisingly, sleeping young women looked at each other. Cordelia's vision seemed to have occurred about the same time as the moonbeam had been shining on Willow and Dawn.

Yet before they could ask the brunette what had been in her vision, the two sleeping girls woke up and looked around in astonishment. Yet no-one was surprised when it was Willow who spoke up first. "I take that there is a reason why we are using my room as the communal meeting hall."

"I've had a vision." Cordelia jumped in swiftly before anyone else could. She had caught a look in the younger vampire's eyes that she knew would not have bided well for anyone if he had been allowed to speak up. "Angel, there's going to be someone very important to the PTB's coming into the world and we are supposed to help them."

A swift speaking look went round the three who had witnessed the strange result of the moonbeam and a silent agreement not to speak of it just yet was achieved without a single syllable being exchanged.

The silent conversation however did not go completely un-noticed, and more importantly, it was the joint focus of the conversation that noticed it occur. Willow and Dawn also shared a silent look, the redhead raising an eyebrow at the younger girl in a fashion so similar to the younger vampire; Dawn had to choke back a giggle.

"Did you get anything else from the vision, Delia?" Willow asked as she shifted position slightly.

"Only that it necessary that we were to be aware of this person's coming and that we were to be ready for them." Cordelia replied as she handed Angel the cushion Dawn had been using as a pillow. "Oh, there was something else, Willow, Giles called earlier and asked that you ring him as soon as was feasibly possible and not to worry about the time change."

"Now that is of the peculiar." Dawn murmured as she moved to lean against bedstead. "Next thing you'll be saying is that he wants to Skype and we all know how Giles is about computer tech and all its software."

"Yes, well..." Wesley replied with such a hesitant note in his voice, they all looked at him incredulously and then he shocked them by grinning. "Please, this is Giles were talking about after all. The man is a technophobe."

Cushions and all sort of things were thrown at the former Watcher by his laughing friends. "Hey careful, those were my glasses!"

END PART TEN

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Yes, another chapter! I know, I shocked myself as well!

It will most probably be the weekend before I get abother chapter up, depends on how things are at work!

As always I look forward to hearing what you have to say ;op