Willow found her way to Rack's cloaked palace. There were dozens of junkies standing, sitting, and some even laying outside the door. Willow didn't have time for this. Who knows what he could be doing to Alphania. She was so angry that she pushed everyone that was in her way, out of the way.

"Hey! Wait in line you bitch!" A woman yelled. Her skin was olive colored and dirty.

"V.I.P., nimrod." Willow retaliated.

She walked up to the door and slammed it open to find Rack sitting on his couch. Alphania was nowhere in sight.

"I knew you'd come, Strawberry." Rack said, smirking.

"Where is she, Rack?" Willow said, very serious.

"Where is who?" Rack asked, laughing.

"Don't play games with me! My daughter!" Willow yelled.

Willow stopped for a second to hear the faint sound of cries. Baby cries.

"Allie! Where are you, baby?" Willow called out.

"I knew you had power the minute you came crawling to me." Rack said, unfazed by Willow's yelling.

"Why did you do it, Rack? What good is she to you?" Willow tried some psychiatry.

"Well she brought you here didn't she?" Rack paused for a moment, sincere disappointment on his face. "You were so powerful. Then you let that white witch and her magical spawn get in the way of that."

"Don't you dare-"

"Are you happy living that type of life, Strawberry?"

"I love them." Willow cried.

"That wasn't the question." Rack laughed. "Don't you wish you could go back to the way it was before, with Amy?"

"You want me to date Amy?" Willow asked, confused.

"I don't think you're understanding the offer I'm making here." Rack said, sitting down on his couch, relaxed.

"I'm not going back, Rack. No way."

"Fine then. If you don't want to play by the rules…you die."

"You won't lay a hand on her." A voice came from the doorway.

"Tara!" Willow exclaimed in fear. "Go, go now!"

"No. Not until I have our family again." Tara said sternly.

"Oh, so this is her, huh Strawberry? Hmmm…pretty little witch." Rack said, his eyes scanning Tara's soft features.

"Rack you leave her alone." Willow warned, her eyes blackening.

"So that's what it takes eh?" Rack chuckled.

"Why are you doing this?" Willow asked. "What's in this for you?"

"Magic, of course." Rack chuckled again.

"You bathe in magic, Rack. Why concern yourself with a baby?" Willow tried some head games…but they didn't seem to be working.

"Oh, you misunderstand Strawberry."

Rack held his hands out as Alphania appeared in them.

Tara gasped. "Oh my Goddess…Willow…"

"I don't want to keep the child. I just want her power. The power she was born with." Rack laughed viciously.

Tara put her hands to her mouth as she watched Rack with her baby.

"She's harmless, Rack. She doesn't have any power." Willow angered.

"Oh but she does. And she will use that in time. Against me!"

Rack's yells made Allie cry and Tara couldn't take seeing this anymore. She, only a few feet in back of Willow, ran up to where Willow was and raised her hands toward Rack. Seeing this, Willow grabbed Tara's arms and put them down.

"Tara, you can't. You could hurt Allie, baby." Willow whispered.

Rack smiled. Allie faded out of his hands and out of sight completely.

"Take your best shot, witch." He laughed.

"How about I go first?" Giles offered from the doorway.

"By all means." Rack said, opening his arms fearlessly.

Just as Willow had put Tara's arms down, Tara took her best shot.

"el hecete de la diosa de la madre hace a demonio thy castigado por siempre por sus hechos." Tara spoke loudly and clearly.

A flame started within Rack's chest and he tried to pat it out as it spread and rose. It wasn't as powerful as Tara thought it might be and Rack got it out momentarily.

"Stupid witch." Rack said, breathing deeply. He raised his hand and sent Tara flying against the back wall of his hideout.

"Tara!" Willow yelled out.

Giles ran to Tara and checked for a pulse. It was faint but steady. He took Tara's head onto his lap and brushed the hair out of her face. She had cuts and scrapes all over her body. She was still unconscious.

"Okay, now you've done it." Willow sneered as her eyes blackened. She summoned a pack of knives from within a case she'd brought with her.

"Oh come on, nothing new?" Rack asked carelessly.

Willow whipped knife after knife at him and he knocked them all to the floor…meaning Willow only had one left. She wanted this one to kill him. The knife went right for his heart when Rack used his magic to turn it around and right at her. Willow let out a yelp as the knife cut into her abdomen. She fell onto her knees as blood trickled from the wound. Tara, now conscious, yelled out to her and rose from Giles lap and scrawled her way to Willow.

"Willow, baby, no!" Tara cried. Willow collapsed into Tara's arms and fell unconscious. Without a second thought, Giles came from behind Rack and drove two knives from the floor into his heart. Rack's body exploded into fire and went out. Giles ran over to Tara to see her crying over Willow. Tara looked up sadly, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Giles, she's dying." Tara cried.

"But-" Giles started to say.

"We don't have enough time to make it to the hospital." Tara said. Tara heard the faint cry and rose to her feet. Over on Rack's couch was baby Allie wrapped in her blanket.

"Allie…" Tara said, picking up the infant.

"You got her back." Giles smiled.

"But look at the cost." Tara cried.

"Tara…" Willow opened her eyes.

"Baby…hold still okay? Just-just hold still. And hang on, please hang on." Tara said, crying softly. Tara handed the baby to Giles.

"Allie…you got her…she's…" Willow said.

"Willow, don't close your eyes…stay awake…please."

"Tara…I'm cold…" Tears rolled down Willow's cheeks.

Giles placed his hand over his eyes as he too began to cry.

"I love you." Willow whispered.

"No, Willow. No. I don't love you--stay with me—please stay with me!"

Willow closed her eyes and Tara melted onto her chest.

"No! Willow come back! Come back Willow, come back…I love you."

Giles rubbed Tara's back as he just sat there crying and trying to process what had just happened. Who had just died right in front of him.

Willow…