In Willow's mind…
Adria's POV
What just happened? Where are we? Where am I?
I look around. I am in a grass field, Will stands beside me. There is one tree in the middle of the meadow. It's a huge willow tree and I can also see a lake behind it.
"It's beautiful."Willow says.
"Yeah. It's your safe place?" I ask.
"No, I don't know this place."
I look around again and realize I do. "I do. How is that possible, shouldn't this be your mind?"
"I have never done a spell to get into my own mind, maybe that's not possible so we created a new mind. A combination of our minds. Or maybe we are jumping back and forth between our minds?"She frowns.
I stay quiet and watch my surroundings I can smell fresh water from the lake. I think back to the moment I was here with Willow…
The ground start shaking and…
Flash.
We are on a same place, but thinks are different there is another Willow and me looking like Adria. I actually glance at myself and realize I look like me too.
"What…"Willow asks.
"Watch," I interrupt her and motion to our other selves. Will's older self and my younger self.
"You promised."Other Willow says to my younger me.
"I know, but it's personal. Do we have to?" Adria fidget. Do I really look like this when I fidget? It looks kinda cute. Wait. Did I say cute? I meant weird.
"I won't hurt you." older Will says gently.
"I know it's… How would you feel if I told you, I will see your entire life?"
"Not entire life, just most parts. Parts including Treya and maybe a bit more. So yeah your entire life." Older Will says.
"I am really not helping." My Will, I mean younger Will tells me.
"No," I chuckle.
"This isn't your first time in our mind, is it?"
"Actually it is, as you will see; only you went into my mind and back and then you told me what happened. "
She opens her mouth to say something but our other selves start talking so she stops.
"I won't judge you, I swear. It's not like I could anyway I am a murderer and I tried to destroy the world."Other Will admits.
"I have killed too."Adria whispers.
"You killed? Who? How?"My Will-younger Will asks.
Before I can answer the ground start shaking again and as I fall, I see a…
Flash.
We are in a dark room; we both sit by the wall. The room is almost empty it's in basement, cause I can see stairs on the right. There is a man chained to a wall on the other side. He has a big bruise around his right eye. His shirt is torn up and I think no I know his ribs are broken. He has blood all over his face and little pieces of glass in his stomach. His hands are burned and if I remember correctly all fingers on his left hand are broken. His right index finger is cut away. He looks straight at us even though were are invisible for him.
"Who is he?"Willow asks me.
"He is the man I killed."I answer and look up the stairs, as a woman, me, comes down the stairs. She holds a knife in her hands and smile sweetly at him.
"So, you decided to talk now, or are we going for another ride?"
"I won't tell you anything." he spats in front of her.
"I have tortured him for hours already, I knew he wouldn't talk."I whisper to Will, not that they could hear me.
"Okay then. You are useless to me." She shoots lighting into him.
He screams…, screams…, wheezes…, and stays silent.
"You taught them loyalty."She says in the air, meaning it for Treya.
"Oh god" Will call out as the realization comes to her." You already fought against her. But then, you must be…"
"I'm 157 years old."I interrupt.
"Oh god" she repeats. "That's why you are so powerful, you and Treya. When I fought against you in the motel you didn't have the power but… I could feel just for a second…"
Feel? Feel what? How did you even found me in that motel?
"How did you found me in that motel?"I ask her.
This time I expect the ground shaking so I remain my balance and then everything …
Flash.
We are in the slayer center, we can see Will sitting by Ken's side, holding her hand.
"I am so sorry."She says to Kennedy.
"Sorry, So-rry, rry" Ken laughs" that's funny word. I like it. I am sorry, so-rry."
"It's like with Tara all over again. You are dying she was dead and it's my fault."
"Tara, wasn't your fault."I say to the Willow next to me.
"How do you know? You weren't even there."She answers sadly.
"I heard about Warren and what you did to him..."I answer.
"You are crazy, just like Tara was. Glory violated her mind you know. Then I did too. I didn't realize…I was addicted to magic."The other Will continues.
"I will feel you any minute."Will says and then blushes when she realizes what she just said."I meant magically."
"I think I would notice otherwise." I smirk at her.
The other Will, stiffen all of sudden and looks around confused at first. But then she grins evilly, her eyes become darker not black yet, but not her typical color either. She leans to Ken and kisses her on forehead. "I have to go; I'll save you I promise."She whispers to her and leaves.
"How did you know it was me?"I ask Will.
"Who besides Adria would be as powerful as Treya? I had my suspicion Andrea is Adria, but I wasn't sure until…"She trails off.
"How did you get in?"I ask meaning the motel.
"Wasn't hard, I described the manager how you look like and he let me in. I think he thought I was your company."
"Next time I tell him not to let anyone in."I smile.
"There will be next time?"She asks seriously.
"With Treya definitely, which reminds me we should see what we came here for in the first place."
As she starts to think about the memory, ground starts shaking, we close our eyes and even then, we can see the flash…
In Willow's and Adria's mind again…
Adria's POV
Flash.
We are in the slayer center again, this time in a meeting room. Other Will, Ken, Faith, Buffy, Giles, Xander, Dawn and Treya sit around the table.
"…then we came here." Buffy finish some story.
"So let me get this straight. This chick decided to came back in time and kick assess."Faith says.
"Yes, as I told you before she is very dangerous. We have to be careful."Treya answers.
"What does she wants?"Giles asks.
"Kill me, kill all of us." Treya looks ashamed.
Then she looks up again."But now that I am here, she may change her tactics, there is a possibility she comes here undercover and convinces you I am evil and she is the good girl."
I look at Will. Do you really believe me or are you following her plan? She told you exactly this will happen, yet you trust me. Sure, I saved Ken but maybe she came up with some lie and told you to do this for you, didn't she? I hate not knowing. I have a new ally, haven't I?
"You healed Kennedy, not her. I trust you."She says almost like if she heard my thoughts.
"Why would she do that?"Other Will asks.
"Like I already told you this is a game for her. Playing professional chess with an amateur is boring. She wants someone in her league."
Is this why she healed the scars in front of Ken? Why she made the obvious mistake? Is it part of her plan? Giving me a chance to get allies. So at the end the numbers and strength are even.
"You'll have to be careful, she is an exceptional liar."
She kept warning them in similar fashion for another half an hour.
"How did you know she is really from the future?"I ask Will as Treya keep answering their questions.
"She knew private things about each one of us. How Xander and I met, you know the kindergarten story. Dawn's first crush, where Buffy lived when she left, after she killed Angel and so on..."
I nod, "I think we can go back."
"Was it worth it?"she asks me.
"Probably not, but you weren't the one whose past got exposed."
"You are right."
We both concentrate on getting out of here and…
Flash.
We are back at the grass-land we were in the beginning, but we are not back in the slayer-center.
"what happened?"
I shrug, concentrate again on getting back and nothing.
"Why can't we get back?"
"I don't know maybe.."
"Maybe it's cause we didn't finish what we started, you wanted to know what exactly Treya said. Maybe we have to move more in the past and see absolutely everything. Or maybe we have to see everything we want to know about each other. Then you would see all of my and I would see everything about you. But with same memories wouldn't we become same person? When we are one person would we share one body?"
"Will calm down, and we wouldn't see every memory. For example I don't really care about your most embarrassing dream."
The ground starts shaking. Damn I shouldn't have said that…
Flash.
This time it's a classroom. Will stands in front of it naked. What the hell? She reads an essay in front of her class naked! I look at dressed I am a gentleman, gentlewoman? Whatever.
"You did this on purpose."Will hits me lightly.
"No, I promise." I say as I laugh.
"This is not funny, not funny at all."She yells at me angrily.
"Sorry, it's just…" I keep laughing for a little while until I manage to get serious again.
"well, if you want to play like this…"she grins evilly "tell what you fear most?"
Don't think about it. Don't think about it…
Flash.
We are on a plain. It's late in the night. Fires are burning in distance. There are thousands of bodies. Dead bodies everywhere. Burned, stabbed, beaten to death, shoot... Some of them still have knife and weapons that killed them in them.
I look at the body close to me and kneel to it. Just like in my dreams it's Will's body. She is always first. I don't know why... She looks like she is sleeping, there is no visible wound on her body, yet she is dead.
"Am I?" Willow asks.
"Yes, just like everyone else. Everyone except…" I motion to a woman kneeling in the middle of those bodies. It's me as young as I am now, crying. I follow her with my eyes as she rose when Treya approaches her. She looks Treya in the eyes, crying, begging Treya to kill her, me.
Treya laughs at the other me; she holds a knife in her hands. But she has no intention to use it.
"Kneel" she says to Adria. I watch myself as I bow in front of her, hoping, praying she will finally ends this. She smiles and kisses me for a final kiss as she put all of her magic into the knife and stabs me in the heart. This is when I usually wake up.
I watch my other self, fall on the ground. I can't tell whether I am finally dead. But somehow I don't really want to know.
I look at Will and notice how confused she is so I explain."Do you remember when I told you I am 157 years old?"
"Yeah."
"It's the benefit of magic, I don't age and most of my wounds can be healed by magic. So I can't die."
"But everyone around you does."Will understands.
"Everyone, except her. Everyone dies for this war, but neither of us will. We will always be there to fight again. My greatest fear is everyone I love, I know, will die. I will just be there unable to stop just watching…"
"I am sorry, If I knew I would never…"
"It doesn't matter" I tell her "In the future you know too."
"Let's get back."
Flash.
Green-land again.
"Why can't we just go back?"
"I don't know. I remember that when Faith and Buffy shared a dream it disappeared when they woke up."
She goes to me and tweaks me. "Ouch, what was that?"
"I tried to wake you up."
I smile as she tries to lighten up the mood.
"Maybe we get out, when someone wake our bodies up."I say.
"Or maybe they are trying to wake us up and it doesn't work."She says.
"Or maybe they won't dare to wake us up, cause we are meditating and doing a spell."
"Or maybe…"
"Quiet."I stop her quickly. She looks at me weirdly. "I thought I heard something. Listen"
And soon we hear it again "Andrea"
"Will"
"Adria look!" Willow pushes me and motion towards the tree. I can see Angel in there and also our room behind her.
"Let's go, that's our way home."I say but Willow already runs to the portal. Or hole. We both jump into it.
Everything starts spinning and another…
Flash.
We are back in the slayer center… We are out of the spell! We are back!