After the funeral, Buffy walks into one of the bedrooms where Henry is currently staring out of the window. "Hey, kid. You hungrey?" She asks "I managed to wrangle up a pop-tart. Hand to fight a dwarf for it, but I won."
Henry smiles sadly "No, thanks." He then turns away and goes back to staring out the window.
Buffy sighs and places the plate on the bed before walking out of the room and over to Mary Margaret "Well, that went well." Buffy says sarcastically "Still better than Dawn though. She yelled at me for days, refusing to believe me."
"Buffy, you're doing all you can." Snow assures her.
Buffy nods "That just makes it worse."

"Ladies..." Leroy interrupts as he walks over "The dwarves have been thinking. We have to ask." He sighs "When do we go back?"
Buffy turns to him slightly confused "Back? Where?"
"The Enchanted Forest. Our home."
"You wanna go back?" Snow asks stunned.
Buffy turns back to the dwarf "You do realise that place is not exactly Enchanted Forest-y as the moment right? Plus we did just fight like hell to get back here."
"But with what Regina did to Archie, Storybrooke ain't as safe as we thought."
Buffy interjects "That place you call home, isn't exactly homey and safe at the moment either. Look, I'm gonna find Regina. Even a witch leaves a track, there is only a few places she can hide."
Snow sighs "We'll find her, together." She says to her daughter before turning to Leroy "We've dealt with her before. We'll do it again. Plus Buffy has dealt with things much worse. We have a better advantage now."
"But it's not just her." He tell the princess "The curse is broken. There's a whole world full of people beyond the town line, plus all the monsters from Buffy's past who don't know who or what we are. Ever think of what might happen if one of them were to come pay a visit?"
"He's right." Ruby says from the kitchen "What if they see, you know, magic? Like a girl turning into a wolf, for example?"
Buffy interjects "Actually that quiet common in this world."
"What?"
Buffy nods "Yeah. Werewolves, tend to live in the mountains though. An old friend of mine is a werewolf." Buffy pauses thinking of the Initiative "Although the whole fear thing I get."
Buffy sighs "Look, at the moment no one or thing is here. No Initiative or crazy judge-y people."
Leroy interjects "Maybe they come. Maybe they don't. But that doesn't change the fact that while we might enjoy things like penicillin, we're a bit homesick. Think about it Buffy, you're like us. What would you do if you had the chance to go back to Sunnydale again?"
Buffy's eyes widen "I—" Buffy is cut off by the sound of her phone ringing, she quickly grabs it a sighs in relief when she sees Faith's number "I gotta take this." She say before quickly exiting the apartment.

Buffy heads around the corner away from the apartment before answering the phone "Hello?"
"B!" Faith exclaims "Finally, I've been trying to get ahold of you for weeks. Where the hell you been?"
Buffy chuckles slightly "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Does this have anything to do with you being Snow While and Prince Charming's daughter?"
Buffy's jaw drops "What? How did you—"
Faith cuts her off "Lena. She told me."
Buffy's eyes widen "She knew?"
"Yep. Turns out that woman knows a lot. If you ask me it's kinda creepy."
Buffy chuckles "Yeah. She kinda of is."
"So where were you?"

Buffy sighs "The Enchanted Forest." Buffy says, exaggerating the term.
Faith burst out in laughter "So did you go to your castle? Princess Buffy?"
"Shut up. It's so not funny."
Faith chuckles "Oh yes it fucking is."
Buffy groans "You suck."
"Fine. So how you doing B?"
Buffy sighs "Honestly. I don't know. I'm just trying to keep from having a panic attack at the moment."
Faith sighs "Sorry, B." Faith pauses "Look, B there is another reason I called, it's about Angel."
Buffy sighs sadly "I know Faith. Whistler told me Angel's gone."
"That's not all Buffy. Angel...he...um—there was a prophecy, it some really complicated shit, but basically it came true and Buffy, Angel was human."
Buffy eyes widen "What-?" Buffy says barely managing to get the one word out.
"It didn't happen like he planned apparently, he turned human some time after he got dragged down to hell with Wolfram and Hart. But he survived the war and Buffy...he was coming to find you. But Buffy, a demon got to him. He killed Angel."
Buffy falls against the wall and drops the phone to the ground. As Buffy drops to the ground she reaches out a shaky hand and grabs her phone, "Faith, I gotta go. Thank you for telling me." Buffy then crushes the phone in her hand.

As Buffy cries she doesn't notice Hook watching her from the roof of the building opposite's Gold's Pawn shop.
A few minutes the grief and misery begin to turn to anger and rage. Buffy stands on shaky legs and turns to the wall bring her fist against it. She pounds on the wall till her hands bleed. Suddenly she stops and walks towards the woods. She continues to walk until she is far enough away that no one would be able to hear her "Whistler!" Buffy yells "Whistler I swear, get your demon ass down here right now!" Buffy yells in frustration and she looks up at the sky "After everything I have done for this world. You owe me this!"
"Your right kid." Whistler says from behind her "They owe you this, and a hell of a lot more."
Buffy turns to him and growls before smashing him against a tree "He was human! He came looking for me, because he was human and you didn't tell me!"
"He didn't want you to know."
Buffy pulls away stunned "What are you talking about?"
Whistler sighs "After the demon stabbed him, he called for me. Asked me not to tell you he was human. He knew that it was something you've both been waiting for a long time. He didn't want to destroy your ability to hope."
Buffy begins to breath heavily "I want to see him."
Whistler sighs sadly "Kid, you know that's now how it works."
Buffy shakes her head "No. You know what. I don't give a shit. I have put up with so much crap from the powers and you know what, they owe me this. They owe me the chance to say—to say goodbye."
Whistler closes his eyes for a moment before moaning "Dammit. Fine. I'll talk to them, may be a while, and I make no promises but I'll try to get you that goodbye."
Buffy nods "Thank you. Also I want to know what demon killed him." She says as she wipes at the tears.
Whistler gives her a smile "No probs kid. I'll find out." He starts to turn away from her when he stops "Pongo."
Buffy turns to him confused "What?"
"The dog. Maybe having that connection to Archie will help your son."
Buffy smiles "Thanks."

"How'd he get in here?" Snow asks as she spots Pongo on the bed with Henry.
"I brought him." Buffy says as she walks into view "Friend of mine gave me an idea. So Marco and I had a chat. Archie knew how much that dog means to Henry. We talked decided he should have him." Buffy turns to Henry "You up for taking care of him right?"
"Yeah, I am!" The boy says happily.
Buffy chuckles "Well, let's hope your not like I was with my goldfish with Pongo." Buffy looks down and spots the mud on the ground "Henry, why don't you go get him cleaned up?"
"Ok." Henry says happily before running outside with the dog.

Buffy chuckles and walks into the kitchen and begins to remove her gloves.
As Snow and David walk over to her, she looks up "Look, I get logistically, there's—"
"No, no, no." Snow assures her "I think giving Pongo to Henry is a great idea. It's just, four people and a dalmatian in this loft...things might get a little—"
Buffy interjects "Cramped. Got it. Look don't worry about it."
Snow and David look at her oddly "What do you mean?" David asks.
Buffy shrugs "Nothing. Just, I'm looking for a new place so you don't need to worry about the crampedness."
"You wanna move out?" Snow asks stunned.

Buffy slowly removes the first glove and places her bloody hand on the table, as she begins to pour alcohol over it she answers "I can't do cramped. Not after living with 30 girls in one house, with one bathroom. Plus I kinda thought it would be easier on the two of you. It also means I can build myself a nice gym, meaning stuff like this won't happen."
Buffy gestures to her hands causing Snow to gasp "Buffy! What happened?"
Buffy sighs "Doesn't matter."
"Obviously it does." David says as he moves to help clean up her other hand "There is concrete in your hands as well as brick powder, you were hitting a wall."
Buffy shrugs "Wall, had it coming."
"Come on."
Buffy huffs "Look, I got some bad knew ok. Can we drop it?"
Buffy stands and heads towards the stairs "Buffy, please?" Snow begs.
Buffy sighs and turns to her "Fine. You want the truth. Fine. The love of my life—he's dead. I mean he was a vampire so technically he was already dead, but he was turned into a human. Right before he died, he was searching for me to tell me . It was something we had both been waiting for a long time... for a chance. And we finally get it, and you know what happens—a demons kills him and he bleeds to death, slowly and alone. My first love is dead, and do me a favour and don't tell me you're sorry or that you understand. You can't understand, because you're each others' first love. You've never lost that, the person your in love with. Every man I have ever loved has died or left. So please just don't say anything. And stop asking about it."

Buffy then stands and walks up the stairs to her room, when Snow tries to go after her, David grabs her arm "No. She's right. We can't understand what she's going through. This on top of everything else she's been through—if we push her now, any chance we have of her trusting us or opening up to us goes out the door. Any progress we've made with her goes down the drain."

Later while Snow and David are at Granny's Buffy walks over to Henry who is currently drawing at the table. "You plotting your escape from prison at an early age, kid?" Buffy pauses "Maybe I should have done that when I was your age, instead of just beating up the cops."
Henry chuckles "No. They're blueprints. You talked about us getting a house, so I drew up some plans. So we can build an awesome house. Look."
Buffy smiles "Awesome an armory. I used to have one of those you know."
Henry grins "Really?"
Buffy nods "I've had a few actually, first at the library, then at the magic shop, then when that went down, down in the basement of my house."
"That's awesome."
Buffy nods "Yeah. Had to train. So Giles built me this awesome armory/slash workout training room, in the back room of his shop. There were tons of awesome weapons, knifes axes etcetera."
"Cool, will you show me."
Buffy raises an eyebrow "Show you?"
Henry nods "Yeah, maybe you could teach me. It could be fun."
"I would rather you not fight."
Henry pouts "Oh, come on."
Buffy chuckles "We will discuss this after I get my fancy gym."
Henry nods "Once we have the armory we will have more weapons, to protect us from Regina."

Buffy's eyes widen and she crouches next to him "She's not gonna hurt you. And if she tries she'll have to go through me."
"She hurt Archie. What if she wants to take me back?"
Buffy shakes her head "Not gonna happen. You know what I'm capable of. If she tries, I'll deal with her."
Suddenly there is a knock at the door and Pongo begins to bark; scratching at the door.
"Pongo." Buffy says as she stands as she walks over to the dog "God your acting like you've seen a ghost." Buffy pulls the door open only to reveal Archie "Holy shit."
Archie tries to step into the house but before he can Buffy softly taps his face, seeing the odd look on his face Buffy shrugs "Sorry. When someone who is supposed to be dead show up at your door ,in my town, you need to check two things: not The First and not a ghost. Your clear. Now please explain."
Archie walks into the room as he explains "It was Cora. She kidnapped me."
"Archie?" Henry asks stunned as he walks towards the man.
Archie chuckles before hugging Henry "I'm fine. I'm fine." He assures the scared boy.

Cleveland

Faith walks into the conference room where Willow, Xander and Dawn were currently waiting for her. "What's up? You know I ain't got long till sun's down, was hoping to get a few shots in before the newbies."
Willow turns to Faith "We were just a bit curious about whether or not you have anymore contact with Buffy?"
Faith rolls her eyes "So what is I have?"
Dawn stands "Please, Faith it's important."
Faith sighs and sits down at the end of the table "This morning, she finally answered her phone. Seems she's kinda been in a different world for the past few weeks.
"We need to contact her." Xander tells her "Now more than ever."
Faith shakes her head "Can't do that Xand, I made a deal. Power don't want you guys anywhere near her. Meaning me, can't do with the spilling of locations."
Faith sighs seeing the miserable looks on their faces "Dammit. Look I won't tell you where she is, but look, she's fine. She's happy for the first time in a long time, she's happy."
Willow sighs sadly "Faith, this isn't about asking her to fight. It's Giles...He's sick."