Willow walked threw the rubble. The high school had been deserted for so long but it still had a home like feeling to her. She wasn't ready to go home and see Oz yet and she wasn't ready to go back to the house and face Oz and all the money in the world couldn't make her go back to the magic shop. So she just walked and somehow she ended up back at the old school.
The library was where she had spent almost all of her high school days when she was still regular old Willow. The library was dark and dank now. Well it was always dark and dank. This was the only place she could find peace and quite, so she just sat down on the stairs, sat and cried.
Back at the house Buffy had settled in up stairs to get the sleep that she missed last night and Dawn sat on the front steps. Dawn didn't sit alone for long though. With in a few minutes Oz showed up carrying boxes, "Hey Dawny could you help me out here?"
"Sure." Dawn got to her feet and took the boxes from Oz.
"Thanks." Oz said with a sye.
"Oh your welcome." Dawn said sweetly before throwing the boxes out on to the yard.
"Hey what's with you?" Oz asked looking at the boxes on the grass.
"Um let me think…your breaking up my family maybe." Dawn said crossing her arms.
"What are you talking about?" Oz said picking up the boxes.
"You know things were getting better before you came along." Dawn said sitting down on the steps.
"From what I saw things were horrible." Oz said setting the boxes down and taking a set next to Dawn.
"Yeah you were looking at things from the wrong point of few." Dawn said looking strait ahead.
"Tell me what you saw then."
"I lost my mother last year and then Buffy. I thought I had lost everything but then these two wonderful people moved in and I knew that someone still loved me. There was a life for me, for the first. I would wake up to find Tara and Willow fixing breakfast for me and all the time they were giving sweet glances at each other. And when Willow brought Buffy back they could have left but they didn't they stuck around." Dawn looked down.
"I'm sorry but things changed long before I came back."
"Yeah things happen in relationships, people fight but if no one interferes they tend to work things out. And now because of you they'll never get a chance." After a long silence Dawn turned to Oz and looked him strait in the eyes, "If you ever loved her you'd let her have a chance at real love."
Oz didn't know what to say. Oz had never been out smarted by a ninth grader before.
At the magic shop Xander, Anya and Tara were putting back some research books, "So do you think you'll move back in to the house. Xander asked handing a book to Tara.
"I'm not sure. I know it would make Dawn happy but I think it would be a little weird."
"You mean because Willow has been sleeping with Oz in your bed?" Anya said bluntly.
"Anya maybe you and I need to sit down and have another talk on appropriate things to say." Xander said widdening his eyes.
"It's okay." Tara said putting a book on the shelf.
"Maybe we should through her a goodbye party." Anya said going back behind the counter. Xander and Tara looked at her shocked. "What? What did I do now?"
"That's actually a GOOD idea." Xander answered.
"Well don't look so shocked." Anya said insulted.