Chapter 3: Uncovered
By: Hope
Willow laid all of the supplies out on the table in front of her. She picked up the book that was on the table on the Mohra demon and started reading through it. Buffy said that she had seen one of these when she had gone to visit Angel after thanksgiving, but he had killed it right away with no problem. "What you doing…?" Willow hadn't even noticed Dawn walk into the room. Willow looked up and saw the teenager who must have just gotten back from her weekly visit with Tara. "Oh, just laying out some supplies for a spell…" Dawn looked a little shocked, like she couldn't believe that Willow was still using magic. "Oh, the spell is for Buffy, she asked me for it. And I just want to help her re-adjust….it must be…"
"Hard." Dawn said, finishing Willow's thought. "Well I'm going to go up to my room and try to finish some of my homework so I'll talk to you later…" She turned around and walked up the stairs. Willow watched her and she could almost feel a tear begin to form. Dawn seemed so uncomfortable around Willow now…ever since that Tara left.
She heard the door open and then close and tried to whipe away the thought. "Hey Will." Buffy said, walking into the living room. "You got all the stuff…?" She asked, looking over everything on the table.
"Yes, I've been going over the spell to make sure that I have everything down right and…Well I think that we could pull it off." Buffy forced a smile and sat down on the ground across from Willow.
"What do I need to do?"
"I need you to recite these words." Willow handed Buffy the computer print out sheet and started grouping some of the ingredients together. "We can set up the circle right here." She stood up and started placing the candles and herbs in a circle behind Buffy. "You just have to sit in the center, hold this." Se said, handing Buffy a pendant. "And chant that." She smiled, proud that she could be of some help to her friend. She had felt so powerless and guilty when it came to Buffy in the past few weeks…especially after that singing demon had come and everyone had revealed whatever they were thinking or hiding.
"Ok, lets do it." Buffy said, she sat in the center of the circle as Willow turned all of the lights off around her.
"This will seem like a long time to you but it will only last a few seconds for the rest of the world…ready?" Willow sat on the couch and looked at Buffy. She hadn't seen this kind of determination on her friend since…well since they went to go kill Glory.
"Yea, I'm good." Buffy began chanting the words on the paper and everything seemed to slow down around her. The further into the spell she got, the slower the seconds on the clock in the living room seemed to tick and the lighter everything got around her. "So mote it be. Hecate goddess of night. So mote it be." Buffy closed her eyes. (Willow typed in directions of what to do on the page.)
When she opened them she was on the docks of a beach, walking towards the end of the pier. She couldn't seem to control what she was doing…it was like she was just there to watch. She found herself turning around and looking at the entrance…that's when she saw him. He walked out from under the terrace and squinted his eyes, not used to the sun. Buffy's mouth dropped open in awe. How…how was Angel out here…in daylight? He walked over to her and they began to kiss. She closed her eyes and when the reopened them she found herself in a bed…and a very naked Angel was lying next to her.
He looked at her and smiled in a way he hadn't since before he first lost his soul…his smile said that everything was alright and that they didn't have to worry about the rest of the world…that they didn't have to worry because they were together and nothing else mattered.
Buffy didn't realize how much she had actually missed Angel until this moment, even when she had gone to see him when she first came back, she still didn't realize how she could hardly live without him. She had been slowly falling apart this past month or so…she was hardly even human anymore, like she sang when Sweet the demon came…she was just going through the motions.
Buffy studied Angel's face, he seemed so happy…she didn't think that she had ever really seen Angel that happy. A flash of metal caught her eyes when she realized that he was wearing a cross….the cold metal leaned against his skin, gravity forcing it down. So many things were different here, and buffy didn't remember any of them. Had willow brought her back without some of her other memories? Or maybe after that last spell, before tara left…? There were so many possibilities of how she could have forgotten about it but she didn't let those fill her mind as she watched Angel smiling and looking into her own eyes. He was human…
As soon as this thought registered in her brain, Buffy found herself in a room with two really shiney looking people who were standing in front of angel. She stood there and watched in amazement when Angel offered his own human life for the slayer's. "You have until a day after the Mohra demon attacked. When it hits 9:00 am, everyone but you shall forget…" The rest that followed was everything that she had seen in her dream.
"Hecate…goddess of night, what you had once created I ask now destroy. What was once enchanted may now be mundane. So mote it be." As soon as the last words slipped out of her mouth, she found herself sitting on the floor in her living room with Willow looking at her, smiling.
"How was it?"
