It had been two weeks since Liam and Buffy had returned from their trip to Ireland. Buffy now stood in front of her old front door fidgeting. Just after she and Liam got back, Buffy had convinced herself that whether she agreed with them or not, she had to tell the scoobies about her engagement and possible about something else.
"Here goes nothing." Buffy sighed and knocked lightly on the door. After a couple of seconds, the door opened and revealed a very shocked Willow.
"Buffy...I..." Willow suddenly smiled and stopped stammering. "Hi!"
"Hi." Buffy smiled back. "I...need to talk...with you, all of you."
"Sure, actually, we're all here. Scooby meeting, you know? Well except for Giles and Michaela, they had some other business." Willow moved aside, and Buffy stepped in. The two women moved towards the basement. Willow turned as she walked. "We have the meetings downstairs cause of Spike."
"Right."
As the two walked down the stairs, the others turned to see who is was.
"Hey, Will, was it the pizza..." Faith stopped talking as she and the rest of them saw Buffy standing at the bottom of the stairs. Willow moved beside Oz, leaving Buffy alone.
"Buffy said she needed to talk to us, all of us?" Willow's face slid into a faded smile.
"What, come to bitch at us some more?" Xander stood up, and crossed his arms.
"No, I..." Buffy looked very small at that moment.
"Cause you know, we could get a camcorder and tape it for the memories." Faith looked just as mad.
"Wait, I..." But they weren't done.
"You know, would it be easier if we all just pretended to be dead? Cause you, now whatever makes your life easier." Anya's voice was getting loud.
"Or maybe, we should get some more people you can be mad at?" Oz seemed unnaturally angry.
"Just get it over with already, we do have lives outside of you." Spike stepped out of the shadows.
"I...shouldn't have come." Buffy turned and ran up the stairs. Willow gave the others a really exasperated look, then ran up the stairs after her.
Willow caught up with Buffy just outside the house. She had tears in her eyes, and was obviously very hurt.
"Buffy! Buffy, wait up!" Willow grabbed Buffy's arm and pulled her around to face her. "Buffy look..."
"No Willow, it was my mistake. I mean I came here to tell you guys about Liam and I getting married, to invite you..."
"You and Liam?" Willow looked ecstatically at Buffy.
"Yeah." Buffy laughed a little. "You know it's kind of ironic."
"What is?" Willow's frowned.
"Well, I'm finally happy. Gonna get married, and I have one year to live." Buffy looked at Willow. Her friend's face went from confusement to pure shock.
"What? What do you mean?"
"Well the doctors are calling it heart cancer, but you know those young PhD's of today." Buffy looked up at Willow with tears in her eyes. "Willow, I don't want to die." Buffy hugged Willow and cried as Willow tried to comfort her, while dealing with her own shock.
"So Willow, what's the boogedy-boogedy today?" Xander finished handing out coffees and sat down next to Anya. After promising Buffy to call her later to talk about the wedding and...the other thing, Willow had gotten the others plus Giles and Michaela together at the Magic Box. She had said there was a new threat in town, and by Willow's views, that wasn't entirely false.
"Okay, there is no evil thing, well not really. We need to talk about Buffy." Willow prepared herself for the yells, and they came.
"Why?"
"Are we finally going to get rid of her?"
"Is she still in town?"
"let's feed her to the vamp..."
"Enough!" Willow yelled and the others quieted.
"Willow what is going on?" Giles and Michaela were the only ones who didn't know about the meeting earlier.
"Yes, Willow. Did Buffy contact us?" Micelle and Giles were not against the slayer.
"Oh yeah she did! She came over to the house to bother us." Xander rolled his eyes.
"What?" Giles looked disbelieving.
"No. Buffy came to tell us that she and Liam are getting married." Willow tried to appeal to the others, but nothing seemed to work.
"Wow! Really? Now we can go and honor her and Liam together." Faith started playing with a knife. Giles and Michaela didn't seem to hear her.
They all began to fight, Willow stood on the edge looking on. Giles and Michaela joined the fray to try and defend Buffy. Not being able to take it anymore, Willow closed her eyes tight. Suddenly everyone flew back against the walls, they all looked stunned, and turned to look at Willow who had tears in her eyes.
"Don't you guys get it? Buffy didn't come to tell us about her engagement, but the reason why she won't be able to enjoy it for long." Willow dropped everyone to the floor and sat down in a chair. The other got up and crowded around their friend.
"Will, what do you mean?" Xander suddenly looked very worried. Willow looked up at her friends, her eyes overflowing with tears.
"Buffy has heart cancer. The doctors have given her a year to live." She looked around at the shocked faces, knowing they had all forgotten about their problems with Buffy.