Ok, so I know I haven't added a new chapter in a long time, but this one is here now so yay? -nods- Yay. I must say, that there is some direct quotes in this, but no worries, it's not exactly like what you saw on the show.

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Willow is at the library, sitting at the table studying. She looks up when she hears the doors open and sees Xander's torn shirt.

"Xander, what happened?" She asks immediately as the torn shirt registers in her mind. As Buffy sits down next to her.

"Nothing. It's ok. Don't worry." He assures her, going over to where Giles is.The man is kneeling next to a bookcase, going through some books.

"It doesn't look like nothing.." She replies, as her brows furrow.

"He was attacked by some sort of locker monster." Buffy announces.

"Loch Ness Monster?" Giles asks, looking up from his book and looking at Xander before over to Buffy and Willow.

"No, she said 'loker monster' totally different from lock ness." Replied the boy, glancing down at the book Giles was going through.

"Yea..but I don't really think it was a monster. It was like. this big green arm that came out of the locker and pulled Xander with it.. But when we opened it again, " Buffy makes a 'poof' guesture. "Poof. It wasn't there."

Xander nods in agreement, and adds. "And something else, it was right after Buffy's history teacher was doing from channeling thing." He shudders at the thought.

Willow smiles. "Sounds like a ghost. cool!"

Giles stands, a happy yet causious look on his face. "Hm. Paranormal phenomena." He looked as though he was ready to break out the books and start studying up on it, though he didn't. "We should all be very careful while in school for the next few days until we find out if this is true and fix it."

Xander nods. "Yea, no ghosts. Not cool. This wasn't some plain old ghost.. This was a 'I'm dead as hell and I'm not gunna take it anymore.' "

Buffy pauses a moment, then nods in agreement. "Sounds about right."

"Well uh, des-despite the way he said it, Xander was fairly accurate with his assumption." Giles says, glancing at Xander before moving over to the table where the girls are sitting.

"I was right? Whoa.." Xander closes the book he was looking at and puts it on the table. "I'm done with the book learning then."Willow smiles over and him and the smile is returned to her as the boy goes over and sits on the other side of her.

"So we've got a ghost?" Buffy asks, returning her attention to Giles.

"A bad one, yes." He answers.

Taring her gaze away from Xander, Willow looks over at Giles with a slightly confused face. "Well why is it here? Does it want something or is it bored?"

"I-I'm not sure why it's here." Giles admits, glancing over at the red head.

"So it there some way to stop it?" The slayer asks.

"Well um, the only tried way I know of it to work out what unresolved problems that keep the ghost there, and w-w-well, um, resolve them."

"Yippie. Now we're supposed to be it's phyciatrist? Great. " Xander chimes in, with a sarcastic tone.

"Yea, so, Giles, do we just have to find out who the spirit is right?" Willow asks.

"Or was." He adds, nodding. "I'll get right on it. You all should too. Meet back here first thing tomorrow?"

The teens nod. "Will do Giles." Buffy answers as the bell rings. The three teens stand, gathering their things and making their way out of the library. Heading home, one hopes.

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It was later in the evening and most of the people had left the school. Though the door to the library opens and out comes Willow. "Ok Giles, I'll see you tomorrow." She says before the door closes behind her. She walks down the hallway a bit before Giles appears a few yards behind her.

"You can't make me disappear just because you say it's over." He tells her as he takes a few steps closer.

She turns around, shaking her head. "There's no way we can be together." She tries to explain, "No way people will ever understand. Accept it."

"Is that what this is about? What other people think?" He asks, his expression confused.

Willow again shakes her head, fighting back tears. "No! I just want you to be able to have some kind of a normal life. We can never have that. Don't you see?"

"I don't give a damn about a normal life! I'm going crazy not seeing you. I think about you every minute." Giles admits, his expression turning to embarresment now.

She again moves closer to him and places a hand on his cheek. "I know. But it's over. It has to be." After saying this, she turns and starts to walk away, though he begins to chase after her again.

The librarian grows angry. "Come back here! We're not finished yet!" He yells grabbing her arm to stop and turn her around to face him.

"You don't care anymore? Is that it?"

The red head begins to sob, not being able to fight it anymore. "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what I feel."

Calming down a bit, or so it seems, Giles pauses before saying "Then tell me you don't love me.".

Willow, not replying, only looks up at him.

He shakes her. "Say it!"

She sighs. "Will that help? Is that what you have to hear? I don't. I don't. Now let me go." She tells him as she tries to break free from his grasp.

He holds her tighter. "No. A person doesn't just wake up one day and stop loving somebody."

A gun appears in the man's hand. He steps away and raises the gun, pulls back the hammer and points it at her. Willow watches the gun, a frighten look on her face.

"Love is forever." He tells her.

Alrighty, so there you have it. No worries, it'll be finished off soon. Who knows maybe by Thursday. Since I might stay home sick again. Lucky you huh?