True Love Chapter 9. Sorry for delay with updates. Buffy is in hell. Liam's final plan will go into effect. The thieves find Xander. Dedicated to Fred and Wesley. Joss is evil! That's all I can say.

The three thieves are searching for the man in black, Xander. They cannot track down where the man in black could be.

"This is hopeless William," says Faith. "We can't find him."

"We will find him," says William. "We just got to keep looking."

"Faith's right," says Oz turning to William. "We're never going to find him."

"Like hell," says William. "How could you turn away on true love?"

"William you said she married that other guy," says Faith. "She totally broke his heart. She doesn't really love him."

"Yes she does," says William. "While you two were, you know what guys were doing; I was talking to Buffy. She told me everything about the man in black. She said he was her true love." Faith and Oz look at William.

"Alright, lets keep looking." Faith smiles at William.

The three stooges exit their secret lab and some how run into the thieves.

"Hi," the three say a little scared of the thieves cause they had sharp objects that could hurt people.

"Maybe these three might know where the man in black is?" says Faith pulling out her sword. The three stooges squirm and tell them where they have Xander. William and Oz looked at each other and nod their heads. The three then follow the stooges down a secret passage under ground.

"Oh my gosh," says Faith as she runs over Xander who is draping over the chair. William runs over to Faith as Oz keeps an eye on the stooges. Faith feels for a pulse. "There is none." William looks at her and checks the pulse himself. His eyes get big and he looks to the floor.

"He's dead," says William in a monotone voice. He lowers his head on the chair and wipes his forehead.

"Maybe there's something we can do," says Oz. They look at Oz. "I know a couple people who are good at doing miracles. They could try to bring him back to life."

"You think they could do that?" ask Faith.

"Yeah, they 're miracle workers," says Oz. He begins to untie Xander from the chair. "Come on William help me carry him."

The two guys carry Xander out of the lab and mount him on one of their horses. Oz leads the way to find the miracle worker who will try to bring Xander back to life.

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When they arrived at their destination, they find a small hut where the miracle worker lived. Oz helps William to pull Xander off the horse. Faith goes to the front door and knocks on the door.

In a minute a man opens the door with very small glasses. He looks at Faith holding his glasses really close to his eyes and looks at her up and down. Faith gives him a strange a look as his eyes reached hers.

"Who are you?" the man asks.

"Wesley we need your help," says Oz as he helped carry Xander over to the front door.

"Oz I haven't seen you in...Hmm," says the man named Wesley.

"Ah, three years," says Oz as he stops at the front door. "Wesley we need you to perform miracle."

"A miracle!" says Wesley. He laughs and enters the hut. The three thieves look at each other then they follow the man inside.

The hut inside look very crowded with a whole bunch of strange materials hanging from the ceiling. The man finally turns to them with smile on his face. Oz and William laid Xander on a table in the middle of the room.

"So how much do have?" ask Wesley as his eyebrows rise up.

"Uncle Wesley!" says Oz. William and Faith look at him.

"He's your uncle!" William and Faith say.

"Yeah, and he'll help us," says Oz. "You know you owe me."

"Yeah, yeah yeah," says Wesley turning away from the three. "I'm busy. I'm doing much more important things then trying to perform a miracle."

"Uncle Wes," says Oz. "This concerns true love."

From another room comes out a woman. She has brown wavy hair and is petite in size.

"Wesley!" she calls. "How dare you not care about true love?"

"Fred this does not concern you!" says Wesley facing her. "He is my family and I'll do whatever I choose to do with him!"

"You don't talk to me like that!" says Fred walking up to him. The three thieves watch the two argue about respecting each other.

"Stop this!" William shouts. "This important. This man here died for his true love and his true love married another to save him." The two old people look at each other then at the thieves.

"Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?" Fred gives a half smile as Wesley enters a room to retrieve some ingredients. He dumps them into a bowl. "This will take...hmmm." He looks at his wrist to find his watch. Fred comes over to him and hands him his watch. "Thank you mam. It will take about five minutes."

Wesley finishes the potion and poured it into a cup. He gives it a shake and begins to dance around the hut. The three thieves were not amuse and give him three very serious expressions.

"Gee no one wants entertainment," says Wesley as he finish shaking the potion. "Give him this and he'll wake the second the potion hits his stomache. He'll have a hell of a headache but it will do the job."

"Thanks Uncle Wesley," says Oz giving him a pat on the back. "Bye Aunt Fred. Thanks for convincing him." Fred puts her arm around Oz as they all walk out of the hut. William and Faith are hauling Xander out of the hut.

"Good luck with finding his true love," says Fred. The two old couple wave goodbye to the thieves as they rode off.

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The three thieves finally reach their destination, which is the castle where Buffy is being kept. William and Faith pour the potion down Xander's throat.

"How is he?" ask Oz.

"Your uncle said that it would take effect quickly," says William.

"He should be..." Faith begins to say. Xander's head shoots up and opens his eyes. He begins to take deep breaths. He looks at the three and then realizes that he is not in the same place he remembers when he died. They explain what happen and he looks at the castle.

"She married him." says Xander remembering the last time he saw Buffy. She was kissing Liam on the lips at the altar. It was a complete nightmare for him.

"What are we doing here?" Xander ask the thieves.

"We're here to save Buffy," replies William. Xander looks at William.

"Why?" The three thieves look at Xander.

"Buffy is your true love," says William. Xander glares at William. "She married that poof to save your life, but he betrayed her."

"How do you know all this?" ask Faith.

"I've got my sources," says William. Faith eyebrow rises. "Alright, I know someone who works at the castle." Xander gets up and looks at the castle. The three thieves look at him as he begins to walk towards a window on the second floor. He then climbs up the wall and towards the window.

Inside is Buffy crying her heart out. Xander reaches the window and sees in his love on her bed with tears dripping from her eyes. He touches the window trying to touch her. Then the door opens and Liam enters. Buffy does not notice him entering her room. Liam walks slowly toward her bed with a knife behind his back. Xander's eyes bulge open.