When Willow arrived at the newly built coffee shop she saw Dawn sat at one of the outside tables, her shiny short blonde hair glistening with the early evening sunshine, dawn wasn't alone she was sat opposite a man who Willow thought looked familiar from this distance. – As she got closer willow recognised the familiar guy to be Andrew, the geeky guy who had once tried to kill Buffy but had at the end fought for the hell mouth, now he didn't so much look geeky and young but manly he had definitely grown up in the past five years. . His once short spiked hair was now longer and dark, he was unshaven. He wore a black shirt and jeans and a short leather jacket was slung over the back of his chair – She said hi to them both and sat down with them, the talked about the past for a while about what had happened since they had last seen each other.
"I can't believe just how grown up you've got!" Willow said to dawn
"Well it's been five years did you expect me to stay sixteen forever?" she replied smiling the both started giggling
"No I expected you to grow up but I never expected you to be engaged when I next saw you. And I never in this world even thought you'd end up with Andrew!"
"Well I love him and he loves me and was great together" Dawn smiled and kissed Andrew who had hardly said a word since they had arrived. He had just sat back watching dawn and smiling at the way she moved.
"So Dawnie when's the wedding then?" willow inquired.
"4 weeks tomorrow, whoa that doesn't seem so long now, I still have so much to do!"
"Don't worry honey, we'll get it all sorted then we can get on with being the happiest couple alive!" Andrew said he smiled at her and kissed her lovingly. "Are the rest of the gang coming?" willow wanted to know whether or not she would see any of her old friend any time soon and this seemed like a brilliant place to see everyone she had met in sunnydale 12 years before.
"Well Buffy and Xander are and I think that Angel Spike and Wes are coming in from LA."
"Great when are they flying in id like to see them again?"
"I don't know, any way Will you have to help me plan this wedding I'm totally lost. And enough about what I've been doing how have you been, Is Kennedy in sunnydale?"
"Nope me and Kennedy broke up about 3 years ago. I haven't seen her since, last I heard she was in Vegas but I don't know."
"Why'd you split?"
"Well we had a huge fight and I walked out and ended up with someone else. Then she found out and it was over"
"Will I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked" dawn blushed and looked into the foam of her coffee.
"No Dawnie don't worry about it, it's a long time ago and it was real stupid of me to go out get drunk and fall into bed with someone else."
"How'd she find out?" Dawn asked now realising that willow didn't mind.
"She walked in on us, she stormed out and I followed she started screaming about how could I and then I never saw her again."
"Ok so has anything else happened in you life since sunnydale?"
"Well I hardly do magic anymore and I'm now a teacher but you already know that and that's pretty much it."
"Cool so you're good then?"
"Yeah I'm great never better I'm back in sunnydale, which although its scary and full of demons will always be home I suppose."
"I know its weird when we blew up the hellmouth I thought id never want to come back even if they did rebuild it, but as soon as I saw that there were properties for sale here I kind of had to come back."
"Uh huh."
The three of them sat around the table until well after dark, talking of what had happened in the past, of hoe they had come to be back and most of all about dawn and Andrews wedding. How they had got together and how they had hid it from Buffy for almost a year. It was almost ten when willow got up to leave and walked home to her small flat close to the new high school.
She got into bed that night thinking of the prospect of all of her friends returning to sunnydale coming home and seeing Xander again. That was the thought she had as she drifted off into slumber land that evening with a smile on her face.