Part 2

The flash of light weakened and Willow looked around the Magic Box. "Giles?"

Willow looked around and didn't see him. That's strange he was just there. "Giles?" She tried louder.

She relaxed when she saw his familiar form come out from between the shelves. She tensed when she felt his power. It was stronger than she remembered. Stronger than hers.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?"

Willow looked confused. "What do you mean who am I? I'm Willow. You're Giles. Buffy, the Slayer? Anything sound familiar?"

"I don't know a Willow. Did Ethan send you?" Giles felt her power. It was strong and had a darkness to it. Not completely dark like Ethan's but it was still dark.

"Ethan? Giles what are you talking about? You and I were taking inventory. I found a mirror and I called you to look at it."

Giles looked over at the mirror that the red head pointed at. Still keeping her within sight he walked over to the mirror. It was the mirror that his coven in England had given him before moving here to Sunnydale. How did this stranger know about his mirror? How did she know Buffy? Buffy hadn't been the Slayer for three years.

"Everything all right down there?" A muffled voice said.

It sounded familiar to Willow but she couldn't place it.

"Yeah, there was someone down here, I'll bring her up."

Giles indicated that Willow should lead the way up the stairs.

Fine maybe she could get answers why Giles was acting weird. Maybe she was under a spell. That would explain why Giles power feels stronger. She needed to find out what that flash of light and tingling sensation was.

Willow emerged from the stairs and took the hallway to the front of the Magic Box. She felt Giles close behind her.

She stopped in the doorway and suddenly swayed on her feet.

The girl stopped so quick that Giles couldn't stop in time and he bumped into her. Her skin was clammy as he reached out to steady her.

The blonde looked up from the book she had been looking through as she heard a noise in the doorway. She saw a red head look at her with shocked eyes and turn a deathly pale.

"I-is she okay, Giles?"

Before Giles could say anything Willow fainted and he barely caught her in time.

"She'll be fine, Tara. I don't know who she is. She claims her name is Willow and that she knows me. She even claims to know Buffy."

"Buffy?" A dark haired girl asked. "Wasn't that the Slayer's name before Kendra? The one that was killed in the first Wizard's War?"

"Yes she was. I never knew her personally but Wesley talks about her fondly."

Tara reached over for her girlfriend Faith's hand, "Don't worry, Sweetie. I'm sure she's not here for you. Ethan hasn't been that bold in any of his attacks. Though I do feel her power and it's a dark power. What should we do with her until she wakes up?"

Giles set Willow into a chair. "Faith, there's some rope in the back in the training room why don't you get that while Tara and I work on a binding spell. At least temporarily until we get this sorted out."

"Right, G." Faith leaned over and gave Tara a quick kiss. "You be careful in case she wakes up before I get her tied up."

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Willow awoke to a tingling sensation around her wrist. She panicked when she didn't feel her connection with her magick. Her eyes shot open and she felt the bindings around her body and around her magick.

Giles saw the panicked look in her eyes and sympathized. If he had been cut off from his magick he'd panic, too.

"It's all right, Willow. It's just temporary until we get this sorted out."

He nodded to Tara who held a book in her hand. She mumbled the incantation while Faith used a feather to send the burning sage smoke toward Willow.

Willow recognized the spell that Tara was saying. It was a truth spell. Her mind couldn't wrap around the idea that Tara was standing there, ALIVE, saying a truth spell. She must be under the influence of a spell.

"Who are you?"

Willow sighed, "I told you my name is Willow."

"Who sent you?"

"Sent me? No one sent me. I found a mirror in the box when we were taking inventory. I couldn't see my reflection."

Faith interrupted. "Vampire? You're a vampire?" she looked over at Giles, "How come I don't feel the vampire sensation from her?"

Willow rolled her eyes, "No I'm not a vampire. I have a pulse and heart beat. The mirror reflected the room but not me. When I leaned in to touch I felt a tingling sensation. There was a flash of light and then I was in the basement next to the mirror but Giles wasn't where he was before."

Tara shifted uncomfortably. This Willow person kept staring at her. It was like she was looking at a ghost. It was creepy. She unconsciously edged closer to Faith.

Giles stiffened when he heard what she said. The mirror was supposed to be a portal to other dimensions. It was even rumored to be how Merlin and Nimue went to Avalon. Not in this form of course but the mirror itself used to be imbedded in a rock. The coven had carefully removed it from the rock and put it in the brass holder when they gave it to him for safekeeping.

Giles rubbed his forehead. "You say when you touched the mirror there was a flash of light and things changed?"

"Exactly."

"Are there other things you remember that doesn't feel right to you?"

Willow carefully kept her eyes away from Tara when Giles asked her that question. Obviously her current situation had something to do with the mirror. Maybe it wasn't a spell after all.

"Well, You're power is much stronger here." Willow nodded over to Faith, "Last time I saw her she was in jail in Los Angeles. And Buffy. Where's Buffy?"

Tara noticed that Willow who had been glancing at her was studiously avoiding her gaze now. There must be something about me that's different to her.

"Buffy's been dead for three years." Faith said. "The Warlock got her in the first Wizard's Wars."

"WHAT?! Wizard's Wars? What's a Wizard's War and who's the warlock?"

Tara, Faith and Giles all looked at each other in surprise and confusion. With the truth spell they all knew Willow was telling the truth. She had no idea who the warlock was or what a Wizard's War was.

Giles walked over to Willow and began to untie her. "This is a long story and you should get comfortable for this one.  Tara, could you turn the sign over and lock the door. I believe the Magic Box is closed for the day."

Willow watched as Giles untied her but she noticed he kept the binding bracelet on. Giles caught her looking at him and then the bracelet, "It's just a precaution. You're a very powerful witch and until we can be positive that you're not working with Ethan we're taking careful measures."

"Ethan must be the warlock?"

Giles nodded.

"I'm not in my Sunnydale am I? The mirror must be a portal or something."

Giles was impressed with her ability to adapt to her situation and not panic. He was also impressed with her intelligence that she was grasping the idea of interdimension travel with nonchalance.

"Tell me. Is Sunnydale still a Hellmouth?"

"Yes, it's one of the things Ethan wants."

Willow rolled her eyes, "Why is it that every big bad wants to have the Hellmouth all to themselves?" She looked over at Faith, "So you probably didn't go to prison for killing a man?"

Tara slipped her hand in Faith's. Willow's heart broke again. This wasn't her Tara. "No, she's never taken a human life."

Tara wondered about the sadness that was in Willow's eyes. It went beyond the sadness of not being in her Sunnydale.

Faith noticed the sadness, too. But she also noticed the way Willow had looked at Tara and had quickly looked away from their joined hands. She suspected that Tara had a double in Willow's reality like she had a double.