Chapter Two

"What are you doing here?" Tara asked.

"Look, I know that you might feel that this is not the right time but there will never be the right time. What is done is done. We cannot change that. But the time to make amends always has to be right now not later." He said and he pushed across Tara towards the door.

"You don't understand. You can't go in there…" Tara tried to stop the man but it was too late, he was already inside.

"That is not possible. Why would I kill Buffy?" Piper asked more to herself than to her sisters.

"May be you didn't. We all know that we were here last night and we didn't do anything. May be someone put a spell on us, impersonated us and killed Buffy and now Faith believes that we did it." Paige reasoned.

"Doesn't that seem far fetched?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, which is better that we did actually kill Buffy and don't remember a thing of it?" Paige answered back. "Of course there is this thing about why would we kill Buffy too. After all we fight for the same side, remember."

"But not in love." Phoebe added softly.

"Yeah, but the issue was resolved when Faith chose Piper and came back here." Paige insisted.

"Why you didn't hear what Faith said. She said she loved her." Phoebe reminded her sister.

"Stop it you two. No matter what you say I didn't and wouldn't kill Buffy ok." Piper said in a raised voice.

"Well we were just trying to come up with an answer." Phoebe defended their thoughts.

"Let's just call Leo, see what he knows and then go to Sunnydale and find out instead of shooting in the dark." Piper got up and started screaming their white-lighter's name.

"Leo is not answering. I have tried calling him already." Paige said getting up with her sister.

"Why isn't he answering? Where is he?"

The room was not only silent but it was also dead. It was as though everyone was just transfixed by the sight of the still body in front of them. Some of them couldn't believe that they were actually standing in front of Buffy's dead body, and to some it was like a dejavu of the first time Buffy had died.

It was Giles who first saw the man who had just entered the room.

"Oh! Heavens!" He sighed.

"What happened?" The man asked shocked.

"I can't believe you have the guts to show your face here." Xander asked disgusted by the man's presence.

Angel got up without saying a word. His face turned into his vampire look as he charged. The man moved just in time to avoid Angel's attack and ran outside, realizing that it certainly wasn't the time to talk.

"Angel, stop!" Faith screamed from behind.

"He is mine." Faith said as she sprinted out.

"You really think that coming here is a good idea." Paige asked again when they materialized on the back of the Summer resident.

"We will not go inside. We'll just see what is happening." Phoebe said as she looked for some window to peer inside.

"I see everyone but Faith." Paige said seeing the group assembled in the living room. "And I was right, Buffy is dead." She added softly.

Piper wasn't even looking; she just leaned on the side of the house trying to take in what had happened in the last one hour. The woman she had loved had tired to kill her, confessed her love for her ex girlfriend, not to mention the fact that she was accused of murder. But even though it was confusion she was feeling, but it was guilt in her heart that was making her cry once again.

"Something is not right." She said in a whisper. "I feel so guilty right now."

"I agree. Even I feel almost thankful that we don't remember." Paige added as she turned to her sister.

Phoebe on the other hand moved away from window with an expression of fear in her face. "Anger, the room is filled with so much anger. They are sad but they are angrier than anything else."

"Look whatever happened, happened right here in Sunnydale. We can't go inside the house right now, but lets go to the Magik Box, I am sure there we might find something that'll give Phoebe some premonition." Paige said holding Phoebe. Piper didn't say a word as the sisters orbed out.

Back in the Magik Box the sisters searched the empty shop silently lost in their own thoughts when Phoebe got her premonition. When she opened her eyes both her sisters were waiting in anticipation. "Faith. Faith is going to kill a man in here."

"A man, are you sure? May be a vampire or a demon." Paige asked.

"No, it was definitely a man." Phoebe confirmed.

"When?" Piper asked trying her best to focus.

Just then the door flew open and a man rushed inside.

"Apparently right now." Phoebe said recognizing the man from her premonition. Faith followed immediately after. "I should have known that you were behind this too." She said as she glared at the sisters. The man took hold of Paige's hand as though he knew that she was the one who could take him out of there. Paige saw Faith take her knife out, so she quickly got hold of her sisters and orbed out as the knife went passed through the space which was occupied by their bodies and landed on the wall.

Piper was still staring when they were back in the manor with the man.

"Phewww! That was close." Phoebe exclaimed.

"I must say." The man agreed. "But what is happening here. You told me that you would take care of everything and why is Buffy dead?" He asked as though the sisters owed him an answer.

"Excuse me! Who are you to ask us that? And how should we know why Buffy is dead?" Paige asked surprised at the man's tone.

"Is this some kind of a joke? You are asking me who I am." The man answered as surprised as the sisters.

"Do we know you?" Piper asked staring at him and probing her memory at the same time.

"Of course. We have been working together for months. I am Wesley." He answered.

The sisters stared blankly as the name didn't make sense to them.

"Wesley from the new formed council." He added more information.

"Wait a minute." He continued. "What is the last thing you girls remember? More importantly, what date is today?"

"It's November 15th and today is November 15th I know because I was watching the news this morning." Phoebe answered with confidence.

"Then tell me what happened yesterday. Let's start with Piper." He looked at the eldest Charmed One.

"Well let's see, nothing out of the ordinary. Had a lot of work at the club. Cooked lunch for Faith. We went shopping for Buffy's birthday gift… Oh yeah! The queen of the vampires rose so Faith had got a call from Buffy that she needed to make sure she went patrolling."

"What?" Wesley cut in. "Queen of the vampires. Is that the last thing you all remember?"

The sisters nodded in confirmation.

"That was last year. What did you do to yourselves?"