Where Do We Go From Here?

Chapter 7: Dancing Around a Romance

By: Rogue-Slayer13

Summary: See pervious Chapters

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Willow looked over at Oz for had to have been the hundredth time in the last fifteen minutes. Giles, Wesley, and Andrew went to try and gather up some more research materials while Spike, Angel, Illyeria, and Lindsey took the Slayers and Dawn out on patrol. Buffy and then others then left to go get more groceries, which was mildly frightening because they had just bought some on Monday and it was only Wednesday. Since everyone else was gone, that left Willow and Oz alone at the hotel.

"So . . . how have you been?" asked Willow.

"Fine. You?"

"Good, except for the whole trying to destroy the whole world thing, cause that obviously wasn't so good, but other then that I've been good."

"That's good," replied Oz in his usual monotone man of few words way.

An awkward silence fell between the two which only increased how nervous Willow was.

"Do you think they'll be okay?"

"Which group?"

"Oh, well I was thinking Spike and the Slayers, but I guess there is a certain amount of risk involved with what all of the groups are doing. I mean Giles and them have to go and see what's left at Wolfram & Hart and something could be waiting for them there and that would be very, very bad and then there's Buffy's group. They've got to go and get groceries and I suppose someone could drop something on their foot and then they'd be walking around with a limp and that won't help."

Oh my goddess Willows do you ever shut up!? Exclaimed a voice in the back of the Wiccan's head.

Willow's rambling got a laugh out of Oz which caused Willow to panic some more.

Great, now he's laughing at you. Way to go. Thought Willow.

"I'm rambling. I should stop now."

"No it's cute," replied Oz.

He thinks it's cute! Exclaimed the voice in the back of Willow's head.

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Buffy came downstairs to find the entire LA gang and all of The Scoobies gathered around the tables in the lobby doing research. The tables and the majority of the floor were covered with books and scrolls and various folders. Everyone looked as if they'd been up researching all night long.

"Okay, Giles is cleaning his glasses so something bad must've happened," commented Buffy as she took a seat next to Willow.

"One of the Slayers had a Slayer dream at three in the bloody morning and we've been researching it ever since," replied Spike.

"What was it about?"

"She said she saw a huge army of demons lined up in the desert and then she said the sky started to get dark and it began to rain and then the demons attacked," replied Dawn.

"Who'd they attack?"

"Us of course," replied Giles.

"Oh, so Wolfram & Hart are going to attack us in the desert on a rainy night?" asked Buffy.

"I don't think so," said Gunn.

"Why's that?" asked Buffy.

"Well this book talks about a total solar eclipse." Gunn handed the book to Giles.

"And the sky shall grow dark with the misery and pain of those surviving and the darkness shall feed off of this, growing stronger with each tear shed. The darkness will meet the light in the valley of the wraiths and the two shall meet with such force that the heavens themselves will weep." Giles looked up from the book.

"That's a prophecy if I've ever heard one," commented Spike.

"Now we just need to decode it," said Angel.

"Well the skying growing dark sounds like the eclipse." Willow closed the book she had in front of her.

"The darkness and the light, that one should be obvious," said Dawn.

"Oh! A wraith is a ghostly image of someone seen shortly before or after their death!" Andrew waved his hand in the air like an eager first grader waiting to answer a question. "Y'know, shadows, ghosts, death . . . Death Valley? Am I the only one getting this?"

"Despite your odd logic, that does seem to make sense," replied Giles. "That just leave the heavens themselves will weep."

"The rain. There was rain in the small one's dream. If she has the gift of prophecy then everything in her dream must be put into use. Rain would resemble weeping." Illyeria looked at the others as if they were too stupid to have come to the same conclusion themselves.

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"Where did you go after Sunnydale?"

Willow and Oz were once again left on their own at The Hyperion while everyone else went off to gather weapons and scoop out Death Valley and do the normal nightly patrol.

"All over. LA for a little while, New York, New Orleans, Chicago, just wherever," replied Oz.

"That's cool." Willow played with the hem of her shirt.

"What'd you do after I left?"

"Oh, you know, just normal stuff. I went to UC Sunnydale for a while, got into the magicks, started dating Tara, helped Buffy with the apocalypse."

"Yeah, I heard about what happened to Tara. I'm sorry. She sounded really nice."

"It's okay. I've moved on now. I dated a Slayer named Kennedy for a while," replied Willow, sounding quite a bit more cheerful at the last part.

"Wow, a Slayer."

"Yeah, it'd didn't work out though."

"So you date anyone else since I left?"

"No, just Tara and Kennedy. What about you?"

"I dated this one chick named Sarah for a couple of months while I was sin New York, it didn't work out though."

We're both single, that's a good thing. Thought Willow.

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To Be Continued . . .

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