Author's Note: As usual, we own nothing especially the new people that have just been added. Who? You'll see…

The Gathering Cleveland Cemetery

            Giles sat inside the cemetery with DeO on a tombstone waiting for Xander. It was a little bit touch and go for a while with Alex considering what he did, but everyone brought him through with flying colors. He seemed back to his normal self. DeO helped quite a lot developing a relationship with Xander of mutual trust. If Alex was working out then DeO wasn't far behind. Even Giles was hanging with them more and more now that Robin had started to pull away from the group.

            It seems that Robin was still having trouble with the fact that Faith was now with Xander instead of him. It had come to a head a few days ago, when Alex was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for a few of the girls. To this day Xander can't remember what caused Wood to blow up like he did, but to Alex's credit he didn't strike back. Soon after Robin cooled off, he told Giles that he was leaving and did the next day, end of story.

            DeO turned to Giles and asked, "When will Alex be here?"

            "He said any…there he is!" Giles said as he saw Xander running full tilt at them.

            As Xander got closer he breathlessly yelled, "RUN!" Passing by them in a blur, both Giles and DeO turned in time to see close to twenty vampires chasing Xander. They soon too were sprinting in overdrive.

            DeO glanced behind and realized that they would be over taken if something wasn't done fast. He said as much to the other two, when Alex had a plan. Stopping and turning around he put his hands up, whipped out his wallet and yelled, "By the authorization of the Watchers council I hereby command all vampires to stake themselves immediately!"

            The vampires came to a stop looking confused, a few picked up wooden branches, while others knocked them out of their hands. A few in front looked back at them shaking their heads mumbling, "idiots." When they turned back, they found that they're prey had already turned and ran.

            Giles turned to Xander and huffed, "That was your plan?"

            "Hey, it worked didn't it! Any way all we need to do is get to the fountain with the mermaids in it…" puffing, "That's where we'll…find the slayers."

            "Oh…oh,… good show." Giles smiled at DeOgan and Alex and they smiled back.

            Running for fifty more yards they burst through the foliage to discover…

            "Where's…the slayers… Xander?" Looking around almost dead on they're feet.

            "They we're… supposed to be here…"

            "You said the fountain… with the mermaids; this fountain has a… giant panther on it."

            "Crap! Its a hundred… yards back that way!" DeO cried while breathing hard. They all looked back at each other and then started running back directly at the oncoming vamps.

            The vamps in the mean time had lost sight of the three due to the bushes in front of them. The lead vamp turned and shouted to the others; "Remember I get first contact with them."

            Just then three figures burst through the bushes running over the lead vampire with one yelling back in a British type voice, "Oh…, sorry…pardon me."

            The confused vampires were watching as they're prey had just run over their so called leader and ran through some twenty evil vamps. The leader picked himself of trying to brush off the muddy footprints (he missed the one directly on his face that said Nike). One of the vampires raised his hand and said, "Should we follow?" He was dusted by the leader a second later and the pursuit was on!... Again.

            In the meantime, the three had just made it to the fountain where fifteen slayers were waiting impatiently. "Hey boytoy, you said you'd be here twenty minutes ago?" she growled along with the other slayers who glared at him.

            "What did Alex…say…" Giles asked trying to catch his breath.

            "He said to be here by nine o'clock and we'd get to dust five maybe six vamps." Buffy said while glaring at Xander on the ground, who just waved and smiled weakly.

            "Trust me…Buffy, Kennedy…S.I.T.'s… you won't be disappointed." At exactly that time twenty some vampires broke through the bushes and faced down some fifteen slayers.

            Giles, DeOgan and Xander sat on the ledge surrounding the fountain wiping the sweat and mud off them while watching the slayers at play. Looking at the chaos about them Giles pulled a flask from his shirt, took a swig from it and then handed it to DeO, who handed it to Xander. "You know, I was worried that we wouldn't survive this, but I guess we made it through again."

            Xander smiled as a S.I.T. ran by, turned and kissed him on the cheek before attacking the next vampire. Smiling Alex said, "What could go wrong now?" Then Buffy kicked the lead vamp with Nike imprinted on its face right at the three sending them into the fountain.

            All the three heard next was a mumbled "Sorry!"

            DeOgan emerged from the water sputtering and glaring at Alex and said, "You couldn't leave well enough alone could you, you had to say it?" To Alex's and DeOgan's surprise all they heard was Giles break down laughing hysterically. The two others soon joined along with the watcher as the Slayers just watched perplexed.

Slayer Central

Cleveland

            It was later when a thoroughly soaked Xander, Giles and DeOgan arrived at the school. Watching them enter the Dawn just smirked holding the door open for them as they walked in still chuckling about the events that happened. As the other slayers entered still giggling, Dawn asked what was so funny sending the three men into hysterical fits along with the slayers.

            Shaking her head she threw a towel about Giles shoulders. Faith then grabbed a towel and dragged Xander upstairs telling Alex, "We'll have to get those wet clothes off a ya'."

            Xander's reply was "Really."

            "Com'on, we can play that game you like so well." She smirked as they walked up the steps.

            "The one with the jello and whipped cream and where you're…"

            "Yep, that's the one." She said grinning.

            DeOgan and the rest just looked after them amused. He started walking slowly up the stairs when another towel was thrown over his shoulders and he was looking into the smoldering eyes of one blond slayer. Smiling they walked up to her room.

            A lone voice was heard to say "Damn, Willow would have to be away this week."

            Several other slayers were heard to have said, "We gotta get some boy friends."

Cleveland

Slayer Central

            It was Sunday morning the day after the big race and all was quiet accept in the kitchen, where a certain Watcher was busy doing the Breakfast dishes. He was listening to some old rock and swaying to the music.

            As he went about his business he realized that he had gained two more helpers, Buffy and DeOgan. They had wandered in from taking a walk holding hands and decided to give them a hand with said evil dishes. When you have some forty people living under you're roof you tend to have a lot of dishes. Smiling they started talking about all sorts of topics. When Buffy turned around she ran into Willow and Kennedy who were cleaning off the table. She hugged her friend, glad that she was back from her trip.

            All these people were laughing, giggling, arguing in jest while having a good time. Somehow Xander, Dawn, Lana and Faith had entered the fray helping out too. Faith's strong soprano voice along with Buffy and Dawn's, sang in tune with the radio while Xander and DeOgan were banned from singing in the building forever. Xander soon made his way to washing the dishes. He was going to wash the table so asked Faith to take over washing. As he got to the door he turned around and dried his hands.

            Buffy was standing next to Faith as she started to wash the dishes. After about three cups she found a glass in the soapy water bringing it up out of the suds, began washing it talking to Lana when something fell out of the glass and onto the floor. Faith reached down and picked it up. At about this time all the girls were looking curiously at Faith, while the Giles slowly smiled. Unwrapping the aluminum foil, Faith had found upon opening it, a very expensive engagement ring! 

            She looked confused for several minutes watching the other girls as enlightenment slowly dawned on her. Dawn, Buffy and the rest just watched as Xander dropped to the floor in front of Faith, took her hand and asked her to marry him. Before she said anything he also told her that he truly loved her and that if she didn't accept that he would be just as happy to leave things, as they are if she wished. In other words, no pressure. Most of the girls were crying about this time including some slayers in training that had wandered in to find out what the heck was going on in the kitchen.

            Faith with tears in her eyes for once had no clear idea as to what to say. She never expected anybody to love her much less want to be around her. She was lucky enough to have had a relationship with two people. Now she was being asked the big question and she had no idea how to respond. So, she looked back at her life before and her life AX (after Xander) and she realized how much fun she had. She suddenly understood why when he was around she found herself less anti-social and more friendly towards others including Kennedy. She loved how he cared for others. She loved how he helped the slayers with there problems. She loved how he held her and made her laugh. She remembered what had happened with Anya and she felt that this was different; she had never asked to get married. Could she do it, as with any relationship you didn't know until you tried? She understood now that she loved him for what he was a friend, a lover, a future husband. There was just one thing holding her back and she needed to tell him that, no lying now. As long as it seemed to take in her head, in reality only a second went by…

            Looking down in his hazel eyes smiling she replied, "Alexander…I would love to marry you, but I also need some closure with my own family in Boston. Would you accompany me there?"

            He stood up and embraced her whispering, "Any where you go…I go." They kissed taking a long time before they realized that they weren't alone. People clambered around them congratulating them and patting them on the back. Giles came up to Xander and gave him a bear hug with tears in his eyes, while Andrew who had walked in late had started to bawl as his boyfriend, Sam, stood to the back just nodding to everybody. DeOgan clapped him on the back, while Willow and Dawn hugged and kissed him. Buffy engulfed him in a huge hug that threatened to do more damage than a demon. All the while she was crying non stop. The same seemed to be happening to Faith too. She was not the hugging type and people were kissing her and hugging her all the while. Uncharacteristically for Faith, she began to start crying and fell into Buffy's arms who pulled the slayer into the living room. Several slayers followed.

            All this happened while Xander was getting kissed and hugged by both guys and girls. Lana came up and kissed him, while Kennedy gave her congratulations. Spike hugged him and then Harmony kissed him speaking how it would be good for him. Lorne leaned in to say he was glad for both of them and then wandered into the living room. Xander then turned again to Giles who looked really perplexed. They both looked at each other and said, "What the hell are Spike, Harmony and Lorne doing here?"

San Francisco

            Willow hated to go, but she just had to see Xander propose to Faith. Faith definitely didn't see that coming. She grinned again remembering the look on her face. Now though she had to get back to work. Dawn had teleported her to San Francisco in hopes of developing a coven as was in England. She was outside a Victorian home; at least she thought it was a Victorian home, where three witches are to have lived. The Halliwells seemed to live real well. Three women, Piper, Phoebe and oh what's the other one's name, oh yeah Paige, the chosen ones. In time they will be the most powerful witches to walk the face of the planet. For now though they fought demons and warlocks who wanted their power. In about five years that will end they will be to powerful for these minor evils.

            She needed to see how they lived, so she teleported through the to the attic to see the book of shadows. Passing her hand over the book it opened revealing her face on one of the pages. She smiled reading what it said. Nodding her head she realized the time for them to join was not at this time. She turned to leave, but came up short when an apparition appeared, an older deceased woman.

            Willow smiled saying "hello."

            "Who are you, and how did you get in the house?"

            "Willow."

            The look on her face said it all, "They're…they're not ready yet…I…I."

            "I know, but they will be."

            Willow then moved aside as a beam of light had entered the attic. Leo looked around and then began to attack Willow, but the Grandmother stopped him with a word.

"Stop Leo, This is Willow. She means no harm."

            "How…how did she get here…? Nobody can get to the book…"

            "I let her." Said a dark haired woman in a black mini skirt and white top.

            "Cordelia?"

            "Hi Willow," as she walked up to her and gave her a hug and kiss on the cheek.

            The other two just fell to their knees, but she waved them off             "God…whoops…sorry. Anyway I hate when they do that."

            "I thought all higher beings had to wear white?" Willow asked looking at her wardrobe.

            "They're supposed too, but…you know me, just trying to mess with the system." Cordy said laughing. She then looked at the grandmother and said " Geez, if you're going to be here, be here for crying out loud." She waved her hand and she was solid. "Now go play with you're great grandson. Shoo."

            She looked at Leo and said, "Leo would yah get up already, this is my friend Willow, she's a witch, a good one." Smiling Willow shook his hand. All three then began a discussion, which lasted about two hours.

            After Cordy left Leo asked Willow if she would like to see his son and she said she'd love too. They wandered down to the second floor and she was cooing and talking to Leo's son, when Piper walked in.

            "Leo, I was wondering if you could…who are you and what are you doing to my son?" Piper's stance was a offensive pose for attack.

            "Its okay Piper this is a friend, Willow, she's a witch living in the East."

            The three started talking, but Willow knew that she had to leave so said her goodbyes and wandered down the stairs to the front door. As she went down to the front door she passed by Phoebe who accidentally touched her.

            Phoebe collapsed into Willow's arms, so Willow helped her to a seat to let her rest. Phoebe looked up, and then spoke. "You're a witch…a strong witch…I saw… everything."

            "It's all in the future honey, for now forget what you saw, enjoy life," As Willow passed her hand over Phoebe's face. She then rose and walked out of the house.

            Outside she saw Dawn waiting for her talking with a friend, Paige Halliwell.

            "It would figure, you'd find the other sister." Willow said.

            Looking up Dawn smiled and said, "Been waiting for you. Ready?"

            Dawn introduced Willow to Paige, who seemed confused, and then Dawn and Willow walked around the corner and…

            Paige looked down on the sidewalk only to find an address and name. She then ran after Dawn, but they were already gone?

Los Angeles, CA

UCLA

            Dawn and Willow appeared outside a dorm near the university. Dawn quickly told Willow she had to go to class. Willow nodded and thanked her for her help and then walked towards the dorm entrance. She stopped suddenly realizing that some witches were trying to summon magic. They were playing with fire, if they summoned something that they couldn't handle… So she immediately thought for a second, smiled and disappeared.

            There were ten of them all dressed in black robes and naked, the leader was sprinkling herbs around the pentagram hoping to conjure a demon in the basement of the dorm. They could then get power and become something more then they were, just simple students. After the spell was cast the girls watched in fascination as a figure appeared in the center of the pentagram. It stood close to seven feet in height and was covered with scales and had one-inch claws on its hands and feet. When it fully developed it turned to the scared and confused kids. It stepped closer to the edge of the pentagram and then over it. It roared frothing at the mouth, forcing the ten screaming girls back to the wall with nowhere to go.

            "Okay Stanley, you did fine." The demon turned to look at the red head, while the girls cowered at the back wall.

            "Wow, Willow I could maybe growl a little bit more, or…or grab them." He said smiling as he walked towards her.

            "Naw, just let it go. I'll make sure they don't try this again. Go see you're family, and bring the kids over sometimes Dawn and Lana like to play with them. Oh…oh don't forget the Wednesday night poker game, Giles still wants revenge from last month's game." Willow said. "Oh yeah, did you know Xander proposed to Faith, they are going to make such a couple…and…"

            Stanley smiled kissed her on the cheek horrifying all the girls and said, "Willow you're babbling." She flushed red and quit talking. "Don't ever change Will." then Stanley stepped through the pentagram and vanished.

            Turning around Willow looked at the ten scared girls with an annoying stare. "Okay who's in charge?" Two girls raised they're hands and stepped forward a little. "Alright the rest of you can go, but remember this if I feel anymore magic coming from this place I will make sure that you regret it, understood." The girls shook their heads and ran up the stairs. She then scrutinized the other two "leaders" and realized that they did have magic in their past, but it was misused.

            The two girls looked at the petite red head and realized she wasn't that strong, so started to think they could push her around. Willow reading this waved her hand and the two girls were thrown back to the wall and hung there by an invisible force. The two girls wailed and started to scream, but were cutoff by a hand motion from Willow.

            "Boy are you two stupid, you did this a few years ago and now you want to try it again. Then you think you can push me around, you're so lucky I didn't send Faith here. Anyway I'm looking for a witch, I don't know her name, but she's strong and I need her." Willow said as she paced the floor in front of the two.

            "You're talking about Sarah Bailey?" the African American said.

            "Sarah…hmmm, might be, where is she…?" Willow asked.

Magic Store

Los Angeles

            The woman, Lirio, went about her business stacking items away moving about the store helping the customers. It was late at night just about closing, when the door opened and a solitary individual entered in a black hooded cloak. As the owner looked up she saw black boots, red pants and matching blouse. The woman was facing away from her, but soon dropped the hood to reveal red hair. Her back still to the owner, she examined several items of the store.

            "May I help you?" The owner asked.

            "Yes, you may. I'm looking for someone and they said you know how to get in touch with her. Her name's Sarah, Sarah Bailey."

            The owner backed up watching the petite red head. She then turned to run, only to find herself facing the red head. Confused she started for the door, but found it locked. She again turned to face her.

            "Oh…for crying out loud, I'm not here to hurt you, Liri…Lira…Lirio, that's it, or Sarah. She needs help, more than you can offer, now do you have any tea." Willow smiled as she could sense the tension in the room start to dwindle.

            Later, about 11:00 the two were laughing exchanging stories, "and then Xander ran for the hills when I showed up in his room wearing just his shirt…" The older woman was in hysterics laughing so hard that she spit out her tea.

            "Sorry…but god that's so funny, and he's never messed with magic again?"

            "There was something about a singing male demon, but that's another story. Well we should get down to business."

            "I was afraid that you'd say that. Anyway Sarah is a good girl, but her power is starting to get the better of her. She's becoming…"

            "Addicted." The older witch looked confused before Willow explained to her. "Remember Xander, well he saved me and the world a few years ago. When I was in a dark place he came down and saved me. I could go into detail, but…"

            "You won't. Sarah needs help, she'll listen to me, but she might not listen to you. Can I ask why you're doing this?"

            "I need to create a coven in America to help out its wayward sisters. To keep them on track as it were and help out new witches."

            "It's a good plan, are you going to be leader?"

            "No, I don't think I'm ready yet, but we do need a coven, now."

            "You have great wisdom and that will make you a great leader some day. So…"

The older witch got up and started packing her things.

            "Ummm, whatcha' doin'?"

            "Packin', I figure you'll need help and anyway I want to meet this guy, Xander, he sounds like a lot of fun." She said smiling.

USC

            Sarah Bailey sat under a tree watching the students roam around talking and laughing. Most ignored her, because she was just too weird. She occasionally would entertain herself by casting spells that changed a person's appearance. She changed one girl's top from blue to plaid and then one guy's shoes to red pumps. She was laughing up a storm at the antics the people would do when they noticed. She noticed a teacher in a dress walking down the steps and Sarah put a mud puddle right in front of her. The poor woman fell and landed in the puddle, even though it hadn't a rained in four weeks. A red headed girl wandered the grounds watching students. She was quite young and very pretty. All the guys around her noticed her right away. She was wearing red leather pants and a white blouse with black boots. Sarah smiled as she said a spell made a gesture and changed the leather pants to green stripes and polka dots. She laughed heartily; until she watched the girl look down, shake her head and the pants changed back of their own accord. The girl looked up glanced Sarah's direction and started walking towards her.

            Sarah stood there in awe as this girl without even a gesture negated her spell. As she walked closer to her the first thing Sarah noticed were her eyes. They saw everything. She walked up to Sarah and said, "Boy are you lucky I could change that back, you sure don't want an angry Buffy on your hands. These are her pants; I've always wanted to borrow them."

            "Uh-huh, who are you?"

            "Oh sorry, I'm Willow, I've been looking for you Sarah. Oh by the way, don't play with magic, if you do it will use you up and spit you out." Willow said. "And don't use it to much you'll get addicted."

            "I think that you better leave now!"

            "No, sorry can't do that." Looking around Willow saw that if they kept this up they would be drawing a crowd so…

            Sarah looked around suddenly realizing that she was not on the lawn in front of the school. She then turned to Willow with venom in her voice she said, "That's it you are going down." Forcing Willow back with high winds she attacked her by changing the floor beneath her feet to quicksand all the while Willow was screaming for mercy. Then the illusion disappeared…

            "What…what's going on…?" She looked in confusion as she watched two figures approach from the surrounding darkness.

            "Well… what do you think? Can you help her?" the older blonde asked.

            "She's got a lot of potential, a little erratic; if she grows into her powers then she could be a force to be reckoned with." Willow said studying her intensely. "She needs to cut down on the magic, maybe altogether for a year, and she has to get over the greater than thou attitude, or when the she meets someone like Faith she'll have a rude awakening." Nodding the older blonde turned towards Sarah watching her intently.

            "I believe you're observations are correct. She needs guidance. I believe you both do. So next stop?"

            "You're place…" in a blink of an eye they were in LA.

            "Lirio who is this?" She said not just a little frightened. She eyed the older woman and then looked at Willow.

            "Sarah dear, this is Willow Rosenburg. Willow has been fighting the darkness for close to ten years now. She's on a mission to start a coven to help young witches."

            "But she's hardly any older than me."

            "Yes, but she has lived on the Hellmouth for a good twenty years fighting demons, hell spawn, vampires, …"

            "Goddesses, robots, mummies, giant insects and cyborgs…I think that's everything…no…wait…oh!.. I can't remember." Willow said grinning from ear to ear. "As Xander would say it was all good fun."

            "You know we once fought this demon called Sweet. He was the demon who would dance and sing…" She went on for a while before she realized that they we're staring at her wide eyed. "Oh, sorry, my bad."

            The women just stared at a very embarrassed Willow, and then turned to each other talking. Finally they both agreed to accompany Willow back to Cleveland. Willow was ecstatic, jumping up and down hugging both women.

            "Ummm… Willow, if we don't like it we're leaving, you know that don't you."

            "Yeah, just give it a chance, will yah'. Oh, oh…darn my next stop is New York. I'm gonna give you a number, after you get your stuff together some body will be here to teleport you to Cleveland, okay? Bye!" with that Willow disappeared.

            The two women looked at each other and started to pack, while Sarah just mumbled, "How does she do that?"

New York, New York

            Amanda Shelton looked at her burned out restaurant. She had just come home from her friend's wedding when she found that all her possessions were destroyed. Her whole life was one failure after another. God, she wished her mother was still around. First she has this talent for cooking, able to put her feelings in her meals. Her business starts to flourish; she meets a cute, rich guy by the name of Tom Bartlett. She goes out with him they have a wonderful two-year relationship and then he comes home and out of the blue he tells her he fell for some guy in the men's department. So she moves out and her best friend, Nolan Tranor, tells her he's leaving to get married and is moving to Toledo, Ohio no less. Now this. She sat down on the curb playing with her pet crab at four o'clock in the afternoon wondering what to do, when she hears a crash a little ways down the alley where she used to live.

            Getting up to investigate she cautiously peers down the alley to hear someone cussing and flinging trash out of the bin. Amanda slowly walks over and watches as two hands appear and this foot gets thrown over the side of the bin. The body was of a red head that almost makes it over, but falls back in making a horrendous crash. After maybe two minutes of cussing the red head tries it again before Amanda stuffs the crab in her pocket and grabs her waist and pulls her over. Breathing heavily the petite girl slowly rises to her feet and thanks Amanda for her help.

            "Oh crap! My purse, it's still in the trash bin." She walks over puts her hand over the side and pulls hand back with her black purse in it. "Whew…didn't want to do that again." Amanda walks over looks in the bin and realizes that it was empty. She turned and stared at the red head.

            Willow who was flustered anyway looked at the brunet and said "WHAT!"

            "How'd you get the purse? The bin is empty, you woulda had to climb back in, but you didn't."

            Amanda heard the girl cuss, "Damn! I should have gotten it later, oh well. Hi, my name's Willow Rosenburg and I'm from Cleveland." Willow said before putting her hand out. Shaking it Amanda looked suspiciously at Willow and said, "Amanda Shelton, New York."

            "Really, coooool…I'm looking for somebody who lives…" Willow turned her head in the direction she was pointing. "…In that burned out building over there. This is not my day," Willow said as she sat down on a step in the alley.

            "Why?" Willow looked up, "Why are you looking for her?"

            "Well I have a proposition for her."

            The brunet backed up and said, "Hey I'm not like that! I like guys; honest some of my best friends are guys, okay!"

            "No not like…wait… you live there, don't you?"

            "Ummm, you won't hurt me will you?" she said stepping back.

            Willow smiled and then took a real good look at her, "Holy crap, Buffy!"

            The girl looked behind her, "Buffy, where!"

            "No, no, you could be her twin, if it wasn't for the hair."

            "You mean I look like a girl named Buffy? At least I don't have her name, her parents must have laughed for days…what?"

            "Oh… don't say that, cause if you go back with me, you don't want to laugh at her name she's liable to take you apart."

            "I'm not afraid; I took karate at the gym."

            "Oh, well in that case you'll last probably a second and a half." Amanda paled.

            "What do you mean go with you?"

            "Ummm, this is a long story, is there a coffee shop around to get something to eat?"

            Amanda showed the way to Franko's and they sat down to eat with Willow paying the bill. Afterwards they discussed why Willow was there and if she went with them, who she would meet. Amanda was thrilled with the idea of fighting the dark and learning more of her heritage, but she still needed a job. So she asked and Willow told her that they needed a cook, if she didn't mind cooking for some fifty women and about six guys. Amanda agreed to go to Cleveland with her.

            "Okay, let's get you packed." Willow got up, but Amanda stayed seated. "Ummm…don'tcha want to pack?"

            "Nothin' to pack. I lost everything in the fire." Amanda looked devastated.

            Willow looked outside and realized that night had snuck up on them so she turned to Ms. Shelton and said, "Come on' lets go see."

            Walking down the block to the burned out shell, Amanda again got choked up when Willow stopped in front of the building. She curiously watched Willow look up and down the street and then turn towards the building. With a wave of her hand ashes flowed through the air to land at Amanda's feet and formed into a box of her memorabilia that she had lost including her mother's cook book and family photos. When Willow was finished she was totally thrown off her feet by a very happy person. Holding Amanda, she slowly stroked her hair and whispered in her ear as the girl cried out her tears.

            Amanda never even felt the shift; all that she knew was that some man lifted her up with Willow behind smiling and put her to bed.

Cleveland

Slayer Central

Next Day

            Amanda woke up, showered and feeling refreshed. When she came out of the bathroom she found a set of clothes on the bed. Putting them on, she opened the door and walked into the busy hallway. Women of all ages were walking, running and skipping down the hall talking excitedly.

            "Oh Faith and Xander getting married isn't it exciting…"

            "Who's cuter Xander, DeOgan, or Robin?"

            "Hey, what about Giles?"

            "He's too old!"

            "No he's not!"

            The conversations started to dwindle as the girls walked around the corner and down the stairs. Amanda realized that she was staring after them. Then she looked up and noticed two others doing the same thing. "Are they all Slayers?"

            That's when the other two noticed Amanda. After introductions Sarah Bailey smiled along with her adopted mom, Lirio. Then a handsome barefooted-young man walked down the hall to greet them. He wore a pair of jean shorts and a tank top revealing his broad chest. 

            "Errr…sorry, but a…Willow's tired and well we forgot about you," as he put his head down. "Well anyhoo, my names Alex you can call me Xander, so let's get some food shall we?"

            As he led the way downstairs he pointed out things of interest, but the three girls were more interested in watching Xander's backside. All three were giggling until he turned around to see what they we're laughing about. They we're enjoying themselves thoroughly at the expense of Xander's ignorance, when a knockout brunet in very skimpy red gym shorts and a low cut white tank top walked past with several slayers in tow. When she got close to him she grabbed him, shoved him up against the wall and kissed him passionately. Her hands were placed about his face and in his hair and her leg was rubbing up and down his leg. All the while the three noticed several girls catcalling and whistling as it happened. As suddenly as it happened he was released and had to lean against the wall for balance. The brunet upon releasing him smirked feeling very good at the moment. She then indicated to the slayers to follow her. Xander then started to move in the opposite direction that they were headed, when Amanda informed him that they had just come from that way. Shaking his head he smiled and staggered on towards their goal, the kitchen.