Okay, hi. This chapter is like the second half of the prologue, and while the first half was designed to confuse you a bit, this explains a few things, so I hope people read it. Okay, thank you.
"Try what again?" Buffy asked.
The girl groaned. "Another God damn question! I can't bloody win."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I've just woken up in a shed with no memory of how I got here, and you're talking about time travel and me messing up, so of course its unreasonable for me to ask questions." Buffy yelled, finally sick of everything being so cryptic. "I mean, I don't even know you! Who are you?"
The girl laughed, then looked thoughtful. "Uh…pick a name, pick a name…uh…you can call me Emma. I've always liked the name Emma."
"But it's not you're name?" Buffy said seriously.
'Emma' looked at Buffy, and replied just as seriously. "No, its not. But I'm not going to tell you my name."
"Why not?"
"Because you cannot know it." Emma threw her hands in the air, exasperated. "Now, just to stop the interrogation you're giving me, I will tell you some things. I'm only saying this once, so listen closely."
"What – " Buffy started to ask, but Emma held up a hand to silence her.
"No more questions." Emma said, then turned to Buffy. "You remember Angel, right?"
Buffy nodded.
"And you remember he went evil, right?"
Buffy started to speak, but Emma gave her a warning glance and Buffy shut her mouth and nodded again.
"Well," Emma nodded. "Okay, this is good, you know the basic background. Well, you killed Angel."
"What!" Buffy gasped, fear filling her chest. That couldn't be true. It just couldn't be…
"Yes, it is true." Emma said, almost as though she had read Buffy's mind. "But he'd just opened a portal to a hell dimension and the only way to save the world was to kill him."
Buffy nodded, and was surprised to find tears glistening on her cheeks.
Emma nodded sombrely. "But just after he opened the portal, Willow's spell worked and he got his soul back."
Buffy gasped, and felt herself shaking.
"But you still had to kill him." Emma continued. "And you knew that he would be sent to a hell dimension with his soul. And you felt so guilty…you were so guilty it almost destroyed you."
Buffy tried to stop the flow of tears, but found she couldn't. Even if this story wasn't true…it still hurt, especially since Buffy knew it probably was true.
"Then Giles found a spell, that could send you back in time."
"So I didn't sleep with him?" Buffy guessed. If she hadn't slept with Angel he never would have lost his soul.
"That's what you planned to do, so of course I was sent to warn you." Emma said casually. "Even if you went back and stopped that, in the future Angel was still destined to go to hell with a soul, just by being what he is."
"So there was no way I could save him?" Buffy asked, still curious as to why she was here then.
"I never said that." Emma said grinning. "You just had to go back further."
"How far back?" Buffy asked, Emma's story exciting her now.
"You had to stop him from losing his soul."
There was a pause of silence before:
"What?" Buffy blurted out, completely confused. "Didn't he lose his soul to me?"
"Not the first time."
"You mean he's lost his soul before…" Buffy started out shocked, before realization came to her. "…When he became a vampire."
"Oh yes, clever girl." Emma praised, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"So I went back to…when Angel was human?"
"I tried to warn you against it. I told you good things rarely came with time travel." Emma said. "But you were so damn persistent. God, listen to me. I sound like I was against you, when I wasn't. I wanted you to succeed, which is why I'm giving you a second chance."
"A second chance?" Buffy looked at her eagerly hoping to God it meant what she thought it meant.
"Yes, I am going to completely reverse time back to before you travelled in time." Emma said, and Buffy looked at her in amazement.
"Stop looking at me like that." Emma said. "I'm a bloody higher being, of course I have these types of skills."
"What are you?" Buffy asked, confused by what higher being meant.
Emma grimaced at Buffy's question. "Lets just stick with higher being, okay?"
"No, I want to know what you are." Buffy persisted.
"It doesn't matter if I tell you or not." Emma sais simply.
"Why not?"
"Because you wont remember any of this conversation." Emma said, and snapped her fingers, causing the shed to be filled with swirling wind.
"Damn it." Emma cursed loudly, so Buffy heard her over the roar of the wind. "I hate this God damn wind."
"Why did you create it then?" Buffy yelled loudly.
Emma glared at her. "You. Ask. Too. Many. Questions."
With those final words ringing in Buffy's ears, she felt herself begin spinning, the tingle of magic on her skin. What she didn't know, was she was being sent back, and she would remember nothing.
Okay, I hope this chapter explained a bit more than the last chapter, which was designed to confuse people. Please review, and the next chapter will be up soon. Thank you. Oh, and thank you to vanillagigglez and thekorapersonality for reviewing the first chapter.
