"She doesn't even seem to know who we are." Piper complained to Leo in the kitchen. "Oh hey guys. How's Tara?" she added as the Summers sisters entered.

"She's good. She wanted Willow to stay with her so she did. How are your sisters?" Buffy asked sympathetically.

"Well Phoebe is fine. She's acting like it was just a really bad injury that Leo healed and now she's better. Which I guess it sort of is. Prue…she isn't responding to us at all." Piper said dejectedly.

"Maybe you could talk to her when she wakes up, Buffy." Xander suggested. "Tell her about how you felt when you came back, tell her that it's okay to feel whatever she's feeling."

"I guess I could. If you think it would help." She offered.

"It can't hurt, can it?" Leo agreed. "Do either of you have any idea why it happened? Prue and Tara I mean?"

"The only thing I can think of is that I had been thinking about Prue before the spell, maybe I kept thinking about her during it. And Willow was thinking about Tara, and it got into the spell somehow. Hasn't something like this ever happened before?" she asked her husband.

"They didn't tell me if it has. Never more than one person has been brought back. But I suppose that it could be that you three were just strong enough to make it happen." He mused.

"Um, Leo, what's going to happen to me?" Paige asked quietly.

"What do you mean?"

"Well…the original Power of Three is back again. What does that mean for me?"

"Wow, I hadn't thought about that. Do you still have your powers?" he asked.

"Pencil." She commanded, and the pencil on the table orbed to her.

"If you still have your powers then the three of you should still have the Power of Three. Maybe Prue doesn't have hers anymore." He suggested.

They all stood around uncomfortably for a minute.

"I can't do this. I have to do something. I'll start dinner." Piper announced.

"Hon, it's only 3 pm." Her husband pointed out.

"Well I'll have plenty of time then, won't I?" she snapped.

Buffy, Dawn, Paige, and Xander slipped quickly out of the room.

Willow awoke to find that her right arm was completely numb. She shifted, trying to release the blood flow without disturbing Tara. Tara. Wow. At first she thought it was a dream, until she woke up enough to remember the events of the day.

Tara felt the shift and drifted into consciousness. She opened her eyes to see green ones looking back at her like a child caught with her hand in a cookie jar.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to wake you up. My arm was numb…" she tried to explain.

"It's okay."

They just looked into each others' eyes for a long time. Finally Willow broke the contact.

"Tara…I can't believe it's really you. I'm so happy I could burst…but at the same time I feel bad, because it must be horrible for you to be here. I don't know how I brought you back. I didn't mean to!"

Tara thought for a minute.

"Actually, it's not completely horrible. I mean, it was very nice where I was. It was just like Buffy said it was. Except…it wasn't perfect. I felt like something was m-missing. I didn't really know what. But I think…it was you." She said, looking down and letting her hair fall over her eyes. She felt a drop of water hit the top of her head and looked up. "Why are you crying?"

Willow wiped her eyes. "Because…I think about all the horrible things I did when you died…I don't deserve you. And even after that…I dated Kennedy, and almost turned into Warren, and just now I did something wrong in the spell to bring back Phoebe and I brought you back instead! And now I'm having a pity party for myself when god, it's you that needs the support right now!"

Tara snuggled back down. "Honey, yes, the things you did right after I was killed, they were horrible. I won't lie to you. Even where I was, I could feel it. But the other things….I was d-d-dead, baby, it was okay to date someone else. I won't lie and say that I'm not glad that sentence was in the past tense. You d-dated someone else, but you b-broke up?"

"Yes. She was one of the potentials. Her name was Kennedy. We broke up about a month ago. We weren't really that good together, but we were the only lesbians in the house and we were attracted to each other, so…oh and when I said I turned into Warren, it was because of a hex Amy put on me. I felt guilty that I was abandoning you when I kissed Kennedy for the first time, and I started turning into him."

"Wow. Please tell me you don't see Amy any more." Tara didn't really know what to say about the hex or turning into Warren. She was very happy to know that Willow was single, so she focused on that.

"Definitely not. That was why the hex; she was mad at me for refusing to see her way back when I was getting clean for … for you. I haven't seen her since that day. I hope I don't ever again."

"And…you are still c-clean, right? That spell, the one that brought us back, it wasn't b-black magic?"

"Oh no! It was white white white! The other witches, they're the Charmed Ones. Very powerful good witches. They wouldn't dream of doing black magic. The spell was to bring back Phoebe, because they have some special power if all three of them are together but it was lost when she died. So they were allowed to do the spell. Somehow it had the side effect of you and Prue, that was their older sister, she died three years ago, coming back to life too. Anyway, I'm totally white magic girl now. I do magic, but I'm careful, very careful, and I never do anything remotely black. Occasionally it tries to surface when I do spells but it's less and less, especially after the slayer spell."

"The slayer spell?" Tara interrupted.

"Yeah…it was so nifty! It was to give all of the potentials the power of the slayer, to help us fight the First Evil. So now, instead of having one slayer, every girl who was a potential became a slayer that day. And from now on, any girl who has the potential will become a full slayer on her fourteenth birthday. Isn't that cool? But I did the spell. I got the power from this slayer ax they found. It was such pure magic Tara…it reminded me of you. It even turned my hair white. Temporarily, of course, just like the black was…" she trailed off, remembering why her hair had been black.
Tara chose to ignore the troubling comment about black hair and focus on the good parts. "Wow, so Buffy isn't the only one anymore, huh? I bet that is great for her."
"Oh it is! She can live a normal life now. I mean, her life will probably always have fighting in it, as will all of the slayers, but it can be more too."

They were silent for a few minutes, both still enjoying just holding the other.

"Do you want to go back to sleep?" Willow asked, letting blond hair slip through her fingers.

"Actually…I'm kind of h-hungry. Do you think we could go find some food?"

"Of course! Piper's a great cook. Maybe she made dinner."