Part 29 – Back to where things started.
As soon as the demon disappeared so did the castle, the bad part was while the castle was disappearing they could see the ocean beneath them.
"Oh crap." As soon as Buffy said that, everybody yelled and "splash" they ended in the ocean.
"Is everybody ok?" Buffy yelled trying to get to the board.
"I think so…" Tara said following Buffy.
"Hell demon, couldn't she be nice telling us to be prepared to drown?" Kennedy pointed.
"Come on, everybody knows how to swim right? There's a board there, I think we can go until there." Buffy said swimming to the place.
"Yes, let's go…" Giles said. He and Xander were seeing if everybody was ok and tried to help everybody that was having problems.
After some minutes everybody was in ground again. Safe… but wet.
The slayers were talking and searching to see if they were ok and if they had all the weapons still with them.
Tara was looking at the ocean with a steady stare. She only blinked because Buffy got close and touched her arm.
"Tara?" Buffy said softly.
"Hum?" Tara looked at Buffy. "Hey Buff..."
"You ok?" Buffy asked worried.
"Well... yeah... just thoughtful…" Tara answered.
"Yeah, crazy demon hum… and I thought that after seven years nothing would surprise me anymore, and then comes this… thing that makes you think about life…" Buffy said looking to the ocean.
"About life... death… you know, today I saw how humans are stubborn when the subject is about death, especially of someone loved, it's really something that humans won't understand, even living in Sunnydale, and now maybe in San Francisco…" Tara said in a thoughtful way.
"Yeah… it's good that we've learned something from that… it made me think too." Buffy said.
"It was her propose too… she's good though… and she got what she wanted. I think."
"I think so… so, how about now we go get what we want…let's get back to the hotel." Buffy said taking Tara to walk in direction of the Hotel. "Come on, it's freezing here."
"Yeah…"
Everybody got their stuff and went back to the Hotel. Dawn was waiting for them anxiously.
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Tara opened the door of the room that Willow was in it and found Dawn with her laptop on her lap sitting in a chair faced to Willow that was still unconscious.
"Hey…" Tara said entering the room looking to Dawn.
"TARA! You're back!" Dawn placed her laptop on a table and went to hug Tara. "I was worried… and my GOD you're wet… and cold, what happened?" Dawn asked pulling out the embrace and looking to Tara's wet hair.
"Long story… how's Willow?" Tara asked looking at Willow.
"She didn't change… I was getting worried… you should take a shower, is everybody ok?"
"Yeah, they are downstairs, and I think some of them are showering now."
"Well, and so will you, come on, you're freezing…" Dawn commanded pushing Tara to the bathroom.
"My towel…" Tara objected. And Dawn didn't let her finish. "I'll take it, now go before you get a cold."
Knowing that she wouldn't win Tara obeyed and went to take a shower.
Tara entered in the bathroom, took her clothes off and entered the shower. As soon as the hot water went down her body she felt a relief to feel comfortable again, but she was feeling different, something was bothering her.
Hmm it's good to be with hot water... but why I am feeling like this? Willow's power is already released, so all I have to do is to find it… the hard part is gone. She told me to fallow my heart… all my heart can feel right now is sad seeing that Willow still isn't with her eyes open…how can I follow my heart when Willow has it?
Dawn entered in the bathroom, there were a lot of smoke there and between the shower and toilet had a door that kept Dawn from seeing Tara.
"Tara? I brought your towel, and I took some clothes too. It's near the sink." Dawn said.
"Oh, thanks Dawn."
"Sure, take your time, you should be a little tired, I talked to Buffy, as soon as everybody is ready we'll meet at the library ok?"
"Ok... I'll be there in some minutes."
"Ok, we'll be waiting." Dawn said as she closed the door and went to the library with everybody.´
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In the library, the gang was all together. At the time that Tara got there, everybody had their sits, Giles and the girls had their luggage done already.
Having some snacks on the table the gang put their minds to work.
"Do you have any idea where her power could be?" Dawn asked.
"Yakata said just that the power was looking for some place safe… somewhere maybe she trust." Buffy pointed.
"Place? Sunnydale..." Xander suggested.
"Sunnydale?" Dawn looked with an interested face to Xander.
"Well, all of Willow's memory's is there, home… even Tara's grave." Xander explained.
"But I'm here now." Tara pointed.
"Well, I can't see anything glowing in San Franciso…" Dawn said.
"The power glows?" Buffy asked curious.
"I don't know… maybe… it's like… vampires go poof and magic stuff glows…" Dawn babbled.
"She has a point." Xander agreed.
"Well, so what? We're going to Sunnydale?" Buffy asked.
"Do you have any other ideas?" Giles asked curious.
"We could… ah… well there is the… ah… well … no…" Buffy said with a disappointed face.
"Tara? What do you think?" Xander asked.
"Hum… Sunnydale kept a lot of our memories… for all of us, maybe it can work." Tara said, it made sense, they were thinking, but was that what Yakata said to do? To think?
"Ok, so we'll go to Sunnydale to bring Willow's powers back." Buffy said.
"Buffy, do you mind if I stay? I mean, if you find it, I want to be with Willow when she wakes up, and I don't want to transport Willow unconscious." Tara pointed.
"Of course, Giles… I don't think that we'll need all the slayers again, if I find it I can call Tara and we can work this out… spells maybe, Tara can do it. I appreciate all of you coming though." Buffy said getting as an answer a nod from the 5 slayers.
"Oh, I want to help and stay until everything is set, besides, who is gonna drive you until Sunnydale?" Giles asked.
"I can do it." Xander pointed.
"Xander? And Tara is going to be here only with Dawn?" Giles asked.
"What's the worry Giles?" Buffy asked.
"When involves stuff like that spells always can be a little dangerous, and the more people the merrier, besides, Kennedy can take the girls back to England right? Faith and Wood are doing a great job there, I think they can survive without me for a couple of days." Giles said cleaning his glasses.
"Yeah, you can count on us, I can take them to England safely." Kennedy suggested.
"Thank you." Tara said meaningfully while surprised to Kennedy support the idea of going back to England without even seeing Willow for one second since she had came back.
"Glad to help." Kennedy returned with the same tone.
"Ok... so Giles and me are going to Sunnydale again, how fun, Xander and Dawn… can you be here with Tara?" Buffy asked.
"Of course." Xander replied.
"Ah... Buffy..." Dawn started to say getting close to Buffy.
"Yeah?" Buffy turned to see Dawn and let her continue.
"Can I come with you?" Dawn asked.
"What? I thought you'd like to be with Willow and Tara." Buffy got surprised.
"I think they are ok together…" Dawn laughed a little "And they will have Xander if anything happens…besides… after you told me about this demon I missed Sunnydale… mom is there…" Dawn pointed and continued talking after sharing some looks with Buffy "And if Tara needs some help with the magic with Willow's powers in Sunnydale I can help. I have been studying some weird languages." Dawn finished.
"When and how did you learn to be so convincing?" Buffy asked with a surprise face.
"Teens can learn fast can't they?" Dawn said with a proud face.
"Too fast I'd say…" Buffy smiled a bit.
"So? Let me… go with you?" Dawn asked excited.
"Ok, you can come…" Dawn put a smile on her face and Buffy continued looking to Xander "Is that ok? Take care of Willow and Tara, ok?"
"No worry… I'll keep my EYE on them…" Xander joked pointing to his one eye.
"You'll never get tired of making fun of your one eye, will you ?" Buffy said.
"Nope… it's my thing now…" Xander said excited. After some time with looks they hugged.
"I love you Xan…" Buffy said.
"Love you too… now… take care ok?" Xander replied as they apart from the embrace.
"I will… you too, take care of them." Buffy said looking into his eyes.
Buffy went to Tara, hold her hands. "We'll bring her back… ok?"
"Yes, thank you Buffy." They hugged. And Buffy asked. "You're welcome." Buffy answered and Tara said "No, I mean it, thank you for bringing me back." They apart from the embrace and Buffy looked at Tara. "Really? Oh I'm so glad! You're so welcome." Buffy said as they hugged again.
"Take care Buffy." Tara said.
"You too, I mean it…" Buffy said.
They all said goodbye. And went to their way… Giles, Buffy and Dawn went back to Sunnydale, Kennedy and the other girls went to England. And Tara and Xander stayed at the Hotel.