He sighed as he crept around the attic hoping noone would hear and come up to investigate the noise. He rifled through the box wondering what to use, then he saw it, a silver cross, Aunt Phoebe had said it was given to her by Leo to help her remember pain when the Avatars changed everything. He slowly swung it with the crystal attacked over the map. He was about to give up when it touched down. He glanced down surprised. She was close, not that distance really mattered to someone who could orb. Last chance to chicken out. He told himself gathering his courage and orbing out.

He nervously glanced around the small cottage. It was so isolated out in the woods, he'd expected a institution of some sort. He jumped spinning around as he heard a creak behind him. He gasped as he watched the small light coming from the fire illuminate her face as she stared blankly ahead rocking softly in her chair. She was so different than he remembered. She hardly resembled the girl from the photo's. It wasn't just that she was older, their was something about her, something she'd lost over the years, the spark of defiance in her eye or perhaps the confidence in the way she carried herself. She sighed her gaze finally moving from the blank wall she found so appealing to meet his.

"Go away." She whispered brokenly.

"Buffy." He called tentatively taking a step closer.

"Your not real." She sighed turning away.

"Yes I am, It's me Wyatt, remember?" He asked.

"No, no, no." She said shaking her head. "I can't...GO AWAY!"

"Buffy please." He said taking another tentative step toward her.

"I said LEAVE!" She screamed flinging him across the room He winced as his body slammed into the wall but before he could move she was by his side picking him roughly off the floor.

"Buffy Please, I need your help." He begged. She dropped him laughing crazily.

"I don't help people, I quit." She laughed. "I did what you asked, leave me alone." She said returning to her seat.

"What did you do Buffy?" He asked unwilling to give up on reaching her.

"I killed them, I killed them." She whispered.

"Who did you kill?" He asked confused.

"I had to do it, I'm sorry. Please go." She sobbed.

"Buffy." He began placing a hand on her shoulder. She grabbed his wrist snapping it as if it was a twig.

"Don't touch me." She said calmly as he howled in pain on the floor.

"Buffy please, It's me. It's Wyatt. You don't want to hurt me." He begged.

"But, I have to I promised I'd stop you." She replied calmly walking over to a shelf and pulling out a sword.

"You promised who?" He asked pulling himself off the floor.

"I promised him, he said if he couldn't save you he'd stop you. But, he couldn't. He couldn't kill his own brother." She said stalking towards him. "So I said I would, I always have to anyway. It's my gift."

"You promised Chris?" Wyatt asked surprised.

"DON"T..don't say his name." She said pacing nervously.

"But, it's ok. You saved me, I'm good." He tried to reason with her. "I'm not evil. You stopped Gideon."

"I killed Gideon." She corrected. "It's what I do."

"You didn't have a choice." He replied.

"There's always a choice." She replied as her pacing stopped.

"You made the right one." He said standing shakily.

"It wasn't my choice, it never is, I made one choice but, they didn't like it, so they changed it." She said pacing again.

"Buffy please, I need you to help me, Chris needs you." He said hoping that would reach her.

"I said don't say his name!" She screamed. "He's gone, gone, gone, gone."

"No, he's not." Wyatt began.

"Yes, poof, he just disappeared." She replied sadly. "Your making my head hurt." She said raising her sword and swinging it down over his head.

"That was close." Wyatt groaned as he materialized back in the attic.

"I'll say."

"Uncle Kyle." He gasped spinning around to face him.

"Couldn't leave well enough alone." He sighed walking over. "I see you met Buffy." he said gesturing to his broken wrist. He waved his hand over it healing him.

"Thanks." He sighed rubbing his wrist. "What happened to her?"

"Dark lighter." Kyle replied shaking his head.

"Then we can help her we just need to.."

"No, we can't. She wont let us." He explained. "Even if we kill it, and I have another will just come, they feed off her pain, her guilt, her fear, it draws them. The only way to save her is for her to fight them and she wont, can't anymore."

"But how?" Wyatt asked confused.

"Things were bad after her friends resurrected her but, I guess it really spiraled out of control after the funeral." He said sadly.

"Who's funeral?" Wyatt asked.

"The other slayer, Faith. She died in battle and Buffy, Buffy couldn't stop blaming herself. It wasn't her fault, it was Faith's time, her destiny. But for Buffy it was the last straw." He explained. "So, are you going to drop this crazy plan to save her?"

"No, I just need to figure out a better plan." Wyatt replied orbing out of the attic.

"Good Luck." Kyle said smiling softly. Hoping Wyatt would succeed where he'd hadn't been able to.

"Mel, Mel wake up." Wyatt said Shaking her gently.

"Wyatt." She said groggily rubbing her eyes. "It's one o'clock in the morning." She groaned glancing at her clock.

"Yeah, but I need your help." He insisted.

"Can't this wait till tomorrow, I mean later today?" She asked annoyed.

"No, we need to do this Before Uncle Kyle tells mom what I did and she forbids me to." He explained.

"Ok, Somehow I feel I'm missing something here. Wana tell me what's going on?" She asked confused. She listened stunned by everything he'd discovered that day.

"Wow, I can't believe we never knew." She said still trying to process it all. "So, what do you need from me?"

"A spell, you're the best," He began she shot him a skeptical look. "Well, second best but, I can't ask Chris."

"Thanks so much." She said rolling her eyes. "What do you want a spell for?"

"Time travel." He replied grinning. "I'm going to the past, twenty years into the past to be exact. Can you do it?"

"Yeah, I think so but, we'll need the power of three to work it and that means..."

"We're going to have to involve the terrible two." He laughed.