"It shouldn't" Buffy replied. "This, all this, is your reward, you saved the future. You fixed it. You shouldn't have to remember the pain of what it once was."

"Wether I remember or not isn't going to change how I feel." Chris replied.

"You and your damn feelings," Buffy said annoyed. "What about Your feelings for your girlfriend Chris? Remember her, Bianca?"

"Of course I do." Chris began angerly. "I just, I'm just, I don't know, it's not like I could foresee this happening. I admit it, I'm confused."

"Well let me simplify it for you." Buffy began. "You love her, you always have, and always will. And it wasn't like us, it was real. You know you were seeing her, that she was your girlfriend, before, in the messed up future. They told you that right?"

"Yes, I know, and you told me she betrayed me." Chris shot back.

"Yeah well, she did and she didn't." Buffy replied. "And she wasn't just your girlfriend, she was your fiancee." Buffy said shocking him.

"I was going to marry her." Chris asked stunned.

"Yes Chris, you loved her, wanted to spend the rest of your life with her. And yes, she betrayed you. Wyatt tricked her into coming to the past to get you, to joining his side. She did it, to save you. He promised not to hurt you. She realized her mistake though. Do you know what happened to her?" She asked. "She died, she died saving you, so you could go back, to fix the mistake she made. So, you want to remember so badly, that's what you'll remember, and me, us, we were...we were lonely, in pain, we both just lost the people we loved, and we knew from the beginning what it was, that it wasn't real, that it couldn't last."

"Fine, you say it wasn't real, that it was meant to be, Just tell me one thing, and I wont bother you ever again, I'll let you go, hell I'll even open the portal for you." Chris replied.

"What?" Buffy asked.

"Tell you don't love me, that you never did." Chris demanded.

"I...I don't love you." Buffy replied struggling to keep her voice from wavering.

"I don't believe you, say it like you mean it." Chris insisted.

"You know what, I really hate you sometimes." Buffy said walking back towards the stairs.

"You know what they say." Chris called after her. "There's a fine line between love and hate."

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"Did you enjoy the show?" Buffy asked with a glare.

"What do you mean, we would never..." Phoebe trailed of.

"Please, give me some credit." Buffy said rolling her eyes. "So, back to the big bad. What do we know?"

"Just that if this all goes down like they want it to, the underworld is going to have a brand new source, Gideon." Phoebe replied. "And somehow, he'll be unstoppable, worse than Zanku."

"Basically, our world will become like the mirror world you were in all those years ago, were evil is dominant." Cole added.

"But, how?" Paige asked confused.

"We know That it's not new, the power, it's not Gideon, well not just him, From what we were told whatever it is, it's real old." Wyatt replied.

"And has the power to destroy us all." Kyle added.

"Really, The elf said it threatened to consume us all." Leo replied.

"Destroy, consume, what's the difference, both suck for us." Piper replied.

"It matters." Buffy said nervously. "So what is it, destroy, or consume."

"We were told we'd be devoured." Paige offered.

"What?" Buffy and Kyle exclaimed turning to her.

"Um, what's going on?" Paige asked nervously.

"What did the demon say, word for word." Buffy demanded.

"I don't know, I was busy trying to not be killed, Piper?" Paige asked uncomfortably.

"Something about underneath...or," Piper Began.

"From beneath you it devourers?" Buffy asked quietly.

"Yes, that's it." Paige exclaimed. "What does it mean?"

"It means, that were screwed." Kyle sighed.

"What's going on?" Piper demanded.

"Wyatt was right, it's old, real old." Buffy explained. "It's the first."

"The first what?" Phoebe asked.

"The first evil." Kyle replied.

"Ok, how do we kill it." Piper asked.

"You don't, can't." Buffy replied. "You can defeat it, but not destroy it."

"Ok, how do we defeat it?" Paige asked.

"I don't know." Buffy sighed.

"But, you faced it before." Chris said walking into the attic.

"Yes, but this is different." Buffy replied. "Last time I took an army of teenage girls and marched them into hell, literally. That is why there is now a huge crater where Sunnydale once stood. We need to be prepared. At least now we know what were facing."

"Prepared how?" Wyatt asked.

"The first doesn't have a form, it can take on the form of any person who's died." Buffy explained. "Meaning Leo, Kyle, Cole and Myself."

"Um, what about Me, I died in an alternate reality, and Phoebe died in the future they avoided, and Chris..." Paige trailed off.

"Honestly, I don't know. So, just be on your guard and be prepared, it will take the form of people you loved and do it's best to hurt you." Buffy replied.

"Maybe we should contact the council." Kyle began.

"No." Buffy interrupted. "I don't want them involved not, again. But, we will need the sycth. It's all we have right now."

"I'll go." Kyle said.

"So, you beet the first with an army of teenage girls?" Piper asked.

"Well, an army of Slayers, remember the spell, I had you reverse. But, it wasn't us, not entirely, A champion of good, he sacrificed himself." She replied sadly.

" Just remember in every victory, there is also great loss." Kyle said quietly.

"What?" paige asked.

"It's what they told me. I wasn't sure what they meant, but now I think it means that..." He trailed off.

"One of us has to die." Buffy finished for him.