Author: Jadelyn Ja Lee

Story: Journey to the Past

Pairings: Angel/Willow, Kim/Spike, Buffy/OC, Xander/OC, Oz/OC, Dawn/Andrew, Dawn/Connor, Faith/Robin

Disclaimer: I do not own Angel, Willow, or Buffy; they are the property of Joss Whedon and the WB. I similarly do not own the Power Rangers. They are owned by Disney and Saban Entertainment. Anything you do not recognize and is not from either show is of my own imagination.

Author Notes: This is a continuation one-shot from my original one-shot A Friend for Angel, and its sequels, Leaving the Past Behind, Found Again, and From Out Of The Blue. You don't necessarily have to read those to understand this but it might help if you did. This is a crossover between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Power Rangers.


2063

Sunnydale, California

Angel sighed as he looked at the waters rippling over Memorial Lake. He had come here after the funeral, not being able to bear the sight of them lowering the aged Slayer into the ground. Buffy had broken all records of the past. She had died for the final time, surrounded by her surviving family and friends, in her bed at home. She'd been eighty-two years old and the last of the Sunnydale Scoobies to publicly die. Her husband Marc had preceded her in death by three years.

Willow had been turned in an apocalypse in 2009. For only the second time since they had met, Xander and Angel had agreed on something and refused to let Willow be staked. They had used the curse that Willow had created to anchor his and Spike's souls on the redhead herself. Since the curse had been performed the day after she had been turned, she had none of the horrible memories he did. After she had been given her soul back, the petite redhead had disappeared for several months with Angel and Spike. Only Xander, Dawn, Buffy, Giles, and Kimberly had known where they were. When the three vampires had returned, Willow had learned to accept her new position in life.

A few years after Willow had been turned; they'd gotten an invitation to Oz's wedding. He'd found love in a half-demon woman he'd met in Tibet. They had been married only seven years when Oz had been killed by a rogue watcher, left over from Travers days. His daughter, Willow, had gone on to become a Grammy award winning music producer who had a habit of slaying vampires and other odd demons on the side. She had married Xander's son Jesse and they had seven kids who were remarkably like their grandfathers.

Xander himself had died in a car accident in 2030. His wife, a quarter demon named Shayna, had died twenty years after her husband. They're three daughters, Anya, Cordelia, and Tara, were, ironically enough, a Slayer, a Seer, and a Wicca. His son was a successful Watcher to his sister and three other Slayers. Xander had been extremely proud of his kids, all of whom were married and had families of their own.

Dawn was still around, looking barely older than twenty eight. They'd discovered a couple years after the final battle of Sunnydale that the young woman still held trace quantities of the Key's powers. Those powers enabled her body to slow the aging process. Dawn had never officially married because of the aging business, but everyone knew that she and Andrew had been deeply in love before he had been killed during an assault on the slayer school at the age of thirty two.

Faith had died closing the Cleveland hellmouth down for good in 2015. Unlike Sunnydale, only half the city was destroyed and the scientists of the world still weren't positive what had happened. Faith's husband Robin, had also died in that battle, as did Rona and Kennedy. Vi was still around, but officially retired from slaying even though at seventy-five, she could kick the newbies butts.

Gunn and Illyria had both died in the final battle in LA. Spike and Angel had then traveled to Cleveland where they had been taken in by a somewhat distraught Faith. Until they had shown up in Ohio, the Scoobies thought the two had died in a battle they had had no hope of winning on their own. It was only the intervention of several allies Angel had made over the years that turned the tide of the battle. Jhiera and Nora had died but their memories lived on in the form of a statue in the garden of the Hyperion.

Spike was also still around and very much smitten with Kimberly. After meeting her for the first time, Spike had kept in contact with Kim through the internet, phone calls, and several very long letters. When the beach blonde vampire and Willow had disappeared in 2010, no one had any idea where they had gone. It was only Giles being informed by the England coven that another vampire had been ensouled that they figured out Spike and Willow had traveled to Angel Grove to help the terminally ill gymnast. The two vampires had refused to lose another friend from a brain tumor. Kim and Spike were amusing to watch; they constantly bickered over the smallest little things but both were happy with how their lives had turned out.

Spike and Kimberly were the ones who first discovered that Angel was slowly falling for his ex's best friend. They had prodded Buffy who had noticed the attraction of her best friend had for her ex, but hadn't seen Angels' attraction for her best friend. The two vampires and the slayer had set the two up on a blind date. Although stunned that Spike, Kimberly, and Buffy had figured out their feelings, the two vampires had had a great time. Knowing that his first love, his "little sister," not to mention his son Connor approved, had helped Angel immensely when he asked Willow out for a second date.

Connor, like Dawn, had stopped aging at twenty-five, this time because of his heritage. Calling on old contacts, they had discovered that the son of the two vampires would be immortal unless staked in the heart or beheaded. Connor, knowing that with his skills he could be a viable asset to the protection of the Slayers and the watchers, had joined up with Angel and his family. It was Connor who had helped Dawn get over Andrew's death and it surprised no one that they had become lovers. At last, a Summers and a McLaren had found love.

Giles had passed on at the age of seventy-two, weary from years of never-ending battles but strengthened with the knowledge that until they were dust, Angel, Spike, Willow, Kimberly, Dawn, and Connor would watch over the Slayers and keep the Watchers Council in check.

"Angel? Are you okay, the others are worried." Willow's soft voice came from behind him. He sighed.

"I don't know, Wills. She was my first love. And now she's gone." He told her. Willow bit her lip.

"She's in heaven though…with her mom, Xander, Giles, everyone, even Cordy." The redhead reminded him. He smiled when he realized she was right. She silently slipped into his lap and rested her head on his chest. Wrapping his arms around her, the two vampires looked over the lake, with the artificial island in the center that no one but former scoobies could see.

The island had been Kim's idea when they found out that Oz had wanted to be buried as close to Sunnydale as possible. It was a mixture of metal and earth with metal caskets that held wooden caskets that the former scoobies sat in. Later that day, Willow, Angel, Spike, Kimberly, and Dawn would move Buffy from the grave they had bought her in LA to her place on the island. There were places for all of them, including those they had lost before the final battle and during it. Willow knew that there were even places set aside for the four vampires when they turned to dust. Whoever was left would take their remains to the island and by unspoken agreement, the final one would dust him or herself. A special incantation that Willow had created made it so that when the last of those who created the island died, the island itself would disappear. It would exist in a subspace pocket created specially over the lake that the US government had deemed a memorial to the fallen of the Sunnydale Earthquake.

Riley had found out about the island from Buffy and had convinced one of his superiors to make the lake a landmark, dedicated to the memory of those who had died in the earthquake that had destroyed the town. Of course, no one except Riley, Sam, Graham, Riley's superior officer, and the president of the United States knew the true reason it was made unswimmable; so no one would find the island created for the fallen heroes. After everything the US government had done to the scoobies in life, the President and those that had followed him, felt it was only right that they not be disturbed in death.

"Hey." Kim's voice came from behind the two vampires. They glanced back and saw the former gymnast, her lover Spike, and the ageless Connor and Dawn coming down the path to the hidden dock. Willow smiled sadly.

"She's gone?" she asked. Kim nodded as Spike pulled her down onto his lap next to Angel. Dawn and Connor settled on Angel's other side.

"We can transfer her tonight. Riley said he'd be there to help." The former gymnast told her. Willow nodded, placing her head back on Angel's shoulder.

After Sam and Graham had died in a surprise demon attack in Borneo in 2026, Riley had felt lost. He'd tried drinking himself into oblivion to no avail. When Buffy had gotten the call from the hospital that Riley had nearly died from alcohol poisoning, the scoobies had hauled him to England where he had been rehabilitated by Kim, Willow, Dawn, and the slayer herself. He was nearly ninety and it was no secret he'd be gone soon. Kim, Willow, and Dawn had talked about it and they suspected the former commando would let go of life and die peacefully in his sleep within the week.

The six individuals watched as the sky in the east gradually lightened. Just before sunrise, the four vampires, the Destroyer, and the former key moved into the house they had built next to the lake. They all settled in their respective rooms for the day, knowing that come sundown, the slayer would be laid to rest for the final time.