Standing in front of Glory swinging a hammer over and over again made all the pain and tension of the last two months give her more fuel to add to her fire of hatred for this creature in front of her.

She had driven her self to the point of no return trying to work out where Cayden could be. She couldn't find one scrap of information and the dreams; well they only showed glimpses to keep her looking for him.

Dawn, well Dawn was somewhere behind her fighting Glory's minions with Willow, Faith, Giles, Harry and the order of the Phoenix. The Wizards were taking on the other Wizards and the less powerful were fighting off the minions.

She had been dead set against them joining her but in the end she had no choice, she needed them to fight off the others so she could distract Glory.

It was strange that she was back in Sunnydale, back where everything happened trying to protect her family again. Yes they found that Glory was back in Sunnydale with Voldemort standing beside her grinning that creepy smile when she strode in with the gang.

Dumbledore had so far managed to keep him away from Harry but she knew he couldn't hold him back forever.

She brought the hammer down once more when Glory changed shapes and morphed back into Ben. She sighed, this wasn't what was supposed to happen, she couldn't take a human beings life.

She looked down at him in disgust before she said "That's it, she's missed her chance, it's over.. She goes near me or mine again…." He gasped in pain as he said "We won't.

She nodded before rushing up the stairs in a race against time.

The flashes of how she could have found out earlier as to stop this came as she ran up those stairs.

They found out by coincidence only, nothing more. If it hadn't been for Faith's owl, well they never would have known.

However it was Xander, whowas someone that for some reason she had lost that close friendship they once had. Be it because of the distance or growing up. However he really came through in the end. He had been walking kind of early, patrolling with Faith when they had seen the tower being built. Faith didn't think anything of it and kept walking but Xander had stopped and told her to go on while he checked it out.

Faith being Faith shrugged it off and kept going but Xander stumbled right into the strong hold of Glory and dozens of Death eaters.

Tears sprung up at the meeting they had mere hours ago as the found out about Xander.

They had received an owl from Faith maybe 5 hours ago stating they needed them now. A port key was the quickest method and when she arrived the sight would remain in her mind for years to come.

Flashback

When she entered her old house she mentally prepared herself for the worst but when she entered nothing prepared her for the sight in front of her.

Faith held in her hand a bandage so soaked in blood that it seemed every time she rinsed it, it just became bloodier. In front of her, she couldn't even recognise who it was, he was definitely a he but bruises upon bruises donned his body, his arm looked to be badly broken but set back into place.

She turned her attention questioningly to Faith who looked at her and said "He didn't want to go to the hospital, said he had to talk to you first." She raised an eyebrow and said "Who is it? Who did that?"

The person however turned to her in a painful way and said "Buffy, Glory is in town, with a bunch of stick pointing people, they have Cayden."

Buffy stared at him in Horror "XANDER!"

End of Flashback

He was in the hospital now. Internal bruising, 4 broken ribs, an arm fractured in three places, one of his fingers had been cut off and his leg was badly broken. All in all he was lucky to be alive and none of them knew how he managed to get back to them alive.

His only thought was to tell her and for that she would be forever grateful to the powers that be that he was still alive. It took two more hours to assemble everyone at the house and ready them for battle.

Then one hour later they were in battle.

Now as she stood at the top of the tower staring in shock at the man standing holding a knife which had blood on it and staring at her with a grin. She heard Cayden give a groan of pain and everything in her went out to him and she assessed the situation before pulling out her wand and sending a stunning curse at him and then rushed to her brother.

She got to him in what seemed to be hours but was mere seconds. She untied him quickly and got them away from the hole he was standing near.

At the edge of the stairs he stopped her and turned to look at the portal that was starting to open. She stared at him in shock and shook her head and said "Cayden, No ." He shook his head at her and said "I have to."

She shook her head knowing there had to be another way and said "No, You have to stay." She stopped for a second and suddenly had a thought and said "Wait, I could, our blood, it's.." He stopped and said "No, Buffy, you're the only one me and Dawn have left, I can't.. You can't."

She shook her head in determination and said "do you think I would let you do this. I just spent two months trying to save you; I'm not going to..." He stopped again and hugged and said "I know..."

He pulled back and stepped back and she sighed thinking he was going to let her save him but as she turned to look at the portal she heard "stupefy." And was suddenly unable to move.

He bent down and said "I'm sorry, Buffy, but Dawn needs you. Tell her I love her, and the others that I know this is what I am supposed to do. I wasn't meant to stay here in this world for so long, and it's ok, I got to know you guys and you're my family, forever. I love you."

He bent down and kissed her on the head before turning and running towards the portal.

As he jumped into the swirling mass, he could only smile as he knew they would be ok. Everything would be ok.

He gripped Buffy wand tightly in his hand without realizing it and with a flash the portal closed around him and he was gone.

Author note:

Yay I updated, don't kill me. You will understand soon enough, anyone who can tell me where I left the clue as to what is going to happen can have bonus points. I promise to email you back and tell you if you guess correct, but only if you guess correct. I hope you like it and don't hate it too much.