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equal place
change
equal time change but same place
equal
thoughts or telepathic
conversations
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Willow yawned in the drivers seat, she read the sign that said welcome to Colorado. Giles noticed this and offered take the wheel from the exhausted Red head.
"Thanks Giles, I'm suddenly really tired" She said between yawns. And headed to a cot to lay down.
"Tis expected Miss Rosenberg, you did drive through Utah" Wesley pointed out. That just made Willow feel even more exhausted. And she managed a small smile for him before she fell to the ground with a large thud.
"Willow!" Cordy yelled, she had just opened her privacy curtain when she saw Willow fall to the ground. She rushed to her side cradling the girls head in her lab.
"She's fine" Fred managed. "Just exhausted herself to much, she has been up for nearly two days in a row, that would take it's toll on anyone even a witch" She stated as a matter of fact.
Angel came running out of the bedroom when he heard his seer yell Willow's name in distress. In nothing but a wife beater and a pair of black slacks he had on from yesterday.
"Let me have her Delia" Angel said, as he kneeled down to scoop up the petite girl into his arms.
"You can't take her into the back" Dawn said coming down the stairs slowly. "Buffy's still back there, and I'm not sure I trust her just yet" Dawn said as Spike showed up a few steps behind Dawn.
"We can't place her onto a cot" Angel said.
"Why not?" Spike scoffed "She's not any better then the rest of us, what makes her so special that she can't sleep in one of the cots!" Spike glared at his Sire who was holding the witch like they were newly weds.
"Because I said so Boy" Angel growled, morphing into his game face and sneering. Spike just raised an eyebrow at his sire and laughed.
"White Knight to the rescue, By the way pops you have sex hair" Fred and Cordy stifled there laughs at Spike's remark, then laughed harder when Angel turned his head to glare at them with his yellow eyes.
Dawn continued into the small room and went to the kitchenette and started pouring some cereal for breakfast. Spike stepped past his sire, a smug grin on his face, not saying a word because he knew his pointed stares at Willow then up to his sire conveyed his sarcastic message well enough.
Angel headed up the stares his errant Childe had just stepped off. Fred jumped up and grabbed some extra blankets and a few pillows, and followed her boss's lead.
"Oooo, Oh" Wesley jumped up spilling a cup of coffee that had been on the table. "Oh dear terribly sorry about that" He apologized as he tried to stop the liquid from spreading out with his hands, succeeding in making him look silly.
Dawn threw a few paper towels over the puddle, and when Wes looked up from his attempts she smiled warmly and then turned back to making her breakfast, Wesley blushed.
"Oh, anyway, yes" Wesley continued, Spike just raised his eyes and made a head motion that said 'so' "I found a way to protect Buffy from the Dream Tracer effect"
"Really!" Giles piped up taking his eyes off the road for more then a second and causing the entire bus to swerve a bit.
"Keep your bloody eyes on the road, are you trying to kill us watcher!" Spike yelled.
"Isn't it your bedtime Spike" Giles replied snippily.
"Right it is, seeing as the sun's up an all, night then" Spike turned to the cot Cordy was in earlier and proceeded to lay down, and just before he closed the privacy curtain, Dawn glanced his way, and he wiggled his brows suggestively and blew her a kiss. Causing Dawn to blush a deep red and pointedly focus on eating her food.
"didn't put up much of a fight did he..." Giles contemplated in all.
"Not worth wastin' my cunning and witty comebacks on a pounce tis all" Spike yelled from behind his curtain.
"Ahh there's the Spike we all know and love to hate" Giles muttered under his breath.
"I heard that ya know" Spike yelled back "Bullock"
"So anyone else hungry?" Dawn asked distractedly, pointedly looking anywhere but at Spike's closed privacy curtain.
"No thank you though" Wes supplied, then went and sat in the front seat next to Giles.
"Fine I'll eat by myself then" Dawn mumbled to the empty table placing the bowl down and getting herself a glass of OJ.
"I'll eat with you" Cordy said, setting out a empty bowl and picking up the cereal box with a small smile.
"Thanks" Dawn replied, pushing the small corn balls around with her spoon, smiling up at the seer when she sat down next to her.
"They got her settled on a pull out cot" Cordy said offhandedly.
"Oh, Willow" Dawn said realizing with the x-cheerleader was referring to "will she be ok?" She asked worry lacing her voice.
"Fred say's so, but Angel wont leave her side till he knows she's really going to be all right" Cordy replied, sitting down with her own spoon and diggin' in "we really need to stop at a grocery store soon, these are stale"
"Only a little" Dawn agreed "Xander keeps eating all the good stuff" she said a bit more angry.
"Sounds just like the Xander I know" she laughed in response.
"So what's up with Angel and Willow?" Dawn asked again, trying to edge in the question without the seer realizing what she had asked. Unfortunately for her Cordy was still very alert for a yawning woman.
"Nothing you should concern yourself with, or bring up around your sister for that matter in the state that she is in" Cordy said giving Dawn a stern look.
"On that note then, how is my sister, and before you say it's none of my business it is! Im her blood, literally"
Cordy rolled her eyes at Dawn's whining antic's "I really don't know, and If I did I wouldn't tell you, it's not my place"
"Geeze what happened to the annoying, big mouth, gossiping tell all my sister is always talking about" Cordy raised her manicured eyebrows at that statement.
"People change" Cordy responded defensively.
"So I noticed" Dawn said through a mouthful of cereal.
"So , I figure we can
help Miss Summers by linking her mind to a stable persona other then
herself" Wesely said, looking back down at the book to confirm,
that he was correct, to himself.
"And just who should we link
her to then" Giles said a bit angry "It's not like we have the
most stable people here, ones a seer, two are dead, one's a key,
ones a x-demon, one's a Witch..." Wesely interrupted him before
Giles could continue
"That still leaves us with you, me, Fred, and Xander"
"Well I think we can both agree that we are not linking the Buffy to me or you, and I don't trust Xander's mind" Giles said matter-of- factly.
"So I'll go ask Fred then" Wesely said, standing. He toppled over a bit when Giles hit another pot hole. "Yes, well then, we shall converse about this later mr. Giles"
Fred was upstairs sitting next to her boss who was also sitting on the floor next to Willow's cot keeping a close eye on her every movement.
"Fred, I need to speak with you if you have a moment" Wesely asked nervously, causing Angel to turn around and look at him almost as if to study his intentions.
"Um- sure" Fred made a move to get up but Wesley motioned her to stay. Walking up next to her and taking a seat on the matted ground himself.
"We've found a way to stop Glory from entering Miss Summers mind scape during dreams"
"Buffy."
"Excuse me?" Wes asked, turning his head in Angels direction.
"Call her Buffy, She's earned it from us" Angel stated again, a little forlorn.
"Uh" Wesely wasn't quite sure how to react to Angels demand.
"That's such a good thing, that you've found a way to help Buffy" Fred said excitedly, hoping to dray the conversation away from the way that it was going. Needless to say it worked.
"Oh yes, well, it is a very good thing, only problem is we uh...well we need a stable human mind to link her mind with, someone able to keep her level per say when she's sleeping" Wes stated, not looking at Fred.
"Oh" Fred said contemplative.
"What kind of Human?" Angel asked, sensing Wesley's impending question.
"Er-well, someone that doesn't have a underliance in there brain waves, such as magical powers" Wesely said, motioning his hands to the sleeping witch.
Angel did the mental calculation in his head, ruling out practically everyone, then glared at Wesely. "Why not you or Giles" Angel asked suspicious of his watcher.
"Me and Giles are older individuals, the link between us would stress our brains to much" Wesely paused, thinking about how to explain this simpler "Our brain would be to weak to maintain the link like a younger brain" then he rushed to explain himself further "besides Watchers and Slayers already have a strong bond, adding to it could be detrimental to both the slayer herself and the presiding watcher".
Angel nodded his understanding, still not pleased at the predicted outcome.
"Soooo" Fred started slowly, her eyes widening a bit "You want me to be linked to Buffy's mind"
Wesely turned his head back to face Fred's quickly, eyes wide. "Why-uh-well that is, if you were willing to the idea, yes that was the plan" Wesely hung his head low, worried about her initial reaction.
"What are the repercussions" Fred asked, rolling the idea round in her head.
"Well this isn't anything like Willow's and Angel's link.." Wesely started but was cut off by a Fred like squeal interruption.
"Angel and Willow have a link!" She nearly shouted in shock and astonishment.
Angel growled loudly, effectively silencing Fred, and then glared at Wesely demanding an explanation.
"Don't growl at me, Giles informed me of yours and miss Rosenbergs... situation, solely because it sounded familiar to this situation that we are currently in" Wesely paused to take a calming breath, his face turning red from his anger "I am in my rights of knowing, if it had anything that could be remotely connected to this situation" He finished in a 'so there' voice.
"They have a connection?" Fred asked again.
"Yes. But it has nothing to do with this current conversation." Angel said sternly, effectively ending the current area of conversation. Fred pouted in disappointment.
"See Fred, it's like this, the link will be as you would say a two way street" Wes thought again. "How do I explain this" he breathed out again, as Fred waited patiently for him to continue "You will have some of Buffy's slayer powers from what me and Mr. Giles have gathered and Buffy will have access to some of your knowledge"
"I'll be a slayer then?" Fred said in deep thought.
"Hypothetically, yes" Wesley agreed.
"Wouldn't that disrupt the slayer line of calling and all that?" Fred asked again.
"Technically your not a real slayer, you would just be able to tap into some of Buffy's powers, in all essence they are still Buffy's powers" Wes finished nervously.
"But I would still be a slayer" Fred stated in awe again.
"And Buffy would hypothetically be a genius" Wesely said, a small smile beginning to crack its way onto his features.
"So If she's tapping into my knowledge, well per say" Fred began "would I temporarily not have access to that information?" Fred asked again, turning all the implications, both good and bad around in her mind. Wesely could practically hear the wheels in her beautiful head turning.
"No actually, it would be like one brain but two bodies, but you would still have complete access and control over your own mind and actions" Wesely explained. "no one would be able to mind control or anything"
"So like a VIP all access pass, look, barrow, but no touchy" Fred finished.
"In essence yes" Wes agreed again.
"So how would that benefit Buffy by stopping the dream invasions?" Fred asked again, narrowing her eyes and studying Wes.
"When she is asleep you would have to be awake, drawing some of her essence into you, it would keep her mind anchored, and thus locked to outside invaders" Wes explained, fully expecting this question earlier "but it wont work if your both asleep at the same time, so you and Miss Sum..I mean Buffy, would have to work out a sleeping schedule"
"So drawing the essence in thing, she could train like Buffy with her powers, while Buffy is asleep" Angel asked, trying to follow the conversation and keep a watch on Willow.
"Not only while Buffy is asleep, Fred could actually train with Buffy as a slayer, its like how I explained it to Fred with her knowledge, it would still be there for her Buffy would just be borrowing"
"so Simply put?" Angel asked again, Wesely huffed out a frustrated breath.
"Fred would be borrowing her powers, but it wouldn't be hindering Buffy's full use of the same powers, it would be like having two slayers at the same time" Wes said slowly as if he were talking to a child.
"Three." Angel supplied, Wes cocked a head to the side "Faith, Fred and Buffy would make three slayers"
"But, I'm not going to be a actual vampire slayer" Fred protested.
"You would be close enough" Angel replied "I'm willing to be that if you were borrowing Buffy's powers that I would be able to sense you as if you were a slayer"
Fred crinkled her nose at Angel's statement, still not comfortable with vampires and there 'senses'. It was especially embarrassing when she had been first accepted by the gang and had a slight crush on the vampire in question. But now she had her eye on a rouge watcher.
"So how would we complete this, transaction, if you will?" Fred asked.
"We would need Willow to complete another spell" Wesely said sadly, looking at the poor witch who had been exhausting herself with all the spells she had been doing.
"Wesely, She can't do another spell of that magnitude" Angel protested angrily.
"I agree" Wesely said again sadly "She's performed more spells of magnitude that I can't even comprehend for someone who's only been practicing for a few years. So I agree it would be asking to much, but we cant risk Glory finding us through Buffy's dreams"
"I'll do it" Fred said quickly and with determination, then she bowed her head shyly "I-I mean I wouldn't mind"
"So when do I need to do this" Willow coughed a bit "spell"
"Willow" Angel turned his attention back to her completely, brushing some of her hair out of her sleepy looking face "Are you all right? you need to get some more rest, I was so worried".
Willow laughed slightly between some coughs at the dark haired vampires antics "I'm fine, my powers are just exhausted for awhile, but body wise I'm all miss rested up, and ready to go" Then she thought "well maybe not quite that last part, but my body can't handle anymore sleep"
"You weren't even asleep that long" Angel said worried "It's only been a few hours"
"Witchy body - don't need that much sleep after spells that large, keeps your body pumped on energy, I just need to take it super extra easy if you know what I mean, let the spell were down and then get more sleep" she said with a small smile.
"How long before you could perform some more spells?" Wesely asked inquisitively, causing Fred and Angel to glare at him, Angel even growled some more. Willow put a hand on his bicep.
"Don't growl" He stopped immediately "In a day or two, I still need to add you all to the protection spell, sorry I didn't do it sooner" Willow said her hands playing with the hem of the blanket that was partially covering her.
"No need to apologize, its entirely understandable, you've done enough already as it is" Wesely comforted her. "We'll I'll go inform Giles that in a few days we will be set to perform the procedure"
"What about Buffy's choice?" Willow demanded weakly.
"With all due respect, for the safety of us all, especially Dawn, she doesn't have a choice" Wesely stopped noting the anger in the witches eyes "But I shall keep looking for a less invasive option, and if any arise before your able to cast the needed spell, I shall gladly present it, until then,this is the only option we have and it needs to be done"
"I'm sure Buffy would agree" Fred said trying to comfort Willow, placing a hand on her shin to draw her attention.
"I agree with Fred" Angel said, looking at Willow sternly "If you were in Buffy's position, you would do it to protect everyone, especially if you had to do it to protect your own sister, don't worry willow she'll be more then willing to do it"
"I guess you may be right" she reluctantly agreed, all out of fight, her eyes starting to halfway close "guess I was wrong though, I Yawn seem to be real Yawn tired"
"Get some rest little one" Angel soothed, stroking her hair a few times "I'll be right here watching over you.
"Well I'll go inform Giles now" Wesely said getting up, and straitening his pants and shirt, dusting them off in the process.
"You don't need me here do you Angel?" Fred asked concerned for her colleague and friend.
"No I'll be fine"
"Ok, then I'll go with you Wes" She got herself up, turning to look at Angel again "are you sure?"
"Go
ahead" Angel reassured her. She said her goodbyes and followed
Wesely down the stairs.
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