Willow paced the graveyard, her back to the others while she wiped tenderly at her swollen eyes. The tears had been coming harder lately and she tried to stifle the sobs as her arms swung at her sides in rhythm to the shovels that clanked behind her. One image kept passing through her mind, Terra. Terra…the moment her sweet paled face had been destroyed by the drops of blood that had splattered up from the gun wound. She shook her head to rid herself of the memory but as usual, it did not work. Over her shoulder, Willow saw Cordelia walking up behind her and tried to quicken her pace but was met with a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Why don't you go on home Will, you look tired." Cordelia prompted, tapping her lightly.
Willow turned and stared at her, her bloodshot eyes piercing through her friend's face. "Fine, I'm just annoying you guys anyway." And without waiting for a response she stalked off into the shadows of the cemetery.
"I really wasn't trying to be rude to her." Cord said, looking back at Buffy and Giles.
"She's just upset over Terra, but we'll work this out later. We have work to do." Buffy assured her before turning back to her work. As she looked down into the 6 foot grave they were digging up she threw her shovel down beside her and dropped down into the pit. "What exactly am I looking for?"
Giles bent over placing both hands on his knees before peering down into the darkness. "Well," he smiled, "Basically a rock."
She raised an eyebrow at him with a crooked grin on her face, "Umm well we've got about four hundred of those down here Giles."
"Okay I'll try to be more specific. It's quite large, purple, and it should have a kind-of white shimmer emitting from it." He corrected himself, seating himself with his legs hanging over the side of the grave.
Cordelia sat herself down beside him but looked around at the all the dirt with disgust. "Okay, like, why must everything have to be in yuckiness?"
"Oh Oh Oh! I found it…I think!" Buffy shouted, ignoring Cordelia's comment. She held out a mud-encrusted hand but was grasping something within it. Giles took it and held it up in the moonlight to examine it further.
He smiled and nodded his head before rubbing the stone against his shirt to remove the rubble. "Great, now we need to get this to Willow so she can do the disarming spell."
"Umm I don't, like, wanna sound stupid or anything but what exactly is she disarming it of?" Cordelia asked, fingering her hair nervously.
Giles and Buffy both turned their faces to her, looks of utter disbelief. "You came with us to look for an important magical relic and you don't even know what it does?" She mumbled, shaking her head. "It's the stone of Shamara, basically who ever controls it controls mankinds free-will. Angel and Drucilla are after it so we came here to find it and disarm it before they get their dead hands on it."
"I think my hands are just find, thanks."
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