Chapter 4: The Harvest Part 1

The wolf leapt at Luke knocking him back and away from Buffy and Faith.

~ Go, ~ came a voice inside Faith and Buffy's head. ~ I'll be right behind you once I deal with this vampire. ~

Faith helped Buffy to her feet and not wanting to question the mysterious voice in her head she helped her sister out of the mausoleum.

Marie, the wolf, leapt at Luke again and grabbed his throat in her jaws and ripped it out. He made a gurgling sound as she grabbed his head in her jaws and then ripped his head from his shoulders, decapitating him.

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Rei had watched Buffy and Faith run from the mausoleum after the wolf had entered. She quietly rushed over to the entrance and watched as the wolf dusted the vampire by ripping its head off. "Seems she is definitely on the good side."

~ You would be correct. ~ came a voice in Rei's head.

She looked around as the wolf exited the mausoleum.

~ Greetings Rei Mori. I am Marie Danvers, I am a werewolf and a witch. That is how you are hearing my throughts. I'm utilizing a telepathic spell. ~

"You are the one that was named the Green Witch," Rei said her eyes wide with realization, "by the Navajo."

~ Yes. We must find Buffy, Faith, Willow, Xander, Jesse and my niece. ~

Rei nodded in agreement. She watched as Marie sniffed the air and then took off into the woods.

"You can smell them can't you?" Rei asked.

~ Yes. Amongst my Pack, myself and my sister are the best trackers. ~

Suddenly they heard Willow scream from just up ahead. "No! Nooo! Get—off—"

They burst upon the scene just behind Buffy and Faith, they could see Willow on the ground, wrestling with a vampire and Savannah was wrestling with another two.

Buffy and Faith had yet to spot Savannah and were heading for Willow and the vampire.

Marie spotted her niece and leapt at one of the vampires catching his head in her jaws and ripping his head off. Savannah whipped out a stake and dusted the other.

Rei's eyes went wide at what she had just seen as she wondered was there three Slayers? How was that even possible?

Faith kicked the vampire wrestling with Willow in the face sending him sprawling. He gave a grunt of pain, then staggered to his feet, holding his nose and trying to get away. He turned to find Buffy waiting as she thrust a stake into the vampire's heart.

Buffy and Faith scanned their surroundings looking for Jesse and Xander. They heard a cracking sound followed by unmistakable scuffling, and they took off, leaving Willow still sitting there on the ground, her eyes huge with fright, her body trembling.

Marie looked around and noticed that Rei was gone. She turned and loped over to her niece and Willow.

~ Are you alright, Willow? ~

Willow looked around at the sound of the voice in her head. She then spotted the wolf coming toward her.

"It's alright," Savannah said. "This is my Aunt Marie. You met her today in history class, she's the new teacher."

~ I'm a werewolf and a witch. Come on we better go make sure Buffy and Faith are alright. ~

Willow nodded as they followed the path Buffy and Faith had taken.

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It didn't take Buffy and Faith long to find Xander. He was being dragged away by two more vampires.

~ Buffy, Faith, I am Marie Danvers, the new history teacher. I am also a werewolf as well as a witch. That's how you are hearing my thoughts. I will give you the distraction you need to dust the vampires. ~

Suddenly a howl filled the night and the vampires turned to look at Marie. They turned back again, but Buffy and Faith stood there blocking their escape. It was easy to take them both out. With one quick punch, the sisters knocked them off their feet and they scrambled to get up and get away.

But they didn't scramble fast enough.

Grabbing a branch from a nearby tree, Buffy snapped it off and then broke it in two handing one piece to Faith. They charged the vampires, nailing them neatly through the chest.

Willow, followed by Savannah, ran up to Xander and knelt beside him, cradling his head in her arms. To Willow's relief he seemed to be coming to, and after blinking a few times, he frowned up at her, trying to get his bearings.

"Xander . . . are you okay?" Willow asked softly.

"Man . . ." Xander still seemed a little disoriented. "Something hit me . . ."

Buffy and Faith peered hard through the trees.

"Where's Jesse?" Faith asked.

For the first time Willow seemed to realize that Jesse was missing. "I don't know," she shook her head. "They surrounded us—he was really weak . . ."

"That girl grabbed him," Xander mumbled. "Took off."

~ Do you remember which way? ~

Xander looked at Marie and his eyes widened.

Savannah let out a sigh. "My Aunt Marie is both a werewolf and a witch."

"Oh," Xander said, "and I don't know."

"We'll find him. Right now we need to worry about Willow and Xander," Marie said as Buffy and Faith nodded. "And I think you should take Willow and Xander to Giles. They will have questions."

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"We're back," Savannah called out as she and Marie walked through the front door.

"Well?" Anne asked as she and Clay walked out of the living room.

"Introduced myself," Marie said. "Literally. Your past self as well as Willow and Xander know I'm a wolf and a witch."

"What!" Clay said. "Their humans. And you let them know you're a wolf?"

Anne turned on Clay and growled. "We have Jeremy's permission to tell Willow, Xander and Giles. They know about the supernatural. Willow is Dawn's granddaughter, several generations removed. She's a witch and will be coming into her powers next year. Giles is my watcher. And Dawn's and my surrogate father. Or have you forgotten where Logan's middle name came from?"

"No I haven't forgotten. Though I didn't know Jeremy had given permission to tell them," Clay said.

"He gave us permission," Dawn said, "because he knew they would have to be told eventually. You have to remember as far as Giles is concerned Buffy is a Slayer. Once Willow and I activate the Slayers in seven years, he will be send them to us to be trained. Anyways they have to be told. It would have been preferable to hold off till Buffy and I return to the year that we left. But that wasn't an option."

Clay nodded. He didn't like it. Humans' knowing about the Pack was against Pack Law. Of course he knew that Buffy was going to change Pack Law when she took over from Jeremy. Besides if Jeremy had said it was okay then who was he to question the Alpha, the Alpha-elect and the Beta-elect.

"There is another thing," Savannah said. "They may know there is something different about me if they saw me fighting two vampires at once."

Anne let out a sigh as she looked to her daughter, who was the first ever hereditary Slayer/witch hybrid. "We'll cross that bridge if or when we come to it. Till then don't lead on that you might be a Slayer."

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"Mr. Giles," said Quentin Travers from the other end of the phone. After Giles had left the Bronze he had returned home to call the Watcher's Council and find out why Rei Mori's message had not been passed on. "Rei Mori is dead."

"She is an immortal," Giles said.

"True, but as far as this branch of the Council is concerned she is dead and no longer a Slayer."

"Understood. Still what she had relayed to the council may be beneficial," Giles argued.

"Very well, and I am not saying it is, Rei Mori found out that Joseph Heinrich Nest is still alive."

"Nest," Giles said. "He and his followers call himself the Master."

"Correct," Travers said. "How this information pertains to your Slayers though I have no idea and that is why the Council decided not to pass on the information as they could see no relevance."

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The next morning Buffy was heading for the library, Faith had already taken Xander and Willow there, when Flutie walked up to her. "Buffy," he said as a girl came up beside him. "This is Rei Mori, she's a new student. Since you have had a day to get acquainted with the campus, I felt you would be able to help her get acquainted with it as well."

Buffy looked at the girl shocked when Flutie said her name. How could this girl be Rei Mori? "How?" she asked when Flutie had walked away.

Rei smiled. "It's a glamour spell. I'm not a witch but one did teach me this spell. I'm here to help you and Faith. Did you talk to your Watcher?"

Buffy sighed and nodded. "He knew of you, yes. In fact he's talking to Willow and Xander right now explaining what happened last night."

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"This world is older than any of you know," Giles told Xander and Willow solemnly, spinning a globe for emphasis. "And contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise."

"For untold eons, demons walked the earth. Made it their home . . . their hell," Marie added.

Willow and Xander both listened intently.

"Yes. In time they lost their purchase on this reality," he continued, carrying an armload of books down the stairs, "and the way was made for the mortal animals. For man. What remains of the Old Ones are vestiges. Certain magics, certain creatures ..."

"And vampires," Faith added.

Xander stood up, clearly agitated. "Okay, this is where I have a problem; see, because we're now talking about vampires." He frowned. "We're having a talk with vampires in it."

"Isn't that what we saw last night?" Willow asked.

"No, those weren't vampires," Savannah quipped. "Those were just some guys in thundering need of a facial. Or maybe they had rabies—coulda been rabies. And that guy turning to dust . . . just a trick of the light." She ignored the look Xander gave her and regarded him with total understanding. "That's exactly what I said the first time Aunt Marie and my mom introduced me to a vampire."

"Oooh . . ." Willow murmured. "I need to sit down."

"You are sitting down," Savannah reminded her.

"Oh." Willow gave a vacant nod. "Good for me."

"So vampires are demons?" Xander went on, while Giles again tried to clarify.

"The books tell that the last demon to leave this reality fed off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human form possessed—infected—by the demon's soul." Giles handed Xander one of the heavy volumes. "He bit another, and another . . . and so they walk the earth feeding. Killing some, mixing their blood with others to make more of their kind. Waiting for the animals to die out and the—"

"—Old Ones to return," Marie finished just as Buffy and Rei walked through the library doors.

"As long as there has been demons, there has been the Slayer," Giles continued to explain. He looked to Rei and then Buffy.

"Rei Mori," Buffy said at the unasked question.

"And that would be a what?" Xander asked Giles.

"One girl in all the world—" Giles recited deciding he would talk to Rei in a few moments.

"Well actually two now," Faith interjected. "They also don't need the whole spiel."

"All right," Giles conceded, speeding up a little. "They hunt vampires, one Slayer dies, the next is called, Buffy and Faith are Slayers, the only fraternal twins to ever be called simultaneously, don't tell anyone." He stopped and drew a breath. "I think that's all the vampire information you need."

"Except for one thing," Xander spoke up. "How do you kill them?" He looked to Dawn and Savannah. "And who are you two?"

"You don't," Buffy corrected him. "Faith and I do."

"I am a witch, a very old witch. Older than I look. I drank from the fountain of youth over 200 years ago," Marie said. "I am also a werewolf. I was bitten 16 years ago." Giles gave her a look. "There is no need to worry. I am safe when Changed. I am in control of the wolf."

"I too am a witch," Savannah said remembering not to say anything about being a hereditary Slayer. "But I am not immortal like my aunt nor am I a werewolf."

"Jesse—" Xander started.

"Jesse's our responsibility. We let him get taken," Faith said indicating herself and Buffy.

Xander frowned. "That's not true."

"If you three hadn't shown up," Willow added loyally, "they would have ... taken us, too ... Does anybody mind if I pass out?"

"Breathe . . ." Savannah ordered her.

Willow nodded. "Breathe."

"Breathe," Savannah echoed.

Faith looked to Giles, "This big guy, Luke, he talked about an offering to the Master. I don't know who or what that was."

"Joseph Heinrich Nest," Rei said as everyone looked to her. "I'm slayer that died during the latter half of the seventeenth century and become immortal. He is called by himself and his followers, The Master. I was chasing him in nineteen thirty-seven when he disappeared. A source that appears to be reliable with the right motivation said he is trapped within the Hellmouth."

"Hellmouth?" Buffy asked.

"A mystical convergence centered in Sunnydale," Rei said.

"Then its possible," Faith said, "that this Master guy wasn't just feeding, which means Jesse may still be alive. Buffy and I are gonna find him."

Calmer now, Willow offered a suggestion. "This is probably a dumb question, but shouldn't we call the police?"

"Do you think they'd believe us?" Marie asked.

"We don't have to say vampires," Willow stammered. "We could say there was . . . a bad man."

Buffy shook her head consolingly. "They couldn't handle it if they did come. They'd only show up with guns."

"And guns are no use against vampires," Savannah added. "They will hurt yes, but they won't kill."

"You've no idea where they took Jesse?" Giles asked looking at Marie, Savannah, Faith and Buffy.

"Marie, Faith, Savannah and I looked around," Buffy said, "but ... soon as they got clear of the woods they could have just—" Buffy made a quick motion with her hand. "—whoom."

"Can they fly?" Xander looked surprised.

Marie shook her head. "They can drive."

"Oh."

"Also I tried smelling for him," Marie added. "There were too many scents in the area, both human and vampire. I couldn't tell Jesse's scent from the others. It's possible they hightailed it either the sewers or to a car."

Willow tried to think back. "I don't remember hearing a car."

"Well, let's take an enormous intuitive leap and say they went underground," Giles said.

"Vampires really jam on sewer systems," Buffy agreed. "You can get anywhere in town without catching any rays. I didn't see any access around there, though."

"Neither did I," Savannah said. "Aunt Marie?"

Marie shook her head.

Rei thought back and then shook her head.

Xander shrugged. "Well, there are electrical tunnels. They run under the whole town."

For a moment Giles considered this. "If we had a diagnostic of the tunnel system, it might indicate a meeting place. I suppose we could go to the building commission—"

"We so don't have time," Buffy cut him off.

"Uh, guys?" Willow said tentatively. "There may be another way."

"While you are searching this other way," Giles said. "Ms. Mori can I see you privately?"

Rei nodded and she followed Giles into his office.

"The Council …"

"I know," Rei said. "Even though I'm alive, I'm dead to them, I've been dead to them since Jyoti gave me the poison that brought about my first death."

"For that reason they did not pass on your information till I called them. They believed that Nest could not pertain in any way to Buffy and Faith," Giles said.

Rei sighed. "I should have figured. Though it doesn't surprise me. When I started having the dreams …"

"Dreams?" Giles asked.

"I'm underground, lost," Rei said. "Some underground chamber with a red pool. I also saw the Vampyr book."

"This book," Giles said taking said book off the self.

"Yes," Rei said with a nod. "I believe the dream maybe somehow connected to Faith and Buffy. That I was seeing things through their eyes."

"That is plausible," Giles said. "Slayers do get prophetic dreams and while the Council considers you dead, you are still a Slayer. You still have the abilities, correct?"

"Yes."

"If you have anymore, tell me. Consider me your Watcher."

"Which one?" Rei said with a laugh.

"Your chronicler, who is your current Watcher?"

"I don't have one," Rei said. "Though Joe Dawson has been keeping an unofficial account."

"I know Joe," Giles said. "I'll call him for your chronicles."

"There it is," Buffy said eagerly from the other room.

Rei and Giles walked back out into the library to find Willow sitting at the computer while everyone else gathered around her. They walked over and saw that on the screen was a complete map of the city's electrical tunnels.

"This runs under the graveyard," Willow explained, pointing to one in particular, but Xander shook his head.

"I don't see any access," Savannah said.

"So all the city plans are just open to the public?" Giles asked.

"Uh, well, in a way," Willow frowned a little sheepishly. "I sort of stumbled onto them when I accidentally . . . decrypted the city council's security system."

Xander's focus remained on the screen. "Someone's been naughty . . ."

"There's nothing here," Buffy sounded disappointed. "This is useless!"

"Wait," Faith said. "Luke came from behind us when we were in the mausoleum. He didn't come through the front door. We would have seen him, besides he would have had to pass by Marie."

"Savannah and I were just outside the door," Marie said. "He definitely did not pass by us."

"Which means the entrance to the tunnels is in the mausoleum."

"Are you sure?" Giles straightened.

"The girl must have doubled back with Jesse after we got out," Buffy said.

Xander stepped back, ready for action. "So what's the plan? We saddle up, right?"

"There's no 'we,'" Buffy corrected him. "Faith, Rei and I are Slayers and you're not."

"I knew you were gonna throw that in my face," Xander grumbled.

"Xander, this is dangerous," Rei said.

"I'm inadequate. That's fine. I'm less than a man."

Xander turned his back on her and walked off. With a sympathetic glance in Xander's direction, Willow appealed to Buffy, Faith and Rei.

"I'm not anxious to go into a dark place full of monsters, but I do want to help. I need to."

"Then help me," Giles replied without hesitation. "I've been researching this Harvest affair. Seems to be some sort of preordained massacre. Rivers of blood, hell on earth . . . quite charmless. I am fuzzy on the details, however, and it may be that you can wrest some information from that dread machine."

He paused, glancing from one uncomprehending look to another.

"That was a bit British, wasn't it?" he admitted, embarrassed.

Buffy smiled. "Welcome to the new world."

"I want you to go on the Net," Giles translated.

"Oh!" Willow brightened. "Yeah. Sure. I can do that."

"I'll help you," Savannah said.

"Then Faith, Rei and I are out of here," Buffy announced. "If Jesse's alive, we'll bring him back."

Giles stepped forward, his grave expression softening. "Do I have to tell you to be careful? Unlike Rei you two are not immortal."

Faith and Buffy met his eyes for a long moment.

And then they and Rei went out.

"Marie can I see you for a moment," Giles said as he led Marie into his office and closed the door behind him. "You said you and Savannah were at the door. That means …"

"That we already knew that the vampires had gone to that mausoleum for a reason," Marie said. "And that Luke had not passed us before Faith mentioned he came up behind them. You are correct. The thing is, Savannah and I were sent to protect Buffy and Faith from a potential threat that may not even come after them. In that regards we are given information from a reliable source on what is to come and we're not allowed to alter those events. Which means Buffy and Faith have to make the decisions they were originally to make without mine or Savannah's interference."

Giles nodded. "I see. So if you know something that can change an outcome. You can't reveal what it is till Buffy or Faith discovered it for herself. So for example if Buffy or Faith were potentially to die you would not say anything till it is too late."

"That is true. You know I wish I could change how things go. By the time Buffy and Faith are done they will deserve the rest they so crave. Everything must happen as it has been foreseen. There are reasons for it, reasons that will only be revealed at the appropriate time. Such as tonight, the sisters had to discover for themselves where the entrance to the tunnels were. For them it was a revelation. They are now on the path to embracing their destiny, with Rei at their side."

"With Rei, you knew who she was too?" Giles asked.

Marie nodded. "I met her about fifty years after her first death. She is one reason I have cast a glamour spell on myself. This is not how I really look."

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Savannah, Willow and Xander left the library and went out into the hall. The bell had rung and students were already filing into their classes.

"Murder, death, disaster," Willow mumbled, making a list in her notebook as they walked. "What else?"

"Paranormal, unexplained." Xander thought a minute, and then asked, "You got natural disasters?"

Willow gave him a nod. "Earthquake, flood . . ."

"Rain of toads."

Savannah rolled her eyes.

"Right," Willow said.

"Rain of toads." Xander's tone bordered on disbelief. "Are they really gonna have anything like that in the paper?"

"We'll put it on the search," Savannah said. "I doubt it will turn up though. Still anything that'll lead us to the Master and his vampires."

Xander looked grumpy. "And I, meanwhile, will help by standing around like an idiot."

"Not like an idiot," Savannah soothed him. "Just standing. Buffy and Faith doesn't want you getting hurt. The only reason Rei is going is because she is an immortal Slayer. If it weren't for the fact that Aunt Marie has classes to teach, I would have suspected they would have taken her along as well since she is not just a witch but a werewolf. Aunt Marie is stronger and faster than your average human.

They'd reached Savannah and Willow's class. The three of them stood side by side outside the door.

"This is just too much," Xander sighed. "Yesterday my life is like, 'Oh, no. Pop quiz.' Today—rain of toads."

"I know," Willow agreed, looking around at all the other students. "And everyone else thinks it's just a normal day."

"Nobody knows. It's like we've got this big secret."

"We do," Savannah said. "That's what a secret is. When you know something other guys don't." Her gentle sarcasm was totally lost on Xander.

"Right," he said. "Well, you two better get to class."

"You mean 'we.' 'We' should get to class," Willow said.

"Yeah."

"Faith and Buffy will be okay," Savannah reassured him. "Whatever's down there, I know they can handle. Besides with Rei, an immortal Slayer from the sixteen hundreds, they won't have much to worry about."

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In the library, Giles was on a quest as he poured over the ancient texts spread out upon the table, reading passages, pondering their various meanings. He'd been at it for some time now, and the look on his face was weary but still determined. He picked up yet another of his volumes, consulted it, and suddenly discovered something quite interesting.

He didn't notice that Marie had entered the library.

Giles peered closely at one particular passage. And then he began to translate it aloud, softly to himself, from the original Latin.

"'For they will gather, and be gathered. All that is theirs shall be his. . . . From the Vessel pours life.'"

Giles paused, repeating thoughtfully, "Pours life . . ."

"It has to do with the Harvest," Marie said as he looked up at her. "Not entirely sure what though."

Giles nodded as Marie sat beside him and they studied the engraving on the facing page of the book. The picture showed a hideous man-beast with his hand extended, commanding a throng of villagers. All of the villagers were bleeding. Below them, in what might have been hell, a demon glowed with power.

Upon the bestial one's forehead, a crude symbol had been drawn. A star with three points.

Giles squinted behind his glasses, peering intently at yet another passage. Once more he began to read.

"On the night of the crescent moon, the first past the solstice, it will come."

He straightened up. Realization dawned upon his face as he looked at Marie.

"Of course," he mumbled. "Rei's source was correct. Tonight."

"Yeah," Dawn said, "by the looks of it. I've been feeling an increase of mystical energies today. But I didn't know for exactly what."

"So your source, doesn't tell you everything?" Giles asked.

"No," Dawn said. "It's kind of a security precaution so that Savannah and I can make sure things continue as they should but at the same we can't influence those same things more than needed."

"Inadvertently causing you and your niece to walk a fine line," Giles said as Dawn nodded. "Help too much and you can change things from what the Seer tells you. Which could change the outcome of events even further down the road. Help too little and the same result can be had."

"Correct," Dawn said.

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"Are we going to the Bronze tonight?" Harmony asked Cordelia.

Savannah and Willow were in computer class finishing up their assignments.

"No!" Cordelia burst out in total frustration. "It's supposed to find the syntax and match it. Or, wait ..."

Harmony kept her eyes on the keyboard, typing slowly. "Are we going to the Bronze tonight?" she asked again.

"No," Cordelia retorted. "We're going to the other cool place in Sunnydale."

Harmony gave her a blank look, and Cordelia sighed.

"Of course we're going to the Bronze! Friday night, no cover. But you should have been there last night."

Harmony frowned at their program. "I think we did this part wrong."

"Why do we have to devise these programs?" Cordelia asked irritably. "Isn't that what nerds are for?" She glanced at the desk beside them where Savannah and Willow was sitting. "What did they do?" she mumbled.

Harmony craned over to look at Savannah and Willow who were busy researching the Harvest having completed their work.

Harmony shrugged and looked at Cordelia. "Uh, they're doing something else."

Cordelia glared. "Okay," she said to Harmony. "And then 'Pattern Run,' right? Or 'Go To End.' That's it."

Harmony looked completely lost. "Maybe ... I think ..."

"Well, what does the book say?" Cordelia was practically out of patience. "So anyway," she went on, "I come out of the bathroom and she comes running at me with a stick, screaming, 'I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!' I swear."

"Who?" Jared asked.

With smug satisfaction Cordelia realized she'd finally hooked an audience.

"Buffy," she told him.

"One of the new girls," Harmony echoed.

Jared looked puzzled. "What's her deal?"

"She and her sister are both crazed!" Cordelia said.

"Did you hear about their old school?" Harmony asked conspiratorially. "Booted."

"I exhibit no surprise," Cordelia declared.

Jared leaned closer. "Why were they kicked out?"

"'Cause their psycholoony," Cordelia said.

"No, they're not," Savannah said, firmly and calmly as she turned to stare at them.

"What?" Cordelia leveled her with an icy gaze.

"Neither Buffy or Faith are psycho," Savannah said. "You don't even know them."

Cordelia's voice rose indignantly. "Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist? Do I horn in on your private discussions? No. Why? Because you're boring."

Savannah glared at Cordelia as her eyes went solid black and magical energy began to crackle around her.

"Uh, Savannah," Willow said having noticed what was going on. "If you're done why don't we go to the library?"

Cordelia and the others turned back to their projects.

"There." Harmony sounded relieved. "I think the program's done."

Cordelia nodded. "Finally the nightmare ends. Now how do we save it?"

Willow was leading Savannah out the door. She glanced back and said, "Deliver."

"Deliver." Cordelia stared at the screen. "Where is that—oh!"

"Thanks," Savannah said as Willow noted her eyes returning to normal.

"Are you okay?" Willow asked.

"Yeah," Savannah said. "My magic tends to rear its ugly head when I get angry sometimes. When I was younger I was taught dark magick. I don't actively practice it, but it's in my system. It kind of runs in my family. My cousin delved into the dark magicks and got addicted. It nearly destroyed her. I grew up hearing her story."

"Why were you taught dark magicks?" Willow asked.

"My mom and I were captured by these people and separated from each other. I was just coming into my powers and another witch taught me dark magicks in an attempt to help get me free from our captors," Savannah said. What she had said was only partially true. The mother she was referring to was actually her adoptive mother. Anne, her birth mother, and she were reunited after Anne and Marie had been captured and they had escaped the complex together.

"Is that where you mom…" Willow said.

"Died, yes," Savannah said as she remembered Eve, her adoptive mother, who was killed by their captors.