Friends reunion
"So what'd ya think?" Cordy asks Angel, Angel frowns,
"Cordy, we've tried it before, what makes you think it'll be any different this time" Angel asks.
Cordy gets up from her seat in the living room and sits down on Angel's lap, he wraps his arms around her wait,
"Because I saw the gang tonight, they were sad, depressed... lonely, they need to be together again, and this time I think they all know that, nothing been the same since Buffy and Spike broke up, it's time for that to change, it's time to finish it, I want this over, I cant stand it anymore, my best of friends have divided into 3 different groups, I want my friends back I want us all to be happy again" when she finishes she is near tears, Angel strokes her hair on her back,
"Shh, babe, we'll get them back, I promise" Cordy looks up at him and gently plants a kiss on his lips,
"I love you" she whispers,
"I love you" he whispers back, she lays her head back on his shoulder as he continues to stroke her hair.
"So what'd ya think?" Ask Wesley, everyone around the table (Tara, Fred, Oz, Jesse, dawn, Connor) all nod their heads some look like their still thinking about it, but the others are all for it,
"Lets do it" Jesse says, Tara smiles at him then looks back at Wes,
"I'm in" she says,
"I'm in"
"I'm in"
"I'm in"
"I'm in"
Is all Wesley can hear around the table, when they all stop he smiles and nods,
"Good now all we need is for them to agree" he says, everyone around the table soon look doubtful, then Dawn waves her hands around to get everyone's attention, Connor who is sitting next to her grabs her hands,
"Sweety, we all want to keep our eyeballs" he says joking, Dawn smiles at him then rolls his eyes,
"I was gunna say don't look so doubtful, remember what Connor said before, Cordy and Angel have tried before yeh, but that means they'll be all for it, but as for the others, I dunno, but I know we definitely have two" she says cheerfully, Connor smiles at her and wraps his arm around her waist, she giggles and lays her head on his shoulder, everyone around the group, 'Ahhh' them and Dawn blushes which causes everyone to laugh.
"Ok so ready to leave?" Faith asks Buffy, they've been talking outside the Bronze for 10minutes now and its getting late, Buffy nods and looks back at Willow, Willow smiles sadly and follows, they head to Buffy's house.
"Ah Anya?" Willow says quietly from the back of the group, Anya turns round and waits for Willow, Xander is busy talking with Buffy and Faith so they don't notice the two lagging behind,
"Yeh Willow?" she asks, Willow sighs,
"Anya, do you ever wish we could be like we were before, you know with the gang and the sleepovers and everything?" she asks, Anya looks down,
"Yeh, it'd be nice to be able to talk to spike without Xander's big head getting any bigger" she says, Willow laughs sadly,
"I want us to be happy again, Buffy isn't happy and back at the Bronze Spike wasn't either"
"Well he did just get his face hit in by his ex" Anya exclaims, Willow, sighs,
"No before that, when Buffy and Faith were dancing, he saw and he looked hurt, sad... lonely" she explains, Anya looks shocked,
"Really? Wow, well what can we do, Buffy and Spike haven't spoken one nice thing to each other since the split" she says, Willow looks down in thought,
"We need help, we can get the gang... the old gang to help" she says sadly, Anya pats her shoulder,
"We can get the GANG to help" she says confirming, Willow smiles.
Next day,
Sunnydale High,
English Class.
Buffy and Willow are sitting by the wall of the class, Buffy in front Willow behind her, Buffy sits to the side so she can speak to Wilow, next to Willow Xander is sitting and in front of him Anya, in the middle at the back of the room, Tara, Oz, Jesse, and Dawn are sitting talking about their plan to get the gang back together, Tara is writing stuff down on a piece of paper,
"So who should we give it too?" Tara asks folding the paper up, Dawn looks over at Buffy and her 3 friends,
"Willow" she says, they all look at her,
"You guys saw her last night, she misses it just as much as we do" she explains, Jesse smiles,
"She's right, Willow" Tara nods
"Ok" she passes him the note and he gets up out of his seat.
Tara grabs another piece of paper and writes the same thing as the last on it, she looks up to see Jesse walking in between the two tables, he leans his head down to Xander,
"Yo Xand, do you get this man, this teacher is talking shit" he says, from behind he's putting the folded paper on Willow's desk luckily, Buffy had turned round, to look at the teacher writing something on the board, Willow sees the paper, and picks it up, she puts it in her lap, and unfolds it before reading it she looks back at Jesse,
"Nah man, I'm as screwed as you are" Xander says, Jesse nods,
"Ok no prob" he looks at Willow and smiles before walking back to his seat. Willow looks at the note in her hand and her face lights up, she turns round to face the group at the back of the room and smiles nodding her head, they all smile back, then start to talk together again,
"... Willow?" Buffy asks from in front, Willow turns round,
"Huh, yeh, Buff" she says, Buffy raises an eyebrow,
"You ok Wills?" she asks, Willow nods happily,
"Great" she says the happiest she's been for a long while, Buffy smiles and turns back round to her desk, Willow looks back to the group, and sees Oz looking at her she smiles sweetly and he smiles back.
"Here Jess your next period give this to Angel and Cordy" Tara says passing him the other piece of folded paper that she wrote th same thing down on, Jesse nods and puts the paper in his pocket.
The bell rings and all the students gather their things and leave the room, Tara and Oz have a free period as does Willow and Anya and Wes, as usual all the people with free periods head to the school lounge, Tara sits with Oz, when Willow and Anya comes up to them, Tara smile,
"Hey Willow" she says, Willow smiles,
"Hi Oz, Tara, so what's this plan Willow told me about I want in" Anya says sitting down on a couch opposite the one Oz and Tara are sitting at, Tara smiles at her and Willow sits down,
"Hey Oz" she says shyly, Oz smiles,
"Hi Willow" a silence falls the group,
"Hey, the plan, spill, don't have forever here people" Anya moans, the three friends laugh, and Tara begins to explain...
"Ohh that's very good, well done" Anya says cheerfully,
"Thanx now all we need is..."
"You" Wes says coming up to the group and sitting down, as he sits he points to Willow, her eyes widen,
"Me?" she asks, Tara nods,
"Buffy trusts you the most, so you're the only one" she explains, Willow fidgets a bit in her seat,
"Uh ok, I... I'll try, but lately Buffy been..."
"A bitch" Anya finishes, Willow frowns at her and Anya just shrugs,
"Well she has has" she moans,
"Willow, you can do this just do what we told you and everything will be fine ok?" Wes says, Willow smiles
"Ok"
In Maths class, Jesse, Fred, Dawn, Angel, Cordy, Spike and Gunn's next lesson the room is silent the teacher they have is very strict and everyone knows it, Jesse sits down near to Angel along with Fred and Dawn, Spike and Gunn sit near the window furthest from the door and Angel and Cordy sit at the back, while the teacher writes something on the board Jesse turns round and waves his hand at Angel, Angel smiles confused then he notices a piece of paper in Jesses hand, then he nods his head, Jesse nods understanding and throws him the paper, then quickly turns back round to face the board,
"What is it?" Cordy whispers, Angel looks at her after having read the note, he smiles, and passes her the paper, after reading it a huge grin appears on her face,
"Yay!" she yells but it sounds muffled, everyone in the class turn to stare at her along with the teacher who is furious for her interrupting his class, Cordy's face reddens slightly and she slumps in her chair,
"Sorry... cramps" she says, everyone quickly turns back around embarrassed for her and the teacher rubs his eyes and turns back to the board, by the window Spike chuckles and Gunn smiles, Jesses, Fred and Dawn all smile widely, Jesse turns back round, and Angel gives him a thumbs up, Jesse nods again in response letting him know he understands.
Spike watches from his seat, and raises an eyebrow confused, he looks at Gunn who is unaware of what is going on, Spike shakes his head and shrugs it of then turns back to the front of the class.
"Ok guys, we have Cordy and Angel" Jesse says plopping himself next to Tara, and wrapping an arm around her shoulders,
"An we have Willow and Anya" Tara says, Jesse kisses her cheek, Dawn sits on Connor's lap, she smiles happily,
"So this is gunna work?" she says more of a point-of-fact but still as a question, Tara looks at her,
"Hope so, I mean there's no plan B, so this is our best shot" she explains then looks at Wesley for confirmation, he nods, Fred is sitting on the floor leaning on Wesley's legs,
"Don't worry this'll work" she says hopefully.
Oz who is sitting in an armchair nods,
"Let us pray" he says jokingly to lighten the mood, everyone looks at him then bursts out laughing.
The bell rings and the halls are packed with students, Spike heads for his locker with Gunn walking beside him,
"So Spike what's been up with you today?" Gunn asks, Spike reaches his locker and opens it; he throws his books inside and turns to Gunn,
"Nothing," he says a little forcefully, Gunn raises an eyebrow,
"Hey man, chill," Gunn says putting his hands up in fake surrender, Spike chuckles at his actions, Gunn puts his hands down and sighs,
"Its Buffy init?" he asks, Spike looks at him quickly,
"What?!"
"Look man you've been stressed ever since last night at the Bronze," he says point-of-fact, Spike sighs then frowns,
"Listen Gunn, nothing's up, so drop it," he says slamming his locker, Gunn looks shocked,
"Ok Spike" he says dropping the issue, Spike walks of leaving Gunn watching after him, Anya whispers something to Willow as they walk out the class, she points to where Spike and Gunn where standing which now only consist of Gunn, Willow frowns in thought then sighs and nods her head, Anya smile, she leaves Willow and walks over to Gunn,
"Hey Gunn" she says friendly, Gunn smiles,
"Hi Ahn" Anya looks in the direction Spike left,
"What's up with Spike?" she asks bluntly, Gunn looks at her,
"I dunno, he's been like this since the Bronze last night" he answers Anya nods,
"Oh you mean since the argument with Buffy" she says point-of-fact, Gunn lowers his head,
"I dunno, I mean its been 5 years now, and they're still at it, but last night that was the first time he brought up the nightmare's she used to get and I think he regrets that" he says sadly, Anya nods again, then smiles,
"Hey Gunn, how do you feel about getting the old gang back?" she asks Gunn lifts his head,
"You mean like how things were, Anya Angel and Cordy tried to get the gang back for 4 years..."
"Yes but this time will work" she butts in, Gunn looks confused,
"How?" he asks, Willow comes up behind Anya, Anya wraps an arm around her neck and they both smile, Gunn raises his eyebrow looking even more confused.
"Good news, Anya here had a little talk with Gunn, he's in" Willow says pushing herself onto the wall outside the school, Anya smiles happy with herself, Tara, Oz, Jesse, Connor, Dawn, Wes and Fred all smile then look at Anya,
"H..how'd you get him to agree?" Tara asks, Anya's smile widens,
"Easy, all he had to know was we had a way to get the gang back and he agreed he misses the old times like all of us" she says, Connor frowns,
"Almost all of us" he says looking over at Xander, Faith and Buffy walking out of the school building, Willow jumps down of the wall,
"Connor, they miss it too, they'll just never admit it" she says, she smiles to the group,
"I'll meet you guys at Tara's tonight bye," she says waving to them then walking over to Buffy and Xander.