Chapter 10: It seemed that no matter where they went if they stayed for any length of time Angelus and co. found them. It was only their ability to travel during the day that kept them ahead of their stalkers for any length of time. Until finally, in Germany Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla caught up to them quicker than even they could have predicted, hiring people to snag Willow while she was taking a walk along the river. They tried to knock her out but she came to much faster than she should have. They tied her up and delivered her to Angelus, who immediately was carting her far away by coach. Willow was in close quarters with Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla. Angelus was talking about making her family, but Drusilla giggled and said that that was impossible because to do that you'd have to be able to kill the tree and she can't die. Putting that theory to the test Angelus sucks Willow's blood without a care of whether or not he hurt her. Not only didn't she not die but the bite wound closed up almost immediately. This gave Angelus ideas. He could punish her very harshly indeed for having run from him for so long. He didn't like having to chase his supper. But before he got to that he started asking her all kinds of questions about why it was that she couldn't die? Was it witchcraft? Was she a new kind of vampire? Was she a demon of some kind? What was it? She tasted human. Willow hoped that Spike would find her soon.

Chapter 11: Spike searches for Willow. He finds someone who knows both German and English and pays that person to help him find his girl. He's more worried about her than he can say. She might not be able to die, but she can be hurt. He was already thinking of the kinds of things that a sicko like Angelus would do to her once he discovered her capacity to heal. He could just see her head cut off and in a box, the nerve endings in unstopping pain until they are reattached. Spike shudders at the thought. There were so many things Angelus could do to her.

Angelus takes Willow to Holland where he immediately finds a house to keep her in. They are in the basement and Darla and Drusilla laugh as they leave her alone with him. He starts to torture her, beginning with sticking needles in her eyes. Needle after needle after needle.

Chapter 12: Spike to the rescue. Spike hires some people to help him knowing full well that not all of them will make it and he rescues Willow. This should be a heavy action scene. Angelus should get wounded. But disaster strikes and Darla is killed. The timeline is forever altered. (Ripple effect of this Darla was the one who captured the gypsy girl for Angelus to feed off of and without that Angel never gets his soul.) Willow and Spike are horrified and not knowing what else they can possibly do they run.

Rather than taking transits like they have in the past, they ride by horseback all the way to Romania. They have to learn that curse.

Chapter 13: Willow is traumatized. She has nightmares about losing her eyes and going blind. She dreams about so much more that Angelus could have done to her. She dreams about everything that he did do to her. Every cut is relived. Every break. It is all Spike can do to hold onto her at night. He tries to sooth her through it but she doesn't seem to be getting over it. Just because the wounds don't last doesn't mean they don't hurt. And when she was found her hands were hanging from the wall seven feet away from her. She was having nightmares about someone hacking her to bits and putting her in boxes forever. Eternal pain. It was really starting to freak Spike out. He didn't know what to do. Slowly the nightmares happen with less frequency and they sort of get on with their lives and their search for the curse. Willow depends on Spike's ability to always be there for her even if he doesn't always know what to say.

Chapter 14: 1880 London England – They are risking a lot by coming back here but they are trying to see if the timeline is at all the same. Are Angelus and Drusilla around? Does William get turned? Or did Darla's death alter the timeline irrevocably. Are they going to have to find some other way to turn William into a vampire and get him travelling with Angelus and Drusilla? Is that even possible? They are in luck... Angelus and Drusilla are in London. They are traveling with a vampire that Angelus made named Katrina. They are careful to stay downwind of the three and they can tell that Katrina and Drusilla don't get along very well. Their luck holds and Drusilla indeed does turn William into a vampire. Willow and Spike hope for the best for Drusilla and William, William in particular because he now smells like Spike and they hope that Angelus doesn't kill him on the spot for that crime alone.

Chapter 15: Willow and Spike return to gypsy life hoping to learn the secret of the curse or at least be in a position to convince someone to curse Angelus by the time it rolls around that he's supposed to be cursed. They fit in well with the gypsies even though they look wildly out of place. Spike moves through the crowd picking pockets. And while he's doing that Willow entertains said crowd by dancing while one of the Roma play the guitar and sings. Sometimes she dances out an act with Spike that tells a story, but that is rare. She wonders where her stage fright went. It disappeared somewhere along the path of learning the dances to begin with. They travel all over Eastern Europe, learning just of enough of the different languages to get by. But they always end up back in Romania in the middle of the summer for the big festival where the different gypsy tribes come together and celebrate. It is then that Spike and Willow make their most overt attempts at finding out the curse. Because it may not be the tribe they are with that knows it. It might be another one and it's helpful to get the word out that they are looking.

Chapter 16: Varna, Bulgaria 1896 – They go to the wrong city or maybe the right city and Willow runs into Angelus while she is with one of the children. The child gets away, but Willow doesn't though not due to lack of effort. She almost gets away a couple of times. The gypsies come through by cursing Angelus with the same curse as last time or the first time or whatever. They curse him. Willow sees that he is in pain and doesn't feel bad for him in the slightest. She remembers well the pain he put her through. She leaves him gasping in pain. Spike is relieved that Willow is okay. So long as she is okay everything is right in his world.

Chapter 17: 1925 New York – Willow and Spike are at a speak easy pretending to be people they aren't. They act like they are just normal kids of the time and are meeting for the very first time. It is all an act they like to play. Sometimes it lasts for days before Willow caves to Spike's charms and goes home with him. By then he's always famished and ready to devour her. He never snacks on anyone else though... he always waits for his Willow. But this time their fun is cut short by the speak easy being raided and shot up by rival gangsters. Willow gets shot and while the wound closes really fast the bullet is lodged in her heart and it hurts every time the organ beats. She's in great pain. The down side of this kind of immortality. Because she heals so fast Spike has to get creative about how he gets the bullet out of her chest and the whole time she's in severe pain. When it is over and Willow is fine again Spike makes a point of going and finding the gangsters that shot his girl and kills them. Willow isn't happy about that and they get into a huge fight over it. When Willow walks out on him he worries that he may have lost her forever and he doesn't react well to that. He searches for her for days and doesn't find her. He makes a point of not feeding off anyone because he doesn't want to make matters worse. When he gets really hungry and can't wait anymore he finds a stray dog and drains it dry. After another day Willow finds him. She hasn't forgiven him but she knows that he needs her to feed so she's back.

Chapter 18: They checked in on Angel from time to time to see how he was fairing. Mostly he brooded. They checked in on the other Spike and Dru as well. They seemed smitten with one another. They even looked in on little Willow a couple of times while she was growing up. And Willow and Spike never spoke to any of them. Not until 1997 when they went to Sunnydale to head off Angel. Willow wanted to warn him that the Willow he was going to encounter there was not really her. She told him that if she found out that he pursued her in any fashion, she would come back and stake him for it. Spike added a "Leave her the hell alone" for good measure and then they left. There was nothing else they could do. At this point the relationship seems to be back on solid ground.

Chapter 19: Out of curiosity they came back a little while later to see if the other Spike and Dru showed up and they did. But it looked like Angelus wasn't making a second appearance. It turned out that Angel and Buffy never got together so Spike and Dru were just making Sunnydale their party town. Willow and Spike debated over whether or not to interfere. They weren't sure what they could do to get things back on track here. Without Angelus opening Acathala Spike and Dru wouldn't have left Sunnydale. Would they eventually get staked by Buffy? How badly did this alter the timeline? They weren't sure. In the end Spike decided to warn Spike and Dru off. Told them that if they liked their bodies to not be ash they would leave town. It was the best he could do. The fact that Spike and Dru didn't listen to him wasn't his fault. The fact that they now resided as dust on the floor of the warehouse because Buffy got to them stung him for about a week. Willow visited Miss Calendar and told her that translating the curse would be a good idea and that handing the translation down to whoever was keeping tabs of Angel over the years would probably be a good idea. She told her about the happiness clause in the curse just to be sure that she did it.

Chapter 20: Spike and Willow get into another fight. This time it is over Spike killing again now that they've caught up with time. He figures that now he isn't interfering with history, he should be able to do what he wants. Willow argues that they are still outside of history... they are still under the effects of the spell and have no right doing anything that would interfere with anything. They should continue just as they have been. It's worked for the last 245 years. Why change now? Spike argues that he wants variety and while Willow may be fillet mignon sometimes he just craved a cheeseburger. Willow argues that that is only a good argument to him and that he should be happy with what he has. Willow does the only thing she can think of to try and keep him towing the line. She threatens to leave him if he starts killing again. It works he stays with her because by now he can't imagine his life without her.

Chapter 21: The Willow from 1999 does a spell that backfires and brings the Willow that has been living for over two hundred years directly to her. Willow from 1999 is completely confused while immortal Willow instantly focuses on how she can get away. This is where immortal Willow comes face to face with her old friends and herself. There are some differences though that she didn't expect. Like they don't even know who Oz is and Willow and Xander end up dating after Cordelia wouldn't take him back. Immortal Willow does an internet search for Daniel Osbourne and finds seven in America. The gang is trying to ask her questions while she is hacking DMVs to look at pictures to see if Oz exists somewhere that isn't Sunnydale. No luck. It looks like Oz doesn't exist at all. She's heartbroken. She just wants to get out of there but she's got a problem, she was lounging around the apartment she was sharing with Spike when Willow zapped her there. She doesn't have any ID or money on her. She calls Spike's cell phone only to find out that he's already on his way. While she's waiting for Spike to show up, Willow offers to share her clothes with her and Giles lets her stay at his house. She neglects to tell them that the husband she's waiting for is Spike so when he shows up the gang is more than surprised because for them Spike is dead as in dust. Buffy tries to stake him only to find that heals faster than anything she's ever seen. Willow explains that while yes, Spike is the reason she was ripped out of her time to begin with, they've been if nothing else dependent on each other the entire time and she forgave him a long time ago. She also explains that they have to leave because they are interfering with how things ought to be just by being there. For immortal Willow this is a surreal experience. She never thought she'd be interacting with these people again. And while she missed them... they of course didn't miss her. She's just an anomaly. This gets her down. Spike reminds her that she's 263 years old and has nothing in common with them anymore and while she agrees with that, it still hurts to have had to deal with them.

Chapter 22: Spike and Willow decided that they wouldn't interfere again. Though they did check in on Willow from time to time over the years never letting her see them. It seemed like she lived a rather full life. Angel apparently took her at her word and left her alone. Though Willow's life because of Buffy was rather short-lived. She died at 32 in a magical duel with a wizard who was trying to end the world. She lost but Willow was able to kill him without much trouble. Buffy and Xander believed that they killed each other. Let them believe that. Spike and Willow were happy together. They spent most of their time reading prophecies about the world ending so they could stop those, because they had one hell of a vested interest in keeping the world safe.

Epilogue: 5098 Mars – Willow and Spike didn't have to hop from city to city anymore to avoid people noticing the fact they don't age. Science was advanced enough that most people decided when they would stop the aging process. Willow and Spike to others looked old, but not overly so. Willow less than Spike. They were thrilled to still be together after 3345 years. It was touch and go a couple of times. They had some arguments that made wars look tame, but they always ended up together in the end. After all in the end all they had was each other. They only kept the ingredients to do the second half of the spell as a safe guard for the end of the universe, but they were still hoping technology would advance enough that they would be able to hop to another universe in that eventuality. Willow was still wearing the ring that Spike put on her finger when they started their trip.