God! What is it with men! Why are they all so stupid! Willow was pacing back and forth in her room. It had been a long month since they had received the news. She could still remember how it happened:

"The entire city of Los Angeles disappeared today…" a news anchor reported. Buffy just stared at the tv in complete shock. Willow had run over to the TV and shut it off as quickly as she could.

Little did Willow know when it happened she was in for a long month. After taking Buffy to her room and making sure that she wasn't going to hurt herself, or anyone else for that matter, she had gone to talk to the others. She, Xander, and Dawn decided that they should have a large meeting and announce it to everyone as a group. They knew that there were some girls who were from LA and that they were going to find a way to help them deal, but Willow's pressing concern was finding out what happened and trying to help Buffy.

After making the announcement to the girls, she had told them to direct their questions to Xander and Dawn, as she was going to go and find out as much information as she possibly could about what had actually happened in LA. The Government had called it a nuclear attack, and had vowed to get revenge, which she was sure was just an excuse to invade as many countries as they wanted. Before she left to go searching for information she had stopped in to see Buffy. She told her that she was going to do whatever she could to find out what happened. Buffy just seemed to be in a daze. She didn't seem to understand what was going on. Willow just hoped that her friend would recover enough to be able to help Xander with the 30 or so grieving slayers that had just lost their friends and families.

It didn't take long for Willow to find out what really happened. She didn't know where Giles was, and since she was certain the last one to visit LA was Andrew she went to Rome to talk to him first. From Andrew she had learned that Spike was alive, that was a shocker, and that a few weeks ago Angel and Spike had showed up in Rome looking for Buffy. When she inquired about their visit though Andrew laughed at first and told her an amusing story about what Buffy affectionately called "jealous vampire" but as soon as the topic of what he had told them came up he seemed to withdraw. Which was odd for Andrew… because he LOVED to talk. She had no way of knowing for certain but she suspected that Andrew was blaming something that he said to the two vampires for what took place in LA. Before she left though he had mentioned something about Wolfram and Hart and some sort of demon head, so she headed for the Rome office of Wolfram and Hart.

She may not have trusted the evil law firm, but she somehow new that she would find the answers there. She didn't know exactly what she had expected to find when she got there, but it wasn't what she found. What she found was chaos. Wolfram and Hart was still there, but barely. The phones were ringing off the hook, people were running from office to office, and she was pretty sure that she saw someone lose their head. She walked straight for the CEO's office, but when she got there it was empty. She found a random person running through the halls and asked him what was going on. "Don't you know? It's over. The senior partners a really angry. We are all gonna die." Willow looked at him confused.

"What do you mean we are all going to die?" she inquired.



"That stupid vampire and his stupid friends screwed us. They tried to take on the senior partners, and failed. Unfortunately they really screwed things up in the process, and now the senior partners are trying to find someone to take it out on. Unfortunately since we were the last branch to have contacted with those morons we've been the brunt of most of the blame." The man looked really scared, but he seemed confused by Willows lack of knowledge.

"What exactly did they do?"

"You don't know?! How could you not know!?" He asked exasperatedly, but he was too tired and scared to really care who she was or why she wasn't in on what happened. "The stupid vampire and his friends took out the Circle of the Blackthorn. The senior partners lost some of their hold on this dimension. Our stocks have been plummeting and we've been losing clients left and right. And not just at this branch. All over the world. He really screwed us! I knew he was up to know good, but no! Everyone kept insisting that the senior partners had it under control. He's changed! We finally got through to him! I never believed it for an instant, but nobody listens to me I'm just a lowly lawyer. What do I know?" he ranted while storming off.

"Wait!" Willow called after him. "Do you know what happened to them? Were there any survivors?"

"I don't know for sure. I'm sure there are after all they were sucked into hell. That's why the whole city disappeared. Whether or not anyone from that branch survived, I sure hope not. After all they're the ones who got us into all this trouble. I hope that they all rot in hell. Of course knowing the senior partners that stupid vampire is probably alive in that hell dimension. After all he's done, they still think that they need him for something! God! How stupid are these people. I mean I know that he has a soul, and there is that stupid prophecy and all but he's JUST a vampire!" Willow then knew what she had to do. She had to find out what dimensions the city of LA had been sucked into and whether or not any of their friends were still alive in that dimension. She also knew that she was going to have to contact Giles and find out about any prophecies about Angel.

She had spent the rest of the last month combing the earth, as well as a few other dimensions for information about what had occurred in LA. Every time she found a new piece of information she called Buffy. Buffy seemed to come out of her state whenever Willow called with news. More than once after Willow had told her that Spike was alive and that he and Angel were most likely in hell, she had made Willow promise to help her do whatever was necessary to get them out of hell.

It hadn't taken her very long to contact Giles after her visit to Rome. Giles had gone back to Scotland with Faith as soon as they had heard the news about what had happened in LA.Andrew and Robin had also joined them. As Willow had been afraid of Faith had been upset about what happened, more so than the others, however she had taken the news better than Buffy. Actually there was one good thing that came out of the LA incident. Buffy and Faith were finally starting to get along. Really get along. They seemed to be bonding over the idea that they had lost their friends.

When Giles had first arrived it had been really difficult, because that's when the truth came out. That's when Buffy and Faith learned that Giles new full well about what was happening and had purposely not 

told them. Willow was also shocked to learn that Angel had tried to contact her earlier about some girl named Fred. Willow was particularly upset about that news. She knew there was no way that Angel would have called her unless there was something really wrong and she like Fred. Even she was shocked and hurt by Giles' betrayal. At that point they all got into a huge argument about what to do next. Giles, Xander, and Robin were all for doing nothing. They seemed to think that Angel and his friends had got what was coming to them and they were not to be trusted or helped in any way. Dawn and Andrew weren't really sure of what to do, but they did know that if Spike was alive in another dimension that they should do whatever they could to save him, and if they had to save Angel to save spike well than they would do just that. Buffy and Faith on the other hand were ready to go to the ends of the earth to save their friends. Willow didn't know what to do. She wanted to help their friends as much as anyone, but she also knew that it would be dangerous, near impossible, and that they would be crossing Wolfram and Hart, and what happened in LA is a good example of why you don't want to piss off the senior partners of Wolfram and Hart.

It was the new slayers that had given her perspective. After talking to Kennedy and some of the other girls who had fought with them in Sunnydale, they told her "You never give up on your friends you never know when you are going to need them again." That is the most important lesson anyone had given them since learning about their destinies. That's when Willow knew that Buffy and Faith were right. They needed to help their friends.

Willow had also asked Giles about the prophecy that the man from Wolfram and Hart had told her about. Giles told her that he didn't know much. All he had heard, from very untrustworthy sources mind you, was that Wolfram and Hart believed that Angel was the key to the apocalypse. Something about a prophecy about a vampire with a soul playing a pivotal role in the apocalypse. "Which vampire with a soul?" she asked Giles.

"I had that same question myself willow. That's why I never really put any stock in it." He seemed somehow to be upset by this, but he would never admit it. She couldn't tell whether it was because he genuinely felt bad about what he had done, or if he just felt bad about how it had affected Buffy.

Willow had spent the rest of the month trying to figure out what dimension their friends were in. She was still trying to piece together the puzzle that was the last year in LA. She really wished that Giles and Andrew had kept her in the loop about what was going on, or that Angel had tried harder to get a hold of her… or any of them for that matter, but she couldn't change the past. Stupid Stupid MEN! She thought. They never think about anyone but themselves!