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A/N: Sorry it's taken so long for me update, computer issues and writer's block and a lack of time are my excuses.

A/N 2: Thanks again to my lovely beta D757468

Sam slammed the book shut he was looking at in anger, and then the anger melted into that same broken look.

"I've found lots of information about purgatory, but nothing about how to get someone who is in there out." he seemed broken. Xander figured it was time to tell him about the ace up his sleeve.

"Remember I told you that the books were only one part of the glory of this place. The other is Willow, she is the most powerful witch in the northern hemisphere and her wife Rebecca is pretty powerful as well. I'm sure if they put their minds to it they can come up with something to save him. I asked them when we got here to start looking into a spell to save him. Willow told me they were working on it."

"How close is she to finishing?" Sam earnestly.

"I don't know, but I know she's been working on it." Sam took on a more panicked look.

"You don't understand hell time, one month is 10 years so a single day is 4 months and that's only hell time, purgatory time could be even worse." He had no idea about purgatory time, that did make it a lot more important to find a way out for Dean as quickly as possible.

"I'll let Willow know that."

"Thanks." Xander got up from the table, figuring he should see about that now and tell Willow how important it was.

He found himself in front of Willow's door a few minutes later and knocked. A few moments later Willow opened the door.

"Willow there's something new I just learned about." she looked at him concerned.

"What is it?" she said at the same time moving aside and making a come in gesture. He walked past her into the apartment, but didn't sit down even though she had also gestured for him to take a seat. Instead he started pacing up and down a very small stretch.

"Hell time is longer than regular time, apparently a single day is 4 months there, so every day we're sitting here on our hands he could be there suffering for months."

Willow's eyes widened. "We need to get him out as soon as possible." Xander didn't know Dean at all. The only thing he knew about him were what Garth, and Sam had said about him. But from what they said, if Purgatory was a place that a person suffered in,

Dean didn't deserve to be there, and he was his brother. He pleaded with Willow wit his eyes to help him. Willow smiled.

"I'm nearly done with the spell, since I know that there is a time constraint now, I'll finish it up tonight and we can work on the logistics tomorrow." Xander beamed, Willow beamed back at him.

"Willow you really are the greatest."

"I know but it's always nice to hear it." Willow joked. Xander wrapped his arms around her and she responded in kind.

"You really are the greatest." he said again.

"Xander these are your brothers, that means they're family." she said. If it was possible he felt even more gratitude towards her. A few minutes later Xander broke the hug.

"I should go tell Sam the news." Willow nodded and Xander left the room. Xander made his way back to the library with a small spring in his step that hadn't been there on the way up. He opened the door to the library a few moments later and Sams' eyes shot up from the book he was looking at.

"What did she say?"

"She said she was going to finish up the spell tonight and tomorrow she would tell us what to do." Sam stared at him blankly for a few moments then smiled.

"So tomorrow we'll actually be able to get Dean out?" he said hope shining in his eyes.

"We'll at least know how to get Dean out." he said. Spells were tricky things, sometimes they needed special circumstances in order to work like full moons, or things of that nature. Sam nodded but his smile never dimmed.

"We're coming to get you soon Dean, just hold on for a little bit more." Sam whispered so low that Xander barely heard him, but Xander felt the same.

~.~

Xander managed to talk Sam into getting a full nights rest, something Sam was sorely lacking in for the last little while. He had almost thought that Sam would be too excited like a kid on Christmas Eve, but Sam had kind of worn himself out. Sam had realized that he hadn't really been hunting since he had been spending every waking moment looking for Dean, and as such some of his physical strength had dissolved. So he had spent most of the remainder of the day in the gym, having his butt kicked by 16 year old girls, and lifting weights.

Sam was in his room now, having gotten up before the sun and had woke him up as well. Xander had tried not to be angry, he knew how excited Sam was. It was easier once he got a few cups of coffee into himself.

Sam had spent most of the morning since then talking about Dean, mostly talking about scattered memories, Xander really enjoyed hearing about Dean, hearing about how they had grown up. Sam talked until Xanders' phone rang, when he stopped.

"Is it..." Sam trailed off, Xander looked at the caller ID and nodded. He answered the phone.

"Hello."

"Xander, I'm ready met me in the apothecary." Xander nodded.

"See you soon." he said then hung up. Sam looked at him.

"We've got to met her in the apothecary."

"This school has an apothecary?"

"Yep." Xander said shortly. He made his way out of the door with Sam by his side. He made his way to the elevator and hit the button for the basement.

"The basement is where the gym is." Sam said. He knew that having spent all of yesterday there. Xander nodded.

"The basement is where the gym is, but remember how the supernatural library is hidden? Schools shouldn't really have apothecaries, especially when they also double as spell rooms, the apothecary is hidden as well."Sam nodded.

The elevator doors opened moments later. The entire floor was covered in a dark hardwood floor. About half of the hardwood floors were also covered in blue mats.

There was a line of young slayers copying the motions of the leader of the group. There was a long mirror along the entire side that the girl's were facing. The walls that weren't covered by the mirror were padded very thickly, because often a girl who doesn't know her own strength or who got mad enough tended to hurl other girls into the wall.

He walked past them and to the weight room. It was a small room and the walls weren't padded here, since there was no fighting allowed in the weight room. Xander walked past the rack of weights and to the wall. He studied for a long moment, it had been a long time since he had been into the apothecary and he couldn't quite remember how to get in. Then he remembered there was a small line of gray bricks that went throughout the room, they separated the dark hardwood wall on the top from the gray walls on the bottom. He had to press them in the right order. Xander rolled his eyes, why did Willow have to make it so cloak and dagger? No one was going to suspect that there was a room in here. Sam had spent a good part of his day here yesterday and he didn't seem to ever suspect. Xander thought hard and then remembered the sequence as he entered it, the wall swung inwards.

He stepped in, the apothecary always seemed really creepy. He wished it looked more like the Magic Box, rather than an old witch's cave, but for some reason Willow liked that look. He walked in and hit the release button which put the wall back in place. The lighting in this part was dim because some of the plants and herbs did better in darkness. There was a row of shelves on either side of him, all of them covered in various herbs, as Xander inhaled he was reminded of another reason he didn't like the apothecary, the smell. He walked on regardless, past other shelves which went from ingredient to spell books, this was witch heaven.

Then there were the objects, such as altars, statues, athames and other pointy objects, circles on the floor, this part of the apothecary really gave him the heebie jeebies. It always made him think about how he was a hunter and how hunters stopped dark witches. Willow wasn't dark and even when she had been Xander hadn't been a hunter then so if Willow went dark again would he be able to stop her? It wasn't something he liked thinking about, so he shoved it firmly into the back of his mind. He was glad when they came to the door.

Xander opened it and took in the more normal aspect of the apothecary, Willows' study. Unlike the rest of the apothecary it looked normal, like any other office. It had a large desk, albeit covered in spell books and yellowed pages, but it also had her laptop giving the room a modern tone which the rest of the apothecary lacked. She looked up as they entered the room and gestured to the couch across from the desk. Xander sat down but Sam stayed standing, Willow stood up from her desk and walked over the other side of it and leaned against it.

"Do you have it?" Sam asked his eyes shining with hope. Xander gave him points for not saying it as soon as they walked in the door. Willow nodded and reached across the desk for a paper with writing on it and a bag full of herbs. She looked at them, and Xander could see Sam's impatience in his eyes.

"Alright this is a spell to retrieve someone from another plane of existence, tweaked slightly to include purgatory. It's a blood spell and as such requires two donors. One to find him where he is and the other to bring him back, it doesn't work without two blood related donors. So I'm sorry but I can't help your angel unless you can get me two of his blood related relatives." she said apologetically Xander saw as Sam deflated a little giving him the indication that he probably couldn't.

"But it will work for Dean." Sam said quietly. Willow nodded.

"It should, it's not 100%, so it might not work but it should."

"What do we have to do?" Xander asked.

"Well the spell itself is fairly simple," she seemed to rethink that "well except for the fact that's in Latin. Which one of your Latin is better?" She asked Sam and Xander. The only Latin Xander knew was the Latin he needed to exorcise someone. Sam looked at him and probably saw his uncertainty.

"Probably me then." Sam said. Willow handed him the sheet and the bag.

"The sheet has the spell on it and an instruction sheet in English. You're going to need a lot of blood from both of you, enough blood that if you tried it yourself it would probably kill you, so I suggest getting some orange juice for afterward, and well you know what do you when you lose a lot of blood." Xander nodded, he did. He noticed that Sam was starting to get antsy and had started pacing.

"Another thing is that you have to do the spell where the person vanished." Sam stopped.

"What?" he asked.

"That's where the original rift occurred and it would take something powerful and dark to open another one, and would require items that would take time to get. Reopening a rift is much simpler."Sam seemed to take that in for a minute then nodded.

"Let's go." he said and didn't wait before leaving. Xander looked back to Willow.

"Thanks so much for all this Willow, we never could have done it without you." Willow smiled then looked sad.

"I wish I could go with you, but I can't, please, if anything goes wrong call me." Xander smiled.

"Of course I will call you, Willow and thanks again." he looked at the door.

"I should go before Sam has a heart attack." he said and Willow nodded, he left

the room at a bit of a jog in order to catch up with Sam.

A/N 3: Thank you for reading and a special thanks to those who review :)