Chapter 3.): Severing the ties of badness.
As Willow got up she heard the sounds of a conversation, a unnerving conversation behind her in the shadows at the back of the Magic Box- she identified the voices as those of her parents… and they sounded Really Hurt! It then dawned on Willow what she'd been doing to her most valued asset: her relationships This is what I've been doing?! I've been hurting those I love and who love me?! Is this the fruits of lust? Oh, Yahweh, Never Again Do I Want To Do That! she prayed in her mind. (Willow's background and training is Jewish!)- She wasn't yet ready to face the reality that the orientation is a problem, but she was effectively promising a purge of the willingness to rape!
Turning around, Willow saw her dad holding her mom, who was, by the way, completely perturbed "Mom, Dad, Oh man am I sorry." Willow was saying- more shocked about her misconduct with her girlfriend (forcing herself on her) than most other things that had happened. "I didn't raise my daughter to be a rapist!… I don't know you anymore!" Was Ira's response, this hurt Willow more than much else that had happened today. "Daddy?" Willow responded- on the verge of tears, about this time it occurred to Buffy that since entering the Magic Box today- Willow's hair was black, not red Will's hair doesn't turn black from magic, but from lust! Buffy realized. "Oh, Willow, how could you? I mean, I was happy for you, but this is not right! I, I, I don't know what's going on in your life- but what I've just watched- there's no excuse for it… I'll always be your mom, you were born of me for crying out loud- but if you will not live according to the rules- then you barely have a place in my life any more!" "Mom?" now Willow was really hurt- her own parents were about to sever all ties to her.
Willow turned around and saw Buffy standing directly behind her "What, you going to disown me too?" Willow asked her best friend- but Buffy smiled gently and lovingly… and hugged her- having realized her friend was trying to repent of her horrible conduct.
Rabbi Micah had come up behind her, and explained that Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg had ensured a petition through the entire synagogue that their daughter, Willow, would turn her life around- just neither they, nor him, wanted to believe just how bad Will had become.
The atmosphere in Pandemonium, capital city of Perdition, was strange to say the least: it had just been celebratory; Lucifer had just been going around saying to his staff "Did you see what Willow Rosenberg just did? Wow! What a Woman!- Now that's fun to watch!", ecstatic, he was walking back from the coffee bar to his cubicle thinking Lets just see how my little agent among the 'Scooby-gang' is doing, oh I'm so interested in how this'll turn out. his joyous mood lasted until he tried to access his files in her person. The computer responded: file not accessible he tried again, search denied What?! some more clicks, and then he got to the reason: this account has been deleted at deposit point (meaning the receiver of the data deleted the account, not the person who established it), in other words: Willow deleted his account in her soul, or something like that! At this, Satan (Lucifer's alias) lost it, he: cursed in every language known to man or demon (and every curse word he knew, quite a phenomenal repertoire: if 10 expletives per second- maybe 8-10 hours); drop-kicked the wastepaper basket (and because he's a high-level spirit) it flew up about 20ft, and spun around about 3 times, shooting garbage all over the office; poured his coffee pitcher on the computer, half of it went in the disk-drive ruining all the data, the other half shorted out every computer in Pandemonium via arching; set fire to the office- he didn't care Well, there goes all my work, getting her to rape other females- while fun, hasn't amounted to squat!- all because that little minion decided to repent!… and I worked so darn hard on inducing that glitch in her personality too! The smarter 'employees'- the demons, knew better than to approach him, this is the way he liked it- the humans- too stupid to know when to keep their mouths shut- often died! (He looked exactly like he did before his fall, too, no horns, no tail- almost human: all the better to seduce people with.)
This caused no end of trouble for his subjects, for as a Stalinist-style Secretary-General, he had every single computer in Pandemonium connected to his own, and every computer in Perdition networked and subordinate to those in Pandemonium- so when he blew his computer, he blew every computer! And, just to make matters worse… NO TECH SUPPORT AVALIABLE!- Because of the corrupt state!