"Put your hand on my shoulder." Other Xander told local Xander. "I'll teleport us to the morgue and we can leave the girls there. It isn't like anyone is going to ask questions here in Sunnydale."
"It beats what Buffy did to Chloe by a mile." Local Xander said.
"Who's Chloe and what did Buffy do to her?"
"Chloe was a Potential who hung herself after the First refused to allow her to sleep. It pretty much drove her insane. It wouldn't stop talking to her. Buffy buried her in the backyard and said she died because she was stupid."
"She was stupid." Buffy said. "She killed herself. We need all the fighters we can get."
"Why? So they can be cannon fodder for you again?" Other Xander asked. "Thor is right, you don't see the victims."
"Thor?" Local Xander asked.
"As in God of Thunder himself. He made me from his blood to fulfil a prophecy. My Cordy was made from the blood of Artemis. We've been on a quest for the last week gathering items to be used to fight a specific demon in our reality."
"So the Hammer you used to kill Caleb - ."
"Is the Hammer of a Thor from another reality."
"But you can do Magic." Buffy said. "Is that because you were supposedly made?"
"No. Anyone can do Magic."
"That's not true. You have to have a gift for it." Buffy said.
"Buffy, the Giles of my reality told our Willow anyone can do it. The Magic books say anyone can do it. The gods say anyone can do it. Where did you get the idea that someone has to have a special gift for it?"
"Willow, it's why she's so powerful, because she has a special gift for it."
"Willow's powerful because she keeps taking in more Magic without understanding that she needs to learn how to manage what she already has."
"But she knows lots of spells." Buffy protested.
"Spells aren't Magic, Buffy. Spells are for focusing Magic. Back in our reality, Willow had to be stripped of her power. She couldn't get consistent control over it. Her mind and body were not at a place where she could. Sometimes she used it without even knowing she was using it. And it was damaging her mind, making her unstable. It brought out things in her I would never have thought she'd be capable of."
"Like what?" Local Xander asked.
"She was responsible for the Fluke. She admitted it. She forced her feelings on me. She used her hacking skills to destroy Cordelia's family's money and she sent Cordelia's parents to another reality. Which one, not even she knows. And she tried to kill Cordy, when she realized we'd gotten back together."
"Willow was caught mind raping people here too. And the Fluke happened here too."
"You're saying Willow is unstable?" Buffy asked.
"She tried to end the world, Buffy." Local Xander reminded her.
"But she was hurting over Tara being murdered." Buffy said.
"Sooner or later, she would have broken down anyway." Other Xander. "Come on, we've got to get these bodies to the morgue. We'll meet you at your place, Buffy." Other Xander said. Local Xander held onto the girl draped over his shoulder with one hand and put his hand in the other Xander's shoulder and they teleported away.
"Do you think he's right?" Buffy asked Spike.
"I've done Magic. It's what I used to restore Dru. Willow does have alot of power and it does get out of her control. The my will be done spell for instance. It's possible."
"What does that have to do with our current situation though?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know. Guess we'll find out. You believe I have my soul, don't you Buffy? I got it just for you."
"I believe you, Spike." She assured him. She led the shell shocked and demoralized Potentials back to her house. She never noticed the fact that they were shell shocked.
After depositing the two dead Potentials in the morgue, other Xander closed his eyes.
"Thor, please watch over them." He murmured softly. "Alright, let's head back to Buffy's. Your Cordy really is here. She was possessed and Angel never noticed. She was being forced to conceive and bear a new host for the thing that had possession of her. She's going to need someone to be there for her."
"I've never stopped loving her. It wasn't fair to Anya. I tried to make it work with Anya, but it just was never going to work."
"I need to ask you something. I'm certain there are holes in your memory and we'll have to figure out how to find what's missing. But there's one very big one that concerns me. My immortality kicked in when Angel knocked me out and left me in the street, at night, in Sunnydale. I know that incident happened here too. So how did you survive?"
Local Xander looked confused. "I don't know. I didn't question it. I should've. That's not the only time I should have questioned something. We had a troll god rampaging through Sunnydale. He knocked Buffy out with his hammer. He hit me twice with it. I bit my tongue. He broke my arm too. And I'm the one that talked Willow out of ending the world. She funneled the energy of the Earth though my chest cavity and threw me about twenty feet. I got right back up. Both times I should of died. But I didn't even question it. No one did. Not that anyone has asked what happened when I stopped her. Willow killed two people during that incident. Just like Faith did when she went rogue."
"Faith was something Buffy and Willow created in our reality. We need answers. Time to question the Red Witch."
