It wouldn't be until the beginning of February that another note appeared and this confirmed that getting the police to deal with Warren Mears had been a very good idea.

'Today we discovered Warren Mears killed his ex-girlfriend. We discovered it when he tried to frame Buffy for the crime. He's also the one who built Spike's Buffybot. Sick freak. Both of them. How obsessed must Spike be to have had a sex robot built and why was Buffy so determined not to dust his sorry ass?'

"So getting the police to investigate Warren turned out to be a very good idea." Buffy said, after reading the note. "As if the blue prints and manifesto the police found wasn't enough reason."

"You just completely glossed over Spike and the sex bot." Faith said. "Who's Spike, by the way?"

"A vampire who was part of Angelus' crew." Xander answered.

"Back during that whole thing with Angelus, Spike was against Angelus' plan to end the world." Buffy told her. "He offered me a deal, he'd help stop Angelus if I let him and Drusilla, his vamp girlfriend, go."

"I remember Xander telling me Drusilla killed Kendra, the other Slayer and not you, like the police thought." Joyce said. "And I agree with other Xander, this Spike should have been dusted long before he made a sex bot in Buffy's image. And why would Buffy not just dust him? Why forgive something like that?"

"The cumulative psychological damage may have contributed to it." Giles suggested.

"Where's Spike in this timeline?" Tara asked.

"I don't know, he may have been dusted when other Xander went after Angelus. A second vampire was dusted that night." Xander said. "It was either him or Drusilla. But neither one has come back to Sunnydale, so we just don't know."

About a month later another note appeared, but this one didn't warn or advise about anything. This was more about other Xander speculating about things. Things that shocked the Scoobies and threw many of their previous speculations out the window.

'I've been wondering about things. Things I sometimes thought about originally and even more as I've been writing these notes. Ever since we found out Willow was mind raping people with black magic to make things the way she wanted them to be I've wondered, was she responsible for me and Cordy crashing and burning so badly? Cordy and I were happy, I know that. And then we weren't. The Fluke, as Willow insisted on calling it, like it was just an accident that happened. And Cordy went from loving me to hating me, like a switch had been flipped. And then, just when we were starting to talk and maybe work through things, the Chases lost all of their money and Mr. Chase, who'd always been careful with their money, was in trouble with the IRS and she moved to L.A. and didn't speak to me again. I hope the Wards I placed on my younger self and Cordelia can prevent any manipulation. If they crash and burn, it'll be because of their choices, not someone else's.'

"I mind raped people?!" Willow screamed. "Like those monks were going to do before finding the Wards on all of us?! Why?! Why would I do something like that?! I don't understand!"

"Between damage from the soul curse and black magic, not to mention liking things being a certain way, it all could have pushed you to behave in extreme ways." Giles reasoned. "Not having other you to question, we can't be sure of what truly motivated you, let alone made you think such behavior was acceptable."

"And Xander and I broke up. Crashed and burned, which implies a really bad break up, especially if i was hating him." Cordelia said. "And that's why other Xander put the Wards on us, to make sure no one could manipulate us using Magic. He wasn't sure we were manipulated, but he protected us just in case. And it may have worked. Just because our Willow wouldn't do any mind raping, doesn't mean there aren't others who would. I mean those monks certainly intended to, given they wanted to insert fake memories into all of our minds."

"True and then there's the information about your parents." Xander said. "Because your father certainly hasn't been in trouble with the IRS. Something must have caused that too. You might want to have your dad look at his last tax returns just in case there is a problem and it just hasn't been found yet. Maybe someone found out about it in the other timeline and reported it."

"Someone, meaning me." Willow said. "If I was mind raping people and was responsible for this Fluke, as other Xander called it, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine I was also responsible for your dad being in trouble. It wouldn't be hard for me to hack his system, after all. Gods, how messed up must I have been to even think about mind raping people, let alone actually doing it?"

"It seems cumulative psychological damages afflicted more then just Buffy." Giles decided. "How messed up, as you out it, did we all become in that timeline?"

"As if what we've already read hadn't been bad enough." Joyce said. "And I just had a thought about something that may have contributed significantly to all of it. Other Xander warned me to get a CT scan and the doctor discovered an aneurysm. Couple that with what Willow and Rupert said about what doing Magic involving the brain could do, means I may have died in the original timeline."

"Without your stabilizing influence in all of our lives, we may have all floundered badly in the wake of losing you." Giles decided. "It, coupled with cumulative psychological damage, may well have been a tipping point in all of our lives."