A/N TFFSchema, I'd never heard The Ballard of the Witches Road before until you mentioned it. I pulled it up on UTube and now I must watch Agatha All Along because that was enough to get me interested, so thank you for that. 😃

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"You've only been with us what, a week? Nearly two?" Agatha Harkness asked the young apprentice her Coven members had invited to learn from them when they'd been investigating the now defunct Sunnydale Hellmouth with the Watchers Council after a Slayer, Buffy Summers, had somehow succeeded in getting it shut down, though no one could figure out how.

"Nearly two." Willow admitted.

"And this is the third time you've gone off and tried a spell without permission and without the least bit of understanding in regards to what you're doing."

"I did everything right, I don't understand why it keeps going wrong!" Willow said stubbornly.

"No, you did nothing right and that's why you don't understand why it went wrong." Agatha responded sternly. "How did you manage any Magic prior to this given such little understanding of actual Magic?"

"Everything went right before, I don't know why it's going wrong now!"

Agatha sighed, she was rapidly becoming convinced this young witch wanna be had no clue what she was actually doing and unless they could snap her out of her current mindset, she might prove unteachable. "Tell me what spells you did before that went right." She ordered.

"I did a spell to break a magical barrier, a spell to make fog, a spell to levitate a pencil and helped Giles with a spell to close the Hellmouth during an apocalypse." Willow named a few of the spells she tried before that had gone right.

"All neutral spells except the one to close the Hellmouth and Mr. Giles likely did the majority, it not all the real work on that." Agatha's comment had Willow bristling. "What spells did you attempt that went wrong?"

"Well, the three that haven't gone right since I got here."

"And you have no idea why they went wrong."

"They shouldn't have, I did everything right! I followed the directions, I used the right ingredients -."

"And none of that matters." Agatha informed her. "And none of that is why they went wrong, which just proves you have no clue what you're doing. You weren't ready for those spells and you have no idea how to draw power to even do them."

"But I was able to do spells back in Sunnydale, why can't I do them here?"

"How do you draw power?" Agatha countered.

"I don't know what you mean, I just do Magic! I follow the directions, I use the right ingredients, I say the spell -."

"And none of that is Magic. I think we have to start from the very beginning with you, did you ever even read a scholarly work on Magic? Something that explains magical theories? Beliefs, anything?"

"I read the books Giles had in the Library, I studied the websites Ms. Calendar used."

"And even with all that you missed the basics of Magic? Or did you just skim them, decide you understood it and just went ahead and did it? And because you somehow blindly succeeded you now assume you know what you're doing but don't actually know anything. Understand me, Miss Rosenberg, if you can't follow the rules and learn Magic the right way, I will strip you of what you've managed to stumble your way into and make it so you can never cast a spell again! Your ignorance and foolishness could have endangered members of my Coven and I won't allow that."

"I know I can learn spells -."

"Spells aren't Magic and until you understand that we're at a stand still. Which means going back to the beginning and teaching you what you obviously failed to teach yourself."

A confused Willow was about to continue arguing when Althenea, a young member of the Coven and gifted Seer, approached them. "Forgive me for interrupting, Agatha," she said. "but visitors are coming, one of power and one of them is Rupert Giles."

"Giles has power." Willow pointed out.

"Small compared to what I See in this young man." Althenea replied. "They should be here any minute."

"Are they a danger?" Agatha asked.

"I sense no ill intent." The young woman answered. "But I Saw only a moment in time."

"Of course, nonetheless, it's enough time to prepare ourselves for guests." Agatha smiled slightly. "And be ready just in case their intent changes."

Althenea smiled back. "Always pays to be prepared, especially where the Watchers Council is concerned and Rupert Giles is one of them, unfortunately."

"Because Buffy wanted him to be her Watcher, he's much better than Wesley was." Willow told her. "He knows what he's doing."

"Stay with me, Miss Rosenberg." Agatha told her. "I think I'm going to take over teaching you personally and I don't want to let you out of my sight right now. I have a feeling you'll go off and try another spell just to prove you do know what you're doing and cause all kinds of mischief because I'm convinced you really don't have a clue. Well, let's go greet our guests, ladies." Agatha swanned off followed by a serene Althenea and a silently fuming Willow to greet their guests, wondering who Rupert was bringing to visit them and why.