Looking over the people coming off of the plane, I tried to find Willow among the faces. Buffy was fidgeting with her necklace while Xander held up his difficult-to-read sign.
"You think she'll get the sign?"
"Get the sign?" Buffy raised her brows. "I don't think she's gonna see the sign."
"Why is it so pale?" Dawn asked.
"I used yellow crayon. It was a thing when I got to Willow on the bluff. Hope she gets it." The man sighed.
"Oh, tell us again what you said." Dawn gave him a look, and I shook my head.
"Well, I was talkin' from my heart, and I knew evil Willow wasn't really ready to-" Xander cut himself off while holding up a finger. "You were kidding."
"Mm, a little bit."
"We've heard the crayon speech a few times." Buffy nodded. "But not that it's not great, of course."
"I saved the world while talking. From my mouth. My mouth saved the world." He waved his hand.
"Uh-huh. I'm getting nervous." Dawn shook her arms. "Are you nervous?"
"Yeah. Gonna be weird seeing her. What do you say to someone in that situation?" Buffy asked
"How about saying 'Hi, Willow'?"
"Come on. You're saying it's not gonna be....the least bit strange? We saw her....kill someone, and she was about to kill Dawn." The Slayer glanced at us.
"Giles wouldn't let her leave unless she had completed that....whatever recovery course."
"Right." Dawn piped up.
"Well, whatever happens, I'm giving her these cookies." I said while looking around someone that walked by. "If she's back to being nice Willow, then I'd like to have nice Willow back."
"Guy's, I just noticed something." Xander stated while looking around.
"What?"
"Everyone's off the plane, so....where's Willow?" There was a moment of quiet as we stared at the doors and the surrounding area. The redhead would have had to have passed us to leave, but she hadn't at all.
"Is this the right plane?" I asked no one in particular.
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"He absolutely put her on the plane in London." Buffy said as we entered the house.
"She got off in Chicago when they stopped?" Xander was the last one to walk in.
"She could have fled anywhere."
"Maybe she could've doubled back. Got off the plane after Giles left." Buffy suggested, and I sat the wrapped plate of cookies down on the table.
"Well, if she's doing that- ducking Giles- she's evil, right?" Dawn looked at her sister.
"Well, I've avoided Giles tons of times, just meant I was lazy, not evil."
"I hope you're right because defeating lazy Willow, probably less hard." Buffy nodded.
"We should check the messages, see if she tried to reach us here." Dawn said.
"Good idea." Buffy turned while Xander shut the door, but a second after it shut, something upstairs clattered.
"What was that?"
"Upstairs."
"Willow? Is that you?" Xander called, and I let my tail grow out. I hadn't smelled Willow in the house at all, so it wasn't her. Jumping onto the rails on the stairs after kicking off my shoes, I ran up the wood with my paws giving traction while going around everyone blindly walking into who knows what danger. "Aud?!"
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Unknown Factors (Book One)
Fanfiction[18+; Use an age indicator in YOUR BIO to confirm you're 18+ if you want to follow/comment or you'll be blocked for safety purposes] Despite Giles's efforts to let his adoptive daughter have a happy life, he couldn't quite stop the Watchers Council...
