The Guardian
by ashie
Demon?!?!
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I must be dreaming, there is no way that Buffy is standing in front of me. I was just about to leave for my weekly visit to her grave.
"Buffy?" She says nothing but is staring with a sort of deer in the headlights way. Oh my goddess, what if she's a zombie and that's why she's not reacting; no, no she's breathing, that's a good sign.
"Buffy?" she makes eye contact with me this time.
"W-w-will?" Oh my god, she's alive! I reach out and hug her; I can't help but cry while I do so.
"Buffy, you're alive, I missed you so much."
"I know Willow, I saw."
"What do you mean," I take her into the living room, "do you want anything? Coke? Ice cream? A shower? How are you here Buffy? I mean you died, we buried you. H-how is it you're here?" *is it a demon? Oh my god I let a demon in the house, Xander's going to kill me that is if the demon doesn't first*
"Willow, I'm not a demon."
"How'd you"
"I can hear your thoughts." She pulls me down to the couch, "Sit and I will explain everything. When I died I was sent to Heaven, when I got there, they said that they were going to send me back, but I had to be trained first."
"Trained, trained for what?"
"Becoming a white lighter. We're guardians of witches. We are sent to protect one witch; we have the power to heal, hear thoughts, and do this cool teleporting thing, it so beats walking."
"A white lighter? So um who's your witch?" She scoots closer to me and wipes my face with her thumbs as hers cup my face.
"Well since they sent me to the house when I got back I guess I have two, you and Tara.
"Oh my goddess, you don't know. How can you not know? You said that you could see us, but why would they not want you to see?"
"Hold on Willow, breathe, know what?" I take a deep breathe and look into those hazel eyes that I love so much.
"Tara left me about nine months ago."
"Nine months? That's not possible...I was only gone for six months!" I give her a big hug before I have to drop the big bad news in her lap...
"No, Buffy, you were gone a year."
"A year?!?" she just nodded her head sadly.
She places her hand on my shoulder, "Time must pass slower on different planes."
Wait so she wasn't with Tara?!? That meant I still had a shot.
"DEMON!!!!" I instinctively look for the newly announced intruder, then I realize it wasn't my sweet Willow who screamed it was Dawn.
"Dawnie?" I get up and walk over to my sister.
"Stay away from me demon, Willow go get Xander."