Part One

Phoebe walked up to the front door of the Hyperion hotel and stopped. She didn't know why she came here alone. But something in her vision told her to get there as fast as she could. She had seen this hotel before but never noticed that it was even in use. As she walked through the doors Phoebe got a feeling of grief, something that made her think of Cole.

"Can I help you?" An English man said from the entrance of an office.

"I don’t know yet." She said shaking before another vision hit her…
Before she knew another man was by her side catching her before she fell back.

"Oh my!" she said before opening her eyes, coming face to face with the man.

"Hey! I thought it was my job to have to visions?" A woman said coming into the room. "I'm not going to be fired again, am I?"

"Cordelia please get this woman a cup of water." The English man said.

"I'm fine, I just need to get some air." Phoebe said shaking them away.

"You don’t get headaches?" Cordelia asked.

"No, just a little dizzy, and hey! How do you know about my premonitions?"

"Premo- what? Anyway I get them to except they cause mind retching headaches. You are so lucky. By the way I'm Cordelia, this is Angel and
Wesley." She said gesturing to the people surrounding her.

"Phoebe. I came here because I had a pre-, I mean vision that this woman was going to get killed in this hotel."

"Really? Because I usually get the visions about this hotel, are you sure it was this hotel?"

"Yes I'm sure. She was about 5'7 had red hair, green eyes. You know her?"

"Sounds kind of like Ms Rosenberg, but she's in Sunnydale." Wesley said quickly.

"You got a picture?"

"Not here, I have one at home. Angel you got one?" Cordielia asked looking for him but not seeing.

"Does he do that often?" Phoebe inquired.

"You have no idea."

Angel came running down the stairs with a picture of Willow. He stood next to Phoebe and put in her face.

"Is this her?" He asked obviously agitated. His companions wondered why he was so worked up.

"Yeah, its her." She answered quietly. <Whoever she is this guy evidently cares about her.. alot> Phoebe thought.

"But why would she be coming here? I mean aren't they busy down there with Glorifi-whatever?"

"Whatever the reason we all need to figure out what is going on. The PTB sent this woman here to help us and we need to interpret what her vision was about." Wesley said taking charge.

"Kay boss." Cordielia quipped.
 

Part Two

"So you guys fight the forces of evil as well?" Phoebe asked Cordielia.

"Well we sort of have to. I came to LA trying to get away from my old life and become an actress. But I got pulled right back in and to top it all off I finally found someone I could fall in love with and he dies, leaving me with all these painful visions. But its not all that bad, I get to help a really good friend regain his humanity." She said looking at Angel.

"Humanity?''

"Yeah, Angel is a vampire. He has a soul though, so his demon won't tear us all to little shreds."

"I've never really seen a vampire, all we get to do is vanquish warlocks."

"We?'' Cordielia asked just as phoebe's phone rang. Phoebe left into the next room leaving Cordielia alone.

"Piper?'' She said answering the phone.

"No I'm fine… LA… I had to… please don’t send Leo_" She was cut off as a flash of blue light appeared. "Leo." she said hanging up the phone.

"What are you doing leaving without your sisters?"

"I had too come. Something is going to happen here and I thought if I went to get Piper and Prue it would waste time. Anyway the girl isn't even here she's in some town called Sunnydale. You heard of it?"

"Yeah, every white lighter has heard of Sunnydale a.k.a. the hellmouth."

"The hellmouth?"

"The opening to hell and every other demon dimension in the universe."

"So this girl I had a vision about is living on the opening to hell and what?"

"I don’t know I guess you have to wait till she gets here."

"Wait... what about my darling sisters?"

"They'll be here tomorrow. If you need anything just call."

"Leo, these people in this hotel, well they know about all of this. The girl Cordielia, she has premonitions just like mine, and that guy is a vampire."

"Are you sure, because usually vampires kill humans. Not help them fight evil."

"He has a soul."

"I'll have to get back to you on that one. I have to go now anyway Pipers calling me."

"Yeah, tell her I said hi."

Leo vanished and Phoebe left the room and went out into the lobby. Angel walked up to her and asked, "So who were you talking to?"

"My sister. Why?"

"I mean the blond guy who did the vanishing act. Look, I don’t care who you talk to but I know there are a lot of evil demons who would just love to kill my friend. I'm not saying that you are is evil, but I need to get some sort of insight into who you are."

"I'm a witch, part of a mystical type prophecy that involves my sisters Piper and Prue. We each have different powers that when combined are a powerful aid to fight and vanquish evil. There was this whole prophecy thing running through our family telling of our births, they call us the charmed ones."

"I think I've heard something about that before I got my soul the first time."

"You mean you've had more than one soul?"

"Not really, I just lost my soul more than once. This last time Willow gave me one that’s permanent."

"I know this isn't any of my business, but do you love her? I mean the way you acted when I described her was I don’t know agitated would be putting it lightly."

"I owe her a lot, she saved me from destroying the world and she saved me from myself."

"I can't seem to get in touch with anyone in Sunnydale." Wesley said coming from out of his office. "And this is just a guess but something bad has happened there."

"How do you know that?" Cordielia asked.

"Well Giles has never had his answering service say: 'I'll be out of town for a while, leave a message and I'll get back to you at my earliest convenience.' I mean where would he go without contacting us first?"

"It has to have something to do with Glory. Maybe they had to leave in a hurry and didn't have the time to contact us." Angel voiced.

"I have one tiny question here guys." Phoebe said raising her hand. "Who is Glory?"

"Glory is this evil hell God who is trying to open the gateway into her dimension by using the key who is also the slayers sister." Wesley answered.

"Who is the slayer?"

"And you call yourself a witch, the slayer is the one chosen to kill vampires and other no good evils with her superior strength and agility. I used to be her watcher."

"Watcher, oh like a whitelighter."

"I think I've heard of them before, watchers of witches. Right?"

"Something like that. Anyway so let me get this straight; Willow is the friend of the slayer whose sister is being stalked by a god who wants to destroy the world. Well obviously Glory is not going to succeed because in my premonition she wasn’t running from anything. It was like she lived here, and was caught from behind. I couldn’t see the guys face but I'm guessing he was some sort of demon."

"How can you tell?"

''By the negative vibes he was shooting out. I can try and get another one, can I have that picture of her again?"

Angel handed her the picture and stood back. Just then Cordielia got an idea and walked up to Phoebe grabbing her hand. Suddenly they were both hit by the same vision. Willow in a room getting out of the shower, being grabbed from behind by a demon carrying a knife with Greek lettering on it. The demon took the knife and slit her throat, before he started to write some sort of lettering with her blood.

Cordielia fell backwards while Phoebe caught her. "It was Willow… and she was right she was living here or maybe visiting-" She was cut short by Gunn coming through the front door with Dawn and Spike carrying a very unconscious Willow.

"Oh my God!" Was all Angel could say.
 

Part Three

Spike laid Willow on the floor and screamed, "Somebody help her!'

Wesley moved over to her unmoving form and checked her pulse. HE was about to say something when Spike cut in, "It's very weak, I don’t know if she'll make it."

"What happened?" Cordielia shouted to him.

"Buffy had this plan for everyone to leave, so we all packed up and left. We got as far as the border when these knights attacked us, Giles was injured and we had to take shelter in this shack. Buffy called her Doctor friend Ben to come and help, he turns into Glory and she takes Dawn. We had to go get her so Xander, Anya, Willow, Buffy and I went in to get Dawn. It was almost too late because she had already started the ritual, but we fought anyway and after a spell we had to retreat and Buffy dove at Glory sending them both into the portal. Willow went after her and was stabbed by a sword; I grabbed her and left. I didn't know where I was driving until I got here. I don’t even know if Buffy made it out." Spike started to cry and knelled down onto the floor.

All the while Angel was still standing in his state of shock, not believing what he was seeing. He knew she wasn’t going to make it, as he had seen wounds like that before. He knew Spike was in shock from seeing Buffy go into the portal and not being able to help her. Angel started to walk slowly over to Willow with thoughts of saving her the only way he knew how.

"Angel are you okay?" Cordy asked concerned. He just ignored her and knelt by Willow taking her hand.

"She's going to die Angel." Wesley said in a whisper.

"I know." He said as the tears began to fall, "But I can't do it Wesley, I can't take away her innocence. You saw how she was when she was a vampire."

"But Angel I don’t want to lose her anymore than you do. She is one of my good friends, you have to."

"Wait!" Phoebe shouted from behind them. "Leo, Leo I need you."

Suddenly Leo appeared by her side with her sister Prue with him.

"Move out of the way!" She screamed, at Wesley who complied and moved. "Leo you have to help her."

Leo moved by her side and took her hand. "It going to be okay." He said to Angel who moved back. Leo lifted her shirt slightly and placed his hand over her wound and sparks of blue light came out over Willow causing her to wake up. He stopped abruptly and moved back trying to catch his breath. Willow placed her hand over her half- healed wound and looked around her.

"Why am I here? Oh my god Buffy, what happened to Buffy?" She sobbed.

Angel looked at Willow, then to Leo and then back at Willow before putting his arms around her.

"It's alright, just rest and in the morning we can talk about all of this." Angel picked Willow up and took her up the stairs to his room. He laid her down in the bed and held onto her while she drifted off to sleep.

Meanwhile downstairs everyone was in a panic looking from one person to another trying to figure out what was going on. Spike was sitting on the floor by the wall with his head buried in his hands. Leo was trying to figure out why he couldn’t heal Willow completely and the rest were sitting around in a state of shock. Moment's later Angel came back down and walked over to Spike.

"How long has it been since you've fed?"

"Three days, maybe. Can't really remember, don’t really care." He answered back, "Look now that red is alright I'm leaving, I don’t have any reason to stay here and I would like to go back and look for Buffy."

"Thanks for what you've done. But how are you going to do anything when you hardly have the strength to carry Willow across the room. Spike stay here for a few days and then we'll go back together."

"That’s easy for you to say considering that you don’t love her anymore. But I do and I'm not going to let her just sit in some demon dimension or whatever alone. I'm going back and as soon as Giles gets out of the hospital we are going to find her."

"What about Dawn?"

"I'll return after we get your sis back, okay little bit."

Dawn nodded and hugged herself trying to get a grip on the past few days. She turned around trying not to think about what had happened to her sister.

"I'm sleepy, can I go upstairs with Willow?" She asked speaking for the first time since she arrived.

"Sure, it’s the third door on the left."

Dawn ran up the stairs as fast as she could holding in the tears that threatened to fall. Angel turned back to Spike and was about to say something when Leo cut him off.

"Is Willow fully human?"

"To the best of my knowledge. Why?" Angel answered

"Because I had trouble healing her. Phoebe knows that only happens when the person isn't fully human."

"Well I grew up with her and I never noticed anything weird about her. Well except now she's a witch and last time we spoke her girlfriend told her she scared her because her powers were too powerful." Cordielia said.

"That could help, I'm going to go talk to my boss and not that I care but you just said girlfriend, right?"

Cordielia nodded and Leo disappeared in his blue light. Angel turned to everyone and suggested that they all get some rest. The day's events had started to take a toll on everyone and it showed. Angel led Phoebe and Prue to the room next to Willow, while Cordelia decided to stay downstairs working on one of their current cases.

The next morning Willow awoke first, she moved from the bed slowly as not to wake Dawn. She walked to the bathroom and took off her clothes. She had been in them for the past four days and didn't feel clean or sane in them. After her shower she walked out of the room, in a robe, hoping to find some sort of food to eat. In the kitchen she ran into Angel warming some blood for Spike.

"Are you okay?" He asked shakily.

"Somewhat, I'm still sort of spaced out from all the energy I've used in the past few days."

"What do you mean by that?"

"This will take awhile… are you sure you don’t want to go give that to Spike first?"

"He's sleeping right now, I just wanted to have this ready in case he wakes up angry. He really cares about her, doesn’t he?"

"YOU have no idea, he almost threw himself in after her. If only I hadn't been so worried about Tara then I could have saved her." She started as tears fell from her eyes. "I ended up losing her anyway."

"You don’t know what could have happened Wil-"

"Neither do you. And I'm sick of people telling me that. You don’t know, I DO KNOW. If I would have left Tara, I could have pushed her back myself without Buffy having to do anything. I'm strong Angel, and I don’t know why. But as long as I have these powers I will do everything I can to help and back there I didn't do everything."

"Would you stop beating yourself up over it, destiny is destiny and there is nothing you can do about that. And before you say anything about that I've been through it, I couldn’t stop Doyle from sacrificing himself for me and it hurts to think about what I could have done."

"Yeah, so you know all, it doesn't make this any easier. It doesn’t make losing your best friend any easier."

Angel pulled her into a hug, "I know, just don’t do this to yourself. You'll end up hurting a lot more people. Willow you need to be strong like I know you can."

"Buffy said something like that to me before we left to fight. It made me feel like I could save the world on my own. Sounds silly huh? Me saving the world."

"It's not silly, you saved my world why not the entire earth? Anyway you didn't tell me about being spaced out."

"You kind of already know about what happened with Tara, she told me that I scared her because of how strong I am. The night Glory brain sucked her I went to her home and basically kicked her ass. If I hadn't done that then Glory wouldn't have came to my dorm room and found out Dawn was the key. After that we left town and when we were trapped in this abandoned shack I used more power keeping the knights out. When Glory kidnapped Dawn, Buffy kind of spaced out and I had to go into her mind so she could help save Dawn. It worked but you know what happened after that. I've found all this strength and lost my life."

"You're still not telling me everything that happened."

"I'm not ready yet Angel. I still need more time to adjust, you know?"

"I do, maybe you should go out tonight with Cordy and have some fun. And I'm sure that Piper and Prue would want to come."

"What about Dawn?"

"I'll stay with her and try to convince Spike to stay. She really likes him, and I think she's latched onto him."

Willow turned around. "I don’t know I don’t even have any clothes. Besides maybe I need to rest, I do have a half healed stab wound on my stomach."

"Just think about it. I think I hear Spike upstairs… I want to talk some more later. Be careful around those two in there, I don’t know anything about them and I worry about you."

"You worry about me?" Willow said smiling for the first time since she arrived.

"All the time." Willow was about to say something but was cut off by Angel putting his finger over her lips. "We'll talk later."
 

Part Four

Angel left the kitchen and Willow went in search of some clothes. She walked into the lobby and saw Cordelia sitting at the desk asleep. Willow strolled past her and went into the office. Willow noticed the closet in back and decided to look in there. Inside she found a box full of women's clothes. Willow looked through the contents carefully before choosing a simple summer dress. Everything else was either too big or too small; Willow closed the door to the office and put on the dress. As Willow left the room she noticed Cordelia was no longer sitting at the desk. Walking back into the kitchen she saw Cordelia sitting with two women she vaguely recognized from the night before.

"Look who decided to join us." Cordelia said noticing Willow. "And she found Angels stash of women's clothing."

Willow looked down at her dress. "He doesn’t wear them if that’s what you're thinking. We get a lot of guests, mostly women who stay here for days without clothes."

Willow noticed that the two women were staring at her strangely so she stuck out her hand. "I'm Willow."

"Phoebe." One said taking her hand, "and this is my sister Prue. We already know who you are, you're why we're here."

"I am?"

Prue stepped up, "We are witches like you, and Phoebe has premonitions and in one of them she saw you."

Willow started to shake slightly, "What was happening in it?"

"You were killed, but we are here to stop it. Are you okay?" Pure asked noticing Willow shaking.

"I don’t know." Willow fell to the ground.

Cordelia ran to find Angel after Prue and Phoebe went to her side. Prue checked Willows pulse and felt it was weak. "What is going on with her?"

Phoebe shook her head, "I wish I knew."

Prue stood up and started to call Leo again. Angel ran into the kitchen startled to see Willow on the floor. He dropped down beside her and checked her to find out what was wrong. When he started to smell blood he knew what was wrong. Angel was caught by surprise when his demon started to fight to come forward at the smell and sight of her blood. He jumped back and backed into a wall scared of what could happen.

Prue walked to him. "Whats wrong with you?"

"Something is wrong, her blood is different."

As Prue was about to say something Leo appeared next to Willow. Surprising everyone he grabbed her hand and just as quickly as Leo appeared he disappeared with Willow.

After awhile Angel regained control of his senses and realized what just happened. He pulled himself to his feet and grabbed Phoebe. "What just happened? Why did he take her?"

Angel was suddenly thrown into the wall. He looked up and noticed Prue looking at him hard.

"Don’t you ever touch my sister." She said in a stern voice. "Now we don’t know why he took her either. We have to just wait until Leo comes back."

"How do you know you can trust him like that? You can say what you want but I don’t trust him, and I don’t trust you." Angel stepped closer to Prue.

Just then Cordelia decided to jump in. "Whoa, just wait a minute here. Angel I know you can trust them; I felt it in my vision. I don’t know where he took Willow but you can trust them. What we need to figure out right now is why you went all wiggy."

Angel looked to Cordelia and then back to Prue. "It was something different in her blood. I never noticed it before but it's been there the whole time I've known her. But now its stronger, it made my demon go crazy."

"What do you think we should do?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm going to have Wesley check some of his books and I'm going to try and contact some of my old friends."

"I'll call Piper and ask her to check the book of shadows, see if there is anything in there about vampires and weird blood."

Prue shook her head and Looked towards Angel who was already leaving the room. She pulled out her cell phone and started to make some calls.
 

Part Five

Willow opened her eyes and looked towards the ceiling. The first thing she noticed was she wasn’t in LA anymore and the second was she wasn’t wearing the same thing she had on before she passed out. She was dressed in a small shirt with pants and they were all white, shoes included.

"Don’t worry child we won't hurt you." An old man said from the far corner of the room.

Willow looked around the room taking in her surroundings. Everything in the room was white, the furniture and even the fountain in front of the doorway, so much so that the brightness started to hurt her eyes.

"You'll get used to the color, it took me awhile too."

Willow looked at the man again. "Who are you? Why am I here?"

"I am Ambrose, head of the whitelighters and your real father. You are here to finally join us, earth is no longer suitable for you anymore."

"How come?"

"Your powers are becoming too strong, being half god is kind of funny that way. Either you stay plain old mortal, or you become a superior being like me… Well somewhat like me. You're not nearly as strong, but I can teach you to use your powers so that you are."

"What if I want to stay on earth?"

"Well that’s your decision, but I have to warn you there are people who will come after you. Demons and Warlocks who want to steal your power, and use it for evil."

"I fight them every day."

"Not these kind, they only exist for power, they're evil is pure evil. They want to take over the world enslave all of humanity and destroy us."

"Do I have to repeat myself." Willow said sarcastically

"No, but in time you'll see the difference."

"I want to go back."

"You want to go back for him."

"What are you talking about?"

"You don’t see it now, but soon you will. Willow I know I haven't been there for you but you have to know what kind of a predicament I was in. I am head of a society that demands me to be there every minute of every day. Your mother couldn’t accept me; she kept doing this amnesia thing when I told her. Finally one day she told me to leave and never come back. I came back though; I always kept you safe until you came into contact with your friends. After that you were grown and I knew one day you would finally be here standing before me. Another thing I noticed was him, I can't say his name because you don’t know yet. Neither one of you can see that you need each other. You can go back, but one day you will return. You'll have no other choice."

Ambrose waved his hand and Willow was transported in front of the hotel… with various bags of clothes. Willow bent down and noticed a card sticking out of one of them. She picked it up and opened it.

I hope you like the clothes, I know this doesn’t make up for lost time but it’s a start.
We have to talk more, I'll come for you in two days.
Dad

Willow smiled to herself and picked up the bags and entered the hotel. When she came in she saw Wesley sitting behind his desk reading a book, Prue talking to Phoebe, Cordelia making coffee while talking to Dawn and Angel pacing the room. She was about to say something when Angel looked up and saw her. He immediately ran to her checking her body for injuries.

"Where have you been?" He asked.

"I was up with the head of the white lighters. It seems that he is my father, and he wants me to stay with him."

"Your father?" Prue said walking up to her.

"He didn't tell me a lot about the situation because I kind of didn't want to hear anything he was saying. But I know what is after me."

"What?"

"Just about every demon and warlock who wants to steal my power. But I think I can handle it, I'm not weak."

"And I'll be here to help." Angel said putting a hand on her shoulder.

Willow smiled and almost jumped when Leo appeared next to her. Angel started to growl at him.

"Wait, I didn't want to leave without saying anything but orders are orders. You dont know how hard it is for me up there."

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