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The three young adults ran after the horrific-looking demon, weapons out.
“Yes Buffy, it’s only a small demon Buffy, we don’t need back-up Buffy, just like old times sake” Buffy panted out at her friends, half-joking, half-serious.
Willow gave a flat look, re-doubling her efforts to catch up. “Yeah, but it was you that insisted that we didn’t need Giles!”
Xander ignored the pair and split, the demon was going to head down a small ally way and he needed to provide a slight distraction. He skidded to a halt at the end of the passage and swung his axe in preparation. Hofshnur, the demon, came bolting down the small street and tried to skid as it saw Xander. It spun and tried to back up but the girls came round the corner right at that moment in time. Hofshnur panicked, and in a move too quick for the Scoobies eyes to see, cast a brilliant white light at them. It connected and they startled in fear, but then realised that nothing had happened.
With a quick move, Buffy stabbed the demon through the chest, ending its pitiful existence. Willow and Xander joined her, throwing their arms up and over her in a friendly, group hug. That’s all they could do before that same white light over-took their eyes, then everything went black.
1999 (graduation year)
Willow blearily looked around. *That’s funny, it almost looks like the old Sunnydale library* She chuckled. She slowly pushed herself upright then blinked the fog away. *That’s odd. The library usually disappears when I’ve woken up* She stood and the realisation hit. This was.... bad to say the least. She was stood in the High School library again? But that was blown up on graduation day. She pinched her arm, then shook it out at the pain. It was real alright but that meant... time travel?
Willow was just making an itemised list in her head of events that she couldn’t change when the double doors burst open and Buffy screeched into the room. “Willow? Where’s Giles? We have a problem!”
Willow grinned. “Would your problem be a case of time travel? Cause I have that problem too-OOF!”
She let out a loud huff of air as Buffy crashed into her, holding her in a tight hug. They stood there, comforting each other, then mentally went through the last events of the future that they could remember.
Buffy spoke out loud eventually, “I recall being hit by that light, then slaying the demon, then you and Xander came over to give me a hug and that’s the last thing I remember - wait”
They looked at each other in horror. If they had come back after that hug, then, “Xander!”
The double doors opened at that second, with the male in question stumbling in. “I hear yas, what's up?”
Willow and Buffy both ran over to hug him hard. He was confused but dropped his hands onto their shoulders and gave them whatever comfort he could.
“What’s going on ladies?" He asked, confused at the sudden movement. They both stepped back and looked down.
“Xander, what’s the last thing you remember?”
Xander shrugged.
“Going to the vending machine to get some soda, why?”
Both of the girls faces dropped. They quickly explained the situation, then Willow turned to ring up Giles, whilst Buffy wandered the shelves, reminiscing. Neither noticed the flash of white-green in Xander’s eyes as he remembered everything, but they heard his gasp and saw his and move to his head. Willow quickly made amends to Giles.
"All three of us have somehow travelled, can you help?"