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Date Posted: 10:26:19 08/04/04 Wed
Author: truelove
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 131.128.170.80
Subject: Re: FanFic "The Pet" - Part Two - AND SO IT WAS
In reply to: truelove 's message, "FanFic "The Pet" - Part One - The Arrival" on 15:01:37 08/03/04 Tue

AND SO IT WAS

Ilyria pushed back her hair and held it in place with an ornate comb that had belonged to Gunn's grandmother. She had no idea that she was beautiful. She looked at her image reflectively. When she heard Wesley coughing she swiftly went into the "recovery" room that had been set up by Angel for Wesley and Gunn. "Nurse" Ilyria had plenty to do these days.

Willow and Ilyria. What an odd combination for a prophecy to be fulfilled. It was written that a witch-goddess and an ancient one, long dead, would serve in the apocalypse in restoring balance. It didn't mention a souled vampire, nor the Shanshu, but they were connected as a string of events, and like lights on a Christmas tree, if one was blown, the others didn't function. Wesley in studying the scriptures and dusty books had seen no significance to that passage, nor could he decipher it without months of study. He simply was stretched too thin. Ilyria had taken much in the way of surveilance. She was his prime focus for months.

Willow had arrived uncertainly and with great trepidation. Longing to be of help, but wary of using her great powers less she be drawn into the darkness of the whirlpool of magics, she came because Buffy was going and she would back up Buffy. Buffy. She would always back up Buffy.

Ilyria came to her demanding therestoration of Wesley and the dying Gunn. Gunn was clinging to life by a thread. The witch was here, so the witch should follow her instructions.

Both men had been dealt the final blows, but some magic was involved and powers beyond human endurance, and both men were undeserving of such a fate. Ilyria ended up shamelessly begging. There was a time to be forceful, but it wasn't working with Willow.

Kennedy stood between Ilyria and Willow. Already jealous of Buffy's friendship with her beloved, she refused to be a part of anything that further threatened Willow.
"Hit the bricks, girly.", she said defiantly to the still powerful Ilyria. Her eyes were narrowed to mere slits.

Xander was on the fence about it. Sure, he wanted Wesley and Gunn to survive, but he loved Willow just too much to risk her. Giles was against the dark forces even if they were to be used for the good. Ilyia had to wait for a chance to speak to Willow alone.

"I almost destroyed the world", said Willow. "You can't imagine the powers that can be unleashed and the consequences of such acts." She shook her head.

"Yes, I can.", answered Ilyria. I almost became a bomb. I would have blown them all to smithereens.

"Really!",

"Yes, little one. Really."

"But this is different", Ilyria contintued. "We could join our powers and keep each other in balance. We could restore."

"You love him don't you?", Willow asked.

"I don't know …", Ilyria stammerd. "Fred did."

And so it was. The powerful and consuming spell all but drained Ilyria who insisted on being the one who would forfeit her existance of it failed. And the "blue one" as she was known, had extraordinary physical changes such as had Willow before her. Even when the spell was over and Willow collapsed , Ilyria felt not quite as before. She couldn't explain it, but she noticed that her eyes would change color from time to time. Small price for the return of her Wesley and of Gunn.

Willow would not restore the Immortal One. He had been killed by Angel, one of his own kind. It set up an uneasy and volitile situation between her and Buffy. Buffy blamed the death of her companion on Angel and Spike.

While Willow could do a bit, maybe just enough for Gunn to survive, and reverse the death of Wesley, there was nothing she could do for the Immortal one and for Buffy. She sadly knew the rift would be there. Buffy was ashamed of her feelings, and even of asking Willow, but desperate times often call for desperate measures. It hurt to be turned down by Willow. They had been through so much together.
And even as she forgave her, she built up a resentment for her own fate. It was a murky moil. Feelings were tense in sunny Italy.

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