After The End Of The End

When they got out in front of the hospital, Xander was headbanging to something in his car, causing both Tara and Willow to look at each other and burst into laughter. Xander looked over with a smile, turning the music down and rolling the closest window down. 

"Hello ladies, your chauffeur has arrived." As Willow and Tara got closer, they realized the music he had been headbanging to was classical. They both started laughing again, until Willow clutched at her chest, tears in her shut eyes. Tara stopped laughing and put a concerned hand on her shoulder. 

"Willow-? What's wrong-?" 

"Can't.. Can't breathe…" Xander started to get out if the car hurriedly, and Tara turned back towards the hospital in case they needed help. "No.. Not that kind of- I was… when Xander, Buffy and I would go to the bronze.." Tara and Xander calmed down, realizing that she was just laughing. Tara smiled at that realization. She hadn't seen Willow like this in a while. "He.. Xander looked like a.. Like a goose-" 

"I did not-" Willow wheezed and Taras smile grew. 

"Lets get you two geese in the car already." Willow took a second to calm herself down, then replied quietly, 

"I'm not the goose. Hes the goose." 

"Anyone else hear honking?" 

"Meanie." 

***

Ace watched closely as the blonde and brunette led Willow towards the apartment, chittering to each other. For how depressed and traumatized Willow was supposed to be, she looked very happy. He growled to himself. That slayer gang might be too naive to see it, but this whole victim act the pathetic redhead was playing was all a trick. Kennedy had taken care of her just as he had with Kennedy before she was in the picture, and she tossed it aside with her needy whines. People were too weak to understand people like him, and the person he trained Kennedy to be. Too dumb to see the true way of the world. If you have power, you're supposed to use it. If you're weak, you work for the powerful. His fists curled. He hadnt intended Kennedy anymore than a possession for his pleasure, but she had grown into a prodejay who had finally accepted the way this world was. She was his /creation/ and no child-minded whiny witch was going to take that away. Kennedy had been trained under him, so there was no possible way that bitch /could/ take that away. On the off chance she had actually destroyed his creation of a person, she must have tricked her somehow. She had used that mind spell on the blonde witch, so she must have used one on Kennedy. Well she wouldn't get him. No, quite the opposite. Once he had his grip on her, she would beg for a mercy he would never allow.