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((Moving forward from hereI watched absently as Wesley left the office, and slowly turned around to look out of the window. It still never failed to amaze me how I could look out on the city without burning up, and see all the people, going about their daily lives, never knowing the kind of evil that filled this world

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I slipped inside of Angel's office after Gunn and Wesley left. Angel looked distracted and at the same time I wondered how light could shine on him through the glass without him going poof in dust. I closed the door gently behing me.

"Angel?" I asked, letting out a soft breath. Hey, haven't seen you since the apocalpse!

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I looked up, startled, as my door opened again. Wes hadn't forgotten something, right? I turned around, and froze when I saw Buffy coming in.

"Buffy?" I asked, momentarily shocked, before recovering. "I mean, yeah... this is my office," I finished stupidly, watching as she walked in, looking around almost confusedly.

"So, um, what are you doing here?" I asked. I hadn't seen her since I had taken her the amulet; I had known that everything had ended well. Advantages of having a huge lawfirm with a nice TV right in my office.

It still didn't explain why she was here... I hadn't even heard from her after I had left Sunnydale. I had thought she had gone to Europe somewhere, but... obviously not, if she was here.

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"Um, actually just helping Dawn move in with Xander down here. Italy was a little much for her."

I commented, "Thought I'd come by and say hello, since I was here." Yeah, nice move, Buffy... very smooth.

"Bad time?" I asked, making a face. "You looked all thoughtful."

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"Oh... I didn't know Xander was living in LA," I said slowly. I was pretty good with keeping up with what they were all doing, wasn't I?

"So, um, hey," I said weakly after a moment. Then, "I mean, it's good to see you... unexpected, but... good. I knew you made it out of Sunnydale, but I didn't know anything after that."

I shrugged, then gestured to a seat. "So, um, you want to sit down? And no, it's not a bad time... I have to think a lot more in this job." Wryly, I added, "Something that te others tell me I didn't do too much of before..." I chuckled slightly, before remembering who exactly had tolds me that; Cordelia. Cordy, who was now in a coma, mostly because of me...

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"Yeah," I said slowly. All the Slayers in the world wouldn't be a very small number... just thinking about it made my head hurt, because I knew not all of them would think that I should be allowed to live like Buffy and a few others did.

"How are they handling this, though? I mean, after you get them to believe?" I asked her after a moment. It couldn't be easy... after all, I remembered when I had watched Buffy first be called... she hadn't had that easy of a time with it either.

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(( Ack, sorry, I totally didn't see this until I was doing my RP roundup. Also, yay for funny mistakes! ))

"A lot of them are pretty wigged. Which I totally don't blame them. The concept of vampires at first... pretty unbelievable..." I pointed out. "But, they're dealing. Giles is pretty good at that, but I'm sort of better at the fighting than making long speeches. Believe me, I found that out last year."

All the speeches last year... Yeah, though some were show stoppers, a lot of them tended to be tiring.

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"I would imagine," I said dryly. After all, it wasn't everyday that a teenage girl was told that there were vampires, and she was supposed to fight them.

"Well, I'm glad that you have everything under control," I said slowly after a moment. "At least this way, hopefully we won't have any Slayers getting themselves into trouble." My thoughts drifted briefly to Faith; Faith, who had been on the wrong side to begin with, then had had this destiny forced on her... hopefully, with the right help, no one would go the way Faith had gone. I didn't think I could quite handle any more psychotic Slayers...

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"I think it's good that there's a bunch of them..." I commented softly, thoughtfully. "It's less 'You are the chosen one' and more 'You are the chosen ones...'. There are other people like them. Feeling like I know they must feel."

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"Yeah," I said vaguely, smiling at Buffy. "I didn't agree with that, either, so... no more world peace." I shrugged, even as I remembered how everything had felt so... perfect while Jasmine was around. Everything had been so... beautiful, with no pain, no hatred, no loneliness... I shook myself slightly, looking back at Buffy. Jasmine was gone; we had to deal with things the way they were now, not the past, or the way things could have been

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"You know... it sounds bad when you say 'no more world peace'..." I commented with a sort of laugh. A half-laugh, one could say.

I paused. It's strange. This town used to feel at home and now? All I want to do is go far far away from it.

"I'll be here for about a week. Then I'm back to Italy." I shuffled, "I'll visit Dawn though... of course. I'm really going to miss her." ... as well as other things, I added silently.

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"I know," I said. "But this wasn't the kind of world peace everyone wanted." I smiled a little at her half-laugh, then it faded as I remembered exactly what all had happened.

"Dawn will probably miss you, too," I added after a moment. "I mean, it's her first time really being away from you, isn't it? And college... kind of a big thing, isn't it? When she's ready for it, I mean."

Dawn had grown a lot since I had last seen her, I gathered... from what I had seen when I went to Sunnydale, and what I had heard from Buffy when we had last talked. It was good, that she was growing up... She didn't need Buffy looking after her anymore.

"And, you know, if you need help paying for college and all, you can call me. I mean, huge lawfirm now and all..." I offered. "It's the least I can do, you know?"

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"Guessing not," I agreed with a small smile. "I don't think you'd end world peace if it was actually good. That'd be kinda counterproductive of your mission statement."

"Yeah, I know Dawn'll miss me. As much as we do the sisterly fighting? We sort of love each other." I laughed slightly, thinking for a moment. "She'll love having her big sister off her back though. I know that."

I hated to think of my sister actually growing up. Maybe even meeting a boy even though I was younger than her when I dated. She'd hate me watching every moment. Maybe I can get Xander to do that for me.

"Oh, believe me, she's going to apply to every scholarship available. That's if she wants to go. Which I hope she does. Going to school? Actually can be fun. That's what I've learned." I replied with a nod.