Title: Questions

Author: Electra

Rating: PG

Summary: Exactly what happened and why?

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the idea.

Distribution: Tell me and take it.

Notes: Last in the 'Immortal Rebirth Trilogy'. Can I please have feedback?

Questions

"Willow?" Buffy's voice came out in a disbelieving whisper.

Willow nodded silently, waiting for her reaction.

Buffy's eyes welled with tears as she reached out and enveloped Willow in a hug. Willow half-laughed, half-cried as she tightly held onto Buffy in return. Giles came to the door to find out why Buffy wasn't back yet and stopped dead.

Willow looked up at him, smiling tearfully, "Hi Giles."

Giles sputtered in disbelief, "What--how--when??"

Angel stepped up to the doorframe, "I think we should come inside."

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"..And that's how we are standing here right now. But we don't know why exactly and were hoping you could help us figure it out." Willow finished the long story.

"That's odd," Giles frowned, "there are no prophecies about this."

"Could we have misunderstood the previous one?" Cordelia asked. They all looked at her, so she continued, "I mean, the one about the Wicked, you know? Could we have misunderstood what it was saying?"

Giles cocked his head to the side, "It's possible. Let me find it."

While Giles went hunting for the prophecy, the teens talked.

"I thought I'd never see you again," Buffy sniffed, remembered grief making her eyes water.

"Me too, it was horrible, you're the heart and soul of this group, Wills." Xander explained.

"What am I, chopped liver?" Spike faked a wounded expression.

Everyone rolled their eyes and ignored him. Giles returned with the book that held the 'Prophecy of The Wicked'.

"Here it is again,

'The Prophecy of The Wicked,

On the eve of that planetary alignment, the darkness

shall seek out the light and as the planets unalign,

the light and the darkness shall be bonded for

eternity by a force that compells one to be with the

other at all times, creating a desire to reunite

whenever they are separated.

The two's lives shall not be bliss, for their union

will cause an Angel's fall. He, in turn will attempt

to destroy one or both, for the pair is cursed with

absolute power and immortality. If death occurs

before the alignment, the power shall be transferred

to the one who succeeds.'"

Giles read it out slowly.

"What happened to the power it talks about in there?" Angel asked.

Giles shook his head, "I have no idea, since all of you died, I should think it dissipated."

"What if the power didn't dissipate, it was divided among all three of us?" Willow asked Giles eagerly.

"That couldn't happen though," Buffy argued, "They all died before the alignment didn't they?"

Giles' head shot up from the book, "Angel, do you know exactly when they died?"

Angel frowned, "Not the seconds, but I remember looking at Willow's watch after they died and before I did, it was 1:10. I think."

Cordelia's eyebrows lifted, "Why the hell would you look at a watch as they died?"

Angel flinched, "I wanted to know exactly when I killed them."

"Oh."

Giles waved his hand, "I need to know exactly when the alignment was. Willow--"

"It was at 12:58." Everyone looked at Willow, "What? I looked it up when I found out about the prophecy."

"When did it end?"

"1:05."

Giles let out a big sigh and smiled, "Then they are immortal, all three of them since Angel succeeded in killing them, but not in time I guess."

"That's good, right?" Xander asked.

"Yes it is, it's very good," Giles assured him.

Spike let out a cheer and picked Willow up and danced around the room with her, "We're immortal, luv, together forever!"

Willow laughed, "Eternity with you and Angel, oh joy."

~END OF SERIES~