Cander (Cordy/Xander)

The Helping Seer

Summary: A certain brunette comes back to Sunnydale after getting word about Willow. Can she save the day? Based on "Seeing Red" and further on after Willow turned Dark Willow. Set in S6 of Buffy and S5 of Angel. Cordy never went into a coma.

It was a beautiful day. Willow and Tara were talking.

Just then, Warren came into the yard and shot Buffy.

"Buffy!" Xander yelled out.

Warren continued to shoot, as Xander knelt by the Slayer.

"Buffy. Oh, God."

Warren left the yard and Xander called an ambulance, at the same moment that Tara fell to the floor shot dead.

Willow called upon Osiris, kneeling beside her lover.

"Osiris, I command you! Come forward! I call upon you!"

He came forth.

"Bring her back!"

"It cannot be done. She died a mortal death."

Her eyes turned black and she screamed at him in rage and pain. It was mixed with the sound of wind.

She walked out and towards the Magik Shoppe.

When she entered, she went to each book and touched it, which made her hair, eyes, and clothes turn back. All knowledge of all magic went to her mind and sunk in. She then left.

As soon as Anya and Xander saw her, they realized she had changed a whole lot. She was very powerful now. The most powerful witch ever.

That night, she killed Warren and then looked at Xander and Anya.

She was about ready to release her magic, when someone came between them. A brunette.

"Glad you could make it," Anya told her.

Cordelia Chase stood facing the witch.

They did a stare down that Xander always hated. It was the Queen C glare. The boss of all glares.

"You know what I hate? My friends turning evil and coming after me and the rest of us. But I'll make an exception. You wanna hurt them? You gotta go through me first. You know it. Don't hold back. I'm gonna die from my visions anyway. Why not die a hero? Buffy did. She always does. And me? I'm just a different kind of hero. I'm a Seer. I take pain and suffering personally."

"What's she doing, An?"

"She's taunting her to save us."

"You called her?"

"Ya. I did."

"Come on, Willow. Remember high school? All through school I was mostly to you. I know you still feel that pain, anger, and hatred towards me. Give it your best shot. Try to hurt me. Try to kill me. I know you want it."

Willow through all the dark magic at her that she had, but Cordelia kept ducking from her magic, too quick to be hit.

Realizing she wouldn't be very easy to get at, she disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Where'd she go?" Cordelia asked.

"Probably to jail. She wants Jonathan and Andrew dead. You guys hurry. I'll teleport there and wait for you."