Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy stood on Kingsman bluff and looked out over Sunnydale. A little town that had no idea how close it had come to being wiped off the face of the earth. And possibly the earth being burned to a cinder. She turned around and looked back at the person who had managed to save the world. Xander Harris, one of her best friends, was slowly walking up to join her despite his very obvious injuries and her kid sister Dawn walking at his slow pace, worrying over him. Buffy tried not to think about her other best friend, Willow, who had tried to burn the world down around them.

"Hey." She said with a simple nod. Not much else she could say without breaking down for an hour and bawling her eyes out.

"Hey." Xander nodded back.

"Do I need to get some horses for all this hey?" Dawn joked.

Xander chuckled and then went still as he suddenly took several deep breaths as his arms encircled his body. Dawn reached out to hold him but stopped short as he waved her off. Buffy even found herself stepping towards him, eyes fixed on the visible bandages that covered most of his chest underneath his open button down shirt.

"I'm... okay... ish." Xander haltingly got out while exhaling.

"You sure?" Buffy asked.

"Lets just... not laugh for the next little while, huh?" He asked.

"No more knee jerk irony. That's gonna be a hard thing to do." Buffy shook her had in mock sadness.

"A Herculean task." Dawn added. "For you Gen Xer's."

"I'll manage." Xander kept a hand over the bandages on his chest.

"Soooo moving on..." Dawn swept a hand forward towards what brought them here.

"Yeah. That. The temple of whatever that Willow was trying to use to while riding with the Dark side." Xander slowly shuffled up the the statue atop a spire of a temple that was now half burried under Kingsman bluff. A buxom nude goddess was sculpted looking imperious, arm out stretched, finger pointing. "She was tryin' to do something with this. Raise it up and pour the bad juju into it."

"Great." Buffy groaned. "Who is it supposed to be?"

"I have no clue." Xander sighed. "Willow wasnt exactly sharing while we were up here." He once again put a hand to his bandaged chest.

"And Wills left with Giles late last night." Buffy tried to do the mental math. "So, that's like... a twelve hour flight... plus then driving to wherever Giles said the witches are..."

"Yeah, forget it." Dawn shook her head. "The two of them are probably stuck in a car somewhere trying to get out of London. Maybe."

"Sooo..." Buffy looked at the statue, "Research ourselves?"

Dawn and Xander 'mmm-hmmmed' in tandem.

"Joy."

"On the brightside I have rope in my trunk." Xander offered cheerfully.

"And that's good why?" Buffy asked.

"Look behind the statue, there's an air shaft leading into the temple. Big enough for some people to fit thru." He gave Buffy a look.

"If we are going to find a place to start it probably is going to be on site." Dawn mused.

"Spelunking a creey buried temple. This is not the way I wanted to spend my day." Buffy grumbled.