Missing

Kennedy heard the phone ringing in her dreams. ‘Why is there a phone on the beach?’ her dream self asked. It was a few minutes before she realized that it was the phone in the hotel room ringing. She slowly opened her eyes and rolled out of Faith’s embrace to answer it.

“Hello?” she said huskily into the phone.

“Kennedy?” Buffy’s voice questioned on the other end.

“Yeah… hey Buffy…”

Buffy didn’t let Kennedy finish. “Where’s Willow?” The worry in her voice was extremely evident and Kennedy was jolted awake with the question.

Sitting up in the bed she asked, “What do you mean where’s Willow? She’s supposed to be there with you!”

“She’s not. Her train arrived here four hours ago, but she wasn’t on it. The coven is working on trying to find her, but they aren’t having much luck. They think she’s blocking them for some reason.”

“Willow wouldn’t do that.” Faith had sat up next to Kennedy and was listening as best she could to the conversation.

“I don’t think so either. But something is! Did something happen there? Anything that would have upset her so much that she would have taken off?” Kennedy suddenly felt guilty.

“Well…we broke up…”

“You guys broke up? Great… I bet she went…”

It was Kennedy’s turn to cut Buffy off, “It wasn’t like that Buffy! We’re both cool with it. We both knew it was coming. She was fine when she left. Besides, even if she was upset, she wouldn’t bail on something as serious as this! She would have gone to you guys and suffered until all of this stuff was taken care of.”

“Are you sure she wasn’t upset?”

“I’m positive!”

“Then I don’t know what else could have happened to her.”

“Did anyone check with the airline to see if she got off the plane? Or the train people to see if she boarded?”

“Yeah…we’re checking on that right now.”

“I think we need to start there. I’ll make some calls and see what I can figure out. Have you called Giles and Dawn?”

“Not yet… I wanted to talk to you first.”

“We need to get them on this too. Everyone needs to stop what they are doing and help find Willow.” Kennedy’s voice was rising in pitch and Faith knew that something seriously bad was going on and that Willow was missing. “Should we catch a flight over there?”