Voicemail

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”Hi. This is Willow's cell phone. I'm apparently not here right now, so if you'd leave a message I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks.”

“Hey, Willow. It's Buffy. I'm calling from London – well, outside London. Look, we need you to look up something about were-cats and the new moon. We're having some problems here, and need to know if it's 'slayage' serious or just 'annoying' serious. Call me back on this number when you have something. Thanks. Bye.”

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”Hi Willow. It's Buffy again. Anything on those were-cats? The new moon-thing is coming up in another day or so, and we need to know if they're affected like werewolves and the full moon or not. I'd call the Magic Box again, but Anya's being especially rude and self-centered about the whole thing. Anyways, please call me back soon.”

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”Willow, I do wish you'd answer your phone at some point. Well, anyways, I suggest you look in the 'Animagicus' text in the Magic Box. It should be on the third shelf from the top. I hope to hear from you soon.”

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”Any luck yet, Willow? Buffy's getting twitchy and Giles keeps trying to calm her down while spouting dire warnings. It's actually very amusing to watch. Anyways, I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing. Later, Wills.”

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”Wills, it's Buffy again. You should really turn on your phone when you're researching stuff. Well, anything on the research front? Moon rise is in less than two hours, and I could really use the info. Call me back, ASAP!”

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”Hey Willow, it's Dawn again. Don't worry about that whole were-cat thing. Giles called in a favour at the Watcher's Council and got them to give him the info, then Buffy made with the slayage. Anyways, since this is the first time Buffy's let me near the cell phone since we got here, I thought I'll let you know what's up.

This place is soooo boring. Buffy spends most of the day either shopping or intimidating the Watchers, while Giles is all 'I'm so great, I have a Slayer' to the entire Council. I wish I could have stayed home with you. We always have fun, and you don't treat me like an unwanted third wheel.

On that subject, what have you been up to? I haven't heard from you since before we left for boring-land, and was wondering how your summer's going. Tell me all about it, even if it's as boring as my own. Or actually, email me. Giles finally relented and let me have access to one of the computers at Council headquarters, so I have net access -

.....yeah, alright....geez.... Well, looks like I have to cut this short. Phone-zilla here wants her precious cell phone back. I miss you. Bye.”

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Willow deleted the last message, and tried not to feel sad that this was the first time in over a month, that one of her friends had tried to contact her.

It was easy to understand Anya's lack of contact, as the two of them had never really been close enough for that, but Xander hurt. She understood he was on a job in San Francisco, but he could still pick up a phone every now and then. But Buffy and Giles hurt the most, because after a month, the only calls she got were in the middle of a slayage-crisis. Which they hadn't really needed her for, after all.

She'd had to put in some extra hours at work when one of the main servers developed a glitch and all the other techs had been out on calls, so when she'd checked her messages, she'd been surprised to see she had so many. There was one from Gibbs about his own late night, but the rest were from Buffy, Giles and Dawn.

And only Dawn had asked after her. It sounded like Dawn was as bored in England as Willow was sure she would have been in Sunnydale all summer, and silently thanked her uncle for the invitation to Washington.

Save number? flashed on her screen as she deleted the previous messages, and after a moment's consideration, selected No.

Willow made a note to email Dawn before she went to bed, because the teenager had actually sounded interested in how Willow was doing. And lonely, too.

At least her summer was turning out more interesting than she'd planned.

It was good to have family.

END

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