phone call @Buffy

Buffy: [can hear Willow crying. None of this is right.] It was my idea, we did it together. [She’s not going to let Willow blame herself for this. It was a team effort. They both knew what they were doing.] You’re not going to say that. You are good. I know it, I feel it. What we did was right. [Through her tears she realizes something.] I don’t care what someone in another dimension or plane or whatever says. I’m here and you are good. This is where life is happening and we saved the world that day. [She has to stop and breathe because she’s talking so fast. She lets out a short sob, unable to stop crying.] You are good Willow. And even if you aren’t, I don’t care.
Willow: [shakes her head violently.] W-what do I do? Buffy, what do I do? I can’t…how can I live with myself o-or make anyone live with me, or anything? I-I’m…Buffy, I’m so.. [She swallows.] H-help me.
Buffy: [purses her lips, thinking of how to answer, how to convey all that she is feeling] You don’t have to make anyone want to be with you. So many people love you and want to be with you, to help you. [She lets out a sharp breath, the tears have finally stopped and her mind is clear] I know what I said before. That I couldn’t be around you. But I was wrong. [She swallows down the lumps in her throat, admitting it makes her feel better. Lighter maybe? She was wrong.] I was weak, Willow. I forgot my truth. The only truth worth listening to. [Buffy runs her free hand through her hair pausing to wet her lips, and continues.] You have to keep fighting, Willow. Keep trying. It’s the best any of us can do.