“Osiris let her crossover.” Willow says
“Now, Willow we need to move now. The demons are getting closer, the others have left already.” Xander says
“No I am not leaving her. I failed her, Buffy is really dead.” Willow starts to cry and allows Xander to drag her away. Not looking back, if they would have looked back they would have seen Buffy’s hand coming out of the grave.
Buffy pulled herself out of the grave, and stood looking around. *Where am I* she wonders, then she remembers the fight with Glory. Her telling Spike were not all going to make it, and I’m counting on you to protect her. She sees her self jumping from the tower, then suddenly she felt cold and angry, she was happy where she was, she was in Heaven and she was done.
A demon suddenly grabs her from behind.
Buffy lets out a scream “Ahhhhhh!” Her need to fight takes over; she is the slayer after all. Half way through the fight she feels a great power surge through her. *This is strange she thought maybe it has something to do with just becoming alive again.* after she kills the demon she runs home. Standing looking at her house she decides to try the window. “I’m not in the mood to see anyone right now I hope it is still unlocked.” she says to herself. Once in her room she lays on the bed not even aware that Spike and Dawn are downstairs watching TV.
Spike hears a noise and puts his senses on alert and tries not to worry Dawn. After a few minutes he starts to relax and watch the movie with Dawn again. Then they hear a scream.
Spike and Dawn look at each other and Dawn asks “What was that?” before getting of f the couch and running upstairs to Buffy’s room with Spike. Once they get up to Buffy’s room they see her on the bed. Right away Dawn runs up to Buffy “Buffy is that really you?” she asks while Spike stays back leaning against the door frame looking at Buffy. Dawn reaches out to touch Buffy but Buffy pushes herself back into the corner of the bed and the wall. “But How?” Dawn ask but gets no reaction from Buffy. “Buffy would you, please just say something. It’s me Dawn.
Spike coming out of the shock tells Dawn “She is Scared, give her a few minutes.”
Hearing Spike talk Buffy looks at him and then back to Dawn. “Dawn” Buffy says quietly.
“Yes, Buffy it’s me Dawn, your sister.
“Why am I here?” Buffy asks while starting to cry.
“I don’t know, I don’t know” Dawn says crying now too.
“Dawn” Spike calls out to her.
Buffy hears the louder voice and goes to move back again but Dawn stops her. “It’s ok, it’s only Spike”
“Spike!” Buffy says looking at Dawn then Spike.
“Yes you remember Spike, don’t you?” Dawn asks and Buffy nods.
Looking back up at Spike and having calmed down some, she asks “Help me?”
He walks into the room and kneels down in front of her “What’s wrong Buffy?” he asks.
Holding up her hands is responds to his question “Hurts”.
“We’ll get you fixed up after you get cleaned up.” He gets up and gently kisses her forehead. “I’m going to go run you a bath” he tells her and then quietly leaves the room. When Spike is done running the water he pops he’s head into Buffy’s room. “The water is ready, I’m just going to go and get stuff ready downstairs.” he tells Dawn.
“Alright” she says to Spike.
“Let’s get you cleaned up.” Dawn says leading Buffy to the bathroom and helping her get in the tubs, and washing her off. Dawn dries her off and puts some clothes on her and does her hair. “There how does that feel. No more caked on dirt.”
“Good I guess.”
“Come on lets go downstairs, Spike was getting the first aid kit to fix your hands and making you something to eat. Dawn says while guiding Buffy down the stairs.
Spike is sitting in the living room waiting for her with the first aid kit. Buffy sits on the coffee table in front of him and gives him her hands. “Help me?” she asks him.
Keeping his voice soft so he doesn’t scare her like he did before and able to sense a lot of fear still rolling off her, hr responds in just above a whisper. “Yes, I will.” He opens the first aid kit and starts to clean her hands.
Buffy lets out a whimper “Hurts” she tells him.
“I know it will stop in a minute.” Spike finishes up her hands.
Same time 2 hours away at the Hyperion Hotel in L.A. Angel Investigations Offices
“Well that was too easy.” Wesley say
“Too easy.” Gunn says. “It’s as if they are giving the big guy a break, knowing he is still mourning over Buffy.”
“SHHH! Keep it down; we don’t want him to brood more than usual.” Cordelia says.
“I don’t brood; I just have a lot on my mind.” Angel states.
Cordelia grips the counter and lets out a gasp.
Walking up to Cordelia, Angel states “Oh, thank you she is having a vision, maybe we can get more works.
In her vision Cordy see, Spike sitting in a car talking to Buffy. Then in an abandoned lair where, he tells her he had feelings for her, Buffy finding the shrine to her in Spikes crypt. Him threatening to stake Drusilla for Buffy if she would give him a crumb. Buffy and Spike talking about how, he couldn’t give Dawn up to Glory it would kill, the other, not so nice Buffy if he did and she would hate him even more. Buffy kissing Spike and him asking about the robot. Buffy in front of a fire with the first slayer, being told death is your gift, and that she is full of love. At Buffy’s house the night she dies with Spike, Were not all going to make it, I’m counting on you to protect her, till the end of the world even if that is tonight. Buffy jumping and Spike’s broken down crying. Then they show Cordelia a date. Oct. 2, 2001 she realizes it is today. Then she sees Buffy waking up in a coffin and clawing her way out of her grave. Her fighting Demons and then going home to her bed and lying down. It shows her fear and her relating to Spike with only a few words. Her turning from her friends. It then flashes a message to Cordelia saying this is a Message for and put up a picture of Spike, From the Powers to Be. She comes out of her vision and backs up to the circular couch in the center of the lobby.
“What did you see?” Angel asking her, moving to where she is on the couch.
“I don’t know, It was weird but the message wasn’t for you.” she tell him
“What do you mean?”
“At the end of it, it flashed a picture of a person and said the message was for him.”
“Well at least we can find him, whoever it is.” Angel says
“No need he is in Sunnydale.” Cordelia says. “Now I am going into the office to contact him, you can come if you want but you keep quiet and we will talk about it later. Got it Buster.”
“Got it.”
Angel follows Cordelia into the office and sits on a chair, while she sits at the desk and picks up the phone to call Spike.
Conversation on the phone between Spike and Cordelia.
Hearing the phone ringing, Spike looks at the display on the phone and at a sleeping Buffy beside him on the couch. He picks up the phone and walks into the kitchen. “Hello, Peaches to what I owe this honor.” he asks.
“You are just the person I am looking to speak to.” Cordelia tells him.
“What do you want cheerleader.”
“Spike has anything strange happened in Sunnydale tonight?” she asks
Spike thinks should I tell them about Buffy or not. Knowing that Angel will not sit and wait if he tells she is back so she decides to go with. “Nothing more than usual.”
“So no one dug themselves out of a grave tonight.
Bloody Hell she knows he thinks to himself. But does not give her what she wants to know. So playing it cool with the Cheerleader. “That happens every night here, Cheerleader so if you don’t mind, I need to check on a girl.”
“Don’t, Bullshit me Spike. I know damn well Buffy is back, seemed to have crawled out of her grave tonight.”
“How?” Spike asks.
“Powers that be sent me a vision of some of your finer moments over the last year, And Buffy’s. Really I don’t understand why Buffy wouldn’t give you what you asked for to stake Dru.”
“What all do you know?” he asks
“Enough that Buffy is going to need you help. I don’t know why the PTB picked you; I also don’t know all the help she will need. Giles is in England and Angel will do anything that need to be done to help her, we also have an ex-watcher on staff, so if you need any help. “She tells him.
“Alright will do. I got to go the gang just got back and the Whelp is shooting me death glares.”
“The Whelp” Cordelia asks.
“Harris” Spike says.
Cordelia laughs. “Oh the big bad Vampire is scared of a little normal human called Xander Harris. Come on Spike if it was Willow, Tara or Buffy I might believe you, but not when you could drain him dry in seconds.”
“Not when I can’t defend myself.”
“What does that mean?”
“Got to go Cheerleader, Can’t do what you asked if Harris stakes me, Now can I.” Spike hangs up the phone.
“That was weird.” Cordelia says. As she hangs up the phone and leaves the office.
“It was Spike; I don’t think weird covers it.” Angel says. Following her out of the office.
squawks
05/18/17 04:16 am
pj! I remember wishing one of your stories would be finished seriously about a decade ago. Amazing. I just tried an old password I used to use and amazingly got in too. Memories!
pj
03/20/17 01:20 am
10 yrs later, i finally rem my username and password. Pari, you rock. Hope you are well.
Rabbit_moon1
12/23/16 01:12 pm
I donate every month. Please donate to keep this site up!
AudryDaluz1
10/06/16 08:34 am
Great post.
Chrissel
08/31/16 03:45 pm
And anyone else who loves this site, it's worth mentioning there's a nifty little "Donate" option just below the shout box here! ;)
Chrissel
08/31/16 03:43 pm
Just wanted to take a moment to thank Pari and all the mods for maintaining such a great site!
05/18/17 04:16 am
pj! I remember wishing one of your stories would be finished seriously about a decade ago. Amazing. I just tried an old password I used to use and amazingly got in too. Memories!
pj
03/20/17 01:20 am
10 yrs later, i finally rem my username and password. Pari, you rock. Hope you are well.
Rabbit_moon1
12/23/16 01:12 pm
I donate every month. Please donate to keep this site up!
AudryDaluz1
10/06/16 08:34 am
Great post.
Chrissel
08/31/16 03:45 pm
And anyone else who loves this site, it's worth mentioning there's a nifty little "Donate" option just below the shout box here! ;)
Chrissel
08/31/16 03:43 pm
Just wanted to take a moment to thank Pari and all the mods for maintaining such a great site!