Title: Come Back To Me
Author: Author: Tracey G
Email: sissa_003@yahoo.com
Summary: Takes place during Surprise. What if Dalton hadn't attacked them at the docks and Angel had left on the cargo ship?
Spoilers: Surprise
Rating: PG-14
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em so don't sue 'cause ya won't get much. Also the transcript I used to write this with was made by AleXander.
Dedication & Thanks: I really have to dedicate this to my best bud Christina. She must have spend an hour trying to help me come up with a title. It defiantly wasn't easy 'cause I was *really* picky. Thanks for helping even though I didn't use the one I told you I was going to use.

Part 4


A pair of hands hooked over the top of the cemetery wall, and Buffy pulled herself up. She coughed as she pulled her legs over. She jumped over the other side. When she hit the ground she had to use her hands to keep from falling over. She was breathing heavily through her mouth because her nose was stuffed up. Sniffling, she pulled a stake out of her jacket. She put her hand to her forehead and moaned as she stood up. Slowly she started to make her way across the graveyard.

Sniffling and rubbing her nose, she sensed something and tried to concentrate while she slowly approached a small mausoleum. She raised her stake and jumped around the corner, swinging it to strike at whatever was there.

Xander screamed and reflexively jumped back, holding on tightly to his own stake. Cordelia let out a high-pitched scream behind him. Willow was there, too, and the girls both reflexively held up crosses at Buffy.

"Non-vampire," Buffy said raising an eyebrow. "Plus two."

"Hi," Willow said sternly as she put away her cross .

They all stepped out into the open.

"Man, Buffy!" Xander gasped. " My whole life just flashed before my eyes!" He glanced over at Willow. "I gotta get me a life!"

"What are you doing here?" Buffy asked.

"What are *you* doing here?" Willow asked back.

"I just wanted to do a quick patrol before I met Angel at the docks." She smiled brightly. "He's coming home tonight."

"Buffy, I know you want to see Angel, but you're sick," Willow said concerned. "Angel loves you, and he wouldn't let you patrol in your condition."

"I feel fine. I mean, I'm... the world's spinning a little bit, but I like it, it's kinda like a ride."

"Half the school's out with this flu. It's a serious deal, Buffy. We're all concerned about how gross you look." Cordelia said in her usual tact free way.

"I'm touched. Really," Buffy said with a hint of sarcasm. "But I really want to see Angel tonight."

"And you will. We'll meet him at the docks, tell him your sick, and he'll come visit you at your house. Simple as that," Willow said trying desperately to get her go home.

"You know, I'd really like to see Angel tonight, myself." A figure stepped out of the shadows.

"Spike," Buffy hissed between clenched teeth.

"The prick took Dru's present, and I want to get it back."

"Your pathetic if you think your ever going to get that back."

He attacked, running toward her and tackling her to the ground. Buffy pushed him off her and jumped to her feet. She grabbed him by the collar of his coat and swung at him with her stake. He blocked her with his arm, grabbed hers and made her drop the stake.

"Who's pathetic, now?"

Buffy looked up at him and punched him in the jaw. He glared at her and tried to kick her, but she grabbed his foot and shoved his leg up, making him fall hard onto his back.

"You know, that made me feel alot better " she wisecracked

Spike scrambled to all fours. She came at him from behind and tried to kick him, but he kicked out with his leg into her chest, and she staggered back a ways until she regained her balance. He got up and came toward her. She took a couple of swings at him, but he evaded them easily. He blocked a third, grabbed her arm and took her by the throat.

"You know, you being off your game's kinda takin' the fun out of all this." Spike punched her in the face, and she stumbled backward again. "Nope, still fun!"

He punched her in the gut, then grabbed her by the neck and shoved her into a corner column of the small mausoleum. She was dazed and tried to regain her balance, but didn't get a chance because Spike wasted no time punching her in the face and knocking her flat on her back. He got on top of her and pined her arms down.

"Just so you know, I'm going to enjoy every minute of this." Spike lowered his head toward her neck.

He was about to bite her when Willow threw Xander's jacket over his head. As she backed away, Xander grabbed his head under the jacket, punched him and kneed him twice in the face. Spike fell over onto his back. Willow and Cordelia pulled out their crosses and held them out at him.

"Take a walk, overbite," Xander yelled as Spike ran off. He walked over to Buffy and helped her to her feet. "Are you okay?"

'I told you guys to leave, I..." Buffy put her hand to her forehead. She was starting to get really dizzy. "I... Oh..." She fell to the ground unconscious.

"Buffy!" Xander cried out in alarm.

Willow and Cordelia turned to look. "Buffy?"

Xander knelt next to her and looked up at Willow and Cordelia. "We need to get her to a hospital."




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