Though Decisions

Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Giles, Wood, Alyssa. The new character Alyssa is made up by me, she's a part of the gang for quite some timenow.

Summary: The story begins with Giles and Wood, making a pact. What will be the outcome, and most of all how will Buffy and Alyssa react.

Disclaimer: I don't own them, just love 'em.

***part one***

It's a dark and cold night in Sunnydale. Buffy and Alyssa are sitting at the porch, looking up at stars. Both of their minds wrapped around the evil that's on his way. Both of them trying to find ways of defeating it. And both of them thinking of a guy. Suddenly Alyssa sighs.

" Why has life has to be this hard?", Alyssa asks.

" You really had to ask me, huh..", Buffy laughs. "You found your answer"

" I didn't mean that, I kinda meant., oh I don't a know.., life with a guy?"

" A guy? What guy? You have a guy? Since when?"

"Yes, Giles, yes, since I went to England."

"Wow, you mean, you and Giles, you and Rupert Giles? The oh so boring but yet very smart Giles?", Buffy surprisely asks.

"Yeah, me and Giles. It's a long story, but the summary goes like this. Giles and me were already interested in each other when he was still here. We just didn't show, knowing that we would be the subject of the oh so subtle remarks. We just wanted to see where we were heading. So when he told me he went to England, I felt said. Wanted to go with him, but I couldn't leave you and the gang."

"So that's why you went to England"

"Yeah. I mean, the main reason was Willow of course. Wanted to see how she was doing. But I also wanted to spent some time with him, see if we could make it in the real world. And we did.. sort of".

"Didn't go to well huh?"

" No it didn't. I was missing patrol, missed the action. Giles was ordering me around, he even told me I'd better forget about you, cause in the end it was you alone you had to save the world. That I couldn't help, stuff like that. And the worst part, I believed him. But it didn't took long for me to realize, that he wasn't right for me. That's when I came back. Leaving him was quite hard, he put up quite a fight."

Alyssa looked to her feet, still feeling hurt when she thought back of her departure. She remembered the look on his face, the way she hurt him, the things she said. She sighed, life was hard, too hard.

***part two***

Meanwhile Wood and Giles are making a pact. Giles will stall Buffy when patrolling. With that giving Wood some time, to have his revenge. Hurt Spike, the way he had hurt him, by taking his mother's life. Wood's face is filled with sarcasm, telling Giles he's just waiting for the right time.

Finally sun has set. Buffy and Giles left the house right that moment and headed to the cemetary. Not much later Wood and Spike leave and head to Wood's sanctuary. When he opens the door and turns on the light, Spike is shocked. Each wall is covered with crosses. Suddenly Spike knows, he's not just here to be quarded. He's here to be killed. Suddenly Spike here's music playing. Some old song, that suddenly turns the adreline into rage, anger. Wood turns around and starts fighting him. Spike hits back, and for a moment it looks like he's gonna lose. But he fights back, grows stronger, more powerful. Wood is trown against the wall and loses the fight. Then Spike turns around and looks at him, like he's deciding what to do. Then he just sits down and thinks.