Realizations
Rated PG so far. Angsty.
Summary: When Spike disappears saving the world, the Scooby gang realizes just how much he meant to them, and want him back.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these people, Joss does. I just manipulate them to do my bidding... muahahahahahha.
Set in my fictional Season 6. Spike loves Buffy, Buffy died, she and Spike hooked up, and Tara knows about them. But Tara and Willow are together, and Willow isn't magic addicted.


**** Chapter One - Not The End We Thought ****

*It wasn't supposed to end this way.*, the English man thought to himself as he took of his glasses and wiped his forhead of sweat.

The same thought ran through the redhead's mind, though neither she nor the man realized it. Her blonde lover grabbed her hand and gently squeezed. Both had tears in their eyes. Neither looked at the other.

The tall, teenage girl had her hands over her mouth and tears streaming down her face, sobbing silently. She was unable to move. Unable to look at anyone.

The carpenter and the ex-demon were locked in and embrace, but both were staring at the same spot on the ground. Everyone was staring at it.

Because minutes ago, a blonde vampire had vanished, screaming in pain.

Nevermind that he did it to save a girl. To save the people he considered to be the closest thing he had to friends. To save the woman he loved. To save his family.

His disappearance had saved the world. And none of the six who were standing, focused on that one spot, had expected it. Spike, who once had tried to kill them all, had stopped another apocolypse.

An ax dropping caused everyone to look up. And the small, bruised girl standing there looked up and whispered one word.




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