Disclaimer: I don't own any of the BTVS characters-even though as much as
I'd want to, I don't own Spike. But the plot and the upcoming character
Paige belongs to me.
A/N: This story picks up after the seventh season of Buffy.
Summary: Spike rejoins the living and realizes that he can't stay in California, it reminds him too much of his old life with Buffy. So he relocates to Boston where he eventually meets one of the recently turned slayers, Paige.
A New Beginning
Chapter One:
Spike felt a familiar feeling wash over his long dead and frozen limbs as he rose from his stone bed. With each rise, this sensation came over him, a small token, a reminder of how he lost it all. . .how he lost her. Despite his tireless efforts, endless conquests, and sacrifices, the reformed big bad couldn't manage to obtain his girl.
Wasn't saving the world enough? This question came to him time and time again, habitually badgering himself and trying to make sense of the mess that his meaningless existence had become.
After the moment when pain had engulfed him and he felt the fire eating away at his body, he actually believed that he would be going to heaven, just like Buffy did when she leapt into the portal; but he had no such luck. All that he was granted was a brief glimpse of nothingness, then he was sent back to this world, his own personal hell, forced to go on wandering forever alone.
Gathering his favoured leather jacket-once a trophy, now just a trademark of old habits-Spike left his crypt for the last time, deciding never to return to the life he had come to know over the past several years. Images and small fragments of memories flooded his mind and he smiled to himself bitter sweetly. Turning quickly on his heel, William the Bloody tried to pull himself together; and without even a second look he jumped into his black car and drove off into the night.
A/N: Really short intro, I know but the next one will be longer-I promise.
A/N: This story picks up after the seventh season of Buffy.
Summary: Spike rejoins the living and realizes that he can't stay in California, it reminds him too much of his old life with Buffy. So he relocates to Boston where he eventually meets one of the recently turned slayers, Paige.
A New Beginning
Chapter One:
Spike felt a familiar feeling wash over his long dead and frozen limbs as he rose from his stone bed. With each rise, this sensation came over him, a small token, a reminder of how he lost it all. . .how he lost her. Despite his tireless efforts, endless conquests, and sacrifices, the reformed big bad couldn't manage to obtain his girl.
Wasn't saving the world enough? This question came to him time and time again, habitually badgering himself and trying to make sense of the mess that his meaningless existence had become.
After the moment when pain had engulfed him and he felt the fire eating away at his body, he actually believed that he would be going to heaven, just like Buffy did when she leapt into the portal; but he had no such luck. All that he was granted was a brief glimpse of nothingness, then he was sent back to this world, his own personal hell, forced to go on wandering forever alone.
Gathering his favoured leather jacket-once a trophy, now just a trademark of old habits-Spike left his crypt for the last time, deciding never to return to the life he had come to know over the past several years. Images and small fragments of memories flooded his mind and he smiled to himself bitter sweetly. Turning quickly on his heel, William the Bloody tried to pull himself together; and without even a second look he jumped into his black car and drove off into the night.
A/N: Really short intro, I know but the next one will be longer-I promise.