Disclaimer: I don't own any recognizable characters from the Buffyverse, Joss does etc blah etc.
Summary: What if when Buffy died in The Gift, she went to a different type of heaven? The kind of heaven where you can watch what's happening on Earth? Will this change Buffy's opinion of the Scoobs, a certain vampire in particular? Spuffy!
Buffy's face was contorted in pain- her expression flashing from agony to peace as she fell gracefully from the sky, hitting the unforgiving concrete below her in a tangle of limbs.
Her friends and Spike surrounded her body, tears pouring down each of their faces, Willow clutching Tara in hysterical pain and Spike trembling with undisguised lament.
Dawn hugged Giles close to her, the last words of her sister echoing in her mind: The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
Buffy shook her head in confusion. Her friends were crying so much what was the matter with them- and then it all came pouring back. Glory. The jump off the tower into the portal. Then Buffy turned her eyes to the ground and saw the source of her friend's distress- her body lying spread out on the ground, her eyes closed in what seemed to be peace. Buffy stared at her face in bewilderment- if her body was there, and she was here, did that mean she had become a ghost?
"Guys! Hey guys!" Buffy waved her hand in front of Willow's face. "Hello?"
Willow just kept crying, staring right through Buffy's hand.
"Huh?" Buffy stared at her hand, which was fading by the second. "Oh no!"
Her whole arm had disappeared, and as Buffy watched her other arm vanished, and then her torso, and before she knew it she was no longer standing in front of her friends. She was standing somewhere that looked a lot like Sunnydale, but something was different. Buffy couldn't put her finger on it, but something was off.
She walked around slowly, and then spotted a very familiar place. Buffy ran towards it- if this was where she thought she was…
Buffy eased open the door, hearing a pitter-patter of footsteps coming down the steps. Barely daring to hope, Buffy hesitantly called out, "Mom?"