Starting Over Again

Plot: Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and the new Slayers start a new life in a new town doing what they do best. But there are complications now that Spike is gone and it's making Buffy feel alone. Will here friends be able to help her?

Chapter One:

As everyone loaded on to the bus, Buffy stayed behind a little longer to grasps the memories and feelings she is leaving behind. Memories racing past her like speeding cars, she cannot help but feel that everything she did was for nothing: being bit by the Master and drowning. Killing Angel to save the world. Not being able to save her friend from going to the dark side, and having to blow up the school gym (again) and more, to defeat a giant snake-like monster who was once the mayor. Dealing with a machine that went bad and had to use the forces of her friends to kill the so-called Adam. Challenging Glory and killing herself to save Dawn and the world. Having to face being brought back from Heaven then facing off one on one with her best friend. And now this, finding potential slayers all over the world and going under the newly built school to stop the forces of darkness (again), and losing the people by her side: Spike, Anya, and a lot of the potential slayers, and it having to end in the town being brought down until it was nothing but dirt. Then there was the one memory that had made her stomach turn just thinking about it, leaving her mother and her grave behind. All of her more favorite memories with her mother was in that house that was now buried in the ground that she could not turn back to and remember the days that made her checks burn with delight.

"Hey B, you ok in there you, look like something is bothering you." Faith came up from behind almost startling Buffy and bringing her out, back into her own world. "Don't tell me something is up, we just defeated all evil that could of sent the whole world to dust."

"No I'm fine, just trying to regroup without all the stress of the new slayers on my back" she replied more worried to her voice than she would have liked.

"Yeah, o.k. just we were getting ready to leave and was sure you wouldn't be so happy with us leaving you behind with nowhere to go." She stated. Faith was sure she knew something was up with Buffy, just couldn't quite read her face to determine what exactly it was. "So are you coming on your own or do I have to drag you on a leash, B?"

With that Buffy turned around and headed back to the bus. Before they headed off in the only direction the road would lead Giles was asking where everyone was planning on starting over again. Some of the people replied to England to start a school for slayers all over the world, while others just kept quite and would just follow where everyone else was going. Finally it was decided that they would go to England and start a school for new slayers, but first they would head for a hospital before some of the people lost to much blood from the battle.

2 hours later….

Still on the road and nearing the entrance to L.A. most of the people were asleep since the bleeding had stopped and they could rest a little.

Once they reacted the closest hospital the gang got out and help carried the wounded in, unaware that Buffy was "supposedly" asleep in the back of the bus.

As they waited in the waiting room for results of the wounded, they were all starting to worry.

"So do you guys think B is o.k.?" Faith broke the silence "I mean how long can one girl sleep in the back of the bus?"

"I'll go check on her, I need to go stretch my legs anyways." Xander replied as he got up and head for the entrance.

Stepping on the bus he went back to where Buffy was laying and he began to wake her. "Hey Buffy, you can't just sleep there all day, it must be uncomfortable and hard."

With no response he began to shake her a little more and talk to her a little more, with still no response he began to worry a little more. Finally realizing something he hadn't seen earlier, a dark spot that had formed across her stomach. As he was finally frightened he lifted the shirt up a little more to see what was cause her skirt to become red. There it laid, a pool of blood that had formed over the pit of her stomach. As he began to freak he finally checked her pulse to see if she was still alive. When he felt a very faint pulse he slid his arm under her back and legs so he could lifted her up without causing pain to her wound and making it reopen. As he quickly and carefully got off the bus he couldn't bare to loose another person he loved, one was already too much for him, he began to speed his pace.

Finally a doctor emerged from the doors that lead to most of the patients, he walked over to Willow who sat worried with Kenny and made an effort not to cry as she to was think about the memories. Kenny was the first to notice the doctor and got up to greet him with Willow following right behind her when she realized what caused the sudden break of there embrace, but kept there hands holding quite tightly together.

"Miss Rosenberg, it seems that all of your friends are recovering quite quickly and you will be able to leave with them anytime you and your friends are ready." The doctor announced to her and all her friends that stood beside her.

"Thank you doctor, if you wouldn't mind releasing them now so we can get a move to where we are heading it would be greatly….." Willow started to say before being interrupted by a very loud and panicked Xander.

"HELP, somebody, she's not waking up and I think she lost a lot of blood." Xander yelled as a couple of doctors came running by with the gang slowly closing in on them.

"Xander? What happened? Is she o.k.?" Willow sternly yelled over the doctors that seemed to be ignoring her.

But Xander wasn't and heard her loud and clear. "I don't know Will, I went in there to check on her and she didn't wake up." He replied as he laid her down on the bed that the doctors had brought over to her. "When she didn't respond I found a pool of blood in the middle of her stomach that I panicked and checked her pulse, but there was hardly a beat there, so I rushed her in here."

Now Dawn was on the ground making her own pool, but of tears as she seemed to be uncontrollably mumbling words no one could understand. But the gang had a feeling they knew what she was saying as she almost always did when her sister was badly hurt or even dead, she was upset at the fact that her sister might be leaving her again and she didn't like it.