Prologue:

Everyone stared in silence at Buffy's lifeless body strayed among the debris. Chaos exploded around them, Giles and Spike, Xander, Anya, Tara, Willow. Dawn straining to climb down from unstable bridge. They all just waited for her to move, to jump up and use her slayer powers to regain her strength. But it didn't happen. And it still didn't happen at the small gathering they had at the graveyard then next week. No hand shot from the grave, pulling herself up from the underground darkness. Buffy Summers was dead, yet no one could believe it.