Buffy's dilemma: Chapter one
Everyone stared at the unconscious body that was Spike lying on the basement floor.
Buffy was knelt at his side with tears in her eyes.
It had been two months since SunnyDale had been destroyed by Spike and the amulet and she couldn't believe it when less that two hours ago she got the fright of her life.
She was tidying up when a big portal had open up in the basement and threw Spike out of it; she hadn't said a word since. Willow was the first to speak.
Willow: is he real? I mean he isn't a figment of our imagination is he?
Tears rolled down the golden cheeks of Buffy.
She touched his chest as if to sooth him and she jumped up off the floor in surprise.
She had felt something that she thought she would never feel before, Spike with a heart beat? Everyone looked at her as she was looking at the peaceful body which was him.
Willow? Are you okay? what's wrong?
The slayer paused before she spoke and then turned to her friends.
Buffy: He...he has a heart beat, i felt it
Dawn: What? But how?
Buffy shrugged her shoulders.
Buffy: I don't know (turning to Willow) look after him, i need to go to work, call me if ANYTHING changes
Willow: Will do, no need to worry...Buffy, what should i tell him if he wakes up?
Buffy: The truth... Dawn let's go
In that Buffy and Dawn left to go to the new school leaving Willow, Xander, Andrew and Faith to look after Spike.