I am writing this story at my BFFs' request, I hope everybody else likes it too!

I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It belongs to a crazy man, who decided Marvel Comic Books are better than Buffy. If I did there would be an Angel season 6, and a whole lot more spike. I'm only saying this once so don't sue me.

Italics indicate noises and thoughts and such other things. My words that may appear in this story will be BOLD. K? Now the feature presentation!

Rome

Except for the title witch is bold and italics.

Buffy sighed and stared around her at the empty apartment. There were boxes piled five high, and harsh,bright light poured in through the curtain less windows. Buffy stared down at her shoes and sighed again.She didn't want to be here. She wanted to be in Sunnydale, with Spike. But Spike was dead, and Sunnydalea crater. So here she was, standing alone, in an apartment in Rome.

From behind Buffy came a crash. Buffy whorled around, Dawn stood very still staring down at the now empty box at her feet. Maybe not so alone after all. Buffy stared at Dawn for a minute, and Dawn raised her eyes and looked sheepishly at Buffy. "Sorry." She softly spoke. "It's ok."Buffy knelt down and started to pick up the things that had fallen out of the box. Dawn knelt down by her and started to help pick everything up.

Buffy froze, in her hand was the blanket Spike had always used when he ran around in the daytime. Someone had used it to wrap the mantle clock in. Dawn looked at Buffy, and then at the blanket. "I miss him too." Dawn said. Buffy looked at Dawn and suddenly burst into tears. Dawn hugged Buffy close and rocked her as she cried. " Why! Why!" Buffy sobbed. " I don't know." Dawn said. " Who in their right mind would pack a mantle clock when they're running from an apocalypse?" Buff pulled back and stared at Dawn. "What?" Dawn shrugged "It must have been Anya." Buffy laughed, and raised a shaky hand to wipe away her tears. "Yes it must have been Anya." And then fell silent Anya had died too.

Xander walked trough the door and tripped over them. The stack of boxes in his arms went flying."Alexander Harris watch where you're going!" cried Buffy, rubbing an arm that had been accidentally kicked By Xander. "What? You were sitting in front of the door! A less sane person would think you wanted to be tripped over. So don't blame me." Xander said faking rage at Buffy's words. Buffy smiled, a watery smile still riddled with tears, but a smile nonetheless. Xander smiled back. "There! Haven't seen one of those on your face since we left." Buffy's smile faded. Suddenly she stood up and hugged Xander. "Hey don't I get one too?" Dawn asked jokingly. Buffy turned slightly and pulled Dawn into the hug.

"Aww, it's a Kodak moment." Buff, Xander, and Dawn craned their necks to see who had spoken. Andrew stood in the doorway. "Group hug!" he suddenly cried and ran forward and wrapped his arms around all of them. "Andrew, you're choking me." Dawn squeezed out. "Sorry." Andrew let go and stepped back. "Um, what happened here?"

The others (it's a cool movie, have you seen it? Sorry I'll let you back to the story) turned around and viewed the chaos that was now Buffy's apartment. "Oops!" said Xander, "Sorry about that Buff." Dawn turned to her, "Yah, we'll clean it up."

"I won't."

They looked over at Andrew who was inching his way back out the door. "No you won't." said Buffy. Xander stared at Buffy. "He won't?" Andrew nodded furiously, "That's right! You heard the Slayer, I'm not helping clean up." Buffy nodded, and grabbed Andrew's arm and started marching him out the door. "No," she said, "You'll be helping me carry stuff up the stairs." After they had left Dawn and Xander burst out laughing. "Did you see his face!" Dawn gasped holding her sides. "Yes! Andrew can do a very good trout imitation. We should put it down as his hidden talent." Xander replied. Then the two set about cleaning up the apartment, still laughing.

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