Part Two: Unti
"Spike…I love you…"
"What?"
"I love you, please protect her…"Buffy said as she let go of her life.
"SPIKE!"
"Spike," Buffy screamed out into the distance. "Where am I?"
"Here" Someone in the distance said.
"Where is here?" Buffy said.
"Here is Purgatory or well heaven."
"Oh…who are you?"
"We…"said 2 voices as two people appeared, "are the oracles."
"The oracles? Is that messengers of God or what?"
"We are messengers from the powers that be."
"Oh like what Angel told me about."
"Yes, I suppose so." Said the girl.
"So what do you want with me?"
"Well there's a lot, but we must be sure that you are worth it." Said the boy.
"Brother leave us, we must talk." The girl said.
"Yes sister" He said as he left.
"Buffy Summers…the oldest most powerful slayer to ever live."
"Yeah that's me."
"The witch did a very wrong thing…bringing you back."
"Yeah but I don't hate her for it."
"Ah, but you are angered by it."
"Well…yes."
"But you do not hate her, very wise."
"Ok…how are you going to see if I am worth it? What would the it be?"
"Well we know that you are worth it. But the it you speak of is very clear."
"Huh?"
"We want to bring you back."
"What! Why?"
"Because…you are the slayer…the best slayer."
"Ok but what about faith? I mean she's a slayer too. Can't she take over?"
"No"
"Spike, he could help her. Please I can't go back."
"I understand…and you won't."
"What? But you just said…"
"No…you will, but you will lose all of you memories."
"No…you can't do that."
"I'm sorry it's already done…good-bye Buffy Summers."
"WAIT! WAIT! Don't go!"
"Hey miss are you ok?" said a deep voice.
"Yeah…I'm ok…where am I?" she said.
"You're in L.A."
"Oh…who are you?"
"My name is Angel."
"Fred, tell Cordy I'm going out to patrol."
"Sure…bye Angel." Angel got into his car and headed out. He was doing pretty well not seeing anyone in any real danger till he saw a girl lying in the Alleyway. He walked over to her. "Hey miss are you ok?"
"Yeah…I'm ok…where am I?"
"You're in L.A." he said.
"Oh…who are you?"
"My name is Angel."
"That's a pretty name."
"What's yours?"
"Well…I don't know."
"Well come on get up and we'll go get you some help." She stood and Angel looked at her. He about lost it when he saw her face. "Buffy?"
"Huh? Why'd you call me that?"
"Buffy…Oh my god I thought you were dead."
"Dead…what are you talking about and who's Buffy?"
"You really don't remember who you are do you?"
"No…why do you know me?"
"Well yes."
"Then who the hell am I?"
"Ok this may take a while, why don't you get in my car and I'll explain on the way."
"On the way to where?"
"To my hotel,"
"Ok…" She wasn't sure, but this guy seemed to know who she was so she went with him.
"So my name is Buffy Summers and I'm the vampire slayer and I live in Sunnydale?"
"Yes"
"And we went out, you and I had sex and you went bad, I killed you and you came back?"
"Uh huh,"
"Ok and I have a sister who was the key. I died to save her and my best friend Willow brought me back. And a vampire named Spike is in love with me."
"Yep,."
"OH MY GOD!!" Angel just looked at her. "Do you actually think I should believe all of this?"
"Well yes and no."
"What do you mean?"
"Well you told me once that you life was anything but normal so no one would believe it except you."
"Oh." "And well now you don't."
"I want you to prove this all to me."
"Ok, but I'm not sure how, Do you want me to take to you to them?"
Buffy thought about this. 'If I go "home" and see these people, they'll know who I am, but I won't have any clue who they are.' "No" She decided, "Let's just talk about this when we get to the hotel."
"Ok sure." Angel said and continued to drive.
"We're here." Angel said as they pulled up to the hotel.
"It's big." Buffy said as they got out. They walked up to the door and Angel stopped.
"Buffy, Can you wait out here…I want to go warn the others before you come in."
"Ok yea sure."
"Ok I'll come get you in a minute." Angel said as he opened to door and went in.
"Fred…Cordy…Lorne…Gunn can you all come down here." Angel yelled once he had shut the door and walked in. As if all on cue, Fred came out of the office, Lorne out of the kitchen, and Cordy and Gunn from their rooms. Once they were all near Angel, Fred said, "Hey Angel, what's with the yell-o-gram, something happen on patrol?"
"A little."
Cordy looked at Angel, the man that she was slowly falling in love with and said, "What happened Angel?"
"I ran into a girl."
"Oh wow and you called us all down here to tell us that." Gunn said.
"Not just any girl…only one of you knows her."
"Who?" Cordy said looking Angel in the eyes.
He looked right back at her and said, "Buffy."
Cordelia just stared at Angel.
"Ok now wait…isn't that your ex whose supposed to be well dead?" Gunn blurted out.
Angel looked at him and nodded his head, then looked back at Cordelia.
"How?" was all she could say.
"I don't know and neither does she, Cordy she doesn't even remember who she is."
Instantly Cordelia felt sorry for her. She knew though that it had to be the powers who did this. "Angel…where is she?" Cordy said.
"Outside…I told her to wait." Angel said as Cordelia walked past him and over to the door. She opened it and saw Buffy. "Hey Buff." She said.
Buffy looked at the girl. She was pretty, tall and had the cutest haircut, but Buffy felt hurt by this girl for some reason and she couldn't figure out why. "Hi."
"You don't remember me but I'm Cordelia. We went to high school together."
"Oh"
"Why don't you come in?" Cordy said. Buffy walked in and instantly realized that all of these people were looking at her like she was an alien.
"Hi Buffy. I'm Fred. We've never met but I've heard a lot about you." Fred said.
"Hi." Buffy liked this girl. She seemed gentle and sweet.
"Hi I'm Gunn. We've never met either. I'm Fred's boyfriend."
"Oh hello." She was kind of scared of this guy he seemed really tuff. Suddenly a guy with a green face came up to her.
"Why hello Buffy. I'm Lorne. It's so great to finally meet you and might I say you are very beautiful."
"Hello and thank you."
"Not a problem sweetheart." Angel was watching all of this with a smile on his face. He had always wanted Buffy to meet his friends but he wasn't sure how it would go. He was also sad. His Buffy was gone. The Buffy here now didn't even know she was Buffy.
"Hey Buff are you tired?" Angel asked.
"A little."
"Well Lorne you want to show her a room?"
"Sure, come on honey." Angel watched Buffy and Lorne go upstairs.
"So what was she like when you found her?" Cordy asked.
"A wreck." Angel said, "Can we talk for a second?"
"Sure," Cordy said, "Let's go in the office."
Angel followed Cordy as she entered the office and shut the door once he was in. "So what do you want to talk about?"
"The powers,"
"What about them?"
"Cordy, you and I know both know they're responsible for Buffy being back."
Cordelia got quiet and looked down. "I know."
Angel walked over to her and lifted her chin. "Cordy, please. We have to help her. We owe it to her."
"I know, and we will help her, we just need time."
"Ok, but how much time are we talking here?"
"I'm not really sure. Weeks…months…years even."
"Ok."
"What are you going to do till then?"
"I don't know, but I read somewhere once that to help a person who has lost their memory get it back you should do things that they would normally do with the person you know familiarity or whatever."
"Like fighting and training? Buffy did a lot that in high school," Cordy said, "she also made out with you a lot." Saying that last part under her breath.
"Yeah…I mean that could work." Angel said then walked over to Cordy and said, "Don't worry honey you're still my girl."
"I know. Well you go do that…I'll find a way to contact the powers."
"Ok I'm going to go tell Buffy."
"No, Angel tell her in the morning."
"Why?"
"Because she's asleep."
"What? How do you know that?"
"I don't know I just do."
"Here you are my dear, the best room that we have." Lorne said, "And it's right next to Angel in case you need him."
"Thank you very much for everything." She took Lorne's hand and squeezed it. She felt kind of happy to be with these people, but at the same time she felt like she belonged somewhere else.
"Something troubling you dear?"
"Huh? Oh no I'm fine thanks." Lorne didn't really believe her so he walked in and sat on the bed.
"You know you can tell me. I won't tell a soul." Buffy looked at him and looked into his eyes. They were full of so much caring and support. She walked over to the bed and sat down next to him. "Now sweetheart what seems to be troubling you?"
"Oh everything just everything."
"Like what exactly?"
"Ok," Buffy said turning and looking at him, "I have this home, this whole other life somewhere else that I don't even remember, and I have a sister that I don't remember it sucks so much." Lorne held her as she started to cry. When her sobs had stopped he looked down at her face and saw that she was asleep. He laid her down and pulled the covers over her and left the room shutting the door behind him.
"Hey Buffy!" Fred said as Buffy came down the stairs the next morning.
"Hi Fred, What's going on? Where is everyone?" Buffy asked.
"Oh Angel is still asleep you know vampire and all and Cordy, and Gunn went to talk to Wesley about a couple of things."
"Oh why didn't you go?"
"I didn't want you to wake up and no one be here."
"Oh well isn't Lorne here?"
"Yeah I just don't know where." Fred said as she laughed. Buffy laughed too. She thought that this girl reminded her of someone, but she couldn't figure out who. "Good morning Buffy. Did you sleep well?" Angel asked as he came down the stairs.
"Oh good morning Angel, Yes I did sleep well thank you." Buffy said
"Ok well last night I figured out something that might help you get your memory back."
"Oh really? What?"
"Training and fighting demons."
"Ok why that?"
"Well you see when you had your memory in Sunnydale you use to fight demons and train with your watcher, Rupert Giles."
"Oh well what are we waiting for lets get started." Buffy said as she walked over to angel, who was now standing at the bottom of the stairs. 'This better work' Buffy thought to herself.
This went on for months. Every morning Buffy would do whatever she wanted and then when angel got up at noon, they would go to the basement and train. One day they were working really hard when Buffy's head started to hurt. "Owe, geez you are lucky Angel, you don't get these mind blowing…" Just as Buffy was about to finish that sentence a vision ripped through her mind. A girl who looked like her was standing on the stairs of some house and there was a bleach blonde guy standing in front of her talking to her about her never being able to love him. Then just as quickly as it came it went away. "Wow." Was all Buffy could say.
"What happened?" Angel said walking over to her.
"I saw something, something from my life that I don't remember."
"What was it?" Angel said hoping that it was something he did in her life.
"I was standing on these stairs and there was this bleach blonde guy telling me that he knew I would never love him." Angel immediately thought of Spike.
"It was Spike." Angel said.
"Spike who?" Buffy said. Buffy didn't know who this guy was, then Angel said Spike and now she was confused all over again. She had asked Angel to tell her about everyone she couldn't remember and he had left this guy out. "Whose Spike, Angel?" Angel was quiet. He didn't really want Buffy to know about him, but he realized that since he was in her life back in Sunnydale she had to know who he was.
"Do you remember the night that I found you?" Angel asked.
"Yes."
"Ok do you remember when I said a vampire named Spike was in love with you?" Buffy thought for a second then remembered that Angel had indeed said that. "Yes."
"Ok well he is my childe well sort of."
"What? Childe? Huh?"
"Ok well I'll explain the childe thing to you first. When a vampire kills a person and then makes them drink their blood that person then dies and is reborn as a vampire. And then they are considered the childe of their sire. Are you with me so far?" Buffy nodded her head. "Ok well Drusilla, who is my childe, wanted someone for herself so she went out and got herself a childe of her own, William, also known as Spike."
Buffy looked at him and said, "So his real name is William? Cool I like it. Ok so get on to the part where I know him."
"I am getting to that. Ok well 4 years ago, Spike and his girlfriend Drusilla came to Sunnydale to cure Dru who was very sick. Well they succeeded and you put Spike in a wheelchair. Ok anyways Spike ended up leaving and 2 years ago he came back and from what he told me the government put a chip in his head that made it so he couldn't harm humans."
"Wow that had to of sucked."
"I don't know. Well he helped you out a lot and he fell in love with you, and when I went to your funeral he was taking care of your sister. So I guess because I don't know much about your life after I left that Spike was very close to both you and your sister."
"Oh well that clears it all right up. Thank you Angel."
"You're welcome Buffy." Angel said looking down. Buffy looked at him and saw her chance to get the jump on him and kicked him in the stomach. He looked at her and smiled and they continued training.
"Ok now you said that this was something that would…"Angel said looking at Wesley, who had joined the team once more.
"Rid the earth of every living or non living thing that is on it." Wesley said obviously annoyed about having to repeat himself…again.
"Ok so we'll just save the world. I mean it's what we do right?" Buffy said.
It had been 4 years since the night that Angel had found Buffy, and she still didn't have her memory back. She would get bits and bits back but she didn't understand them. The weird thing was that when she would get the visions of Spike her heart would flutter. She didn't tell Angel about it because well she didn't think he'd understand. "I guess I mean we do fight evil and save the world a lot so I guess we're gonna have to go beat this thing." Angel said looking at Gunn, Buffy, Fred and Lorne. Cordy had left 3 months before to contact a link to the powers to find out about Buffy.
"Let's do this." They all said in unison and grabbed as many weapons as they could and headed out.
They went and did it alright. They went to an abandoned warehouse where a Demolacus demon was living and plotting his plan to rid the world of every living or non-living thing. They were all fighting pretty good. You see the demon is 10 feet tall. Yeah I know big. Buffy was the first to charge. Angel followed her. "Angel!!!!!" Buffy screamed as the demon threw her into the wall and continued his assault of the rest of the crew. "BUFFY!" Angel said as he slipped into game face.
"Cordelia, you look lovely." Said a woman dressed in white with white hair.
"Thank you. How are you?"
"Oh just fine dear, but I sense that you are not."
"Then you would be correct."
"What is troubling you my dear?"
"Ok well four years ago my friend Buffy who is the slayer killed herself and then was brought back to life. I know it was the powers that did this. Only when she came back she had no memory. I was wondering if the powers would give her memories back to her."
"My dear you know that is not the most reasonable of requests."
"Yes I know but I feel awful for Buffy and I want to help her like she helped me so many times before."
"Well I'll see what I can do. In the meantime you better get your pills ready you're about to have a vision." Sure enough Cordy did.
"Oh no Angel." Cordy said as she fell backwards.
"Angel here catch." Wesley said throwing a long sword at Angel.
"What is this for?"
"It will kill the demon."
"Oh ok thanks." Angel said as he went after the demon once more. After a few swings and punches from the demon. Angel had managed to almost decapitate it. "Buffy!" Angel said as he jumped down. She was lying on the ground not moving at all. "Buffy, come on wake up." Angel said trying to get her to wake up.
"Angel let's get her to a hospital." Wesley said coming up behind him.
"Ok." Angel said kind of unsure about it. He also knew that Buffy didn't like them at all.
"Oh god no I have to get back to Angel."
"I know my child. Go."
"But what about my request?"
"It is already done."
"What?" Cordelia said as she was thrown back down to the ground. 'God couldn't the angels be any nicer to me?' Cordy asked herself as she got up and ran to where the vision had shown her.
Angel was sitting next to Buffy's bed in the hospital. The doctors said that she would be fine but he sensed that something was different about Buffy. "Angel." Cordy said walking in.
"Cordy, Oh god you're back. I missed you so much." Angel said hugging her.
"I missed you too."
"How did it go?"
"Well I don't know the powers said that the request was accepted."
"What does that mean exactly?"
"I have no clue. I guess we just wait and see if Buffy remembers when she wakes up."
"Yeah I guess but what are we going to do if she does?"
"I don't know Angel. I guess we'll just have to let her decide." Cordy said as she kissed Angel.
Buffy woke up a few days later. "Spike…" She said as she looked around the room. No one was there with her but she was a leather jacket on the chair by her bed. 'I swear if that bleached idiot brought me to the hospital I am going to ring his neck.' Then suddenly it hit her. She remembered the oracles and what they had done to her. She remembered Angel finding her and taking care of her for the last 4 years. 'Oh god it's been four years…Oh god what about Dawn??' Buffy thought as she started to cry.
Angel walked into Buffy's room and found her crying in her bed. "Buffy…Oh god you're ok…are you ok?"
Buffy looked up at him. "Yes, Angel I'm fine."
A sudden feeling of happiness went through Angel and he smiled. "But Angel…I remember."
"You do?"
"Yeah I remember everything. Oh god I am such a horrible person. I left Dawn. I was so selfish in all of this that I just left my baby sister." Buffy said as she started to cry again. Angel didn't know what to do. He wanted to comfort her but realized that she was right. He couldn't very well tell her
"Oh yeah Buffy you weren't selfish at all. It was just something that you needed to do." He wasn't that kind of person anymore.
Suddenly he was shook from his thoughts.
"Angel."
"Yes Buffy."
"I want to go back to Sunnydale."
Two days later Angel was getting everything of Buffy's that she had collected in the last year together and piling them into the back of the car that she had been using. "Ok Buffy here's the last of it." Angel said as he loaded the box in the trunk.
"Thank you Angel." Buffy walked over to him and hugged him. "Thank you for everything. I know that you truly care for me, but it's time for me to go now. I miss home and my family, and god help me, but I even miss Spike." Angel just looked at her and smiled. He knew that she had feeling for Spike. It was just too weird in his mind.
Just then Cordy, Gunn, Wesley, Fred and Lorne walked outside.
"Oh god Buffy I am gonna miss you." Cordy said as she hugged Buffy.
"I'll miss you too. And thank you Cordy for everything. And take care of Mr. King-of-brooding here."
"Oh I will." Cordy said walking over to Angel.
"Oh god Buffy this is so hard. You are like my best friend. I don't know what I am going to do without you." Fred said hugging Buffy and crying at the same time.
"Oh don't worry Fred. I'll call and write and visit. I promise." Fred just smiled. Gunn hugged Buffy and walked over to Fred and pulled her into his arms.
"Well Buffy you have a nice trip and thank you." Wesley said hugging her.
"Oh no prob Wes you belong here with Angel."
"Yes I suppose I do." Just then Buffy was pulled into a strong hug.
"Sweetheart I am going to miss you so much. You were so wonderful to have around." Buffy just hugged Lorne. He was the first person she had confided her insecurities to and he was the only person other than Fred and Angel that she trusted with her life. She pulled away from Lorne and looked at him.
"I am going to miss you too Lorne. But like I told Fred I'll come back. You wont have to miss me for too long." Buffy smiled and took his hand. "Ok well I think it's time for me to head out." Buffy said as she walked over to the car. She smiled and got in.
She turned around and looked at Angel and then started the car and left.
The drive to Sunnydale had been a long one for Buffy. She was so nervous. The last time she had seen Dawn she was 15 going on 16 years old. Now her little sister was 20. Time sure did fly by and Buffy hated it. She herself was now 25 years old. She pulled up to her house and walked up. Suddenly she got scared. 'What if they moved? Would they move?' Buffy thought was she looked into the dinning room window and saw that everything looked just as it did before. She then walked over to the living room window and looked in and saw her picture on the mantle above the fireplace. She sighed. She was so happy that they hadn't moved because she didn't feel like looking all over the country for her sister and the blonde vampire who was he legal guardian. Just then she saw a woman come out of her house next door.
"Oh hello dear are you looking for Miss. Summers or Miss Rosenburg?" The woman called out to Buffy.
"Well actually I am looking for both. Have you seen them at all today?"
"Yes dear they are at the church on Crawford Street." Suddenly Buffy panicked. 'Oh god did something happen to Dawn or willow?'
"Sorry but I am just curious why are they at the church?"
"Oh dear haven't you heard. Miss Summers is getting married today. I thought the whole town knew. Her brother in law I thought made sure of that." Buffy just stared at the lady and smiled.
"Thank you very much." Buffy said as she ran to her car.
Buffy pulled up to the church and practically fell out of the car because she was trying to get out too fast. The place was packed. 'I didn't know Dawn knew so many people.' Suddenly she got nervous. What was she going to say? 'They all think that I am dead. Maybe this was a bad idea.' Buffy thought but she had no time to change her mind because her feet were taking her in the direction of the doors to the hall. Buffy walked in and about screamed when she saw Spike sitting on a chair with his hands in his lap.
"I don't think anyone else is coming and I have to walk Dawn down the aisle soon." Spike said. Suddenly before Buffy knew what she was doing she said.
"So she is living with you?" Spike looked up at her with those blue eyes that always made Buffy a little weak in the knees.
"Bu…Bu…Buffy?" Spike said.
"Yeah baby I'm back." Buffy said and smiled.
