AN: I do not own BTVS or any of it characters. That goes to the amazing Joss. Quotes from Buffy and Angel are property of the writers of Chosen, Just Rewards and Destiny and are copied from twiztv . com.
The group of five watched the future unfold before their eyes, however the first thing they saw stunned four of them, and made one watch again as the love of her life disintegrated into ash:
"Go on, then," Spike said.
"No. No, you've done enough. You could still…" Buffy replied, looking panicked at him bathed in sunlight.
"No, you've beat them back. It's for me to do the cleanup," Spike replied as the walls were crumbling around them.
"Spike!" Buffy shouted with worry.
"I mean it! I gotta do this," he said as he holds out his hand to stop her.
Buffy laces her fingers through Spike's. They both look at their hands in amazement as they burst into flame.
Buffy rubes the scars on her hand, crying silently. They others turned shocked eyes to Buffy's hand, but quickly looked back at the scene before them at Buffy's next words.
"I love you," Buffy says, tears shimmering in her eyes.
Spike looks at her in awe before saying, "No you don't. But thanks for saying it." Another earthquake shakes the cave and Buffy lets go of his hand. "Now go!" he yells. Buffy runs up the stairs. "I wanna see how it ends."
Spike stands in the crumbling Hellmouth with light shining down on him from above, grinning from ear to ear and laughing as he burns up from the sunlight. He dusts slowly—first his skin singes, then his muscles, then his bones—then he's gone. The Hellmouth crumbles in around him.
The gang gasps, and barely has time to prepare themselves before they are shown the next vision.
Angel is talking to the gang in his office. Rubbing his chin, Angel says, "We're gonna change things. We came to Wolfram and Hart because it's a powerful weapon." He pauses to pick up the envelope from his desk and rips open the envelope. "We'll deal... with whatever comes next." An amulet falls out of the envelope.
Immediately, the amulet activates. A black whirlwind erupts from it, causing papers on Angel's desk to stir. The ashen whirlwind starts to glow with flecks of orange as something begins to materialize inside it. A man's skeletal form shows, and then it gradually fills out until it's complete. The wind fades and Spike is standing there, screaming and grunting, in the middle of the office, right where the amulet fell.
Spike, still staring at Angel, transforms into vampire facade and lunges angrily at Angel, snarling fiercely. Angel braces for impact, but Spike goes right through him. Spike stops, turns around, and looks down at his body— his legs have disappeared inside Angel's desk. Spike looks up and frowns, and says "Bugger."
The gang watched as Spike asked about Buffy and was only told that she was in Europe. They watched as Spike disappeared and the relief on Angel's face, and what they saw next shocked all of them to the core. They saw Angel call Giles and tell him that Spike was back and that he was a ghost at the moment, and then he asked Giles for a way to keep Buffy and Spike apart. Giles agreed to help, stating that Buffy would be a good little girl now that her coping mechanism was gone and would bend to his will and soon he and Angel would be in charge of everything.
The next scene the group sees is Angel talking on the phone with Giles again. Angel tells of how Spike is corporeal again, but he will keep Spike away from Buffy and her child. The vision then cuts to Spike and Angel fighting:
Spike, "Come on! Let's see how much soul you really got in there."
Angel, "Spike, we don't have time for this."
Spike, "Keep your knickers dry, Sally. You're not gonna last that long."
Angel, "Fine. We'll do it your way."
Angel and Spike start fist-fighting. They trade punches, and then Spike throws Angel up in the air, where he lands on a balcony behind him. Angel lands on a cross, which burns him, and he recoils angrily, kicking the cross down to the stage below.
Spike, "Ha ha ha! Oh, yeah. Look at you. Thinking you're the big savior—fighting for truth, justice, and soccer moms—but you still can't lay flesh on a cross without smelling like bacon, can you?"
Angel, "Like you're any different."
Spike, "Well, that's just it. I am. And you know it. You had a soul forced on you—as a curse. Make you suffer for all the horrible things you'd done. But me... I fought for my soul. Went through the demon trials. Almost did me in a dozen times over, but I kept fighting. 'Cause I knew it was the right thing to do." He jumps up to the balcony in one smooth motion, landing in front of Angel. "It's my destiny."
Angel, "Really? Heard it was just to get into a girl's pants."
Spike uses his toe to lift a metal rod of rebar into his hands. He swings it at Angel, but Angel does a somersault off of the balcony, landing on the stage near the cup. Angel walks toward the cup, when Spike throws the rebar at him like a spear, narrowly missing him. Angel turns to look at Spike, who jumps from the balcony wielding another rod of rebar.
Spike jumping yells, "Yaaaagh!"
Angel grabs the first piece of rebar that Spike threw at him and uses it to deflect Spike's weapon. Angel and Spike are fighting, using the rebar rods as staffs. Angel gets a punch in, knocking Spike down.
Spike stands and says, "Used to hit a lot harder, gramps."
Angel retorts, "No, your head's just gotten thicker."
They continue to fight, and Angel pushes Spike further and further back. Angel finally swings the rebar rod like a baseball bat, knocking Spike up into the balcony. Angel follows him, ready to swing at Spike again, but Spike stands and blocks the swing.
Spike, "You're not gonna win this time."
Spike punches Angel, knocking him off of the balcony. He lands on the stage below, coughing and bleeding at the mouth.
Spike jumping down to the stage, says, "Vampire with a soul. Nobody knows what side he's gonna fight on... when the big show comes down. Except we already know what side you're on, don't we? Already made your choice. Traded in your cape and tights for a nice comfy chair at Wolfram & bloody Hart."
Spike swings the rebar, ready to jab it into Angel's neck, but Angel reaches up and grabs it before he can complete the motion.
Angel, "Little more complicated than that." He pauses, uses the rebar Spike's holding to get leverage to stand, knocking Spike down in the process. "But you always were a bit simple... Will," Then throws the rebar down, walks toward the cup. As Angel reaches for the cup, Spike charges at him, punching him hard, knocking them both down. They stand, both having their hand at the other's throat.
Spike, "Come on, hero. Tell me more," punches Angel, "Teach me what it means." Punches Angel, "And I'll tell you why you can't stand the bloody sight of me," punches Angel.
Angel, punches Spike, "Tell it to your therapist," punches Spike.
Spike, punches Angel, "'Cause every time you look at me..." punches Angel, "you see all the dirty little things I've done," punches Angel, "all the lives I've taken..." punches Angel, "because of you! Drusilla sired me..." punches Angel, "but you... you made me a monster," punches Angel, walks toward the cup.
Angel, collapses to the ground, "I didn't make you, Spike. I just opened up the door..." starts to get up, "and let the real you out."
Spike picks up the cross that burned Angel before and swings it at Angel, knocking him across the room. Spike holds the cross in his hands. Spike, "You never knew the real me." His hands sizzle on the cross; he throws it away and walks toward Angel, "Too busy trying to see your own reflection... praying there was someone as disgusting as you in the world, so you could stand to live with yourself. Take a long look, hero. I'm nothing like you!"
Angel, "No. You're less. That's why Buffy never really loved you: Because you weren't me."
Spike grabs Angel by the lapels and says, "Guess that means she was thinking about you... all those times I was puttin' it to her."
Everyone looks away from Buffy, while she just smile sadly, knowing that that comment was his 'Big Bad' bravado in place, and not something that he would say to her or anyone else if not for Angel's goading.
Angel grabs Spike's wrists and pulls them apart. He punches Spike, and then throws him across the room, causing some of the wood props to shatter. They fist fight, and Spike jabs Angel in the arm with a splinter of wood. Angel rips the splinter out of his arm and glares at Spike.
Angel, "All right..." changes into vampire face, "let's finish this."
Spike changes into vampire face as well. They charge each other.In full vampire form, Angel and Spike fight on the stage of the opera house.
Angel scratches Spike's chest with a fragment of wood, "How's it feel?"
Spike scratches Angel's chest, "You tell me."
Spike kicks Angel repeatedly in the gut, and the wood fragment Angel was holding goes flying into the air. Spike kicks Angel to the ground, grabs the wood fragment from the air, and rears back in a staking motion. He pauses for a moment, and then drives the stake into Angel's body, causing him to scream in pain. Spike stands looks down at Angel, revealing that he drove the stake into Angel's shoulder. Angel lets his face slip back into human form.
Spike, "Probably should've dusted you." He returns to human face, "But honestly... I don't want to hear her bitch about it." Then he turns to walk toward the cup.
Everyone is in awe of the beating that Spike gave Angel, but each knows that what Angel said has gotten to Spike, and knows that without a better clue to go on then Europe that Spike wouldn't come looking for Buffy.
The next scenes are flashes: of Giles telling Angel that the casket is out of the deeper well, and Angel saying that Fred was infected as planned. Of Spike passed out on a plane with Angel talking to someone telling them to enthrall Buffy and Dawn so that they would appear to have moved on from Spikes death and that Angel was in on the plan. Of Angel's apparent plan to take out the Circle of Black Thorn to hurt the senior partners, while all the while planning with Giles to tip the scales in the side of evil. And finally the aftermath of the final battle:
Giles and Angel were standing in front of the Scooby's, they were held in place by and invisible force, in the center was Buffy, holding a little baby. "You see Buffy, the slayer line runs through you, when you are strong they are strong, when you are weak they are weak."
"Why are you doing this Giles?" Buffy asked, tears streaming down her face, holding the baby to her tightly.
"Because you are immortal. When Willow did her spell it made you immortal, so now I can't just simply kill you," Giles answered emotionlessly.
"So lover," Angel said, "Did you know that you beloved Spike was back?" All of the Scooby's gasped. "He was easily manipulated, and now I will kill all your friends and that spawn of my worthless grandchilde's and watch as you fall into a pit of despair that you will never over come."
As soon as Angel finished talking he grabbed Xander and twisted his neck, then moved onto Willow, "Such power running through you, it is such a shame that you have made it into light power." He then sank his fangs into her neck and drained her dry. Dawn and Buffy were still magically bound but Dawn's eyes were glowing green and the magic holding them was breaking.
Dawn suddenly gasped and fell to the ground. While Giles was gloating and Angel was draining Willow, Dawn whispered, "Run Buffy. Take care of William and run!"
Angel heard her however and quickly reached over with taloned fingers and slit her throat.
Buffy did as Dawn had said, but didn't get very far when she was tripped. She managed to twist in the air so as not to fall on William, when he was grabbed out of her arms.
Buffy couldn't do anything, any move she made risked the chance of hurting her son. "He would have been immortal you know, had you discovered your mate," Angel said, holding the baby as though he were precious. "I would consider raising him, but he was always meant to be a white hat.
"Please," Buffy pleaded with her ex, trying to save her son and the only thing she ahd left of Spike.
"Sorry Buff, but I have a prophecy to discredit," Angel said and then suffocated the baby.
Everyone watched as both Buffy's cried, while the Buffy in the vision fell into a waking coma and slayers all over the world fell to their knees with the loss of their power.
Finally the vision ended, and Anya said, "This is the prophecy that Angel spoke of:
A vampire with a soul, a champion, will be given new life.
That is what has been translated by Wesley, and Angel assumes that it means that he will become human, idiot. Anyway:
The last of the chosen, an immortal slayer, will be his love.
And their love will produce a child,
Born to bring peace and balance to the world.
With the daughter key and the balanced son,
The immortal guardians and their companions will live a full and powerful life
As mates they will achieve eternal happiness.
The fated ten will bring balance into the world
With the help of the souled champion's first gift of life"
Everyone was speechless when Anya finished. It was Buffy who spoke first, her voiced laced in awe, "I'm pregnant." Everyone turned to look at her and saw her smiling for the first time in weeks with her hand over her stomach.
"You are," Anya said. "And now we need to set a plan in motion…"
I know this is a cliffhanger, but I figured that this was a good stopping place. I'll try to update as soon as possible. Please review, I really love to read everyone's feedback, no flames though please.
The gang looked murderous at that statement, each one knowing the depth of pain Buffy felt when Spike died, and the suffering that she has gone through in the past weeks.