Title: Spike's second chance at life
Summary: Spike gets a second chance at life along with two other people.
Arthur: Mikesh
Part: 2/15
AN: The Scoobies were at Cordelia's wedding. The reason Gunn doesn't know the whole story of how they met is they've only told Wes. Fred only knows what Wes has told her too.
Since the jet was small enough that it could land on the street, Wes had the pilot land on the street in front of the magic box. He figured that that's where the gang would be. And he was right after they landed, he saw that the lights were on in the Magic Box. Everyone got out of the jet and then they went into the Magic Box. Wes had the pilot take the jet to the air port to wait until they called to be picked up. He didn't want Angel to see it and know that they were there.
When Wes entered the Magic Box he saw that the LA gang was holding and talking to the Scooby gang.
"What's wrong?" Wes asked
"SPIKE IS DEAD!" Xander yelled.
"What? Did he get staked?" Wes asked confused as to why Xander would be sad at loosing Spike.
"Yeah that's what happened. He finally got staked," Xander said sarcastically.
"Well it happens when you work around vampires. So who did it?" Wes asked thinking one of them had finally dusted him.
"You bastard!" Dawn said coming over to Wes and smacking him on the face.
"What was that for?" Wes asked really confused.
"SPIKE DIED FOR MY SISTER. HE DIDN'T GET STAKED. IF HE HADN'T DIED THEN MY SISTER WOULD HAVE. HE SAVED HER LIFE!" Dawn yelled at Wes.
No one realized that Angel had walked into the Magic Box while Dawn was yelling at Wes.
"What? Spike's dead?" Angel asked.
"Hey Angel how are you?" Buffy asked trying to be all cheerful.
"Did I hear right? Spike's dead?" Angel asked.
"So what brings you to Sunnydale?" Buffy asked not wanting to answer Angel's question.
"Answer me God damn it!" Angel said going into game face.
"Yes he died saving Buffy," Oz said from his place on the couch where he was sitting with his arm around Willows.
"When!" Angel demanded.
"About six hours ago," Oz said.
"And no one told me? Why!" Angel asked demanding an answer.
"Because the last time I talked to you, you weren't real happy with Spike. You never seemed to like him. I thought that you might be happy that he was gone and I didn't want to listen to you gloating about Spike finally being dead," Buffy said right in Angel's face.
"Buffy it's not like that. He just got under my skin at times. I never wanted to see him dead," Angel said turning back into his human face and wrapping his arms around Buffy.
"You didn't?" Wes asked surprised.
"No he was like a child to me," Angel said not realizing it was Wes that had talked.
"So what now?" Angel asked.
"What do you mean?" came Buffy's muffled voice.
"Well what are you going to do now that you have lost Spike? I thought you hated him, what changed?" Angel asked looking down at Buffy.
"At first none of really did like him, but he saved our lives. Had it not been for him then we would have died that night," Buffy said.
"What happened?" Angel asked.
"One night we were out patrolling and a clan of fifty vampires came after us at once. Had Spike not shown up when he did, then we wouldn't have made it. He's been working with us since then," Buffy said.
"How long ago was that?" Angel asked curious.
"Three years ago," Xander said.
"So where is Giles?" Angel asked realizing that the watcher wasn't there.
"Faith and he are in England like they've been for the past year. They're coming tomorrow or that's what Faith said when I talked to her," Buffy said finally lifting her head from Angel's chest.
"Why is Faith with him?" Angle and Wes asked at the same time
"She and Giles have been dating for almost two years. They live there with their three month old son," Buffy said.
"Giles has a son?" Cordelia asked shocked at that news.
"Yes he does," Buffy said.
"Wow, so is he married?" Cordelia asked.
"No he hasn't asked. It's quite an interesting story," Buffy said smiling remembering the day Giles found out he was going to be a father.
"So what are you guys doing here?" Angel asked his crew.
"We didn't' want to see there be blood shed, so we came to warn them. Seems we were the ones that needed the warning," Wes said looking at his swollen cheek in the glass table top.
"Oh, well you guys can go home now," Angel said.
"No, I want to see Giles and say hi to him if that's ok with Buffy," Cordelia said looking at Buffy for permission.
"Queen C wants to actually do something nice for once?" Xander asked surprised.
"Queen C?" Doyle asked.
"That's her name. Who are you?" Xander asked realizing that he didn't know Doyle.
"Doyle, and you?" Doyle asked.
"Xander," Xander said.
"Xander I haven't been called Queen C since high school. And I just want to see how Giles is," Cordelia said.
"You can…" Buffy started to say before Angel interrupted her.
"Buffy's been enough for one day. You can call Giles tomorrow from LA," Angel said.
"I don't think she was talking to you. She was talking to my sister," Dawn said not liking how Angel interrupted Buffy.
"I wasn't talking to you was I?" Angel asked not liking the way Dawn was talking to him.
"No, but was she talking to you? I didn't think so," Dawn said pointing to Cordelia.
"Both of you knock it off!" Buffy said not liking where the conversation was going.
"If you guys want to stay here the couch is a pull out bed and I think that the spare bed is still in the back. I have a blow up mattress that I can go get too," Buffy said.
"Where are you going?" Angel asked noticing that Buffy was trying to get out of his arms.
"To the house to get the blow up mattress," Buffy said trying to get out of Angel's arms.
"You stay here, I'll go get it," Angel said knowing that if he'd told Buffy to let Dawn go get it, she wouldn't be talking to him for awhile.
"I'll come with you. Dawn why don't you come with and we'll grab the extra sleeping bags," Buffy said.
"Sure," Dawn said ignoring the glare Angel was giving her.
"Why don't you guys grab some pillows and we'll all stay here tonight?" Oz asked.
"Why?" Buffy asked.
"I don't think any of us should be alone tonight," Oz said looking at Willow.
"You're right," Buffy said and headed out of the door followed by Dawn and Angel.
HEAVEN
"That asshole!" Spike said not pulling his eyes away from the TV screen.
"Who?" Balsamar asked confused as to who Spike was referring to.
"Angel, he talks to Dawn like she's a toddler," Spike said really upset.
"But in his eyes she is. You do remember that he's 250 years old, right?" Balsamar asked.
"Yes I do, but he doesn't have to act like it. He's starting to act like your grandfather would," Spike said finally pulling his eyes away from the screen.
"That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Just keep watching you'll see what happens ok?" Balsamar asked.
"Fine," Spike said turning around to face the TV screen again.
"Wait, when did they get back from the house?" Spike asked turning back to Balsamar.
"They got back while we were talking. Up here time goes faster then it does down there. For 5 minutes up here it's 10 minutes down there. So for 50 minutes it's an hour down there. I know there's 60 minutes in an hour, but that's the way our time works," Balsamar said.
"Oh, I see," Spike said turning back to the TV screen.
EARTH
"What times is Giles getting here?" Cordelia asked.
"I don't know, Faith said they'd call when they got to the airport," Buffy said.
"Oh, ok. Night," Cordelia said snuggling into Doyle's arms on the blow up mattress.
"Night," Buffy said getting into the sleeping bag next to her sister on the pull out cot they found in the back of the shop.
"Night," Oz and Willow said from the pull out couch.
"GOOD NIGHT," Wes and Fred yelled from the back of the shop so everyone could hear them.
"Night," Gunn mumbled already half asleep on the chair next to the coffee table/
"Night," Xander said from his position on the floor at the end of Buffy and Dawn's bed.
The only response that Angel gave was a grunt that only a vampire would be able to understand. He got the pleaser of sleeping on the chair by the door. If the door was opened then it would most likely hit him in the head, but at least it wouldn't let in the sun thought.
Through the years that Angel had know Dawn he'd come to like her less and less. It's not that he hated her, just didn't like her. He didn't know how Buffy had put up with her for so long. The thing that was making him really grumpy was he didn't get to share a bed with Buffy. He wanted to be next to her, not her sister. Yes they had broken up about two years ago, but when she came to him tonight for a hug it showed that she still had feelings for him or that's what Angel thought.
Next Chapter: Faith and Giles arrive