CHAPTER THREE
Spike was sat by the table his feet lounging on the table he was laughing, "Slayer you're gonna die!" He snorted in Buffy's general direction.
"You wish bleach boy." Boy said before turning back to Giles hoping that he would explain exactly what the hell he was talking about.
"Right well it seems that the Slayer would have never been broken when it was, it should have been broken when you jumped from the tower. Faith was never meant to become a Slayer and you were meant to have another Slayer with you now so that could have a dark force, and Spike was meant to help." Giles explained now feeling rather calmer.
"So what does the whole 'back to the future' thing have to do with it?" Buffy asked.
"Well Spike killed Nikki the Slayer in 1974, she should have not died at his hands, she should have died two years later. So that would push the line forward by two years making you the Slayer after the Master had been killed."
The gang were sat wide eyed now, Giles was talking like one of Xander's science fiction movies and part of them thought that he had finally lost it. Spike was just sat inspecting his black chipped nail varnish with pride at the mention of him killing a Slayer.
"So Spike messed up again." Buffy said trying to clarify the situation, it always comforted her to know that whatever the problem was it had been caused by Spike.
Giles could ring her neck, for once it wasn't all down to Spike but Buffy would never see that, "Are you going to listen to what I have to say?" Giles said in a stern tone.
Buffy just nodded her head like a small child who had been reprimanded.
"Good, Spike being the boisterous creature that he is had a reputation that went before him and this lead to many Slayer running away rather than face him, much like they would have done with Angelus, Darla or Druscilla there fore when Spike decided to set his sights on Nikki there was little information on him." Giles explained while Spike just sat a grinned.
Much a prophecies annoyed the heel out of him Spike had to admit that this one was very interesting. Sitting around with the 'scabby' gang while they discussed what a formidable enemy he was did have a certain charm.
"Spike do you mind." Giles said noticing the proud look on the vampire's face.
"I still don't get it though what's the deal with the time travelling?" Xander asked intrigued by the concept.
"Buffy is a Slayer that has come to know Spike very well and the only one who has faced him and lived. So the plan is to send her back to take over the body of past Slayer who ran from William the Bloody, fight him, live and not kill him. Then the watchers will be able to build up a useful profile of him and Nikki may manage to live."
Buffy didn't like the idea of taking over other people's bodies, it had happened with Faith and she did not enjoy that experience. But from what Giles had said it had to be done and again being the Slayer she was the only one that could do it. Could she do it? Fight Spike let him live and keep herself alive as well, Spike was an amazing fighter pre-chip. He had an edge that was like nothing she had ever seen before.
"What if one of us dies?" Buffy asked quietly, trying not think that she could die and be returned to heaven.
"Then you die, if it is you then your body here will die as well as one you are inhabiting, if it is Spike then he will disappear because he should have never been in this time." Giles explained watching the look of horror appear on gang's faces.
"She's not soddin' well doin' it then." Spike shouted as he stood up and started to pace.
Giles looked at him with disgust, this was something that needed to be done in order to save the world and all Spike could think about was saving his ass. Buffy looked at him with a slight smile to her face she knew that he wasn't worried about himself, he was worried about her.
She had confided in him that she had been to heaven and without speaking the words she had told him that she would like to be back there. He had told him herself that the day she had a death wish he would be there, now it was looking as if he right.
"Leave it Giles he's just worried about me." Buffy whispered, none of the group could understand what Spike felt for Buffy but she understood.
"When you leave your body it will stay alive but you will not be there, you could liken it to a coma it suppose so we will need to perform the spell at your home so we can let your body rest."
"Can I do the spell?" Willow asked sounding as excited as a child going to Disney land, Giles had to admit that was worried about the young witches use of her power but not was not the time.
"Yes Willow we will need you because this spell will require great power."
"Cool, I'll get the ingredients together." She said taking the list from Giles' hand
~*~
Buffy was walking slowly towards her home on Revello Drive, spike was walking beside her but they hadn't spoken. The silence was killing Spike.
"Slayer, Buffy, you will be careful won't you, and I'm taking about with me." He added the last bit on the end before she could punch him.
"Yeah, don't worry Spike I won't beat you up too bad." She answered not wanting to look at him. Some how Spike had become a friend and now she had to go back and face the unchipped version that would have never become a friend.
Buffy remembered only too well what Spike had been like when he first arrived in Sunnydale set on killing her, she never wanted to see that side of him again, now yet again the Slayer had all her choices taken away from her.
"You couldn't anyway, please Buffy don't give into me, promise me." Spike said the sound of tears present in his voice.
"I promise."
"Don't because I remember the other Slayers in that last moment they could have gotten away but they never they gave into me. Don't you dare do that." Spike said taking hold of hand and looking into her eyes, "Don't"
Buffy smiled at him, he was right and she knew but if anything her stubborn nature wouldn't allow it, Spike beating her, that would never happen.
"I won't and I'll be back to annoy you before you know it." Buffy said winking at him, in away she was glad it was Spike and not Angelus she had a deeper connection with Spike when it came to the dance as Spike called it.
Now they were outside Revello and it was time.
~*~
Buffy was lying on her bed while the Scooby gang were gathered around her, all except for Spike who was leaning against the doorframe, he didn't want her to go but he knew he could stop her.
"Willow and I will send you back into the body of May Sutton in England 1908, when you have faced Spike you will move into the body of the next Slayer although I don't know which one. Buffy do you understand?" Giles spoke softly.
"Yes."
And with that answer Giles and Willow started the spell, "Girndo Estael Pinicoal Girndo Havsedn't 'ohampten Caetel Finicenst Girndo." Willow chanted and Buffy started to feel her body slip away from her.
She knew the feeling she had felt in before, twice. Suddenly she could see her own body lying on the bed with her friends surrounding her, she looked at Spike who held a fearful look in his eyes.
Then everything slipped away and the world went black.
TBC.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know that these chapters haven't been very exciting or Spuffy related but I needed to put them in to start off so you guys would understand.
Next time, Buffy finds herself in 1908 England.
Spike was sat by the table his feet lounging on the table he was laughing, "Slayer you're gonna die!" He snorted in Buffy's general direction.
"You wish bleach boy." Boy said before turning back to Giles hoping that he would explain exactly what the hell he was talking about.
"Right well it seems that the Slayer would have never been broken when it was, it should have been broken when you jumped from the tower. Faith was never meant to become a Slayer and you were meant to have another Slayer with you now so that could have a dark force, and Spike was meant to help." Giles explained now feeling rather calmer.
"So what does the whole 'back to the future' thing have to do with it?" Buffy asked.
"Well Spike killed Nikki the Slayer in 1974, she should have not died at his hands, she should have died two years later. So that would push the line forward by two years making you the Slayer after the Master had been killed."
The gang were sat wide eyed now, Giles was talking like one of Xander's science fiction movies and part of them thought that he had finally lost it. Spike was just sat inspecting his black chipped nail varnish with pride at the mention of him killing a Slayer.
"So Spike messed up again." Buffy said trying to clarify the situation, it always comforted her to know that whatever the problem was it had been caused by Spike.
Giles could ring her neck, for once it wasn't all down to Spike but Buffy would never see that, "Are you going to listen to what I have to say?" Giles said in a stern tone.
Buffy just nodded her head like a small child who had been reprimanded.
"Good, Spike being the boisterous creature that he is had a reputation that went before him and this lead to many Slayer running away rather than face him, much like they would have done with Angelus, Darla or Druscilla there fore when Spike decided to set his sights on Nikki there was little information on him." Giles explained while Spike just sat a grinned.
Much a prophecies annoyed the heel out of him Spike had to admit that this one was very interesting. Sitting around with the 'scabby' gang while they discussed what a formidable enemy he was did have a certain charm.
"Spike do you mind." Giles said noticing the proud look on the vampire's face.
"I still don't get it though what's the deal with the time travelling?" Xander asked intrigued by the concept.
"Buffy is a Slayer that has come to know Spike very well and the only one who has faced him and lived. So the plan is to send her back to take over the body of past Slayer who ran from William the Bloody, fight him, live and not kill him. Then the watchers will be able to build up a useful profile of him and Nikki may manage to live."
Buffy didn't like the idea of taking over other people's bodies, it had happened with Faith and she did not enjoy that experience. But from what Giles had said it had to be done and again being the Slayer she was the only one that could do it. Could she do it? Fight Spike let him live and keep herself alive as well, Spike was an amazing fighter pre-chip. He had an edge that was like nothing she had ever seen before.
"What if one of us dies?" Buffy asked quietly, trying not think that she could die and be returned to heaven.
"Then you die, if it is you then your body here will die as well as one you are inhabiting, if it is Spike then he will disappear because he should have never been in this time." Giles explained watching the look of horror appear on gang's faces.
"She's not soddin' well doin' it then." Spike shouted as he stood up and started to pace.
Giles looked at him with disgust, this was something that needed to be done in order to save the world and all Spike could think about was saving his ass. Buffy looked at him with a slight smile to her face she knew that he wasn't worried about himself, he was worried about her.
She had confided in him that she had been to heaven and without speaking the words she had told him that she would like to be back there. He had told him herself that the day she had a death wish he would be there, now it was looking as if he right.
"Leave it Giles he's just worried about me." Buffy whispered, none of the group could understand what Spike felt for Buffy but she understood.
"When you leave your body it will stay alive but you will not be there, you could liken it to a coma it suppose so we will need to perform the spell at your home so we can let your body rest."
"Can I do the spell?" Willow asked sounding as excited as a child going to Disney land, Giles had to admit that was worried about the young witches use of her power but not was not the time.
"Yes Willow we will need you because this spell will require great power."
"Cool, I'll get the ingredients together." She said taking the list from Giles' hand
~*~
Buffy was walking slowly towards her home on Revello Drive, spike was walking beside her but they hadn't spoken. The silence was killing Spike.
"Slayer, Buffy, you will be careful won't you, and I'm taking about with me." He added the last bit on the end before she could punch him.
"Yeah, don't worry Spike I won't beat you up too bad." She answered not wanting to look at him. Some how Spike had become a friend and now she had to go back and face the unchipped version that would have never become a friend.
Buffy remembered only too well what Spike had been like when he first arrived in Sunnydale set on killing her, she never wanted to see that side of him again, now yet again the Slayer had all her choices taken away from her.
"You couldn't anyway, please Buffy don't give into me, promise me." Spike said the sound of tears present in his voice.
"I promise."
"Don't because I remember the other Slayers in that last moment they could have gotten away but they never they gave into me. Don't you dare do that." Spike said taking hold of hand and looking into her eyes, "Don't"
Buffy smiled at him, he was right and she knew but if anything her stubborn nature wouldn't allow it, Spike beating her, that would never happen.
"I won't and I'll be back to annoy you before you know it." Buffy said winking at him, in away she was glad it was Spike and not Angelus she had a deeper connection with Spike when it came to the dance as Spike called it.
Now they were outside Revello and it was time.
~*~
Buffy was lying on her bed while the Scooby gang were gathered around her, all except for Spike who was leaning against the doorframe, he didn't want her to go but he knew he could stop her.
"Willow and I will send you back into the body of May Sutton in England 1908, when you have faced Spike you will move into the body of the next Slayer although I don't know which one. Buffy do you understand?" Giles spoke softly.
"Yes."
And with that answer Giles and Willow started the spell, "Girndo Estael Pinicoal Girndo Havsedn't 'ohampten Caetel Finicenst Girndo." Willow chanted and Buffy started to feel her body slip away from her.
She knew the feeling she had felt in before, twice. Suddenly she could see her own body lying on the bed with her friends surrounding her, she looked at Spike who held a fearful look in his eyes.
Then everything slipped away and the world went black.
TBC.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know that these chapters haven't been very exciting or Spuffy related but I needed to put them in to start off so you guys would understand.
Next time, Buffy finds herself in 1908 England.