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Chapter nine

Never Leaving

Buffy could feel the tears streaming down her cheeks. No matter how much she tried, they just wouldn't stop. She had been through apocalypses over and over again, but this one just seemed more definite, and it scared her. She got that lump in her throat filled with dread, and the sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.

Could she actually lose this one?

But then she thought of Spike. He never ever let her down. He had promised to protect her, at least she had some hope. The vampire loved his slayer and the slayer loved her vampire. That would never end, even when the world did.

So why did the slayer need the thought of someone protecting her to keep her stable? Shouldn't she be doing things on her own, isn't that how a slayer works? She never was one to follow the rules.

This she smiled at.

She was pulled out of her thoughts by the sudden chill that whistled down the street of Sunnydale. It was cold and could only be described as the winds of death. It made her blood run cold. She needed a distraction, anything to take her mind of her awful fate, that was undecided.

That's when a figure apeared before her. A vampire. She narrowed her eyes, looking sternly at the fledgling. He smiled wickedly, growling, thinking he had an easy meal ahead of him. That was until she pulled a stake from her back pocket. His smile faded, and he lunged at her, hoping to take her off guard, but she was ready, she was always ready.

The vampire was no match for her slayer skills. In seconds he was no more than dust on the pavement.

"Shouldn't have bothered" she whispered to the pile of dust beneath her boots.

Suddenly she heard the patting of feet behind her. She closed her eyes, letting her senses tell her who was approaching. Buffy smiled. It was the one person she needed now, more than anything. Spike, and yes he was considered a person in her eyes now, not a thing or creature, a man.

"Luv, why did ya take off? I had to make some bloody stupid excuse to get me out of there. I think the bleedin' poof followed me, so do you wanna get out of here, talk quietly. Plus the Bit is probably waitin for us back home, you know what she's like" he smiled, running a hand through his soft blonde hair.

"Spike, never leave me" she finally managed to say.

He cocked his head in confusion, before answering the only answer he knew.

"I'll never leave you"

"Promise?" tears began to fill the green eyes he loved to look at so much.

She suddenly looked so vulnerable, something Spike couldn't bare.

He instinctively took her in his arms and whispered against her golden hair. "Promise"

No more could be said that night. They simply walked home, hand in hand, waiting for the time they knew was coming. The apocalypse. Because like Spike, that never went away.

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