Title: Spike's second chance at life
Summary: Spike gets a second chance at life along with two other people.
Arthur: Mikesh
Part: 10/15
Angel's POV
I just told Buffy that Dawn could move in if she wants. I can hear her on the phone with Dawn right now. I'm hoping that next year when she's a senior she'll go back to Sunnydale and leave us alone. I just wish I could have Buffy all to myself and her friends didn't have to come around. I must be tired or something. No, it's not the no sex thing that's gotten me pissed off. No I'm just tired. That's it, I'm tired.
January 10
Today was the day that Dawn's moving to LA. She was happy to be moving, but she was going to miss Xander. It was weird but over the last two months she'd gotten closer to him. She wished that he'd come with but she knew he'd never leave Sunnydale as long as the gang was still there.
"So you all ready to go?" Xander asked popping his head into Dawn's room
"Yeah, Buffy here already?" Dawn asked.
"No, Angel just called and said that they'd be here in a little bit," Xander said.
"Oh, are you sure that you're going to be fine on your own?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Xander asked.
"Oh I don't know. Maybe because you've been living with a girl for two months and now you're going back to living on your own," Dawn said.
"I'll be fine. Go have fun. See you this summer for sure," Xander said.
"I'll be here," Dawn said.
"You better be or I'll come track you down," Xander said with a smile on his face.
"Don't worry I'll be here. Besides I can't miss my own 18th birthday now can I?" Dawn asked with a smile on her face.
"No, you can't," Xander said.
Ding don
"Sounds like Buffy's here," Xander said.
"Yeah," Dawn said going to the front door.
"Hey!" Buffy said throwing her arms around Dawn.
"Hey yourself. What the other half didn't want to come in?" Dawn asked.
"No, he's out there. Told him I wouldn't be long. Can I take any of the bags?" Buffy asked.
"No, I'll get them for her," Xander said.
"I'll go wait in the car. Come out when you're ready," Buffy said turning around to leave.
"What, no plane this time?" Dawn asked.
"It's at the airport," Buffy said and then went to the car.
"Well come back any time you want and remember you can call me any time day or night. I'll be here. Or if Angel starts in on you I'll be there in a heartbeat," Xander said.
"Don't worry, I think Buffy can take care of him now," Dawn said.
"Is this all you have?" Xander asked looking at Dawn's three bags.
"Yeah, for now. I'm going to leave a few things here and I still have some at the house. I figured that there's no reason to move all my things to LA. Never know I might end up hating it," Dawn said.
"Well here, give them to me and I'll carry them out," Xander said.
"No, if you can get this one then I'll get the other two," Dawn said.
"Why is that one the heaviest?" Xander asked smiling at Dawn.
"No, it's the lightest of the three," Dawn said.
"Here give me one of the heavy ones and I'll take it. You don't need to take them both," Xander said.
So Dawn gave in and gave one of the heavy ones to Xander.
"Well thanks for letting me stay with you and I guess I'll see you at Willow's wedding," Dawn said giving Xander a hug.
"You take care and watch out for Buffy," Xander said.
"Don't worry, I will," Dawn said.
"I'll see you all later," Xander said and shut the door after Dawn had gotten in.
Xander waved at Dawn until the car was out of sight. Then he went back into the house where he had his first beer since Buffy had gotten pregnant. He was starting to realize just how long two months were going to be.
ONE MONTH LATER
Dawn's POV
It's been a month since I've moved to LA. I like being able to be with Buffy but I'm ready to go home. It's not just because I don't have any friends here I also miss Xander and our little weekends we used to have. What we did was every Friday we'd go get a couple of movies and then watch them while eating popcorn. Or if Xander had to go on a stake out with Candy then I would just stay at the house and entertain myself. There were very few times that I had to do that. There were a couple of times that I had to heal him when he'd get too close to one of the monsters. The weird part is for the last week I've been having dreams of Xander and me together and Spike's with us. I don't mean kid spike I mean Spike when he was alive. Then there are nights that Spike turns to me and ask if I'm happy that he told me to go on with my life. And I say how happy that I am that my life turned out the way it did. I don't know what's up with that but it's starting to freak me out. I'm about to ask Angel's friend Lorne to read me or what ever he does to see if he can find an answer.
Cordelia's POV
I got this really weird vision yesterday where the Scoobies come live with us here in LA. I don't know what's up with that but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
ONE WEEK LATER
"Hey Dawn you want to come with me to go shopping?" Buffy asked.
"You going now?" Dawn asked looking up from the book that she was reading.
"Yeah after my doctor's visit so if you want to come then come on," Buffy said.
"Angel's not going?" Dawn asked surprised.
"No, he has to work on something. I don't know what, but it's something that he can't get away from," Buffy said.
"Sure I'll come," Dawn said marking her place in her book.
"Ok let's go then," Buffy said and with that the girls left.
DOCTOR'S OFFICE
"Ok Mrs. Roarke everything looks fine. All that I ask of you is to stop fighting," Tom, Buffy's doctor said.
"The name's Summers and I don't fight," Buffy said realizing that her sister didn't know this and was just finding out for the first time.
"That's not what your records show. Mr. Roarke called us last night and told us that you had been out fighting. He wanted me to talk to you," Tom said.
"Oh did he?" Buffy asked getting mad at Angel.
"Yes," Tom said.
"If we're done here then I have some business to attend to," Buffy said starting to get up.
"Just one last thing. Did you want to know the sex of your baby?" Tom asked.
"No, I it to be a surprise," Buffy said.
"Ok, just make sure that you schedule a appointment with Wendy at the front before you leave," Tom said and headed towards the door.
"Don't worry Tom you know I never forget to schedule an appointment," Buffy said.
"I know you don't. I just say it to all of my clients," Tom said and walked out of the door.
"So you going to talk to Angel about what he told the doctor? And you haven't fought since you left Sunnydale?" Dawn asked.
"No because Angel didn't want me to. When we get back to the office he's getting a piece of my mind, but first we're going to Sunnydale. I need to talk to Giles," Buffy said.
"Wait, why don't you just call him?" Dawn asked.
"Because I need to talk to him in person besides don't you want to see Xander?" Buffy asked with a smile on her face.
"Yes!" Dawn said before she had time to think.
"Then let's go," Buffy said walking out of the room with Dawn following her.
"Hey Buffy, do you want to make it same time for next month?" Wendy asked.
"Yes if we can," Buffy said.
"Yeah we can. So February 15 at 11:30 a.m," Wendy said handing Buffy a card that had the information on it.
"Thanks and see you next month," Buffy said.
"See you," Wendy said and with that the girls left.
Buffy and Dawn took the car that Buffy had borrowed from Angel without Angel knowing it to the airport where they took the jet to Sunnydale.
SUNNYDALE
"When's Giles supposed to be back?" Willow asked coming from the kitchen where she was getting dinner ready for them all.
"He should be back any time. I think that might be him," Faith said hearing a car door shut.
"Want me to open the door?" Xander asked.
"No, if it is him he has a house key," Faith said just as the door bell rang.
"I'll get it," Xander said hoping up and going to the door.
"You're not Giles. What you two doing here?" Xander asked Buffy and Dawn while putting an arm around each.
"Well I decided to come see you all since I haven't in awhile. And I'm pissed at Angel right now," Buffy said going inside.
"And you?" Xander asked playfully to Dawn.
"Just along for the ride," Dawn said hugging Xander back.
"Who's…" Faith started to say before she saw Buffy come into the living room.
"Hey I didn't know you two were coming," Faith said throwing her arms around Buffy.
"Well I didn't plan on coming, but I decided to because I'm not going home to that stupid vampire!" Buffy said really upset with Angel still.
"What's going on?" Willow asked coming from the kitchen.
"Hey Willow, how you been?" Buffy asked.
"Good, what did Angel do to make you so mad?" Willow asked.
"He told the doctor that I've been fighting which I haven't since I found out I was pregnant!" Buffy said all in one breath.
"Calm down Buffy," Xander said putting his hand on her back.
"Sorry it's just he makes me so mad! He didn't even need to tell the doctor that. I don't know what's gotten into him lately," Buffy said.
"So you haven't been fighting at all?" Faith asked.
"No, what's with the look?" Buffy asked noticing the way Faith was looking at her.
"It's just that when I was pregnant I wanted to fight and I did once. That was the last time until we came back after Spike died," Faith said.
"Why what happened? And where is Giles?" Buffy asked realizing for the first time that he wasn't there.
"He had go talk to the PTB for some reason. Cordelia called and told him that they wanted him to come talk to them. I don't know why. He hasn't been trying to interfere with Jack's work. And I haven't been trying to interfere with Candy's work. So you really want to hear what happened?" Faith asked.
"Sure," Came five responses.
"Ok let me put Nate in his swing," Faith said taking Nate from Oz while everyone else gathered in the living room while Faith put Nate in the swing.
"It happened when I was four months pregnant with Nate," Faith said.
FLASHBACK
"Giles I don't suppose that I could talk you into letting me go out tonight do you?" Faith asked.
"No Faith. We've talked about this. There's not going to be any going out and fighting until after the baby's born. I couldn't bear to loose both of you," Giles said rubbing Faith's stomach lovely.
"Fine I'll just sit here and get fat. I won't work out or anything," Faith said trying to use a guilt trip on Giles.
"Faith, it's not going to work. Besides you'll never get fat. Sorry honey but I need to get going," Giles said taking a sip of his coffee before giving Faith a kiss good-bye.
"Take care of your mommy for me will you little one?" Giles asked Faith's stomach when he felt a kick in response he smiled.
"Bye," Faith said not happy at all.
"See you tonight," Giles said before walking out the door.
The rest of the day Faith spent doing house cleaning and laundry. Faith had just gotten supper out of the oven when the phone started ranging.
"Hello," Faith said.
"Hey Faith, it's Giles sorry but I'm going to be late because we're still working on figuring out what this creature is," Giles said.
"Ok do you know how long you'll be?" Faith asked.
"No, why don't you just put supper in the oven for me? I shouldn't be more then an hour two at tops," Giles said.
"Ok bye," Faith said.
"Bye," Giles said and hung up the phone.
After Faith was done with supper she decided that she was going to go take a walk. She didn't plan on going far, but before she knew it she was in the grave yard where there were known vampires.
"So did you come to play?" a vampire asked stepping out of the shadows.
"No, sorry I'll just be leaving," Faith said turning around to find a vampire right behind her.
"Sorry dearry but you're now ours. Get her!" the head leader said.
Before Faith knew it she found herself trying to kick off a vampire while another one was holding her around the middle.
"Hey Tick she's pregnant! Can I play with her? Please?" Butch, the vampire holding Faith asked.
"No, you remember what happened last time you tried to play with one," Tick said.
"She's not going to do that. Besides I'll just play with her for awhile and then I'll be done with her. Come on it's been a long time since I've had one," Butch said.
"So what happened to the other one?" Faith asked scared what they might be talking about.
"They turned me!" Sarah said coming from behind a gravestone.
"Can I play with her?" Butch asked again.
"NO!" Sarah and Tick said.
"Well, what are we going to do with her?" Zap asked.
"We're going to kill her after she has the baby," Tick said coming over to Faith where she was being held around the middle.
"Put her down so I can see how strong the baby is," Tick said.
"Here you go," Butch said after he set Faith down.
"Thank you. Now move away this can get kind of messy," Tick said pulling out a knife and jabbing it into Faith's stomach.
Before Tick could stick him arm in the hole he found himself lying on the ground.
"Rept, what are you doing here? You're suppose to be dust," Tick said.
"Well I'm not. But you're going to be," Rept said taking a stake out of his coat and plunging it into Tick's chest.
"Well he's gone now. Anyone else want to challenge me?" Rept asked with the wooden stake still in his hand.
"Why did you do that? You're supposed to kill the girl, not the leader," David the new guy said.
"Ok for just being stupid I'm going to keep you around. I didn't' kill her because the baby's father is a watcher. You kill her then you might as well kill yourself," Rept said.
"So what are we going to do with her? If we let her go then she's going to come after us," Graf said.
"We're going to let her go because if we don't then the watcher will be looking for her soon," Rept said.
"No wonder we killed you. You're as dump as your cousin Spike," Graf said.
"Wait, you're Spike's cousin?" Faith asked feeling herself getting weak.
"Yeah, what's it to you?" Rept asked.
Before Faith could answer she passed out from the blood lost. The next thing she knew she was looking up at Giles who was standing above her.
"Hey do you remember what happened?" Giles asked rubbing his thumb up and down Faith hand.
"Yeah where I am?" Faith asked not 100 sure.
"You're in the hospital. Were you attacked?" Giles asked.
"Yeah. THE BABY! HOW'S THE BABY?" Faith asked sitting up so fast that she ended up getting sick.
"He's fine. They didn't get to him. Why were you outside at that time of night?" Giles asked rubbing Faith's back after she got sick.
"I was just walking, I didn't even know that I was there until they came out of nowhere. I'm sorry," Faith said starting to cry.
"No, I'm the one that should be sorry. I should have seen what it's been like for you not being able to go and fight. I'm just happy to see that you and the baby weren't hurt. I promise that the vampire that was standing over you when I found you is dead," Giles said.
"Did he have blondish brown hair, wearing a trench coat and had a stake in his hand?" Faith asked taking her head off Giles's shoulder where she'd laid it, but didn't remember doing so.
"Yeah, why?" Giles asked.
"Tell me you didn't kill him please," Faith said.
"No, he's not dead yet, but he will be," Giles said.
"No, you can't kill him," Faith said pleading with her eyes.
"Why?" Giles asked not happy that Faith wanted to save a vampire.
"He's not the one that did it. If it hadn't been for him then I wouldn't be here. He killed the vampire that cut my stomach. Are you sure that the baby is going to be all right?" Faith asked.
"Yes, look over there," Giles said pointing to where there was a heart monitor monitoring the baby's heart.
"So, I'm not leaving the house for a month am I?" Faith asked sheepishly.
"A month? More like five months. You're not leaving the house until our son is born," Giles said rubbing Faith's stomach where their baby was starting to wake up.
"You still think that we're having a son?" Faith asked.
"We are, the doctors told me when they told me how you two were doing," Giles said.
"So how long have I been here?" Faith asked.
"Two days," Giles said as the doctor came in.
"Well I see you're awake. Later after you've had lunch we'd like to do another ultrasound to check on your son. Then depending on how you're doing we might be able to let you get out Friday, but you'll have to be on bed rest for a month, two at most," the doctor said and walked out of the room.
"Now I see why you said that I won't be out of the house for so long," Faith said.
"Yes that and I don't want to have another scare like that again," Giles said.
"Ok. Until this baby is born no fighting. But I want to stop by the graveyard and tell Rept thanks," Faith said.
"Who's Rept?" Giles asked confused.
"That's the guy who staked Tick," Faith said.
"Ok why don't we start at the beginning?" Giles asked.
By time Faith was done with the story lunch had just arrived. Faith was so hungry that she ate it without really tasting it. So she didn't realize how bad the food was.
"Ok everything looks good. I would say that you should be able to get out of here Wednesday," The doctor said.
"Good, I'm ready to be out of here already," Faith said.
"You've only been here since Friday and today's Sunday," Giles said.
"Yeah, but you try being in a hospital that long," Faith said.
"I have been," Giles said.
"Sorry," Faith said.
"No problem. Why don't you get some sleep," Giles said.
"Sure," Faith said yawing.
"I'll see you tomorrow," the doctor said leaving.
WEDNESDAY
"Are you ready to get out of here?" the doctor asked coming into Faith's room.
"I've been ready since I've gotten here," Faith said tired of Giles having to shove the food down her throat because she couldn't force it down herself.
"Well let me just go get the papers and you can be out of here," the doctor said leaving the room.
20 MINUTES LATER
"Here you go. Since I see you're ready to go you're discharged," the doctor said leaving the room so the orderly could come in with the wheelchair.
"I'll just walk out," Faith said.
"Sorry hospital policy," the orderly said.
"Fine," Faith said getting into the wheelchair.
"I'm going to go get the car," Giles said leaving Faith waiting by the door.
Even though Faith was supposed to be on bed rest, Giles caved into taking her to the cemetery that night. He also wanted to thank Rept for saving not only Faith's life but their unborn son's as well.
CEMETERY
"Hey slayer, what you doing here? Going to kill me?" Rept asked.
"No, I wanted to thank you for saving my life. And what is your real name?" Faith asked.
"Hey it's no big deal. Spike would have done the same thing," Rept said.
"I would like to thank you for saving their lives. If there's anything that we can do to help please let us know," Giles said sticking out his hand to shake with Rept's.
"Sure thing Watcher. And my name's Andrew Natethan Wallace," Rept said walking away.
"Where'd you get the nickname?" Faith asked.
"Old girlfriend. Let's just say that Sarah and I have history," Rept said and left before Faith could say anything..
END FLASHBACK
"And that's how Nate got his name," Faith said.
"So did he ever ask for a favor?" Dawn asked.
"Let's just say that there are five vampires dead now," Faith said.
"He asked you to kill that many?" Dawn said.
"No, he was killed so we took care of them," Giles said startling everybody.
"Hey when did you get here?" Faith said getting up.
"I just got in. I heard you telling them the story and didn't want to interrupt. Sorry I was so long," Giles said coming over and kissing his wife.
"That's fine. What did they want?" Faith asked.
"I have to leave," Giles said.
"What do you mean you have to leave?" Faith asked.
"They said that I can't live here. I have to move to LA. And it's not just me it's everyone," Giles said.
"What? Why?" Faith asked.
"They said that we left Buffy valuable and they don't like that," Giles said.
"But I have Angel and his gang," Buffy said.
"Well I guess they don' think that that's enough," Giles said.
"Where are we going to live?" Oz asked.
"Hey why not the hotel? There's plenty of room until everyone can find a place to live," Dawn said.
"I don't know if Angel will go for that," Giles said.
"Doesn't matter you guys can say with us. Besides I think that Cordelia and Doyle are going to be moving out soon. They got themselves a house and they start moving in, in three weeks. How long do you guys have?" Buffy asked.
"Two weeks," Giles said.
"Well I suggest that we get you guys packed," Buffy said.
"Don't you think that you should talk to Angel first?" Giles asked.
"No he'll just have to deal with it," Buffy said.
"Why don't we start moving this weekend?" Xander asked.
"Do you think that you could get someone to come help us move all the stuff?" Giles asked.
"Yeah I'm sure that the guys will help," Buffy said.
"Not to be rude but if we don't eat supper now then it's going to burn," Willow said.
"Sorry we've kept you guys from supper," Buffy said heading towards the door.
"Why don't you stay?" Faith asked.
"You wouldn't mind?" Buffy asked.
"No, besides you can tell us what Angel did to piss you off so badly," Faith said heading into the kitchen to get two more plates.
"Ok," Buffy said taking a seat again along with her sister.
LA
Where could she be? She's been gone four hours and the doctor told me she left at four. If she's not here in an hour then I'm going to go looking for her, Angel thought.
"Hey dad?" Conner asked coming into Angel's office.
"Yeah?" Angel asked.
"Have you seen the mustang?" Conner asked.
"It should be in the garage. Why, did something happen?" Angel asked getting worried.
"Not as far as I know, but it's not there. Sarah and I were going to take it out tonight," Conner said.
"You know you can't drive Conner," Angel said.
"Yes I know dad, but Sarah just got her driver's license and she was going to drive," Conner said.
"Oh. Here let me check something," Angel said and turned towards the back wall that held the computer where Angel could track his planes, jets and cars with.
"That's weird," Angel said.
"What?" Conner asked.
"The car's at the airport and the jet is gone. It shows that it's in Sunnydale. She is so dead when she gets back here!" Angel said slamming his hand on the table forgetting that it would hurt now.
"Umm…dad it's ok you don't need to get that upset about it," Conner said.
"No, it's your step mom. Tell Charley to drive you to the airport and pick up the car here's the spear key," Angel said handing Conner the key.
"What about Buffy?" Conner asked.
"What about her?" Angel asked.
"You don't think she's going to wonder why the car is gone?" Conner asked.
"I don't care if she does," Angel said with a evil smirk on his face.
Buffy and Dawn left Sunnydale around 8 p.m. Buffy decided that they were going to put their house on the market along with the rest of the Scooby gang. Xander was going to talk to his landlord and let him know that he would have to break the contract. He still had another three months on it, so he knew there would be a fee for leaving early. Buffy promised that they would come back Friday night so they could help start packing Saturday.
LA
After Buffy and Dawn had gotten the car they drove back to Wolfmen and Hart where they were living.
The reason that the car was still there was Conner had decided not to take it.
OFFICE
"Sorry Angel we're so late. Just had a lot of shopping to do," Buffy said starting to walk out of the office
"Hold on a minute. Care to tell me why my jet and mustang were gone between 4 to 10 tonight?" Angel asked.
"No, sorry I don't know why they were," Buffy said.
"What happened to us being honest with each other?" Angel asked.
"You want to talk about being honest? What about you telling the doctor that I've been fighting when I haven't?" Buffy said getting upset again.
"I never told him that," Angel said not looking Buffy in the eye.
"Bull! If you didn't then why won't you look me in the eye when you say it?" Buffy asked.
"This is not about me. Why were you in Sunnydale?" Angel asked.
"Because I wanted to talk to Giles. I fount out that they're all getting kicked out of Sunnydale. Something about leaving me valuable. They have two weeks to move out. We've all decided that we're going to put the houses up for sell and I'm going to talk to Cordelia about Xander living in her apartment after she and Doyle move out," Buffy said.
"So where are they going to live?" Angel asked regretting it when he saw the smile that Buffy was giving him.
"No! They are not staying here," Angel said.
"I was actually thinking the hotel until they can each find a place of their own," Buffy said.
"And how much are we charging for rent?" Angel asked.
"Nothing because they probably won't be there for more then a month, two at tops," Buffy said.
"Do you know how much money I'll be loosing?" Angel asked.
"No more then you are already," Buffy said.
"Fine, when are they coming?" Angel asked deciding that it wasn't worth the effort to fight with Buffy.
"Dawn and I are going back Friday to help them move. I'm hoping to get everybody moved by next Friday," Buffy said.
"Dawn can go by herself. You don't need to go and help. Besides you're pregnant and shouldn't be lifting really heaving things," Angel said.
"I'm not going to be. I'm going to pack up things and let the guys move the boxes," Buffy said.
"Fine," Angel said.
"See you in the morning," Buffy said and walked out of the office.
Yes Buffy and Angel are sharing a bed, but since Angel doesn't go to bed until the sun comes up they usually only see each other when Angel's going to bed and Buffy's getting up.
Over the next week and a half Buffy, Dawn, Cordelia, Doyle, Wes and Fred all helped Willow, Dawn (who still had things at Xander's and Buffy and her old house), Oz, Xander Faith and Giles move. By the Wednesday of the week they were supposed to be moved out they had gotten everything moved. All they each had to do now was look for a place to live and get settled into life with Angel and his gang.
NEXT CHAPTER: Valentines Day