Buffy and Lindsey

"A new man"

Disclaimer: I don't own it!

Pairings: Buffy/Lindsey, Angel/Nina

Summary: Chapter one

AN: The end is near.

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Chapter 21: Save me

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The apartment

Willow sat in the apartment with Nina and Xander. Angel, Kennedy and Faith had all gone out to find the chaos demon. Gunn went to go find Buffy to tell her the good news. And none of the have checked in with any information on what they had found. It was almost like they were fighting for a nothing, Willow hadn't heard from Buffy in almost three hours she was beginning to wonder if Buffy had given up.

"I can't just sit here," Xander said as he watched Willow pace back and forth. "I mean you know how I get, I could never just sit around and wait for something to happen, I always have to be out there trying to help," he explained as he pleaded with her.

"I know the feeling," Nina said as she looked up at them. "I want to do something," she said. "I mean I know that I don't know Buffy or Lindsey like that but I do know that I want to help them, I have to help them," she explained.

"We are helping," Willow said as she stopped pacing and looked at them. "We're waiting for them to get back with information; we're waiting her to see if Buffy comes home." She explained. "That's all we can do."

"Can't you do a locator spell or something?" Nina asked. "From what Angel tells me your one big ass witch," she said as she looked around the room. "I mean can't you find Buffy in like two seconds?" she asked.

"We don't use magic like that," Willow said as she began pacing again.

"But didn't you use it to bring Buffy back from the dead? Didn't you use it to try and end the world?" She asked. "I mean if you used it for that why couldn't you use it for this?" she asked confused.

"Because this is different," she said.

"Why?" Xander said looking up at her causing her to stop. "Why is this different?" he asked. "I mean we need to find Buffy, just like we need to find her when she was dead," he explained. "This could save someone's life," he explained.

"Whose?" Willow asked confused. "Whose like could this possibly have to save? Angel already knows where the chaos demon is, we don't need Buffy at the moment so let her grieve in peace," she explained. She couldn't believe that they were even suggesting this.

"It could save her's," Xander said. "You know how she gets when she loses someone she loves and most of the time we're there with her. What do you think she is going to do when she breaks down and we aren't there to hold her up?" he asked as he looked at Willow. "We need her as much as she needs us," he explained. "So come on Will, just do the spell," he asked. "For Buffy."

Willow contemplated as she walked over and looked outside the window. Then she turned around and looked back at him. "Okay this is what I'm going to need," she said and then she listed off thing she needed that Nina and Xander needed to go buy.

The hospital

The doctors were all standing around his door way, Lindsey had been unconscious for two days and they still didn't know what the hell was wrong with him. "I've never seen anything like this before," one of the doctors said as he checked all of the machines around Lindsey. "They told us to keep him on these machine for a week and then to take him off right?" he asked as he looked at his fellow doctors.

"That's right," one said. "But I don't think we should wait that long," he said. "I mean he hasn't changed…at all and that's unusual." He explained.

"We'll give him to the end of the night and then we'll pull the plug," he said.

"I think we should wait for morning," one of the nurses said. "You know just in case someone comes to visit him tonight," she said. "Wait until morning," she added.

"I'm sorry and how are you?" he asked. "I don't think I've ever seen you around here before are you new?" he asked.

She looked around and smiled at everyone. "Yeah I'm new, my name is Dawn," she said. "I started a week ago I'm an intern," she added.

He nodded. "Okay we'll wait until morning," he said.

Chaos cave

Angel came walking out of the cave with green slime dripping from his hair as did Faith and Kennedy. "This is so gross," Kennedy said as she picked green slim out of her hair.

"Welcome to slayerdom," Faith said as she too picked slim out of her hair. "We need to get this to Lindsey tonight," she said as they started walking toward Angel's car. "I wonder how B is doing." Faith asked as she got into the passenger side.

"Me too," Angel said as he started the car and drove off.

Somewhere in L.A

Buffy was lying in mid air as Cordelia stood over her. Buffy was starting to have second thoughts as she watched as Cordelia's eyes went completely white and she put one hand over Buffy's head and one over Buffy's heart. "Wait," Buffy said.

"Yes," Cordelia asked as her eyes returned to brown. "What is it?" she asked annoyed.

"Why did the PTB send you to do this to me instead of someone else?" she asked. "Didn't they think you would try and talk me out of it?" she asked.

"No," Cordelia said. "They thought you wouldn't do it in the first place." When Buffy looked at her confused Cordelia sighed. "Buffy you're a hero," she said and Buffy rolled her eyes. "Don't roll your eyes at me Summers. You are a hero. Look how safer Sunnydale was when you came. I don't know if you remember this by I wished once that you never came to Sunnydale and the out come wasn't what I thought. Everyone was dead, Willow, Xander and me." She paused. "Buffy everyone looks up to you, future slayers want to be you and by doing this you are showing the biggest weakness that you have ever shown your whole life," she said. "You don't trust that your friends will come up with a way for you to save him…they've trusted you so why don't you trust them for once?" she asked.

"Because I love him too much to lose him," she explained.

"And this is the easy way out?"

"Exactly."

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AN: Hope you like it! Next chapter is the last chapter.