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"Buffy? What's going on?" Angel asked, trying to keep his temper down. Spike smiled. He always liked it when he was the cause of Angel's torment. Buffy hadn't moved, she still clung to Spike and started breathing heavier.
"Angel, its not what it looks like." Buffy tried to explain. Angel only shook his head. Buffy finally let go of Spike and started to walk towards her boyfriend. Angel only stood there.
"I was really tired and Spike was guiding my around the cemetery. Nothing else. I swear." Buffy pleaded for Angel to believe her, but it didn't look like she was getting it across.
"Yea, someone has to protect the slayer from the deadly oak trees." Spike added earning a death look form Buffy.
"And what about the other night, when she left after telling me you met your future daughter? What happened then Buffy?" Angel questioned. Buffy had forgotten about going to see Angel, in fact she had forgotten about Angel all together.
"I went to go talk to her, and my mom-" The slayer tried to make the vampire see that what she was saying was true, but he didn't seem convinced. Just then Spike stepped forward.
"She's tellin' the truth soul boy." Angel stared at Spike for a while then back to Buffy.
"How does he know about your future daughter?" Angel asked. Buffy looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Although Spike wasn't as quick thinking as her on the subject and he said the one thing Buffy never wanted Angel to know.
"Because I'm the girl's father you Bloody-" He was cut off by Buffy.
"Spike!" She looked at him in fear. It was then that Spike realized what he had actually done. "I mean, cause..." He trailed off, unable to think of a good excuse. Angel returned his attention to Buffy.
"Is that true?" He asked, plain and simple. Buffy looked down at her feet and spoke softly.
"Yes." As soon as she said that word Angel felt like dying, again.
"Buffy....I can't believe.....how could you?....." He went on and on, Buffy couldn't look at him, she continued to hang her head. All the sudden Angel turned to his childe. His look was of pure disgusted.
"This is all your fault. I don't know how, but if your involved, Buffy's in pain." He said before punching Spike in the face. Spike fell to the ground and was about to get back up and fight his Sire but Buffy stopped him.
"No! Stop this right now!" She yelled at both Angel and Spike. Then she turned towards Spike.
"Are you all right?" Buffy slowly went over to him on the ground. She noticed his nose was bleeding and she carefully lifted his head to look at it.
"It's not broken, here, hold your nose with this to stop the bleeding." She handed him a cloth from her pocket. He took it and did as she instructed. Then they both got up and Buffy turned to Angel.
"we can talk later Angel, I need to get home now." Buffy stood facing him and he glared at her.
"Whatever you have to say, say it now." He demanded. Buffy lowered her eyebrows and stared back at him.
"I really don't think you want Spike to hear this." She explained.
"Forget Spike! Just say it!" Buffy began to grow more and more angry at Angel, he just didn't listen sometimes.
"Fine! I don't think we should see each other anymore! I realized that its not worth the trouble. I still care about you Angel, but everything is different now. More complex. And until I figure out what I want in life I just can't be in this kind of relationship." Buffy felt the tears rolling down her cheeks. She hated to make him feel this way, but it was true. She just couldn't do it anymore.
"Fine. Good bye Buffy." With that Angel turned and walked away into the darkness. Buffy broke down crying. Not just over Angel, but for everything that was going to be or not be, for Jackie who was trapped in this world, for the fear of being a mom, for the confusing feelings towards Spike and there would be life together. She soon fell to the ground and held her face with her hands. She began to sob so hard her chest hurt. Just when she was about to lay down and die, she felt Spike sit down beside her and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Hey now, don't worry luv. I'm sure he'll come crawling back begging like the poof he is to have you back in no time." Spike smiled at her and to his surprise she lifted her head from her small hands to look at him. Spike was speechless at the hurt in her eyes. At that point in time he wish he could kill his Sire for causing this girl so much pain. *Why am I thinking like this? I should be laughing at her for her pain, not comforting the slayer! What the hell is wrong with me?* He thought.
"I'm not so upset about Angel. It's just, everything is falling apart. It's like I don't even know who I am anymore. But I do know that I don't love Angel anymore. I still care for him, and love him in a friend way, but I don't feel anything towards him more then that. Am I the biggest bitch or what?" Buffy laughed at her statement and Spike just looked at her.
"I know it must be hard for you Buffy, but you will get over it, you always do. And yea you can be a real bitch sometimes, but most females are." Spike smiled at her and she looked in his eyes in search of something.
"Thanks Spike. I think. Come on, lets go back to my place." Buffy slowly got to her feet and she and her future husband began to walk home. They where almost out of the cemetery when Buffy felt Spike's hand brush against hers accidentally. She smiled softly and took his hand in hers. She began to softly stoke his thumb with hers and he squeezed lightly back. Either of them said anything, they didn't even look at each other. When they got to Buffy's house she went to unlock the door. When she had opened it she looked back to see if Spike was coming but he just stood there.
"Aren't you coming in?" She asked. He looked at her.
"If I did, it would probably get Angelus more blown up then he is. I'll go." He stated. Buffy looked confused and was about to say something back when he turned and began to walk away.
"Spike! Wait!" Buffy yelled as she ran after him. She pulled lightly on his shoulder making him turn to face her.
"You can't go, I mean you don't have to go." Buffy focused on his eyes and tried to make him see what she didn't want to say.
"Give me one good reason to stay. And don't say Jacquelyn because that's a give away." He said. She looked at him and smiled.
"Because I love you." Buffy stated, making her smile go from ear to ear. Spike's mouth opened in shock and it took him a while to say anything.
"Sorry luv, my old age must be getting to me. I thought you just said that you...love me..." Spike smiled in confusion and expected Buffy to say that she hadn't said that, but she didn't.
"No Spike, it's true. I do love you." Buffy held his hand again and for a while she just stared at their hands.
"Well I guess that's a good enough reason to stay another night on that couch." He laughed softly and Buffy did also. Then they shared a slow romantic kiss, that turned into a very heated passionate one.
"I think someone owes the girl from the future 20 bucks!" Jackie exclaimed from inside the house where she, Willow, Xander, and Joyce had watched the scene play out in front of them. Xander gave a very heavy sigh and reached into his back pocket and gave Jackie the 20 dollars.
"Man, I though for sure I was going to win." He stated. Willow turned to him.
"Maybe next time you will believe someone when they say Buffy and Spike will fall in love, especially when they came from the future."
~~~~~~~~~The next day- at Sunnydale High School~~~~~~~~~~~
The blonde woman walked down the familiar halls, each poster, face, and room bringing back a flood of memories. Some happy and some not so happy. Times where so much easier back then, but they could never been as great as the time she was living in back home.
~~~~~The same time, in the Library~~~~~~~~
Buffy sat at the `Scooby table' in the middle of the small Library. She was surrounded by all her close friends. Willow was at the end of the table looking through some books in search of the spell that brought her best friends daughter back to their time. Some small part of her kind of hoped that she wouldn't find the spell, that way Jackie could stay here and they could continue to be friends. But Willow knew that Jackie didn't belong here and she needed to be with her real family, not her family to be. She glanced over at Xander and Cordilla. Xander was frantically trying to complete his math homework and Cordillia was reading one of her many fashion magazines. Then looked over at Buffy who sat talking in a quiet voice to Spike. She noticed that they where holding hands and laughing about something or other. She smiled and turned her attention back to the book. She squinted at the page. It was really hard to read in the room because of the black sheets over the windows,
of course she knew they had to be there because of Spike being a vampire and all, but it was really hard to read in the lack of light.
She was about to turn on the desk lamp when someone walked through the doors.
Giles walked out from his back office and greeted the woman. Or at least he tired to before he realized who the woman he was talking to was.
"B-Buffy?!?!" He exclaimed earning the attention of both slayers in the room.
"Hello Giles." The woman greeted. She was much older looking and a bit taller with longer hair, but unmistakingly his slayer. The other Buffy who was sitting on at the table stood up and stared in confusion and wonder at, well, herself.
"But,.... how?....who?...." Xander tried to say but it never came out right.
"I believe you have something of mine and I've come to get it back." The older Buffy stated. Still smiling at Giles. Giles only rubbed his glasses.
"Well I don't-" Giles was interrupted when the doors of the library where opened once again. This time more forcefully. Everyone looked at the person that had burst in. It was Spike. Only different, older.
"Where is she? You said it would only be 2 seconds." He told the other Buffy. She stared at him and hit him playfully.
"Hold your horses! I'm working on it." She answered. He gave a heavy sigh before turning to Giles.
"Well??" He questioned the librarian. Giles was too dumbfounded to answer anything. He was about to say something when, once again, the library doors where opened.
"Hey everybody! What's goin' on?" Jackie asked as she stepped towards the table. It was then that she realized who was standing in front of Giles.
"Mom?! Dad?!" She yelled as she turned to face them. Both Buffy and Spike smiled at their daughter.
"Jacquelyn!" Buffy exclaimed opening her arms for her daughter. Jackie ran over to her mother and embraced her. Then she did the same for her father. She was so busy with the fact that she had found her parents that she didn't realize she was being watched by every confused face in the room. She turned to the Scooby gang.
"Oh, hey everyone, these are my parents, uh, the ones from my time." She introduced.
"I think they could have guessed that." The future Buffy stated.
"I don't know, Xander there probably couldn't." The future Spike joked. Jackie laughed with him. Buffy only shook her head.
"Uh, wow... I don't know what to say." The Buffy of that time said.
"Well don't worry about it, we'll should get going, everyone's waiting for us back at the magic box. And we don't want to mess with the future of this world." Future Buffy stated. Then she turned to her daughter. "Ready to go?" she questioned.
"Give me a few minutes?" She asked. Buffy nodded and Jackie walked over to Xander and Cordilla. She hugged Xander.
"It was nice to met this you Xander. Don't ever forget not to bet against someone who knows the future." She said. Xander smiled.
"Yea, that never turns out well does it?" He laughed as she hugged Cordilla.
"Bye Cordilla. Sorry I didn't get to know you better, I'll make a mental note to find you in my time and met you." Jackie broke the hug and looked at the Xander's of her time's ex girlfriend.
"Yea, take care." She said back. Jackie moved over to Willow and the future witch smiled. They embraced each other and Jackie pulled out of the hug to find a sad expression on her Aunt's face.
"Don't worry. I'll be fine." Jackie reassured. Willow nodded and smiled.
"I know, its just...well I'll miss you. Sorry everything was so hard on you." Willow explained. Jackie smiled again.
"Thank you for trying to find the spell." She moved to her parents of the past and put her hands on her hips.
"After meeting you two of this time, well, lets just say that I now know why the Giles of my time says that my being born is a miracle in its self." Her statement cause everyone in the room to chuckle. Buffy hugged her future daughter.
"Thanks for everything. It's going to be weird telling people that my daughter brought me and my husband together." She smiled, then she smiled harder realizing that she had excepted that Spike would be her husband. Someday. Jackie then hugged her vampire father.
"Thanks pet. You know, for everything." Spike looked her in the eyes, not believing that his own eyes could be that blue.
"Yea, and hey, don't worry about becoming human. Your not that bad at it, and its kinda cool." She started to walk away after Spike nodded at her. She rejoined her parents of her world and thanked Giles. Then with a few words in an old language from future Buffy, a portal opened. It life the room as all the eyes stared at it. The family to be was about to step through the portal when the future Buffy turned around.
"Hey Wills! Catch!" She yelled before tossing a book to her best friend of the past. Willow caught the book and looked at it. It was a spell book.
"Thought you might want to speed up the whole human thing." She smiled a smile of pure happiness before her and the future Spike walked through the portal. Jackie was about to follow, but before she left she turned around once more and said;
"See you all in the future!" And with that she was gone.
"Buffy? What's going on?" Angel asked, trying to keep his temper down. Spike smiled. He always liked it when he was the cause of Angel's torment. Buffy hadn't moved, she still clung to Spike and started breathing heavier.
"Angel, its not what it looks like." Buffy tried to explain. Angel only shook his head. Buffy finally let go of Spike and started to walk towards her boyfriend. Angel only stood there.
"I was really tired and Spike was guiding my around the cemetery. Nothing else. I swear." Buffy pleaded for Angel to believe her, but it didn't look like she was getting it across.
"Yea, someone has to protect the slayer from the deadly oak trees." Spike added earning a death look form Buffy.
"And what about the other night, when she left after telling me you met your future daughter? What happened then Buffy?" Angel questioned. Buffy had forgotten about going to see Angel, in fact she had forgotten about Angel all together.
"I went to go talk to her, and my mom-" The slayer tried to make the vampire see that what she was saying was true, but he didn't seem convinced. Just then Spike stepped forward.
"She's tellin' the truth soul boy." Angel stared at Spike for a while then back to Buffy.
"How does he know about your future daughter?" Angel asked. Buffy looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Although Spike wasn't as quick thinking as her on the subject and he said the one thing Buffy never wanted Angel to know.
"Because I'm the girl's father you Bloody-" He was cut off by Buffy.
"Spike!" She looked at him in fear. It was then that Spike realized what he had actually done. "I mean, cause..." He trailed off, unable to think of a good excuse. Angel returned his attention to Buffy.
"Is that true?" He asked, plain and simple. Buffy looked down at her feet and spoke softly.
"Yes." As soon as she said that word Angel felt like dying, again.
"Buffy....I can't believe.....how could you?....." He went on and on, Buffy couldn't look at him, she continued to hang her head. All the sudden Angel turned to his childe. His look was of pure disgusted.
"This is all your fault. I don't know how, but if your involved, Buffy's in pain." He said before punching Spike in the face. Spike fell to the ground and was about to get back up and fight his Sire but Buffy stopped him.
"No! Stop this right now!" She yelled at both Angel and Spike. Then she turned towards Spike.
"Are you all right?" Buffy slowly went over to him on the ground. She noticed his nose was bleeding and she carefully lifted his head to look at it.
"It's not broken, here, hold your nose with this to stop the bleeding." She handed him a cloth from her pocket. He took it and did as she instructed. Then they both got up and Buffy turned to Angel.
"we can talk later Angel, I need to get home now." Buffy stood facing him and he glared at her.
"Whatever you have to say, say it now." He demanded. Buffy lowered her eyebrows and stared back at him.
"I really don't think you want Spike to hear this." She explained.
"Forget Spike! Just say it!" Buffy began to grow more and more angry at Angel, he just didn't listen sometimes.
"Fine! I don't think we should see each other anymore! I realized that its not worth the trouble. I still care about you Angel, but everything is different now. More complex. And until I figure out what I want in life I just can't be in this kind of relationship." Buffy felt the tears rolling down her cheeks. She hated to make him feel this way, but it was true. She just couldn't do it anymore.
"Fine. Good bye Buffy." With that Angel turned and walked away into the darkness. Buffy broke down crying. Not just over Angel, but for everything that was going to be or not be, for Jackie who was trapped in this world, for the fear of being a mom, for the confusing feelings towards Spike and there would be life together. She soon fell to the ground and held her face with her hands. She began to sob so hard her chest hurt. Just when she was about to lay down and die, she felt Spike sit down beside her and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Hey now, don't worry luv. I'm sure he'll come crawling back begging like the poof he is to have you back in no time." Spike smiled at her and to his surprise she lifted her head from her small hands to look at him. Spike was speechless at the hurt in her eyes. At that point in time he wish he could kill his Sire for causing this girl so much pain. *Why am I thinking like this? I should be laughing at her for her pain, not comforting the slayer! What the hell is wrong with me?* He thought.
"I'm not so upset about Angel. It's just, everything is falling apart. It's like I don't even know who I am anymore. But I do know that I don't love Angel anymore. I still care for him, and love him in a friend way, but I don't feel anything towards him more then that. Am I the biggest bitch or what?" Buffy laughed at her statement and Spike just looked at her.
"I know it must be hard for you Buffy, but you will get over it, you always do. And yea you can be a real bitch sometimes, but most females are." Spike smiled at her and she looked in his eyes in search of something.
"Thanks Spike. I think. Come on, lets go back to my place." Buffy slowly got to her feet and she and her future husband began to walk home. They where almost out of the cemetery when Buffy felt Spike's hand brush against hers accidentally. She smiled softly and took his hand in hers. She began to softly stoke his thumb with hers and he squeezed lightly back. Either of them said anything, they didn't even look at each other. When they got to Buffy's house she went to unlock the door. When she had opened it she looked back to see if Spike was coming but he just stood there.
"Aren't you coming in?" She asked. He looked at her.
"If I did, it would probably get Angelus more blown up then he is. I'll go." He stated. Buffy looked confused and was about to say something back when he turned and began to walk away.
"Spike! Wait!" Buffy yelled as she ran after him. She pulled lightly on his shoulder making him turn to face her.
"You can't go, I mean you don't have to go." Buffy focused on his eyes and tried to make him see what she didn't want to say.
"Give me one good reason to stay. And don't say Jacquelyn because that's a give away." He said. She looked at him and smiled.
"Because I love you." Buffy stated, making her smile go from ear to ear. Spike's mouth opened in shock and it took him a while to say anything.
"Sorry luv, my old age must be getting to me. I thought you just said that you...love me..." Spike smiled in confusion and expected Buffy to say that she hadn't said that, but she didn't.
"No Spike, it's true. I do love you." Buffy held his hand again and for a while she just stared at their hands.
"Well I guess that's a good enough reason to stay another night on that couch." He laughed softly and Buffy did also. Then they shared a slow romantic kiss, that turned into a very heated passionate one.
"I think someone owes the girl from the future 20 bucks!" Jackie exclaimed from inside the house where she, Willow, Xander, and Joyce had watched the scene play out in front of them. Xander gave a very heavy sigh and reached into his back pocket and gave Jackie the 20 dollars.
"Man, I though for sure I was going to win." He stated. Willow turned to him.
"Maybe next time you will believe someone when they say Buffy and Spike will fall in love, especially when they came from the future."
~~~~~~~~~The next day- at Sunnydale High School~~~~~~~~~~~
The blonde woman walked down the familiar halls, each poster, face, and room bringing back a flood of memories. Some happy and some not so happy. Times where so much easier back then, but they could never been as great as the time she was living in back home.
~~~~~The same time, in the Library~~~~~~~~
Buffy sat at the `Scooby table' in the middle of the small Library. She was surrounded by all her close friends. Willow was at the end of the table looking through some books in search of the spell that brought her best friends daughter back to their time. Some small part of her kind of hoped that she wouldn't find the spell, that way Jackie could stay here and they could continue to be friends. But Willow knew that Jackie didn't belong here and she needed to be with her real family, not her family to be. She glanced over at Xander and Cordilla. Xander was frantically trying to complete his math homework and Cordillia was reading one of her many fashion magazines. Then looked over at Buffy who sat talking in a quiet voice to Spike. She noticed that they where holding hands and laughing about something or other. She smiled and turned her attention back to the book. She squinted at the page. It was really hard to read in the room because of the black sheets over the windows,
of course she knew they had to be there because of Spike being a vampire and all, but it was really hard to read in the lack of light.
She was about to turn on the desk lamp when someone walked through the doors.
Giles walked out from his back office and greeted the woman. Or at least he tired to before he realized who the woman he was talking to was.
"B-Buffy?!?!" He exclaimed earning the attention of both slayers in the room.
"Hello Giles." The woman greeted. She was much older looking and a bit taller with longer hair, but unmistakingly his slayer. The other Buffy who was sitting on at the table stood up and stared in confusion and wonder at, well, herself.
"But,.... how?....who?...." Xander tried to say but it never came out right.
"I believe you have something of mine and I've come to get it back." The older Buffy stated. Still smiling at Giles. Giles only rubbed his glasses.
"Well I don't-" Giles was interrupted when the doors of the library where opened once again. This time more forcefully. Everyone looked at the person that had burst in. It was Spike. Only different, older.
"Where is she? You said it would only be 2 seconds." He told the other Buffy. She stared at him and hit him playfully.
"Hold your horses! I'm working on it." She answered. He gave a heavy sigh before turning to Giles.
"Well??" He questioned the librarian. Giles was too dumbfounded to answer anything. He was about to say something when, once again, the library doors where opened.
"Hey everybody! What's goin' on?" Jackie asked as she stepped towards the table. It was then that she realized who was standing in front of Giles.
"Mom?! Dad?!" She yelled as she turned to face them. Both Buffy and Spike smiled at their daughter.
"Jacquelyn!" Buffy exclaimed opening her arms for her daughter. Jackie ran over to her mother and embraced her. Then she did the same for her father. She was so busy with the fact that she had found her parents that she didn't realize she was being watched by every confused face in the room. She turned to the Scooby gang.
"Oh, hey everyone, these are my parents, uh, the ones from my time." She introduced.
"I think they could have guessed that." The future Buffy stated.
"I don't know, Xander there probably couldn't." The future Spike joked. Jackie laughed with him. Buffy only shook her head.
"Uh, wow... I don't know what to say." The Buffy of that time said.
"Well don't worry about it, we'll should get going, everyone's waiting for us back at the magic box. And we don't want to mess with the future of this world." Future Buffy stated. Then she turned to her daughter. "Ready to go?" she questioned.
"Give me a few minutes?" She asked. Buffy nodded and Jackie walked over to Xander and Cordilla. She hugged Xander.
"It was nice to met this you Xander. Don't ever forget not to bet against someone who knows the future." She said. Xander smiled.
"Yea, that never turns out well does it?" He laughed as she hugged Cordilla.
"Bye Cordilla. Sorry I didn't get to know you better, I'll make a mental note to find you in my time and met you." Jackie broke the hug and looked at the Xander's of her time's ex girlfriend.
"Yea, take care." She said back. Jackie moved over to Willow and the future witch smiled. They embraced each other and Jackie pulled out of the hug to find a sad expression on her Aunt's face.
"Don't worry. I'll be fine." Jackie reassured. Willow nodded and smiled.
"I know, its just...well I'll miss you. Sorry everything was so hard on you." Willow explained. Jackie smiled again.
"Thank you for trying to find the spell." She moved to her parents of the past and put her hands on her hips.
"After meeting you two of this time, well, lets just say that I now know why the Giles of my time says that my being born is a miracle in its self." Her statement cause everyone in the room to chuckle. Buffy hugged her future daughter.
"Thanks for everything. It's going to be weird telling people that my daughter brought me and my husband together." She smiled, then she smiled harder realizing that she had excepted that Spike would be her husband. Someday. Jackie then hugged her vampire father.
"Thanks pet. You know, for everything." Spike looked her in the eyes, not believing that his own eyes could be that blue.
"Yea, and hey, don't worry about becoming human. Your not that bad at it, and its kinda cool." She started to walk away after Spike nodded at her. She rejoined her parents of her world and thanked Giles. Then with a few words in an old language from future Buffy, a portal opened. It life the room as all the eyes stared at it. The family to be was about to step through the portal when the future Buffy turned around.
"Hey Wills! Catch!" She yelled before tossing a book to her best friend of the past. Willow caught the book and looked at it. It was a spell book.
"Thought you might want to speed up the whole human thing." She smiled a smile of pure happiness before her and the future Spike walked through the portal. Jackie was about to follow, but before she left she turned around once more and said;
"See you all in the future!" And with that she was gone.