Spike was having a great time.

First, He and Buffy went to see one of those cute date movies with Meg Ryan. The entire movie she put her head on his shoulder and held his hand. Then they went for dinner at a nice restaurant and talked all night about how Dawn was doing in school.

He had never had a better time in his entire life

Or unlife.

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Buffy was having an abysmal time.

First, the stupid robot dragged her to see some boring movie with that hoe, Meg Ryan. The entire movie she had to put her head on his shoulder so nobody saw her sleeping and she held his hand to keep from screaming out in frustration. Then they went to some resturant with ugly wallpaper and rambled on about Dawn.

She had never had a worse time in her entire life.

And that was including the two times she'd died.

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"So, guess this is your street." Spike felt great. Like the entire evening had been absolutely magical, "Can I walk you to the door?"

Buffy tried hard not to life in the robot's face. This whole thing would've been cute when she was fifteen but now it was so stupid. God, she wished he really was Spike. Then this date would have been fun. But this robot was so cold, so polite. It was like they killed Spike just so they could disgrace his memory with this abomination.

There was another small tear in her heart. Spike was still dead. Oh god, why? She never even told him—

NO! Cry later. Right now she had to trick him into—

"Buffy, have I ever told you how beautiful you are?"

She rolled her eyes at the robot. "All right that's it!" she screamed and punched the robot as hard as she could. She was lucky that it short- circuited or something because the automaton went down on the first hit.

"Bastard."

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"He's gone?" Dawn muttered in a weak voice, "Bu-But why?"

Xander patted the heart broken girl on the shoulder and gave her a sympathetic face. "We don't know why they killed him. We just know that they replaced him with that…ugly thing."

He motioned to the robot that was still offline but tied up in a chair. Xander smiled a little. He remembered when Spike first started working came to them and they had to tie him to a chair to keep him from ruining Thanksgiving dinner.

He sighed. Poor Spike, he'd be missed.

He turned to Dawn who was still crying. "I was going to cook him Buffalo wings for their date."

"I know. I know. Don't worry Buffy'll kick some ass for you."

Dawn's face suddenly turned very angry, "I hope she finds that other guy and beats his brains in!"

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Stephan walked into the dirty old crypt with a smile on his face. He was almost on his way out of this hellhole.

Any minute now that vampire was going to come back and give him a bus ticket out of town and…

He heard a growl coming from the corner of the crypt and looked over in it's direction.

Five very large Fyral Demons were standing right in front of him.

TBC