Happily Ever After Part 4
Disclaimer: So not mine.
Author's Note: OK, I know this took along time to get up, but I started university on the 29th of September, and it took me this long to get the internet connection in my room working and as I've discovered, yelling at my laptop does not have any noticeable affect, why must it refuse to accept the connection's there!? I am now totally out of touch with the goings on of the Buffyverse, a week and a half with out the internet: arghhhhh!
AN2: I apologise for the shortness of this chapter and how long it took for me to put up, sorry :) I'll finish it soon :)
Dedication: Ali and Fran: I need people who get my Buffy and West Wing obsessions, I miss you!
Timeline Note: Set after season 3 with characters from season 6 (not seven, haven't seen it, *thoughtful pause* need to move to America). Hopefully will make sense when you read it :)
Previously on Buffy the Servant Girl
Spike started at the rain beating down on the stained glass windows in the grand hall. He was slouched against a pillar, trying to keep out of sight while all the time staring at the entrance.
Buffy made it to the palace at 10 o'clock. She slicked her hair back out of her eyes, the rain had plastered it to her head; and she knocked on the back door.
The door opened a crack and an eye peered out suspiciously. "Buffy!" a voice yelled and the door was flung open and she was pulled inside. "You're soaked! How the hell are we going to get you ready on time?" The girl said. Buffy stared around the candle lit room, her eyes settled on the figures in front of her, both dressed in tutu's, one green, one blue. "Who the hell are you?" she demanded. "We're your Fairy Godmother's" yelled Dawn and Clem, grinning widely.
Buffy stared at them blankly at them, shaking her head slightly "What?" she asked bemusedly. Dawn felt a twinge of regret that Buffy had no idea who she was, but she knew that was the price. "We're from the future, your future" Dawn replied *God could I sound more stupid* she inwardly winced. "I know you guys in the future?" Buffy hazarded. "Yes!" Clem yelled, grinning stupidly. "But you're a demon" Buffy said turning to Clem "Why would I know you", "He's a friend of Spike's" Dawn explained. "What!? Why the hell do I know Spike in the future?" Buffy yelled "He left looking for Drusilla, why would he come back to Sunnyhell?". Dawn sighed, she hadn't meant to let slip anything about the future.
"Look…." Dawn tried to think of a way of explaining without telling everything. The Spike here was not like her Spike, he wasn't in love with Buffy, probably still wanted to rip her throat out, if Spike somehow found out about his future self: Buffy, the chip; Dawn knew he would wig and run in the opposite direction.
*Bloody hell, she's going to stand me up* Spike thought miserably. He hadn't moved from the position by the pillar. He knew the King was looking for him, he had to announce his engagement at midnight, that was only an hour away. *Where is she?*
"Buffy can't you just accept that Spike is living in Sunnydale now?" Dawn said exasperatedly, knowing it was pointless. "Why isn't he dust?, Or why aren't I dead?" Buffy yelled back at her, her eyes widening as Dawn winced. "I'm not dead am I? Spike killed me! Oh my God!" "No Buffy, your alive, and Spike would never hurt you" Dawn said trying to calm her panicked sister. "Yeah right" Buffy scoffed "Spike has tried to kill me loads of times……….what the hell is going on" Buffy glared at Dawn *Why would Spike not want to hurt me? I mean…. It's Spike*. "Spike kind of helps out now and again" *More now than again* Dawn thought.
They heard the church bell chime 11 in the distance. "Buffy will you please just get ready, you're going to be late" Dawn pleaded. "Did this happen in your past, is what your're doing going to make you not exist, or are you in a different dimension?" Buffy questioned. Dawn looked impressed, causing Buffy to retort: "What? I can be smart!".
"We're from a different dimension, it ran parallel to yours up until the whole crazy story witch thing. We can't change our dimension, so we wanted to change yours." Dawn explained. "Ugh! How dare you decide to change my future" Buffy yelled outraged. "Look, you made this decision, the PTB said they couldn't change your future, I mean our Buffy's present, but they could offer you a better future. So technically you gave us the right to mess with your future, or at least alternate dimensional you……….Willow is so much better at explaining this stuff than me." Dawn sighed. "Willow…. And the gang, everyone, they're all right?" Buffy asked, suddenly nervous. "Well, Willow's doing way too much magic, and Tara's worried, Xander and Anya are getting married, but they're all fine really." Buffy just stared at Dawn in shock "Anya and Xander, and who the hell is Tara". Dawn's smile became fixed *Crap* she thought, "It's all fine, we've got a ball to get you to", she tried to change the course of the conversation as Buffy gawped at her.
Spike was bored out of his mind *It's worse than the sodding things I had to go to when I was alive*. He rolled his shoulders trying to ease the tension in his neck. He was getting more and more agitated *where is she?*. *What am I going to say to her* he'd been obsessing all day about that kiss. *Did she kiss me like that because she was imagining me as Angel, does she think I was imagining her as Dru?.....Ugh* He shook his head in disgust, he had to stop thinking about it.