A/N: This is Part Eight of the CLOSURE series. This is a sequel of the ENOUGH series, so please read that one first or this won't make any sense

Disclaimer: You should know that this belongs to Joss Whedon and the parties involved in getting the show on the air.

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Dawn was feeling shocked. The news that Anya brought were less than forthcoming and disturbed her.

Spike didn't want to see her.

He didn't want to come back to Sunnydale and he made it very clear that he didn't want them bothering him again. At first, she felt angry with him but it quickly turned into a feeling of despair and sadness.

"What to we do now?" Anya asked. She didn't like the situation and she felt a little guilty for having brought such bad news.

"I don't know." Giles said. He looked at Buffy and noticed that she was lost in thought.

"Buffy?" He asked. She looked up but her sight seemed a little unfocused.

"What is it?" She replied.

"What do you think is the best course of action?" Giles asked. Buffy stared at him and then stared at them all. Giles was in front of her, staring back. To his right were both Willow and Tara, holding hands, also staring at her. A little to her left, was Dawn, staring off into space with teary eyes. On the background, were Anya and Xander, looking at Dawn and trying to comfort her. To Buffy's right, was Jean, playing with a stake and staring back at the whole Scooby gang.

"He seems determined to not coming back." Buffy said, "I don't know anymore if it'd be a good idea to seek him out."

"Then let him go." Jean said. Buffy turned around to look at her.

"It's a tempting choice," Buffy said, "but you've never seen him when he's in a bad mood. Without the chip and with the ring in his hands, there's no telling what he might do."

"It seems like a good time for you two to talk to me about the scourge of Europe." Jean said. Giles and Buffy looked at each other and sighed.

"We hoped that you'd never need to fight someone like that." Giles said. Suddenly, Willow yelped and everyone turned around to look at her.

"What is it, Wills?" Buffy asked.

"It just came to me," Willow said, looking around, "what if Spike finds Drusilla?"

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It took no time at all for him to find the airport in Lisbon. He didn't want to waste any more time in Europe. He couldn't achieve his goal while still on the old world. Spike calculated the time and he figured that he'd be in L.A. in about 15 or 17 hours.

He could wait. He had learnt how to be patient in his whole life. But now he had a different and specific plan. His scrambled mind was now running over and over his previous plans.  Very few plans had worked out and he knew the single element that ruined his other plans.

The slayer.

Whenever that woman was near his plans she'd screw them up. Whenever he was in Sunnydale he'd find his goals torn and shattered because of the slayer's meddling interference.

Now, on the three years he had been away form her he had been successful in every plan. Every goal he had in sight he could achieve, and there was nothing that stood in his way.

However, the shadow of the slayer haunted him even on the other side of the globe and after all that time. She was the sole reason of all his misery and he had tried to let her go. He had tried to be civil and mind his own businesses and try to forget about her.

Why wouldn't she let him go? Why was she always there to muck things up?

She had been his bane for the past seven years, and he faced his problems the only way he could.

He destroyed them.

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"Yes, I knew he killed two slayers, but that's not what I want to know." Jean said.

"What do you want to know, then?" Giles asked.

"Why do all of you have so different opinions about him?" She asked, "And why is Willow so afraid of him finding Drusilla?"

"The two of them together are always bad news." Buffy said, "And Spike was always influenced by Drusilla. She was the reason of his existence for over a century."

"Yes, again, I knew all of that." Jean sighed, "I've been working with you for over two years and you've never been clear about William the Bloody."

"We've never been clear about him because we were never clear with him." Dawn said. Everyone turned around to see her. Those were the first words she had uttered in almost an hour.

"What do you mean?" Jean asked.

"Some of us treated him nice and some others treated him like crap." Dawn replied, looking at Xander and Buffy.

"We've already had this discussion, Dawn." Xander said, "I have the scars to prove me I was wrong."

"I know, Xander, sorry." Dawn said, "But how can we expect him to be civil to us when we only looked for him after he did something we deemed wrong?"

"Because it was wrong, Dawnie." Buffy said.

"Yes, it was wrong, goldilocks," Dawn said, "I never said otherwise. I'm just saying that maybe we should have looked for him before he did something as ripping Riley apart."

"What did you expect, Dawn?" Buffy asked, "That I'd just let him walk around after he did that things to those soldiers?"

"No!" Dawn cried back, "I never expected you to look the other way. It's just that whenever there's something that Spike does you find the downside to it!"

"It's because there's always something twisted with the things Spike do!" Buffy cried back.

"Buffy, Dawn, stop." Giles said. Buffy and Dawn sighed and shook their heads.

"Uhm, I assume that Spike was a friend, then?" Jean asked.

"Yes." Dawn answered. Buffy only looked down.

"It has always been a subject of discussion." Giles said.

"How come?" Jean asked.

"Our relation with Spike has always been, for the lack of a better word, weird." Giles answered.

"From what you've told me, he was first a brutal murderer and then was like a neutered puppy." Jean said, "Which version are we facing now?"

"Neither." Giles said, "I know that I should have told all of you about the ring of Amarra, but I was very grateful for what Spike had done."

"It was the cause why Faith died." Buffy said.

"And it's also the cause why you have money today and why Jean's with us." Giles said, "And if I recall correctly, you did try to kill Faith once before."

"It was different." Buffy replied.

"I'm beginning to believe in Dawn's words, Buffy." Giles said, "Why do you always find something negative in everything that Spike does for you?"

"Because as I told Dawn," Buffy sighed, "there is always something wrong with the things he do."

"Oh, like Angel wasn't bad news all the time." Dawn snorted.

"That was different." Buffy snapped back. Giles once again stared at Buffy. There was something dragging itself on the back of his mind and he now had an idea of what it was. He needed urgently to talk about it with Buffy.

"Never mind that," Giles said, "our problem isn't whether Spike's actions are unappreciated, but what will we do now?"

"I say we leave him alone." Dawn said.

"Not a very good option." Buffy said.

"Once again," Jean said, "you're dancing around the subject." She stood and placed herself right in front of Buffy.

"I need to know why we're never clear about this Spike character."

"Fine." Buffy said, "He was an ally and a friend to Dawn. We should check on him because he wasn't very stable when he left Sunnydale."

"Stable?" Jean asked.

"You know he had a chip in his head," Buffy said, "when it was removed, it kinda screwed with his brain."

"How?" Jean inquired.

"It affected his memory and behavior." Giles pitched in.

"So, we're hunting a friend or a foe?" Jean asked. Buffy turned around and looked at all her friends in the room. She looked down and sighed again.

"I don't know anymore."

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15 hours later, an airplane coming from the old world landed on L.A.'s airport. Tired passengers left the plane and went to their homes or to the places they needed to be. One particular passenger walked without showing any sings of exhaustion from the flight. He had an idea set in his mind. He had decided to remove his problems and he wanted to do it right. The slayer was his main problem but there was yet another torn in his side he hadn't removed in a long while.

Spike took a cab and gave instructions to the driver. After a good twenty minutes, Spike was stepping down of the cab and stared at his destination. He had prepared himself for this on the long trip, and he was now feeling a bit anxious for what he was about to do.

He'd finally settle an old score.

It was time to see Angelus.

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