"U WHAT?" Zander sreamed.

"How could you, Buffy?" Willow asked.

"How could you betray me like this!" Dawn asked, flaling to the floor, "after all the years of trust, and I even-even admitted BSB is better than *NYSNC!!!! How Could you?"

Buffy shrugged, "He's dead. I killed the one I loved! How could I? You all are right. I am dirty. I do not derseve to be here. I must go away."

Buffy ran past them all, crying openly.

She found a cave on the outscirts of Sunny Dale and crawled inside.

Her tears trickled down her cheeks forming two pools of pure sorrow beheath her. She clutched her broken, hopless body toward her.

"I killed him," she murmmered, "I killed him after he tolled me he loved me. How could I have done it? God, please, give me another chance. God, if there is a god, give me another chance to make things right."

her eyes looked up at the sky and she began pleading, "without him, there's no reason for me anymore. I need him. He was everything to me. Hoe could I have never seen it be fore?"

then the plan came to Buffy's mind. She grabbed a sharp rock beside her. "I can't be strong when he's away. This time I wil join him in hell!"

She felt as if the entire world was slient watching her movements. She presses the rock to her wrist and with a deep and swift mevemnt, slit her skin.

Then she echoed the movment with her other hand.

She was not one to grimiance in pain. She just lay down and watched the stars.

"Maybe soon," she whispered, "I can be reunentied with the one I love."

The a voice she knew so well cut through, "Buffy?"

She turned around to see him standing there, and she couldn't believe this was real.

"Spike?" she asked.