"Xander? Are you there?" Giles yelled in the phone. Seconds ago he had been having a conversation with Xander about Buffy's attitude changes sense she came back from hell. The doorbell rang and then there was a bunch of screaming and a few snaps. Angelus did it! He didn't have any clue as to who the perpetrator really was.


Buffy approached the house with Angel's arms around her waist. She was fully complete. "I'm so glad you are back." Her voice oozed of joy and contentment. "It's heaven now."


"I'm not leaving you ever again. I promise. I'll always find my way back to you."


Buffy saw that her front door was open and she ran up to see what had happened. Angel's arms felt lonely, but he could smell the blood. As they walked in upon the scene. The sun was almost about to rise.


"Oh God!" Buffy trembled and covered her much as her eyes laid on the scene in her living room. Angel froze and stood I shock.


Xander's lifeless body was laying on the coffee table and Dawn's neck was twisted in an inhuman direction. Rushing up to her body Buffy check for a pulse. "Is she?"


Angel walked up and checked her pulse. He knew she was gone. "She is." She couldn't stand straight and fell right over into Angel's arms. "Today has been the greatest day of my life up until now.


Willow had the phone now. Giles had given up and she heard noise in the background. "Xander DAWN? Hello!"


Buffy didn't hear the words, but saw the phone off the hook. She put it on the charger. And picked up again to dial 911. Angel stopped her. She looked up at him with sorrow. "They're gone. They can't help them. It was me"


"You? You did this!" She shouted in anger. She was ready to kill him.


"No! I meant if I hadn't have come back they'd still be alive"


She knew this was the truth. Something in her told her that it was. I don't want him to blame himself. "But I wouldn't hav-"


"Shh" he planted a soft kiss on her forehead and brought her into his embrace.


"What do I do?" More sobs and tears rolled out of her like a waterfall. The incredible pain she was s feeling couldn't have been matched by anything on the earth or in ay dimensions left.


"I can give them back to you." He was ready to do it for her.


"What? You can?" She smiled, but when he frowned she knew something was up."What'll happen if you do?"


"I'd have to fold time. I would have to stay away from Sunnydale. Spike did this because of me. I can smell him all over. I pissed him off so he killed them. It must have hurt like hell from the chip but he did."


"So do it." She didn't get the consequences yet. Grief was pulling her heartstrings.


"I'll have to change it so I won't come back at a-."


"No! I love you. I'll- How can I go on knowing what we couldn't had? What we shared tonight?"


"You won't remember. I don't even know if I will. It'll be like you never knew me now. That day at the school wouldn't happened differently." Buffy wrapped her cold arms around him and hugged him close to her chest.


"No. You can't. I love you" She met his lips in fervent kiss.



"Your sister Buffy, and your best friend. I'm one person. Not even. I did horrible things. I'll still be here, but down there. They are just plain gone. They won't remember their time in heaven. You need them more than you need me right now. I deserve to be punished. It wasn't their time. It'll screw everything up if they die. Well, if they stay dead."


Buffy knew that this was the only way. She'd resent Angel if he didn't do it. Maybe not know, but one day she would for sure. "I'll never forget the time we spent together. I'll always remember the way your lips curl up.'' She laughed nervously.


"I loved you from the moment I saw you."


"I even loved you as Angelus even though I'd never admit it. I'll always have you in my heart, but we can't be together. I- There is no messing with it, is there?" She wanted him to tell her she was wrong, but he'd only agree.


"I'll miss you" He ran a hand over her cheek and the tears that were forming there.


"I'll never forget. I'll wait. You'll come back!" Buffy desperately hoped it was true.


"You won't and I won't. You'll move on. You'll find someone new. Just not Spike. Okay?"


"I-don't want to forget. It isn't enough time! I need more time!" Her lips lingered over his.


A brilliant flash of light blinded them both for a second. When she opened her eyes, she had a demon from the school pined to the wall. Xander had the talisman in his hands. Buffy got the fleeing there was something she should be doing. Xander snapped the talisman in half and for a second a blue twinkle in the air started to show. But it soon faded out.


"I got his weird feeling just then." Buffy walked over to Xander and hugged him.


"What was that for?"


"I don't know. It just felt like the right thing to do." No sooner had she said it then Dawn wrapped her arms around her older sister.


"This was a trying first day. But aren't they all?"


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Angel sat on a big cloud looking down on the scenes below him. He was content in knowing she'd be okay. He should have been dead for hundreds of years, but no.


A man dressed in white approached him. "Are you coming?" A big set of pearly gates loomed in his presence.


"I'll wait for her. She'd like that." He knew it would be awhile but he wanted to be with her, the real her not some stupid imaginary Buffy that heaven might provide just like it had when Buffy was here with him.


"It's up to you. When you're ready-When she gets here you two can come on in."


The End!
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