Ch 11. Friday
It's Friday, the day for the guys to finally meet David. It's in the afternoon & Buffy, Dawn, Anya and Xander are at the hospital outside David's room.
"Okay, here we are…" Buffy says, " You guys are gonna meet David." she looks at them meekly and stands there for a long while.
Dawn looks at her impatiently, "Well what are you waiting for? Open the door and lets go in!"
Buffy bites her bottom lip & pauses, "I dunno, Dawn. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea."
"What are you talking about?", she turns to Xander, "Make her hurry up!"
"Buffy, what's wrong?" he asks.
"I'm just, I'm nervous."
"Why? We're just meeting a guy. It's not like were putting forth vengeance on him." says Anya.
"I don't know, I just have this weird…"
Dawn interrupts her, "Buffy quit being such a baby! I've been looking forward to meeting this guy all week and I'm going in now, with or without you!", she moves her sister aside and briskly opens the door & walks in.
He looks up at her. "Hey there."
Dawn just stands there stunned and gasps, "Oh my God, Spike!"
Buffy quickly runs in the room, as Xander & Anya follow her. "Dawn it's not…"
"Spike?!" Xander points at him. "What the hell are you doing back!" he says angrily.
"Well this is interesting. I though we we're supposed to meeting David, not Spike." says Anya.
"When the hell did you come back! And what hell are you doing here in a hospital, where they treat people!" Xander continues yelling at him.
Buffy slightly pushes him back, "Xander, wait…"
He looks at them all, baffled. "I am David." he says soft-spoken. "Uh Buffy I'm a little confused…"
"I… I know I'm sorry about this, hold on…" she turns towards the others and pulls them all outside back to the hallway, while closing the door behind her.
"Buffy, what the hell is this!" says Xander
"Xander, Xander! Chill, okay? First you need to calm down & stop saying 'what the hell'." she says.
He takes a deep breath, "Fine, but can you please explain this."
"There's nothing to explain. That guy in there isn't Spike, he's David. You all do remember David, right? The guy you came up to meet?"
"C'mon just take one look at that guy!"
"Xander, I have seen him, ya know. I'm aware that he looks like Spike. I even warned you guys he did, remember?" she says.
"No what you said was that he slightly resembled him, not that he was the same person." he says abruptly.
"He's not the same person!" she says frantically.
"Wait a minute, I didn't get a warning." says Anya.
"Well you weren't there when she mentioned…"
"Okay can ya'll shut up and listen to me." she interrupts them. They all look at her.
"Thank you. Okay now, you all need to get this through your heads. That guy in there, David, is not Spike. He looks like Spike, he even kinda talks like him, but he's not him. He's just a normal guy, a human guy, complete with a pulse and everything. Not a vampire. Okay?" she says, as if she was talking to preschoolers.
"So he's not Spike?" says Anya.
Buffy looks at her mind-numbingly. "Right." She sighs, "Look you guys David is a really nice guy I like, and he doesn't know you guys, except with what I've told him, and he doesn't even know who Spike is. And with the way you all reacted when you saw him, especially you Xander, you've probably really freaked him out."
Xander looks down, and then up to her. "I'm sorry, Buff. It's just… I have a lot of anger towards Spike and… seeing his face again or a face similar to his, just really got me you know, 'ahh'. I'm sorry." he hugs her.
"It's okay." she says. She looks over towards his sister, who hasn't yet said anything. "Dawn, are you okay?"
"Buffy, are you sure?" she says thoughtfully. "I mean are you, really? He looks so much like him."
She thinks for a minute. "Actually… yes. I am 100% sure. Okay I'll admit, I thought it was Spike too when I saw him. But he's human, he's David Schroeder and he's human. Trust me it's legit."
Dawn nods, "Okay."
"Okay." Buffy smiles with relief. "Are you ready to go back in?"
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Well, uh that was weird.
The minute the girl walked in, I immediately knew it was Dawn. She was exactly how I had pictured her.
She had that innocence to her face and she did bear a resemblance to Buffy. But then…
It reminded of the first time I met Buffy. When she walked in and saw me. She had the exact same expression on her face, like a look of surprise & utter shock & slightly upset all mixed in. She said I was… Spike.
Spike? That was the same name Buffy had called me. Spike, that's an unusual name…
Buffy never really told me about him, but didn't she mention that he had hurt her? Or something like that. That must be why that other guy who walked in started yelling at me. He's definitely had to be Xander. He seemed pretty mad. And since Buffy said Willow was in London, the other girl was probably Anya.
They all looked so upset. They must really dislike this Spike-character, and I must really look like him.
Well, uh that's kinda weird.