Disclaimer. As much as I would love to own it, I don't. Joss, Mutant Enemy and Margaret Mitchell take those honors I believe.

Chapter 2:

"SPIKE! You should have said you were in here!" Buffy screeched.

"In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't have been very tactful, would it? But don't worry. Your secret is safe with me." He replied cockily.

"You're an evil monster."

"As are you miss. Don't think I hold that against you. The sweet ones never held any charm for me."

" Oh first you spy on my in an intimate moment and now you insult me?!"

"I meant it as a compliment. And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the soulful Angel. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your...what was it...your passion for living?"

"Oh don't even talk about him like that. You're not worthy of the ground he walks on. You're beneath him."

"And here you were going to hate him until the day you died."

*Back in the main part of the bronze* (Buffy and Spike have returned to mingle with the Bronzers)

Giles ran into the Bronze, out of breath, glasses tilted, and hair disheveled. The scoobies gathered around to see what the problem was.

"War has begun. The First Evil blew up the watchers council. This undoubtedly the end of life as we know it."

The scoobies looked around at each other in awe. There was no way to defeat the First, they knew from experience. If war had begun, this was serious. Unlike the rest of the shocked crowd, Buffy couldn't seem to care less. Suddenly, Parker came flying into the room.

"Buffy! It's all over the news. Weird things happening everywhere. Teenage girls are being mysteriously murdered world-wide! Buildings are exploding everywhere! Los Angeles has turned into total darkness! They're saying it's the end of the world, Revelations! " He looked around at the group wildly. "I need to talk to you alone Buff," he said more quietly.

They stepped aside by the bar. They were both kind of in a daze.

"Buffy, everything is changing. I think we're all going to die, and I think I'm going to hell. I need to do something right with my life before that happens. Buffy will you marry me?"

That was definitely NOT what she expected from the non-committal college kid. She looked at him without want, and then back over at her beloved Angel who met her eyes with sad ones of his own. She looked back at Parker with tears in her eyes.

"Only if we can elope, tonight."

'Absolutely."

Buffy took one last look around the Bronze. Willow and Tara comforting each other, Riley soothing a hysteric Dawn, Anya scolding a tearful Xander, and walked out hand in hand with her unwanted husband to be.

*In the Kitchen at Rovello*

"Where's my baby girl Giles?" Joyce pleaded.

Buffy had been gone since Giles had made his announcement at the Bronze. Nobody had seen her leave and they were all worried. In fact worry was an understatement with the impending apocalypse and lack of slayer and friend.

"I'm sorry Joyce, I just don't know. It's as if she vanished."

Right after the words had left his mouth they heard the front door open. Buffy walked in, with a somber look on her face. Parker was with her, their arms linked.

"Hey guys," She looked around at the gang, Giles, her mom, Dawn, Riley, Tara, Willow, Fred, Gunn, Wesley, Codry, Lorne, Xander, Anya, and Angel.

"You've all met Parker, my husband, right?"

Nobody could say anything. They're jaws all gaped and they're eyes bulged incuriously.

"Your what?" Xander finally managed to squeak in his pubescent sounding voice.

Parker took Buffy's hand and held it out to let everyone see the ring he had bought her at a jewelry store next to the small chapel where they had been wed. The rock was huge. One advantage of knowing the world was going to end was that you could spend your money freely.

'Ummmm...congratulations guys?" Willow said unsurely.

"You didn't even invite us to your wedding! How rude, we're your family you know. We have to put up with you all the time, the least you could do is let us give you away." Dawn whined. " When me and Riley get married we will never elope. I mean how tacky is that? You don't even get to dress up like a giant marshmallow. "

Riley looked at the girl with loving eyes, they were perfect for each other. While most of them looked shocked, Giles looked hurt. He had always hoped to give his slayer away. Now he didn't even get to see her walk down the aisle. He didn't know how to deal with the feeling so he made the world's biggest subject change ever.

"Well as big of news as this is, we still have more important matters to discuss. The First has struck and we need to make a counter attack. I s'pose we should gather our forces and mount up."

"I can go check out L.A. and see what's going on with the permanent darkness up there." Said a still bewildered Angel. "I was going to go anyways, obviously. "

"Yes that sounds good," Giles replied. "Why don't you take some of us with you for enforcement. I know you wanted to do this on your own, but that was before the war."

"Okay, well it would be nice to have Wes and Fred for research. And Cordy's visions are helpful. And of course we could use some more muscle, so why not Gunn. And how 'bout Lorne as well"

"Sounds good. That leaves us pretty much split in two between Sunnydale and L.A." Giles stated.

The talk went on covering strategies and designating roles to the warriors. No one seemed to notice that Parker was shocked by their knowledge of all this until about 10 minutes later.

"Oh did I forget to mention? I'm a vampire slayer. I fight evil for a living as do all my friends. Oh, and Angel is a Vampire, and Lorne is a demon, not a children's TV. show host. " Buffy said it like she were telling him about the weather. He didn't seem overly surprised though.

" I always knew something was weird about you guys. Well can I join? Can I be a superhero too.?"

Everyone looked at him skeptically.

"We do not use the word 'superhero'." Buffy said. "It's tacky."

*At the Cemetery, Sunday Afternoon*

Everything was happening so fast, Buffy could hardy comprehend it. Everyone was comforting her consoling her. They all felt bad that her love died. Didn't they know her love had been dead for over a hundred years? She didn't care about Parker's death. Ya, it was a shame he died, but she hadn't loved him. She couldn't care about anything with Angel in L.A. If she had cared, she would have been embarrassed that her husband died on his first encounter with a vampire (besides Angel of course). She would have been even more embarrassed that the vamp that killed him was nothing but a fledgling in this very cemetery. But she didn't care.

Her love was gone, her husband dead, and her world quite literally coming to an end.