Chapter 1 Spike watched as Buffy's coffin was lowered into her grave, he knew that there was no coming back. That Willow couldn't bring her back with all the magick in the world. This was Buffy's final rest before she left she gave him a gift. His sweet daughter Isabella Joyce Summers. He knew that Buffy would want her daughter to have some sort of normal life. He knew that her friends would worship his daughter but he also knew that they would try and make her the Slayer that the missed. He knew that Giles would train her and try to make her life nothing but slaying, research and training. Despite what her friends thought he knew the Slayer better than they did; He knew that life wasn't what she would have wanted for her daughter neither did he. So Spike was leaving Sunnyhell with his daughter in tow. He wasn't going back to his old live on the streets he was going to try to make a happy life for his daughter. Something Buffy would have been proud of. First he needed to clear his head he decide to travel a bit before settling down. Spike knew that now was a perfect time since his daughter was too small to remember anything. Later that night after Buffy's funeral Spike left Sunnydale without telling anyone where he was going trying to escape the pain that he knew that he left behind.