A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back!!! I'm SO sorry for not writing sooner! I had a nasty case of bad grades and writers block ( Well back by popular demand.here is chapter 5! Enjoy and Please R&R because I would love that very much so! And BTW I'm thinking of making a Yahoo Group.It'll be called Ericas_Fics.It'll tell you when I'm going to update my stories and what's what in the life I call reality..so please help me out and Review and tell me if you'd actually join if I were to make the group! That's all!

Song: Bring me to Life by Evanescence

how can you see into my eyes like open doors

leading you down into my core

where I've become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold

until you find it there and lead it back home

(Wake me up)

Wake me up inside

(I can't wake up)

Wake me up inside

(Save me)

call my name and save me from the dark

(Wake me up)

bid my blood to run

(I can't wake up)

before I come undone

(Save me)

save me from the nothing I've become

now that I know what I'm without

you can't just leave me

breathe into me and make me real

bring me to life

frozen inside without your touch without your love darling only you are the life among the dead

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RING!

The sound of the phone pierced into Spike's skull. He lifted his head up and opened one eye, looking around. He reached out one arm to grab the phone but instead felt a head of hair. The vampire jumped as he saw her lying with him. Her long blonde curly hair reaching just beneath the shoulder blades framed her face. The combination of her angelic hair and her thick dark pink lips almost seeming to pout at him was beyond heavenly..

Spike stopped drooling over the sad girl and ran for the phone.

"Ello?" Spike answered in a muggy tone.

"Ello William." Darcy replied chipperly. "I just phoned to let you know that I have cancelled training for Eliza today...Poor girl has been through a lot and I'm still stuck here trying to decipher these codes. Is she still asleep?"

"Yeah, the lil bit's quite knocked out."

Darcy smiled. Although Spike could not hear her smile, he could detect a change in her voice. "Great! Just phone me later tonight and I will pick her up."

'Alright luv, you got it. Talk to you then."

"Goodbye William." Darcy said before Spike heard a click.

Spike tip-toed across the wooden boards, trying not to squeak and awaken his sleeping angel. As he entered his room, he sat in the old wooden rocking chair, that Buffy's mom Joyce used to spend countless hours in, just sitting and reading. Spike sat and looked at Eliza wit adoration filling his expressions.His mind drifted off elsewhere.

**************************** "Oh, like you care about her." Xander sneered hatefully at Spike. Spike returned Xander with a desperate look.

"Care? Joyce was the only one of the lot of you I could stand!" He yelled right back at Xander. "And she was the only one with a daughter you wanted to shag." Xander put his hand to his heart. "I'm touched." Spike groaned in annoyance. "I liked the lady! You understand, Monkey Boy? She was decent. Didn't put on airs. Always had a nice cuppa for me. And she never treated me like a freak." Xander stood for a moment, staring at Spike, wishing that he could actually take the chipped vampire.If he could Spike would be staked in a matter of seconds. "Her mistake." Spikes face fell. It was worse than thousands of beatings and tortures. The fact that he wasn't wanted by anyone, even if it was the bloody Whelp, broke him into pieces. Shattering his unbeating heart. **************************** Spike looked up at Buffy, grateful she was alive, but also terrified.magic ALWAYS had consequences. As he stared into her eyes in amazement and adoration, tears of longing wet his eyes. "I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her." He lowered his head.

"If I'd have done that, even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't have had to jump." Spike shrugged and sniffed back sobs that were almost pouring out.

"But I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, and do something different. Faster, or more clever, you know?" He grabbed her injured hand, staring at the beauty of even the way the light bounced off of her golden skin. "Dozens of times, lots of different ways. Every night, I save you." A lone tear traveled down his cheek. ****************************** Buffy's face fell to the ground. She had just been stabbed in the back by all of her friends.the only one who hadn't turned his back on her was the neutered vamp. "Forget them, Slayer. I got your back." Spike said, ushering Buffy out the door. Buffy wouldn't budge.

"Thought you wanted me to stay away from you. Isn't that what you sang?" He cocked his head to the side in hurt. Pain filled Spike's heart. He wanted to scream at her and bathe in her blood.and yet wanted to hold her and cry, begging Buffy to tell him that she loved him.

"Spike sing a wittle song?" Xander interrupted.

Anya looked at them in curiosity. "Would you say it was a break-away pop hit or more of a book number?" She was obviously still bothered by the fact that the song that they had sang earlier had been a showtune and would have never made it to become famous..if it weren't just a spell.

Xander massaged the bridge of his nose and sighed deeply "Let it go, sweetie."

Spike swallowed hard. "Fine. I hope you dance till you burn. You and the little bit." It pained him to say it, but he did..right before he turned on his heel and spun out, with his duster flowing behind him. *****************************

Spike took a step closer to the crying Buffy. He would not let her turn herself in.."No one'll ever find her." He promised. Just as he spoke, two police officer's walked outside of the station.

"Where'd they find her?" The male officer asked, rushing into the squad car.

The female officer traveled close behind. "The river. She washed up a half- mile from the cemetery."

Spike sighed deeply and rolled his eyes. "Oh, balls." ****************

Spike was lying on the ground bleeding. The cut on his lip from Buffy's attack was bleeding. "I love you." He repeated again, looking in her eyes.

Buffy's eyes were wide. Hate creeped into her voice. "No, you don't." She said firmly, through her teeth. Buffy kicked Spike in the side, over and over. She punched him continuously. The pain in Spike's body was nothing compared to the pain in his shattering heart.

Spike could hardly talk through his swollen lip. "You think I haven't tried not to?" He cried to her. But Buffy swooped again, angered by reality. Spike REALLY loved her. Her fists covered him, beating him into a bloody pulp. She gave him a kick to his head, piercing right into his eye. Another kick was right into his breaking heart. Buffy pulled him up and punched him in the face again, making Spike fall to the ground. Spike looked up at Buffy patheticly. His face was filled with blood and bruises. He could barely see out of his right eye, and his left had no vision what so ever, they were so swollen. His lips were black and blue, covered with blood. But yet, a small smile reached his trembling and pained face. "You always hurt the one you love, pet."

Buffy looked down at the poor man, and wept. ********************** But then out of all the memories of him and Buffy, the first kiss that they shared popped into Spike's mind.. *********************** Buffy saw Spike leave the Bronze and she chased him quickly. Spike turned around annoyed that the woman he loved followed him.torturing him "You should go back inside. Finish the big group sing, get your kumba-yayas out." He sighed.

Buffy stood, staring at Spike, as if trying to read his mind. "I don't want to."

The blonde vampire rolled his eyes. "The day you suss out what you do want, there'll probably be a parade. Seventy-six bloody trombones."

But before he could get in on her again, Buffy began to sing. "I touch the fire and it freezes me.."

Spike looked at her, and joined in his own song. Different words.same meaning.lonliness.unhappiness.. "I died.So many years ago."

"This isn't real.but I just want to feel."

Buffy stared deep into his blue eyes and leaned her head in. Their lips met in a fiery kiss. **************** Spike pulled his head away, his eyes were halfway open. When he saw the face in front of him, he gasped. Eliza stood, mouth partly open. "What the...?" Spike murmured to himself. Eliza stared, cocking her head to the side, still trying to figure out if she was dreaming also.

"Eliza..I'm so-" Spike started to say, but was cut off.

Eliza put her finger up to his lips and quieted him. She still stared into his eyes, trying to figure him out. She combed her fingers through her blonde hair and pushed it to one side of her neck. Eliza moved in slowly towards Spike.hesitant at first. They moved towards each other, eyes closed. Their lips met.

Spike's heart nearly burst. Never had he felt this way in the longest time. As both of their lips parted slowly and their tongues made their way to each other, he started shaking. He slowly massaged Eliza's tongue with his own, then sucked on her bottom lip. She moaned as the kiss deepened. Eliza then wrapped her arms around Spike's neck, pressing herself as close as she could get. The young slayer was frustrated with the distance and moved her legs so she was stratteling Spike's lap. They both pressed against each other, moving their bodies up and down rhythmically. Spike's mouth felt like it was on fire.

She pulled away, needing air from the exhausting kiss. Eliza's chest was heaving up and down. "So." She said breathlessly.

"So." He replied.They had a lot to talk about...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TBC! HAHAHA CLIFF HANGER HAHAHA srry..please R&R give me some suggestions on what you think should happen.yeh never know..it just might! ;)