SO. . .DID YOU LIKE THE FIRST CHAPTER? WELL THIS IS THE FIRST CROSSOVER
I'VE DONE. I HOPE YOU LIKED IT.
Buffy stared at the man standing before her.
"Are you real?" she asked.
"Very real luv" he told her. He took a step towards her and she backed away. "What's wrong?"
"I just. . .I can't. . .I mean, how?" she asked.
"Not sure myself pet, Angel and his quirky, detective team are working it out" Spike told her.
"I can't believe it" she whispered.
"Believe it" he whispered and walked over to her. "I'm not asking you for anything. . .I just want to hold you." She leaned into him and shut her eyes.
"Oh" she sighed. She hugged him tightly. "I thought you were dead."
"Can't get rid of me that easily goldilocks" he told her. She looked at him and then kissed him lightly on the lips. "You have no idea, how much I missed you."
"Ditto" she smiled and hugged him again. She couldn't believe he was here, standing right in front of her. "This better not be a dream."
"No dream pet, believe me, I can't get out of here, I'm stuck" he said.
"What do you mean?" she asked, now backing up a bit.
"Whatever that amulet was, it's keeping me here" Spike said.
"Angel was meant to wear it, does that mean that whoever gave it to him wanted to keep him here?" she asked.
"Guess so" he said and went over to his bed and sat down. She followed him and also sat down. She turned to face him and sat Indian style on the bed.
"How have you been?" she asked.
"Okay, getting incinerated not really something I want to experience again, but I'm okay" he said.
"I'm so sorry" she said. He looked at her surprised.
"For what luv?" he asked.
"I shouldn't have gone, I should have stayed with you, o-or made you come with me" Buffy said.
"No, hey, it wasn't your fault okay, it wasn't. . .did you mean it?" he asked.
"Mean what?" she asked him.
"Before you left, you told me you loved me, did you mean it?" he asked.
"Of course I did, you were the one who told me I didn't remember" she said, getting up and walking a few steps away from him.
"I had to. . .I didn't want you to die, believe me it killed me to say that to you, to not say it back, I wanted to, so much" he said and came up behind her and put his hands around her waist. "I'm sorry." She turned and faced him.
"Me too" she said and kissed him, this time more passionately. Her arms found their way around his neck. Suddenly Angel walked in.
"Spike have you seen-" he began and then saw them together and she broke the kiss.
"Angel" she said.
"I guess you have" he said, turning away. She let go of Spike's neck and backed away a bit.
"Uh, w-what are you doing here?" Buffy asked.
"Looking for you, thought you might have gotten lost or something" Angel said.
"Oh, well, I did, but I stumbled here, good thing too" Buffy said.
"Uh, Spike, Fred's looking for you, she wants to run a few more tests before the day's over" Angel said.
"Right, be back in a bit luv" Spike said and left the room.
"Why didn't you tell me he was alive Angel?" Buffy asked.
"I tried, I got distracted" Angel said.
"This is important, how could you not-"
"I'm sorry Buff, okay, I'm sorry" Angel said.
"How's he doing?" Buffy asked.
"Why don't you ask him" Angel said.
"Angel-" Buffy began again.
"Look, it's complicated, I'm not even sure how it happened, but we're working on it, I don't know what else to tell you" Angel said annoyed.
"I just wish you would of told me" she said.
"Well it caught us all of guard, none of expected Spike to appear, he's connected to the amulet somehow, which means that. . ."
"That Wolfram and Hart had bigger plans for you than they were verbalizing" Buffy said.
"Yeah, which would explain why they gave up their whole L.A. office to an ensouled vampire when they stand solely for evil" Angel said.
"So, Spike's stuck here, which means that Wolfram and Hart wanted to keep you hostage" Buffy said.
"Or they knew that you would make me go home and give the amulet to Spike" Angel suggested.
"How far are you to figuring it out?" she asked.
"Uh, well Fred is the closest, she's been doing tests on both Spike and the amulet, you'd have to ask her" Angel said.
"Where is she?" Buffy asked.
"This way" Angel said and she followed him to her lab. "Fred, you remember Buffy right?"
"Sure, hey" Fred said.
"Hi, um so. . ." Buffy said.
"Uh, Buffy has some questions, about Spike and the amulet" Angel said.
"O-okay, shoot" Fred said.
"Uh, I have to go, she'll answer anything you need to know" Angel said and left.
"Is he. . .okay?" Buffy asked.
"Spike or Angel?" Fred asked.
"Both actually" Buffy said.
"Well Angel's. . .well Angel, he'll be okay, and Spike's-"
"Spike?" Buffy offered.
"You know him better than I do" Fred said.
"Yeah, if I know Spike. . .he'll be okay" Buffy said. "How much do you know, you know about the amulet?"
"Unfortunately not much, Wolfram and Hart are very secretive, and sneaky, and deceiving, and unrepresentative, the list goes on, but you get the picture" Fred said.
"Can they hurt him? I mean they have possession or whatever over him, can they hurt him?" Buffy asked.
"Well, I guess they could, but they haven't yet" Fred said.
"Yet being the operative word" Buffy said. "It's just. . .it's Spike, I've gotten so used to him being around that. . .it just seems like I'm empty without him, he's so. . .he changed, for me. . .he got a soul for me, everything he did, he did it for me. . .and I was too stubborn, or stupid, or whatever, to see it."
"Did you want to see it?" Fred asked.
"No, I told myself that it wasn't worth it to fall for another vampire, someone who wasn't alive, that it wouldn't work and I'd be left out in the cold once again, and it just. . .caused him to be, and yet he never left my side, every time I needed him, he was there, I had to have shown and said every hatred remark there was, and the worst thing he ever said to me. . .was I love you" Buffy said.
"You didn't want to get hurt, you can't blame yourself for that" Fred said.
"Maybe, doesn't mean I won't" Buffy said, and then changed the subject. "So, how have you been? You can Gunn still making with the smoochies?"
"Uh, no, we sort of. . .broke up last year, we're. . .I guess trying to ease back into things" Fred said.
"What about Cordelia? How is she?" Buffy asked.
"Um. . .Cordy's. . .she's in a coma" Fred said.
"Oh. . .oh god" Buffy said. "C-can I see her? What hospital is she in?"
"Uh, n-no hospital, we're taking care of her here, u-um. . .Lorne, Lorne come here" Fred said.
"Hey princess, what's the what?" Lorne asked.
"Can you take Buffy to see Cordelia?" Fred asked.
"Sure, hey Buffy, long time no see" Lorne said.
"Yeah, nice to see you again" Buffy said sweetly.
"You too precious, this way" Lorne said and led Buffy to Cordelia's room.
"How did this happen?" Buffy asked, going over to Cordelia's bed.
"Well, it's a long story sweet pea, maybe you'd like to hear it from Angel instead, I'll leave you alone" Lorne said and left and shut the door.
"H-hi Cordy, um, it's Buffy, you know I never imagined that something like this could happen to you" Buffy said and sat next to Cordelia's bed. Since they moved into Wolfram and Hart Cordelia had been hooked up to monitors and an IV so that she didn't die. She was pretty much breathing on her own, for the most part.
"Buffy" Buffy heard Angel say and turned around.
"Hey" Buffy said. "What happened?" she asked, turning back to Cordelia.
"Long story" Angel said and came and sat on the other side of Cordelia's bed.
"Everyone keeps saying that, but no one will tell me what happened, what happened?" Buffy asked again.
"It was about two months ago. Cordelia and Connor-" Angel began.
"Your son" Buffy stated.
"Yeah, they thought the world was ending so they. . .uh, you know" Angel said.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"Slept together" Angel told her.
"Oh, what, I thought that Connor was like a baby" Buffy said confused.
"Yeah well he was, he was kidnapped by this guy named Holtz and taken to some demon dimension. Holtz changed Connor's name to Steven and raised him. While on earth it was only about a month, when Connor came back he was grown, time moves more quickly in that place I guess. Well we had lots of fights, Connor didn't believe he was my son, or he did, but he thought I was evil and should be killed. He thought I killed Holtz so he got help, kidnapped me and put me in a box and put the box on the bottom of the ocean for a couple weeks. Wesley, who kidnapped Connor, he kidnapped him because he thought I was going to kill him, he read this fake prophecy that said something like the father will kill his son or something, anyway, he wanted to keep him safe and almost died from it. Anyway Wesley saved me and then I finally convinced Connor that I didn't kill Holtz and I wasn't evil and we started to get along. Then came badness. This thing called the beast came and the gang took away my soul so I could fight it" Angel said.
"That's why Faith was here, that's why Willow came" Buffy said.
"Yeah, Faith and I did a little mind game thing and finally I got my soul back, only to find out that Cordelia was pregnant" Angel said.
"Cordy was pregnant?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah well it wouldn't be the first time" Angel said. "She wasn't really pregnant, well she kinda was, but she was harboring this hell beastie or something, Connor thought that Cordelia was pregnant with his child, Cordelia was possessed by the demon inside her and tired to convince Connor that I was bad and needed to be killed. After the beast thing came out of her she went into a coma. The thing was that we worshiped the thing, she had all of Los Angeles under this spell that made us think that she was a saint and the savior of everything possible. One by one we started to realize just how much of a liar she was. The first one was Fred, see if her blood touches you, then you're cured and Fred was washing Jasmine's- that's what we called her. She was washing Jasmine's shirt, and it had blood on it, see in order to be cured you not only have to touch her blood, but it has to mix with yours. After Fred found out she tired to tell us, but we wouldn't listen, so she made us, first me, and then everyone else followed, except for Connor. Finally we was convinced and killed Jasmine. After that I erased his memory, made him forget about me and everyone else here, gave him to a family that would be able to take care of him, let him have a normal life, since his childhood was taken from him" Angel said.
"Wow, you had a pretty tough year" Buffy said.
"You too, so I hear" Angel said, Buffy smiled at him. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, it's just that. . .after Spike. . .after he. . .I was just, I was devastated" Buffy said.
"Yeah" Angel said. "You go, spend some time with him."
"You sure you don't mind?" Buffy asked.
"That talk we had, before I left, the talk about you not being done baking and how sometimes you do think that far ahead, people change Buffy, I know that now, even if don't want to, even if I want to go on thinking that we're going to end up together, I know that we've both grown apart, you can't go on pretending you're the same person you were seven years ago just because you're afraid of hurting people" angel said. Buffy smiled at him and went to find Spike.
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Back at England Willow, Kennedy and Dawn were getting back form their walk, Giles was getting back from wherever it was he was at, Faith was getting back from the bar, and Principal Wood was coming back from a training session.
"Yeah, that was great" Willow laughed with Dawn and Kennedy.
"Hey Xand" Dawn said.
"Hey" he said.
"What's the matter?" Kennedy asked.
"Uh, Buff and I got into a little spat over. . .she left, for L.A." Xander said.
"What?" Dawn said.
"Is she coming back?" Willow asked.
"I think so, I'm not sure. She said to make sure you guys got that" Xander said.
"Why'd she go?" Faith asked. "Because of the fight between you two?"
"No, she went because of-" Xander began.
"Because of Spike" Dawn said.
"Yeah" Xander said.
"Listen to this, 'Dear All, I'm going to L.A. to find out some answers. I need to know why the amulet killed Spike and what exactly it was. I'll be back. I don't know when, but I'm coming back. I love you, be safe, Buffy' wow" Willow said after reading the letter aloud.
"I hope she gets what she wants" Kennedy said. "She deserves it."
Buffy stared at the man standing before her.
"Are you real?" she asked.
"Very real luv" he told her. He took a step towards her and she backed away. "What's wrong?"
"I just. . .I can't. . .I mean, how?" she asked.
"Not sure myself pet, Angel and his quirky, detective team are working it out" Spike told her.
"I can't believe it" she whispered.
"Believe it" he whispered and walked over to her. "I'm not asking you for anything. . .I just want to hold you." She leaned into him and shut her eyes.
"Oh" she sighed. She hugged him tightly. "I thought you were dead."
"Can't get rid of me that easily goldilocks" he told her. She looked at him and then kissed him lightly on the lips. "You have no idea, how much I missed you."
"Ditto" she smiled and hugged him again. She couldn't believe he was here, standing right in front of her. "This better not be a dream."
"No dream pet, believe me, I can't get out of here, I'm stuck" he said.
"What do you mean?" she asked, now backing up a bit.
"Whatever that amulet was, it's keeping me here" Spike said.
"Angel was meant to wear it, does that mean that whoever gave it to him wanted to keep him here?" she asked.
"Guess so" he said and went over to his bed and sat down. She followed him and also sat down. She turned to face him and sat Indian style on the bed.
"How have you been?" she asked.
"Okay, getting incinerated not really something I want to experience again, but I'm okay" he said.
"I'm so sorry" she said. He looked at her surprised.
"For what luv?" he asked.
"I shouldn't have gone, I should have stayed with you, o-or made you come with me" Buffy said.
"No, hey, it wasn't your fault okay, it wasn't. . .did you mean it?" he asked.
"Mean what?" she asked him.
"Before you left, you told me you loved me, did you mean it?" he asked.
"Of course I did, you were the one who told me I didn't remember" she said, getting up and walking a few steps away from him.
"I had to. . .I didn't want you to die, believe me it killed me to say that to you, to not say it back, I wanted to, so much" he said and came up behind her and put his hands around her waist. "I'm sorry." She turned and faced him.
"Me too" she said and kissed him, this time more passionately. Her arms found their way around his neck. Suddenly Angel walked in.
"Spike have you seen-" he began and then saw them together and she broke the kiss.
"Angel" she said.
"I guess you have" he said, turning away. She let go of Spike's neck and backed away a bit.
"Uh, w-what are you doing here?" Buffy asked.
"Looking for you, thought you might have gotten lost or something" Angel said.
"Oh, well, I did, but I stumbled here, good thing too" Buffy said.
"Uh, Spike, Fred's looking for you, she wants to run a few more tests before the day's over" Angel said.
"Right, be back in a bit luv" Spike said and left the room.
"Why didn't you tell me he was alive Angel?" Buffy asked.
"I tried, I got distracted" Angel said.
"This is important, how could you not-"
"I'm sorry Buff, okay, I'm sorry" Angel said.
"How's he doing?" Buffy asked.
"Why don't you ask him" Angel said.
"Angel-" Buffy began again.
"Look, it's complicated, I'm not even sure how it happened, but we're working on it, I don't know what else to tell you" Angel said annoyed.
"I just wish you would of told me" she said.
"Well it caught us all of guard, none of expected Spike to appear, he's connected to the amulet somehow, which means that. . ."
"That Wolfram and Hart had bigger plans for you than they were verbalizing" Buffy said.
"Yeah, which would explain why they gave up their whole L.A. office to an ensouled vampire when they stand solely for evil" Angel said.
"So, Spike's stuck here, which means that Wolfram and Hart wanted to keep you hostage" Buffy said.
"Or they knew that you would make me go home and give the amulet to Spike" Angel suggested.
"How far are you to figuring it out?" she asked.
"Uh, well Fred is the closest, she's been doing tests on both Spike and the amulet, you'd have to ask her" Angel said.
"Where is she?" Buffy asked.
"This way" Angel said and she followed him to her lab. "Fred, you remember Buffy right?"
"Sure, hey" Fred said.
"Hi, um so. . ." Buffy said.
"Uh, Buffy has some questions, about Spike and the amulet" Angel said.
"O-okay, shoot" Fred said.
"Uh, I have to go, she'll answer anything you need to know" Angel said and left.
"Is he. . .okay?" Buffy asked.
"Spike or Angel?" Fred asked.
"Both actually" Buffy said.
"Well Angel's. . .well Angel, he'll be okay, and Spike's-"
"Spike?" Buffy offered.
"You know him better than I do" Fred said.
"Yeah, if I know Spike. . .he'll be okay" Buffy said. "How much do you know, you know about the amulet?"
"Unfortunately not much, Wolfram and Hart are very secretive, and sneaky, and deceiving, and unrepresentative, the list goes on, but you get the picture" Fred said.
"Can they hurt him? I mean they have possession or whatever over him, can they hurt him?" Buffy asked.
"Well, I guess they could, but they haven't yet" Fred said.
"Yet being the operative word" Buffy said. "It's just. . .it's Spike, I've gotten so used to him being around that. . .it just seems like I'm empty without him, he's so. . .he changed, for me. . .he got a soul for me, everything he did, he did it for me. . .and I was too stubborn, or stupid, or whatever, to see it."
"Did you want to see it?" Fred asked.
"No, I told myself that it wasn't worth it to fall for another vampire, someone who wasn't alive, that it wouldn't work and I'd be left out in the cold once again, and it just. . .caused him to be, and yet he never left my side, every time I needed him, he was there, I had to have shown and said every hatred remark there was, and the worst thing he ever said to me. . .was I love you" Buffy said.
"You didn't want to get hurt, you can't blame yourself for that" Fred said.
"Maybe, doesn't mean I won't" Buffy said, and then changed the subject. "So, how have you been? You can Gunn still making with the smoochies?"
"Uh, no, we sort of. . .broke up last year, we're. . .I guess trying to ease back into things" Fred said.
"What about Cordelia? How is she?" Buffy asked.
"Um. . .Cordy's. . .she's in a coma" Fred said.
"Oh. . .oh god" Buffy said. "C-can I see her? What hospital is she in?"
"Uh, n-no hospital, we're taking care of her here, u-um. . .Lorne, Lorne come here" Fred said.
"Hey princess, what's the what?" Lorne asked.
"Can you take Buffy to see Cordelia?" Fred asked.
"Sure, hey Buffy, long time no see" Lorne said.
"Yeah, nice to see you again" Buffy said sweetly.
"You too precious, this way" Lorne said and led Buffy to Cordelia's room.
"How did this happen?" Buffy asked, going over to Cordelia's bed.
"Well, it's a long story sweet pea, maybe you'd like to hear it from Angel instead, I'll leave you alone" Lorne said and left and shut the door.
"H-hi Cordy, um, it's Buffy, you know I never imagined that something like this could happen to you" Buffy said and sat next to Cordelia's bed. Since they moved into Wolfram and Hart Cordelia had been hooked up to monitors and an IV so that she didn't die. She was pretty much breathing on her own, for the most part.
"Buffy" Buffy heard Angel say and turned around.
"Hey" Buffy said. "What happened?" she asked, turning back to Cordelia.
"Long story" Angel said and came and sat on the other side of Cordelia's bed.
"Everyone keeps saying that, but no one will tell me what happened, what happened?" Buffy asked again.
"It was about two months ago. Cordelia and Connor-" Angel began.
"Your son" Buffy stated.
"Yeah, they thought the world was ending so they. . .uh, you know" Angel said.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"Slept together" Angel told her.
"Oh, what, I thought that Connor was like a baby" Buffy said confused.
"Yeah well he was, he was kidnapped by this guy named Holtz and taken to some demon dimension. Holtz changed Connor's name to Steven and raised him. While on earth it was only about a month, when Connor came back he was grown, time moves more quickly in that place I guess. Well we had lots of fights, Connor didn't believe he was my son, or he did, but he thought I was evil and should be killed. He thought I killed Holtz so he got help, kidnapped me and put me in a box and put the box on the bottom of the ocean for a couple weeks. Wesley, who kidnapped Connor, he kidnapped him because he thought I was going to kill him, he read this fake prophecy that said something like the father will kill his son or something, anyway, he wanted to keep him safe and almost died from it. Anyway Wesley saved me and then I finally convinced Connor that I didn't kill Holtz and I wasn't evil and we started to get along. Then came badness. This thing called the beast came and the gang took away my soul so I could fight it" Angel said.
"That's why Faith was here, that's why Willow came" Buffy said.
"Yeah, Faith and I did a little mind game thing and finally I got my soul back, only to find out that Cordelia was pregnant" Angel said.
"Cordy was pregnant?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah well it wouldn't be the first time" Angel said. "She wasn't really pregnant, well she kinda was, but she was harboring this hell beastie or something, Connor thought that Cordelia was pregnant with his child, Cordelia was possessed by the demon inside her and tired to convince Connor that I was bad and needed to be killed. After the beast thing came out of her she went into a coma. The thing was that we worshiped the thing, she had all of Los Angeles under this spell that made us think that she was a saint and the savior of everything possible. One by one we started to realize just how much of a liar she was. The first one was Fred, see if her blood touches you, then you're cured and Fred was washing Jasmine's- that's what we called her. She was washing Jasmine's shirt, and it had blood on it, see in order to be cured you not only have to touch her blood, but it has to mix with yours. After Fred found out she tired to tell us, but we wouldn't listen, so she made us, first me, and then everyone else followed, except for Connor. Finally we was convinced and killed Jasmine. After that I erased his memory, made him forget about me and everyone else here, gave him to a family that would be able to take care of him, let him have a normal life, since his childhood was taken from him" Angel said.
"Wow, you had a pretty tough year" Buffy said.
"You too, so I hear" Angel said, Buffy smiled at him. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, it's just that. . .after Spike. . .after he. . .I was just, I was devastated" Buffy said.
"Yeah" Angel said. "You go, spend some time with him."
"You sure you don't mind?" Buffy asked.
"That talk we had, before I left, the talk about you not being done baking and how sometimes you do think that far ahead, people change Buffy, I know that now, even if don't want to, even if I want to go on thinking that we're going to end up together, I know that we've both grown apart, you can't go on pretending you're the same person you were seven years ago just because you're afraid of hurting people" angel said. Buffy smiled at him and went to find Spike.
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Back at England Willow, Kennedy and Dawn were getting back form their walk, Giles was getting back from wherever it was he was at, Faith was getting back from the bar, and Principal Wood was coming back from a training session.
"Yeah, that was great" Willow laughed with Dawn and Kennedy.
"Hey Xand" Dawn said.
"Hey" he said.
"What's the matter?" Kennedy asked.
"Uh, Buff and I got into a little spat over. . .she left, for L.A." Xander said.
"What?" Dawn said.
"Is she coming back?" Willow asked.
"I think so, I'm not sure. She said to make sure you guys got that" Xander said.
"Why'd she go?" Faith asked. "Because of the fight between you two?"
"No, she went because of-" Xander began.
"Because of Spike" Dawn said.
"Yeah" Xander said.
"Listen to this, 'Dear All, I'm going to L.A. to find out some answers. I need to know why the amulet killed Spike and what exactly it was. I'll be back. I don't know when, but I'm coming back. I love you, be safe, Buffy' wow" Willow said after reading the letter aloud.
"I hope she gets what she wants" Kennedy said. "She deserves it."