Buffy ran down the stairs.

"Spike? Where are you?" asked Buffy.

"Is that you love?" asked Spike from a corner.

"I have come to tell you something," said Buffy.

"I know. I heard. I will never go with it. If you want to live, he must be out of the picture. Only as friends," replied Spike.

"But-"

"No buts, Buffy. You can only love me. And only me," replied Spike.

Buffy ran off, crying. Spike looked to the floor.

"I don't know what I am going to do. I only have a few days to go and if dhe doesn't tell me that she loves me, then I will die. I don't know what to do." thought Spike.

"She will love you," came a voice inside his head.

"No she won't," he thought again. "Wait! Do I now have a self-conscious? Wow this human deal is great. I never did have one before.

He went over to the bed and laid down. Moments later, he fell asleep.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*MeanWhile*~*~*~*~*~*~*


Buffy had come storming on up with fury.

"Buffy, what's wrong?" said Giles. He was the only one of the gang that was left.

"He won't accept my plan," she said starting to weep. Giles came over and hugged her close. She cried into his shoulder.

"It's alright. At least you and Andrew could still be friends. Right?" aked Giles.

"Yeah. But i will stil have feelings for him. I can't live like that. Can I?"

"No I guess not. we''l figure something out," said Giles. He let go of her and grabbed a tissue from his pocket and wiped away her tears. Then they went outside to walk around and talk.

*~*~*~*~*~*MeanWhile*~*~*~*~*~*


Xander, Willow, Andrew and Wood were sitting in the coffee shop talking. Dawn was busy working and she couldn't come over amd talk to them.

"So, are you serious about if Spike goes with the plan. Are you going along with it?" asked Xander.

"Yeah. I love Buffy alot and I will not stand back and see her love someone she hates," replied Andrew.

"I highly doubt that he will accept the plan. The chances of him accepting that offer are slim to none," said Wood taking a sip of his mocha latte.

"You're right," said Andrew with a sigh. He took a sip of his coke and left to go back to the warehouse.

"Man he looks depressed," said Xander.

"Yeah, will if you noticed his heart is slowly being torn up. He'll be like this for awhile," said Willow.

"God, why is that girls understand these emotions more than guys?" Xander asked.

"Xander! You are such an idiot. Girls are always smarter than guys if you haven't realised that," said Willow.

"Not always are we dumb," said Xander.

"You sure about that?" asked Willow.

xander raised his eyebrows and sighed. Willow just gave him a sigh.

"So have any of you talked to Buffy lately?" asked Wood. Willow and Xander just shook there heads and their eyes lowered. They were thinking about her. What were they going to do?

"We should talk to her. I don't know what to do," said Willow.

"Willow, You should talk to her," Xander suggested.

She rolled her eyes and sighed. "Okay. But next time it has to be one of you. I don't want to be the only one who talks to her because I am a girl. Okay?"

"Alrighty, deal," said Xander.