Disclaimer: The characters from Buffy and Angel all Joss Whedons creations, not mine.

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"Okay, promise you'll come around again."

"Course I will."

Dawn gave Clem a quick hug and he turned around and disappeared into the darkness. Dawn turned around wondering what had happened to Buffy. Walking around to the back of the hotel she could she her sister small figure kneeling in the middle of the yard, she was shaking. Dawn ran over and pulled her sister into her arms.

After a few minutes Buffy stopped again and sat up slowing bringing herself to look at Dawn.

"He was here."

"Who? Who was here?"

"Spike, he was here Dawn."

"Buffy, Spikes gone, you know that."

"I know Dawn, but he came, he talked to me, he told me he was ok."

"Are you sure?"

"Of cause I'm sure Dawn, do you think I would make up something like that."

"Oh," Dawn was quiet maybe now Buffy would be Buffy again, hopefully he told her he was alright. "What did he say."

"He said that he was alright, and he still loved him, and that he was a god."

"He's a god!"

"Yeah apparently they decided to make him the god of war."

"Crap, we have to tell Giles.'

"We'll tell him in the morning, lets just go to bed for now."

Buffy stood up pulling Dawn with her, slowly they walked up to their room and got ready for bed. After tucking herself in Dawn looked up at her sister.

"Buffy,"

"Yeah,"

"I was thinking, I think I would like to stay in L.A, cause it is already kind of like home since we lived here before."

"Yeah, it is, I think I'd like to stay here to, but I'll have to talk to Giles first. Okay?"

"Sure, night."

"Night, Dawn."

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