Chapter 6

I am so sorry I didn't update sooner but I had some bad things happen around here like my neighbors killing my cat the evil bas#*#ds. Anyway I got 2 chapters written at work today. Go me! And finally here is the Buffy and Spike dream.

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Preview: Buffy talks to Spike in her dream.

Buffy was walking. It was dark and the fog obscured what little vision she had. She couldn't tell where she was, but she knew she had to keep walking forward. The fog suddenly parted and she found herself once again, standing on the edge of the Hellmouth.Of course now it was just a large pit. She moved closer to the edge and a few loose pieces of rock crumbled away to make the long drop to nothingness, just a few inches from where she was standing.

"Careful luv," a deep voice chuckled."Hate to see you fall in now when this battle is already over."

Buffy turned slowly and looked into the deep blue eyes of Spike. He stood in his infamous duster with a lit cigarette in his hand and his trademark smirk on his face complete with raised eyebrow.

"Spike" she breathed "this can't be....Your-"

"Dead." He finished."Yeah I know. Thanks for the painful reminder."

"Then how?" Buffy asked.

He shrugged. "Don't know pet. It's your dream." He added smiling.

"Oh. It's a dream. Of course. I knew that." Buffy said disappointed."So why are we here? I couldn't dream us into some tropical paradise, oh no, I'm right back on the mouth of Hell."She said as she rolled her eyes at her luck.

"I think it's kind of fitting." Spike said thoughtfully."Walk with me?"

"To where?" Buffy asked."Not a lot of cozy places to hang out at around here anymore."

"Quite right." Spike replied."OK then, sit with me?" He crouched on a large rock and held out his arms to her to which she ran until she was sitting in his lap with her head on his shoulder and both of his arms wrapped around her.

"This is nice." Buffy said softly."How long can I stay here?"

"Not long I'm afraid." Spike said just as softly. "the others still need you."

"But I don't want to leave." Buffy said with a pout."I want to stay with you."

"Buffy the Powers-" he started to say before she interrupted him

"The powers can go to Hell! I've done everything for them and what has it gotten me? Oh wait! I know.Death.Carnage.And hey lets not forget, everyone I love getting taken from me. Damn you Spike! How could you leave me?" she ended up shouting."I need you."

Spike started shouting back at her, "like I had a bloody choice in leaving you Buffy! And you DON'T need me. Not now! And even if you did," he ended softly now,"not much you can do now."

Buffy stared at him in shock for a minute before asking him,"Why didn't you believe me?" At his confused look she clarified "When I told you I loved you, why didn't you believe me?"

Spike tore his gaze away from her a second before turning back and posing his own question. "What would you have done if I hadn't said that? Would you have left or stuck around and died again proving your love?"

Buffy looked ashamed for a minute."I would have stayed." She said honestly."As many times as I pushed you away I would have stayed to prove to you my love was real."

"Wells there's the bloody answer to your question luv." Spike said.

"I fell apart Spike." At his questioning look she clarified,"afterwards.I fell to pieces.I thought you really didn't know. I went into some kind of daze. When I came out of it I kicked Angels ass."

Spike laughed, "Bet Peaches was mighty surprised. Stupid git.Did he try his best to play the part of the supreme poof and comfort you? Even dead Spike held on to his jealousy of Angel, Buffy noted.

"No, it was the weirdest thing," Buffy said,"It was Wesley that calmed me and took me and Giles to his house.I almost feel bad now how I treated him when he was my Watcher."

"You bloody well should." Spike said matter of factly,"No offense Luv, but you can be quite unforgiving."

"Hey! Is this a lets point out all of Buffy's flaws dream?" she demanded.

"Not at all Pet. Just a visit."said Spike rubbing her arms. After a few minutes he said regretfully,"I have to go now Buffy."

"No." Buffy said trying to hold on tighter but feeling him slip away anyway."I love you Spike."

She felt his lips touch hers one more time before the fog rolled away taking him with it. As she sat there crying and alone she suddenly felt like she was falling. As she fell she heard voices, some familiar, some of them her own that gradually got louder the further she fell.

"You think you know,who you are,what's to come.You have no idea.

"It's time to go back to the beginning."

"I want you to live."

The voices started coming faster, overlapping the each other.

"We can win this."

"We are forever."

"Tree's have grown where the desert once was."

"You can never grasp the source of our power."

"Death is your gift."

"This place is Hell."

"At the end the Slayer is always alone."

"I'm ready."

Buffy fell faster and faster until with a gasp she opened her eyes and sat up in bed. After a few minutes, when her heart rate went back to normal she layed back down. A few tears escaped her eyes as she simply said "Spike"

before falling back to sleep.

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So what do you all think? Keep going or come up with a quick end? I'm seeing this story as more of a 15 chapter type of story but let me know what you think.