Coping (Or Not)
Chapter Five: Yesterday

Author's Note: The final line, in italics, is a Lilah quote. I think it might be from Slouching Toward Bethlehem or whichever episode in which Wes lost the bet and called what he and Lilah had a relationship.


Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping.
Hello, I'm still here,
All that's left of yesterday.

- Hello, Evanescence


He was sitting in bed, trying to think of some way to make Spike corporeal again. But his mind wandered. Wandered right into the nightmare, where she was dead, he was alive, where he hadn't been able to save her.

He rubbed his eyes, leaning to open the drawer in his bedside table. He pulled out a notebook and propped it against his knees. He opened the notebook and froze as a dollar bill slid out.

It wasn't a dream. Never had been. And a signed dollar bill was all he had left. The only proof.

"Of now. Of this."


The End.