Author's Note: Can you believe it? So far three chapters in one day. I've really gotten pull into my own writing and I don't want to leave any of you guys hanging. So please thank me by reviewing
Disclaimer: I don't own BtVS and I don't own the song in this chapter... "My Last Breath" by Evanescene... gorgeous song...
Chapter 19
Buffy clung to the to the edge of the tower for all her worth, and watched helplessly as Glory picked the knife back up, stepping towards her sister. She couldn't get a good grip to pull herself up, and she felt herself slipping. Daring a look down her heart nearly collapsed. Stories above the ground she dangled with no hope of saving her sister, or possibly even herself.
Spike sprinted up the many flights of stairs, he had to get there before she fell, he had to, before Dawn was sacrificed, before his love plummeted to the ground, before his world shattered around his feet. Another flight of stairs, another minute that slipped by that reduced his chances of saving the two women he loved most in this world.
Glory ran her hand over the blade of the knife as she neared Dawn. "Well Dawnie, this is the end of the road... any last words? Anything you'd like to say to your sister? She's hanging around right over there..."
Dawn sneered at her and glared. "Just get it over with if you're gonna do it... I don't wanna listen to you talk anymore."
"If you want..." She pulled the knife to Dawn's skin slicing through the fabric and into the flesh. "Shallow cuts... shallow, let's the blood run..."
The blood began to flow down her body and Dawn grimaced at the feel of the hot liquid trailing down her skin.
Buffy's grip kept slipping, she couldn't hold on my longer... and Dawn... "Spike? Where are you?"
Spike reached the top and dove for Buffy's had, but it was too late. Buffy's weak grip failed her and she plummeted through the air and spiraled down to the earth below. Spike's hand grasped air as he attempted to reach for her. "Buffy!" Tears trailed down his face, unable to do anything but stare spellbound as his love plummeted to her death. Memories came crashing around him, as his vision blurred with tears.
"You're beneath me Spike..." She told him that once... He had told her of his history, turning into a vampire and how he had killed the two slayers and she ripped open his heart after he had laid it before her so openly; however, when he went back to kill her, she was crying on her porch, it was the first time that they learned of her mother's cancer. He wanted so desperately to comfort her that night, make sure that she never cried again.
Their first true fight... She was in her high school, parent teacher night or something like that. She moved with such grace, and he longed to sink his fangs within her neck and drink from her blood, but she had bested him, well her mom had, what with the whole "Get the hell away from my daughter..."
When they had both joined forces against Angelus, she had almost trusted him as they fought side by side. It had been the first taste of a calm life with the slayer. Kinda funny that it always took an apocalypse to pull the two of them closer and it typically had something to do with Angel.
Then there was when Faith took over Buffy's body and had tortured him so. The sexual tension, his wanting not to kill her anymore, but shag her senseless into a wall. Though it had been Faith, all he saw was how sensual Buffy's body looked and how much he wanted to just dive into her.
Their first night together, the night that they had been married... sweet bliss... and now she was dead.
Buffy fell to the ground, her bones crushing upon impact on the pile of sheet metal and lumber. All wind, breath, was knocked from her lungs and the intense pain shoot throughout her body, wishing that she had died on impact. Scared so scared... Where was Spike? She needed him now... She just needed to tell him, one last time...
hold on to me love
you know i can't stay long
all i wanted to say was i love you
and i'm not afraid
can you hear me?
can you feel me in your arms?
Her vision was coated in blood and her breath was coming in short gasps. She was alone and she would die alone, alone with her thoughts, her thoughts wouldn't leave her. In her thoughts, Spike was with her, he would always be with her. So close, she had found love, and once again it was ripped from her, harshly ripped from her. Spike would never leave her... she had left him, but at least they had found the light together.
holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light it ends here tonight
They would never have the chance for anything, but then, with Spike, a vampire, what chance was there at a normal life? She had learned that with Angel. One thing that Angel never understood though was, what kind of a normal life can a Slayer hope to lead? A Slayer's life was short, far too short for all that Buffy had hoped to do. All she could hope for now was that the world didn't end along with her, that Spike would be able to save them all.
"I love you Spike..." the words barely registered out of her mouth, but they were out, she had said them.
i'll miss the winter
a world of fragile things
look for me in the white forest
hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
i know you hear me
i can taste it in your tears
Married, together, forever, until death, but however, it is beyond. Their lives, hers and Spike flashed before her eyes and she once again began to cry. She looked up and through the blood coated vision, she saw them. Spike, crying, his arm outstretched in hopes of catching her when she fell. Save her Spike, save them all.
holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light it ends here tonight
She was going to die, she knew that she would, it was the inevitable. As her blood seeped into her vision and from the corners of her mouth, the tears, salty tears mixed with her blood. The truth, she would never see another birthday, or see her friends again. As the Slayer was destined, she was alone, always. She hurt for her friends, but she hurt so much for Spike. He had finally found happiness, come to grips with the torment that went on inside of himself and now, they had to part. Leaving him was the only thing that she regretted in her life.
closing your eyes to disappear
you pray your dreams will leave you here
but still you wake and know the truth
no one's there
Gathering her strength, she said her last words before falling into darkness, saying them to the still night. "I love you Spike. Take care of them. Don't be afraid, you can go on. Go on without me. I will always be with you, always, but we knew this would happen. I would die, and you would not... It doesn't change how I feel about you though..." Her breath hitched in her throat as she continued her soliloquy. "Tell my mom that I love her, and Xander and Willow too. They'll always be my best friends. Tell Giles that he was the father that I never had. Tell Dawn that I could never have been who I am without her." The tears forced her to close her eyes and finish the rest as a prayer. "I have saved this world time and time again and I have seen so many things that a person should never have had to see. You, you were my light in these last few dark days. I love you. Goodnight, this isn't goodbye, never goodbye. Goodnight my love, goodnight."
say goodnight
don't be afraid
calling me calling me as you fade to black
Disclaimer: I don't own BtVS and I don't own the song in this chapter... "My Last Breath" by Evanescene... gorgeous song...
Chapter 19
Buffy clung to the to the edge of the tower for all her worth, and watched helplessly as Glory picked the knife back up, stepping towards her sister. She couldn't get a good grip to pull herself up, and she felt herself slipping. Daring a look down her heart nearly collapsed. Stories above the ground she dangled with no hope of saving her sister, or possibly even herself.
Spike sprinted up the many flights of stairs, he had to get there before she fell, he had to, before Dawn was sacrificed, before his love plummeted to the ground, before his world shattered around his feet. Another flight of stairs, another minute that slipped by that reduced his chances of saving the two women he loved most in this world.
Glory ran her hand over the blade of the knife as she neared Dawn. "Well Dawnie, this is the end of the road... any last words? Anything you'd like to say to your sister? She's hanging around right over there..."
Dawn sneered at her and glared. "Just get it over with if you're gonna do it... I don't wanna listen to you talk anymore."
"If you want..." She pulled the knife to Dawn's skin slicing through the fabric and into the flesh. "Shallow cuts... shallow, let's the blood run..."
The blood began to flow down her body and Dawn grimaced at the feel of the hot liquid trailing down her skin.
Buffy's grip kept slipping, she couldn't hold on my longer... and Dawn... "Spike? Where are you?"
Spike reached the top and dove for Buffy's had, but it was too late. Buffy's weak grip failed her and she plummeted through the air and spiraled down to the earth below. Spike's hand grasped air as he attempted to reach for her. "Buffy!" Tears trailed down his face, unable to do anything but stare spellbound as his love plummeted to her death. Memories came crashing around him, as his vision blurred with tears.
"You're beneath me Spike..." She told him that once... He had told her of his history, turning into a vampire and how he had killed the two slayers and she ripped open his heart after he had laid it before her so openly; however, when he went back to kill her, she was crying on her porch, it was the first time that they learned of her mother's cancer. He wanted so desperately to comfort her that night, make sure that she never cried again.
Their first true fight... She was in her high school, parent teacher night or something like that. She moved with such grace, and he longed to sink his fangs within her neck and drink from her blood, but she had bested him, well her mom had, what with the whole "Get the hell away from my daughter..."
When they had both joined forces against Angelus, she had almost trusted him as they fought side by side. It had been the first taste of a calm life with the slayer. Kinda funny that it always took an apocalypse to pull the two of them closer and it typically had something to do with Angel.
Then there was when Faith took over Buffy's body and had tortured him so. The sexual tension, his wanting not to kill her anymore, but shag her senseless into a wall. Though it had been Faith, all he saw was how sensual Buffy's body looked and how much he wanted to just dive into her.
Their first night together, the night that they had been married... sweet bliss... and now she was dead.
Buffy fell to the ground, her bones crushing upon impact on the pile of sheet metal and lumber. All wind, breath, was knocked from her lungs and the intense pain shoot throughout her body, wishing that she had died on impact. Scared so scared... Where was Spike? She needed him now... She just needed to tell him, one last time...
hold on to me love
you know i can't stay long
all i wanted to say was i love you
and i'm not afraid
can you hear me?
can you feel me in your arms?
Her vision was coated in blood and her breath was coming in short gasps. She was alone and she would die alone, alone with her thoughts, her thoughts wouldn't leave her. In her thoughts, Spike was with her, he would always be with her. So close, she had found love, and once again it was ripped from her, harshly ripped from her. Spike would never leave her... she had left him, but at least they had found the light together.
holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light it ends here tonight
They would never have the chance for anything, but then, with Spike, a vampire, what chance was there at a normal life? She had learned that with Angel. One thing that Angel never understood though was, what kind of a normal life can a Slayer hope to lead? A Slayer's life was short, far too short for all that Buffy had hoped to do. All she could hope for now was that the world didn't end along with her, that Spike would be able to save them all.
"I love you Spike..." the words barely registered out of her mouth, but they were out, she had said them.
i'll miss the winter
a world of fragile things
look for me in the white forest
hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
i know you hear me
i can taste it in your tears
Married, together, forever, until death, but however, it is beyond. Their lives, hers and Spike flashed before her eyes and she once again began to cry. She looked up and through the blood coated vision, she saw them. Spike, crying, his arm outstretched in hopes of catching her when she fell. Save her Spike, save them all.
holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light it ends here tonight
She was going to die, she knew that she would, it was the inevitable. As her blood seeped into her vision and from the corners of her mouth, the tears, salty tears mixed with her blood. The truth, she would never see another birthday, or see her friends again. As the Slayer was destined, she was alone, always. She hurt for her friends, but she hurt so much for Spike. He had finally found happiness, come to grips with the torment that went on inside of himself and now, they had to part. Leaving him was the only thing that she regretted in her life.
closing your eyes to disappear
you pray your dreams will leave you here
but still you wake and know the truth
no one's there
Gathering her strength, she said her last words before falling into darkness, saying them to the still night. "I love you Spike. Take care of them. Don't be afraid, you can go on. Go on without me. I will always be with you, always, but we knew this would happen. I would die, and you would not... It doesn't change how I feel about you though..." Her breath hitched in her throat as she continued her soliloquy. "Tell my mom that I love her, and Xander and Willow too. They'll always be my best friends. Tell Giles that he was the father that I never had. Tell Dawn that I could never have been who I am without her." The tears forced her to close her eyes and finish the rest as a prayer. "I have saved this world time and time again and I have seen so many things that a person should never have had to see. You, you were my light in these last few dark days. I love you. Goodnight, this isn't goodbye, never goodbye. Goodnight my love, goodnight."
say goodnight
don't be afraid
calling me calling me as you fade to black
