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Last chapter Spike was fond alive and brought back from God knows where. Back to his loving family and others... possible friends or maybe enemies. I'm not a military or medical person so if I offend or confuse anyone I'm sorry. Let me know if there is a glaring error.

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Part 2... Gertrude's Line

Buffy had stayed with him in the hospital for four days now. The others were in and out as were doctors and nurses and military people. Buffy was a constant watchful eye, she doubted she would ever let him out of her sight again.

There had been no change in him. That infuriated her. He was a man of action not a vegetable, hiding from the world. Buffy wanted to scream at him to come out of it. If she thought that it would have helped she might have tried it. She'd tried nearly everything else she could think of. She had played his favorite CDs the Smiths and the Ramones. She talked about their friends and family and especially Dawn.

It was when Buffy had introduced Spike to Dawn that she knew he was the man she was going to marry. He had a way with Dawn, they loved each other. It was that relationship that convinced Buffy that her wild man would be a good father and family man. He was so loving, a big child himself, and then miraculously he knew when to draw the line and become the adult. He was wonderful and he needed to wake up so they could be a family again. Buffy continued to tell him how much she loved him and had how she knew he would come home to her. His glassy blue eyes continuing to stare, Buffy remembered a Shakespeare class she had taken and thought how much she felt like Gertrude...what was her line when Hamlet was seeing the ghost? Spike would have known. Something like... "how is it with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy?"

Buffy had been lost in her musing sitting next to his bed with her head down next to his on the pillow her hand stroking his. Then there was a sharp inhale. Buffy jumped up unsure of where the breath had come from and then she found his eyes that were looking at her.

Her breath caught "Spike?"

He turned his head slowly to her. Buffy moved closer and went to touch him, but he flinched back. Tears welled up in Buffy's eyes

"Oh William." Buffy and Spike were frozen, Buffy in helplessness and Spike in what appeared to be fear.

Within minuets a passing nurse had a brigade of nurses and doctors ascend on now awake Special Agent Giles. Buffy was pushed away from her husband's bedside as the Doctors turned into probing demons and the nurses into big hipped battleaxes. Standing off to the side Buffy knew that no good could come of this. The only thing William need, more than doctors and medicine was to be in her arms. Buffy was now crying as she watched an emaciated Spike panic in the tangle of arms and stethoscopes.

Just as Dr. Wyndem Price appeared the spark in Spike disappeared and he shrunk back into his previous state. The Doctor was practically seething. "What is going on here?" the nurses looking now very timid went on to explain how the patient had been awake and how they had gotten the other doctors to come check him.

"We will discuss this in more detail later, and my putting all of you on review. Now get out." The other doctors and nurses made their way out of the room, with glares and murmuring. Left with the comatose patient was Dr. Wyndem Price and Buffy now standing at the bedside. "He was awake...he looked at me." Buffy stroked his face and buzzed hair. "Did he try to say anything?" "No he just looked scared."

That night Buffy, Giles, Dawn, Angel, Willow, and Xander all stayed at the hospital with hopes of a repeat awakening. They got what they wished for...