Chapter Forty-three: I'm Back
Two and a half months later
Buffy refused to see her friends as they still didn't believe her about Spike, and she had no way to prove it to them, she talked to Dawn a little, but she left Willow and Xander to get on with trying to help Wesley, Fred, Gunn and the rest of them get Angel back, so far it was no luck, they couldn't under stand why no amount of magic could bring him back, Willow tried to put his soul back only to find, it was still in Angel, they were stumped.
After two mouths of dreams and threats Buffy was on edge all the time, she got peace for a few minutes talking to Spike and getting closer and closer every couple of days as long as she watched what he showed her, but that was one of the problems, what he showed her she didn't always like, he showed her Riley staking him with a plastic stake because he showed her what he was doing,
Then that night she got silent phone calls
Then a couple of nights later he showed her when Spike first told her he loved her and her rejecting him
Then that night she received a bouquet of blood red flowers riddled with maggots
Then one night he showed her the night she died and him saying the words
"I know you'll never love me, I know I'm a monster but you treat me like a man"
She woke up crying from the look on his face and the look on everyone's face when she had died
Then that night she thought she was going to lose Alex when he saw a raccoon out side and went after it, Buffy could see Angelus in the bushes watching her son, she ran out after him and threw holy water out the window and he was gone,
Then Buffy was shown the part she knew was coming but dreaded, the time after she came back from heaven
There kiss after the musical and the way she pushed him away after wards the kiss they shared after Willows Tabula Rasa spell and she pushed him away
Then came the night they had sex for the first time the things they said to each other Spike didn't bother to show her every time they had sex but he showed her some of the times he was left hurt when she left him and the way he looked at her sometimes with his eyes full of love and then he showed her when she broke up with him, the look in his eyes broke her heart but even he said it was the right thing to do.
With so much heart ache and fright going on in Buffys life the only thing keeping her from have a nervous breakdown was Alex, and that she was positive she would get Spike back.
*~*~*~*~*~ The next day Buffy walked down the street to her house, she walked through an ally, she came to the end of it when she all of a sudden heard a sinister laugh, she stopped and turned around to find know one was there, she turned back round to carry on walking but stopped in her tracks when she was met with the face of Angelus
"Hey Buffy long time no see" Angelus said
A long time ago Buffy would of exchanged banter with him before kicking his ass but she wasn't alone right now, she had her unborn child to think about and she just couldn't risk it So instead she immediately pulled out a stake and held it up with one hand resting protectively on her swollen stomach
"What no comeback Buff that's so unlike you" He said
"Must be my hormones of the fact that I violently dislike you" She said
"Well all this talk of violence amazingly make me want to be violent" He said edging towards her
Buffy on the outside looked ready for anything he could through at her but on the inside she was terrified when he got close enough she punched him, he just laughed and backhanded her, Buffy stumbled back from the impact and fell onto her ass
She looked up in terror as Angelus got closer to her, she felt tears sting the back of her eyes as a whirlwind of thoughts crashed through her mind
'I'm gonna die'
'I'm never going to see my unborn child'
'I'm never gonna see Alex again'
'I'm never gonna see Spike again'
Then all of a sudden Angelus hit the hall Buffy looked up to see a women holding a metal pole, she gasped in surprise when she realised the women was Faith
"Hey psycho, thought we stuffed you away" Faith said
"Shit, what are you doing back" Angelus said
"Kinda asking the same question" Faith said
Buffy under all the commotion was still on the floor in shock of the events that had happened in the last 5 minutes
"Well at least I'll have a decent challenger now not an over the hill knocked up poor excuse for a slayer" he said looking down at Buffy Faith took the opportunity to pull out a bottle of holy water and through it at him Angelus jumped back and growled as hit his chest and started to burn
"Now that hurt, I guess we'll just have to take a rain check on that whole eviscerating you thing. Catch you later Faithy." He said backing away into the shadows
Once she knew he was gone, Faith bent down to Buffy
"Hey B you ok" Faith said
Buffy looked up to her in shock, Faith looked her over to check for any injures and spotted her stomach
"Hey your pregnant again" Faith said excitedly
Buffys mind finally clicked and she did the only thing she could think of, she threw her self into Faiths arms and cried
*~*~*~*~
Once Faith got Buffy home she sat her down on the couch, she told the lady from next door that she could go home and that everything was fine and thanked her for watching Alex
When she closed the door she sat down next to Buffy and waited for her to talk to her
"Why does this happen to me, why do they keep doing this to me"
"Err who" Faith asked
"The Powers That Be pissing me off anytime they feel like it, do you think I'm a game to them, see how far they can push me" Tears started to pour down Buffys face as she stood up and started pacing
"What happened here Buffy"
"Well lets see, since you've been gone, my husband is not even in this dimension, my ex boyfriend is insane and trying so hard to ruin my life, and my ex ex boyfriend is once again a homicidal maniac, and that's the recent chapter of the world of Buffy" She said before slumping down to the couch with tears still streaming down her face
"Why do they punish me Faith, what did I do, I was the slayer on the hellmouth for seven years, I have done everything in my power to save this world so many times but they still punish me" Buffy choked out as she broke sown and sobbed her heart out on to Faith shoulder
Buffy then heard little feet coming down the stairs
"Mommy" Alex said
Faith stood up and walked to the stairs
"Hey Alex" She said
Alex looked at her and frowned
"Ain't you happy to see me" She said
"You went away" Alex said
"I know but I'm back now, see, and I brought you presents" She said pointing to the bag she had
Alex smiled and launched him self into Faiths arms,
"You still my little prince" Faith said
"Yep, and I'm the man of the house"
"Oh really"
"Yep, I look after mommy, and she looks after me, until daddy comes back" He said wriggling out of Faiths arms and running to his mommy
"Hi mommy"
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be in bed young man" She said wiping away her stray tears
"You crying mommy" Alex said worried and putting his small hand on Buffys face
"Yeah but I'm ok now, so go up to bed" She said
Alex hugged his mother then ran to Faith and hugged her then ran up stairs
Faith walked up to Buffy and sat down next to her
"Ok, now tell me the story from the top" She said
*~*~*~*~* After about an hour Buffy had finished telling Faith her story
"So let me get this straight, on Christmas day, you told everyone you were pregnant, everyone was happy including blondie, you got out with Alex to get something from the store, Riley kidnaps you both then says he is going to take you away then Alex calls Spike, Spike comes and scares Riley away, but before he goes he opened up a portal to suck the world into abyss, so Spike plays the hero and jumps in to close it and now he is stuck in another dimension and can only reach you threw your dreams and you have to watch things to get him back" She clarified
"Yep" Buffy said nodding
"And where does Angelus come into all of this"
"Well a couple of week after you left he tried to... rape me" Buffy said putting her head down
"Whoa B shit I'm sor..."
"Its ok, Spike stopped him, but we still don't know how he got here, and how to get Angel back"
"Love" Alex said from the stairs
"Alex I told you to go... wait what did you say"
"I heard uncle Angel said long time ago..."
+*+*FLASHBACK*+*+
"Oh yeah, the Angels true love will have to pull him out thing I know just make sure when we kill her its my way, it would kill Angel for sure and plus it would be fun." Before Angelus could carry on Alex came with his remote control car and sat on Angelus's bed
"Hold on" Angelus said down the phone "Get out brat"
"Hang up the phone and make me why don't ya" Alex said driving the car around the room
"I'll call you back," He said hanging up
+*+*END FLASHBACK*+*+
"Love will bring Uncle Angel back, I think that's all I can remember, I just had a dream about it" Alex said
"Ok, honey, I think its time we all went to bed, we can talk about this in the morning" Buffy said getting up
"Oh, right yeah, it is pretty late, I'll just look around for a hotel or..."
"What, your leaving, you cant I thought you were going to stay here" Buffy said
"Well I don't wanna be any bother..." Faith said
"Please, I really want you to stay, there's still a bed in the guest room until I put the baby's crib in there" Buffy said
"Ok, sure thanks Buffy" Faith said as the walked to the stairs
Two and a half months later
Buffy refused to see her friends as they still didn't believe her about Spike, and she had no way to prove it to them, she talked to Dawn a little, but she left Willow and Xander to get on with trying to help Wesley, Fred, Gunn and the rest of them get Angel back, so far it was no luck, they couldn't under stand why no amount of magic could bring him back, Willow tried to put his soul back only to find, it was still in Angel, they were stumped.
After two mouths of dreams and threats Buffy was on edge all the time, she got peace for a few minutes talking to Spike and getting closer and closer every couple of days as long as she watched what he showed her, but that was one of the problems, what he showed her she didn't always like, he showed her Riley staking him with a plastic stake because he showed her what he was doing,
Then that night she got silent phone calls
Then a couple of nights later he showed her when Spike first told her he loved her and her rejecting him
Then that night she received a bouquet of blood red flowers riddled with maggots
Then one night he showed her the night she died and him saying the words
"I know you'll never love me, I know I'm a monster but you treat me like a man"
She woke up crying from the look on his face and the look on everyone's face when she had died
Then that night she thought she was going to lose Alex when he saw a raccoon out side and went after it, Buffy could see Angelus in the bushes watching her son, she ran out after him and threw holy water out the window and he was gone,
Then Buffy was shown the part she knew was coming but dreaded, the time after she came back from heaven
There kiss after the musical and the way she pushed him away after wards the kiss they shared after Willows Tabula Rasa spell and she pushed him away
Then came the night they had sex for the first time the things they said to each other Spike didn't bother to show her every time they had sex but he showed her some of the times he was left hurt when she left him and the way he looked at her sometimes with his eyes full of love and then he showed her when she broke up with him, the look in his eyes broke her heart but even he said it was the right thing to do.
With so much heart ache and fright going on in Buffys life the only thing keeping her from have a nervous breakdown was Alex, and that she was positive she would get Spike back.
*~*~*~*~*~ The next day Buffy walked down the street to her house, she walked through an ally, she came to the end of it when she all of a sudden heard a sinister laugh, she stopped and turned around to find know one was there, she turned back round to carry on walking but stopped in her tracks when she was met with the face of Angelus
"Hey Buffy long time no see" Angelus said
A long time ago Buffy would of exchanged banter with him before kicking his ass but she wasn't alone right now, she had her unborn child to think about and she just couldn't risk it So instead she immediately pulled out a stake and held it up with one hand resting protectively on her swollen stomach
"What no comeback Buff that's so unlike you" He said
"Must be my hormones of the fact that I violently dislike you" She said
"Well all this talk of violence amazingly make me want to be violent" He said edging towards her
Buffy on the outside looked ready for anything he could through at her but on the inside she was terrified when he got close enough she punched him, he just laughed and backhanded her, Buffy stumbled back from the impact and fell onto her ass
She looked up in terror as Angelus got closer to her, she felt tears sting the back of her eyes as a whirlwind of thoughts crashed through her mind
'I'm gonna die'
'I'm never going to see my unborn child'
'I'm never gonna see Alex again'
'I'm never gonna see Spike again'
Then all of a sudden Angelus hit the hall Buffy looked up to see a women holding a metal pole, she gasped in surprise when she realised the women was Faith
"Hey psycho, thought we stuffed you away" Faith said
"Shit, what are you doing back" Angelus said
"Kinda asking the same question" Faith said
Buffy under all the commotion was still on the floor in shock of the events that had happened in the last 5 minutes
"Well at least I'll have a decent challenger now not an over the hill knocked up poor excuse for a slayer" he said looking down at Buffy Faith took the opportunity to pull out a bottle of holy water and through it at him Angelus jumped back and growled as hit his chest and started to burn
"Now that hurt, I guess we'll just have to take a rain check on that whole eviscerating you thing. Catch you later Faithy." He said backing away into the shadows
Once she knew he was gone, Faith bent down to Buffy
"Hey B you ok" Faith said
Buffy looked up to her in shock, Faith looked her over to check for any injures and spotted her stomach
"Hey your pregnant again" Faith said excitedly
Buffys mind finally clicked and she did the only thing she could think of, she threw her self into Faiths arms and cried
*~*~*~*~
Once Faith got Buffy home she sat her down on the couch, she told the lady from next door that she could go home and that everything was fine and thanked her for watching Alex
When she closed the door she sat down next to Buffy and waited for her to talk to her
"Why does this happen to me, why do they keep doing this to me"
"Err who" Faith asked
"The Powers That Be pissing me off anytime they feel like it, do you think I'm a game to them, see how far they can push me" Tears started to pour down Buffys face as she stood up and started pacing
"What happened here Buffy"
"Well lets see, since you've been gone, my husband is not even in this dimension, my ex boyfriend is insane and trying so hard to ruin my life, and my ex ex boyfriend is once again a homicidal maniac, and that's the recent chapter of the world of Buffy" She said before slumping down to the couch with tears still streaming down her face
"Why do they punish me Faith, what did I do, I was the slayer on the hellmouth for seven years, I have done everything in my power to save this world so many times but they still punish me" Buffy choked out as she broke sown and sobbed her heart out on to Faith shoulder
Buffy then heard little feet coming down the stairs
"Mommy" Alex said
Faith stood up and walked to the stairs
"Hey Alex" She said
Alex looked at her and frowned
"Ain't you happy to see me" She said
"You went away" Alex said
"I know but I'm back now, see, and I brought you presents" She said pointing to the bag she had
Alex smiled and launched him self into Faiths arms,
"You still my little prince" Faith said
"Yep, and I'm the man of the house"
"Oh really"
"Yep, I look after mommy, and she looks after me, until daddy comes back" He said wriggling out of Faiths arms and running to his mommy
"Hi mommy"
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be in bed young man" She said wiping away her stray tears
"You crying mommy" Alex said worried and putting his small hand on Buffys face
"Yeah but I'm ok now, so go up to bed" She said
Alex hugged his mother then ran to Faith and hugged her then ran up stairs
Faith walked up to Buffy and sat down next to her
"Ok, now tell me the story from the top" She said
*~*~*~*~* After about an hour Buffy had finished telling Faith her story
"So let me get this straight, on Christmas day, you told everyone you were pregnant, everyone was happy including blondie, you got out with Alex to get something from the store, Riley kidnaps you both then says he is going to take you away then Alex calls Spike, Spike comes and scares Riley away, but before he goes he opened up a portal to suck the world into abyss, so Spike plays the hero and jumps in to close it and now he is stuck in another dimension and can only reach you threw your dreams and you have to watch things to get him back" She clarified
"Yep" Buffy said nodding
"And where does Angelus come into all of this"
"Well a couple of week after you left he tried to... rape me" Buffy said putting her head down
"Whoa B shit I'm sor..."
"Its ok, Spike stopped him, but we still don't know how he got here, and how to get Angel back"
"Love" Alex said from the stairs
"Alex I told you to go... wait what did you say"
"I heard uncle Angel said long time ago..."
+*+*FLASHBACK*+*+
"Oh yeah, the Angels true love will have to pull him out thing I know just make sure when we kill her its my way, it would kill Angel for sure and plus it would be fun." Before Angelus could carry on Alex came with his remote control car and sat on Angelus's bed
"Hold on" Angelus said down the phone "Get out brat"
"Hang up the phone and make me why don't ya" Alex said driving the car around the room
"I'll call you back," He said hanging up
+*+*END FLASHBACK*+*+
"Love will bring Uncle Angel back, I think that's all I can remember, I just had a dream about it" Alex said
"Ok, honey, I think its time we all went to bed, we can talk about this in the morning" Buffy said getting up
"Oh, right yeah, it is pretty late, I'll just look around for a hotel or..."
"What, your leaving, you cant I thought you were going to stay here" Buffy said
"Well I don't wanna be any bother..." Faith said
"Please, I really want you to stay, there's still a bed in the guest room until I put the baby's crib in there" Buffy said
"Ok, sure thanks Buffy" Faith said as the walked to the stairs