A/N: I don't know why I am making Xander all sweet, usually I hate the guy,
but well I guess I'm trying to reivindicate him for season 6 in this thing.
Thanks For the reviews.
"Where am I? What happened to me?" He tried to get up, but find himself too weak to move too much, he was still feeling dizzy from sleep.
"You're in the hospital in L.A." she explained while she went to him, to help him sit up, and he let out a small yelp. "I'm sorry I'll tell you everything, but first we need to get you a doctor, and make sure everything's fine with you"
"Why am I in a hospital? I'm a vampire is not like I get sick, and why does my throat hurts when I talk?"
"Look just stays there and I'll explain what I can, but doctors first" she said as she went out the room , and got back with a doctor and a nurse a couple of minutes later, they didn't do much, they examined him and took the readings in the machines he was hooked to, he felt so confused and weak he didn't realized the beeping sound that was present was from his own heart, after thy finished they gave Faith some recommendations al the time he just stay quiet wondering, oh so many things why was he in there and why was Faith of all people there with him, then it hit him, she didn't make it, that's why she wasn't there, she didn't survive what happened, and what had exactly happened? He was sure he felt like he was dying and what about the beach and being with Buffy' was it all dreams? was it real? Maybe he-
"Hey you ok there?" he didn't notice the doctor leaving the room.
"What?"
"Nothing you just kinda zone off there, well since you seem to be all good, I'll try to-"
He cut her off, he was to worried and wanted answers now.
"Is she ok? Tell me she survived please" she wanted to teased him but seeing the worry on his face decided best not to, so she took a deep breath and went to stand right be him.
"Spike she's ok, don't worry about her she made it" she gave him an honest smile. He sighed relieved, she went on.
"Almost all of the girls and the Scoobies made it, except Anya and . "
"Anya?" she nodded. "Anya? Demon girl? God... I don't believe it"
"Yeah, Xander took it pretty bad ."
"I can imagine" I still remember how it feels. He thought, they were silent for a moment -
"Ok who else?".
"You. kinda ."
"What the bloody hell?! I'm here aren't I?, I don't recall being deader ."
"Yes *now* you are, but then." "Wait what do you remember exactly?"
"well everything!" he gave her a 'duh' look.
"Remember the bleeding trinket shooting power through me, remember the fight, girls running out, Buffy holding my hand," saying that she loved me he add to himself "remember the cave falling apart, then next thing I know, you're sitting over there looking at me like I'm the second coming, and now I would very much like to know what's going on"
"So that's 'it? No hell and eternal torment, or heaven with angels the whole package? "
"Wankers with a package? Not my kind of heaven, but No, cave then slayer that's all. Now on with the explanation, starting with where is she'"
"Well I think you're in for a ride pal"
"do tell "he smirked he was feeling better, although his muscles ache a little, but his sigh was getting more focusy 'great I'm speaking like the lot of them' and the talking was a little better after the water the nurse gave him while examining him.
"Well, the reason why she is not here is because she is in Florida"
"Florida? What is she doing in Florida?" it made no sense to him.
"We live in Florida now" she stated plainly.
"We?" she nodded "Now? how long was I gone? It cant be more than a few days "she shook her head no.
"weeks?" again a shook, but she wasn't sure how to tell him he was obviously not taking it well.
"it can't be more than a month!"
"It's been a year and 4 months! Happy?"
'No not happy' he would've said if he wasn't too busy doing the impersonation of a fish, then he took a long necessary breath, 'wait, why am I breathing?, and is that sound what I think it is? Oh bollocks I'm alive!'.
Faith just stared at him making funny faces, then widening his eyes in realization.
"You ok there Buffy? " the brunette asked concerned, she look tense, and no wonder, but thee was a lot going on inside her head, a lot she wasn't shearing.
She turn her head from her kid sleeping on that little chair attached to the plane chair they had been flying in for over an hour, it had taken her about 40 minutes to make him sleep again after the plane took off, and right now she was on the verge of freaking out , no wonder with the day she had, first the news from hell, as she refer to LA now, then the packing , the making arrangements the 3 hours long drive from home, then the waiting for the plane, and now the waiting for the landing, and in the middle of it all the wandering.
The whole 'what am I going to say to him? Does he still love me? Is he gonna be the same? How was she gonna deal with Angel? How was she gonna tell him about William? Would he know how much she had missed him, how thankful she was to him for making her leave and giving her the opportunity of leading the life she had now?'. Because that's why he had deny her love, she was certain that he knew she loved him, she could feel it when their hands were on fire, it was there, the love, the caring the need for him, she knew because for those few seconds it surrounded her, they were coming out of her in waves, and his feeling were there too, all that he ever felt for her was there and it was so beautiful, so pure, but it lasted just seconds. And now? Now she is terrified, not for one day over the past year she forgot about him or did not think about what it would be like to have him with here again with her.
"Buffy are you there?" she was taken away from her thoughts by Xander, she smiled thinking about how good he had been for her, how lucky she was she had him as a friend.
"Uh? Sorry Xan I was just, y'know"
"Not here?"
"Not at all"
"Is gonna be fine Buff, you'll see" he tried to reassure her.
"Is it? Because right now im totally clueless, what am I supposed to tell him when I see him? "
"How about 'hey there, I missed you, nice to know you're no longer dead' ".
"And then what? 'Hey guess what, remember the last night you were alive? Well somehow you got me pregnant in spite of all vampire rules! Which is pretty good except for the part where when you hear this, all you are gonna really hear is some guy knocked me up after you died' ?"
"Or you can call Willow, make her reverse the spell, then tell him"
"Willow, I totally forgot oh god, I have to call her and Dawn again"
"yes call them, we call them from that phone" he said as he motioned the paying phone on the back of the seat before them. "You did bring your credit card ? cause the last time you- "
"I brought my credit card Xander" she gave him a look the proceed to search for her wallet on her bag while muttering
"One freaking little incident with the card and does he let it go? no, he has to keep- "
"Oh c'mon, stop whining. It was funny, and it was not little, I think Dawn will find it amusing"
"Xander I swear to you, if you tell anyone about it, I'll never save you sorry ass from your demon dates again"
"Well I'll never save your sorry ass from human dates again, I mean seriously my demons are way better than those guys you went out the last few times"
"Well that's fine because, if everything goes well in LA I may never date again"
"ok that came out wrong, I meant I'm might not gonna be available." she corrected and smiled a little at the implication.
"see? there's the optimism was looking for!" he gave her a big smile
"It still wigs me that you're fine with the whole me and Spike thing"
"nah there is still some wiggage there, but if came around the fact of you and him conceiving a child, I can be all cool and supporting about whatever happens now. "
"You're the best y'know"she turned to looked at him with an expression that said how much she appreciate him. "Hey found it" she hold the card triumphantly and gave it to him, he took it and proceed to call Willow in England.
After his initial hock at understanding he was human, Faith proceeded to tell spike what went on in all the time he was gone.
". so Dawn decided to stud her senior year abroad, she is going to school in London, but is staying with some family no matter how much Willow insisted on her staying at her place, she wanted to have the whole exchange experience including the normalcy of a surrogate family "
"so the lil' bit is doing well and all? I'm glad, she's strong and she deserves a change in scenario, I still don't get how you ended up in Florida"
"Well real sate in there is a very good inversion, plus sunny place, and far away from LA so that we could start over and clean, it was all Kennedy's idea, their parents have a house there so right after Buffy decided she wanted to get the hell away from here, she offered the place and since there was no other elsewhere to go, we move there, and got used to it, than decided to buy a place of our own, is a pretty nice town , not hellmouthy at all "
"Where's the fun in that?"
"Well why do you think I come here so often? I mean besides the whole legal issue? "
"To get laid apparently"
"Well there's that too" she smiled thinking about Robin.
"So you and the principal, is it serious?"
"serious enough, I mean is starting to be, we just got really together 2 months ago, and sure we live in different time zones, but we'll deal"
"Well that's good, at least the 2 of you had potential, more than Red and the bratty one if you ask me, I still don't get how the 2 of them happened"
"Yeah, we just have to thank whoever that Willnedy is over" the both of them shook their head to get the mental out.
"Yes Will she is gonna be fine, just get here as soon as you can ok?, you need to do something to the spell so hat Buffy can tell Spike, if he ever wakes up" he listened to the phone.
"Nothing is gonna happened to them, I'll make sure of that, he wont even know Will was there"
"Yes I know that he would probably is expecting to kill me, if Angel Told him I got her pregnant, I just have to have my faith in Faith"
"Love bye"
"Well cut to the chase Faith how is she really?"
"She'll be here tonight, and then you can ask her, I promise everything's five by five"
"There is something you're not telling me"
"ok, did I tell you how there was a trust Fund For me And Buffy and thanks to the former Counsel we are now sort of millionaires?. "
"Yeah you already told me that."
"Ok. Did I tell you that right now we are sort of Angel's prisoners, and are being watch as we speak and everything I tell you is gonna be report back to him?"
"You only said I appeared out of nowhere, you didn't tell me I was a prisoner of the grandpoof!"
"Well then let me, it stared yesterday when I found out about you but happened right after I called Buffy, I mean sure we are free in theory but the whole being held hostages is implied there."
TBC.
"Where am I? What happened to me?" He tried to get up, but find himself too weak to move too much, he was still feeling dizzy from sleep.
"You're in the hospital in L.A." she explained while she went to him, to help him sit up, and he let out a small yelp. "I'm sorry I'll tell you everything, but first we need to get you a doctor, and make sure everything's fine with you"
"Why am I in a hospital? I'm a vampire is not like I get sick, and why does my throat hurts when I talk?"
"Look just stays there and I'll explain what I can, but doctors first" she said as she went out the room , and got back with a doctor and a nurse a couple of minutes later, they didn't do much, they examined him and took the readings in the machines he was hooked to, he felt so confused and weak he didn't realized the beeping sound that was present was from his own heart, after thy finished they gave Faith some recommendations al the time he just stay quiet wondering, oh so many things why was he in there and why was Faith of all people there with him, then it hit him, she didn't make it, that's why she wasn't there, she didn't survive what happened, and what had exactly happened? He was sure he felt like he was dying and what about the beach and being with Buffy' was it all dreams? was it real? Maybe he-
"Hey you ok there?" he didn't notice the doctor leaving the room.
"What?"
"Nothing you just kinda zone off there, well since you seem to be all good, I'll try to-"
He cut her off, he was to worried and wanted answers now.
"Is she ok? Tell me she survived please" she wanted to teased him but seeing the worry on his face decided best not to, so she took a deep breath and went to stand right be him.
"Spike she's ok, don't worry about her she made it" she gave him an honest smile. He sighed relieved, she went on.
"Almost all of the girls and the Scoobies made it, except Anya and . "
"Anya?" she nodded. "Anya? Demon girl? God... I don't believe it"
"Yeah, Xander took it pretty bad ."
"I can imagine" I still remember how it feels. He thought, they were silent for a moment -
"Ok who else?".
"You. kinda ."
"What the bloody hell?! I'm here aren't I?, I don't recall being deader ."
"Yes *now* you are, but then." "Wait what do you remember exactly?"
"well everything!" he gave her a 'duh' look.
"Remember the bleeding trinket shooting power through me, remember the fight, girls running out, Buffy holding my hand," saying that she loved me he add to himself "remember the cave falling apart, then next thing I know, you're sitting over there looking at me like I'm the second coming, and now I would very much like to know what's going on"
"So that's 'it? No hell and eternal torment, or heaven with angels the whole package? "
"Wankers with a package? Not my kind of heaven, but No, cave then slayer that's all. Now on with the explanation, starting with where is she'"
"Well I think you're in for a ride pal"
"do tell "he smirked he was feeling better, although his muscles ache a little, but his sigh was getting more focusy 'great I'm speaking like the lot of them' and the talking was a little better after the water the nurse gave him while examining him.
"Well, the reason why she is not here is because she is in Florida"
"Florida? What is she doing in Florida?" it made no sense to him.
"We live in Florida now" she stated plainly.
"We?" she nodded "Now? how long was I gone? It cant be more than a few days "she shook her head no.
"weeks?" again a shook, but she wasn't sure how to tell him he was obviously not taking it well.
"it can't be more than a month!"
"It's been a year and 4 months! Happy?"
'No not happy' he would've said if he wasn't too busy doing the impersonation of a fish, then he took a long necessary breath, 'wait, why am I breathing?, and is that sound what I think it is? Oh bollocks I'm alive!'.
Faith just stared at him making funny faces, then widening his eyes in realization.
"You ok there Buffy? " the brunette asked concerned, she look tense, and no wonder, but thee was a lot going on inside her head, a lot she wasn't shearing.
She turn her head from her kid sleeping on that little chair attached to the plane chair they had been flying in for over an hour, it had taken her about 40 minutes to make him sleep again after the plane took off, and right now she was on the verge of freaking out , no wonder with the day she had, first the news from hell, as she refer to LA now, then the packing , the making arrangements the 3 hours long drive from home, then the waiting for the plane, and now the waiting for the landing, and in the middle of it all the wandering.
The whole 'what am I going to say to him? Does he still love me? Is he gonna be the same? How was she gonna deal with Angel? How was she gonna tell him about William? Would he know how much she had missed him, how thankful she was to him for making her leave and giving her the opportunity of leading the life she had now?'. Because that's why he had deny her love, she was certain that he knew she loved him, she could feel it when their hands were on fire, it was there, the love, the caring the need for him, she knew because for those few seconds it surrounded her, they were coming out of her in waves, and his feeling were there too, all that he ever felt for her was there and it was so beautiful, so pure, but it lasted just seconds. And now? Now she is terrified, not for one day over the past year she forgot about him or did not think about what it would be like to have him with here again with her.
"Buffy are you there?" she was taken away from her thoughts by Xander, she smiled thinking about how good he had been for her, how lucky she was she had him as a friend.
"Uh? Sorry Xan I was just, y'know"
"Not here?"
"Not at all"
"Is gonna be fine Buff, you'll see" he tried to reassure her.
"Is it? Because right now im totally clueless, what am I supposed to tell him when I see him? "
"How about 'hey there, I missed you, nice to know you're no longer dead' ".
"And then what? 'Hey guess what, remember the last night you were alive? Well somehow you got me pregnant in spite of all vampire rules! Which is pretty good except for the part where when you hear this, all you are gonna really hear is some guy knocked me up after you died' ?"
"Or you can call Willow, make her reverse the spell, then tell him"
"Willow, I totally forgot oh god, I have to call her and Dawn again"
"yes call them, we call them from that phone" he said as he motioned the paying phone on the back of the seat before them. "You did bring your credit card ? cause the last time you- "
"I brought my credit card Xander" she gave him a look the proceed to search for her wallet on her bag while muttering
"One freaking little incident with the card and does he let it go? no, he has to keep- "
"Oh c'mon, stop whining. It was funny, and it was not little, I think Dawn will find it amusing"
"Xander I swear to you, if you tell anyone about it, I'll never save you sorry ass from your demon dates again"
"Well I'll never save your sorry ass from human dates again, I mean seriously my demons are way better than those guys you went out the last few times"
"Well that's fine because, if everything goes well in LA I may never date again"
"ok that came out wrong, I meant I'm might not gonna be available." she corrected and smiled a little at the implication.
"see? there's the optimism was looking for!" he gave her a big smile
"It still wigs me that you're fine with the whole me and Spike thing"
"nah there is still some wiggage there, but if came around the fact of you and him conceiving a child, I can be all cool and supporting about whatever happens now. "
"You're the best y'know"she turned to looked at him with an expression that said how much she appreciate him. "Hey found it" she hold the card triumphantly and gave it to him, he took it and proceed to call Willow in England.
After his initial hock at understanding he was human, Faith proceeded to tell spike what went on in all the time he was gone.
". so Dawn decided to stud her senior year abroad, she is going to school in London, but is staying with some family no matter how much Willow insisted on her staying at her place, she wanted to have the whole exchange experience including the normalcy of a surrogate family "
"so the lil' bit is doing well and all? I'm glad, she's strong and she deserves a change in scenario, I still don't get how you ended up in Florida"
"Well real sate in there is a very good inversion, plus sunny place, and far away from LA so that we could start over and clean, it was all Kennedy's idea, their parents have a house there so right after Buffy decided she wanted to get the hell away from here, she offered the place and since there was no other elsewhere to go, we move there, and got used to it, than decided to buy a place of our own, is a pretty nice town , not hellmouthy at all "
"Where's the fun in that?"
"Well why do you think I come here so often? I mean besides the whole legal issue? "
"To get laid apparently"
"Well there's that too" she smiled thinking about Robin.
"So you and the principal, is it serious?"
"serious enough, I mean is starting to be, we just got really together 2 months ago, and sure we live in different time zones, but we'll deal"
"Well that's good, at least the 2 of you had potential, more than Red and the bratty one if you ask me, I still don't get how the 2 of them happened"
"Yeah, we just have to thank whoever that Willnedy is over" the both of them shook their head to get the mental out.
"Yes Will she is gonna be fine, just get here as soon as you can ok?, you need to do something to the spell so hat Buffy can tell Spike, if he ever wakes up" he listened to the phone.
"Nothing is gonna happened to them, I'll make sure of that, he wont even know Will was there"
"Yes I know that he would probably is expecting to kill me, if Angel Told him I got her pregnant, I just have to have my faith in Faith"
"Love bye"
"Well cut to the chase Faith how is she really?"
"She'll be here tonight, and then you can ask her, I promise everything's five by five"
"There is something you're not telling me"
"ok, did I tell you how there was a trust Fund For me And Buffy and thanks to the former Counsel we are now sort of millionaires?. "
"Yeah you already told me that."
"Ok. Did I tell you that right now we are sort of Angel's prisoners, and are being watch as we speak and everything I tell you is gonna be report back to him?"
"You only said I appeared out of nowhere, you didn't tell me I was a prisoner of the grandpoof!"
"Well then let me, it stared yesterday when I found out about you but happened right after I called Buffy, I mean sure we are free in theory but the whole being held hostages is implied there."
TBC.