AN: I didn't get as many reviews as I hoped for. Please, if you read it review! I want to know if this is good, bad, confusing etc.

Ring Ring!!!!

The telephone woke Buffy from her deep slumber. She reached over and lifted the receiver.

"Hello" She mumbled sleepily. She waited a moment, but there was no reply on the other end.

"Hello?" She said again but slightly louder.

"Buffy... " Another long pause "It's Giles..."

"Oh Hey Giles!" She sat up, happy to hear from her and William's mutual friend. "What's up?"

"Buffy... I'm afraid I have bad news..."

"How bad?"

"The worst."

"Oh God Giles! What's wrong? Is William ok?" She asked frantically

"I'm afraid not Buffy." He told her sadly

"He's hurt? I'll be there as soon as I can! Which hospital is he at?" She said in distress.

Giles sighed heavily "Buffy, there was a bad car accident... Buffy he's gone. I'm so sorry but... William is dead."

Buffy could hear him sobbing quietly on the other end of the line and the rational side of her knew that he was telling the truth. The irrational side however, was strongly in denial. "No no no no NO!" This just couldn't be happening. "Giles NO! He's not... He can't, he promised me! He promised! He said he'd never let me go, I can't do this alone!" She burst into hysterical sobs.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Giles knew his words offered no comfort to the distraught young woman.

Buffy dropped the phone on the floor and Giles could hear her devastated sobs. He thought he should give her some privacy and hung up the phone.

Willow tapped on the door impatiently. She looked at her watch. It was 7, and Buffy had asked her to drop by around that time, they had wanted to spend some time catching up as William was out of town. She wouldn't have left without calling her or anything. What if Buffy had hit her head? Or fallen down the stairs and knocked herself out?

Willow went to the back of the house and found the back door thankfully unlocked.

Photographs of Buffy and William adorned almost every available surface. A serious photo of them on their wedding day was surrounded by others of them laughing and smiling.

"Buffy!" She called. "Buffy are you here?" She went upstairs and into Buffy and William's room. At first she didn't see her friend, but then she saw her sitting at the foot of the bed with her arms wrapped around herself, silent sobs shaking through her. Her gaze was distance and seemingly fixated on the floor.

"God Buffy!" Willow ran to her friend and dropped down in front of her. Buffy didn't even seem to notice. Willow grabbed her face in both of her and hands and forced her friend to look at her. "Buffy what's wrong? Are you hurt?"

"No!" She cried. "No no no no no no No!"

Willow was taken aback and almost frightened of her broken friend. "Buffy, I need to help you, but I can't if you don't tell me what's wrong."

Buffy let out a moan of pain and wrapped her arms around her friend, holding on for dear life.

Willow felt tears spring to her eyes and she held onto Buffy tightly. She had no idea of what she was supposed to do. Something really terrible must have happened. Then she had a thought. She pulled away from her friend and slapped her firmly around the face.

The shock seemed to have snapped Buffy out of her mind numbing pain for a second. Tears still streaming down her face she told Willow what had happened. "G-Giles called and he... He said that there had been an accident. Oh God Willow! He's dead."

"What? Who's dead? Giles? I don't understand."

"No Willow, not Giles. William... William is dead." Buffy started shaking with the emotion of having lost her husband. Willow had a startled expression on her face which slowly crumpled as she also succumbed to tears.

"Don't go" Buffy had mumbled sleepily into the bare curve of Spike's neck.

"You know I'd rather stay with you my love." he'd told her, his hand trailing down her arm and back up again.

"Don't go." She'd requested again.

"Sweetheart, are you determined to make this as hard for me as possible?" He'd laughed lightly.

"Yes, then you won't go. I'll miss you too much if you go." She had sighed.

"Giles needs my help, I owe him that at least."

Buffy let out a deep sigh "I know, but I wish you would wait a while, until Mom gets better. Then I could go with you."

"Giles needs me now. You know I'd rather stay with you."

"I know... We haven't been apart a day since... Well since our first date. What if something bad happens?" Buffy had whined.

"Cheer up love. Nothing's going to happen." Spike rolled her still naked form underneath his body and pinned her arms above her head playfully. He kissed her firmly, almost desperately.

"But what if... What if...Oh!" Buffy gasped as Spike ran his tongue down the length of her neck and bit gently into the curve of her shoulder.

"What if what?" He stopped what he was doing for a moment before continuing.

"Um... What if..." She looked momentarily confused "I forgot... don't stop!" She moaned.

He gave her a wicked grin and then slid down her body, disappearing underneath the sheet.

After hours of crying, Buffy smiled weakly at the memory of her last moments with her husband.

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