CHAPTER 9
We saw a flash of lightening inside the hospital. The lightning
struck and provokes a breakdown. Xander looks at Willow and whispers
- Not this time. Well I don't think so.
- Willow if you're still angry please control yourself.
- What is that ? the doctor asks.
- Seems like a breakdown, Xander said.
- But there's no thunder so where did the lightning come from ?
Look outside, the sun is shining.
- You've never seen something weird here in Sunnydale ? Xander asked
the doctor.
- Maybe.
Willow give Xander the 'take care of him while I try something' look so she
could try a spell. Just a bit of magic to have the electricity back again.
- Look at all those panicked people in here, Xander said
forcing the doctor to look somewhere else.
Then Xander looked at Willow doing her spell.
Luminus Mainentus
Light is back again.
- Here it is, the doctor said, we can keep on working now.
- About Buffy ? Xander asked.
- Your friend isn't dead like I said. The thing is that something
strange happened while she had surgery.
- How strange ? Willow asked.
Spike softly shows his head on the hallway outside Buffy's bedroom trying to
see what the noise was. He's relieved to see that it's just Dawn coming back
from school. But he doesn't know how to tell her about Buffy. He hears her
coming up the stairs and he comes out of Buffy's room cause he doesn't want
her to find him here and think he's a perverse. He is of course ! She's
now upstairs and he's in the middle of the hallway, half way between Buffy's
room and the stairs.
- Spike, what are you doing here ?
- Hello Dawn, I'm glad to see you, too.
- Who let you in ?
- Xander and Willow.
- And why's that ? You didn't come to hurt me?
- No, don't be scared. Why do you think I'm here to hurt you ?
- So why are you here ? Plus you're next to the bedrooms ?
- It's Buffy, Spike said.
- What about Buffy ? Something happened to her ?
Spike looks at Dawn with sad eyes.
- What ? Tell me Spike.
- I came to the magic box and she was there, lying on the ground, in
blood, her blood. Someone shot her.
Dawn puts her hands on her mouth as to retain her screams and tears.
- Oh my God, Buffy !
- I took her to my crypt to cure her and I did the best I could.
Then I took her to the hospital, she's still there . I came here to tell
Xander and Willow about it and they're at the hospital right now. I'm
waiting here for their call with news of Buffy.
Dawn cries.
- I wanna go to the hospital, now !
- You'd better stay here, with me, till Xander and Willow call.
Dawn cries even more and Spike hesitates a little while before taking her in
his arms.
- Cry you'll feel better after, he says.
The doctor's still talking to Xander and Willow.
- After the surgery her heart stopped beating for a few seconds.
- Oh my God, Xander said.
- While reviving it we saw sparks when we used the defibulator
- But she's alright, right ? Willow asked.
- It was like she was already dead but alive at the same time.
Her heart beats are different from ordinary people, it's strange. Yes she
's fine now and what I'm trying to tell you since the first time we met is
that she's not in this hospital anymore.
- You let her leave ? Xander asked.
- No, in fact she wasn't in her room when I wanted to see her so she
left without telling anybody.
- Okay, Xander said, she must be home now.
- I advise you to tell her to be careful and not do anything strenuous for a few days. She needs come back here if she feels any pain.
- Sure doctor, thank you, Willow said.
- Yes thank you, Xander said.
- You're welcome.
The doctor came back to the reception as Xander and Willow leave the
hospital.
- Willow, we forgot to ask the doctor something important concerning Buffy !
- Yes I know. Let's go ask that doctor.
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