A/N: Woo, last chapter! I expect plenty of reviews.

Spike jumped out of the helicopter after the Slayer. He grabbed her arm as she started across the street towards Wolfram and Hart, which was under siege.

She whirled back to him "Spike! Let me go. My sister is in there! Oz is in there!"

"I know. I want to come with, I want to help you" He replied looking her in the eyes.

"You can't" She said softly, touching her hand to his cheek "Now, please, let me go"

He did as she asked "Come back to me"

"I will" Buffy smiled "Get back to a safe distance"

With that she turned and ran out of his life.

Buffy burst through the shattered doors of Wolfram and Hart and took in the scene as quickly as possible. Demons everywhere. Demons massacring people. Not good. Slayer needed. She ran up to the nearest demon and grabbed its head, twisted, breaking its neck in one fluid motion.

She knew she had to get up to Angel's office to get the bomb. Of course, that had to be the top floor, didn't it?

She started towards the stairwell, not too keen on ever going in an elevator again in her life and partly because she didn't bet on her safety in that thing. One snip of the cable and she was plunging to her doom again.

Buffy ran as fast as she could but her ankle was still a little sore and it slowed her down a little. She slammed into the stairwell door and ran up the stairs. So many stairs in front of her. As she was up her seventh flight of stairs a Kraal appeared out of nowhere, leaping towards her.

She swerved to the side, pinning her back against the wall and watched it hurtle past her. The Kraal landed head first on the concrete steps, knocking itself out.

"Well, that was careless" She tsked and started back up the stairs.

As she ascended the Slayer heard screams, definitely human. She passed them by. It hurt her to do so but the quicker she activated the bomb the quicker this would all be over.

Spike paced up and down a small portion of the street. He kept looking over at Wolfram and Hart which he could just see from the distance he and Angel had to stay back.

"Do you have to keep doing that?" Angel scowled, referring to Spike's frantic pacing.

"Yes! Yes, I bloody well do!" Spike snarled back "I should be in there with her. Watching her back. We're a team"

Angel snorted "You think this is easy for me? My people are in there as well, you know...and I don't want to see her get hurt either"

"I say we storm in there, just to even the odds. We can get right out once she has the bomb" Spike suggested.

Angel paused, thinking about it "She'd kick our asses. If we weren't already blown to pieces by the bomb, that is"

"Bugger"

Spike paced some more.

Buffy kicked the door to Angel's office open. This was not a time for subtly. She was out of breath after running up all the stairs with a seriously hurt ankle. Must be getting old.

After a moment to catch her breath she began to search the office for the bomb. God, where did he put it? Probably would have been a good idea for Angel to tell me a little detail like that!

She began flinging papers from the desk and pulling the drawers out roughly. After what seemed like forever she finally found the small box taped to the top of one of the drawers. Buffy thought that was a kind of lame hiding place but knew it was lucky for her that Angel lacked ingenuity. The remote control was in the same place. Buffy placed the bomb down on the desk and took a breath.

She was about to press the button on the remote control when a Kraal lumbered through the doorway and barreled into the side of her.

"Ow!" She yelped as they hit the floor in a pile, the remote flying out of her grip an skidding across the floor "That was not nice!"

Buffy scrambled to her feet and looked at the bomb on the desk and then at the remote control that lay beyond the Kraal who was already starting to rise. She so didn't have time for this. The Slayer grabbed the bomb and ran from the office with the demon close behind. She could have set the thing off manually right then and there but she realized that she had no idea whether Oz, Illyria, Nina and Harmony were even out of the building. She wasn't exactly clear on whether werewolves were defined as demons but she wasn't going to take the chance.

She headed for the stairwell but wasn't quick enough with her injured ankle. The Kraal slammed into her back sending them both crashing through the doors and down the flights of concrete steps. Buffy cried out but told herself to keep a tight hold on the bomb as she flailing and fumbled and tumbled down the steps.

This is not gonna look good with bikini season just around the corner...

The Kraal was practically riding her down the stairs the whole way in their never-ending fall. Ew, bad phrasing.

A step hit her in the head and she blacked out for a moment. When she regained consciousness she was still rolling over and over down the stairs. Ugh, I'm gonna hurl.

Just as she thought that she crashed into something coming up the stairs in the other direction. A human something. All three of them; the Kraal, Buffy and her savior from the non-stop whirligig of barfsville landed in a heap on one of the platforms between floors.

The Slayer groaned and turned her gaze to the form underneath her. It was Oz. He was partly wolfed out.

"Hey, Oz" She croaked "Timely of you"

He groaned, rubbed his head and stood holding his hand out to her "I try"

Buffy took his hand and stood wobbly, looking down at the Kraal she frowned "He's not moving"

"Dead. Broken neck from the fall"

"Oh, great. So I've just been carrying dead weight the whole time!"

Oz quirked an eyebrow "We could use your help out there"

He motioned to the doorway that led to the fifth floor. Buffy nodded and they both entered into the fray. It seemed all the action was taking place here, for one reason or another. She spotted Wesley and Gunn beating down a Kraal with savage brutality and with a little help from a shotgun.

Nina was doing her best to help Harmony with a Kraal but when she wasn't a werewolf she wasn't a whole lot of use. Buffy winced when the demon elbowed her in the face and she went flying.

Illyria was beating the snot out of a trio of Kraal's who just kept coming back for more.

She fingered the bomb in her hand.

Turning to Oz Buffy said "You need to get out of here, now. Take Nina, Harmony, Illyria and Dawn with you"

"Buffy –"

"The bomb, Oz. You need to go" She paused "Do you know where Dawn is?"

He nodded "She got out, we sent her down through the car park entrance. Told her to get to a safe place"

Buffy hoped that she had done just that "Thanks. Now go"

The Slayer then ran off to join the fighting, entrusting the werewolf to do as she asked. She kicked a Kraal in the butt just in time to rescue Harmony from decapitation. Buffy rescuing Harmony? The world had truly gone mad. She leapt onto the back of the disgruntled Kraal and wrapped her arms right around its neck, attempting to throttle it.

The demon ran backwards and slammed her into the wall, once, twice, three times until she was dizzy and her back was killing her. She held on tighter only for the Kraal to flip her over its shoulder and slam her onto the floor.

"Oww..." Buffy mumbled.

Before she could do or say more the Kraal grabbed her and threw her up at the ceiling. She hit that with astounding force and then fell back down to the floor. Something almost cracked in her back.

Dots swam before her vision. She looked up, waited for the Kraal to finish her. Instead its head disappeared. Buffy blinked, confused. As the demon slumped to the floor she saw Wesley holding a smoking shotgun.

"Thanks" She groaned.

"Not a problem, Buffy" Wesley helped her up "I owed you one for being such a pillock back when I was your Watcher"

Buffy patted his shoulder "I'd say we're even"

He smiled, briefly, and ran back to join Gunn in beating the crap out of the Kraal's. The Slayer looked around and saw that Oz had managed to get Harmony and Nina out but Illyria just seemed to be having too much fun. She sighed and ran towards the ex-God.

Buffy kicked one of the demons Illyria was fighting and started to speak whilst still fighting "Get out of here, Illyria"

"Do not presume to command anything of me, Slayer" Illyria replied shoving her elbow up into the face of a Kraal.

"You want to be obliterated?" Buffy asked punching her assailant in the stomach and then kneeing him in the head "'Cos I'll set the bomb off with you still here if I have to"

Illyria gave pause and then nodded; punching her hand into the Kraal she was fighting and ripping out its spine. As it fell to the floor limp, she strolled out of the room. Buffy glanced at Oz and nodded. He too left.

Buffy delivered a snap kick to the Kraal she was fighting. God, this is exhausting. She wished she had kept up with her strict training regime. She couldn't set off the bomb yet as she had to wait for the others to get out of the half-mile radius. Buffy wished she had her scythe now, or a good axe.

As if reading her mind Gunn called her name and tossed her a broadsword. Not an axe but good enough.

She grinned and sliced the Kraal into so much meat.

Then suddenly something hit her at great speed from the side. As she went flying through the air Buffy had time to think why do things keep pushing me tonight? Then she went flying out of the window of the fifth floor.

The glass shattered as she was hurled through it and she let out a long yell as she fell. The Slayer felt oddly weightless as she watched the stars twinkling above her, her arms and legs flailing as she slowly fell down ready to meet the ground.

Spike was still pacing across the sidewalk as he heard the unmistakable sound of breaking glass. Both he and Angel looked up from across the road in time to see Buffy Summers fall out of the window, screaming.

Spike's eyes widened and his jaw slackened it took him a moment to respond, running towards her as fast as he could "Buffy!"

He could hear Angel's footsteps behind him but he paid it no heed as he sped to catch the woman he loved. Oh, god, oh god...

The vampire sprinted across the road and he dove forwards to catch her.

Buffy landed on something surprisingly softer than she imagined the sidewalk beneath her would have been. That something also made a loud "oof!" sound as it broke her fall. She took a moment to just lie there and figure out that she wasn't dead.

Angel's face suddenly came into view "Buffy? Are you alright? Buffy?" He looked frantic.

She frowned and rolled off of the thing beneath her. Buffy's eyes widened as she realized it was Spike. She had landed on Spike!

He groaned and pulled himself upwards "Bloody hell..."

"Well, there goes the romance" Buffy smiled slightly, rubbing her painful neck.

She stood slowly and then turned to go right back into the building.

"Buffy!" Spike stood, holding his head "You can't go back in there alone. I won't let –"

"You really think you can stop me?" She asked, softly "Besides, I'm not alone. I've got Wesley and Gunn. Who I need to go help"

He grabbed her hand as she tried to leave "I love you"

She smiled, kissed him on the forehead and said "Get back to a safe distance. That's an order"

Then she was gone again. The Slayer ran into the front entrance of Wolfram and Hart and was immediately surrounded by three Kraals. She sighed. Not good. Buffy pulled the bomb out of her pocket and her thumb hovered over the manual detonation switch.

The Kraal's growled and circled her. She had no doubt that they were about to all jump her and that she would die.

Spike was half way back across the street when he turned back. It was a mistake. He could see through the cracked glass doors of the Wolfram and Hart building. He could see Buffy surrounded and he saw the demons all jump her at once.

Without a second thought he turned back and ran to assist her. Angel yelled out to him and ran after him.

Buffy was hit from all sides, but as she went down she flipped the switch on the bomb.

Spike was still running as fast as he could towards the building with Angel close behind when the bomb went off. Everything turned slow-motion, literally, as the waves of magic radiated from it. His legs were suspended in mid-air in their running position, his hands reaching towards the doors.

Angel was frozen in the same rigor mortis type sensation behind him.

A bright white light shot out of the building and hit them both. It was not unlike the beams of light that had come from the necklace Spike had worn back in Sunnydale the day in which he had died.

A split-second passed and the two vampires were suddenly blown away, hurtling backwards at an incredible speed.

Buffy took a breath and sighed. The Kraals were gone. Or at least they had...well, shattered, in front of her. She sat up slowly and looked around at the piles of what looked like broken glass. Except it was green and had once been demons.

She stood and worked the cricks out of her neck and shoulders. Her ankle hurt like a bitch as well. Buffy smiled. It was over.

She turned to the doors and stopped. In the middle of the road she could see Oz, Nina, Illyria, Harmony and Dawn all gathered around staring at something. Buffy frowned.

The Slayer started walking out of the doors. Dawn turned back and looked at her. The look on the girl's face made Buffy burst into a run.

Her heart hammered in her chest. Her legs felt like they were carrying her too slowly. The pain in her ankle and everywhere else was forgotten. Oh, god, oh god...don't let it be...no...don't let it be...

She finally made it to where they were all standing and she shoved Harmony and Oz out of the way. Buffy ground to a halt, eyes wide and mouth open in shock.

No.

NO!

Spike and Angel lay in the road next to each other. Both were eerily still with their eyes shut and their long leather coats spread out beneath them.

She collapsed to her knees in between them. She'd killed them and it was all her –

Wait. No. They were still in one piece. They weren't...

Buffy looked around and saw that underneath and all around the vampires were what looked like pieces of broken glass. Yet she knew that they weren't. They were the demons that had resided within them.

Shakily, still not sure why she had the inclination to do so Buffy reached out both of her hands. One towards each of the men's necks. She pressed her fingers to their throats. After a moment she drew back, hands going to her mouth in disbelief.

It was Dawn who spoke "Buffy? What...? What is it?"

"It..." She turned slowly towards the group, her face blank and her emotions numbed "...they...they have pulses. They're...oh my God, they're alive..."

The End

A/N: What do you think? Feel like pummeling me about the head? There's a chance there might be a sequel for this one day if people wish so. One day. Hehe.