AN: This is the sequal to Past and Present. This probably happened a few days after the last one ended. By the way things in italics are from prior events, ie: Spike's dream of what Dru told him.

Enjoy.


Spike awoke suddenly from a dream, his eyes wide and taking in large, gasping breaths. Vampires did not dream often and when they did, they were mostly prophetic. Lately, the blonde vampire had been having dreams every night and he wanted to know what was so damned important about it. Getting up, he headed straight for his fridge and grabbed a blood bag. Maybe going to bed on an empty stomach was causing his dreams.

He could still hear Dru telling him everything.
"Baby boy's all confused". "Rising sun feels so alone". "New prince is going to find out about the sun rising. All removed dirt will come back."

He had no clue what she was talking about. He remembered himself, then, even confused. He didn't know about the sun or the dirt. But he was pretty sure baby boy was him.

"The start of the sun is your new queen. Your hand will not burn when you touch this sun."

A frustrated growl came from deep in his throat as his fist connected with a stone that crushed under his ministrations. As he looked at the blood forming from his busted skin, he realized that Dru always did bring out the angry side of him. He almost wished that he could just bring her here to ask what she meant, but that wasn't possible.

He forced oxygen into his dead lungs to call him down. He needed to figure out what his dream meant so he could finally get some damn sleep.

Feeling that the sun was about down, he decided to get ready to go to Dawn's. She'd let him have a nice hot shower, since for some reason cold wasn't doing it. It must have been him hanging with Dawn that made him like the warm.

He dressed and headed out, a mission in plan. He and Dawn was going to have some fun.


Sorry for the very short chapter. This fic is about 8 chapters long so it'll be done fairly quick. Hope you liked it! R&R.

KC