Spike hadn't been seen for weeks. Buffy was getting more and more depressed. She had fought for the right to love him, she had fought all her friends and family swearing that he was a good man (well vampire) and that he loved her, but he was gone. She hadn't heard anything from him since he had left. Buffy was getting pissed and she was taking it out on everyone who even thought to cross paths with her about Spike. She had chewed out Giles, who insisted that Angel was a special case and that she crossing a line. She had stopped speaking to Xander who had dared to call her a vampire-lover. She had annihilated Willow because she didn't completely agree with her. The only people who seemed to really be okay with her and Spike was Dawn and her mother. It was strange that the two didn't mind, but she took what she could get. She walked into her dorm room that she shared with Willow and crashed on the bed. Luckily Willow was out, she didn't want to fight with anyone at the moment. She grabbed the remote to her stereo and was about to hit play when Willow stumbled in. She was holding her right arm, blood seeping through the spaces between her fingers and fell down on the bed. "Willow!" Buffy said worried. Xander and Oz walked in behind her. "What happened?" She directed the question at Oz, the only one in the entire group who had no opinion on the Buffy and Spike saga.

"We didn't see, we found her like this." Oz said.

"It..." Willow said really quiet and broken by her struggle to breath.

Xander had grabbed the phone and was calling 911. "Hi. Yes it's an emergency. My best friend, she's bleeding." He waited while the operator said something. "No I don't know what happened to her. Me and her boyfriend found her." The operator said something. "We are at the Sunnydale University." He gave the name of the hall and the dorm. The operator said something else, but Xander had turned to the others. "They have a ambulance coming." He told them.

"What happened Will?" Buffy asked her, forgetting that they were somewhat fighting and even more so that she was fighting with Xander. "Xander get a washcloth and wet it." She told him. She looked down at Willow, hoping that she would help her understand what happened. But Willow was unconscious. "Oh my god, Willow." Buffy said. She had blood all over her hands, her shirt and her skirt. And it was Willow's blood. It was all over the carpet and all over the bed. Buffy felt sick and had to step away from her. The paramedics came bursting through the open door and asked Oz and Xander to step away.

The next few hours were a blur for Buffy. After the paramedics took Willow away; Xander, Oz and herself drove over to the hospital. They called Giles and her parents. Buffy propped herself up against a wall, turning over and over in her head what could have had happen to Willow. Or worse, what had yet to happen to her. She had been in surgery for hours and Buffy was so upset. If Willow didn't make it then she would always remember that she was mad at her before she died. Buffy didn't realize that she was crying until she felt an arm around her. She turned and Xander was standing next to her. She melted into his arms, letting him carry just a little bit of her pain. "I'm so sorry. You have the right not to like him, so did Willow. I love you guys."

"We know." Xander said. He didn't apologize for what he had said about Spike, but he could apologize for the bad things he said about Buffy. "I'm sorry too. I didn't mean what I said about you."

Buffy just smiled at him and let him hold her. Five more minutes of crying passed before Buffy saw the doctor heading towards them. She ran over with Oz, Xander, Giles, and her parents. The doctor had blood all over him and Buffy held fast to Xander and Oz. "She lost a lot of blood." The doctor began. Every word he said was making Buffy feel worse and worse, as if she knew that he was going to say something bad. "We did all that we could do. She's fine and we stopped the bleeding, but she is in a coma." Buffy fell to the ground sobbing. Oz stood there, trying to hide that he was upset, but suddenly he was crying. And Xander and Giles were crying as well, although all of them made it to a seat. But Buffy sat on the floor, drenched in her friend's blood, crying over her friend.

Spike came busting through the door. He could smell the blood going up to Buffy's dorm. Although he hadn't been invited in, the door was open and the blood on the bed and carpet were easy to spot. He followed the slight trail to the hospital and asked about the U.C. Sunnydale student that was brought in. He burst through the door, knowing that it wasn't Buffy but knowing that it was someone close to her. He found Giles, Xander, and that quiet guy that Willow dated sitting and crying. There were two people that he didn't know, but he was only focused on Buffy. She was sitting on the floor of the white room, drenched in blood. She was crying hard and he was hoping she was okay. He ran over to her and grabbed her close to him. He didn't care that his blood lust was going insane from the blood on her. He only cared about her.

"Spike?" She said when he reached her.

"It's me love. I'm here." He picked her up and sat in one of the chairs with her on his lap. She had her head against his chest and her crying hadn't stopped yet. "What happened?"

"Willow." Buffy said.

Spike didn't say anything else. He knew how close the two were and how upset she was. He just held her, stroking her hair, and thought. Buffy was covered in blood as was Oz and Xander. Plus adding the blood in the room he knew that Red had lost a lot of blood. He held Buffy close to him and didn't even notice that no one in the room seemed to think that him being there was strange.

Buffy sat at Willow's bed side. She had left Spike in the waiting room, not knowing how her friend would feel about him being there. She looked down at Willow and was almost sick. Her former quirky friend was pale and almost... lifeless. There were tubes and things stuck in her and she was hooked up to a heart machine. She didn't look like Willow, she looked like someone else. Buffy took Willow's hand. "Hey Willow." She said. "The doctor told me to talk to you. He said that maybe it would take you out of the coma, that maybe you can hear me." Buffy was choking up and she knew that she wouldn't be able to control the tears. "You got to wake up Willow. I still have to apologize about being such a bitch to you. Plus if you ever thought that Oz had no emotions, you'd be wrong. There's so many people here that care for you that you have to come back." Buffy was crying harder. "We need you Willow. I need you." She let go of Willow's hand, got up and kissed her forehead. Then she walked out the door and straight out the hospital into the night air, Spike at her heels. She kept walking, ignoring the questions that Spike was sending her way. She had to find out was happened to Willow before the sun came up. She broke into a run towards the school and stopped in front of her hall. "Spike!" She yelled at him. She turned, expecting to see him a little farther away. Instead he was right behind her.

"Yea slayer?"

"Can you pick up the scent of her blood?" She asked him. He nodded and walked off. Buffy followed. They kept walking until he stopped. Sitting on the ground was a knife. Buffy bent down and picked it up. It was the same knife that she had use to stab Faith with. She brought herself up slowly, facing Spike.

He looked at her eyes. She was so mad and she knew who had stabbed Willow. "What is it?" She asked her.

"Faith." She said with a hateful look.

"You called?" Spike shot a look towards the voice. A dark-haired girl walked out. She was a slayer, the rouge slayer. He had heard about her, rumors mostly. Heard that she had killed a guy and turned bad. He turned back to Buffy and had enough time to watch her lunge at the other slayer with the knife. Faith moved to one side and Buffy stopped dead in her tracks. "I love the welcome party." She said. Buffy threw the knife, which Faith caught in her hands. "Ohh look, now I have the pretty knife." Spike watched the dark-haired girl lunge at Buffy, who kicked her in the stomach and punched her in the face. Faith threw the knife aside and began a hand-to-hand fight with Buffy.

"Why'd you do it Faith? Worried that you'd lost your bad ass edge."

"No. It's payback Buffy and Willow got in the way." Buffy sent a high kick to Faith's chest, who flew and hit a tree. Buffy grabbed the knife and went over to the other slayer lying on the ground. Spike stepped in and grabbed Buffy before she could stab the other slayer.

"Let me go Spike!" She yelled.

"No slayer. She's human." He held her back as the rouge slayer got up.

"That didn't stop her from jamming that knife in my gut. Or killing the only man that ever cared for me." Faith said.

Spike let Buffy go and grabbed the slayer by the throat. He vamped out and stared at the slayer. "I can't let her kill you. But I can." He said with anger.

"Oh that's rich. Not only did you have Angel wrapped around your little finger but you've recruited another vampire. This one have a soul too?"

"It wouldn't matter. I'd kill you either way." He growled.

"Right. Let me guess, you love her right?" Spike didn't answer. "Oh that's rich, he's just like Angel only stuck in the eighties." She shot a look at his leather coat, bleached-blonde hair, and Billy Idol smirk.

Spike tightened the grip on Faith's throat and took her away from the tree, only to slam her back against it. "Scream for me." He said with a growl. Buffy had recovered from her encounter with Spike.

She stood next to him. "Let me kill her Spike."

"No slayer. She isn't getting killed, at least not by us." He had heard the police sirens way before they did. Faith squirmed and tried to break away.

"Come on Buffy. Kill me and try to make it all right." Faith was getting into her head and she was loving it.

"Spike..." She made is name drip with anger, made it sound so harsh.

Spike cast his eyes to her. "No Buffy. You have no right to past judgment on humans."

"She isn't a human, she's a slayer." Buffy had said the words before she could catch herself. She sunk down to the ground, looking away from the two solemnly.

Once the police got there and Spike could let go of Faith, he sunk down next to Buffy. "You didn't mean it Buffy." He said.

Buffy, who had been zoned out for the past few minutes, looked up at him. "I did mean it Spike. I meant that I could kill her because she was the slayer, that she wasn't human." She turned away from him.

"Look at me." He said, vamping out. She turned to him. "I'm not human. Red's a witch, Xander's girl is an ex-demon, and Red's guy is a werewolf. And this life we live, it ain't exactly normal either." His face changed back and he looked right into her eyes. "I'm no Angel and I get that." He said to her. "And I know that I never could be. But I love you and I can't stand ya to be upset. That's why I went off and got ya something."

She looked at him confused. "What took you weeks to get?"

"Look at me."

"I am."

"No." He said, grabbing her arms and pulling her closer. "Look at me."

Buffy stared deep into eyes. She remember once doing this with Angel, staring in his eyes. It was just like with Angel. Just... like... Angel. "Oh my god!" She said, covering her mouth. She touched his face and kissed him. "Why?"

"You deserved better then a soulless monster." He said to her.

Buffy sat on the edge of Willow's bed side. She grabbed a hold of her hand. "Hey Willow." She said. "You got to wake up. There's so much that happened. Spike went off and got a soul for me. And Faith's been locked up. If Spike hadn't been there I would have killed her." She was tearing up a little. "He saved me Willow, from killing someone who was human. He loves me Willow and I love him. I just hope that everyone else will see that." She smiled. "But enough about me. You got to wake up. I miss you... that way that you always made even my worst day better. I love you Willow. You're my best friend." Buffy walked towards the door. As soon as she turned the knob she heard the word...

"Buffy."

It was so weak that Buffy almost didn't hear it. "She's awake!" Buffy yelled. She ran back over to Willow as Xander, Oz, Giles and her parents came in the door. But Willow's eye had closed again. Suddenly there was a flat line on the heart monitor and nurses where kicking them out of the room.

A/N: I know that this is evil to put in a cliff hanger like that but it had to be done. Anyways I will try really hard to update this soon... but reviewing might hurry me up. ;)