Chapter 4- It's Already Begun

A/N: Thanks for the reviews. Here is the next chapter. I hope it isn't too bad. I tried to make it sound better, but this is the best I could do. This is basically the Scoobies all talking about what is gonna happen and stuff like that. Here, read for yourselves.

"Just a little headache s'all."

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"I can't believe are lives are in Spike's hands," Buffy said in disbelief.

"We're dead," Xander concluded.

"This does explain why the Dark Princess is talking to the stars," Buffy comments.

Xander then points out, "Yeah, Dru was insane."

"So let me get this straight, Spike has to choose between me and Drusilla?" Buffy clarifies.

"Precisely," Giles says while cleaning his glasses for the fifth time.

"Do you really think he is going to pick good over evil?" Buffy asks. She couldn't believe this. After everything she fought for, she now had to wait for the Big Bad to choose their fate.

"Not really," he admits. This was bad, really bad.

Then Willow asked, "Do we have to get ready to fight him?"

"How are you going to fight him without Buffy?" Anya pointed out.

"What are you talking about?" Xander asks confused.

"If Spike picks Dru he'll have to kill Buffy," Anya talks like she is explaining something to children.

"Then I'll fight him," Buffy says confident.

"We all will," Willow adds.

"You don't seem to understand. When Spike decides he will have more power then you can imagine," Giles says regretfully.

"So I can't kill him?" Buffy asks.

"It seems you can't. Supposedly he will become immortal. But since he already is one, he'll probably become even stronger. I can only imagine what kind of power he will have," Giles says as he begins to think about what Spike will become. It would be interesting to study what kind of abilities he will develop. However, his guess was that he'd be dead before he had the chance.

"So basically your saying we're all gonna die?" Anya says.

"The chip!" Xander shouts out suddenly.

"What?" Buffy asks.

"If he has the chip in his head he can't hurt us," Xander says, smiling at his logic.

"It says here that no machine can hold him back," Willow says.

"Darn," was Xander's reply. He had been so sure he had it. The last thing Xander wanted was to be killed be Spike.

"Hey," Dawn said entering the Magic Shop.

"Your here early," Buffy says.

"Spike wasn't feeling good so he told me I should do my homework."

"What do you mean he didn't feel good?" Giles asked.

"He said he was getting a headache."

"Oh dear," Giles says.

"What is it?" Buffy asks carefully.

"It's already begun."

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A/N: Told you. Please review now, and tell me how it was. I'll try to get the next chapter out as soon as possible.