Chapter 20
Buffy regained the use of most of her muscles quickly. She sat up and ate solid food instead the liquid she was served while she was out. Her weight was sturdily gaining to her former self. Spike visited everyday, if he could. College was a pain in the neck, new rules and so many people. Buffy thought of Lizzy quite often, while in her coma she saw bits of her former self. She tried to remember how William looked, but her memory was cloudy. That statement Spike keeps saying sound so familiar ringing in her ears. Spike enters the therapy room; Buffy calls him over to her.
"That statement you said during the time of my coma, where did you get it?" Buffy asks as she relearns to walk. Spike looks at her and holds out his hands, "I love you and the saying is from my heart." Spike tells her.
After the nice therapist helps her to her wheelchair, Spike starts to push her to the room. "I remember some of my dreams while I was out. There was this girl named Lizzy and she fell in love with a man who could not marry her."
"Luv, they were only dreams, I sure they seemed real." Spike humored her.
"They were real I know it." Buffy calls to the Gods. "I saw her get hit by that carriage and that man William whispering in her ear."
"Buffy that sounds silly now doesn't" her father says as he meets them at her room. Buffy drops it for now.
A Year Later
Buffy stopped telling her stories and went back to life of a college student. Spike and she were together and he was so kind. One night she woke to a screaming Spike, he was sweating and white as a sheet.
"Are you alright Spike?" She asks him. "It was just a dream I had when you were out of it. It's about a girl and a man, pain, death. It is only a dream." Spike says as he pulls her close.
"Can you describe the women?" Buffy asks. "Was she kind of looked like me?"
"Yeah and she was heads over heels for that nitwit. He threw away true love." Spike finally understood these dreams. "She died under a carriage and horse. That statement that I said to you was the one he said to her as she lay dying."
"Yes," she turned to him, "She was killed and lose her true love. She believed he would see her in a new life."
"Maybe he does get to see her," Spike says as the light bulb clicks in his head. "You remember that old woman from the past life report?"
"Yeah," Buffy replies not really getting it. "She was really creepy."
"She might be right about that whole past life thing." The light bulb got brighter.
Buffy didn't believe him but it was the only thing that either could see any better idea. The two decided to stay up and wait for the time to be 9:00am. They sat on the couch sipping some hot chocolate with the tiny marshmallows.