Author's note

I don't know if any of you have been reading my Fic 'Wish and Consequences' or were reading it until I stopped updating. The truth is I will not be updating it at all.

Despite all the good reviews that I got from it, I didn't really like it all that much.

It wasn't coming out like I had wanted and it really wasn't that good.

I didn't like the way I'd had Buffy go to some wish demon to get Spike's little fishes swimming again.

I do like the plot though so I have decided to rewrite the whole thing.

I truly hope that I have not disappointed those of you who liked it. But hopefully this one will be better and you may not be too upset with me. I have already written the prologue for it and I think this story will be easier for me to write than the other one.

I have also changed the name of the story to 'Consequences" because in this one, Buffy doesn't make any wishes.

The result of course will be the same, but they have been a few tweaks to the story that I think are for the better.

I also want to apologize to those of you who liked the fact that Tara was in the fic because she won't be in this new one that I am writing.

I hope you guys will continue to read and review this fic and hopefully you will like this new one better than the other one.

I plan on getting rid of 'Wish and Consequences' completely and starting over fresh with this new one.

Thanks again to those of you who read the story and reviewed. And once again I hope you will like this new one better than the old one.

Below you will be able to read the Prologue for 'Consequences'. Please review it and let me know what you think so far. I really think the explanation for Buffy bearing Spike's child makes more sense in this one and Buffy is not all Depress-o girl for a long period of time.

Prologue to 'Consequences'

When Buffy looked back on her decision, she didn't know why she had decided to do what she did; she just remembered knowing that she would never regret it.

Spike had been perfect in everyway except one, he had loved her. He'd made life difficult by upsetting the normal balance of her love life. She had been so used to the 'Love me, Leave me' thing that it confused her when Spike had stayed by her side, always loving her no matter what. And some how, she felt that she owed him for that.

For being the only guy that stayed with her till the end, his end.

To Quote Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:

'My only love hath sprung from my only hate'

They had been enemies and yet some how even then he had helped her when she needed it.

That's why she did it. Because Spike deserved to be happy as well, after suffering from so much loss. His life, his mother, Cecily, Drusilla and finally her. He had lost her before he had even begun to have her. And that's what had made him hurt so much more.

Buffy hated herself for taking so long to finally realize that Spike truly loved her. And that she truly loved him.

She had known right away what she would do, and she was so happy when she'd finally did it.

The only problem was, she hadn't expected him to die down in the cave that day during the final battle with the 'First'. And she definitely did not expect to end up telling him that she loved him, while holding his enflamed hands.

But the last thing she expected was for him to say "No you don't, but thanks for saying it." Before Faith dragged her out of the cave.

That had hurt, a lot. And after that she'd been depressed for almost two months before getting herself back into the routine of being the Slayer.

Dawn, Faith, Andrew, and Herself had decided to go to Cleveland and guard the Hellmouth that was sitting beneath the city.

Giles, Willow, Kennedy and a handful of the SITs (Slayers in Training) moved to England to open up a new and greatly improved Watcher's Council and Slayer Training School.

Xander, Wood and another handful of SITs moved to Oklahoma to become a team of Demon Hunters.

The Rest of the SITs (Incase you were wondering) went off on their own slay vampires, others had followed Giles to England and applied at the Slayer Training School. And a small group of them decided to just go back home and live as though they had never heard of 'Slayers'. Which was fine because, the spell that Willow preformed, ensured that who ever had the potential to be a slayer, would have the choice to be a slayer or not.

But the Scoobies had a reunion later in the year when, Dawn called up Giles and told him to contact the others so that everyone could meet the newest member of the Scooby gang: William, Buffy's son.

Of course they had all been surprised by the news; Most of them had been happy for her. Xander had been infuriated when Buffy told everyone who the father was. Giles had simply been intrigued.

Because you know…It's not everyday that a Slayer bears the child of a Vampire.