Author's Note

Howdy Readers! Hope you're enjoying the fic so far.

I want to say thank you to those of you who have been reading and reviewing.

I hope I did not disappoint too many of you when I had Buffy die, but don't worry, things are going to be looking up from now on. At least that's my plan for right now.

Oh and to answer the question that one reviewer had: when Buffy is reborn she will not be a child or baby. She is going to look exactly the same. But of course she won't be the same.

Anyways, please continue reading and reviewing guys and I hope that you continue to enjoy my fic.

And if you guys have troubling picturing William in your heads, you could use the boy from the movie: the mummy returns (hopefully you've seen the movie) for some reason I imagine him as William, so if you guys want to, you can imagine him as William too.

Chapter 14

Four Years later:

Everything had gone back to the way they were before Buffy had gone back to Sunnydale with Andrew. Except a few things had changed.

After Buffy died, Spike moved to Cleveland to Live with Dawn, Andrew, and William.

Faith continued living with them for about two more years before moving to Okalahoma to live with Wood and help him and Xander with the demons there.

Dawn and Andrew started going out after Faith left, and were the ones who were stuck with the chore of waking up early to take William to school once he finally started.

William was now seven years old, with his father's natural blonde hair, and his mother's brilliant green eyes, an English accent and excellent ability to keep his Father's status a secret when asked about it at school.

William held the axe firmly in one hand as he walked along the empty corridor of the mansion, just as he was rounding the corner a large group of zombies appeared, almost out of nowhere and came rushing at him, "Die you bloody zombies! Yeah! How does my axe taste you bloody pillock!" William swung the axe in all directions knocking zombies to the ground and slicing off their heads, finally he threw the axe away and pulled out a long dagger and began slashing at his foes with it, "Coming back for more? I'll show you!" Suddenly more zombies appeared and William frowned as they closed in around him, "Oi that's not bloody playing fair! No Get off me, Get off! Get off!" William cursed under his breath as his character disappeared beneath a group of nasty looking zombies and turned off the television.

"I told you to keep the axe," said Dawn as she entered the living room, "Works much better than the dagger anyways,"

William sighed as he got up, "You might be right, but next time I think I'll grab the machine gun instead of the dagger, it always has several rounds of ammunition and I've yet to try it."

Dawn smiled at the boy, "You should ask Andrew to help you sometimes, he's got a ton of cheats for the game, could get you a whole new line of weaponry."

William unplugged his playstation and tied up the controls, "I'm going to go heat up some pig's blood for dad, think he got in late last night."

Dawn nodded, "that's a good boy, I'm just going to watch a bit of television, and don't forget to let him know that Andrew has gone out for groceries."

Dawn watched her nephew run off to the kitchen before turning towards the television and flipping to the news, "This is a special news bulletin: In Southern California yesterday during the reconstruction of Sunnydale, workers say that they saw a 'Wild Woman' running through a forest that lay just outside of sunnydale's borders. There is no information yet as to who the woman is or what she is doing there, police are currently searching the forest for the woman and we are sure to have more updates concerning the situation later today. This has been a special news bulletin." Dawn stared dumb struck at the screen as the news switched to a commercial advertising whipped cream.

Spike strolled into the living room, mug of pig's blood in his hand and stopped when he saw Dawn's face, "What's wrong bit, they advertising evil whipped cream or something?"

Dawn jumped off the couch and spun around to face Spike, "It's Buffy! I think she's back! I just saw a bulletin on the news; some 'wild woman' was seen in the forest outside of Sunnydale!"

Spike nearly choked on his blood, "what? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I just saw it; they said it on the news."

"Listen you go Pack your bags and help William pack his as well, I'm going to call Giles and Peaches."

Dawn ran out of the room excitedly to pack her bags for the trip to L.A., Its Buffy! It has to be Buffy; they said a wild woman on the news. But I know its Buffy. I can just feel it!

Andrew busted through the front door, arms filled with brown paper bags full of groceries, "Hello, could some one please come help me." Carefully making his way to the kitchen.

William flew in to the kitchen, "Guess what, Guess what!"

Andrew set the bags on the counter and looked down at the little boy, "what?"

"Mum's back and were all going to California to get her!" he jumped up and down excitedly

Andrew's face lit up, "She's back? Are you sure?"

"Yes, Yes. Dad called Mr. Giles and that Peach fellow and were all going to go find Mum!"

"Will, you do remember what we told you about when she came back right?"

"Sure I remember and even if it's not really her, I don't care, she is going to look the same isn't she? And I'm sure I'll have fun spending time with her."

Andrew smiled as William ran off, nearly colliding with Dawn as she entered the kitchen.

"I guess you've heard the news then?" Dawn laughed as she placed a kiss on Andrew's cheek

"I guess I should pack right, he said were going to California to retrieve her."

Dawn nodded as she began putting groceries away, "Spike seems happy that she's back but he has defiantly not forgotten what Wesley and Giles said about how Buffy was going to come back. I'm feeling a little upset about it myself, but I think this might be a great adventure for us. "

Andrew smiled, "Well, I'm just happy that it only took four years for her to come back, any longer and I was going to give up hope completely."

"I know, I was starting to think she would never come back, that the book had been misread."