"Dawn says she looks pretty bad," Willow said to Xander as he came out of Buffy's room, "Does she?"

Xander looked at Dawn then Giles, he motioned to Willow to let them speak alone.

"She- she said to me – well, she doesn't think she'll make it," Xander said quietly, wiping his arms.

Willow cuddled him, tightly. "She's a fighter though, right? She'll make it, she has to. We can't loose her again."

Willow said, trying to stay strong amazingly, for Xander. The three had been together from the beginning, Xander and Willow had been together before even Buffy but Willow knew how much he – and everyone cared for Buffy, including her. But at this precise moment, it was killing Xander and Willow knew it.

They went back to the others, Giles giving a slight nod of hi.

They'd been sitting for almost an hour when it happened. He happened. Dawn had seen him first. Him and Faith.

She ran up to him without so much as a word, cuddling him, like a little child at playschool running up to her dad after a long day without seeing him.

She knew why; he'd always felt like family to her and when Buffy and her mum were gone, he was all she had had and he'd looked out for her. Even when Buffy was there.

She didn't let him go, even when Xander and the others came up, looking at him in disbelief.

"Spike!" Xander said. It seemed to be the first piece of motivation he'd had since Buffy had been brought in.

Spike shook his head, "Long story, I'm back and," he pointed outside, "Kinda... human."

"This is extraordinary, how did this – " Giles started to ask before Willow and Xander cut him off with sharp looks.

Xander and Spike had never really got along but right now that didn't matter, nothing did but Buffy.

"How is she? What's happening?" Spike asked, after Dawn finally let go of him, he gave her a small smile.

"Do you know about the baby?" Willow asked, instead of making Xander explain.

Spike nodded.

"It didn't make it," Xander piped up, quietly. Feeling really bad for the guy when he saw his features fall.

"Buffy?" Spike asked, swallowing.

Xnader shook his head, falling back for Willow to take over.

"She's not looking very good," she said honestly."

"C-Can I see her?" Spike asked.

Willow bit her lip, looking at Xander.

Xander nodded. "We were leaving her to rest but of course you can."

Xander gestured to Buffy's room and Spike nodded, going toward it and then entering.

Buffy opened her eyes slowly, "Spike?" she asked painfully.

Spike nodded, "Hey," he said looking at her. He'd never really saw anyone in hospital. In his days as a human they hadn't had them and in his vampire days he didn't really go there either.

"Am I dead?" Buffy asked, half confused, "In heaven? Am I dreaming?"

Spike smiled slightly, "Your alive and your awake."

"How?"

"Angel's amulet thingy, I sort of got sucked in and came back." Spike said wondering if he should add in that he'd came back human, he decided not to.

Buffy smiled, a proper smile, one that she hadn't used in so long. "It's really you?"

Spike nodded, entwining his fingers and hers.

"We had -," Buffy trailed off, how could she tell him about the baby she'd lost?

Spike nodded, "Shh I know. About the baby. It doesn't matter, not now. Just focus on getting better."

"I tho- " She didn't get any further when the machines starting going crazy or something. Spike had no idea what was happening but he knew I wasn't good. Everything went hazy and he vaguely heard or remembered being asked to leave and sitting outside. It seemed as if he was in another world, a different dimension, one where nothing was clear.

He finally broke free of the world as a Nurse approached, him and Xander both jumped up whilst the others looked up intently.

Everything seemed so different now.

Buffy gone.

Spike gone.

Dawn gone.

They didn't live that far away but things were still very different.

A few weeks after Buffy had been stabilised and let out of the hospital, her and Spike had got a new apartment together. They all lived their now: Spike, Buffy, Dawn. The big happy family.

They saw each other a lot, Canada was seemingly everyone's new home. Willow and Kennedy were still living at Kennedy's aunts and the others were still crashing there.

Spike being human seemed so weird, everyone had gotten used to him being a vampire and it had certainly set him back a few paces when the whole gang had went on patrol one night and he realized his whole fighting skills had disappeared with his vampire half: guess that's the price for being able to finally walk into sunlight.

They'd never have a normal life, none of the gang and everyone knew that yet it didn't matter. This was as normal a life as any of them could wish for.

Andrew had scattered soon after the battle to god knows where.

Loosing the baby had been a shock to everyone yet it had brought Buffy and Spike real close together and made them more grateful for each other and the time they had. It had made a lot of them feel that way.

Things definitely went weirder as Xander and Dawn almost got together but it hadn't lasted along before they realized that was beyond freaky, they were pretty much family.

Everyone had settled down in Canada of all places but as Giles said at least it was away from the Hellmouth in Cleaveland.

The gang had grew loads even since Sunnydale: Faith, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Dawn, Spike, Kennedy and loads of the other potentials who were now Slayers. Also they'd got a few new Slayers in Canada who'd joined the gang but no matter how many more joined, the real gang would always be Xander, Buffy, Willow and Giles – 'til the end and nothing was coming between that. Ever…

THE END

So we finally got there. Thanks for all the reviews up 'til now, hope everyone enjoyed the story. I was told that um There's a small button at the right hand side at the bottom of the page that you should press and then tell me how you liked the story so yeah just um… do that! Thanks again for reading and reviewing, let me know what you think to the ending….