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SUMMARY: Joyce tells Buffy why she was brought back
AUTHRS NOTE: Ok, when i wrote this chapter, i didn't have my dvd's with me, so i didn't put in the whole scooby conversation in. i didn't think ya'll would want to waste your time reading it again after watching it, but if you want me to add in the convo, just let me know and it can be arranged! Thanks heaps for the reviews...love 'em and keep 'em comming please!
Chapter three: Talking to mummy
Buffy stared at the person in front of her, Joyce, her mother.
She was wearing a long, white dress and there was a soft light all around her.
"where are we?" buffy asked, her voice was low and she sounded scared"we're in Sunnydale honey, the amulet that Spike gave you, sent you back in time to the day that you were resurrected"
"What?" buffy asked, still unsure weather or not it was really her mother.
She had already lived through this once; she couldn't go through all that pain again. Joyce seemed to have read her mind
"This is your chance to change things Buffy. When Spike sent you the amulet, he didn't know this would happen, everything that happened to you and your friends, you can change it. Stop what happened from happening again"
Buffy couldn't believe what she was hearing, she knew it was her mother, and she knew Joyce was telling her the truth
"This time around, I've made sure you don't have to dig out of your grave, I couldn't let you go through that again" Joyce told her.
Buffy looked down at her hands, they were bleeding. She was covered in dirt and was standing on her grave, but she was out.
"Thankyou mum" Buffy told her, incredibly grateful
"Good luck sweetie" Joyce said, and when buffy looked up again, her mother was gone.
Buffy took a deep breath, trying to get her head around everything, then, she heard a scream from somewhere in the distance
"Crap" she said aloud.
The demons that had attacked Sunnydale the night she was brought back were there, and that meant…"my friends".
Buffy gathered up all of her strength and ran to the place she knew her friends would be.
She got there and things were happening just like they had the first time, she had fought the demons and they had left town and she had saved her friends.
what happens next? she thought to herself Dawn. She began to run again. She knew where she had to go to find Dawn, she just wouldn't climb the tower again, wait at the bottom sure, that's simple enough, just have to remember everything that happened that night…this night…ugh, whatever
"Buffy?" she turned around and saw Dawn standing in front of her
"Dawn" she said, it was more of a statement than a question. They fell to their knee's hugging each other
"Buffy, it's really you" Dawn asked. Buffy didn't answer; she just continued to hug her sister.
They stayed there a while longer before heading home.
When the walked in the front door of 1630 Revello drive, Buffy looked around her house, looked at all of the things she thought she'd never see again: the photos, the furniture…everything. She walked around the house with Dawn following closely behind. They both walked into the bathroom. Buffy let Dawn clean her up, but she didn't say anything. She was waiting for something she knew would happen in a few minutes. It was a short amount of time, but it seemed like forever.
"Dawn" Buffy heard Spike call from the bottom of the steps. Dawn walked down and buffy waited a few minutes before following
"You, I could kill you" He yelled
it's really him she thought
"Spike" Dawn said
"No, I'm serious" spike cut her off "I could rip your head off one handed and drink from your brain stem"
"Spike, look"
Yeah, I've seen the bloody bot before, didn't think she'd patch up so…" he stopped.
He looked up at Buffy and realized it was really her. He just stood there, staring at her. Buffy walked down the rest of the steps and stood in front of Spike, they looked into each others eyes, not believing they had each other back. He continued looking into her eyes, and then he smelt blood
"Her hands" he said, speaking to Dawn but not taking his eyes off Buffy
"Yeah, I was gonna fix em up, I don't know how they got like that" she said
"I do, you had to dig out of your grave, didn't you"
"Yeah, that's what I had to do" she told him, looking down, it didn't hurt her to think of it anymore, but that didn't mean she wanted to.
Spike looked at Dawn "grab some supplies, mercurochrome, bandages"
Dawn walked into the kitchen and Spike took Buffy into the lounge room. He sat her down on the couch and he sat on the table directly in front of her. He took her hands into his, being as careful and as gentle as she remembered him being
"How long was I gone?"
"Hundred and forty seven days yesterday, hundred and forty eight today, 'cept today doesn't count does it?"
Buffy was going to put her hand up to his face and cup his cheek when…
"Is she here?" it was Willow's voice; she and the rest of the gang had just burst through the door. Spike put Buffy's hands down and walked out the door, she resisted the urge to go after him, deciding she would sneak out later.
Just as she remembered it, the gang started firing questions at her left, right and centre
"Guys, back off" dawn said
"She, she's right, we should just let Buffy tell us what she needs" Willow said, everyone went quiet, waiting for Buffy's reply
"I think I'm just going to go to bed, I'm kind of tired" Buffy told them, standing up
"sure, I mean, jet lag from hell's got to be, you know, jet lag from hell" Anya added
Buffy headed toward the staircase
"Buffy, be glad, we got you out" willow said.
Buffy didn't answer, she knew this time she would have to tell them the truth, but not now. She gave them the same, weak smile she had the first time, and headed up to bed.
"See, she's gonna be fine, she used to go to bed all the time" willow said, trying to convince the gang as well as herself.
Buffy layed in bed for a few hours, waiting for everyone to go to sleep. When she was sure everyone was in bed, she got out and got dressed. She was extremely nervous, she knew the first time she had visited him, she hadn't been this nervous
that's because the first time you didn't love him, and he was the one to get me back, now its me getting him back.
She quickly scribbled a note to Dawn and put it on the fridge, she didn't say where she was going, just that she'd be back later.
ok, here I go she thought to herself, before grabbing her jacket and heading towards Spikes crypt.
A/N: if you all like this chapter please let me know and i will post the next one one tomorow!