Next Morning : 8.00

Buffy sits up. She is lying on a blanket and has a blanket wrapped around her. She stands up and she stumbles towards the front door of what looks like a dusty old boiler room. As she opens the door. There he is. Her Prince. The guy she has been mourning over for a year. Thinking he was dead.

Buffy: Spike?
Spike: Buffy...hi, how are you feeling?
Buffy: Spike?
Spike: Buffy! Bloody Hell I knew this would happen.
Buffy: No No No!

She kicks him out of the way

Buffy: This cant be happening, every where I go hes there! Oh my God! (She holds her head as she walks home)

Summers House : 12.00

Buffy is upstairs lying on her bed crying. She hears the front door bang and she can hear Willow, Xander, Kennedy and Andrew downstairs talking.

Willow: Where do you think she could of gone?
Xander: I knew she wasnt to be left alone we should have brought her home earlier.
Willow: Well we cant go back in time can we...well there might be a spell that--
Kennedy: Sweetie, now's really not the time for your spell tutorial
Willow: Right ok um...
Andrew: Does anyone mind if I eat this? (He holds up a hurricane chocolate bar)
Xander: No thats mine--

Willow and Kennedy give him a glare

Xander: Fine go ahead.

They all hear a noise come from upstairs.

Willow: Buffy?
Xander: Buff?

They all run upstairs. Xander checks the bathroom while Kennedy checks the other bathroom on the top floor and Willow checks Buffy's bedroom which is also on the top floor. She walks in to find Buffy curled up on her bed crying.

Willow: Buffy, are you OK? Why did you take off last night without saying anything?
Buffy: I...I ...--
Willow: Its ok. We were worried about you. Not that we dont think that you could take care of yourself but just worried.

Xander bursts in to find Willow hugging Buffy while Buffy still cries her eyes out.

Xander: Hey Buff, you OK?
Willow: (mouths to Xander) Gimmie a sec!

Xander in understanding what his red headed friend had said nodded and walked out closing the door behind him.

Willow: Buffy, do you want to tell me whats wrong?
Buffy: I just keep seeing him!
Willow: Who?
Buffy: Spike! Hes everywhere, first it was just in my head but now im seeing proper images of im i just...
Willow: Thats totally normal. I kept seeing Tara.
Buffy: Yeah but it felt so real, like he was actually there.
Willow: You will get over him and you need to help yourself do that ok? and we will help you as much as we possibly can! ( she gives a soft smile in Buffys direction)

Buffy looks up and smiles

Buffy: Thanks Will.
Willow: Hey do you wanna come down and offer loads of fruit to Andrew?

Buffy laughs along with Willow. They both get up and go downstairs.

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Next morning : 8.00

Buffy's up early having not slept all night because of her little encounter earlier that day. She makes her way back to the boiler room where she escaped the day before. She wanted to see for herself. If it was true. She walked in through the door she had exited and she saw the blankets that she had woke up in and she saw all junk piled up, it was a very small room. She looked around, searching through all the stuff to see if she recognised anything. Then she picked up an empty bag of blood and put her hand over her mouth.
Then all of a sudden the door swung open. In came Spike in his Black trench coat a black shirt and black pants, he had a cigerette hanging out of his mouth.

As he noticed Buffy standing there, he stood there in awe. He never thought that she would come back. A million thoughts raced through his head at that point.

Spike: Buffy...you...you came back!
Buffy: I had to see if it was true ( you could see she was about to cry any minute)
Spike: If I was true?
Buffy: You left me, this cant be real...can it?
Spike: Buffy its me look.

He grabbed her hand and placed it very gentley on his chest.

Spike: See its me! (he smiled ot her)

She pulled away in a shock

Buffy: NO NO NO! somethings not right. You died, i watched you burn, this is...i mean how did you--
Spike: Angel
Buffy: what?
Spike: Angel, that necklace thingy you gave him, well when i burned I got sucked into there. At first I was in hell and then all of a sudden I was standing there in L.A, well actually for a second I thought i'd been transferred to another hell or something anyway then who do I see standing there? None other than Captain Forehead himself.
Buffy: Angel brought you back?
Spike: No the bleeding Powers that be bloody did it. They had no right coming around and messing with people!
Buffy: So how long have you been ...like this...you know...alive?
Spike: Uhhh...about a year!
Buffy: A YEAR!
Spike: Bu--
Buffy: A YEAR, You've been alive for more than a year and you didnt say anything, you didnt care about me enough to say anything?
Spike: Its coz I cared so much about you that I didnt say anything. When I came out of that necklace thingy, Angel said that you were OK, and I didnt know what to say to you. You know and I did try to leave that Wolfram and Hart place but it kept bringing me back to that hell hole. You know seeing that forehead every day kinda gets annoying.
Buffy: So uve been staying with Angel for bout a year now?
Spike: Well only while I was a ghost, i mean like id stay there---
Buffy: Hold on...You were a ghost?
Spike: Long story...you know I think its that Wolfram and Hart place i mean even Angel changed!
Buffy: So your sayin...Angel changed?
Spike: yep into a puppet ( he tries to hold in his smile)
Buffy: Ok gimme a minute while I wake up and realise this is a dream.
Spike: You know I knew you were OK the whole time?
Buffy: How?
Spike: Andrew told me!
Buffy: Andrew? how did you see Andrew?
Spike: When me and Angel came to rescue you from the Immortal. We thought he had you under a sp--
Buffy: You were spying on me?
Spike: NO...well Angel was, he had a guy looking out for you incase you were in trouble.
Buffy: I dont beleive this!
Spike: I know hes so--
Buffy: Im on about both of you, you are both idiots while im sitting here for a whole year mourning over you, your playing best buds and spying on me, so what was that the deal you can see me but I cant see you?
Spike: You were mourning over me?...I mean 'no' I just didnt know how to tell you. Its hard Buffy, I mean yous so special and its hard talking to you sometimes.
Buffy: So you decide to do it now while im at breaking point?
Spike: Look Buffy can't we just forget this im here your here, ive missed you, youve missed me, you know theres better things we could be doing.

Buffy looked at him with tears running down her face. She walked over to him and she placed her hand back on his chest and flashes came into her mind about all the times he had said that he loved her and she never once returned the favour and the only time she said it he never believed her. But she truly did she always had done but she just never wanted to admit it to herself. She looked into his eyes and he stared right back into hers. He pulled her closer and wrapped her hands around his waist he did the same and then they cuddled for what seemed like an eternity.

Buffy: I missed you!
Spike: I missed you too, and Buffy?
Buffy: What?
Spike: Dont ever forget...I love you.

She cuddled into him more. One tear fell down and fell onto her top. she closed her eyes.

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