Title: From the Ashes
Chapter: 2/?
Spoilers: None
Timeframe: After season 7, during what should be season 8 of Buffy
Summary: I hate summaries..and if I give you one it's liable I'll just give away the entire story tongue.gif
Rating: PG-13
"Whoa whoa whoa...are you telling me she's alive? After all these years?" Buffy said in disbelief, trying to take this all in.
"That's exactly what I'm saying....I saw flesh growing on her bones and her climbing to get out of the crater that is now Sunnydale and everything..." Willow looked at Buffy.
"I need to sit." Buffy said, deadpan.
"You are sitting." Xander looked over at Buffy with a grave expression on his face.
"Oh, good for me."
"Are you sure it was her, Will? Positive?" Xander eyed Willow with his one eye.
"Will you stop asking me that already? I'm sure!" Willow yelled, beginning to get angry.
"Okay...okay...just calm down. Don't want you turning into scary vainy Will on us. We believe you...right Buff?"
"Uh-huh..." Buffy replied, staring at the wall.
Xander waved his hand in front of her face "Earth to the Buffster."
"Huh? What? Huh?" Buffy snapped back into reality.
"Guys, we need to go find her..I mean, she's probably lost, alone, and afraid...and I'm not gonna leave her like that...."
Meanwhile, upstairs
Giles layed down on his bed, he was holding Jenny's rose quartz...all these years he had never once left it behind. At night he would sleep with it under his pillow and in the day he would carry it in his pocket..it was the closest thing he had to having Jenny back. Every previous year he would go to her grave every week and put fresh flowers on it and talk to her..this year he couldn't even do that..this year her grave was gone...burried somewhere in the crater that was Sunnydale.
"I just wanna be right with you...I don't expect more."
"You were right with me, Jenny..you were...and I wanted more...I needed more..so much more." He said outloud...as if hoping she was listening from up above.
Perhaps if I had made love to her..or told her how much I loved her...this would hurt less...perhaps. He thought to himself.
Cut to downstairs
Willow, Xander, and Buffy were getting ready to leave.
"Think we should go tell Giles first?" Willow asked
"No, not until we know for sure..." Buffy replied as they walked out of the hyperion and got into Xander's car. Xander started in the direction of Sunnydale as fast as he could get by with without being pulled over.
"What do you think he'll do if he sees her?" Xander asked in a low town.
"I don't know..I'm betting there'll be a lot of bloody hells and good lords from him." Willow replied, looking out the window
Time elapse
Xander stops in front of the hole that is Sunnydale and they all get out of the car...and sure enough there she is...lying on the pavement....dirty and covered in blood....