Chapter 18

"Spike." Madison said with a weak smile. Spike walked in and placed the flowers down beside her. He planted a kiss on her lips and sat next to her.

"How you feeling?" he asked already knowing she had gotten worse. He couldn't bear to see her like this but was determined to stick by her, no matter what.

"Thank you for bringing my family." Madison said and held her hands out for Spike, he took them, they were cold and pale.

She was weak and lost her smile that brightened up every room,

what was left in its place was a weak one that felt pain and quivered with every word.

"Anything for you pet." He said and kissed her hands. Tears filled up in his eyes but he immediately kept them back so Madison couldn't see them. He didn't want to scare her.

"I love you." She said, tears in her own eyes.

"I no." Spike said. He did know she loved him, he knew form

the beginning. From the moment he saw her, he knew.

"Spike." She said shaking her hand in his. "There's one more thing, on the list." She pulled out the piece of paper and held it out to him. He took it and read.

"To get married?" he asked reading aloud from the paper.

"Not just that, to get married to you." She gave another

weak smile and Spike couldn't hold back the tears no longer. He let them roll down him face.

Although he was smiling because he was happy, he was crying because he was sad. He knew she would die soon. She would never get to do the normal things girls her age did, the mistakes they made and learned from. To then grow up into a beautiful women; that she already was.

"I'll go get a minister." Spike jumped up and kissed the top of her head slightly.

"I love you." She shouted after him. He didn't hear, Spike was already down the hall to find the minister.

People say that before death your life flashes before your eyes.

Madison saw just that, her as a child, her mother and father,

the rest of her family, and Spike. She loved him so dearly and hated inflicting this pain on him. She wanted to die alone, and then she did. The last thing she felt was a cold sweat.

And then nothing. Total blackness is a way to describe it.

One minute you're there, the next you're dropped off the face of the earth.

Dead.