Ok guys, here is the next chapter in my story. You guys should be giving a big thank you to Lord Halcyon. He gave me the idea to write this chapter, and helped me get past some of my writers block. Anyway, on with the story.

The sun rose in a slow golden hue, spreading light across the grounds and the Victorian style mansion. The birds flew through the air on their morning hunt for food. It was looking to be another beautiful day in Albion.

But one person wasn't looking forward to the day. They didn't care about the flowers blooming, the sweet smell of honeysuckle, or the cool breezes on the warm day. This person was in their room with the curtains drawn.

They hadn't left their room in two weeks, let alone enjoy the warm days. The only sounds coming from the room were soft sobs of a broken heart.

Elise was sitting in her bed, just staring at her feet. Her hair was in a disheveled mess with knots and tangles all over it. Her eyes were puffy and red from the constant crying. Her face was turning pale from the lack of sun.

She was still wearing the same clothes she had on two weeks ago.

There was a small knock on her door but she didn't even seem to notice. Elise just kept staring at her feet without moving.

"Elise, honey?" The door opened and a woman with long chocolate brown hair stuck here head inside. The woman waited a moment then slowly walked into the room. She looked a lot like Elise but older.

The woman was in her late forties had here hair down to here hip. She looked like an older version of Elise except for her hair color. She walked with an air of confidence but let off radiant warmth.

Her eyes held love and kindness in them. Her face was smooth and had no traces of a wrinkle on them. She might have been in her forties but she looked no older than her late twenties.

She sat down on Elise's bed and pulled her into a comforting embrace. Elise let out more sobs and a fresh set of tears. Her mom just rubbed her back and hummed lightly. Elise kept crying as she clutched her mother's clothes.

The two of them sat there for a few minutes as Elise cried onto her moms shoulder. Her mom just sat there and held her daughter close to her. She rubbed her back slowly and hummed a soft tune.

Finally Elise's crying slowed down and she was able to catch her breathe. She slowly pulled away from her mother and wiped her eyes. Elise's mom put her hand on Elise's cheek and gently rubbed it with her thumb.

"I know sweetie, I know. It hurts so much now that he's gone; it feels like you'll never get through it. But you have to remember who Spike was, he wouldn't want you to sit here and sulk.

"Spike always saw the best in people; he never wanted anyone to feel sad. I remember when you guys were just children. The two of you would try to help anyone you could however you could.

You need to eat something and get out of this room." She took Elise's hands in her own and gave her a pleading look. Elise's throat was dry and sore, making it harder to talk.

"B-but mom, I don't know if I can. It hurts, it just hurts too much." Her eyes stung and she felt a fresh wave of tears come forth. Elise's mom put her hand on Elise's cheek again and made Elise look at her.

"I know it does honey, but I kneed you to try. I need you to try, if not for me then for Spike." Elise just looked at her for a minute and finally shook her head yes. Her mom gave her a smile and stood up.

"Why don't you take a nice long bath, it might make you feel a little better. I'll have your sister bring up some food for you to eat, then try to find something to do outside." Her mom turned and walked out of the room closing the door softly.

Elise had finished her bath and had just finished putting on a fresh, clean outfit. She sat down at her vanity and looked in the mirror. Her face was clean but she still looked pale and thin. She just picked up a hairbrush and began to slowly brush her hair. When her door suddenly banged open and her sister stepped inside with a tray.

"I see you finally decided not to sit there and mope, talk about a pointless spectacle little sister." She walked over to Elise's bed and set the tray down. Elise gave her sister a glare through the mirror and continued to brush her hair.

Her sister had short brown hair that was curled all over. She was a few inches taller then Elise, and she had dark blue eyes. She wore a green dress made in the same style as Elise.

"What do you want Eleanor? I expect it's more then to bring me some food considering the facts your still here." Eleanor gave Elise a snide smirk.

"Why, I came to check on my pathetic little sister." She walked up to Elise and hunched down behind her. She looked at Elise's reflection and put her hands on Elise's shoulders.

"I have to say I'm impressed none the less. You get engaged to a wealthy man and get him killed all before you even get married. If you were going for his money honey, you needed to get married first."

Elise whipped around but her sister jumped backwards and out of striking distance. She smiled at Elise who was fuming and glaring at her.

"Well I don't mid that he died, he always seemed useless to me. All this helping people business, he didn't understand the way of the world. Only the ones with power matter, not the simple commoner trash."

She put her hands up in a confused gesture and shook her head as she continued.

"If it were me, I'd have gone after Logan the king or even Reaver. Now there are fine men." What happened next happened in a flash. Eleanor blinked and found herself on the floor.

Elise had jumped at her and started to slap her sister. Eleanor was hit three times before she put her hands up to shield her face. Elise just kept hitting her sister's hands not caring if she drew blood or not.

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"Don't you ever say that again! I hate Logan! That bastard killed his brother!" She started to cry again as she hit her sister. Her blows getting weaker by the hit.

"He killed his brother." She finally stopped hitting her sister and slumped to the side. Eleanor blinked a couple of times and looked at her sister in shock. They sat there for second before Eleanor shot up and ran from the room.

Elise sat there and cried for a few minutes, completely forgetting the food on the tray.

Elise had found herself walking absentmindedly through the market place a few hours after her fight with her sister. Her mother came in to check on her a few minutes after Eleanor left, to find her crying again.

She held Elise in a hug again and asked her to explain what happened. Elise had a hard time telling her mother what Eleanor said between sobs, but her mother sat there patiently waiting for her to catch her breathe.

Her mother had cheered her up by saying that they would go on a trip when Elise was feeling better. Elise gave her a small smile and began to eat her food.

She was walking around the market when she heard something that made her stop in her tracks. She heard laughter from two little kids coming from behind her. She turned to see a little boy and girl running around in front of the clock tower.

The boy and girl were playing tag and just having fun. The girl suddenly tripped and fell to the ground. She sat up slowly and looked at the ground. She began to sniffle as tears formed in her eyes, when the boy ran over to her.

"It's ok Katie, don't cry" He held out his hand to her and the girl looked at him for a moment. She slowly took his hand and pulled herself up. The boy gave her a hug and the girl sniffled again.

The boy pulled away and gave the girl a smile, the girl gave him a smile and they began to run around again.

"We were the same way when we were kids weren't we Spike?" She said to herself and smiled at the memory. She walked around for a few more hours until she started to feel hungry.

She stopped at a bread stall and bought two loafs of bread. She walked to the bridge and leaned against the railing, nibbling at one of the loafs. She sat there for a minute when she heard a commotion coming from the stall she just left.

The two children from earlier were at the stall with the stall woman yelling at them.

"I don't care if you're hungry! You need coin to buy my bread! What do you think I make this bread for free! That I have nothing better to do than to give it away!" The kids were standing there with tears in their eyes and cringed ever time she yelled at them.

Elise walked over to the stall and interrupted the woman's ranting.

"That's enough of that! I think they get the point without you screaming at them." The woman glared at Elise before she shot back.

"And who are you, talking to me like that?! These brats 'ave been begging for food from me for the last week!" Elsie glared at her and balled up her fists.

"That doesn't give you the right to yell at the less fortunate. A little kindness never killed anyone." Elise turned around and knelt down in front of the two children.

"Here" she took her second oaf and ripped it in half. She gave each of them one of the halves and pat them on ht head. The kids gave her twin smiles before running off with their bread.

Elise gave the woman a glare and walked off toward Bowerstone Industrial.

Elise sat down on her bed and pulled off her shoes. Her day had been less eventful after she gave the two children her bread. She had come home to find her sister was furious with her.

Not only had Elise gotten away with hitting her, she was in trouble for provoking Elise into doing it. She refused to even look at Elise let alone talk with her. Their mother ignored the hostility and ate dinner with them in silence.

After dinner she told Elise she wanted her to go out tomorrow and finds something to do. It didn't matter as long as it meant she got some sunlight and fresh air. Elise nodded and bayed her mother good night.

Elise took her hair out of its bun and let it fall onto her back. She took her night clothes and quickly changed in her bathroom. She had just tucked herself into her bed when a thought hit her.

'Maybe I should try to find a way to help all the less fortunate of Albion. Spike would do the same thing if he were here in my place.' She rolled over and felt herself drift off into dream land.

Her dream was a familiar one; she was sitting in the castle garden surrounded by flowers. She could never see father than the flowerbed either, a white fog was always there, blocking her from the rest of the world. So she would sit there with the flowers, and think about Spike. He would never come but she would sometimes hear distant barking around her.

She had tried to find the source of the barking numerous times but never could. Every time she tried to walk through the fog, it just seemed as if the flowerbed stretched on forever.

She tried calling out to the barking, hoping it was Drake so she could have at least some form of company. If she strained her ears she could sometimes hear people whispering. Some sounded familiar while others she knew she had never heard in her life.

Tonight she just sat in the flowerbed and looked at all of the flowers. She would name the types of flowers as she went, running her hands over each one in turn. Lavender, Juniper, Lilies, Daisies, even Orchids. She use to love sitting in the royal garden with Spike and just bask in their soothing aromas.

She had just finished smelling a bird of paradise when her dream suddenly changed. Everything shimmered out if focus slightly then back in. She looked around and suddenly heard footsteps behind her.

She felt her heart hammer in her chest as she sat there fearful of who it was. She heard the figure knelt down behind her and felt a pair of familiar arms wrap around her. She quickly spun around and found herself face to face with Spike.

He gave her his charming smile and she felt tears well up in her eyes. Spike gently cupped her cheeks and wiped away her tears as they fell.

"I've missed you so much" she said as she looked into his eyes. Spike just gave a small chuckle and pressed his forehead to hers.

"Not nearly as much as I missed you Elise." She let out a laugh and Spike pressed his lips against hers. It felt so real to her; she could almost feel the warms from his body, the tingle of his lips on hers.

They kept giving each other light kisses as they slowly laid down in the flowers. They continued with feather light kisses as Spike rolled Elise on top of his body. Elise straddled his waist as she kissed him.

Spike ran his hands up and down Elise's back and he looked into her eyes. He could get lost in those bright blue eyes of hers. They sparkled with life and love, and reminded him of the endless blue sky.

She stared into his dark brown eyes and let out a content sigh. His eyes reminded her of the earth, hard and unyielding but at the same time soft and embracing. She never felt scared or nervous as long as she could look into his eyes.

She kissed him again and slowly ran her hands up and down his chest. Spike wrapped his arms around her and softly rubbed his thumbs over her back. Elise felt a warmth rise from her waist and she kissed him harder.

Spike kissed her back with equal passion and he slowly slipped his tongue into her mouth. Elise moaned into his mouth and slid her hands into his shirt.

"Elise" Spike moaned as he felt her hands run over his bare chest. Elise craved more; she couldn't take this minimal amount of skin on skin contact. She ripped open Spike's shirt and ran both hands over his chest.

Spike's hands glided down Elise's back and found the end of her nightgown. He slides his hands under her gown and slowly slid them up her bare back. Elise broke their kissing session and began to plant kisses down Spike's face.

Spike let out a moan as Elise kissed a path down his throat and across his chest. She stopped when she got to the place where she saw Logan's shot enter his body. She thought the mood was killed when she expected to see a bloody bullet hole there.

She was surprised when she didn't see one, but saw a circular scar with thin threads spreading out a few inches in every direction. She looked up at him with confusion but spike quickly pulled her up to face him again.

"Don't worry about it. For now, just stay here with me." She nodded and kissed him again. Spike rolled them over so that Elise was lying on the flowerbed. Spike hooked his fingers under the bottom of her gowns shirt and slowly pulled it up.

The silken fabric glided over her skin as she raised her arms to free the shirt from her body. She let her arms rest on the flowers above her head, as she looked at Spike. Spike took in her body and gave her a look of pure adoration.

"You're so beautiful Elise." He slowly leaned down to kiss her again. Just as their lips were about to meet, Elise woke with a start. She bolted upright and looked around for the reason why she suddenly woke up.

There was nothing, no one was in here room and there weren't any sounds coming from anywhere in the house. She let out a quiet sob and flopped back down on her bed.

'Why? Why did I have to wake up? My dream was so real, I could almost feel him there with me. Why can't I have just a moment's peace? Haven't I suffered enough already?'

She covered her eyes with her hands and began to softly cry herself back to sleep. Little did Elise know that another person had woken with a start the same exact time that she did. She didn't know it but he was also cursing himself for waking from his momentary reprise.

Ok, i know what you guys are thinking. So friggin close, but i had to end it there. I'm kicking myself for ending it there but it is relevent to the story. You'll find out why and how in a chapter or two, but not right now. I want to see if you guys can figure out why and how it happened.

Think of is as feedback to the writer. It's interesting the things people can come up with given the chance. You guys might get it in the first shot, you might go off in a completley different direction. Either way its cool to see how you guys think and reason.

Well thats it for now, i have to nurse my paintball wound to my jugular with some more ice. As always read, review if you want, and enjoy.