Chapter 12: The Truth
Buffy walked down the stairs and into the silent lobby. She heard a noise from the kitchen and walked in. Angel was in there leaning on the counters. She could tell it was her Angel because he wasn’t as thin as the other one and the look that he gave her when she came in wasn’t filled with longing, guilt or regret. It was of love and compassion.
“Hey.” She said quietly.
“Hey sleepyhead.” He said and smoothed down a piece of her bed head. She gave him a lazy smile.
“It’s late.” He told her.
“It’s quiet.” She responded.
“Well we all thought that you deserved some rest and we went of to do our own things.” He said and she nodded moving closer to him.
“The Giles’ and Wesley’s went shopping. The Willow’s and Fred’s are discussing magicks. The other me.” He started and then raised his eyebrows and continues. “And Spike are fighting downstairs in the training room along with the Gunn’s and Xander’s.”
“Where’s Dawn?” Buffy asked.
“With Cordelia and Faith.” Angel replied and smiled at her reaction.
“What are they doing?” She asked.
“I have no idea.” Angel said.
“Where’s Andrew?” Buffy asked him.
“With the girls.”
“Okay.” She said and moved even closer to him.
“How are you?” He asked her, concern etching his features.
“A little sore from the arrows.” She said and then realizing what he meant she shrugged lightly. “This could have been us, Angel.” She told him and she felt herself hugging him.
He didn’t say anything and Buffy knew he knew the brutal honesty; it could have been them just under different circumstances. “It’s scary but true. What changed it?”
“Spike.” Angel whispered against her shoulder.
“Oh.” Buffy said and thought.
They didn’t talk about it more but Buffy was brought back to the dream she had. She broke from the hug and took Angel’s face in her hands and looked into his brown eyes.
“I love you.” She said and kissed him.
When the kiss broke off he looked surprised. “Done baking?”
“Uhuh.” She said and continued to kiss him.
She broke off the kiss and he sighed. “I had a dream.”
“Uh oh.” Angel said frowning.
Buffy nodded.
In less then ten minutes the whole group had come together in the lobby of the hotel. Each and every person was eager to hear about Buffy’s dream
Giles took off his glasses and cleaned them in the age-old ritual that he did when he was stressed out. Dawn leaned on her elbow her features etched in concern. Spike’s brow was furrowed, which meant he was thinking. Willow bit on her lip and Xander kept wiping his mouth. This all meant they were nervous.
“Guys everything’s ok, she just had a dream.” Gunn said.
“Right.” Xander* said, shaking his head.
“You obviously have never been around for one of B’s dreams.” Faith* said, shaking her head.
“Are they bad?” Fred asked.
“Well considering the accuracy of her dreams and the thing she sees in them, yes they usually are bad.” The other Giles* told them.
“What happened?” Willow asked looking at her best friend.
Buffy looked around at the room. “I saw me, the one from this world the one with a soul.”
Angel* and Xander both shot up. “What?” They asked.
“It hasn’t been the first time, when the other me had me, she came to me and told me to wake up.” Buffy said raising her eyebrows at the sentence she had just said.
“Why didn’t you tell us?” Wesley* asked.
“Because at the time I had been knocked out from poisonous arrows, I couldn’t remember that well.” She answered, daring him to say more.
“And what happened in the dream.” Giles* asked.
“We talked.” Buffy answered.
“Just talked?” Xander* asked.
“Yes, a lot actually.”
“And what did she say?” Giles asked.
Buffy bit her lip remembering what she was supposed to tell them and what she was not supposed to. “Just that well, she misses you guys a lot.”
“We miss her.” Willow* said.
Buffy smiled. “She knows.” Buffy laughed. “She said she’s watching each and every one of you so you better behave.”
Willow* smiled at Xander* who stared off into space. “Is she okay?” he asked.
“Yeah, she looks good too.” She smiled, as everyone else seemed to smile.
Buffy looked at Angel*. “She also says that she loves you.” She whispered and everyone seemed to sit still.
Angel* grinned and everyone relaxed.
“She said that you should stop blaming yourself.” Buffy said looking at Xander*.
Xander* shook his head and gave a slight grin. “She knows me too well.”
Xander laughed. “What do you expect? She’s Buffy.”
Buffy smiled at Xander. “She also said to tell Willow thank you, for taking care of Dawn.”
Willow* looked up. “You’re welcome.”
Buffy looked toward Faith. “It’s not your fault, you know that right?”
Faith sucked in her breath. “I don’t know.”
“It’s not your fault, or anyone’s here. It happened, it could have happened at any time any place” She closed her eyes. “It could have happened to me.”
Spike shook his head and was about to say something when Buffy held up a hand. She turned to Giles*
“Umm also, do you have a plain black book?”
Giles* took off his glasses and cleaned them and then returned them to the bridge of his nose. “I believe so, is there a title?”
“Um, no. But it probably has something to do with the codex like what if scenarios.” Buffy answered and watched as Giles* got up to go into a back room.
“You mean what if scenarios like what if the slayer got turned?” Willow asked.
Buffy turned around to her look at her friend and nodded. “Exactly.”
Giles* returned with a plain looking black book. He handed it to Buffy. Buffy smiled at him. “Thank you.” She flipped through the book quickly, just to make sure it was what she was looking for, The book seemed to be at a crease and when she flipped it open to that part it she scanned the page. It was exactly what she was looking for. There was a prophecy on this whole making it better predicament. Buffy’s eyes widened as she read the prophecy, more fully instead of quickly scanning it.
“She knew.” She whispered in a daze as she came to the conclusion.
“Who knew what?” Spike asked beside her.
Buffy looked up sharply and saw that everyone had inched closer to her. She smiled at all the staring faces.
“Nothing.” She assured them. She looked at Giles*. “I’m going to go um, up to my room with this. I’ll be right back.” She did a quick scan of all the confused faces staring at her and quickly ran up to her room before anyone could ask.
“Well that was interesting.” Gunn said quietly.
A/N: Yeah, yeah I know. Short chapter, plus the fact that I haven’t updated in forever equals a lot of angry people. But **Raises hands up in an innocent gesture** I have had school and…. other things that have kept me from writing and I am UBER sorry!! I will be writing in full force though this coming summer, because of the no more school. So yay for you and me because you get to read my wonderful stories, lol jk. But please review and tell me what you think!! Thanks so very much for all the reviews and support through the long periods of non-updating.
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