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“What the hell are you doing, Buffy?” Pike shouts at her. “He’s a fucking vampire!”
“Pike, it’s… he’s Angel and…” Buffy’s lost for words. It felt so right to be with Angel, it always did. But it felt strange, unfamiliar. She notices Spike wordlessly turns around and walks back down the hall, “Spike.” She pulls away from Angel and he pulls her back.
“I’ll talk to him.”
“You?” Buffy’s eyes widen, “And what are you going to say, exactly?”
“That you picked me.” Angel blinks at her.
“I didn’t pick anyone!” Buffy’s brought to tears. “I just… I don’t know!”
“Then maybe you should get sure, Buffy.” Pike whispers in a deadly tone. He pushes past them and slams his door in their faces.
“Oh, god. What have I done?”
“I don’t know Buffy… I thought. But you never can make up your mind, can you?”
“Don’t start with me Angel!”
“What, I just sit back and watch you do this to yourself? You care too much about everyone, and it’s killing you! You don’t want to make anyone mad? Well, must be your worst day ever. Right now nobody can stand you.”
“Oh, god.”
“Your so willing to take it back?”
“What?”
“Oh, yeah, perfect. Just pretend it never happened, is that what you want?”
“No, it’s not. But I didn’t want it to happen either.” She spins on her heals and runs as fast as she can.
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Autum and Connor are making out on their bed. “God, your gorgeous.” she whispers.
“You’re so beautiful…” Connor mumbles as they continue. There’s a knock on the door.
“Bloody hell!” Autum swears as she answers the door to Buffy. “Buffy, you alright?”
“Kinda not.” The blonde stands there in the hallway, shivering, “Can we talk?” Autum nods.
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Spike’s making tea in his room. When he goes into the bathroom Connor comes in, “Spike?”
“What can I do for you, Jr?” Spike asks him with a cigarette in his mouth.
“Buffy, I think she’s kind of broken.”
“How’s this my concern? Shouldn’t you be chatting up dear old da?”
“She’s not doing to hot, and Autum kicked me out of the room so they could ‘talk’”
“And she, in return, wanted you to talk to me.”
“Right.”
“What you going to tell me? It was all a mistake? She didn’t mean it? I know she did, he’s the only one she ever really loved. I knew she was just sayin’ it because we were all gonna die. Still, I held on to that little strand of hope.”
“Dad’s pissed at her.”
“Why? What did she do, bite his tongue?”
“She tried to come after you.”
“Sure, likely story.” He goes and puts the hot water in the cup with the teabag, “Why would Autum care about her?”
“They’ve just both gone through the same stuff.” Connor goes to leave, “You don’t deserve her… none of you do.”
“Did you want her for yourself, mate?”
“No, she just deserves better than a vampire or a homeless demon hunter.” He leaves.
Spike dumps the tea and grabs a bottle of beer. “Drowning in my sorrows.” He looks at the TV, which is playing Leave it to Beaver, “Just you and me, Wally.” He watches as Andy comes in and talks to Wally, “Or not.”
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“Spill.” Autum tells her.
“I don’t know who to chose. And if I don’t… I could lose them both.”
“Both? Not all?”
“I don’t know Pike very well… it’s been ten years, give or take.”
“What of he others?”
“They won’t except each other. Spike hates Angel because he’s always had his women first. Angel hates Spike for stealing his women.”
“You really have no idea how Angel treated William when he was a fledgling.”
“No, I don’t.”
“If you did, you’d know that their hatred goes farther than that.” Buffy nods. “If you’d like… I can come up with a test.”
“What kind of test?”
“A battle of wits, of arms, of other things to, pet. Set them off on each other. Whomever wins, your heart belongs to. We can bind it so that you’ll be able to cope with the loss of the other.”
“No, no spell to heal my pain. There won’t be any… first blood… that’s it.”
“It shall be done.”
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Buffy isn’t sure why she’s doing it. They’d both agreed to do it. Autum had given her a golden rose to hand to the winner, ‘a little THE BACHELOR for me’. The room they were supposed to fight in was the Delphosphatee room… the room of the beckoned. There is a table in the room, that and ancient artifacts that they may use in their fight. “Isn’t this a bit… the bachelor?” she finally asks Autum.
Autum shakes her head, “The Bachelor is run by demons… they feed off of love and lust. They stole to rose idea from this spell.”
“Oh.” Buffy sighed… ‘It figures all good TV is possessed now.’ She watches as Spike and Angel both enter the room. Neither one is wearing a shirt, ‘not so bad after all!’. Angel had lost a lot of weight after the showdown in the alley. Suddenly, a river of something flows in between them. Buffy stares at it in wonder.
“I did have it on good authority that you wished for oil of some kind to be involved?” Autum grins at her as she grins back.
“Life just got a whole lot more interesting.”
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Angel and Spike watch themselves face off. Autum had told them that this was a test for Buffy, not them. They were watching it through a monitor on the screen. “Wonder what she’ll do when one of us dies.” Spike states, just putting the idea out there. Autum had programmed the illusion so that Angel’s figure would kill Spike’s. They’d wait and see what her reaction was… and the hated party would leave for good. ‘But there’s a possibility she might kill us both’ Spike realizes, ‘What then?’
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Autum knows what she has to do, if Buffy kills whomever wins, she has to turn back time to see if she accepts the other…FLASH!!!!!!!!!!
Autum looks around at the frozen room. A man in all white comes over to her… “You can’t do it that way.”
“But, my Lord…”
“I am God here, you are not. The lover that ‘dies’ will leave. There is no turning back time. If she kills the other, they both leave. Or you will be at my mercy.”
“Yes, my Lord.” She whispers in fear. He leaves and the world is restored. “I hope she doesn’t kill the winner, because I can’t sit here and watch it.” she whispers in tears.
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