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I held Buffy’s tiny hands in my own. Her hands were warm, warmer than ever. They almost hurt they were so warm.
“Spike.”
“Buffy?”
“I have to do this. I have to save the world.”
“Right. I know.”
“But I don’t really think you do. I *have* to do this. There is no choice. It is destiny for a Slayer to one day die on duty. And now *is* my time.”
“Buffy, no. You can’t leave me! Not now! Not ever. It’s not your time. It’s not! You aren’t...”
“Spike, shh. I have to, okay? I have to save the world.”
“No. Let the world end. Then I can still be with you!”
“No, Spike. I have to save the world so you can be here without me. So you can defend Dawn. So you can keep my friends in line. Don’t let ‘em do anything stupid like try to bring me back, alright?”
“But Buffy...”
“Shh.”
Buffy slipped her hands out of mine. I was too petrified, too shocked, too scared, too hurt, to do anything. Buffy put her warm hands on my face and looked into my eyes with all her joy, all her life, echoing in them. I felt her warm little body pressed agaisnt mine and the world stopped. Everything around us stopped moving, and her hands, they somehow got warmer. I wasn’t even sure my bloody legs were even on the ground. She pressed her warm, soft lips against mine and I swear, my heart gave a little beat. I know she must have felt it. She let go, her eyes welling with tears.
“Buffy, this is stupid. You can not expect me to be alright with this!”
“I can and I do. Spike, I have to. It’s my duty to defend mankind and that means one day that I die. Spike, I have to. There is no easy way out. There is no second path.”
“There is! There has to be! What God would give you all this and wrench it away?”
“One that has better things to offer.”
“But Buffy...”
“No. It’s time.”
Buffy let go of me and ran out to the edge, taking a vault into the engergy. My heart felt like it was being ripped in two. My knees fell out from beaneath me and the world came crashing down with them. I heard my own voice, screaming, but I couldn’t tell it was me. I felt athe cold tears fall down my cheeks, but I couldn’t tell they were mine. I felt another figure wrap it’s arms around me, but I couldn’t tell who it was. I felt theose tears meld with my own on my clothes, but I couldn’t tell which were falling where.
“Spike...”
“Dawn. How could she?”
“She had to save the world,” Dawn sobbed.
“Now? She had to save the world now?”
“Yeah.”
“Couldn’t I have saved her?”
“She was saving us.”
The nigth faded into dawn. But I remembered, like it was happening now. Buffy’s fateful jump. I remember like she was here, the moment I saw her, the momment time stopped. Now, time wasn’t stopped. I was. And Buffy was gone.
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