Who Came Back Prompt: Who

[kuda]

Title: Who Came Back
 

Prompt: Who
Setting: AU world of Season Six
Rating: NC-13
Characters: Spike, Willow, Dawn, Buffy
Disclaimer: Not Joss, just me, no money, just love

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The thing wearing Buffy’s body sneered at him as he got close.

Willow brought back the body, but the inside system was wrong.

At first, she sounded and acted like their Buffy.

Then the rages began.  They made excuses for it.

She’d been in a hell dimension so it was expected.

Then she had snapped Dawn’s neck. 

Spike didn’t know who was behind the face of the woman he loved.

It wasn’t Buffy anymore.  Didn’t matter who it was now.

Somehow his third kill of a slayer didn’t bring him any pleasure.

He cradled her cooling body as he sobbed. 

Comments

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

I'll have to disagree about Spike hating her for not forgiving enough. She is terrified to of her feelings for him. Even when he is soulless, he doesn't really hate her. He understands her like no one else does. From the first scene of them in the Bronze, he is attracted to her. He admires her spirit. In Halloween episode, Spike has one of his minions film Buffy fighting. He praises her style. He tries to kill her time and again, but never really follows through. Buffy could have staked him as well, but never does. In Beneath You, Spike tries to help Buffy. He admits that he can't say he's sorry (for Seeing Red) because there is no forgiveness for his actions. The rest of Season Seven, Spike supports Buffy when others turn their back on her. So I can't see how he hated her. She drove him crazy at times, but he never let anything harm her if he could prevent it. He watched her kissing Angel in End Of Days, but doesn't hold it against her. In Chosen, he says he saw her with Angel. He still tells her to give him the amulet so he can wear it. I think he knows it will destroy the person wearing it. He wears it willingly and accepts his fate. If he hated her in anyway he wouldn't have supported her through out the last few seasons.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

That isn't what I was saying, I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. I didn't mean Spike himself; I meant a lot of people in fandom hate Buffy.

As for the rest, I'll say agree with some of what you said, disagree with some other things regarding the early seasons, and respectfully leave it at that.

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

Well, I do love Spike so sometimes Buffy does bother me. I don't hate her. I do get angry with her at times. I know not everyone likes Spike or sees him the way I do. I've spoken to James about the early season so that may color what I saw in the early seasons.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Agree to disagree. I find discussion on such matters tends to lead nowhere, so I'll keep my mouth shut in future. Abortion is a safer topic in comparison.