Chapter 17

Everyone was in the lobby talking after Buffy killed the demon. "Man, I wish I could have seen that, B." Faith told her when she was finished.

"Well, better you than me. It felt good though, haven't had a good kill in a long time." They all stared at her like she grew a second head. "Not that that's a good thing, because give me the quiet life and I'm there." Buffy said and no one really believed her. "I guess we should probably head back to Cleveland, some of us have school and jobs to get back to." The others agreed.

"Well, Robin and I are gonna head to England. We told Giles we would help out for a bit." Buffy nodded and hugged both of them.

"I'll miss you guys, the apartment will be too quiet without you." She told them.

"Well, we will be coming back. You can't get rid of us for too long." Robin told her. Buffy smiled and headed to the Angel Investigations gang and hugged all of them.

"Thanks for letting us stay here and just for everything." Buffy told them.

"You're welcome, Buffy. Be careful in the land of the dull, okay?" Angel told her and she smiled.

"That shouldn't be a problem." She replied.

"You take care, sweetie. You make things interesting around here so things won't be the same without you." Lorne told her.

"Yeah, we could use more hot chicks around here." Gunn said as he gave Buffy a wink.

"Well, I will definitely visit more often. I'm just sorry it took me so long to get here." They all nodded, not sure what to say when Buffy saw Spike come downstairs with Emily. She walked over to him and she took Emily from him.

"She just woke up; I think she managed to have a dreamless sleep this time." Spike told her.

"Well, now that the demon problem is taken care of we're gonna head back to Cleveland." Spike nodded and looked down, trying not to show her how upset he was. "So, you wanna come with?" Spike looked up at her.

"You mean it? You would want me to go with you?" Buffy nodded.

"Yeah, I do. We have four years to make up and I want things to work with us. I wanna make things better. That is if you wanna come." Spike nodded.

"Yeah, of course." Buffy smiled at him.

"I'm sure Emily would like that, right honey? You want Spike to live with us for a while?" The little girl nodded in excitement.

"Yeah, I like Spike!" Buffy laughed and Spike smiled.

"I guess that's a yes." She told him.

"Well, guess I better go pack." She nodded and he went upstairs. While he was packing, everyone else was saying their goodbyes.

"Bye bye, precious. You be good, okay?" Fred said to Emily and Buffy smiled at the girl.

"Don't worry, she will." Buffy said as she hugged Fred. Spike came back downstairs and went toward Angel.

"Well, I guess this should make you happy." Spike told him.

"I don't know about that, I was used to having you annoy me. You take care of her and the little one, they need you." Spike nodded.

"Thank you, Angel. I mean that, thanks for putting up with me. I know I can be a pain to live with, but you didn't throw me out even though I'm sure you wanted to. You know, you keep this up I may have to consider you a friend." Angel smiled.

"We can't have that now." He told him as Spike smiled in return. Angel then hugged him and patted him on the back which surprised them both. Spike then walked to Buffy and Emily and after taking one more look at the hotel, they all walked out. Angel stared after them as they left the hotel as a family with only one thought on his mind, normal is highly overrated. Who needs it?

The End

Well, that is where I must come to an end. I really liked how this fiction came out and it's the longest one that I've done so far. Not bad when I started out with hardly any ideas. Well, I'm glad everyone liked it. I really don't know how Spike is gonna end up on Angel, but I always thought it would be as a human because who needs two vampires with souls working together. Too bad I was wrong about that, but oh well. Let's just hope Spike doesn't take up brooding as a hobby because Angel does that just fine. Well, whatever happens I can't wait to see it. Even though it can never take the place of Buffy, like anything could do that. Well my pretties, this is where I must say, here endeth the lesson=)