Title: A new beginning.

Author: Saskia Mae

Rating: R, maybe not yet, but just to be sure, and may get worse later.

Spoilers: Set in the future. Post season 4.

Summary: Buffy has returned to Sunnydale, how does everyone react?

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Dedication: For Ice dragon, thanks for going over this for me. doing everyone a huge favor. Love ya for it.

I move the hair from her face and pull it up to kiss her. She seems so scared of me. Scared that this isn't real. I can feel it in the way she moves. I feel the same way I guess, like this is all just some dream and I will roll over and find out that I'm sill in the little cave I found myself. The one that I was living in alone not all that long ago.

I had given up on people and ran further away when I almost drowned again. I hadn't seen people for months, and then I had a dream. I don't know if it was a prophecy kind of dream, I don't know if I still get them. But I needed to come back and see what was happening for myself.

The kiss deepened and her hands pulled me up and towards the bed. I stopped as panic spread through my body. Damn all these conditioning's.

She must have seen the look on my face, but how she knew what it meant, I don't know. Maybe she had felt like this in her past, I mean, what did happen to her when she was growing up, she never did get around to telling me.

"Just come and rest with me" she says reassuringly "You look like you need rest. And yes, I mean that. You look like shit B."

I smile at her. She never was one to hide what she wanted to say behind something pretty, just the truth from her. She won't hurt me, she won't push me, and she will just help me get through things. Help me like I helped her a long time ago. We will get things right again.

"Thanks Faith, for understanding, and for not asking" I say as she wraps her arms around me. I snuggle closer, her warmth on my back is reassuring. It makes me feel safe. Before I can think anything more I fall asleep.