It took Spike a few minutes, but he was finally able to speak again. "Emmy?" He asked in a small voice. "Emmy? Is that really you?"
Emmy slowly walked up to Spike, and placed her hand on his cheek. "It is really me Big Brother."
"How?" he whispered looking down at her with so much awe in his eyes.
"I told you, Big Brother William. I told you that I would see you again. I told you that I would help you. Lucky for you the powers that be agreed with me." Emmy said, her smile growing into a grin.
"My god," Spike said before he hugged her tight, fell to his knees bringing Emmy with him and crying. "I missed you so much." He cried in her shoulder.
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It was a few hours after Spike first met his sister for the second time him and Emmy sat in the living room talking with Buffy, Dawn and Giles. After taking Dawn home and Xander took Anya and went home.
"What’s it like?" Dawn asked, "You know, in heaven."
"Dawn," Buffy warned.
"Sorry," Dawn said looking at her sister. "You just have to wonder, you know? I was just wondering."
Emmy looked at the young girl sitting across from her on the floor in front of the coffee table. "It’s alright," she said, "It was okay. But I knew why I was there. I was there because I had to come here. I’m needed here right now. That’s why I was taken."
"That must have been hard," Buffy said looking down.
Emmy looked over at Buffy knowing that she meant it was hard coming back down to Earth, but didn’t question her. In stead she said, "Somebody had to do this. If it weren’t me it would be someone else. I would rather it be me."
Silence filled the room for a few minutes as everyone sat and thought. Giles broke the silence by asking, "Emmy, would you like some tea?"
Emmy replied happily, "I would love some. It’s been a while since I have had tea. Thank you Mr. Giles."
Giles got up, "Anyone else?"
Seeing the shakes from everyone else in the room, Giles left to make himself and Emmy some tea.
"Buffy?" Willow said quietly walking into the room. "Kennedy isn’t feeling to well, so we’re going to go to bed okay?"
"Okay. We’ll see you in the morning."
"Would you like me to tie Kennedy to the bed?" Willow asked causing Spike to raise his eyebrow at Buffy, who just rolled her eyes in return.
"That wont be necessary, Willow. She’ll be fine." Emmy answered for Buffy.
Willow looked at Buffy for conformation and Buffy nodded at her.
"Okay then. Good night." Willow said, turning and going back upstairs.
"It is getting late," Buffy said standing up, "We should all get ready for bed, right Dawn?"
"Right," Dawn said getting off the floor. "Good night everyone," she said as she left the room.
"Good night, Dawn," came the replies from the living room.
"Good night, Giles," Dawn said, seeing Giles walking back into the living room.
"Oh, uh, good night, Dawn." Giles walked into the living room and gave Emmy her tea. Emmy nodded her thank you to him.
"I think I’m going to head off to bed too." Buffy said, then a thought came to her, "Oh, Emmy, we need to find you a place to sleep."
"Don’t worry about it Buffy," Spike said, "I think we can figure something out between the three of us."
"Are you sure?" Buffy asked the other two in the room.
"Of course, Buffy. We’ll be fine." Giles said.
"Yes, us British people can handle ourselves just like the rest of you," Emmy joked, causing Buffy to smile.
"Okay, good night guys."
"Good night," Giles, Spike and Emmy all said in unison.
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Buffy woke up with a start. There was something wrong, she could feel it. She got up and got dressed quickly. Buffy first went in to check on Dawn. "It’s only 7 in the morning on a Saturday, so Dawn should still be in bed," Buffy thought. She slowly opened the door and saw Dawn sleeping in her bed. In the next room Buffy found Kennedy sleeping on her side, and Willow on top of the covers beside her. Buffy made her was down the stairs to the first floor. "Maybe it’s nothing," Buffy thought to herself. As she made her way down the stairs, she saw what was wrong. Giles was lying on the floor on his back, blood running down the side of his head.
"Oh my god," Buffy said quietly, then yelled, "Giles! Giles!" As she ran to his side to see if he was all right.
After hearing his name, Giles began to stir. Seeing that Giles was alive, Buffy looked around the room. She spotted Spike on the other side of the room lying on his stomach, also knocked out. She made her way over to him to see if he was all right. Buffy touched Spike’s back, which caused him to wake up and hiss in pain.
"Buffy?" Willow said, sounding out of breath, walking in the room with Dawn and Kennedy right behind her. Willow stopped and looked at the scene before her, understanding why she heard Buffy yelling.
Buffy looked at Willow and then looked at Spike very worried. "Spike?" She said, "Spike, are you okay?"
"Yeah," he said, "But, I think arm is broken." He rolled over on his back and sat up.
Willow went over to Giles and helped him into the nearest chair.
"Spike," Buffy said, tenderly touching his head. "What happened?"
"I don’t know," Spike said looking confused. "We were getting ready to go to bed. And we were attacked…" Spike stopped talking looking at everyone in the room. Someone was missing.
"Where’s Emmy?" Spike said, suddenly sounding very scared.
Buffy looked around, but didn’t see her. "Willow, go check downstairs, and the kitchen. Dawn, check upstairs." Buffy helped Spike onto the couch across the room, soothing him and assuring him that they would find Emmy.
"Buffy," Dawn came back into the room. "Emmy isn’t upstairs."
"She not down stairs either," Willow said coming back into the room as well.
Spike looked at Buffy with tears in his eyes. For the second time in his life, his younger sister, his Emmy was gone.
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