The Card

Because it's Valentine's Day and because I lurve the Spuffy.

 

*

 

She read the card again, trying to grasp the meaning of the name that was now swimming in her vision.

 

"Buffy, what is it?" Dawn seemed to be asking. Buffy saw her sister's lips forming those words, but her voice didn't seem to be penetrating.

 

She looked down at the card before turning it for Dawn to see.

 

"You got a Valentine?"

 

"He's alive."

 

Dawn read the signature scrawled at the bottom and broke through Buffy's fog with an earsplitting squeal. "Can we go? Now?"

 

"Get your bags."

 

Buffy traced her finger over the name.

 

"I'll see you tonight, Spike."