Subject: [SpikesSalvation] Phoenix Dreams- Chapter 8 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:02:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jerusha Hancock Reply-To: SpikesSalvation@yahoogroups.com To: SpikesSalvation@yahoogroups.com Chapter 8 He had told no one when the dreams changed. It had been just after Erin died, soon after he'd met up with Angel and started his new job. Not that he didn't still have the ones he now recognized as memories, but sometimes, once or twice a week, he would have the others. And in those dreams he was on a beach with her, and they walked together, and she told him that she missed him. And in one memorable scene she'd told him she'd fallen in love with him. In those dreams he was Spike again, with all the memories that went along with it. In those dreams he was whole, and he burned for her. And when he woke up he remembered that Spike was dead and that she surely hated him, because she had no reason not to, even if she hadn't a clue as to his existence. On those mornings, he wept. "But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed." 2 Cor 4:7-9 ---------------------------------