Title: Spell Bound

Author: Ultrawoman

Rating: PG-13

Category : Humour/Romance

Summary: AU Season 4 - When Willow's spell is broken at the end of 'Something Blue' not everything goes back to normal ...but why? ...and what can be done about it? B/S

Disclaimer: All recognised characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy and not to me. The very beginning on this story is the end of the episode Something Blue, written by Tracey Forbes and directed by Nick Marck.

Dedication : This is for all my faithful readers/reviewers of 'Friends and Lovers' who I'm pretty sure are getting slowly depressed to death! I promise there will be some happiness in that fic eventually! Meanwhile, I hope this makes you (and anyone else who reads this) into very happy, smiley, Spuffy-type people! :-)

Chapter 1 - Something More Complicated

As Buffy struggled against a demon, another burst into the crypt knocking Spike clean on his back. It was bad enough that these demons were going after her and her friends but no-one messed with the Slayer's man! Launching into full-Slayer-attack mode, she knocked out both her own attacker and Spike's before rushing to the fallen vampires side.

"Oh, Spike.. are you okay?" she asked worriedly.

"Slayer.." came his response, the look in his eyes pure hunger for her and in seconds she was on top of him as they kissed each other passionately. Neither noticed that Xander and Anya were still grappling with a demon or the magical arrival of Willow on the scene, teleported in from Iroshmaha by D'Hoffryn.

"Let the healing power begin" the witch began to break the spell "Let my will be safe again. As these words of peace are spoken, let this harmful spell be broken"

Thunder crashed and lightening flashed all around and suddenly, the demons were gone. The spell was broken but still Buffy and Spike were joined at the lips, much to the others dismay.

"Hey Buffy!" Xander called, trying to get her attention, "Buffy!"

It was as if she hadn't heard a word he'd said, as she continued to thoroughly enjoy herself on top of her 'fiancé', neither of them seeming to care that their display had an audience, or that they were on the floor of a dusty crypt.

When it became obvious that more than kissing was on their minds, Xander and Willow bodily removed the pair from each other.

"Xander get off me!" Buffy complained as her friend held her by the arms.

"What are you on, Red?" Spike demanded as Willow had hold of him in similar fashion. He yanked his arms from her grip and straightened his coat, still looking to the witch for an explanation.

"You were going to have sex" Anya told him flatly, "with Buffy"

The Slayer blushed as Xander finally let loose his grip on her and she glanced between Spike and the floor.

"Maybe we did get a little carried away" she conceded, "We did agree to wait for our honeymoon night"

"Woah" Xander yelled grabbing the blonde girls shoulders again as she and Spike began to advance on each other yet again.

"Get your hands off my woman Harris" the vampire demanded, grabbing Buffy's hands and pulling her away from the brunette, "Come on Slayer" he tugged on her hand as he began to walk away and she willingly followed him out of the crypt, a dreamy look in both their eyes.

"Okay, what the hell happened?!" Xander asked, completely shocked at the display he'd just witnessed.

"I kind of did a spell..." Willow said to the floor and Anya sighed.

"Yes, Willow, we know that, but you broke the spell, so why are they still all over each other?" she gestured toward the crypt door that Buffy and Spike had just disappeared through.

"I..I don't know" the witch stammered, "if the spell is broken, I just, I don't know"

"Something is so not right here" Xander said needlessly, "we should get back to Giles' and work this out, with any luck that's where they've gone too, the sun will be up in a few hours and I'm thinking the way she is right now, Buffy's not big with the wanting Spike to get all dusty"

"Let's go" Willow nodded and the three confused Scoobies made their way back through the graveyard towards Giles' apartment.

"So, you reversed the spell, Xander's demons disappeared and my sight returned, but Buffy and Spike are still...engaged?" the ex-Watcher was having trouble taking in the concept that the rest of the Scoobies had just explained to him, the same young people who stood before him now, nodding that he was correct "and they are where exactly now?" Giles wanted to know.

Willow was about to answer when Anya jumped in with both feet as usual.

"Probably having sex somewhere by now, they were pretty touchy back in that crypt, before and after the spell breaking. There was kissing and..."

"Anya, please" Giles begged for her silence on the subject.

"Yeah, Ahn, not loving the imagery here" Xander pointed out as random pictures of Buffy and Spike and certain types of straddling made him feel queasy.

"I was just saying..." she began again but Willow interrupted this time.

"I don't understand what went wrong" the red-head exclaimed, "I did the reversal, and everything reversed except that one thing"

"Let's think logically about this" Giles began, now in full Watcher mode, "What exactly did you say to make these things happen Willow?"

"Well, it was a basic will-be-done spell, it just went wrong" the witch explained, but Giles shook his head as he circled the couch the other three Scoobies now sat on, "No, what did you say to make each event happen?"

"I don't remember exactly" Willow shrugged and shook her head, feeling awful for causing so much trouble.

"I remember some" Xander piped up, "We were in the basement and we were talking about my dating bio and you said 'you're a demon magnet' and then I kinda was"

"And with Buffy and Spike, what exactly did she say then Xander?" Giles prompted, "Do you remember?"

"Er..." the boy fought to remember, "come on brain" he willed his memory to kick in and the words to come forth and the two girls either side of him, as well as the Watcher, waited in anticipation.

"Oh" Xander suddenly exclaimed, "I said Buffy needs Spike to find out about the commandos and Will said 'why doesn't she just go marry him'...I think"

"Good, good" Giles murmured as the Scoobies could almost see the cogs turning in the older mans mind. He paced the room a couple of times, a constant look of thoughtfulness on his face, before he turned back to the younger people and explained his thoughts.

"You said I didn't see anything, and during the time of the spell, I didn't" he said to Willow, who nodded mutely and waited for further explanation, "Then you said Xander was a demon magnet and for a time he literally was" another nod, and as he opened his mouth to make the point of his speech, Willow got it on her own.

"And I said Buffy and Spike should get married but they didn't actually do it yet" she said slowly and this time it was the British man who nodded in agreement.

"Exactly" he said, "that part of the spell has yet to be fulfilled"

Xander frowned hard.

"So you're saying, until the Buffster and Captain Peroxide tie the knot, their gonna be all...loved up?" he guessed with a look of disgust.

"Unfortunately, yes" Giles sighed, as the group shared a look. The implications of Willow's grief-driven spell just got a whole lot worse.

"There's so much to arrange" Buffy sighed, as she leaned back against her vampire fiancé's chest, both of them half lying in the graveyard, his back against a crypt wall and his arms around the Slayer.

"Doesn't have to be complicated" he told her, holding her close and kissing the top of her head, "Simple ceremony at the town hall, minimal guests, cut down on all the frills and spend more time thinking about the honeymoon" he grinned mischievously and Buffy tilted her head back to see that look she knew would be there on his face, not just evil but sexy as hell. She turned in his arms to kiss him deeply, but the pair were interrupted from going further by a group of demons attacking.

Immediately the Slayer and the vampire were on their feet, him standing just two steps behind her, seemingly watching her back, secretely hiding from danger as he could not fight since the soldier boys had put the chip in his head.

"You guys wanna fight" the Slayer eyed up the three assorted demons before her, "Fine, but we do it fast so I can get back to kissing my man" she told them matter of factly as all three came forward.

High kicking one in the head and knocking it flat on it's back, the Slayer proceeded to rain punches on the second as the third slipped past her to tackle Spike. Defenceless as far as he was aware, the vampire leapt out of the way of the attack and was forced to dodge all blows aimed at him instead of fighting back.

Buffy spun, kicked, hit, and fought for all she was worth and did manage to knock one demon unconscious but the other was stronger and soon had her by the throat, threatening to squeeze the very life from her.

A strangled scream reached Spike's ears and the sight of his 'betrothed' being handled in such away brought every bit of his angry nature to the surface. Without a thought in his head but Buffy's safety, he turned on the demon who's attack he'd been blocking and hit him so hard the creatures neck snapped, killing it before it hit the ground.

There was a second when Spike noted he felt no pain in his head, no exploding agony of the chip in his brain, but the feeling of relief was short-lived as Buffy again gasped for breath.

Moving behind the demon that held his girl by the throat, he delivered a blow to the back of it's head, causing it to lose it's grip and drop the gasping Slayer to the ground. By the time her vision cleared and her breath returned, the pile of demons on the ground had risen from two to three and Spike's gameface was just shifting away, back to his human guise.

"You saved me" Buffy smiled, getting to her feet and rushing to her man, flinging her arms around him, "You were incredible"

"Did alright yourself" he told her, "Up until that last part"

Their eyes met followed by their lips, passion induced from the thrill of the fight. As they eventually let each other go he continued to grin.

"Best part is, pet" he told her, "No pain" he pointed to his head, "Can't hit humans but demons don't seem to set off my handicap"

"But you're a demon" Buffy frowned a little, "I guess you'll have to change and be a good guy now though"

"No way" came Spike's disgusted response before he grinned again, that sexy smile that made the Slayer weak at the knees, "wouldn't love me half so much if I weren't so damn bad, would you Slayer?"

"Guess not" she smiled, kissing him again, before realising the morning was approaching fast, the dark sky beginning to grow lighter.

"We should get back to Giles'" she told him between kisses, but Spike was in no hurry to take his lips off of her, "Spike" she didn't like to complain but it was necessary, "You were the one telling me you didn't want to be a big pile of dust!"

Finally, she had him focusing on her words instead of the rest of her and, hand in hand, the unlikely couple headed back to Giles' apartment, making yet more plans for their wedding.

To Be Continued