Hi! This is my first fanfic so be nice plzzz. This story is just meant to be after "One More Time, With Feeling" where Buffy kisses Spike, I hope you enjoy it!!!
Spike shielded his cigarette from the wind and lit it up. He sighed and stared at the full moon; thinking of Buffy. Why couldn't he get her out of his head? And why couldn't he get that damned chip out of his head. He threw his cigarette down in frustration and paced the deserted street. He had liked being William The Bloody before all of this had happened. Now he didn't know where he was. He was hanging in the midst of life and death.
"Oi Blondie." Someone shouted.
Spike turned to the side lazily and saw a boy, human; he could smell it. He was obviously one that lived rough by the look of him. He looked like one of them bullies that roamed the streets, picking on kids and stealing their lunch money.
"This is my turf." The human spoke. Spike tried not to laugh out loud. How could this human think that he could defeat the magnificent Spike. Who am I kidding? Spike said silently, I'm no stronger than this beefcake. He wasn't even allowed to punch a human anymore, let along suck all of the blood out of them.
"Turf? I thought kids hung around railways and parks nowadays." Spike said, raising his eyebrows and reaching in his pocket for another cigarette.
"Don't mess with me punk." The human said, flipping out a rifle from his jeans pocket.
Spike held his hands up jokingly. He knew bullets couldn't hurt him. "You're just a big puppy you are."
"Give me your money." The Beefcake said, walking closer.
"Sorry for the inconvenience mate, but I'm all out." Spike said, grinning.
"This ain't a joke Blondie." Beefcake said. He lowered the gun and punched Spike across the face.
Spike stepped back in anger and turned on his vamp face. The guy looked shocked and stumbled backwards. "Whoa man, what's up with your face?" Beefcake asked.
Spike growled, he loved scaring oblivious humans. He didn't even have to lay a finger on them before they ran off screaming. But this guy obviously had a reputation as tough and even a guy with a few scars and sharp teeth didn't scare him off. He punched Spike again and Spike snarled and stepped back. I can do this, just punch the guy. Spike demanded himself. With one major leap forward he landed on the guy and punched him. The guys face burst open and he got swept of his feet by the force of Spike's punch.
Spike stared at his bloody fist, his teeth glistening in the moonlight. "I think we're back in business baby."
"Hey guys, what's up?" Buffy Summers asked, jogging to catch up with Xander and Anya.
"Not . . . much. I'm . . . just about . . . dying here, Anya . . . can we give it . . . a rest?" Xander asked, stopping to a halt.
"Xander! You have to keep up if you want to get fit!" Anya said cheerily as Xander collapsed onto the grass. Anya was wearing a red tie-top and matching short red shorts.
"Not hip at the running are you Xander?" Buffy asked, staring down at one of her best friends.
Xander put his hands behind his head and shielded the sun from his eyes. "Oooh . . . look at me! I'm the Slayer! I fight vampires and I can kick your ass!" Xander joked. "No kidding Buff, I'm not really good at the running stuff." Xander panted.
Buffy held out her hand and pulled Xander up off the ground. Xander wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Thanks Buffy I –" Xander started but a high pitched scream cut him off.
"Duty calls." Buffy sighed, raising her eyebrows and running off.
Buffy followed the sound of the scream, leading her to a deserted alleyway covered in shadows. At the end of the alley Buffy spotted two people. One standing up and one on the floor. She ran over and found out the boy lying on the floor was unconscious.
"What's happened?" Buffy asked the woman who looked about in her forties.
"It's Jason . . ." She trailed off. "I told him never to go out in the dark and now look what's happened. I should have took more care of him." The woman said, tugging at her frizzy red hair.
"What happened?" Buffy repeated.
"I don't know. I just came down here to take a shortcut to the gym and I found my baby on the floor." The woman said.
Buffy checked the boys neck for bite marks but didn't find any. If a vampire or demon had been here then they would've killed him, Buffy thought. He must've just gotten mugged or beaten up. "Okay ma'am, it looks like your son has been beaten up." Buffy stated.
The woman stared at Buffy. "Well your quick! What do you think happened?" She snapped.
Buffy shook her head and ignored the woman.
"Well don't just stand there looking at him, your not superwoman for Christ's sake; get help!" The woman yelled.
Buffy stood up just as the boy stirred and opened his eyes.
"Jason! My baby, are you okay?" The woman asked.
"I'm okay mom." The boy said, as Buffy helped him up.
"What happened?" Buffy asked him.
"It was weird, this guy; he punched me. But his face, it was all screwed up and scary looking." The boy said.
Vampire.
"I gotta go, are you sure your gonna be okay?" Buffy asked the boy.
He nodded and Buffy ran off again. When something weird happened, she always knew who to turn to.
Giles.
"Thank you, have a good day." Giles smiled at a customer as they left the Magic Box.
"It's starting to get busy in here, need any help?" Willow asked.
Giles shook his head. "No I'm fine. Anya said she'll be back soon anyway."
The bell on the top of the door rang as it opened and Buffy entered.
"On second thoughts, take over a minute please Willow." Giles smiled gratefully. "Is everything okay?" He asked, turning to Buffy.
Buffy nodded her head. "Pretty much, I just came back to share some info with you and hang out." She said, waving at Willow and Tara.
"What's been happening?" Willow asked.
"Well if you want the whole story . . . I bumped into Xander and Anya on the way over here and then I heard a scream, so I ran over to the scene and there was this guy who was unconscious and looked like he had been punched and there were no bite marks or anything weird. Then when this guy finally stirred he said the guy who beat him up had a screwed up face and was scary looking. If that's not a vamp then what was it?" Buffy asked.
"A scary looking hobo?" Willow suggested, grinning.
Tara laughed but Buffy didn't even crack a smile. "Do you think something is going on?" She asked, turning to Giles.
Giles took his glasses off and wiped them. "Erm . . . I don't think it's anything to worry about Buffy. No one got hurt did they?"
Buffy shook her head. "Forget it." She said, taking a seat next to Willow.
"Hi guys!" Anya waved, bursting through the door with Xander following behind tiredly.
"Must . . . have . . . water." Xander panted, running past The Scooby gang and into the back room.
"What's up with him?" Tara asked.
"He's tired, we've just been running. Xander couldn't keep up though, that's the last time I'm doing exercise with him." Anya said.
Willow smiled and reached for Tara's hand under the table. She was happy that Anya and Xander had a healthy relationship just like her and Tara.
"I'm gonna get going guys. No doubt I'll have to patrol tonight so I'm gonna get some rest. Willow, will you and Tara be able to baby sit Dawn tonight?" Buffy asked.
"Sure." Willow replied, smiling.
"Thanks, bye." Buffy said, turning to go.
"Buffy . . . wait." Giles said, knowing that she was a bit disappointed that he didn't take much notice of what she had said earlier.
Buffy turned around with her hands on her hips.
"I was wrong earlier. There is something a bit dodgy about what happened earlier, I'll have a look in my books and see if anything is wrong." Giles said.
Buffy shook her head. "No, it's okay Giles. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, see you tomorrow, yeah?"
Giles nodded and watched as Buffy left the Magic Box.
Spike watched as Buffy wandered through the cemetery, checking her surroundings as she dodged her way round the gravestones.
From behind a tree Spike coughed making Buffy jump. "Spike." She said, tossing the stake from hand to hand. "I hand a feeling someone was watching me."
"You can never be too careful, love." Spike told her.
"Don't act all dark and mysterious with me Spike. I know you all too well." Buffy replied, rolling her eyes.
"About that kiss . . ." Spike trailed off.
"Don't start Spike. The kiss the other night was just a spur of the moment kind of thing. It meant nothing at all. I don't know what happened." Buffy said.
"What! Just as I was starting to go off you, you lead me on and kissed me and now you say it was just a mistake. Thanks for leading me on!" Spike shouted, frustrated.
"Spike, what did you expect? A long term relationship? With you?" Buffy asked, surprised.
"Well you seem to like getting it on with vampires." Spike snapped.
"You're so selfish! You just have to get your own way all the time!" Buffy said, annoyed that she had bought up her past. Annoyed that he had bought up Angel.
"Yeah well maybe I should just eat you right now." Spike yelled.
Buffy laughed out loud. "You're worthless now Spike, you can't even bite anymore! You might as well be six foot under then wasting your time around here."
Spike smiled. "That's where you're wrong pet. I can bite and I can hurt people."
"Spike don't kid yourself you're just like the Buffy-bot was. A machine in your head, controlling you so you don't hurt anyone." Buffy smirked.
Spike transformed into his vampire face. He moved closer and punched Buffy across the face making her stumble backwards. Regaining her balance Buffy dabbed at her cheek and felt blood. Was it real? Had Spike just punched her?
Her anger made her step forward and punch him but to her surprise she couldn't make her fist hit his face. She tried to punch him again but a force held her back. Spike laughed, he had just realized what had happened.
"It's not me that's the machine love. It's you." Spike grinned, walking off into the night and leaving Buffy staring at her fist, puzzled and desperate to find out what was wrong.