Going Through The Motions
Disclaimer: Alas, I do not own "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I wish I did, especially Spike, but I do not.
Written in between "Once More With Feeling" and "Tabula Rasa"
Buffy Summers walked down the alley, hardly believing what she had just done. "I kissed Spike." She kept saying to herself, over and over again. "Ohmigod I kissed Spike!" She paused, and then started running towards the graveyard. "I'll just patrol a little." she said to herself. "Clear my head." And just as she walked into the dark graveyard, she saw a few vamps to warm up with. Finally, she smiled.
Dawn wondered where Buffy had run off to, but hey, more popcorn for her. As soon as she'd sat down, however, the door burst open. It was Xander. "OKAY! WHERE IS HE! I'M GONNA RIP HIS HEAD OFF!" Dawn smiled. Xander, Xander, Xander...
"Who?" she finally asked.
"This demon gave me the slip." Xander explained. Dawn looked at him like he was crazy, so he undid his lie a little. "Well...um... OH ALRIGHT I RAN AWAY! Ya happy now?" Dawn looked at him with a sympathetic smile.
"Scared you again, didn't he?"
"Daaaaaaaaaaaaaawn, like you could do better. That whatchamacallit is HUGE!"
Dawn sighed. "It's called a Grahhvuih, and yes, I bet I could do better than you."
Xander laughed. "I'd like to see you try."
Dawn got up. "Alright then. Let's go."
Xander turned pale as Dawn rushed past him to the door. "Dawn! Dawn, wait! I didn't mean it! Dawn!" Xander sighed and started to run after her, muttering: "Teenagers these days. You tell them one thing and they think you want 'em to go fight demons. What do they teach in these schools, anyway?"
Anya and Giles were in the Magic Box, an ordinary magic store. "GILES!" Anya called. "Do we have any mummy hands left?"
"Nope." Giles replied. "You'll have to put one on Special Delivery."
"Alright." Anya turned back to the customer, a stately young witch. "It'll be there in three days or less." when the witch had FINALLY left, Anya turned to Giles. A little too eagerly, she began, "So, Giles...?"
"Anya, my dear, are you going to miss me at all?"
Anya turned red. "Of...of course I am!" she tried to look insulted, and failed dismally. "I... was just wondering if you wanted me to guard the cash register."
Giles smiled. He would miss Anya and her random and outspoken speech. "Anya, why ever would you need to guard the cash register?"
"Oh Giles! How COULD you be SOOOO naive?! They're robbers EVERYWHERE!"
"Yes, Anya, in a magic shop filled with weapons and Buffy, Xander, Willow, Tara, and even Dawn to help you, you are quite unprotected." Anya blushed again. "Anya, I am leaving soon. I promise. I just need to finish up everything here before I can go."
"I'll finish everything up for you! A young dictator– I mean store owner— I mean caretaker I mean...
Giles laughed. "It's okay, Anya, I understand what you're trying to say.
Just then, Xander burst into the store. "Giles, Anya, I... I... tried to stop her!"
"Stop who?" Giles asked. "Buffy? Willow? Tara?"
"Dawn?" Anya asked. Xander nodded. "Dawn? What'd she do?"
"She went out, alone, to fight the Gra... the Gra... the whatchamacallit!"
"She went to fight the Grahhvuih?!" Anya gasped. Giles didn't look to happy either.
"How do you say that?!" Xander asked, furiously.
"Never mind that, we have to go find her!" Giles said, taking charge.
"Yes, right." Anya agreed. And with that the trio left the Magic Box.
Spike sighed. He just didn't understand anymore. the delicate barrier between slayers and vampires had completely disappeared. He had KISSED BUFFY! She'd kill me in a second! I'd kill her in a second, if I didn't have my little handicap! And now we're kissing!! Spike gave his head a little shake. "This world's been so messed up since Buffy's been in it. Yet Buffy's the first thing in a long while that I have felt something for." Spike was getting extremely annoyed. "WHAT HAS THIS FUCKING BITCH DONE TO ME!" And with that he rammed his head on the wall. It was just so confusing.
Buffy was just finishing off a vampire when she heard an unmistakave bang coming from Spike's crypt. Buffy sighed. "What the
hell was that all about., Spike?" she wondered if something had happened to him. even if it was a mistake to kiss him, she
couldn't bear it if he was hurt. So she walked over to the crypt and opened the door.
A/N: This is my first Buffy story so tell me what you think so far. And I have no idea what a Grahhvuih is yet so suggestions are welcome. And don't ask me how to pronounce it 'cause I don't know!