Title: Their Relationship in a Nutshell

Author: Angelus

E-mail: angelus1317@hotmail.com (Please put "Relationship in a Nutshell" on the subject line.)

Subject: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Kantayra's "Seventh Slayer" universe).

Category: BSR.

Rating: PG

Summary: She hates him. Really, she does.

Spoilers: None.

Archive: Anywhere, just ask me first.

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Spike. They belong to WGN and Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. If I owned them, Spike would be chained up in my closet.

Author's notes: This is meant to specifically take place during Kantayra's "Seventh Slayer" universe, after Spike returns from Spain. Don't spaz if you haven't read it, although I highly reccomend it - all you need to know is that Buffy and Spike are at their usual bicker, shag, bicker, shag place, and he's let his hair go so that it's long and brown and curly and Buffy hates it.

Dedication: To Jamaimie, whom we miss more than humanly possible.

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She truly hates him. He's the most infuriating vampire she's ever met. He has to be right, all the time. And worse, he thinks he has to protect her from everything. Like she's made of glass all of the sudden? She's the freaking Slayer. And what is *with* that hair?

She's still silently fuming as he's exiting the bathroom.

When she sees him, she licks her lips. Pale skin, chiselled muscles. Towel around his waist, a lavicious smile, eyes leering at her.

And a head of white spiky curls.

Buffy's breath hitches. Okay, maybe she doesn't hate him *that* much....