They walked into their new house and Dawn went straight up to see her new room. They had called to have their furniture delivered to the house so they wouldn't really have to do any heavy lifting. All they had were books, clothes, bedding, bathroom stuff, and things for the kitchen, and pictures. Dawn's room was close to Joyce's room and they both shared a bathroom. Buffy's room was down the hall and it was a bit bigger than the other rooms and Buffy loved it she liked the set up of the room and she walked over and pulled out a picture of her and Angel and put in on the night stand by her bed.
When they had gotten their rooms in order and they got settled they were siting in their living room watching TV before Buffy got up to go listen to music in her room.
She was by the stairs when the doorbell rang.
"Can you get that?" Joyce asked
"Yeah mom" Buffy said
Buffy went to answer the door and on the other side of the door was an older looking man with glasses and dressed in a brown blazer and tan slacks. There was a younger guy standing off to the side and Buffy smiled at him. He was so cute she thought he was blonde and he was wearing black jeans, a black shirt and a red shirt over it plus a leather jacket. Buffy couldn't stop smiling but then she snapped out of her trance.
"Hi I'm Buffy" Buffy said
"Hello I'm Rupert Giles and this is my son William" Giles said
Buffy let them in and as they did she locked eyes with the cute blonde and he smiled at her which made her smile back. Giles went to introduce himself to Joyce and Dawn while Buffy stood there with who she thought to be the cutest looking guy in Sunnydale.
"Can you call me Spike instead of William? It's just Spike is sort of my nickname and my friends know me as such" Spike said
oh gosh his voice is so dreamy Buffy thought
"Uhhh...Yeah sure Spike." Buffy said
They joined the others in the living room and Buffy was still smiling at Spike
"Hello I'm Spike" Spike said getting a glare from his father
"Hello I'm Joyce and this is my daughter Dawn" Joyce said
"Hey Dawn cool name. Fits a teenager" Spike said
"Hey you didn't think I was nine years old that's a first" Dawn said
"Yeah well you don't look like a nine year old if you were nine you are a pretty tall nine year old" Spike said
They were all sitting there talking and Spike and Buffy were just staring at eachother their eyes were locked on eachothers.
"I like your eyes" Buffy said
"Thanks pet like your eyes too" Spike said
"So do you want to come up to my room and listen to some music?" Buffy asked
"Sure...Wait you don't have some weird obbsesion with Jazz do you?" Spike asked
"Nope I was up there earlier listening to Billy Idol" Buffy said
"Cool then lets go" Spike said
"Hey mom me and Spike are going to go up to my room and listen to some music for a while let me know when dinner gets here" Buffy said
"Okay honey I will" Joyce said
Buffy and Spike went upstairs to her room. When they go in there Spike looked around at the pictures she had he saw some with Xander and Willow he knew therm from school and then there were some of Buffy and Angel. Spike had seen him around but never really knew him well. Buffy but on her Billy Idol cd and she sat on her bed and Spike sat in a chair by her desk.
"So you know Xander and Willow?" Spike asked
"Yeah I met them in LA when they were on a class trip" Buffy said
"Oh yeah I remember that trip" Spike said
"You went?" Buffy asked
"Yeah but took off on my own the moment we got there" Spike said
"I miss LA my life was there everything I knew my friends, my dad, my...." Buffy for some reason couldn't tell Spike she had a boyfriend
"Your boyfriend? Is that him in the picture?" Spike asked pointing to the picture by her bed side
"Yeah his name is Angel he's a good guy" Buffy said
"He lives here right? Well I mean his mom does and he comes to live with her" Spike said
"Yeah but he mostly stayed in LA when I was there. I just really miss my dad" Buffy said
"Where is he?" Spike asked
"Well he had to stay in LA until he was done with his latest case. He is a lawyer and his company is going to transfer him so he can live here with us but he jus had to finish this case" Buffy explained
"Oh so I was thinking tomorrow night you, me, Xander, and Willow could go to this local club The Bronze? Its fun there is good food, dancing, and cool music" Spike said
"Sounds great minus the dancing I don't really dance much. But I think that will be fun I would love to go" Buffy said
"Great well then tomorrow night at about seven?" Spike asked
"Yeah that works for me" Buffy said
A couple hours wen by and there was little going on down stairs in the living room. Dawn and left and gone up to her room to watch TV and Joyce and Giles talked about their kids.
"So Rupert how do handle being a single parent to a teenage boy?" Joyce asked
"Well its difficult but William is a good kid he gets into trouble with ditching class and coming home past curfew but he is a smart, talented young man. He does have quite an attitude though he insists on everyone calling him Spike" Giles said
"Well teenagers want their independence and have nicknames all the time to rebel against their parents. Buffy got kicked out for ditching classes and then never making up the work. So her last principle suggested Sunnydale High so that's why we are here" Joyce said
"Sunnydale is an excellent school I'm the libraian there actually. William hates it but I love the job and it lets me keep an eye on him" Giles said
"That's great Buffy reads all the time well she did before she got a boyfriend and then all her time was spent with him." Joyce said
"Yes I know what you mean. William had this girlfriend Dru I think her name was. She was just like him dressed the same acted the same everything. They were always with eachother but then she broke up with him. She told him that she was bored with him and that she would be better off with out him" Giles replied
"Poor William. How long before he got over that one?" Joyce asked
"Actually Joyce I hadn't seen him happy for a while until tonight when he was talking to Buffy. I think all he needed was a friend you know somebody to talk to other than me" Gile said
Upstairs Spike was now sitting on the bed and Buffy was using his lap for a pillow as they were talking.
"So let me get this straight you told Dru you loved her then she straight out says she is bored with you and leaves?" Buffy quetioned
"Yep that is what happened. It sucked but I'm getting over it." Spike said
"Well I just think if me and Angel break up I hope it doesn't hurt as much" Buffy said
"It always hurts no matter what but I had a feeling me and Dru were going down that road anyways. It was like I was the only one trying in the relationship so I just stayed until it was over." Spike said
"Well I'm sorry that happened to you. I feel like sometimes Angel and I don't communicate enough there are some things we just don't talk about and I think those may just be the important things" Buffy said
"Me and Dru never talked about anything serious so when I told her I loved her well the rest is history" Spike said
Down stairs they were all still waiting on dinner. And Joyce heard a knock at the door so she got up from the livingroom and went to open the door. When she did there stood Buffy's boyfriend Angel who wasn't suppose to get down from LA till tomorrow but he wanted it to be a suprise. Joyce smiled at Angel and then she gave him a hug and she let him in. When Dawn came down stairs and saw Angel and she ran over to him and hugged him.
"Angel you're here early" Dawn said full of excitment
"Yeah I though I would be a suprise" Angel said
"Well great Buffy was missing her old life" Dawn said
"Where is Buffy?" Angel asked looking around
"She is upstairs in her room its upstairs the last door to your left" Joyce said
"Thanks Joyce" Angel said
Joyce nodded and Angel walked upstairs and went down the hall to Buffy's room. Her door was slightly open so he pushed it open and then he saw Buffy lying on Spike. Buffy saw the door open and then she saw Angel standing there staring at her and Spike. She got up and went to Angel and hugged him then gave him a kiss which he returned and it made Spike look away. Then Spike got up and stood there and then Buffy and Angel looked at him.
"Angel" Buffy said