Title: Burning
Author: Elisabeth
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Gone
Disclaimer: Me poor , Joss not, Buffy and crew not mine...even though my mind pictures Spike naked alot.
Feedback: Please! It's my first fanfic.
Summary: Buffy tries to deal with Spike. B/S

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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
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"I can't believe it! He kicked me out! How dare he! All that crap about loving me? Drowning in me? Ha! " Buffy Anne Summers cried while pacing around her living room then paused, "What am I doing? I'm talking to myself. It's like I want him to want-.Am I insane?"

Unbeknownst to the slayer, an ancient being was watching her.

"Yes you are!" Dawn Summers cheered.

"Dawn, why aren't you at school?" Buffy jumped.

"You forgot, didn't you?," she faced her sister, "We have a day off today, the teachers are grading us for this semester."

"Oh...do you have any plans for today?"

"Nope, just me, the remote," she plumped down on the couch, "And the left over pizza in the fridge."

Buffy stood over Dawn. Silence. Dawn noticed her sister just staring at the floor.

"What?"

"Oh... I just... um-"

Just then a cloud of smoke burst into the Summers home. It was William, known as Spike now a days.

"Luv you made a big deal over getting me here to talk about 'us', he said with the smoking blanket still covering him, "So what do we do?"

He threw the blanket to the ground. And looked up to see Buffy glaring at him and Dawn looking at him suprised and stunned.

"You guys are seeing each other?" Dawn questioned.

"No, no", Buffy said.

"Course not niblet"

"You said 'us', you are so dating!"

"When I said 'us' I meant, us as in as parteners for the rough and tumble"

"Spike!" Buffy scretched.

"I meant Slaying, again pet"

"Yah, slaying. It's like a buddy movie with Spike and me...we sometimes use..."

"'Us" as a term cause we are so in tune with each other when we patrol" Spike finished.

The two guilty warriors nodded and waited to see if Dawn, who was staring at them with sceptism writen all other her face, believed them.

"Of course I believe you, I mean Buffy you wouldn't date Spike if he was the last vamp on earth," Dawn proclaimed, "I'm going to call Lisa, in my room"

The two relaxed as they heard the teen's door close.

"What were you thinking coming in here, talking like that?"

"First off you asked me here, Second I thought Pidge was at school"

"She had a day off"

"Ohh...so why did you leave me that note?" Spike said as he closed in around Buffy.

Buffy sighed, "I-wanted to tell you this ...ahh...has to stop."

Spike carressed her side and held her close.

"Say it again...try it with a little more feeling..maybe you'll convince yourself you hate me for another couple moments...'till you start to burn for me again"

Buffy looked up at Spike, then leaned forward and captured his mouth with hers. The kissed slowly, taking in the moment. Letting wrong be right for just another moment. Maybe it'll turn out different, Buffy thought. So engulfed by their intimate kiss, neither noticed the brown haired girl sitting on stairs.

"They are so boinking" she mumbled.