The slayer and her vampire

Okay guys this is cat here with my first fan fiction with buffy and spike. Everybody in this little ficlet is owned by joss not by me. (Thanks to a certain someone – no names mentioned) I have had to change this story a bit but for first time readers just ignore this bit.

Well I came up with this story whilst on the way to work I was trying to think of a good spuffy story and then this little idea popped into my head. It's going to be one of those ficlets where everyone is normal no vampires or slayers.

Chapter 1: it starts

"So what plans you got for tonight then spike" willow asked preparing for the next lesson she had with the group of friends that surround her,

"Thought about catching a movie maybe going out for a round of drinks with the guys" spike replied taking a sip out of his glass of water, whilst staring at buffy talking to a guy named Freddie across the room, who she had not long married. Funny he thought she's only 19 yet she's all ready married. How he wished he'd stopped her before that day, told her how he felt but he didn't. Maybe it was time for him to move on.

"Hmm sounds exciting" she whispered trying not to make much of a scene as oz kept giving her funny looks. As the conversation ended, Sarah dropped kissed Freddie and joined spike and willow sitting on the benches next to the fountain.

"Hey guys" buffy spoke up, as she sat down next to spike and let out a long awaited sigh

"You looked great last night in that play buffy" spike stated turning to face her. Wondering why on earth he just said that in front of willow. His cheeks turned a little red and he laid his head on his arms in front of him to hide the embarrassment. He was supposed to be a hard man for Christ sakes.

"Thanks but ya know what I'm really tired, more than usual I mean"

"Why's that?" spike replied

"Dunno lack of sleep I suppose, anyway spike I was wondering if you're not doing anything tonight would you like to come out for some dinner with me and Freddie?" she asked knowing he would probably have something better to do anyway.

"Why not" came spike's reply. She couldn't believe it, he never really wanted to hang around with her outside of university anymore, in fact she hardly ever saw him and figured this time it would be nice to get to know the real him. Smiling inwardly to herself she nodded her head and picked up her bag

"Well I got no more lessons to go to today you guys so I'm gonna head off, I'll pick you up at 7? At your place?" Buffy asked heading towards the uni gates walking backwards. Spike nodded and waved his hand in the air, as a gesture, she nodded back and exited the university gates.

"Hey Freddie, how do I look?" Buffy asked stepping out of the front door, almost walking into her husband who was pacing the floor next to the car.

"Well finally! How long does it take for you to just put an outfit on and a bit of make-up?" Freddie replied not taking any notice of what she was saying. Dashing forward towards the car door he opened it for her and went around to the other side to get in the drivers seat. Once in he noticed that Buffy hadn't gotten in the car, he was starting to panic now, she had a look of ~what the hell~ plastered all over her face.

"Would you just get in the car, if we don't get there soon the teachers of my uni production are gonna leave and I wont get my final grade for this term. I'm supposed to make up big time tonight" he shouted a little more sharply than he had meant to. Walking up to the car she sat in and slammed the door shut

"What are you talking about?" she asked putting her seat belt on and resting her hands in the palm of her lap.

"I told you this morning, Mr Newit the drama production manager, is coming to dinner with us and the teachers tonight to try and decide my final term grade"

"You never told me that! You said it would be me and you tonight!" Buffy cried turning away from him in the car.

"Yeah well you invited that stuck up dip stick as well and only told me five minuets ago that we have to pick him up!" Freddie replied taking the argument to the next level. This was not the time or the place to be messing with him he thought as he turned on the engine and put his seat belt on. Taking off down the drive way Buffy could feel the anger boiling inside of her, she wanted to yell at him for calling spike a 'stuck up dip stick' like he always did. She wanted nothing more to get out of the car right now and go back to her house and cry into her pillow, but that wasn't the way they did things in that house, Freddie thought crying was stupid and silly unless you were at a funeral or you had just received terrible news. By the time they had got to spike's, picked him up and got to the restaurant they were already half an hour late and the teachers along with Mr Newit had all become very impatient and were ready to leave. As the group got out of the car, an innocent man from the uni they attended had gotten a secret word from the inside saying where and when buffy, Freddie and spike were going tonight and decided to tag along switching on his camera he ran up to buffy and started taking pictures in her face and another man asking questions, behind him. Freddie dashed up the stairs and into the restaurant not noticing the abuse buffy was getting from the students who wanted to know why Freddie was black mailing the teachers into giving him a good grade. But Freddie just wanted to make sure that Mr Newit didn't leave.

Spike could tell Freddie wasn't going to help out buffy out and decided to cut in dragging the students away from her as she covered her face making her way towards the entrance to the restaurant. Spike quickly followed and stood behind buffy punching one of the students when they tried to get in the restaurant, after that the students cursed, running off shouting about something into which spike wasn't really interested; he was just glad they didn't touch his buffy... Wait what was he thinking?... Spike then turned to buffy and for the first time he noticed just how beautiful she really did look, she wore a black silk like skirt which was short but not too short which left something for the imagination. She also wore a white v top which was sleeveless and delicately followed her curves leaving little slits at each side but not revealing too much. If he could have fainted just then he would have done, he looked up from her lacy shoes that wrapped around her ankles all the way up to her dazzling eyes which shone like tiny gems.

"Spike what is it?" Buffy asked noticing the shocked expression on his face

"It's just that...well luv you l-look s-stunning!" he stuttered taking away his gaze as he noticed Freddie approaching behind her. Blushing slightly Buffy fiddled with the strap of her purse in her hands and looked down smiling

"Thank you spike, you look quite handsome yourself." Just as she was about to say something about what had happened with Freddie earlier, the man himself appeared between the two wrapping his arm around her waist he turned her to face the people of the restaurant some of which were staring at them.

"Their still here thank god! Now come on!" Freddie whispered in her ear as they began to walk through and around the winding tables, spike closely followed behind.

"Just don't say anything, let me do all the talking okay?" he whispered again this time tightening his grip on her waist, she remembered he always did that when he got really nervous about meeting his teachers. She merely nodded and turned her head a little, just enough to see spike close behind saying sorry to everyone he kept walking into or knocking about. She laughed to herself and smiled 'he looks really cute in a tux' she thought but was quickly cut off as Freddie introduced her to Mr Newit and his teachers.

During dinner spike had struggled eating the crab that he was given as a first course, of course he managed to flick it in every direction but the ay of his mouth, sometimes just missing Mr Newit's head. Buffy couldn't help but giggle once he had seen what they were having for desert, just plain ice cream; he looked so relieved she smiled. Leaning over to him whilst Freddie and the others where deep in conversation, she whispered into his ear

"Thanks for coming tonight, I don't know what I would have done without you." Leaning back to her he whispered something into her ear that made her giggle loud enough for Freddie to stop talking and turn fully around in his chair. Buffy knew that he was mad by the way he was looking at her, but she figured after how he'd been tonight he deserved being made fun of if even just a little bit.

The night passed quite quickly after that and soon the group were back in the car taking spike back to his apartment. Turning in her seat she looked round at spike and smiled a silent 'thank you' again and then looked at Freddie, who by now looked extremely more relaxed and calm 'thank god' she thought to herself, she'd had a nice time but she would have preferred there to be just him and her so that they could talk, they needed time alone but never seemed to get any with him, he always had this way of saying somebody else was coming right at the last minuet and she hated it because usually they were half way to the restaurant. This time she was glad spike had come along, it didn't seem so boring.

As the car pulled up to the drive way it began to rain and quite hard at that

"You guys be careful driving back, looks like there's a nasty storm comin' in" spike spoke up whilst un-clasping his seat belt and opening the door

"We will; thank you. Good night spike, see you tomorrow" Buffy replied seeing as Freddie wasn't going to

"Night luv" spike replied and stepped out of the car, shutting the door and running up the drive way. Just as he turned around to wave goodbye, the car wheels screeched on the ground and the car sped off down the road. Looking down at the ground he shook his head and unlocked the front door, stepping inside.

"Freddie! What the hell are you doing! Slow down for Christ sakes!" Buffy yelled and gripped on to the seat tightly. After a few tense moments Freddie finally eased off the gas and the car came to a stop about two blocks away from spike's place. Buffy was scared more than anything else, she didn't know what he was doing; he'd never done anything like this before since she had married him. Slightly turning in her seat she looked at his face, he looked extremely pissed off and his hands were still holding the steering wheel firmly. She didn't dare say anything to him, so she sat staring at him listening to the window wipers slash away the pouring rain which fell onto the windscreen.

"F-Freddie?" she asked calmly

"W-What's wrong?"

He did nothing but kept staring at the steering wheel in front of him. She touched his arm lightly and his face turned to look at her, what he said to her next would change her life forever...

Well that's chappy 1 hope you liked it, please please review I need to know what you guys think so I can carry on with story, it gets good I promise! p.s sorry about the cliff hanger please review! Without you guys reviewing I can't continue the story so.....review!!!