Divided
Back when times where good
5 years earlier,
Its 9:30 at night and Buffy and her group of friends are at her house having a movie night sleepover, Buffy is 13 years old, she's sitting next to her boyfriend Spike, who is one year older than her. She looks around the room at her long time friends, she smiles, at the sight of them being happy, her best friend Willow is sitting on the floor talking to the one boy in the group of friends she has a crush on, Buffy smiles at her trying to speak while the others keep shh'ing her, Cordy, her best friends from Hemery high the school she went to before moving to Sunnydale and attending Sunnydale Junior High, is sitting next to Angel, she moved to Sunnydale a year after Buffy did and soon after her boyfriend from LA, moved too to be near her again, Buffy smiles at the memories of her past but her smiles widens when she thinks about her present, and future with Spike, she lifts her head to see him fixated on the movie which they finally chose to watch first, she turns her head to the TV, and sees more men fighting, and blood pouring down their faces, she rolls her eyes,
Yep just another macho man movieShe thinks to herself, she turns back to her friends and sees that hardly anyone of them is actually watching the movie, the only ones really interested in it is, Spike and Xander who seem to be fascinated with all the fighting, Xander, her best friend, is sitting next to his very out spoken girlfriend Anya, however she doesn't seem as interested in the movie, as her boyfriend, next to them is Tara and Jesse,
Wow they seem to be getting cosyShe thinks, Tara became part of the group when Willow met her, she was new in school and the first person to meet her was Willow, which was good that meant she stood a chance to survive in the school definitely with Harmony on the prowl.
Jesse and Xander have been best friends since they were children along with Willow, them and Buffy where the ones to start the little group, but through the years it became bigger and bigger, Dawn the youngest of the group, with Connor coming second youngest are sitting in the corner playing a card game, but from where Buffy is sitting also looks like their flirting, she rolls her eyes at that, because she knows Dawn and Connor have both got it back for each other just wont express their feeling, near to them in the other corner of the living room are Faith and Gunn, well no need to look to long at them all they ever do is kiss and make out, Faith another friend from Hemery came to Sunnydale when her mum died and her dad decided it was time to move on too, so Faith remembered that Buffy had moved to Sunnydale and she begged her dad to move her and so they did, and Gunn, her longest boyfriend yet, came from the streets in LA, and moved to Sunnydale when his younger sister died and his mum needed time alone, so he ran away and came here, it was hard for him he had no family at all anymore so him and Faith bonded over the loss, soon he became a member of the group and since then he's been the happiest Buffy had ever seen him, last but not least, Fred and Wesley, they are the smartest two people in the group and that Buffy has met, they may be kind of book worms but they sure know how to have fun, Buffy has always known they've had a thing for each other and only last week did they tell the truth about their feelings and now they are inseparable, well until night comes then they have to separate, well that what she hopes anyway, a smile appears again on her face as she looks around the room then back to the TV,
Finally its finished
She thinks with a sigh of relief, Spike moves first time since the movie started,
Wow the rock is no longer a rock
She giggles to her self which causes Spike to look at the girl curled up next to him, he wraps his arm around her and pulls her closer, she smiles,
"So what's next?" he asks, Buffy rolls her eyes,
God the movie ends ten seconds ago and already he's bored
She smiles,
Well that's why I love him; he never stops, and always wants to do something, of course not in the dirty way, I mean I'm 13 no way am I ready for that
She smirks, Spike smiles at her, and whispers in her ear,
"Not getting tired already are we luv?" he asks, Buffy looks up at him
"Huh?, oh uh sorry, just thinking" she explains, Spike smirks, Buffy smiles and stands up,
"Who's hungry?" she asks, which gets everyone attention,
"Me!" everyone in the room say at once, Buffy giggles, and looks at Spike,
"You think they deserve food?" she asks teasingly, and winks, Spike just smirks as she turns back round to her friends,
"Ok, the usual?" she asks, everyone nods and she heads to the kitchen and like usual Willow follows for food duty,
"So Wills looks like you and Oz are getting comfortable" she says as she opens the cupboard to get out popcorn, Willow smiles
"Yeh, oh hey sorry about all the talking during the movie" she says sounding guilty, Buffy smiles then looks in on her friends then back to her,
"Hey no prob I weren't even watching it, I think the only people in there interested in that movie was Spike and Xander, Anya looked ready to scream, she looked so bored and with Xander to busy watching the movie she had no one to talk to about different techniques she'd like to try when she's older," Buffy says and Willow laughs.
The buzzer for the popcorn goes of and she pulls the bag out and pours the content into a bowl, Willow takes a handful and gobbles it up, while Buffy goes to another cupboard and grabs two bags of sweets, and a bottle of Pepsi, she pours the sweets into separate bowls and puts them on the counter along with the bottle then she grabs 16 plastic cups and puts them next to the bottle of drink, Willow picks up the popcorn and one of the bowls of sweets while, Buffy takes the drink with the cups and the other bowl of sweets, they head back into the living room.
"Oh hey, what do you two say about watching, Underworld next?" Angel asks, Buffy smiles and nods,
"Cool" Willow smiles too,
"Yeh sure" Buffy sits back next to Spike and he kisses her on the head,
"Sure it won't give you nightmares?" he asks half teasing but she can hear the concern in his voice, she smiles
"Nah, I like Underworld, I've seen it once before and it was awesome" she says, Spike smiles,
"Ok" and kisses her forehead, she looks back around the living and sees everyone with a drink and handfuls of sweets and popcorn, she laughs out loud which causes everyone to look at her, she mouth sorry, and then turns to the TV, Angel presses play and the movie begins…
… 2 hours later, and Connor and Dawn and asleep in their sleeping bags, and Cordy is curled up next to Angel almost falling asleep, everyone else is either talking or watching the end of the movie, everyone except, Buffy who keep covering her eyes, when the movie finishes she finally uncovers her eyes, and looks at Spike who raises an eyebrow,
"What happened to 'I've seen it before and it was awesome' luv?" he asks, she giggles slightly,
"Oh uh I guess I didn't add, the part where I was 6 years old and I only saw like half of it, the other half I was well, doing the same thing as tonight" she smiles innocently and Spike sighs,
"Luv, I don't like you having nightmares they scare you a lot more than they should" he says with concern, Buffy smiles,
"Don't worry Spike, I wont have nightmares I promise" she says, Spike sighs again and kisses her on her head,
"Good, cause if I find out you do I will rip your head off for not telling me the whole truth" Buffy giggles,
"For someone who doesn't like me having nightmares…" she trails of and sees that almost everyone in the room are either asleep or very close, she turns back to Spike,
"Guess movie nights over" she says, Spike looks around,
"Yeh guess you're right" Buffy gets up and stretches, she walks over to Willow who isn't yet asleep,
"Hey Wills, we have a job to do" she says, with a mischievous smile, Willow smirks, and looks round the room,
"Oh Buffy that's cruel," then she jumps up, "Lets get started" she says with a smile, Buffy smirks, Spike watches them confused,
"Hey luv, what are you and Red up to now?" he asks, Buffy smirks, just watch, Willow hands Buffy a string spray bottle, and they both start spraying, everyone in the room, after a few mintu4es everyone jumps up yelling, with shock, and grab their own, bottles from under their sleeping bags, Spike watches the sight and bursts out laughing, Buffy sees, him just sitting their and signals for everyone to spray him, she mouths one… two… three… and they all turn to spray him, he yells out in shock then jumps up and grabs his own spray can and starts spraying everyone, when he hears Buffy laughing, he sneaks up behind her and grabs her waist,
"Your plan luv?" he says, Buffy smirks, and pouts playfully,
"Ahh Spike I wouldn't do that to you" she says then bursts out laughing again, Spike laughs and picks her up and over her shoulder, she screams, and everyone turns to face them and they burst out laughing,
"Spike!… put me down!!!" she yells, after a few minutes he puts her down and she hits him playfully on the arm, he smirks and goes to kiss her on the forehead, but she brings her arm round above his head and sprays a load of spring on top of his head, everyone laughs.
Half hour after everyone has collapsed on the floor; Cordy pulls herself up and looks around the room,
"Wow this place is a mess" she says, Buffy looks round and groans,
"Leave it for tomorrow I'm beat" She says crawling to her feet, all the girls get up and grab their sleeping bags, the guys stand up and grab their sleeping bags and puts them over the strings on the floor, so they can actually lay in them, the girls say goodnight and head upstairs to Buffy's room for bed, while the guys fall into their sleeping bags.
After another hour of talking the girls finally fall to sleep, down stairs in the living room, the guys are still talking and helping themselves to the left over sweets and drink, Buffy stirs in her sleep, her eyelids moving from her eye moving under it, she moans quietly, and finally she shoots up in bed, she breaths heavily and looks around the room, all the girls are asleep, but she can hear the guys talking down stairs, she quietly gets out of bed and walks out the door and heads to the bathroom, she turns the light on and looks in the mirror, she splashes her face with water as a tear falls down her face,
"No more horror movies for Buffy" she says quietly.
Downstairs the guys hears moving coming from the above, Spike looks at the ceiling and realises its coming from the bathroom, he looks at the guys who have gone back to talking, and decides to see who's still up out of the girls, he quietly heads up stairs and to the bathroom, he nocks quietly on the door, Buffy hears the nock on the door and spins round, she walks to the door slowly and opens it, she sees Spike and quickly wraps her arms around him, Spike is taken aback by it, but realises what has happened,
"Shhh, pet, its ok, it was a dream ok, shh" she pulls away a and wipes her eyes,
"Maybe I shouldn't watch horror movies again" she says with a slight smile, Spike doesn't smile just looks at her,
"Buffy, I asked you about that movie" he sighs, and pulls her in for another hug,
"You ok pet?" he asks as they split the hug again, she smiles,
"Yeh I'm fine, I got you" she says, Spike smirks,
"You never getting rid of me luv" Buffy laughs,
"Promise?" Spike kisses her forehead,
"Promise" Buffy takes a breath and turns back round to the mirror, she grabs her towel and wipes her face, then turns back to face Spike,
"Come on pet lets get you back to bed" he says and turns towards her room,
"Spike…" Buffy says, Spike turns back round,
"Yeh luv?"
"Can I stay with you?" she says with a slight shaky voice, Spike looks surprised, but nods, he takes her hand and leads her down the stairs, when they get back to the living room, the guys are happily snoring away, Buffy giggles quietly, and Spike smirks,
"Now I know why guys and girls have separate rooms" she says and smiles at Spike, Spike lays down on the couch, leaving room for Buffy, Buffy looks at him a little unsure at first but then, sits down, Spike moves a piece of hair out her face, and she smiles,
"Come on luv, lets go sleep" Spike says and Buffy then lays down, Spike pulls the sleeping bag cover over them, and wraps an arm around her waist, she smiles at his touch, he kisses her head, and whispers in her ear,
"G'night babe" Buffy smiles,
"Goodnight" Spike tightens his hold around her waist pulling her closer to him, she closes her eyes, feeling safe and warm in his arms, Spike breaths in the smell of vanilla hair shampoo from the girl in his arms, and with his final thought of the beauty he is holding he closes his eyes and drifts of to sleep.
4:30 in the morning, Faith wakes up after a very hot and heavy dream about Gunn, she is sweating and has a big grin on her face, she looks around the room, and realises that Buffy bed is empty, she frowns to herself and quietly gets up from her sleeping bag, she tiredly makes her way down stairs and into the living room, she can hear the guys snoring and smirks, she looks at the couch and sees Spike, but next to him she also sees Buffy wrapped in his arms peacefully sleeping, she tilts her head to the side and smiles at her friends, she finds Gunn sleeping near to a wall, and walks over to him, she sits down next to him, and kisses him on the cheek, he stirs in his sleep and she smirk and kisses him again, finally his eyes flutter open and he sees Faith smiling at him, still half asleep he sits up and leans on the wall,
"Am I dreaming again?" he asks out loud to himself, he rubs his face, then looks around realises where he is he looks back at Faith who has a very amused look on her face along with a smile, Gunn's face, drops when he realises he asked that out loud,
"Shit" Faith laughs,
"Dreaming about me, huh Gunn?" she asks with a smirk, Gunn smiles, she laughs even harder at the expression on his face, "Yo man don't worry bout it, I came down cause I had a really hot and heavy dream bout you" she says with a flirtatious smile, Gunn smirks,
"Well you tell me yours and I'll tell ya mine" he says, Faith smiles,
"How bout I show you" she says and kisses him on the lips, he lays back down and she lays next to him, after a few more minutes of kissing, Gunn wraps his arm round her and they fall asleep.
Back upstairs, Anya wakes up and yawns out loud, causing Willow to moan in her sleep, she opens her eyes and sees Anya yawning her head off,
" Yawn any bigger and I could fit a elephant in there" Willow giggles, Anya stops yawning and looks at her,
"Why would you want to fit an elephant in my mouth, please explain" Willow rolls her eyes,
"Never mind Anya" she looks around the room and sees that it is less full than when they fell asleep, she looks back at Anya who is once again yawning, finally she stops,
"Anya?, where's Buffy and Faith?" she asks, Anya looks around the room, then she gets an idea,
"Maybe they over heard my conversations with Xander and decided not to wait" she says excited Willow looks disgusted and Anya, pouts,
"Just an idea" she moans, Cordy stirs in her sleep, Willow looks over at her, then back at Anya,
"Well, maybe they are down stairs you wanna go look, we can tease the boys in the morning if we find anything funny while they sleep," she says with a mischievous smile, Anya sighs,
"Well I aint gunna get back to sleep now I know what you guys are gunna be doing" Cordy says from behind Willow, Willow jumps at her voice and sees Cordy sitting up smiling,
"Me either"
"Me either"
"Me either" echoes around the room as the last three girls wake up and sit up in their sleeping bags, Willow laughs at their reaction and stands up, the girls smile and stand up after her, Willow heads towards the stairs, and loos down into the living room, she turns back to the 5 girls behind her, she puts her finger to her lips indicating the be quiet, they all nod and make their way down stairs, when they get to the living room the first thing they see is Spike on the couch with a curled up Buffy snuggling into his chest, all 6 girls go 'ahhh' then Anya hits Dawns arms and she sees Faith and Gunn snuggled up near a wall in the room, again they all go 'ahhh', Angel stirs in his sleep sensing something, he opens his eyes to see the girls in the room, he sits up and rubs his face,
"Hey what's going on?" he asks Cordy walks over to him and sits down, she points To Spike and Buffy on the couch and Faith and Gunn near the wall and Angel smirks,
"Looks like they got a bit too comfortable" he says, Cordy smiles,
"Its cute" While they are talking the other guys in the room all start to stir in their sleep, the girls giggle and that makes them wake up,
"Come on girls, you know guys cant block out the sound of giggling, even if we're trying to sleep" Xander moans and sits up, Anya flops down next to him,
"Well Xander, if you look around you'll see what is so humorous" she says, Xander looks around,
"All I see is a bunch of girls giggling while the guys are trying to sleep, Spike and Buffy snuggling on the couch, Cordy and angel sitting next to each other looking at me, Gunn and Faith near the wall curled up together and all of you looking at me like…" he stops and looks around again, all the guys are awake now and all understand what the hassle is about and everyone in the room have amused faces, Xander looks embarrassed,
"Ow, well come on I'm half asleep here" he moans, Anya smile and pats his back.
The girls still standing sit down next to the same person they were talking to during the movie fest, finally after another 10 minutes they all fall to sleep, some snuggling some just laying next to each other.
Next morning,
Its 8am and Buffy starts to wake up, she is still half asleep and so she doesn't realise where she is she still thinks she's in bed, she stretches her arms, and hits something,
"Huh?" she says to herself, she looks around and sees that she is in her living room, she finally wakes up a bit more and remembers last night, she smiles when she remembers falling asleep in Spike arms, her eyes widen and she looks at the person who is still asleep next to her, she turns her body round so she is facing him and kisses his cheek,
"Thanks" she says quietly, she snuggles back up with him and falls back to sleep, Spike smiles, having been awake since she hit him, but decided not to show it, she turns his head and looks at the sleeping beauty in his arms, he pulls her closer to him and kisses her forehead, then lays his head back down,
"You love her?" comes a voice from the floor, Spike looks up to see Angel with his arm wrapped around a sleeping Cordy looking up at him,
"Yah" he says then looks back at Buffy, "I do" he says,
"Than tell her" Angel says, Spike looks at him surprised,
"What?!" he says, Angel sighs,
"Look Spike, I know what you're going through I went through it" he looks at Cordy and Spike notices,
"You and her ai?" he says, Angel looks back at him,
"That's right Spike" spike sighs,
"Did you tell her?" Spike asks, Angel smiles,
"Yeh I did, about a year ago and I've never regretted it" he explains, Spike looks at Buffy and smile,
"Tell her Spike, before it's to late" Angel says, Spike looks at him and smirks,
"Thanx mate" A gel smiles,
"No problem, I want Buffy to be happy and I know that that's what you will give her" Spike smiles.
Two hours later and Willow and Fred are in the kitchen making breakfast, half the group are awake, Wesley, and Oz, are watching TV, along with Dawn, Connor, Jesse and Xander, Faith finally wakes up and hits Gunn he grunts, and wakes up she smiles, then sees that half the room is awake,
"Hey guys" she says, they all look at her and smiles,
"You two have fun last night?" Jesses asks, Faith smirks and looks at Gunn, who smiles,
"Not what you are thinking, but it beats sleeping alone" she says standing up and walking over to where the rest are,
"We now, at like 4 the girls decided to wake us up and we all slept down here" Xander explains, Faith quickly looks over at Buffy who is still happily sleeping in Spike's arms, she smiles,
"You guys notice the love birds flying round those two's heads?" Faith asks, they all laugh and look at Buffy and Spike,
"Definitely" Willow says walking into the room with Fred in tow, Fiath looks at Willow and smiles,
"But I also noticed that you two have birds flying round your heads" Willow says smiling happily and looking between Faith and Gunn, Faith smirks, and Gunn looks at her in shock, he always knew she wasn't the sort to settle down, so this was new to him,
"Well Wills, I'll give you this Gunn is the first guy I can see staying with" she says, she looks at Gunn and smiles, he smiles back, she leans in and gives him a passionate kiss,
"Cough Cough" Dawn says playfully, Faith breaks away from the kiss, and hits her playfully on the arm, she giggles and falls back onto Connor, he smiles at her and she smiles back,
"Ohhh hatchlings" Faith teases, they both look at her and she bursts out laughing. From the couch Spike starts to wake up, she rolls over onto his side, and opens his eyes, to see that everyone is now awake, he notices Cordy and Angel are still laying down but they are awake and watching TV, and to him everyone else looks to be as well, Willow turns to him,
"Hey there sleepy head" she says cheerfully, Spike smiles,
"Morning Red" he looks down at the girl still sleeping in his arms, and smiles, everyone looks at him and when he looks up they all quickly turn their heads back to the TV, all but Angel who keeps looking at him, Spike meets his stare and knows what he is trying to tell him the same thing he did earlier on in the morning, Spike nods his head and Angel turns back to watching the TV, Spike looks back at Buffy and leans his head towards her, he whispers in her ear,
"G'morning luv" Buffy moves in her sleep and moans but doesn't open her eyes, Spike smirks, and starts to tickle her tummy, Buffy starts to giggle then finally opens her eyes,
"Ok, I'm awake" she says with a pout, Spike smirks, and she pouts,
"You brutal" she says pouting, Spike smirks, moves his hand away from her tummy and up to her face, she cups her chin in his hands, and stares at her lips, and his reaction is to lick his own, she smiles noticing where he is looking which cause him to snap out of his gaze, he looks into her eyes,
"Morning" she finally says, he smiles and kisses her forehead, she turns round in his arms and faces the rest of the group, who are either watching cartoons or watching them, she smiles shyly, and they all turns their attention back to the TV.
An hour later, the cartoons are over and they are all getting ready to get dressed and washed, Buffy and the rest of the girls head back upstairs to get dressed, while the boys dress downstairs,
"So when you going to tell her?" asks Angel looking at Spike, Spike pulls his shirt over his head and then looks back at Angel,
"I dunno, I dunno if I should I mean I dunno what she feels and how am I supposed to tell her worrying that after she might leave me" Spike says, Angel frowns,
"Listen Spikey, if you love the girl tell her, don't worry about what might happen think about what could happen, she could tell you the same thing and you too, could be official, and happy" Angel says, Spike smirks,
"Listen Mate, not everyone is like you and Cordy" Angel chuckles, Xander finishes getting dressed and looks between the two friends,
"Ah guys whats going on?" he asks confused, Spike smiles, but then it fades, and turns back to Angel
"I don't want to lose her, I need to know how she feels before I tell her" he explains, Angel looks at him then smirks,
"Then you will"
"So Buffy, you and Spike appear to be getting more comfy together" Cordy says, while she brushes her hair, Buffy looks at her and smiles,
"Yeh, we are" she says, Fred finishes getting dressed and joins in,
"Well what happened, last night I mean when we went to sleep you were in here then you end up down there" she asks, she sits on the bed and packs her clothing in her bag, Buffy sits down next to her,
"I had a nightmare and you know how ever since that one dream that seemed so real and scary they have freaked me out" Fred nods and Cordy then sits next to her, Willow and the other are all listening in while dressing, and also nod, so Buffy carries on,
"Well last night I had a nightmare and I went to the bathroom, and while I was in their Spike came up, he held me until I calmed down, then he was going bring me back to bed, but I… asked to stay with him, I fell safer, you know, so we went downstairs and we layed down on the couch he wrapped his arms around me and we feel asleep in each others arms" when she finished she realised all the other girls faces, some were shocked and some were excited,
"Way'd a go B" Faith says, walking towards her and flopping down on the bed, all the others laugh.
Dawn calms down,
"So Buffy do you love Spike?" she asks, Buffy looks at her shocked,
"Uh I… I dunno, yeh I think so" she says unsure, Cordy notices her unsureness, and puts a hand on her shoulder,
"Buffy, when Angel told me he loved me, I knew, I knew that I loved him and you know how?" she says, Buffy shakes her head, Cordy smiles,
"Because, whenever I was near him my heart sped up, my palms got sweaty, I was always nervous when I was about to see him, its all signs" Buffy looks down,
"Buffy is that how you feel?" Fred asks,
"Or do you get excited about his body?" Anya askes, they all look at her,
"What, it's a good question I get excited about Xander body, but I still love him" she says they all smile at her then look back at Buffy,
"Yo B?" Faith says putting her hand on her shoulder, Buffy looks up,"
"I love him" she says, they all look shocked but then they all smile,
"Good for you Buffy" Dawn says, Tara, smiles and nods,
"Yeh Buffy, ar… are you gunna tell him?" she asks, Buffy sighs,
"I… I dunno I don't want to scare him of" she explains, Cordy smiles,
"Hey how bout I find out how he feels?" she says Buffy looks at her,
"H..how?" she asks, Cordy smiles.