Disclaimer: my name is Not Joss and my last name is Whedon, therefor I do not own any of these characters

Love is a strange thing…you find a person, think "hey I like them" and want to keep them for yourself for the rest of eternity. Overall love is a form of dominance, possession. At least that is what William Pratt thought before he met Buffy Summers. Buffy Summers despised William, though she knew him as Spike. Why, she despised every fiber of his being. Now, how could one experience such a form of hatred? Well, Ms. Summers is the latest of an ancient bloodline of young women given powers solely to kill his kind. Vampires. But even though "Spike" was once among the worst of his kind, Something stopped her from killing him every time. Yes, she was perfectly capable of it physically, but a nagging voice in the back of her head always stopped her. And you see, that was Spike's first glimmer of hope. The first indication that she had feelings for him too.

Now, they had been sleeping together for just over 4 months, and she still refused to divulge their relationship to any of her peers. But that would change soon. Everything would change soon.

Buffy awoke to the now familiar gut wrenching pain and lurched to the toilet across the hall. After minutes of gagging and retching, she flushed the toilet and emerged from the bathroom. She opened the door to see a concerned Willow outside the door. "Buff are you Okay?" "Yeah just a stomach bug" Buffy replied in a forced nonchalant tone. The slayer was honestly worried. Slayers don't get sick very often. Willow was thinking the same thing. There was a difference though. See, Willow was a very powerful Wicca. Possibly one of the most powerful ones in the world. She sensed an extra Aura. Buffy's was a sort of dark purple, but she sensed a softer,innocent aura. There was an extra soul. Buffy was pregnant. When to tell her, Willow had no idea. But she was sure now was not the time.

Just then Dawn came upstairs, looking somewhat scared and sheepish. "Dawn!" Buffy exclaimed in surprise " Why aren't you at school?" "Ummmmm, so, funny story actually, I was at school, it was second period, and Mr. Bower had this awful sub who hates everything except her cat. I skipped, and when I left campus, Kristine saw me and started to be a total biatch, so I slapped her. Long story short, I'm suspended for skipping class and fighting and Willow picked me up since you were still sleeping" Dawn rambled. Buffy looked like she was trying not to laugh and angry at the same time. " Dawn. The Kristine part is hilarious, but bad bad bad" Buffy said trying to be mature " And you know better than to skip class. Go to your room" When Dawn was in her room, Buffy finally gave up her struggle to hide her laughter. Her sister definitely was made of her essence, wasn't she. In after having collected herself, she began to speak to Willow. "Will, why didn't you just wake me up, I could've gotten her. I'm her guardian, it would've looked better." Buffy was worried. With Dawn being suspended, it was more than likely a social worker would come. Ever since Doris, that made her nervous, even if the following social workers didn't find anything that looked like drugs. Willow quickly replied to Buffy's inquiry "You needed your rest." " Willow! For the last time! I. Am. Fine." "Umm Buffy, I need to tell you something"