Title: "A Dollop of Crimson"
Author: Kat Lee
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: It wasn't love.
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"You let me love her," Spike accused, seething with fury.

"What you had wasn't love. Tea?"

"Blood." He growled.

"Very well." Giles poured a spot of tea and blood each into two different mugs, then added a dollop of blood to his own when he was sure Spike wasn't watching him.

"Maybe it wasn't," the Vampire admitted at last, still furious. "But you still knew what she was doing and let it continue. She bloody well ripped my eyeballs out!"

"You know very well, William, that one should never interrupt one's enemy when he is making a mistake."

"Shag off, Ripper!"