Title: Against all Odds.

Rating: PG.

Disclaimer: Not mine and probably never will be. I can dream though.

Summary: A moment of honesty between Buffy and Spike.

I see him there.

I can't walk away. It feels as if I am getting pulled closer, suddenly I feel the urge to take a step forward. Why is it that every time I am around or close to him I feel like I am a new person and yet when I am no where near him I am just some person who happens to be here on earth. Is the reason that I feel like this due to the fact that spike was the only one there for me when I lost my mum.

He was the one that would hold me in his arms when I was crying. He was the one that would always say something to help me when I was feeling down. Spike was also there for me when I came back from the dead, pulled out of heaven by my friends to live in this hell on earth.

Is it due to all this that I feel this connection with Spike or is it due to the fact that I have fallen in love with him.

Spike takes a step towards me and I feel chills run down my spine. What is this feeling I have? What is his body doing to mine? While I ask my self those questions I feel his arm slip around my waist and feel him pulling me closer towards him. He then slowly pulls my face up so I am looking in to his pooling blue eyes.

Then he places his lips on mine. For awhile I just stand there not responding. Then I feel the urge to kiss him back, I am unable to resist it. It is then that I know love has taken over me. It has taken over my body. This love that I have for Spike. I pull away and just stand there looking in to his sparkling blue orbs once again.

"Spike I need to say thanks for all the help you have given me over the last two years I mean you where there for me and Dawn when my mum died and you where also there for Dawn when I was no longer around, then you where there for me when they brought me back Spike it always seems to be you who's there for me."

The words just came tumbling out as I felt myself lose control on my inhibitions around him.

Spike was silent he had never known the slayer to ever thank him for anything that he had done he was glad that she had said nothing about the fact that they have just shared their first kiss.

"Hey pet you know I will always be here for you whether you are dead or alive because I love you and I know you can never love me back but I can always have hope that one day you just might and then me you and the little bit could be a happy family," Spike had said this out loud when all he meant to do was think it.

"Spike you have something wrong its not the fact that I can't love you it's the fact that I do. Why do you think I hate you so much, it's so I don't get hurt like I did when I was with Angel so Spike I love you and well I am sorry I have not said it sooner." Spike was taken aback with what the slayer had just said she loved him. From now on Buffy was going to be his slayer and no one else's

"So does that mean that you and I are going to try and make this thing work. Because you know I am nothing like that nancy boy Angel. I am all ways going to be in love with you."

With that Buffy wrapped her arms around him, leaning up to place a gently kiss on his lips.

This was it … For better or worse.