Chapter 2- When Piper Met Spike.

Piper paused to check her outfit in the mirror. Her sisters had set her up with another guy. He was a guy from Sunnydale, who was apparently into vampire flicks and rock music.

        'Sounds like your kind of guy,' Said Phoebe.

        'Since when?'
        'Well look at the picture! He is so cute!'

        'Cute? If you liked that washed out look.'

        'Come on you have to admit he's gorgeous.'

        'Then you go out with him!' Retorted Piper.

        'I'm with Jason!'

        'Ah, but Jason's in Hong Kong. He'll never have to know!'

Paige strolled in and gasped. 'Piper, is that what you're going to wear?

        'Yeah? What's wrong with it?'

        'You're on a date. You need to at least look a little sexy!'

        'I'm a single mother with a ten month old kid and you want me to look like I'm twenty again?'

        'Let's go upstairs. I'll pick you out something from my wardrobe.'

Piper rolled her eyes. 'Something tells me this is going to be a very long night.'

Piper and Spike sat in P3 both looking uncomfortable. He had bought her a drink but wasn't drinking anything. He just sat there smoking cigarettes and looking off into the distance.

        'So, uh, what do you like to do?' He asked her after a long silence.

        'Um, I like picnics in the park, walks on the beach, watching the sunrise in the morning.' Piper replied. 'You?'

        'Well, I'm not really a fan of sunlight,' Spike said in his sexy British accent.

        'Oh.'

        'I like redecorating my crypt…'

        'You live in a crypt?'

        'Yeah but it's so much more than that. It's a home now.'

        'A home? Really, I thought homes were places where they didn't bury people"

         "Well at least I don't get bothered by Jehovah's witnesses.'

        'Good to know.' Said Piper.

        'Listen pet, I hate to spoil the moment but I'm really into this other chick.'

        'Well that's convenient coz I'm into this other guy.'

        'She's called Buffy. Little shorter than my last girlfriend, but she's pretty tough.'

        'Who was your last girlfriend?'

        'Her name was Dru. She liked eating her pets. Was with her for two centuries.'

        'Can't have felt like that long.'

        'Believe me pet it was. Anyway, Buffy's my girl and even though she doesn't speak to me much I'd feel like I was cheatin on her if I continued with this date.'

        Piper felt secretly glad when he said that but shook his hand.

        'Anyway, got to get back to Sunnydale before the sun comes up.'

        And he waved goodbye before he disappeared into the night, leaving Piper with a very confused look on her face.

When she got home she found Leo waiting for her.

        'Hi.' He said, nervously.

        'Hello.'

        'How's Wyatt?"

         "He's good, so's everyone else, shame you couldn't stick around to find out for yourself"

         "Piper, lets not do this, I came to…"

         "Well why did you come?' Piper said, with her hands on her hips. She wasn't ready to see Leo as a friend again.

        'I miss you.'

        There was a very long pause before she spoke, glaring at him with her big brown eyes.

        'Don't think you can come back here and into my life thinking you can talk to me like that! I've been on dates with guys who I wasn't interested in just to try and move on. I've been trying my hardest to get over you and you're not doing me or Wyatt any favours by coming back whenever you feel like it. Decide what you want and stick with it, Leo.'

        Leo looked at her. 'I don't know what I want.'

        'Maybe you should go consult the elders.' She said, turning on her heel and running upstairs before she burst into tears.