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Xander got bored and frustrated by watching Spike fight the girl he cared so deeply for so he went inside, followed by Willow and Tara. "Xander, Willow, Tara! Where's Buffy? She didn't leave for patrol yet did she? I made you all a pan of brownies and I was about to bring it out to you."
"She found out there are male Slayers and that one moved in across the street so she went to talk to the neighbors to see if they were really the Slayer and his watcher and then she called Giles over and then Tara, Xander, and I hid behind their van to listen to their conversation-" Joyce, Xander, and Tara all looked at Willow like she had grown another head. She had never spoken so fast and rambled so much before. "What? You all know I talk fast when I am excited!"
"Buffy is outside training with the other Slayer, Spike." Tara finished Willow's ramble in fewer words than Willow would have used.
Xander growled when Tara said Spike's name and everyone looked at him. "What?"
They all just shook it off, knowing how Xander really felt about Buffy, even though she had no idea.
Just as he said that, Spike and Buffy walked into the kitchen; Buffy walked over to the fridge, grabbed two bottles and threw one over her shoulder to Spike, knowing he could catch it. Buffy and Spike had just finished their fight and the only signs of it were a black eye starting to form under Spike's left eye and a cracked rib that Spike had given Buffy that would heal overnight. They both had a bloodies lip though.
"Hey mom, this is Spike, I figure Willow already told you the whole story, seeing as I heard her yell from outside." Willow blushed, "Hey! No fair you have super-slayer hearing!"
Spike chuckled at the sight of a slayer having so many people knowing about her secret and being so accepting of it. "Buffy, luv, you should really wrap that rib."
"Oh yeah, come on I'll clean up your lip." Spike followed Buffy up the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door.
"I give it at least a few days before they are inseparable." everyone stared at Joyce, "What? I know my daughter! Ok, I'm leaving now, bye guys."
Spike couldn't help but notice all of the pictures on Buffy's dresser. There were pictures of her and all her friends, the witches and the whelp. Then he noticed a broken picture frame that was thrown into the garbage. He picked it up and Buffy didn't protest to him looking through her things. The picture was of her and a guy with a HUGE forehead, and Buffy was on his back, smiling. Spike looked at the man in the picture on pure disgust and jealously, but then he realized that it was in the garbage and felt not jealousy of the bloody wanker anymore.
She walked into her closet, closed the door, and took her shirt off, leaving her in her sports bra, and changed into her sweat pants. She walked out of her closet with her large ace bandage.
Spike couldn't keep his eyes off of Buffy. "Spike, could you tear your eyes away from me enough so you could wrap me so my rib will heal right?" She had noticed Spike's wondering gaze quite a few times during and before their fight. Surprisingly, she was ok with that and she felt comfortable around him.
"Sure luv," without thinking, he wrapped his arms around her stomach and put his head on her shoulder. "How's this Pet?"
Buffy giggled and then realized what was happening, she couldn't let herself give her heart to anyone. She didn't know if she would ever be able to trust men again. "This is nice and all, but I didn't mean that." He let go of her and smirked at her when she turned around and handed him the bandage. She lifted her arms slightly so he could wrap the bandage tightly around her body.
"Sorry for the broken rib, didn't mean to be that rough on you." Spike felt guilty for hurting her, she seemed so fragile, but he knew she could handle the pain.
"It's fine, actually, I haven't been in a decent fight like that since," oh no, don't say Angel. Angel thought that Buffy needed a sparing partner for karate or something, so he helped her sometimes, and sometimes he did break her rib or land a punch to her jaw, leaving a nice bruise. "well, it's been a while. I actually miss being able to beat the shit out of someone and not feel guilty for hurting them." She turned around and Spike had a look of…hurt?... on his face. "I mean because, like when I fight Xander, I know that one blow could land him in the hospital with some major injury. I know you can handle it, so I don't hold back. The only way I could actually severely hurt you is if you let me." She just smiled at him.
Spike smiled back. He was starting to develop real feelings for this girl. I wonder if I was supposed to take that as a compliment. "You were," he just gave Buffy a very confused look, and she giggled. "You said that out loud Spike, and yes you were supposed to take that as a compliment. Now come on, I need to clean off your lip.
Buffy led Spike into her bathroom and he noticed that like her room, the walls weren't some girly color like pink, but instead a dark purple with black trim. "Sit." She instructed him while she wet a wash cloth and wrung it out. She began to clean the dried blood off of Spike's lip. He winced a little at the pain, not expecting it to be there.
Buffy pulled her arm back, thinking that she actually hurt him. "S'alright luv," he smirked at her and, for the first time, she realized he had gorgeous, blue eyes. She just stood there, holding Spike's chin and staring into his eyes, for a while.
Spike felt so comfortable, wait, bloody hell! What was he saying? He just met this girl and he already felt so comfortable around her, like he could tell her anything.
Buffy snapped out of her trance and finished cleaning his lip. She was about to walk out of the room but Spike grabbed her arm to stop her. "I busted your lip too, you know, Pet. Let me clean it." He took the cloth from Buffy's hand and a spark shot through his hand when it brushed hers. Spike saw a blush starting to creep onto Buffy's cheek, so she had felt it too he thought. He started to clean the cloth of his blood then started to clean her lip, as she did to his.
After Spike cleaner her lip, Buffy sat down on her bed, finally feeling the exhaustion from her and Spike's training. He chuckled as he sat down next to her, "You seem tired. Out of practice?"
She swatted his arm playfully. "No! It's just that you are the best opponent I've had in, like forever! You are just as good as me. How can I practice fighting someone that good when I've never fought anyone like that before?" Spike was about to say something but Buffy cut him off. "and yes that was a compliment." She smiled. Then she realized, that was the first time she actually, genuinely smiled since she started dating Angel.
Spike sat next to her on her bed; crossed her legs and faced him. "So… you wanna just talk, and you know, learn stuff about each other. I don't feel like walking down stairs. Xander is probably gonna wanna hit you in the face. Although that would probably only end up with him in the hospital…" she laughed at the thought of Spike beating up Xander because he punched him in the nose and ended up breaking his own hand.
"What's so funny Pet?" Spike looked at her and started laughing himself.
"It's just that I imagined you beating the shit out of Xander because he punched you in the nose, but he broke his hand by punching you." Spike looked like he didn't know who she was talking about. Buffy rolled her eyes. "The 'whelp'"
"Oh. Yeah that would be funny." For about an hour Buffy and Spike just sat on her bed talking and laughing about anything they could think of. They learned a lot about each other. Buffy got insanely jealous when Spike told her about Dru, she wanted her to come back from the… dead?… so she could stake her herself. Spike wanted to punch the Angel ponce in the face when Buffy told him why he had broken up with her.
Buffy suddenly had an idea. "Hey Spike, you wanna come to the Bronze with us tonight? Willow's boyfriend Oz is playing with his band there." Buffy really wanted to spend more time with him.
"Yeah, sounds like fun." Spike was happy that Buffy wanted to go the the Bronze with him, wait what's the Bronze? "What's the Bronze Buff?"
"Oh, sorry I forgot that you just moved here. It's the only fun thing in Sunyydale. It's a club for everyone, there is always dancing and live music and a bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. It's actually kinda awesome. We go almost every night." Buffy realized that they had been talking for over an hour. "We should probably go back down there. Mom might think we were up to something we shouldn't be."
"S'go." As they walked out of Buffy's room Spike smacked her butt and smirked when she turned around, even though she gave him a look that could kill anyone, anyone that wasn't him.
"You're a pig, Spike."
"Oh, yes, you are right there Slayer, but you know you like it." With that he winked at her, and walked down the stairs. Buffy stood at the top of the stairs for a minute, waiting for her cheeks to go back to their normal color.
They walked into the living room and saw Xander, Tara, Willow, and Oz all sitting on the couch, Willow sitting in Oz's lap, watching 1,000 Ways To Die. Xander just rolled onto the floor laughing saying, "The stupid chick stuck a carrot in her-Buffy!" his voice turned very serious and there was a hint of anger in it. "Why were you guys up there so long?"
"Just catching up on the demon trends in this hellhole of a town." Spike took the unoccupied chair next to the couch and rescued the remote from Xander's tight grip. "Bloody hell! What are you watching?"
For the first time, Spike heard Oz speak, "1,000 Ways To Die, it's Xander's favorite show and Xander jumped on the remote before any of us even got into the room."
Buffy sat down on the floor, leaning up against Spike's chair. "You would think that after all of the death's in the school and with him eating a pig and ALMOST Mr. Flutie, he would try to avoid any show that had anymore dying in it. But no, that's Xander for you, he's never made any sense. Probably never will."
"Buffy! I told you never to speak of my hyena episode EVER again!" Buffy started rolling on the floor in laughter at how series Xander's face was. Spike chuckled softly because he had no idea what they were talking about but Buffy was cute when she was laughing.
After about two minutes of everyone in the room, except for Spike, laughing, Willow turned to Spike. "The year we first met Buffy we went on a school field trip to the zoo and Xander followed some nerd into the hyena den thing because he was about to get thrown into the cage and when he was about to get beat up by the school bullies," Willow said bullies like a second grader, "a spell thing made the five of them get possessed by the hyena. They ended up eating the school's mascot, a pig, and all of the except for Xander ate the school's principal Mr. Flutie. And then the guy that was trying to get possessed by the hyena tried to kill me and Xander saved me and then we fed that bad guy to the hyenas."
Everyone looked at Spike to see how he would react to his first experience of Willow's rambling abilities. He didn't even look fazed. "Breath much Red?" was all he said.
Buffy snapped everyone out of their I-can't-believe-you-aren't-dead-on-the-floor-right-now gazes at Spike by saying, "Hey, everyone, we are leaving for the Bronze in an hour. Tara, Willow, get your butts up to my room so we can get ready. Boys… try not to kill each other?" Buffy laughed as Xander cursed her for saying that. Tara and Willow ran up the stairs giggling like giddy little girls. Oz stole the remote from Xander and put the FIFA World Cup on. "Boys…" she muttered.
"Now that's more like it!" Spike said as he took Xander's spot on the couch because he went to sit in the chair that had no view of the TV; he was pouting.
"Soccer is stupid! Why would you want to watch it Oz?"
"SHUT UP!" Oz and Spike said from the couch, along with the all three of the girl's from up in Buffy's room.
"Omigod Tara you should totally wear this!" Willow threw her blood red tank top and Buffy's leather skirt at Tara and ushered her into Buffy's bathroom, telling her to put it on. Tara came out and Buffy and Willow giggled in excitement for their friend.
"Tara, you look amazing! Here put these on." Buffy threw her leather boots at Tara. She put them on then looked at herself in the mirror.
"Wow, I do look good!" She ran to Buffy's closet and pulled out Buffy's sparkly black dress that came down to mid thigh. Buffy giggled and ran to her bathroom and quickly slipped it on. When she came out Willow already had a 'Dingos Ate My Baby' t-shirt and her faded skinny jeans on.
"Makeup time!" Buffy loved doing her friends' makeup. After all the girls did their foundation, Buffy began to do their other makeup. For Willow she put a dark blue eyeliner on with a sparkly light blue eye shadow and a light pink lip gloss. Willow sat down on Buffy's bed reading a magazine while Buffy did Tara's makeup. She put black eyeliner on Tara with a silver-gray eyeshadow and a red lipstick. As Buffy did her own makeup, think, black eyeliner with dark gray eye shadow and pink lip gloss, Willow said something very unexpected.
"I think you like Spike." Buffy nearly stabbed herself in the eye with the pencil. What had Willow just said? Oh yeah, what Buffy had been asking herself ever since she met Spike.
Buffy kept applying her makeup, ignoring her friends true but blunt statement. "Omigod! You do like him!" Buffy finished her make up and began straightening her long, blonde hair until it was as straight a piece of paper. Buffy grabbed her black heels and threw her high tops at Willow, motioning for her to put them on.
"Tara, Willow, we will talk about this later, let's go see if they guys are ready to go." Willow and Tara reluctanly followed Buffy down the stairs, knowing they weren't going to get an answer just yet.
When Buffy walked down the stairs she saw Oz and Spike sitting on the couch still watching the soccer game while Xander was still sulking in his chair. They still had half an hour before they were going to leave. "Hey guys, any of you need to get changed before we go?"
Spike turned and saw how hot Buffy looked, with her tight, low cut, short, black dress on with those heels. Wow. "Yeah, I think I'm gonna change." With that Spike walked out of her house saying he would be back in fifteen minutes. Buffy said bye and went to sit on the couch, but before she could sit on her own, she was tackled by Willow.
"Spill. Now." Willow was determined to find out how Buffy felt about Spike.
"Fine, Wil! I like him!" Xander's head shot up, not knowing who they were talking about, but hoping it was him. "Gosh, I only met him today, but... I don't know Wil, I don't know if it's because we are both slayers or what but... I feel really strongly about him. I really like him Wil." Tara smiled from behind Willow. Xander made a gesture like he was puking from behind Buffy so she could't see. Tara's death glare made him stop dead in his tracks.
"GOAL! OH YEAH SUCK IT GERMANY!" Buffy, Tara, Willow, and Xander all turned their attention to Oz, who was yelling because of the game. "What? Germany sucks!" Willow just laughed at her boyfriend and went to sit on his lap and watch the game with him.
Gosh! Those fifteen minutes could not have gone by any quicker. Buffy heard the doorbell ring, knowing it would be Spike, and she opened the door to him, taking him in. Instead of his hair slicked back, he had it spiked slightly, how ironic, he was wearing black skinny jeans, a black pinstripe dress shirt with a black wife beater under it and a red tie that was tied loosely around his neck. He just smirked at her and walked past her, brushing his hand just under the hem of her dress as he did so.
She took a sharp intake of breath as she followed him into the living room with the others. He sat down on the vacant couch, and Buffy sat next to him. Buffy looked at the clock, 6:45. "Let's get a move on!" As they all started to walk to the door, the doorbell rang. Everyone looked questioningly at Buffy, who just shrugged.
Buffy motioned for Spike to open the door because he was the closest. Buffy gasped when she saw who was at the door.
"Angel."
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