Marching On
OneRepublic
'Why can't you see that he's just using you?' Willow asked, pleading with Xander to see it how she did.
'Because, he isn't using me,' Xander insisted with a sigh and an eye roll.
'But...' Buffy tried again to make her Xander-shaped friend see reason.
'What about Anya?' Willow blurted excitedly, pointing to the blonde in question, who was innocently counting the money in the till now that the lunch rush was over.
'What about Anya?' she asked glaring at the Slayer and her pet witch.
'Aren't you angry that Xander left you for a man?' Buffy started.
'A vampire?' Willow added.
'For Spike!' they said together.
'Actually, I left Xander. I felt our relationship wasn't going anywhere, besides, Spike has been good to Xander,' she gave the pair one of her rare soft smiles. She still loved them both but her heart belonged to an older man.
'Spike has also been very good for Xander,' Giles added, finally speaking up as he moved to stand by Anya, who gave him one of her "let's have sex later" smiles.
'I think they're cute together,' Dawn announced with a grin as she hugged the two older men. Sure she'd had crushes on both of them, but they were more her brothers now. And there was a cute boy that just transferred into the school from overseas named Harry.
'I thought, as my friends, my sisters, you would just want me to be happy. I guess I was wrong,' Xander said as he headed to the door, Spike following him, but not before glaring at the two girls. Tara met them at the door, hugging them both.
'We've moved on,' Spike said from the door, 'so should you.'
There's so many wars we fought,
There's so many things we're not,
But with what we have,
I promise you that,
We're marching on.