Chapter 4: Blood and Bickering
Buffy came back to the apartment around 2:00 PM holding a bag of groceries. She went into the apartment and found Spike lying upside down on the pull-out-couch with his head hanging over the edge. He opened his eyes as she slammed the door shut and tumbled onto his head, falling off of the bed.
"That was impressive." She laughed.
"Yea. Bloody right impressive."Spike gritted his teeth sarcastically and rubbed his head. "So are you done with your errands yet?"
"Yes I am, but I gotta tell you that watching a vampire fall on his head just made my day ironically, brighter." She set the brown paper bag in her hands on the ground, and faced the sallow man. "Bought you some take out too." She carefully tossed a plastic container to Spike, who then eyed the thick dark liquid suspiciously.
"Slayer. We should pack everything. I think we should be on the road by 5:00 at the latest." Spike suggested seriously.
"You sure? I mean you might get a bit dusty considering it's the middle of the day." She smirked. Spike hated that she was having so much fun at his expense.
"The car is sunproof, more or less, and is parked in the sodding alley you git! An' there's a bloody building on both the east and west sides. I'll be just fine." He growled. Her smart-ass answers were really getting on his nerves.
"Whatever." Buffy played her overused retort and walked over to the kitchen. She pulled out a cooler to put the groceries in. "Ya gonna help?" Spike walked over to her and began filling the cooler with the food she brought back with her. He was pleased to see there were more tubs of blood in the bag and placed them carefully at the bottom of the cooler near the cool packs.
When they had finished, they divvied up who would carry what to the car and started to work. Buffy carried her trunk and bag while Spike brought down the cooler. They were ahead of schedule and seemed as though they could leave at 3:30, So Buffy made sure to leave Joanna a note and her keys on the apartment counter before she finally followed the vampire to his car.
"Spike?" Buffy sat in the passenger seat of the car as he put the keys in the ignition, "How long will it take to get to Sunnydale?"
Spike turned on the car and started to back out of the alley. "'bout a day n' a half." He smiled and drove away.
TBC
