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Some quick points before we start: Extra thanks to everyone who encouraged me and reassured me the last chapter wasn't that bad afterall. There's going to be no Angel characters, except Angel in this fic, there will be some fighting later and sorry for leaving so long between chapters 7 and 8 lol. Now on with the fic.
Chapter 9
"Buffy." Angel said, hovering above her and the principal's table at the Italian restaurant.
"Can't I have one night off?" she groaned when she saw him
"Sorry, but it's Xander."
"His date?" Buffy groaned, "Why can't he pick nice, normal girls?"
"I'm sorry." The man she was with spoke, "Who exactly are you?"
"He's my friend." Buffy said hurriedly, just in case Angel decided to name himself her boyfriend after their recent kiss
"So are we going to go find him?" Angel said impatiently, "Spike's waiting outside"
"You brought Spike!"
"Actually, he brought me on the back on his motorbike" He said sheepishly, "I can't remember where I parked my car." Buffy coughed to disguise her laugh at the thought of Angel and Spike on a motorbike together.
"So how are we going to find him?"
"I could take you on the bike." Angel suggested
"Can you drive it?" she asked sounding surprised
"Course. Well I've never actually tried…. But it should be easy enough."
"I'll get Spike to take me." Buffy rolled her eyes
"No. I don't want you going with him." Angel said firmly
"Why not?" she asked.
"I just don't."
"Last time I checked Angel, you weren't in charge of me."
"I don't really know what's going on here." The principal said, "But I have a car if you need it." Angel traded a glance with Buffy. He didn't want to involve a civilian, but he really didn't want Buffy and Spike going off alone together now that he knew of their history.
"Okay, let's go." Buffy said, leading the way outside.
They arrived just in time to prevent Xander being seriously hurt. Buffy went straight to cut him down, relying on her vampires and Wood to protect her while she did so. It was clear that Wood was strong, but obviously compared to Angel, Spike and Buffy he was nothing. He was soon knocked aside by the demon, and it blindsided Buffy. Both vampires were by her side in an instant, and before long the fighting resumed. In the fray, Spike got thrown into a wall, his head cracking off it loudly. As Angel turned to see what happened, he too was knocked over and fell onto the injured Xander. The demon cornered Buffy and pressed her against the wall, trying to snap her neck. With a snarl, Spike was up again, ignoring any pain he felt and barrelled into the demon sending them both sprawling on the floor. Angel, Buffy, Xander and Wood could do nothing but watch Spike and the demon struggle on the floor, none attempting to get the demon for fear of accidentally hitting Spike. Eventually, Spike changed to his game face with a snarl and managed to snap the demons neck, and rolled onto his back, breathing heavily.
"You okay?" Buffy asked
"Yeah, just give me a minute love." He said, changing back to his normal face, still breathing heavily. Buffy nodded and glanced at Angel and Wood,
"You both still okay?" they nodded, both watching her and Spike together closely. Angel because he was jealous, and Wood because of the revelation that Spike was a vampire, completely unaware that he was standing next to another.
Buffy pulled Spike to his feet and asked him something that neither Angel nor Wood could make out, before he nodded, leaning against the wall as she went to get Xander. Angel rolled his eyes as he saw Spike's eyes flick downwards to Buffy's ass as she walked away from him, and wondered again how he could have missed the signs before. If what Willow said was true, and Buffy was over Spike, he really doubted the opposite was also true.
As they stood outside, Buffy glanced at the car and the bike. They couldn't leave the bike there, but Spike was certainly in no fit state to drive it.
"Remember before when you said you thought you could ride Spike's bike, Angel?"
"Yeah…" Angel said, eyeing it with suspicion.
"Can you please take it home for him? I really don't want him riding it in that state."
"Peaches is not taking my bike," Spike argued, "He'll crash it or something."
"No I won't" Angel said quickly, despite feeling certain he would.
"No arguing." Buffy ordered, taking Spike's arm and leading him to the car. Spike looked woefully at his bike, sure it would be the last time he'd see it in one piece, before tossing Angel the keys.
Half an hour later, Buffy sat on the sofa in the living room, wondering where Angel had got to. She was beginning to regret him taking Spike's bike, but it had seemed like such a good idea at the time. She heard the clump of Spike's boots coming down the stairs and shifted to give him room to sit beside her when he entered the room.
"Where's all the potentials?" he asked
"Downstairs. Andrew's telling them a ghost story or something."
"Peaches still not back?" he said sounding worried about his precious bike
"Not yet."
"So…I was thinking. Now that you have Angel and the principal, there's really no need for me to be here at all." Spike began
"Don't start this again Spike." Buffy groaned
"No, hear me out. I'm effectively useless. So there must be another reason you want me around… So what is it?"
"Maybe I'm just not ready for you not to be here yet."
"Why?" he pressed
"Because I lied when I told Willow I was completely over you." She said honestly, and although neither was sure exactly how it started, they were kissing again, for the first time in months. It was a lot different from any other kiss they had previously shared. It was slow and gentle, unlike the usual fast and furious ones. Spike pulled away, and muttered
"Sorry."
"Don't be." Buffy replied, "That was…" she was interrupted by the front door slamming and she sprang away from Spike.
"I'm back." Angel said, not noticing anything was wrong, "That bike of yours is a death trap." He said to Spike, throwing him the keys, and Spike smirked when he noticed Angel had a limp. Until he realised that probably mean he fell off it.
"Did you…" he began threateningly
"The bike's fine Spike." Angel rolled his eyes, "I survived too. Thanks for asking."
"It better be." Spike complained
"I'm going to take a lie down." Angel said, heading towards the basement without another word.
"Should we tell him that there's a gang of terrified teenagers down there?" Spike smirked, before seeing a weird look on Buffy's face.
"What's wrong?"
"He nearly saw us."
"So?"
"Can you imagine how he'd react?"
"I don't know, and I don't really care."
"Well you should."
"Why? I thought we were past the stage of me being your dirty little secret, but apparently I was wrong." He stood to follow Angel downstairs, preferring to face the potentials than stay with Buffy any longer while he was angry.
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