A/N: Characters belong to Joss, I just play with them... Also thank you to everybody that's reviewed! I hope you won't be disappointed with the rest of the story
You'll Be Back
CHAPTER TEN
Buffy stormed through the door of Spike's crypt almost taking it off it's hinges as she threw it open. Buffy knew Dawn would've had to have been with someone last night but she didn't think it would be Spike she thought maybe Dawn and her friend Janice were the culprits. But when Anya noticed that somebody had been using a magical urn as an ashtray she knew it was him.
He sat crossed legged on top of a coffin, painting his nails clearly unfazed by Buffy's entrance. "Morning sunshine if you've come round for eggs or sausage I'm fresh out" he said flippantly
Buffy grabbed the lid of the coffin and pulled it out from under him, Spike tumbled backwards into the coffi
"Hey, careful!" He scolded "These are wet" he said holding up his hand to show her
Buffy slid the lid back onto the coffin slamming it into Spike's chest, pinning him against the opposite side of the coffin.
"How could you do that?" She spat "Why would you let her find out from books and papers? Do you really hate me that much?"
"Buffy I didn't know... I just just along for the ride"
"You should've stopped her Spike!" She yelled
"Oh yeah, I forgot something goes wrong in your life. Blame Spike, news flash Blondie" he lifts the lid off him and tosses it aside, taking Buffy back a bit "If little sis wants to take a stroll in the dead of night, she'll find a way. I thought she'd be safer with big bad looking over her shoulder! No need to thank me!"
"Thank you?" Buffy repeated angrily
"Don't mention it Slayer" he teased
"Why would I thank you? Because of you my kid sister is cutting herself!" she told him
"What?" He said looking concerned
"She slit her arm open to make sure she was real" Buffy said tears forming in her eyes "She shouldn't have found out like that"
"Maybe not... But she knows now" he told her placing a hand on her shoulder
"I can't deal with this Spike" she murmured
"I'm here Slayer... Whatever you need" he tried to reassure her.
Buffy spent the afternoon, in the cool embrace of Spike. Really she should've been at home, she knew that. She knew she should be helping her mother with Dawn, half of her wondered if she'd been using Spike as an escape from reality. Then she looked at him sleeping, she thought Angel looked innocent whilst he slept but he had nothing on Spike. She'd barely noticed before that when his hair wasn't slicked to his head he had unruly curls, she ran her fingers through them.
She lay next to him tracing his facial features, his eyes were closed she noticed his long eyelashes that most girls would kill for. She traced his high cheekbones and around his mouth. How skilled his mouth was, if it wasn't with his quick witted comments it was with his tongue which he had pleasured her with so many times.
She could fall in love with him like this, 'Whoa fall in love?' She thought to herself. It was at that point things just got a bit too real for her and she bolted leaving him sleeping.
XXXXX
Buffy got home to find her Mom sat alone in the living room.
"How is she?" Asked Buffy
Joyce sighed heavily "About the same... She's been alone up there all day"
"Maybe that's what she needs right now, just give her some time" said Buffy sitting beside her mom.
"That's your answer? Just ... leave her alone and hope that everything works itself out?" Asked Joyce
"No... But I doubt she's gunna want us fussing over her like she's a child" said Buffy
"Her school called today. She was suspended" Joyce told her "She yelled at a teacher. The things she said, Buffy, I mean she never used language like that"
"She probably feels like she can say or do anything right now. She's not real. We're not her family, we don't even know what she is"
Joyce jumped up, staring at Buffy in horror "How can you talk about Dawn as if she's a thing?"
"I'm not!" She defended herself "I'm just ... saying that's probably how she feels"
"Well, then we have to show her that it isn't true. She needs to know that she's still a part of this family and that we love her"
"It's not that simple! We can't fix this for her! Dawn needs to know where she came from, she needs real answers" Buffy told her
"What she needs is her sister, not the Slayer"
"The Slayer is the only thing standing between Dawn and this god from the bitch dimension that wants to shove her in some kind of lock and give her a good twirl. Mom, I need to be out there, doing my job"
A shrill beeping noise begins. They both jump up.
"Oh my god, Glory. It's Willow's spell" said Buffy jumping up and running towards the stairs
"Wait!" Said Joyce following her "It's not Glory"
Buffy kicked down Dawn's door and rushed in followed by Joyce. The beeping continues.
"Damn it!" Buffy yelled
The wastebasket was on fire, Buffy grabbed a blanket and tosses it over the flames to put it out
"Dawn!" Buffy yelled
"Buffy" Joyce sighed
"No! She can't get away with this! She could've burned the house down!" Buffy told her
"Buffy... She's gone" said Joyce looking towards the open window
XXXXX
Buffy got the gang together to help look for Dawn, if Glory found her before they did it would break Buffy. And they knew it so they all scampered off to find the teen. Somehow Spike and Buffy had been paired together, she wasn't quite sure how that had happened but it felt natural.
They walked through the playground
"Dawn! Dawn!" Buffy called out
"Yeah, that should do it" Spike rolled his eyes
"Shut up"
"The nibblet scampered off to get away from you. She hears you bellowing, she's gonna pack it in the opposite direction" he told her "Kinda like her big sis"
She knew he was referring to her disappearing act from earlier that afternoon.
"You're right" she mumbled
Spike looked surprised, hopeful even.
"This is my fault. I should have told her"
Spike sighed heavily "Look, she probably would have skipped off anyway, even if she never found out. She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a fourteen-year-old hormone bomb. Which one's screwing her up more right now, spin the bloody 'll find her, just in the nick of time, that's what you hero types do"
Buffy gave him a hopeful look.
"You'll find her" he promised
"And then what?" She asked
Spike was about to take her in his arms when Buffy's cellphone rang.
"Hello?" she answered "Are you sure?... Okay I'll be right there" she said hanging up
"News?" Asked Spike
"She's been spotted at the hospital" she told him
"Right let's go then" he said beginning to walk on, before she placed a hand on his chest. He looked at her strangely
"I... Uh... Thank you" she stuttered
"For what?" He asked
"Giving me hope" she shrugged
"Don't mention it... Let's go find kid sis" he told her