Chapter 11-

Dawn and Spike's eyes both want wide, as they clambered off of one another in search of clothes. Meanwhile Buffy continued up the stairs to Dawn's bedroom door. They both looked at the door in fear as the banging sounded through the room, right before it opened.

There, with the light from the hallway shining behind her, was Buffy. She looked around the room, taking notice that Spike was in jeans and boots back on, and Dawn was wearing a t-shirt with nothing else but a sheet wrapped around her waist. "Look, Buffy, Spike's back!" was all Dawn could say.

"Please tell me that what I think is going on here isn't going on here," Buffy begged and pleaded with her eyes to Dawn.

Dawn didn't speak a word. Spike tried to tread carefully, "What do you think is going on here?" he asked.

"That you two just," she couldn't even bring herself to say it, "You know," pointing between the two of them.

"What! No, uh… see, she was here and I came to see her, and uh…, then she asked to um…," he sighed in defeat. He looked between the two sisters, "I've got nothin'."

"Can I see you out in the hallway," she asked Spike. He nodded pulling his shirt over his head and heading out. She then looked to Dawn, "Put your clothes back on, then we're going to talk." Buffy closed the door behind her as she followed Spike. She grabbed his shoulder and slammed him into the wall. "First off, what are you doing here? Your letter said that that it would be good for her if you went a away for a while?"

"I did, but then I wrote her."

"You what?"

"I wrote her a letter, I thought it would make her feel better about the situation. Then she wrote me back, then I wrote her back."

"Wait, she wrote you back? Like you left a return address on it by accident?"

"No more like on purpose. Long story short, I missed her and she missed me and I wanted my friend back, so I came back!"

"If you remember correctly, you two weren't exactly friends when you left. Which is why you wanted to leave. Then before we were making any progress with her, you wrote her a letter! Now we've back tracked, and we're a lot worse off than we were before because you're sleeping with her!" She shook her head in frustration.

"Buffy, I love her," he said quietly.

"You love everybody!"

"Nough'uh!" She raised an eyebrow at him, "Ok, fine! But this time I do love her, and we're married and all. So I think things can stay the way they are."

"Did she ask you to come back?"

"No, that was my doin', she didn't even know I was coming, I swear."

"Ok, well then you have to go back to wherever you were, you can't stay here!"

"That's fine, that's fair, but I'm not going back to where I was, I want to be near my wife."

"I don't want him to leave," they both turned and say Dawn standing in the doorway, "I love him."

"Oh would you two stop! Spike I want you to leave, now." He nodded, walking over to Dawn. Dawn shook her head no, when Spike took her hand.

"It's alright, luv. We have to play by the Slayer's rules for a bit. I'm goin' home like she asks and I'll see you tomorrow night, alright?" She nodded in response, reaching for a hug and clinging herself to him. After a minute, Spike pulled away from Dawn and made his way out of the house.

Buffy looked at Dawn, "Do you know why he came back, Dawn?" Buffy asked, hoping to have more light shed on the subject.

She nodded, "I tried to make him jealous," she sighed, "I was writing him and telling him that I had a boyfriend to try and get him to come back."

"He said you never asked or told him to." Dawn shook her head.

"No, he did that on his own, which only proves that he loves me. But I guess you won't let us be together."

Buffy sighed, "I just don't like, Dawn. We should have never come up with this idea."

"Why, so I could get taken away and then you wouldn't have to deal with me?"

"I didn't mean it like that, Dawn! Look I'm sorry if I upset you, and I'm sorry if I made the wrong decision and put you through all this misery. But you're not supposed to be a real married couple, that was only to protect you! You have to understand that."

"All I know is I love him and he loves me, and we showed each other that tonight. And no matter what you do to him or me, we'll always have tonight. Why can't you just be happy for me?"

"Because it wasn't supposed to work out this way." Dawn huffed and shut herself back in her room. Buffy sighed rubbing her temple. What was she going to do now?