Chapter Ten

"It's in the sandblaster." Buffy said as she was dreaming. Spike woke up a little when he heard her.

"What's in the sandblaster Buffy?" He said as he pulled her till her back was against his chest. "It's a dream. Come back to me." He said as he waited for her wake up.

Buffy smiled. "All geminis to the raspberry hats." She said as she smiled.

"Now you're faking." He said with a smile.

"Am not," She said as she smiled and rolled over. "Just a little," He smiled at her.

"Morning," He said.

"Morning,"

"Bad dream?" He asked her.

"Guess…but the waking up part makes up for it."

He smiled. This is exactly what he missed. Waking up with her in his arms. Seeing her smile…hearing her voice. He missed all of it. He was so happy she had given him another chance.

"So pet what was this dream about?"

"I don't know…just a lot of stuff really. I mean it didn't really have much of a plot."

"Oh well I guess we'll just have to hope it doesn't come again." He said as he leaned down and kissed her. "Ok well pet I'm off to work." Buffy looked at him a whined a little. "I know baby I know. But I need the money…we need the money."

Buffy laughed at his 'we' term. She was more than happy to back together with him. She just wondered if things would stay this good. "Spike," Buffy said as he went into his closet looking for clothes.

"Yes pet?"

"Do you think we'll stay like this? This happy?" Spike grabbed a nice shirt and some pants and laid them in the bed. Then he walked over to where Buffy was laying on his bed and looked at her.

"Buffy no I don't think we'll stay this happy. But that's what relationships are. They aren't just happy moments. They take time and effort to obtain them. I mean yes we'll have the good times but we'll still fight. But of course now it'll be like that first fight all over again."

-Flashback-

"Buffy!" Willow said as ran down to catch her best friend.

"Hey Will…something up?" Willow looked at her.

"No…well yes. You remember that Oz guy I've been trying to hook up with for the last like 2 months." Buffy smiled

"Yes what about him?"

"Well he finally asked me out. And I don't really want to do the alone thing incase you know creep or something. So will you and Spike double with us?" Willow practically begged. Buffy thought about it and smiled.

"Sure Will. I'll talk to Spike and we'll go from there." Willow nearly jumped for joy.

"Ok yea call me." She said as she hugged her best friend and ran away.

Buffy went straight to Spike's after that to ask him if he wanted to double. "Spike!" Buffy yelled as she walked into his house. "Mr. Giles?" Suddenly Spike's dad, Rupert Giles, came around the corner.

"Oh hello Buffy. Here to see Spike?"

"Hello Sir. Yea is he still asleep?" Rupert looked up.

"Well I haven't heard Led Zeppelin or the Sex Pistols blaring from his room so I imagine he's still asleep. Why don't you go and wake him."

"Thank you Mr. Giles." Buffy said as she smiled and headed up stairs. She knocked on Spike's door but didn't get a reply so she opened it.

"Spike?" Buffy said as she walked in. In the bed was this massive blob of blankets with a bleach blonde head sticking of it. Buffy walked over the bed and sat down. 'God Spike we've only been together 2 months and already I'm in love with you' Buffy thought to herself. She began to nudge Spike to get him up.

"Spike honey. Wake up." Buffy whispered in his ear. "Spike please it's me wake up." Spike rolled over and looked directly into the face of the woman he was dreaming about.

"Buffy?" Buffy smiled.

"Hey baby. Good morning…or should I say good afternoon."

"What time is it?"

Buffy looked at the clock. "11:30. I had a ½ day today so I thought I would just surprise you."

Spike smiled at her. Then he sat up and opened his arms to her. "Come here." She crawled over to him and hugged him. He kissed her forehead. He thought that he always knew what love was and that he understood it. But that wasn't so after he met this girl. She was the only woman in the world that lit his senses on fire and made him crazy with love for her everyday. He was just too big of a chicken shit to tell her.

"Spike," Spike came out of his daze and looked down at her.

"Huh?" Buffy sat up.

"I need to talk to you." Spike instantly got worried.

"What about?" She smiled. She knew he was worried. "It's about Willow. Oz asked her out and she wants it to be a double tonight. I told her it was fine with me and that I just had to ask you." Spike suddenly got mad.

"So if I don't go are you still going to go?" Buffy looked at him curiously.

"Of course. But why wouldn't you go?" Spike looked at her.

"Buffy I had this whole romantic dinner planned for us tonight as a surprise." Buffy looked at him.

"Oh."

"Yea. But whatever it doesn't matter." Buffy looked at Spike.

"Spike I'm…"

Spike got up and went to his dresser.

"Doesn't matter. Now if you'd excuse me I need to get ready for work." Buffy got up and stormed out the room. She didn't even say good-bye to Mr. Giles as she stormed out the door.

Later that night at the bronze:

"Buffy you made it." Willow said as Buffy made her way to the table.

"Yea."

"Where's Spike?"

Buffy started to get a little teary eyed. But she held back the water works. 'Not here, not in front of Willow and her date.' Buffy mentally told herself. "He had some things to take care of." Buffy said as she sat down. The guy that was sitting next to Willow smiled at Buffy and extended his hand.

"Hello, I'm Oz." Buffy smiled an instantly liked this guy. After about an hour of chit chat Buffy decided to hit the floor. That was when he showed up.

"Buffy?" Buffy turned around and instantly wished she hadn't.

"Angel." Angel was Buffy's ex boyfriend who had cheated on her and abused her for most their relationship. She hadn't told Spike all of it yet but she was getting to it.

"Buffy can we talk for a second?" Angel asked her.

"Sure." Buffy said as he led her out to the Alley way.

"Buffy listen. I'm sorry. I never should have hurt you like that. Drusilla…she means nothing to me. It's you I want." Angel said as he looked at her.

"Angel…I don't want you anymore. I put up with a year and 3 months of your crap and 8 fucking months of it was abuse. So understand when I say no!" Buffy said as she began to go back inside. Angel had other plans. He grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him. He put both his hands around her throat and began to squeeze.

"You little bitch. You think you can walk away from me. From this?" Angel said as he squeezed harder.

"If I can't have you. No one will."

Suddenly Buffy was dropped to the ground and Angel was out cold.

"Buffy love, are you alright?" Spike said as he helped her up. Buffy instantly threw her arms around him.

"Oh god Spike I was so scared. He was going to kill me." Spike hugged her and relief flooded through him that she was ok.

"Its ok love everything is going to be ok."

-End of Flashback-