Story rating: R
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I don't get any money for writing this….

Chapter 11

"Dawn! You have to be ready in an hour and please turn down that stupid song. You've had it on repeat all morning." Buffy yelled at her sister's bedroom door. As she opened to see if the message had gotten through, the kitty-cat that Anya and Cordelia had brought home yesterday, shot like a bullet through the opening.

"Zac! Zac Hanson!" Dawn yelled and ran after it down the stairs where she, Angel and Cordelia, in her new self-luminous dress, watched it run in circles around them and meow madly. When Willow opened the front door from the outside the cat shot through and out into the sunshine where it immediately burst to flames and turned to dust. Their eyes widened and they looked at each other in shock.

"It was a vampire?" Buffy, who had come down the stairs just for the finish of he show, noted.

"Looked like." Cordelia supplied.

"I've heard rumors about some vampires actually turning animals, but I've never seen one before." Angel said.

"Why did it run into the sun if it was a vampire?" Dawn sounded like she was about to burst into tears.

"Maybe it didn't know that it couldn't handle it," Buffy suggested and shot a stern look at Angel and Cordy not to argue her.

Although visibly upset Dawn seemed to accept the explanation and went with heavy steps up to her room again, closed the door and turned up the stereo.

"I say it committed suicide because of the bad music it had to endure." Buffy said, shrug her shoulders and went to the kitchen to find Spike.

Nothing could have prepared her for the sight that met her. First she noticed that Spike was actually dressed in a suit. As in no jeans, a tucked in shirt, a tie and no leather jacket. Buffy's knees weakened at the sight of him so handsome. Second she noticed that Halfrek was in the kitchen with Spike and actually seemed to have cornered him between her and the sunlight and was…. Flirting with him?

The third thing Buffy noticed was how incredibly jealous this realization made her.

"If I had just known what potential was in you…" Halfrek was babbling to a very uncomfortable looking Spike leaning very close to him. "… I would have given you a second look. And the railroad spikes…. Such imagination. Not to mention two slayers… very impressive."

Halfrek leaned into Spike even further but he looked even more uncomfortable until he saw Buffy standing in the doorway.

"Oh, and his third slayer, the one he's sleeping with might just show some creativity in pummeling you if you don't lay off him." Buffy warned. Halfrek wasn't pleased but still made herself scarce.

Spike walked from his corner to a less sunlight surrounded part of the kitchen and gave Buffy a kiss. "Thanks pet. She managed to catch me off guard."

"No problem. I don't like her."

"Think you can save me from the flower girl as well?"

"What?" Buffy asked confused and saw Xander's cousin, who was the flower girl and was ten but totally going on fifteen walk in, turning her back towards Spike, totally ignoring Buffy's presence. Her dress was open at the back.

"Spike, could you do me up?" She said with a slightly husky voice obviously trying to be sexy. Buffy just barely managed to suppress the giggles of the absurdity of the situation and how incredibly embarrassed Spike was.

He slowly reached forward and started pulling up the zipper until it caught some of the girl's hair, she screamed in pain and abruptly turned away from Spike.

Buffy's laughter was even closer to coming to surface when the girl, with tears in her eyes, asked her to fix it. She soon got the hair out of the zipper and zipped up the dress. "That's men for you. Maybe you should let them be a few more years."