Author's Note: So I did skip Revelations just let it be known everyone is aware of Angel's return. Now…Spike's back! =) Enjoy!

Disclaimer: The god known as Joss Whedon owns everything but Ronnie.

Chapter 12: Walk the Line

"Yes, can I help you?" Giles asked the young man at his door.

"Yea, I heard this is where my friend Ronnie lived." The young man responded politely. He was light complected and had dark brown hair that stood up in places almost reminiscent of Angel's.

"Oh, yes, of course. Do come in," Giles said allowing the man passage to the flat.

"Thanks," he said smiling and nodding his head as he walked in.

"Ronnie, you have a guest," Giles called down the hallway.

"Who is it?" Ronnie called as she walked down the hallway, when she saw who it was her face lit up in a smile and she shouted. "Sam! Oh my god!"

"Hey you!" He smiled at her and held his arms open, which she jumped into gladly.

When she pulled back she looked condescendingly at Giles. "Ripper, for a watcher you certainly invite a lot of vamps in your home."

"V-vampire?" Giles stuttered, he'd never suspected the man to be undead, he simply assumed that he knew Ronnie from work.

"Don't worry, Sam won't hurt you. Will you?" She looked at Sam and he shook his head.

"'Course not, babe."

"So what are you doing here?" She asked.

"Oh, just helping and old friend that decided to swing through town. Heard you were in town so I thought I'd come see you." He explained.

"Sorry," Giles interrupted. "How do you two know each other?"

"Sam used to run with Will, Dru and me. Haven't seen him in ten years," Ronnie said never taking her eyes off Sam.

"Ah, I see."

"Kinda need to make up for lost time," Ronnie said shooting Giles a look that left no need to discuss how they would spend such time.

"Right, I think I need to go rearrange the card index in the library." Giles said as he hurriedly grabbed his coat and headed to the door.

"Thanks, Ripper!" Ronnie called, then she turned back to Sam, "Now, where were we?" She smiled evilly.

"I think," he whispered as he lowered his head to hers, "right about here." He finally kissed her and she was not for the first time grateful for vampires not having to breathe.

"What friend?" Ronnie asked several hours later as she lay on Sam's chest.

"Hmm?" He asked, trying to listen to her despite his exhaustion.

"You said you were helping a friend, who?"

"Oh, Spike," he said and turned his head to again attempt the illusive sleep.

"He's in town?" Ronnie asked shooting up from the bed.

"Yeah, look babe," he said sitting up and putting his hands on her arms. "We just went 5 hours straight and I drove 12 before that. I'm gonna catch some sleep now." He said as he kissed her forehead.

"Of course, sorry," she said as laid back down in their previous position. She wondered why Spike came back to Sunnydale and hoped he wouldn't get himself in trouble after promising Buffy he wouldn't be back here.

Spike was sitting outside the mansion watching Angelus enter the living room and get ready to go to bed. At first he was shocked that he was still alive, sure that Buffy and Ronnie would have destroyed him once they teamed up against him. After the shock wore off it was pure anger that took up his emotions. Angelus had done so much damage to Spike's girls it made him sick. He hid in the shadows observing Angelus and then started cursing him in his drunken stupor.

"What the bloody hell are you doing still walking the earth? You waste of space! She would love me if it wasn't for you, my princess. You screwed her up royally you did, driving her insane like that. But does she see that, no. She still loves her precious Daddy. And my Duchess wouldn't be so broken if it wasn't for you doing all those horrible things to her while I couldn't protect her. You soiled both my girls you bloody poof."

With that he turned away from Angelus in disgust and started to walk, only he was so far from sober he ended up tripping over his own boots and fell over. He didn't bother to get up, deciding this is where he would sleep for the night-or pass out rather.

"Giles!" Buffy yelled as a final attempt to wake her watcher. She had arrived in the library this morning only to find him snoozing in the stacks.

"Ponce," Giles said as he was shocked out of his rather satisfying dream of a confrontation with Snyder for eyeing Joyce while they were under the influence of the chocolate last week. He was confused by his surroundings and finally noticed he was in the library with Buffy. "Oh, Buffy, what did you need?"

"You were sleeping." She stated confused. "Why are you sleeping in the library? Do we have a demon we should be researching?" No sooner did she ask did the whole gang, including Faith walk into the library.

"No, nothing so drastic," he rushed to calm her. "Veronica simply had a visitor last night and I decided to give them some privacy." He said shyly.

"What kind of visitor?" Willow asked.

"Well…um…" Giles stumbled as he took off his glasses and started cleaning them.

"The work you're looking for is fuck buddy." Faith said nonchalantly.

"Ronnie wouldn't do that," Willow said defensively.

"Why not? She's a grown woman, been around awhile, can take care of herself. Let her do what she wants." Faith reasoned.

Willow looked to Oz for support who only nodded in agreement with Faith.

Just then Ronnie walked into the library looking extremely pleased with herself.

"So, the Ronster got some action last night," Xander teased.

"Yeah, V," Faith saddled up next to Ronnie to get the details, "tell all about your new squeeze."

Ronnie chuckled at their antics. "Not new, I've known him for over 50 years."

"How'd you meet?" Willow asked meekly.

"He and Will met in World War II when he got sired and he joined up with us. He stayed with me when I left them in the 70s but we split up about 10 years ago. Then last night he just showed up." She explained, leaving out the details of Sam's siring.

"Aww, he missed you," Willow said dreamily.

"Did he scratch your 10 year itch, V?" Faith asked saucily.

"Oh, yeah," Ronnie nodded enthusiastically. She finally looked around and noticed the other girls discomfort with the discussion and quickly changed the topic. "So did you guys get your test scores back?"

"Yep, Buffy, Cordy, and Willow are brainiacs, while I get to be flipper of burgers at Doublemeat for the rest of my life." Xander said light-heartedly.

"My mom saw my scores and her head exploded," Buffy joked. Giles shot up rapidly, then calming slightly.

"I've been on the Hellmouth too long, you were speaking metaphorically, yes?" Giles asked.

"Yes, Giles, she was happy."

Giles physically sighed of relief. Ronnie smiled at him, he wouldn't be able to keep his relationship with Joyce a secret for long if he kept those reactions up.

Later that night, Spike had decided he would kidnap the Slayer's little witchy friend and have her put a love spell on Dru so she'd fall in love with him again; maybe in do a locating spell on Ronnie while he was at it. With Lawson back with him the four of them could be back to how they were in the middle of the century.

Willow jumped when he came into the lab then breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was him; now that was a puzzling reaction.

"Spike, you scared me." She chided.

"Yeah, well, evil," was his only excuse.

"Are you visiting too?" She asked excitedly.

"Not long, just thought I'd request your services…well demand, same thing, right?" He explained. Then the Slayer's whelp was in the lab and he swung a microscope at Spike's head. Spike reacted accordingly and decided to kidnap them both.

After Spike explained what he wanted from Willow she had comforted him for loosing Dru and told him the ingredients she would need from the magic shop.

It was while he was out that he was walking by the Slayer's house and decided to pop by for a sit down with her mum. She welcomed him with open arms and let him cry over some hot chocolate.

"Have you got any of those little marshmallows?" He asked with a child's innocence.

She smiled at him. "Of course." She got them from the cabinet and headed them to him. "Have you seen Veronica, yet?"

"She's still in town?" He asked with hope written all over his face-wouldn't need Red to do that locating spell after all.

"Yes, she's staying with Rupert." Joyce nodded.

"The Watcher?" He asked confused.

Just then Angelus ran up to the door but was hindered by the barrier. Joyce jumped back in fear. While the whole gang found out recently of Angel's return, Joyce had remained outside the loop.

"Get away from here!" Joyce yelled at him as he was obstructed by the barrier.

Spike was entertained by the fact that he had an invite and his Grandsire did not. "Yea, you're not invited." He taunted.

"He'll kill us," Joyce told Spike frantically.

"Not while I breathe…well actually I don't breathe."

"Get out of this house or I'll stake you myself," Joyce told Angel.

"You're a very bad man," Spike continued to taunt, thoroughly enjoying himself.

"You touch her and I'll cut your head off." Angel yelled through the doorway.

"Yeah, you and what army?" Spike asked.

"That would be us," Buffy said as she pinned Spike to the counter. "Angel, why don't you come in." And just like that Angel and Ronnie were standing behind her, but they were out of Spike's line of vision.

"I have your friends, kill me and you'll never see the witch and the whelp again." Spike argued for his unlife. Buffy let him up at this and he finally saw Ronnie, he rushed to her and enveloped her in a hug. "Ronnie, I've been so worried about you."

She pushed him away and glared at him. "You kidnapped Willow and Xander?"

"Oh you've got to be kidding me! You're a bloody Slayerette now?" He yelled exasperated.

"Where are they, William?" She demanded.

"First, the witch is gonna perform a little spell for me. Was just out on my way to the magic shop to get her what she needed to do it."

"Fine," Ronnie conceded, and they went to the shop.

They were at the shop when Spike decided to start lecturing the Slayer and Angelus.

"You'll never be friends," then he turned to Ronnie. "And how can you be his friend after what he did to you?"

"Will…"

Just then they fell under attack by a bunch of vamps. They fought until all of them were dust and then they noticed that at some point Sam had joined into the fight. Angel froze upon seeing him.

"Lawson," he said.

"Hello, Angel, long time no see." Sam sneered.

"Sam, not now," Ronnie said as she touched his arm.

"You knew he was back in town?" Spike said. "But that's great, Duchess, don't you see, you can come with us and we can get Dru and it will be just like old times again." Spike practically pleaded with her.

"You mean after you have Willow put a love spell on her?" Ronnie scolded. "When are you ever gonna learn, Will? Me and you, we're different than other vampires. Sam and I don't love each other, and Dru is never gonna love you the way that you love her. So get over it!"

Spike stared at her in shock and then shook it off. "I'll show you. This fight really put things in perspective. I've been going about it all wrong. I'm gonna find Dru, tie her up, and torture her until she loves me again."

Ronnie rolled her eyes as he apparently hadn't heard anything she had said. "Yeah, that'll work." She scoffed at him.

"Oh," he said, "your friends are in the factory. Ta now." He said and turned on his heal.

"Wait up, chief." Lawson called after him. He turned back to Ronnie. "I better stick with him for a while to make sure he doesn't get himself staked." He kissed her and left.

They got to the factory only to discover that Cordelia had been stabbed with a rebar and had to be rushed to the hospital. The reason she had fallen on it was that she was running away from finding Xander and Willow kissing while they were being held captive.

Ronnie couldn't even find it in her to feel sorry for Willow and Xander that Cordy and Oz wouldn't talk to them. Yes they were her friends, but they had crossed a major line in having this affair. She was definitely siding with Oz on this.

"What's wrong with me, Buffy?" Ronnie asked as she sat in Buffy's room later the next night.

"Nothing more than what's wrong with me." Buffy replied. "I fell in love with a vampire with a soul."

"I fell in love with a soulless vampire." Ronnie countered.

"Then mine lost his soul."

"Mine is in love with our insane Sire."

"I had to kill mine."

"I left mine to join the other side."

"I can't even get over him to have a normal, human boyfriend." Buffy said referencing her currently failing relationship with Scott Hope.

"I have casual sex with another soulless vampire that's best friends with the one I love." Ronnie finally defined her relationship with Lawson.

"I call draw," Buffy finally said. "Now let's go drown our mutual sorrows in some Ben and Jerry's."

"Deal," Ronnie nodded.

A/N: Okay, now I don't know if I want to write The Wish because it has little relevance to Ronnie. However, I adore Vamp!Willow, therefore I am asking you to weigh in. Yay or nay? Review!