Til there was you

Chapter 2

Buffy slowly pulled back from Spike's embrace. She looked up into his eyes. They asked for love, caring, friendship and her. He stood there looking deep into her mind. He was still numb by the news of Buffy's love. He wanted to ask her whether they would become something now. Spike wanted her so badly, he knew though somehow the only way to get Buffy is to become human and he was sure that would never happen.

' What do I do now? Shall I walk of? Shall I carry on kissing? What do I do know?' Buffy thought as she looked at him. Spike answered her by leaning down and slowly kissing her. Inside her two voices were shouting at her. ' Go on Buffy, this is what you wanted isn't it, go for it, you'll never know if it will work if you don't try' and the other voice was saying ' He's a vampire, your a vampire slayer, you know what to do, walk away, leave your troubles behind you.'

Buffy thought and however much she thought about it the first voice agreed with her more.

"We better go find the vamps," Buffy said after she pulled back.

" Ok" Spike said annoyed. Spike didn't show it but he was the happiest man in the world but he had a reputation to uphold.

They held hands as they headed towards the cemetery. Buffy felt like she had come home.

Later that night: Magic Box

The scooby gang were still seated around the table talking about not very much when Spike and Buffy came in the door.

"Any luck?" asked Willow

"Nothing, very boring, what have you guys been talking about?" Buffy answered.

" Not much, just talking about the past with every sentence starting with

'Hey, do you remember the time....' "Xander said.

"I reckon tomorrow we should all go out and hunt for these vampires, I know it's dangerous but we'll cover more ground" Willow put-in.

" Where's niblet?" Spike asked, looking around him.

"Asleep, I hope. I'm going to bed now, night all" Willow said as she got up and walked upstairs.

Anya and Xander also got up" better get going, we have to go and have the wild monkey sex" Anya said bluntly.

" Anya, let's go" Xander said.

When they got to the door Buffy said goodbye and saw them off. She turned to the living room and saw Spike standing there with a smile.

"What? You better get going" Buffy said as she opened the door and walked onto her lawn. She slowly hooked her arms around Spike's neck as he slowly put his hands around her hips and they embraced in a slow, soft kiss. Spike knew they had a relationship now.

What they didn't notice was an opened-mouthed 15yr old sitting at her bedroom window looking at them. Dawn looked at them for what seemed like forever. She had so many questions that she wanted answered but they could wait. She knew that from tomorrow she could have alot of fun. She smiled.

Next morning: Buffy's house

"Morning, how are you?" Dawn said chirpily.

"Fine" Buffy said with a suspicious look.

"Christmas is coming up, bad time of year for you, I mean SINGLE and all" Dawn said almost shouting 'single'.

"Sure I guess" Buffy said eyeing Dawn up and down.

"Hard time of year, your spending alot of time with Spike at the moment. Good friends?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"Just wondering, anyway I'll see you later. Bye Buffy and have a nice time with Spike" Dawn said smiling as she walked out the door so her sis didn't have time to respond.

Buffy was struck down in her prime. She was speechless. She decided not to go see Spike during the day but to see him around 9.30pm.

After School Dawn ran to Spike's crypt and asked him aload of questions about his 'friendship' with Buffy. Spike was very confused and so as soon as it was dark he decided to take a walk to Buffy's.

He got outside his crypt and lit a fag. He started walking towards Buffy's house when he did a fight going on. he knew who was in the fight, Buffy and some lame vampire. He walked up to where the fight was taking place and saw Buffy dusted the vamp and turned round to face Spike.

" Oh, hey, were meant to meeting everyone at my house soon to go hunting for the invisible vampires. I'm looking forward to it" Buffy said sarcastically.

"Great, at about 4pm today the niblet payed me a visit. She was acting really weirdly, asking me loads of questions about how things are going with you. Any idea's why she did this?" Spike said as he sat down on a gravestone.

" You had that too? She was acting strange around me this morning and asking questions, I figured she had reached that age when she wanted to take an interest in my life" Buffy said with a little smile.

"Or what would make aload more sense is she know"

"About what?"

"Us"

"What about us? oh, nah, I mean how would she of found out, no one else knows" Buffy said looking nervous." I mean she would ask us about it, wouldn't she? She wouldn't mess with us, Would she?"

" We are talking about the lil niblet here aren't we? She would mess with us." Spike said in a serious tone.

Buffy started pacing. She was very worried. What if Dawn had told everyone else?

"I reckon we go talk to Dawn" Spike said. Also looking very worried.

" Wow, you are scared, your using her real name" Buffy said.

Spike got up and gently held Buffy's hand as they walked towards their destination. Buffy's house.

Dawn was sitting in the living room eating Ben and Jerry's when she heard Buffy come in.

" How did patrol go?" Dawn asked getting up from the sofa.

Buffy and Spike walked in.

"Fine thanks" Buffy answered. She watched Dawn's face very carefully. When Dawn saw Buffy and Spike a smile came across her face.

'They look so right for eachother' she thought as she looked at them side by side.

"Uh........Dawn we need to talk" Buffy said as her a Spike sat down on the couch.

" Errrrr..........about what?"

" Me and Spike" Buffy said.

" oh...I already know about you and Spike, it's not new news" Dawn said smiling.

" What do you now? And how did you find out?" Buffy said smiling at Spike who had kept unusually quiet.

" Well, I know you two are together and I find out last night, it was kinda a big shock. I was at my window when you and Spike came onto the lawn and then there was kissage. At first I was angry at why you didn't tell me and then I was really happy that you had found love. Real sweet" Dawn said."And no, I haven't told anyone............yet"

"Well we would really like it if you didn't tell anyone and let us do the talking lil bit," Spike asked.

"But if I leave it to you guys, you'll have a secret wedding and a secret child and then on your death bed you'll say to everyone ' oh by the way me and spike are married and we have a son' "

"Errrr.....vamps can't have kids niblet" Spike put in.

" It's an example Spike" Dawn said. Dawn got up and as she exited the room she said, " by the way, when I said I hadn't told anyone, I meant living, I've told peaches, hope you don't mind."

"WHAT?" Buffy and Spike said in unison looking at eachother.