Chapter Five: Good Morning, Starshine
Buffy woke up, strong arms around her. She looked up, seeing Spike, and this time she didn't freak out. She kissed Spike, and his arms wrapped around her even tighter.
"Hello love," Spike said, opening his arms.
"Hey, you okay?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah," Spike said. "What time is it?" He asked.
"Almost seven-thirty," Buffy said.
"Seems earlier," Spike said. Buffy kissed him.
"This feels like love," She said.
Spike smiled at her. "You know...we have time before class, who needs food?" He said.
"What did you have in mind?" Buffy asked, and he kissed her.
* * *
Buffy and Spike didn't show up to breakfast that morning, and only Willow was suspicious. For class, Buffy and Spike stumbled into class, a few minutes before the bell.
"Good morning class," Buffy said. "So, where did we leave off yesterday?" She asked.
"We talked about vampires and sunlight," Hermione reminded her.
"Good, okay, I think we've covered vampires enough, unless there's any questions?" Buffy asked.
"What happened to the other three vampires?" Malfoy asked. He knew about Drusilla, and saw pain streak across Spike's face.
"You're an ass Malfoy," Harry said.
"And you're parentless, what's your point?" Malfoy sneered, receiving snickers from the Slytherins.
Harry moved towards Malfoy, but Dawn got there first, and punched him, breaking his nose. Ron let out a hoot of laughter.
"Don't ever say a thing like that again," Dawn warned.
"What are you gonna do about it Mudblood?" Malfoy asked.
Harry threw himself at Malfoy, giving Malfoy a black eye.
Soon chaos was breaking out, with Lavender and her friends running up to Spike, holding on to him for protection. Spike shook them off, rolling his eyes. He broke up Harry, Dawn, Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Ron, and Hermione, all who had been fighting.
He winked at Dawn. "Alright, that's enough. Now look you bloody idiot, you're daddy's Lucius right? Well word out in the demon world is that he's been stealing expensive stuff from a few of the demons. What if I let that information slip to the Ministry, or better yet, the demons themselves? They think it proper to take the son of the theif as payment," Spike said. "Usually they castrate you first."
Malfoy gulped.
"All seven of you will have detention," Spike said. "Those in Gryffindor, will report to my office after dinner. Those in Slytherin," He said, casting Malfoy a wicked glance, "will report to Mr. Filch."
The bell rang, and the class raced out of the room, desperate to spread the gossip. Dawn stayed after. "Sorry about disrupting your class, it won't happen again," She apologized.
"It's all right," Spike said. "It was worth it to see you break his nose," Spike laughed.
"Well, see you later," Dawn said, then stopped. "Um, Buffy, you know you're wearing the same clothes as you did yesterday right?" She asked.
Buffy stared at her. "Oh well um I like them so much I decided to wear them again," She said quickly.
"Okay..." Dawn said, leaving.
Buffy walked over to Spike, holding his hand in hers. "You okay?" She asked.
"Yea love, just a little frightened is all," Spike said, kissing her on the forehead.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Dawn won't get into any more trouble," Buffy said. Spike looked at her a moment.
"That's not what scares me. What scares me is one of those girls put this in my pocket," Spike said, pulling out a small piece of parchment. In small, loopy writing, was scrawled, "I love you!!!"
"That is fright worthy," Buffy said, kissing him, "You're all mine."
"Hey guys guess what?" Willow said, coming through the door. Buffy and Spike tried to move away from each other, but they weren't fast enough.
"Hey Willow," Buffy smiled.
"Nice try, I saw the whole thing. I only came to let you know that you might want to put the shade over the window to keep people from looking in at you," she said.
"Looking in to see what?" Buffy asked innocently.
"You two making out,"Willow said. "Just thought I'd let you know," Willow said, pulling down the shade over the window.
"So Red knows," Spike said.
"I kinda told her that we slept together," Buffy said. "When I was all mad at you."
"So what are we going to do? Hide it from them?" Spike asked, looking at her with his blue eyes.
Buffy gulped. His eyes were filled with love for her, but she knew he couldn't take any more pain.
"No, we should tell them, they'd want to know. Or they might not, but they deserve to know," Buffy said.
"After dinner then?" Spike asked.
"Before," Buffy said. She didn't think she would be able to eat. Butterflies were flying around her stomach, as if she had a tornado in there.
"It'll be alright love," Spike said, embracing her.
"I know," Buffy lied. She didn't think it would be all right at all.
* * *
"Alright, out of all the new professors, who'se you're favorite?" Fred asked Ron.
"Professor Chase," Ron said immediately. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Now whose the one falling for good looking teachers?" She remarked.
"I'd have to say Fred," Neville said. Since Fred had taken over Potions, Neville was doing remarkably well.
"Professor Gunn," Hermione said. "He has such an intresting view on the Muggle world," She said.
"And it doesn't hurt that he's good looking right Hermione?" Ron laughed.
"Shove off Ron," She muttered.
"Personally, I'm going with Anya, she makes History of Magic so...fascinating," George said.
"She's engaged to Xander," Dawn said, not looking up from her book.
"Damn!" George swore. "Then I'd have to say Tara, she's beautiful," George said, getting moon-eyes.
"She's with Willow," Dawn stated.
"You mean the Herbology teacher? Damn it," George cursed.
"Our favorite is Spike!" Lavender Brown and Patty Patil screeched.
"No one asked you," Fred muttered. "Most the girls are going bonkers for Spike and Professor Harris, it's a nightmare," Fred remarked.
"I like Defense Against the Dark Arts," Harry said. "We're learning something useful," He said.
"Useful? We've studied vampires the entire time. You stake them, they turn to dust. You cut off their heads, they turn to dust. Boring," Dawn replied. "But that could just be me, I mean having to live on the hellmouth and all," She said as the group stared at her.
"You lived on a hellmouth?" Hermione exclaimed.
"What's a hellmouth?" Ron asked.
"Honestly, I'm beginning to think you two don't know how to read," Hermione rolled her eyes. "A hellmouth is a spot where an apocolypse can happen," She explained.
"Several," Dawn breathed.
"I read in the Daily Prophet that there were several Muggle attacks in a town called Sunnydale. Several muggles went insane," Hermione said.
"Oh that was this evil hellgod, Glory. She sucked out people's brains and ate them," Dawn said. "Oh but she's dead now," Dawn assured. "We killed her," Dawn explained.
"Dawn?" Tara called.
"Over here," Dawn replied.
"Buffy wanted to talk to you, you know, sister stuff," Tara said. Dawn understood the message. Slayer stuff.
"I'll see you guys later," Dawn said, and left with Tara.
* * *
"So what's the deal?" Cordelia asked. The L.A. Gang and the Scoobies were all in Buffy's room.
"Well we've been doing quite a bit of research," Gile started. "Seeing as we're in a library and all. Anyways, we've found a few prophecies thought to be lost for years to the world. They deal with this evil lord, Voldemort, and his demolishing of the entire world," Giles stated.
"Another apocolypse? But I just got my nails done," Anya said.
"Hey that's the wizarding Big Bad that killed Harry's parents!" Dawn exclaimed.
"No, this is the other Lord Voldemort. Voldemort is the English version of Joey," Xander joked.
"No, I mean he's like this big bad wizard who hates all muggles, and wants to kill them all," Dawn said.
"Yes, it seems to say that he will destroy or enslave all the human race, and something called pure-bloods will rule the world," Wesley said.
"Pure-bloods are wizards who come from wizarding families that only have wizards, no humans at all," Tara explained. "This is bad, does Dumbledore know?" She asked.
"Well not exactly, because there's one small detail that I thought you should know first," Giles said. "In the prophecies, it speaks of the key items that Voldemort would need in order to gain this extraordinary power," Giles looked at Buffy. "He needs blood, blood from the person who brought him his downfall, and blood from the strongest human alive," Giles said.
"How much blood?" Buffy asked.
"All of it. He takes the blood, and does a ceremony or spell, I'm not sure exactly, and then drinks the blood, and then baths in it," Giles said.
"Well then we just make sure he doesn't get it," Buffy said, her voice containing no emotions.
"Right, that's always the plan," Giles said.
Buffy sighed, and looked around. It was now or never. Never isn't a bad thing, Buffy thought, but then cleared her throat. "Um, guys, I have to tell you something," She said. Willow looked at her, her mouth forming in an O of surprise.
"Guys, um, I just wanted to tell you that..." Buffy looked at Spike, and saw that he was waiting to see what she would do. Don't hurt him, don't be a bitch. Buffy warned. "I'm with Spike," She said quickly.
"With him on what?" Dawn asked. "Was there another issue or something?"
"Did we have a vote? It's only democratic to let everyone vote," Anya said.
"No, I mean I'm WITH Spike, as in together," Buffy explained.
"Yeah, you guys are together right now," Xander said. "What's you're point? I'm together with Gunn," he said.
"NO! Together, as in together! Like this," Buffy said, and wrapped her arms around Spike, kissing him.
The entire group stared, except for Willow who was trying to see everyone's reactions. Buffy pulled away, and Spike entwined his fingers with hers.
"I'm not together with Gunn that way," was all Xander could say.
"You...and Spike...are a couple?" Cordelia asked.
"Yes," Buffy said, smiling. Spike knew she was nervous because she was gripping his hand so hard that if he was human it would be broken.
"But Spike's a vampire," Xander said. "As in the kind without a soul."
"So, that doesn't mean he's not good, partly," Buffy said.
"Yeah, and when Angel didn't have his soul, he wanted to kill her. I don't," Spike said.
"We all know what you want from her," Xander muttered.
"XANDER!" Buffy, Willow, Anya, and Tara yelled, looking at Dawn.
"And besides, that's not totally true," Spike said. "Isn't that how you and Anya got together?"
"That's different, she's totally human now," Xander said.
"So if I wasn't human you would have never had sex with me?" Anya asked.
"Honey, that's not true either," Xander said.
"Well it's being implyed, and I for one would like to know the answer," Anya argued.
Giles took off his glasses, and began to clean them.
"Hey!" Buffy said. "No, you guys, I'm happy, please try to accept this," Buffy said.
"I support you Buffy," Willow said.
"I always liked her, smart she is," Spike said.
"Me too, I think it's good," Tara said.
"Why don't the powers ever send me fun stuff, gossipy visions?" Cordelia asked.
"Buffy I support you for having sex with a non-human. I'm glad some people can look above that," Anya sniffed.
"I would totally have sex with you if you were a demon," Xander said.
"Sure, you say that now," Anya huffed. "You can't even be happy for Buffy, then how do I know you're truely happy about this marriage?" Anya said.
"Buff, I'm happy for you. I'm sorry it couldn't be someone other than Spike, but I'm glad you're happy," Xander said.
"Oh, sweetie," Anya said, kissing him.
Giles continued to clean his glasses.
Dawn was silent.
"Dawn?" Buffy asked. "Are you okay?"
"So I get in trouble for parking with a vamp, when you've been with Spike the whole time?" Dawn asked, but everyone knew she was joking. "Figures, he's the one you'd go out with every night," Dawn said. "You guys could have at least brought me back a pizza," She joked.
"So you're okay with this," Buffy asked.
"As long as I get pizzas," Dawn smiled.
"Giles?" Buffy asked.
"I find this, as Xander would say, extremely disturbing, but that could just be from the constant kissing," Giles said.
"You can put your glasses back on, we'll be good," Anya promised.
"Thanks everso," Giles said.
"Well since I'm not getting a pizza, I'm going to dinner," Dawn said.
"I'll go with you," Buffy said. Once they were out of the room, she turned to Dawn. "Are you really okay with all this?" She asked.
"Are you kidding? It's totally fine. I mean you guys are always the ones looking out for me, he wouldn't let me out of his sight the entire summer, and he loves you alot. I'm happy that you guys are happy, the whole happy vibe thing is good," Dawn grinned. "Can we eat now?" She asked, and Buffy noticed that she was extremely jumpy.
"What's up? Excited to see someone?" Buffy asked.
"No, not at all," Dawn said quickly. "Just want the food," She smiled.
"You go ahead, I have to remind Giles to take a break from researching and eat," Buffy said.
"Alright, see you later!" Dawn called, and dissappeared.
Buffy returned, and they all headed to the great hall to eat. As she sat down next to Spike, she noticed that Dawn was sitting next to Harry, gazing at him with big moon eyes.
"Oh my God," Buffy said, dropping her fork.
"Love, I know that you were nervous, but I'm sure you're not going to throw up," Spike said.
"No, no not that! Look at Dawn!" Buffy said.
"Yea, she's eating food. A teenage girl eating, young people these days," Spike remarked.
"No, I mean she's all lovey dovey eyes at Harry!" Buffy hissed. "That's why she wanted to go to dinner. She's got a crush on him!" Buffy said.
"Don't be ridiculous," Spike said, looking at Buffy, then Dawn. "They're just friends...bloody hell, she's got a crush on him!" Spike said, recognizing the look Dawn had on her face. It was one that he had with Buffy.
"I told you. This is not good," Buffy stated.
"Voldemort's after Harry and you, and Dawn's a common factor," Spike realized.
"We have to keep her from liking him," Buffy said. "Oh! We can do a class chart, and put them on opposite sides of the room. And everyone else can too!" She said.
"It'll take alot more than seating charts to keep them apart love," Spike reminded her.
"Then we have to get her to like someone else," Buffy said.
"Well, then you can't go for any ordinary boy. You have to pick an opposite, someone is the exact opposite of Harry," Spike said. "I hate to do this to the bit, but I think we only have one choice," Spike sighed. "Draco Malfoy."
"Are you kidding? She hates him, and he's a jerk! She'd never go for anyone like him!" Buffy argued.
"Maybe she'll make him change, become good," Spike said. "You did."
"But that's different," Buffy protested.
"How? He's not even a killer, I was," Spike said.
"But you were human once, a nice non-mean, poetic human. He's human now, and he's not a nice person," Buffy said.
"It's the only option," Spike said. "I don't like it any better than you do, but I'd take it over Dawn dead or hurt," he said.
"You really do care about her don't you?" Buffy asked.
"Tell anyone, and I'll kill you," Spike said.
"Fine, I guess it's our only option." Buffy sighed.
* * *
Buffy woke up, strong arms around her. She looked up, seeing Spike, and this time she didn't freak out. She kissed Spike, and his arms wrapped around her even tighter.
"Hello love," Spike said, opening his arms.
"Hey, you okay?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah," Spike said. "What time is it?" He asked.
"Almost seven-thirty," Buffy said.
"Seems earlier," Spike said. Buffy kissed him.
"This feels like love," She said.
Spike smiled at her. "You know...we have time before class, who needs food?" He said.
"What did you have in mind?" Buffy asked, and he kissed her.
* * *
Buffy and Spike didn't show up to breakfast that morning, and only Willow was suspicious. For class, Buffy and Spike stumbled into class, a few minutes before the bell.
"Good morning class," Buffy said. "So, where did we leave off yesterday?" She asked.
"We talked about vampires and sunlight," Hermione reminded her.
"Good, okay, I think we've covered vampires enough, unless there's any questions?" Buffy asked.
"What happened to the other three vampires?" Malfoy asked. He knew about Drusilla, and saw pain streak across Spike's face.
"You're an ass Malfoy," Harry said.
"And you're parentless, what's your point?" Malfoy sneered, receiving snickers from the Slytherins.
Harry moved towards Malfoy, but Dawn got there first, and punched him, breaking his nose. Ron let out a hoot of laughter.
"Don't ever say a thing like that again," Dawn warned.
"What are you gonna do about it Mudblood?" Malfoy asked.
Harry threw himself at Malfoy, giving Malfoy a black eye.
Soon chaos was breaking out, with Lavender and her friends running up to Spike, holding on to him for protection. Spike shook them off, rolling his eyes. He broke up Harry, Dawn, Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Ron, and Hermione, all who had been fighting.
He winked at Dawn. "Alright, that's enough. Now look you bloody idiot, you're daddy's Lucius right? Well word out in the demon world is that he's been stealing expensive stuff from a few of the demons. What if I let that information slip to the Ministry, or better yet, the demons themselves? They think it proper to take the son of the theif as payment," Spike said. "Usually they castrate you first."
Malfoy gulped.
"All seven of you will have detention," Spike said. "Those in Gryffindor, will report to my office after dinner. Those in Slytherin," He said, casting Malfoy a wicked glance, "will report to Mr. Filch."
The bell rang, and the class raced out of the room, desperate to spread the gossip. Dawn stayed after. "Sorry about disrupting your class, it won't happen again," She apologized.
"It's all right," Spike said. "It was worth it to see you break his nose," Spike laughed.
"Well, see you later," Dawn said, then stopped. "Um, Buffy, you know you're wearing the same clothes as you did yesterday right?" She asked.
Buffy stared at her. "Oh well um I like them so much I decided to wear them again," She said quickly.
"Okay..." Dawn said, leaving.
Buffy walked over to Spike, holding his hand in hers. "You okay?" She asked.
"Yea love, just a little frightened is all," Spike said, kissing her on the forehead.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Dawn won't get into any more trouble," Buffy said. Spike looked at her a moment.
"That's not what scares me. What scares me is one of those girls put this in my pocket," Spike said, pulling out a small piece of parchment. In small, loopy writing, was scrawled, "I love you!!!"
"That is fright worthy," Buffy said, kissing him, "You're all mine."
"Hey guys guess what?" Willow said, coming through the door. Buffy and Spike tried to move away from each other, but they weren't fast enough.
"Hey Willow," Buffy smiled.
"Nice try, I saw the whole thing. I only came to let you know that you might want to put the shade over the window to keep people from looking in at you," she said.
"Looking in to see what?" Buffy asked innocently.
"You two making out,"Willow said. "Just thought I'd let you know," Willow said, pulling down the shade over the window.
"So Red knows," Spike said.
"I kinda told her that we slept together," Buffy said. "When I was all mad at you."
"So what are we going to do? Hide it from them?" Spike asked, looking at her with his blue eyes.
Buffy gulped. His eyes were filled with love for her, but she knew he couldn't take any more pain.
"No, we should tell them, they'd want to know. Or they might not, but they deserve to know," Buffy said.
"After dinner then?" Spike asked.
"Before," Buffy said. She didn't think she would be able to eat. Butterflies were flying around her stomach, as if she had a tornado in there.
"It'll be alright love," Spike said, embracing her.
"I know," Buffy lied. She didn't think it would be all right at all.
* * *
"Alright, out of all the new professors, who'se you're favorite?" Fred asked Ron.
"Professor Chase," Ron said immediately. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Now whose the one falling for good looking teachers?" She remarked.
"I'd have to say Fred," Neville said. Since Fred had taken over Potions, Neville was doing remarkably well.
"Professor Gunn," Hermione said. "He has such an intresting view on the Muggle world," She said.
"And it doesn't hurt that he's good looking right Hermione?" Ron laughed.
"Shove off Ron," She muttered.
"Personally, I'm going with Anya, she makes History of Magic so...fascinating," George said.
"She's engaged to Xander," Dawn said, not looking up from her book.
"Damn!" George swore. "Then I'd have to say Tara, she's beautiful," George said, getting moon-eyes.
"She's with Willow," Dawn stated.
"You mean the Herbology teacher? Damn it," George cursed.
"Our favorite is Spike!" Lavender Brown and Patty Patil screeched.
"No one asked you," Fred muttered. "Most the girls are going bonkers for Spike and Professor Harris, it's a nightmare," Fred remarked.
"I like Defense Against the Dark Arts," Harry said. "We're learning something useful," He said.
"Useful? We've studied vampires the entire time. You stake them, they turn to dust. You cut off their heads, they turn to dust. Boring," Dawn replied. "But that could just be me, I mean having to live on the hellmouth and all," She said as the group stared at her.
"You lived on a hellmouth?" Hermione exclaimed.
"What's a hellmouth?" Ron asked.
"Honestly, I'm beginning to think you two don't know how to read," Hermione rolled her eyes. "A hellmouth is a spot where an apocolypse can happen," She explained.
"Several," Dawn breathed.
"I read in the Daily Prophet that there were several Muggle attacks in a town called Sunnydale. Several muggles went insane," Hermione said.
"Oh that was this evil hellgod, Glory. She sucked out people's brains and ate them," Dawn said. "Oh but she's dead now," Dawn assured. "We killed her," Dawn explained.
"Dawn?" Tara called.
"Over here," Dawn replied.
"Buffy wanted to talk to you, you know, sister stuff," Tara said. Dawn understood the message. Slayer stuff.
"I'll see you guys later," Dawn said, and left with Tara.
* * *
"So what's the deal?" Cordelia asked. The L.A. Gang and the Scoobies were all in Buffy's room.
"Well we've been doing quite a bit of research," Gile started. "Seeing as we're in a library and all. Anyways, we've found a few prophecies thought to be lost for years to the world. They deal with this evil lord, Voldemort, and his demolishing of the entire world," Giles stated.
"Another apocolypse? But I just got my nails done," Anya said.
"Hey that's the wizarding Big Bad that killed Harry's parents!" Dawn exclaimed.
"No, this is the other Lord Voldemort. Voldemort is the English version of Joey," Xander joked.
"No, I mean he's like this big bad wizard who hates all muggles, and wants to kill them all," Dawn said.
"Yes, it seems to say that he will destroy or enslave all the human race, and something called pure-bloods will rule the world," Wesley said.
"Pure-bloods are wizards who come from wizarding families that only have wizards, no humans at all," Tara explained. "This is bad, does Dumbledore know?" She asked.
"Well not exactly, because there's one small detail that I thought you should know first," Giles said. "In the prophecies, it speaks of the key items that Voldemort would need in order to gain this extraordinary power," Giles looked at Buffy. "He needs blood, blood from the person who brought him his downfall, and blood from the strongest human alive," Giles said.
"How much blood?" Buffy asked.
"All of it. He takes the blood, and does a ceremony or spell, I'm not sure exactly, and then drinks the blood, and then baths in it," Giles said.
"Well then we just make sure he doesn't get it," Buffy said, her voice containing no emotions.
"Right, that's always the plan," Giles said.
Buffy sighed, and looked around. It was now or never. Never isn't a bad thing, Buffy thought, but then cleared her throat. "Um, guys, I have to tell you something," She said. Willow looked at her, her mouth forming in an O of surprise.
"Guys, um, I just wanted to tell you that..." Buffy looked at Spike, and saw that he was waiting to see what she would do. Don't hurt him, don't be a bitch. Buffy warned. "I'm with Spike," She said quickly.
"With him on what?" Dawn asked. "Was there another issue or something?"
"Did we have a vote? It's only democratic to let everyone vote," Anya said.
"No, I mean I'm WITH Spike, as in together," Buffy explained.
"Yeah, you guys are together right now," Xander said. "What's you're point? I'm together with Gunn," he said.
"NO! Together, as in together! Like this," Buffy said, and wrapped her arms around Spike, kissing him.
The entire group stared, except for Willow who was trying to see everyone's reactions. Buffy pulled away, and Spike entwined his fingers with hers.
"I'm not together with Gunn that way," was all Xander could say.
"You...and Spike...are a couple?" Cordelia asked.
"Yes," Buffy said, smiling. Spike knew she was nervous because she was gripping his hand so hard that if he was human it would be broken.
"But Spike's a vampire," Xander said. "As in the kind without a soul."
"So, that doesn't mean he's not good, partly," Buffy said.
"Yeah, and when Angel didn't have his soul, he wanted to kill her. I don't," Spike said.
"We all know what you want from her," Xander muttered.
"XANDER!" Buffy, Willow, Anya, and Tara yelled, looking at Dawn.
"And besides, that's not totally true," Spike said. "Isn't that how you and Anya got together?"
"That's different, she's totally human now," Xander said.
"So if I wasn't human you would have never had sex with me?" Anya asked.
"Honey, that's not true either," Xander said.
"Well it's being implyed, and I for one would like to know the answer," Anya argued.
Giles took off his glasses, and began to clean them.
"Hey!" Buffy said. "No, you guys, I'm happy, please try to accept this," Buffy said.
"I support you Buffy," Willow said.
"I always liked her, smart she is," Spike said.
"Me too, I think it's good," Tara said.
"Why don't the powers ever send me fun stuff, gossipy visions?" Cordelia asked.
"Buffy I support you for having sex with a non-human. I'm glad some people can look above that," Anya sniffed.
"I would totally have sex with you if you were a demon," Xander said.
"Sure, you say that now," Anya huffed. "You can't even be happy for Buffy, then how do I know you're truely happy about this marriage?" Anya said.
"Buff, I'm happy for you. I'm sorry it couldn't be someone other than Spike, but I'm glad you're happy," Xander said.
"Oh, sweetie," Anya said, kissing him.
Giles continued to clean his glasses.
Dawn was silent.
"Dawn?" Buffy asked. "Are you okay?"
"So I get in trouble for parking with a vamp, when you've been with Spike the whole time?" Dawn asked, but everyone knew she was joking. "Figures, he's the one you'd go out with every night," Dawn said. "You guys could have at least brought me back a pizza," She joked.
"So you're okay with this," Buffy asked.
"As long as I get pizzas," Dawn smiled.
"Giles?" Buffy asked.
"I find this, as Xander would say, extremely disturbing, but that could just be from the constant kissing," Giles said.
"You can put your glasses back on, we'll be good," Anya promised.
"Thanks everso," Giles said.
"Well since I'm not getting a pizza, I'm going to dinner," Dawn said.
"I'll go with you," Buffy said. Once they were out of the room, she turned to Dawn. "Are you really okay with all this?" She asked.
"Are you kidding? It's totally fine. I mean you guys are always the ones looking out for me, he wouldn't let me out of his sight the entire summer, and he loves you alot. I'm happy that you guys are happy, the whole happy vibe thing is good," Dawn grinned. "Can we eat now?" She asked, and Buffy noticed that she was extremely jumpy.
"What's up? Excited to see someone?" Buffy asked.
"No, not at all," Dawn said quickly. "Just want the food," She smiled.
"You go ahead, I have to remind Giles to take a break from researching and eat," Buffy said.
"Alright, see you later!" Dawn called, and dissappeared.
Buffy returned, and they all headed to the great hall to eat. As she sat down next to Spike, she noticed that Dawn was sitting next to Harry, gazing at him with big moon eyes.
"Oh my God," Buffy said, dropping her fork.
"Love, I know that you were nervous, but I'm sure you're not going to throw up," Spike said.
"No, no not that! Look at Dawn!" Buffy said.
"Yea, she's eating food. A teenage girl eating, young people these days," Spike remarked.
"No, I mean she's all lovey dovey eyes at Harry!" Buffy hissed. "That's why she wanted to go to dinner. She's got a crush on him!" Buffy said.
"Don't be ridiculous," Spike said, looking at Buffy, then Dawn. "They're just friends...bloody hell, she's got a crush on him!" Spike said, recognizing the look Dawn had on her face. It was one that he had with Buffy.
"I told you. This is not good," Buffy stated.
"Voldemort's after Harry and you, and Dawn's a common factor," Spike realized.
"We have to keep her from liking him," Buffy said. "Oh! We can do a class chart, and put them on opposite sides of the room. And everyone else can too!" She said.
"It'll take alot more than seating charts to keep them apart love," Spike reminded her.
"Then we have to get her to like someone else," Buffy said.
"Well, then you can't go for any ordinary boy. You have to pick an opposite, someone is the exact opposite of Harry," Spike said. "I hate to do this to the bit, but I think we only have one choice," Spike sighed. "Draco Malfoy."
"Are you kidding? She hates him, and he's a jerk! She'd never go for anyone like him!" Buffy argued.
"Maybe she'll make him change, become good," Spike said. "You did."
"But that's different," Buffy protested.
"How? He's not even a killer, I was," Spike said.
"But you were human once, a nice non-mean, poetic human. He's human now, and he's not a nice person," Buffy said.
"It's the only option," Spike said. "I don't like it any better than you do, but I'd take it over Dawn dead or hurt," he said.
"You really do care about her don't you?" Buffy asked.
"Tell anyone, and I'll kill you," Spike said.
"Fine, I guess it's our only option." Buffy sighed.
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