Title: Vanilla and Kinks

Author: Witchy Red

Disclaimer: I don't own any of them

Distribution: Bloody Kisses, NHA, fanfiction.net

Summary: Willow finds out the family secret (Willow/Spike)

Rating: R

Sunnydale 1999:

(Part 1) The sun shone down on the southern California high school campus. Three girls sat together under a tree. They were as different in personalities as they were in looks.

One blonde and classically beautiful her confidence and youth showed in her face but her eyes held grief and a loss that was unexplainable. She knew what sorrow was. She had been there and lived there still in her dreams.

The next was brunette and sexy. She attracted and repelled men simultaneously. She showed a tough and dangerous persona but inside she was vulnerable. She had seen more than anyone should ever have to see. She had been through hell and survived.

The last was a red head with a quiet prettiness. She had a shy smile and sedate manner but in her eyes was a passion and fire that exceeded her friends. She was strong and dangerous. Power coursed through her veins but she let no one close enough to notice. She had been protector of her family and friends for too many years to count. She knew their problems and their desires but they know nothing of hers.

These three girls sat on the grass under the tree and thought nothing of their problems. They talked and laughed like any other teenage girls. They took this time out from the real world and experienced happiness.

"So anyway we get back to my apartment and he's like are you going to ask me up. I wasn't but I changed my mind. He was cute and I was horny. So what's a girl to do?" Faith said laughing. Willow and Buffy moaned in faux disgust. Willow looked up from braiding Buffy's hair and rolled her eyes at Faith.

"Was he any good?" Buffy wanted to know.

"Straight vanilla. I almost fell asleep in the middle." Faith answered.

"What's vanilla?" Buffy asked.

"Straight shit, no kinks. Probably missionary." Willow answered her without thinking. Buffy and Faith looked at her. Willow realized what she had said and blushed. "Or so I've heard." She mumbled.

"Just what are you and Oz doing to each other?" Faith asked teasingly.

"Oz and I aren't doing anything to each other. We broke up. It wasn't the same after the whole Xander fiasco."

"I'm sorry, Will" Buffy said sympathetically.

"It's okay. I should have realized something was wrong when I cheated. I wouldn't have if we were cool. I just wish I hadn't hurt him."

"So, Red, if wolfboy's no longer in the picture who's teaching you all these naughty things?" Faith asked.

"No one!" Willow said a little too forcefully. "I told you I just read it somewhere." Her face turned the same shade of red as Buffy's painted nails and she busied herself at picking imaginary lint off her sweater.

"Willow's got a new spank buddy." Faith taunted. Buffy smiled and started poking at Willow.

"So who is he? Is he cute? Is he rich? Is he a demon in your computer?" Buffy asked teasingly.

"I told you it's no one!"

"Then why does your face match your hair?" Buffy asked.

"I'm hot. I may be coming down with something. I should go to the nurse." Willow stammered. She got up and hurried away hearing Buffy and Faith's laughter as she went.

After school Buffy and Faith were in the library training. Faith held a punching bag while Buffy attacked it.

"So who do you think Willow is seeing?" Faith asked. Buffy paused in her display of violence and gave Faith a look.

"Willow? I have no idea. If she really is seeing someone new then he definitely isn't her usual type teaching her naughty stuff like that. Maybe he'll be good for her. She needs someone to just want Willow for Willow and to get her to have some fun." Buffy said.

"Oz didn't want Willow for Willow?" Faith asked.

"No, Oz hung onto Willow's humanity like it was the light to heaven. He didn't want Willow he wanted someone who didn't think he was a monster."

"Maybe Willow needs a monster who has accepted the fact." Faith said.

"Or maybe she needs a normal human." Buffy countered.

"Maybe you two should concentrate on training and let Willow run her own life." Giles said as he walked out of the office and into the main room of the library. Buffy and Faith blushed at being caught gossiping and went back to beating the hell out of the punching bag. Well, until Buffy punched a hole through it. Then the girls worked at hand to hand.

After training Buffy and Faith went out on patrol. They walked idly through St. Francis cemetery staking the occasional vampire. It was a pretty slow night and they ended up sitting in front of a fresh grave waiting for a fledgling to rise. Buffy perched on a grave and Faith hung from a low branch of a maple tree. They stared impatiently at a small grave that read, Michelle Brennan, loved and cherished forever. Michelle had yet to wake up.

"There is no way that Willow needs a normal human. He couldn't deal or accept her." Faith said.

"Accept what?" Buffy asked. "Somebody normal would do her good."

"Somebody normal would never understand about her Wicca or about what we do and Willow wouldn't be able to keep a part of herself that's so big from somebody she loved." Faith countered.

"So, what, you think she needs a monster. Maybe she should go out and get busy with the first demon she sees?" Buffy exclaimed becoming upset.

"I just think she needs someone who will love and understand her." Faith said trying to calm Buffy down. She was so high strung these days.

"So, do I." Buffy said. Then she turned her head. Faith waited a few minutes and then tried to start the conversation again.

"So, how are we gonna find out who the new hottie is?" Faith asked after a moment.

"I don't know. I don't know why she's been hiding him from us." Buffy replied still acting a little offended.

"She probably just wanted something that was her own for a while. She wanted a secret.

"Willow has secrets. She's Wicca girl. It doesn't get more mysterious than that." Buffy replied.

"She's not mysterious. She's, watch out!" Faith called. The fledgling had risen and was barreling toward Buffy. Buffy hopped off of the gravestone and punched the vamp in the face. The vampire stumbled back into Faith who had dropped from her tree branch onto the ground. Faith pulled her stake up into the vampire's heart. She sneezed when vamp dust blew into her face.

"Great, now I need a shower." Faith said as she spit dust out of her mouth. Buffy couldn't stop laughing. She clutched her stomach and fell to the ground her hysterical laughter ringing out into the night. Faith growled and tackled her. They sparred for several minutes before the snapping of a twig from behind had them both whirling, ready to attack. It was Angel. Buffy visibly relaxed and walked over to her love. Faith took an extra minute to let down her guard. She made sure Angel knew she didn't trust him and was just waiting for the time he would return to the dark.

"What's up?" Buffy asked Angel.

"Spike's back in town." He replied.

"Spike? Isn't he that vamp that helped you last year?" Faith asked Buffy.

"Yeah, he's Angel's childe. Angel, are you sure? Why would Spike be back?"

"I'm sure. No one knows why he's back. They say he's alone and I can't feel Drusilla anywhere near the Hellmouth."

"Why would he leave Drusilla?" Buffy asked.

"Maybe she left him, again." Angel said. The slayers barely caught his sarcasm.

Panting the two lovers fell back onto the mattress. One managed to pull a sheet up over their sweat soaked bodies before they fell into an exhausted sleep, the blonde vampire spooning his red head. Willow smiled into her pillow before she slept thinking of the conversation she had had with Faith and Buffy the day before. What would they do if they knew who was teaching her stuff. Buffy would freak out. Spike was their enemy. He had tried to kill them. He still might kill me if he doesn't slow down. I just do not have the stamina he does. Willow thought to herself. She couldn't prevent the small chuckle that escaped from her mouth. She was glad that Spike was already asleep. Willow pictured what Faith's reaction would be. It's okay to fuck the bad guys, she would say, as long as you don't get involved. Willow sighed. She was up to her neck in being involved. Spike and her had a relationship of sorts. It wasn't love. Willow knew that. It was more that they understood each other. Spike understood her need to be wild sometimes and how she was reveling in her newfound power. He knew that she wasn't just shy little Willow anymore. She was still shy but there was more confidence and a better self-esteem.

Willow understood that he wasn't just a psychopathic killer. He could feel and care. He just chose not to care about most. It wouldn't do for him to begin to think about his meals as actual people. As far as Willow knew she was the first human that he had ever had a relationship with.

But her friends would never understand. All they would see was a vampire that had tried to murder them on numerous occasions. Willow sighed again and closed her eyes. Sleep soon drove away her worries.

The next night found the Scooby gang in the library researching. Willow rushed in a few minutes late. Buffy looked over at her gravely.

"What's wrong, Buff?" Willow asked.

"Spike's back in town. Luckily he decided he didn't need to bring Dru, so it's only him." Buffy replied. Willow felt her stomach drop. A rush of panic filled her but she kept her face as calm as possible.

"Are you sure?" She asked. Buffy nodded the affirmative.

"Don't worry, Will. He's not going to get anywhere near you." Xander said bravely. Misinterpreting her reaction.

"I'm not worried. When did he get into town?"

"About a week ago. Seems he's kept a low profile. Spike isn't stupid." Buffy told her.

"Maybe he's just passing through." Willow said hopefully.

"I don't think so. Something's up. I'm going to find out what." Willow nodded her head and sunk down onto a chair. Her mind was racing. This was so not good.

After the meeting Willow rushed to the old abandoned house that Spike was staying in. It had been empty for as long as Willow could remember. It was a reputed haunted house and as children Willow, Xander and Jesse used to dare each other to go into it at night as Willow was sure kids still did, although not recently. It wouldn't be good for children to be sneaking in to where a master vampire was staying so Willow had cast a spell to repel them.

Willow hurried up the walk and to the front door. Spike opened it before she could and stood in front of her looking scrumptiously sleepy. When he saw her he opened his arms and she walked into them.

"What's wrong?" He asked quietly. He pressed his face to her hair and breathed in her scent. It was a familiar scent of vanilla and something uniquely Willow.

"Buffy, Angel, everybody, they know you're here. They're going to come looking for you. You can't stay. They'll find you." Willow muttered into his t-shirt clad chest. Spike stiffened. Then he forced himself to relax. No way was his sire and his sire's bitch going to take him away from Willow. Earlier that night Spike realized that he was falling in love with the red headed witch and nobody was going to make him leave her.

"I'm not going anywhere. Don't worry. It'll be fine. If we can't make them understand I'll just kill them." Spike said. Willow gasped and took a step away from him.

"You cannot kill my friends Spike. Killing your lover's friends is what you call a mistake." She said in a chastising voice. Spike smiled down and answered her lightly.

"Don't worry, Pet. I was joking. I won't kill your friends," Unless they bitch too much about us. Then they're meat. Spike thought darkly to himself. "Now why don't you come inside and we can put that marvelous brain of yours to better things then the Scooby Gang. We'll worry about them tomorrow." Willow didn't look very convinced but she allowed herself to be pulled inside and she did find something else to concentrate on, or someone else