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The bar Spike and Faye ended up at was not what Faye had in mind when she suggested dinner, but it had drinks and played good music, so she wasn't complaining about crappy food. The waiter seated them in a booth and left with their order for drinks.

"So Spike,' Faye started as she pulled out a cigarette, "Tell me, any hearts broken in any ports throughout the solar system? There has to be at least one, chicks love bounty hunters ya know. Aura of danger and mystery and all."

Faye paused to take a drag on the cigarette and gave Spike a mocking smile.

"Oh come on, no kiss and tell?"

Spike reached across the table and pulled the cigarette from her fingers to inhale himself. Leaning back against the wall, Spike gave Faye a bored, lazy look.

"Definitely not." Spike stated sardonically; "Gentlemen never kiss and tell."

Faye leaned across the table. "Funny, I never mistook you for a gentlemen."

Spike also leaned forward. "And I never mistook you for a gossip."

Faye stared into Spike's mis-colored eyes as his flicked across her face.

 "Let's just call it mild curiosity." Faye said softly.

The waiter chose that moment to bring their drinks, thus effectively breaking the spell that took them both by surprise.

'What am I doing?' thought Spike as he picked up the glass and drained it.

'What is he doing?' Faye thought as Spike basically gulped down the brandy he ordered. A look of horror crossed her face as she watched him. "Hey, didn't anyone ever tell you good booze is supposed to be appreciated slowly, not slammed down like water?"

Spike looked at Faye as he realized the sudden turning of his stomach was a result of the liquor, not Faye and whatever passed between them just then. "Since when did you become a connoisseur of cheap alcohol?" 

"Since cheap alcohol is all I can afford." Faye retorted. Spike smirked at that.

Aside from the fact that she was a woman, and annoying as hell, Spike really liked Faye. That is he liked her when she wasn't stealing, or plotting, or complaining. He thought she had a great sense of humor that really suited his own; and he liked that she was hard-edged. In fact, Faye was becoming the first female friend he ever had.

And that was exactly what Faye considered a problem.

"Pictures last longer." Faye said, leaning back in her usual pose, her red shirt sliding off her shoulders.

"What?" Spike said, giving her a puzzled look.

Faye smiled slowly, "You're staring."

"Oh." Spike said as he realized he was staring "Actually I was thinking."

Faye's face dropped. 'And here I thought all of a sudden I was irresistible.' She thought.

"So, since I can't keep your mind on the conversation, suppose you tell me what you were thinking?"

Spike looked around the bar as he replied "I was thinking that I'd like the waiter to come for our order so I can eat already."

Faye suddenly became very angry. She didn't know why or where it came from. She just knew she'd really like to do some bodily harm, mostly on Spike. "Well since I can't keep your concentration for five minutes, why the hell did you agree to take me out to dinner?" Spike raised his eyebrow at her question. "Me invite you? Who dragged whom out here?"

Faye waved that off with her hand, sending ashes from her cigarette across the table.

"Insignificant details. The point is, why even bother coming if you can't talk to me?"

"Isn't that what we're doing now?" Spike pointed out with a grin. However he wasn't grinning a moment later when Faye "accidentally" spilled the rest of her drink into his lap.

"Sorry about that, I couldn't resist. Usually I deal with overconfident assholes differently, but we're in a public place." She said ironically as Spike scrambled to move and clean himself off.

"Great. This is what I get for taking you to dinner." Spike muttered.

"But Spike, You didn't take me, remember? I invited you." Faye said sweetly with a mocking grin. "But if you insist, then I'll let you pay for the check, since you did take me out. It's only the fair thing after all.

By the end of her sentence, Faye had gathered her things and was walking out the bar without having eaten at all. She left an angry Spike cleaning himself off, cursing at her back

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