Title: I Won't Leave Again
Chapter: Daddy and Mags
Author: Niki (SunnyGurlie)
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will.
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You guys are amazing! Thanks for reviewing, please keep it up! I know it's taking a while to set up the plot and everything, but eventually, Spike and Dawn will get together. I hope you like the chapter! More will be coming soon. I will try to update as much as possible, but this thing I have sometimes called a life often gets in the way.
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Spike wolk up on the couch, with Dawn's face hovering over him.
"I just had the weirdest dream." he said groggily, "I dreamt that Buffy and I had a daughter named Maggie, but I didn't know about it until she died."
"No dream, Spike!" said Dawn cheerfully, "Maggie really is yours."
"But how?"
"Three months before you left, there was a full moon, and you two....well....you know. Xander and Wills always assumed that it was Riley, since Buffy neither admitted or denied it, and as Xander adamantly insists, vampires can't have children. I always wanted to scream at them, because how could they even think that Buffy would do anything with Riley when he was married. I was hoping you would come back, and you two would live happily ever after."
"Bit, Happily ever after is for fairy tales, not real life."
"I know, but I can dream, can't I?" she laughed wistfully.
"The plane she was on, she was going to visit Giles. She had wanted to bring Maggie, but I convinced her that it would be best to leave her with me, as she was way too young to travel. When we heard about the crash, all I could think was that this little girl would never know her mother, and probably never meet her father."
"Oh god Lil Bit, I had no idea."
"How could you've? We had no way of finding you, or contacting you."
"I'm sorry. I know it's not enough, but it's the best I can do." He pulled her into an awkward embrace, and kissed her on the forehead.
"I won't leave again." he murmured into her hair.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn walked into the kitchen to find Xander and Willow drinking coffee at the kitchen table, watching the children play outside through the glass doors.
"Umm hello guys?," Dawn said angrily, "Dusk? sun gone down, evil vampire father out to kidnap small children?"
"Calm down Dawnie! We can see them perfectly fine-" Just then four vampires ran into the yard, each going to grab a child.
"Spike!!" Dawn screamed as she ran for the door, "Backyard! Vamps! kids!"
She immediately staked one, while Xander and Willow worked on another, she staked her second, and was fighting with the third, when it exploded into dust, revealing Spike, who had staked it from behind. Xander and Wills had rushed the kids inside as soon as Spike had staked the vampire they had been facing. Spike and Dawn walked into the kitchen both furious at the two remaining scoobies.
"Maggie, Joy, Will, and Anna, why don't you four go upstairs and play? I will be up in a little while to help you get ready for bed. The children went upstairs, knowing a huge argument was about to break out.
"How could you!" screamed Dawn, as soon as the children were out of sight.
"You put not only the children, but yourselves and us in danger!" added Spike.
Xander and Willow sat quietly as Dawn and Spike ranted and screamed at them for another ten minutes, knowing they deserved the scolding, as the children could have been seriously hurt, or even killed.
"Umm guys?" said Will very meekly. "I think we learned our lesson"
Dawn nodded, and she and Spike walked out wordlessly.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn and Spike walked upstairs, and followed the sounds of laughter into Joy's room. The four children were playing Trouble, laughing uproariously every time someone got sent back to their starting point.
"Auntie Dawn, can I talk to you please?" asked Maggie, getting up.
"Of course sweetie!" she answered, "Let's go into my room."
"Mister Spike, you come too." Spike nodded, and followed them.
When they got to the room, the little girl sat on the bed. Dawn sat on the chair in front of her vanity, and Spike leaned against the closed door.
"Auntie Dawn? Is Mister Spike really my daddy?"
"Yes sweetie, he is."
"Does he really save the world, like you told me my daddy did?"
"You told her I save the world?" Spike looked incredulous. "But... As Buffy liked to tell me so often, I'm a soulless demon! I'm not capable of being good."
"Spike, one- you have a soul now, two- stuck in the past much? three- you helped us save the world countless times, so I assumed you still were."
"Well, I was, but still.."
"Mister Spike?"
"Yes Maggie?"
"Can I call you daddy?"
"You can call me daddy if I can call you Mags."
"Okay Daddy!"
"Okay Mags!"
With that Maggie bounced out of the room smiling, presumably to join the other kids.
"Spike?" asked Dawn, "Why Mags?"
"It's what I used to call my little sister. Her name was Margaret too."
"I know your sister's name was Margaret, why do you think Buffy named her that?"
"Buffy named her daughter for my sister?" Spike asked incredulously.
"Not her daughter, both of your daughter. She thought it was only fair, that she be named something in reminder of you. If she was a boy, she would have been William." she laughed. "Angel was furious when I said I wanted to name our son William, not Liam. When I found out later he was already Angelus, I was surprised he didn't kill me right then. I still named him William Liam, and Joy was Joyce Elizabeth, after his little sister Eliza, and also it being Buffy's real name, but their last name was Summers, not O'Connor."
"Dawnie, I'm so sorry I wasn't here..."
"I know Spike. No more apologizing. Now we better set up the sleeping arrangements. Do you and Anna have any luggage?"
"No, we ran out of our house with the Initiative on our tails, with no time to pack anything. I can go shopping tomorrow for stuff, though."
"Anna will fit into an extra pair of Joy's pajamas, and I think I have a pair of pajama pants that will fits you. And I have tomorrow off, so I'll come shopping with you two. It doesn't look like your style has changed, and I'm sure Anna would benefit from a little bit of color in her clothes. I don't even want to know how you dressed her as an infant. Do onesies even come in black?" Spike laughed, and soon Dawn joined in.
"Actually Dawnie," he answered a few minutes later, "they do!" He then subsided into another fit of giggles.
~*~*~*~*~
"Bedtime!" Dawn announced, walking into Joy's room. "Joy, Maggie, and Will, go brush your teeth. Anna, we'll pick you up a toothbrush when we go shopping tomorrow."
Dawn went in Will's room and set out his pajamas, rustled through Joy's drawers until she found an extra pair of pjs, and handed them to Anna.
"You can go change in Maggie's room, you're going to sleep on the bottom bed of her bunk beds." she told the little girl. She then lay out Maggie and Joy's clothes, and said goodnight to each child.
"Uncle Xander will read to you guys tonight, because Uncle Spike and I have to go out." She gave each kid a hug, and watched as they all hugged Spike. She laughed as they walked out the door, Dawn handing Spike his long forgotten duster as she put her light suede jacket on.
"Never thought you'd be all paternal man, did you?" she giggled at him.
He glared back at her. "So where are we going anyway, Nibblet?" he asked.
"Patrolling, where else. Remember, I'm the slayer?"
He sighed.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn high-kicked the fledgling into a gravestone. As it got up, groaning, she punched it back down, and then staked it.
"Nice going Bit, that's your 19th one of the night."
"I don't get it Spike, last night, I see barely 5 vamps, and now the town is crawling with them."
"I think we can thank your wonderful ex for that Platelet."
They walked in silence through the next few graveyards, staking as they went. As they reached the last cemetery, Dawn felt as if she was being watched.
"Speak of the devil Nibblet," he murmured. Angelus stepped out of the shadows.
"Well, if it isn't my beautiful wife! and my childe. What a pleasant surprise."
"Wife?" Spike asked Willow in an undertone.
"Not legally, just in the vampire sense."
"He claimed you?"
"Yeah"
"Bloody Hell!" he swore.
"What, not going to talk to your sire?"
"Why couldn't I feel it when you lost it? Why were you blocking me?" Spike demanded.
"Because I couldn't have the only other vampire in the world who had a soul come and stop me."
Spike seemed to accept the answer, but stood still, with his arms crossed against his chest, glaring at his soul- less sire.
"Now lover, when can I see my wonderful children?"
"Never!" she spat. "I like having living, breathing kids."
"Really, you think I would kill my own children?"
"You killed your family." she said quietly.
"I will see my children!" he said. "Ask Spike what Amares is, it may be quite enlightening." With that, he disappeared.
"Bloody Hell!" Spike swore again.
"What is it is Spike?" Dawn asked, concerned.
"I'll tell you once we're out of the cemetery and on the way home."
True to his word, Spike explained to Dawn what he was swearing about
"He claimed you, so he will be aware of you always, and you of him, if you concentrate hard enough. He'll be able to track you, know where you are always, and sometimes figure out what you're thinking.If you two were still in love, you would be aware of every thought of the other one, but since you're not, only the strongest of thoughts will come through. And anyway, there are ways to block it, which I can teach you. The Amares problem is much worse. Did Buffy tell you about the gem of Amarra?"
"Yeah, it made the vampire who wore it invincible, unstakeable, and unburnable."
"Well Amares is the liquid that solidifies into the Gem of Amarra. It takes 5 thousand years to solidify, and if you find some of the liquid at least 1 thousand years before solidification and drink it, you can go out in the sun. Each dose lasts twelve hours, and takes about a tablespoon of the liquid."
"So if he has some there's only a little, right?"
"Well, no"
"What is it?" she sighed.
"It takes 5 gallons of Amares to make one gemstone."
"Bloody Hell! The town will be crawling with vampires during the day!"
"Stealing my swears Nibblet?"
"It fit the occasion."
"He won't let vampires roam during the day, its too dangerous. He appreciates the fact that killing all the humans would kill the vampires by lack of food. He will be the only daywalker. All we can hope is that there is less than a thousand years until solidification in this batch."
"What happens if he drinks it and there's less than a thousand years?"
"Instant death."
"No help there, you know him, he'll have a minion test it first. And if it doesn't work, he'll keep us thinking it does, until we're so busy guarding during the day that we're exhausted at night, and he can get them then."
"Wow bit! how'd you know all that?"
Dawn brought her hands down from where they had been clutching her mouth. "I think I pulled that straight out of his mind." she shuddered involuntarily.
"All we have to do is cultivate this power, and we will be able to tell his every move!" Spike said excitedly.
"Not if this happens every time," she said, as she fainted into his arms.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn wolk up in her bed.
"Are you okay Bit?" Spike asked, hovering worriedly.
"Fine Spike, really," she said, as she got up. She looked up at the clock. "Oh my god! It's 2 in the morning! I have to be up in 5 hours to get the kids ready for school!"
"Calm down Platelet. You just get ready for bed, I'll make sure you're up on time."
"But where are you going to sleep?" she asked, rummaging through her closet, finding the pajama pants she was looking for and tossing them to him.
"I'm fine on the floor." he said, catching the pants.
"No you're not Spike. A guest of mine is not sleeping on the floor. We can share the bed. It's certainly big enough."
"But Nibblet!..."
"No but Nibblet's" she said, grabbing her pajamas and going into the bathroom, "As Willow would say, resolve face, no changing my mind.
Spike sighed, and changed into the pants while Dawn changed in the bathroom. She came out, and got into the bed, waiting expectantly for him to do the same. Sighing again, he complied with her wishes. She turned the light off, and they were both asleep within minutes. The last thing Dawn heard before she drifted off into a pleasant dream world was the low murmer of Spike's voice.
"I won't leave again."
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Hope ya liked! Please review!!!!
Chapter: Daddy and Mags
Author: Niki (SunnyGurlie)
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will.
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You guys are amazing! Thanks for reviewing, please keep it up! I know it's taking a while to set up the plot and everything, but eventually, Spike and Dawn will get together. I hope you like the chapter! More will be coming soon. I will try to update as much as possible, but this thing I have sometimes called a life often gets in the way.
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Spike wolk up on the couch, with Dawn's face hovering over him.
"I just had the weirdest dream." he said groggily, "I dreamt that Buffy and I had a daughter named Maggie, but I didn't know about it until she died."
"No dream, Spike!" said Dawn cheerfully, "Maggie really is yours."
"But how?"
"Three months before you left, there was a full moon, and you two....well....you know. Xander and Wills always assumed that it was Riley, since Buffy neither admitted or denied it, and as Xander adamantly insists, vampires can't have children. I always wanted to scream at them, because how could they even think that Buffy would do anything with Riley when he was married. I was hoping you would come back, and you two would live happily ever after."
"Bit, Happily ever after is for fairy tales, not real life."
"I know, but I can dream, can't I?" she laughed wistfully.
"The plane she was on, she was going to visit Giles. She had wanted to bring Maggie, but I convinced her that it would be best to leave her with me, as she was way too young to travel. When we heard about the crash, all I could think was that this little girl would never know her mother, and probably never meet her father."
"Oh god Lil Bit, I had no idea."
"How could you've? We had no way of finding you, or contacting you."
"I'm sorry. I know it's not enough, but it's the best I can do." He pulled her into an awkward embrace, and kissed her on the forehead.
"I won't leave again." he murmured into her hair.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn walked into the kitchen to find Xander and Willow drinking coffee at the kitchen table, watching the children play outside through the glass doors.
"Umm hello guys?," Dawn said angrily, "Dusk? sun gone down, evil vampire father out to kidnap small children?"
"Calm down Dawnie! We can see them perfectly fine-" Just then four vampires ran into the yard, each going to grab a child.
"Spike!!" Dawn screamed as she ran for the door, "Backyard! Vamps! kids!"
She immediately staked one, while Xander and Willow worked on another, she staked her second, and was fighting with the third, when it exploded into dust, revealing Spike, who had staked it from behind. Xander and Wills had rushed the kids inside as soon as Spike had staked the vampire they had been facing. Spike and Dawn walked into the kitchen both furious at the two remaining scoobies.
"Maggie, Joy, Will, and Anna, why don't you four go upstairs and play? I will be up in a little while to help you get ready for bed. The children went upstairs, knowing a huge argument was about to break out.
"How could you!" screamed Dawn, as soon as the children were out of sight.
"You put not only the children, but yourselves and us in danger!" added Spike.
Xander and Willow sat quietly as Dawn and Spike ranted and screamed at them for another ten minutes, knowing they deserved the scolding, as the children could have been seriously hurt, or even killed.
"Umm guys?" said Will very meekly. "I think we learned our lesson"
Dawn nodded, and she and Spike walked out wordlessly.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn and Spike walked upstairs, and followed the sounds of laughter into Joy's room. The four children were playing Trouble, laughing uproariously every time someone got sent back to their starting point.
"Auntie Dawn, can I talk to you please?" asked Maggie, getting up.
"Of course sweetie!" she answered, "Let's go into my room."
"Mister Spike, you come too." Spike nodded, and followed them.
When they got to the room, the little girl sat on the bed. Dawn sat on the chair in front of her vanity, and Spike leaned against the closed door.
"Auntie Dawn? Is Mister Spike really my daddy?"
"Yes sweetie, he is."
"Does he really save the world, like you told me my daddy did?"
"You told her I save the world?" Spike looked incredulous. "But... As Buffy liked to tell me so often, I'm a soulless demon! I'm not capable of being good."
"Spike, one- you have a soul now, two- stuck in the past much? three- you helped us save the world countless times, so I assumed you still were."
"Well, I was, but still.."
"Mister Spike?"
"Yes Maggie?"
"Can I call you daddy?"
"You can call me daddy if I can call you Mags."
"Okay Daddy!"
"Okay Mags!"
With that Maggie bounced out of the room smiling, presumably to join the other kids.
"Spike?" asked Dawn, "Why Mags?"
"It's what I used to call my little sister. Her name was Margaret too."
"I know your sister's name was Margaret, why do you think Buffy named her that?"
"Buffy named her daughter for my sister?" Spike asked incredulously.
"Not her daughter, both of your daughter. She thought it was only fair, that she be named something in reminder of you. If she was a boy, she would have been William." she laughed. "Angel was furious when I said I wanted to name our son William, not Liam. When I found out later he was already Angelus, I was surprised he didn't kill me right then. I still named him William Liam, and Joy was Joyce Elizabeth, after his little sister Eliza, and also it being Buffy's real name, but their last name was Summers, not O'Connor."
"Dawnie, I'm so sorry I wasn't here..."
"I know Spike. No more apologizing. Now we better set up the sleeping arrangements. Do you and Anna have any luggage?"
"No, we ran out of our house with the Initiative on our tails, with no time to pack anything. I can go shopping tomorrow for stuff, though."
"Anna will fit into an extra pair of Joy's pajamas, and I think I have a pair of pajama pants that will fits you. And I have tomorrow off, so I'll come shopping with you two. It doesn't look like your style has changed, and I'm sure Anna would benefit from a little bit of color in her clothes. I don't even want to know how you dressed her as an infant. Do onesies even come in black?" Spike laughed, and soon Dawn joined in.
"Actually Dawnie," he answered a few minutes later, "they do!" He then subsided into another fit of giggles.
~*~*~*~*~
"Bedtime!" Dawn announced, walking into Joy's room. "Joy, Maggie, and Will, go brush your teeth. Anna, we'll pick you up a toothbrush when we go shopping tomorrow."
Dawn went in Will's room and set out his pajamas, rustled through Joy's drawers until she found an extra pair of pjs, and handed them to Anna.
"You can go change in Maggie's room, you're going to sleep on the bottom bed of her bunk beds." she told the little girl. She then lay out Maggie and Joy's clothes, and said goodnight to each child.
"Uncle Xander will read to you guys tonight, because Uncle Spike and I have to go out." She gave each kid a hug, and watched as they all hugged Spike. She laughed as they walked out the door, Dawn handing Spike his long forgotten duster as she put her light suede jacket on.
"Never thought you'd be all paternal man, did you?" she giggled at him.
He glared back at her. "So where are we going anyway, Nibblet?" he asked.
"Patrolling, where else. Remember, I'm the slayer?"
He sighed.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn high-kicked the fledgling into a gravestone. As it got up, groaning, she punched it back down, and then staked it.
"Nice going Bit, that's your 19th one of the night."
"I don't get it Spike, last night, I see barely 5 vamps, and now the town is crawling with them."
"I think we can thank your wonderful ex for that Platelet."
They walked in silence through the next few graveyards, staking as they went. As they reached the last cemetery, Dawn felt as if she was being watched.
"Speak of the devil Nibblet," he murmured. Angelus stepped out of the shadows.
"Well, if it isn't my beautiful wife! and my childe. What a pleasant surprise."
"Wife?" Spike asked Willow in an undertone.
"Not legally, just in the vampire sense."
"He claimed you?"
"Yeah"
"Bloody Hell!" he swore.
"What, not going to talk to your sire?"
"Why couldn't I feel it when you lost it? Why were you blocking me?" Spike demanded.
"Because I couldn't have the only other vampire in the world who had a soul come and stop me."
Spike seemed to accept the answer, but stood still, with his arms crossed against his chest, glaring at his soul- less sire.
"Now lover, when can I see my wonderful children?"
"Never!" she spat. "I like having living, breathing kids."
"Really, you think I would kill my own children?"
"You killed your family." she said quietly.
"I will see my children!" he said. "Ask Spike what Amares is, it may be quite enlightening." With that, he disappeared.
"Bloody Hell!" Spike swore again.
"What is it is Spike?" Dawn asked, concerned.
"I'll tell you once we're out of the cemetery and on the way home."
True to his word, Spike explained to Dawn what he was swearing about
"He claimed you, so he will be aware of you always, and you of him, if you concentrate hard enough. He'll be able to track you, know where you are always, and sometimes figure out what you're thinking.If you two were still in love, you would be aware of every thought of the other one, but since you're not, only the strongest of thoughts will come through. And anyway, there are ways to block it, which I can teach you. The Amares problem is much worse. Did Buffy tell you about the gem of Amarra?"
"Yeah, it made the vampire who wore it invincible, unstakeable, and unburnable."
"Well Amares is the liquid that solidifies into the Gem of Amarra. It takes 5 thousand years to solidify, and if you find some of the liquid at least 1 thousand years before solidification and drink it, you can go out in the sun. Each dose lasts twelve hours, and takes about a tablespoon of the liquid."
"So if he has some there's only a little, right?"
"Well, no"
"What is it?" she sighed.
"It takes 5 gallons of Amares to make one gemstone."
"Bloody Hell! The town will be crawling with vampires during the day!"
"Stealing my swears Nibblet?"
"It fit the occasion."
"He won't let vampires roam during the day, its too dangerous. He appreciates the fact that killing all the humans would kill the vampires by lack of food. He will be the only daywalker. All we can hope is that there is less than a thousand years until solidification in this batch."
"What happens if he drinks it and there's less than a thousand years?"
"Instant death."
"No help there, you know him, he'll have a minion test it first. And if it doesn't work, he'll keep us thinking it does, until we're so busy guarding during the day that we're exhausted at night, and he can get them then."
"Wow bit! how'd you know all that?"
Dawn brought her hands down from where they had been clutching her mouth. "I think I pulled that straight out of his mind." she shuddered involuntarily.
"All we have to do is cultivate this power, and we will be able to tell his every move!" Spike said excitedly.
"Not if this happens every time," she said, as she fainted into his arms.
~*~*~*~*~
Dawn wolk up in her bed.
"Are you okay Bit?" Spike asked, hovering worriedly.
"Fine Spike, really," she said, as she got up. She looked up at the clock. "Oh my god! It's 2 in the morning! I have to be up in 5 hours to get the kids ready for school!"
"Calm down Platelet. You just get ready for bed, I'll make sure you're up on time."
"But where are you going to sleep?" she asked, rummaging through her closet, finding the pajama pants she was looking for and tossing them to him.
"I'm fine on the floor." he said, catching the pants.
"No you're not Spike. A guest of mine is not sleeping on the floor. We can share the bed. It's certainly big enough."
"But Nibblet!..."
"No but Nibblet's" she said, grabbing her pajamas and going into the bathroom, "As Willow would say, resolve face, no changing my mind.
Spike sighed, and changed into the pants while Dawn changed in the bathroom. She came out, and got into the bed, waiting expectantly for him to do the same. Sighing again, he complied with her wishes. She turned the light off, and they were both asleep within minutes. The last thing Dawn heard before she drifted off into a pleasant dream world was the low murmer of Spike's voice.
"I won't leave again."
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