Chapter 2 "Revelations"
You are a scarred and wounded soldier lying on the battlefield sobbing because you don't have the courage to stand. You feel like your heart is dying and the only thing in the world is pain. Why do the chosen always have to feel so much pain? You are the only think standing in your way of victory and happiness. You have only one ally and that is your enemy. Happiness lies in the heart of your undertaking. Pain lies in the arms of your father and hope is in the eyes of your comforter. Get up and walk the path you are intended to follow and you will be the one to make it through the world. Now you are a lifeline and the cable cannot be broken as long as you stay up! Pain is only in the mind and the mind is so weak. Don't hide from your Destiny live it!
"Willow Did dad call when I was out last night?" She asked setting down on the couch beside her best friend.
"Yea sorry I forgot to tell you. He said his plane would be leaving today at noon and he would be here as soon as he can." She explained.
"Thanks Will I am gonna go out for a little bit, I'll be back in an hour or so." Buffy said pulling on her coat and walking out the door
Buffy's POV- What am I suppose to do I just can't make him leave Dawn in my care. I feel like I am on a ship and I am about to get seasick or something. I need to fight him but he's my father and he only wants the best for Dawn, but I can't live without her. I need to forget about this, about her, about my life, I need to feel nothing. I don't have anyone to turn to. Spike would hold me and make me laugh but I don't know how to talk to him after last night. I know nothing happened and I was just upset but I know I felt content in his arms and I shouldn't feel that way. The way he talked to me, it just . I don't know, Okay it made me feel like I did when I was with Angel. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I can't let myself make that kind of mistake again. Buffy thought as silent tears fell down her rosy cheeks. She started sobbing and before she even knew what happened she was pressed against a cold chest, his arms encircling her, comforting her, but most of all letting her cry out her fears and the millions of emotions that were in the heart and mind of the slayer.
" Shh it's okay Luv, it's okay." Spike whispered stroking her back gently.
Years of fears and unshed tears fell onto her enemy's shirt. He swiftly pulled her from her feet and carried her back to his crypt. He gently sat her down and let her cry into his shoulder.
Spike's POV as he held her - She feels so much pain. More than any girl should ever know. She carries the world on her back and she doesn't even show it. This pain shouldn't be upon her. I wish she was happy and not in this situation. I don't know what happened so I don't know what to say but I don't think she needs someone to tell her what to do, I think she needs someone to listen. I will kill That Bastard if he hurts her! She needs happiness not regret.
"Spike! He's on his way. I can't do this. The way he talks to me, it's like I can't do anything I am powerless when he's around."
"Luv, Shh it's okay. I promise it's gonna be okay. Buffy look at me." He commanded his voice turning cold but not hard.
Buffy lifted her tear stained face and looked into his gentle blue eyes. "I feel really stupid right now."
"Don't. I won't let him hurt you. And if he took Dawn away that would hurt you so I promise it won't happen. Have I ever lied to you? No, not even when I was trying to kill you." Spike whispered kissing her forehead softly.
"They're leaving today so I can talk to my father. You think you could come with me so I won't be alone?" Buffy asked her mind screaming at her to just walk out.
" Slayer, you know I will. I said if I could do anything that I would." He responded wiping the last of the tears that flowed down her soft cheek off. She nuzzled her face into his hand making him smile uncomfortably.
"What Spike does it bother you that I like your cold hands on my face?" She asked pulling her head away from him. He groaned as her warm face pulled away from him. "Spike, do you think that we really I mean really get along?"
" Slayer I think we kinda already established that. But yea." Spike retaliated pulling his leather coat on his muscular body.
" That's what I thought I just ... So do you think dad will be hard to get along with?" She asked in a soft voice that seemed to flow with the wind.
" Please don't make me nervous. Well more so than I am already. I don't really like meeting the parent." He responded handing her jacket to her. " But no I don't think he will be that hard to deal with. If it comes down to it we can always just kill him."
Buffy backhanded him and then doubled over laughing at the I'm sorry two year old look that she got from the master vampire. " I can't believe you Spike you just looked so much like a child."
" Well thank-you for telling half the population of Sunnydale!" He said in a harsh tone that made Buffy quiver.
" I'm sorry." She whispered lowering her head for a moment. " Well not really but..." She added falsely.
" Don't be slayer." He whispered and that would be the last word said until they got to the Summers' house.
" Spike you're here, with Buffy." Dawn said in a worried tone.
"Don't worry Nibblet, you're big sis asked me to come with her and give her a little support when your dad gets here." He replied rubbing her back affectionately.
" Okay that means a lot to me. You and Buffy being friends. You guys are meant to be friends. You fight for the same thing and you are both really good people." Dawn replied.
"Buffy is a good person Dawn. I'm the evil wait very evil vampire." He replied smiling softly at the young girl that stood before him.
"Look at him Buffy he's pretending to be an evil vampire, how cute." Dawn said in a baby voice.
"It is not cute it is the truth!" He yelled playfully at the girls.
Dawn tackled him making him fall to the floor and he started tickling her. "Buffy help!" Dawn screeched laughing hysterically. Buffy quickly joined them and they all started wrestling in a heap on the white carpet.
"This is not funny guys!" The youngest Summers' women yelped rolling onto her side in yet another fit of giggles.
Then they stopped and hurried to their feet as the doorbell rang suddenly. The ding-dong of the bell almost made Buffy start crying again but she was determined to be strong not only for Dawn but for her mother. Her mother would want Dawn to be with her sister and Buffy knew that. "Here we go." She whispered as Spike patted her back softly.
She slowly walked over to the door and unlatched the lock. Her hand trembled as she opened the door and it was quickly replaced by determination. I can do this I can't loose her not now. She thought as she saw her father standing there with his duffel bag and a smaller bag.
"Dad, it's... I'm glad you're here. Dawn and I have really missed you." She said in a shaky yet determined voice. "Come in."
"Thank-you Buffy and I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier, I was on a business trip." Hank replied hugging his daughter softly.
"Yea I heard about that." She replied pulling away from him
"Buffy I'm sorry I really am but there was no way that I could be here any sooner than I am." He responded firmly.
"Dad Dawn is in the kitchen doing homework I trust you remember the way." She added walking away in an angry stance.
"Dad! It you! I can't believe you are finally here." Dawn yelled jumping into his arms.
"Buffy who is this?" Hank proceeded to ask pointing at Spike.
"This is William Deverx but you can call him Spike everyone does. He is helping with the arrangements and just being a shoulder for us to cry on." Buffy replied smiling at Spike softly.
"Buffy I always thought we taught you better than this. Your mother dies and the first thing you do is let your boyfriend stay I'm guessing in your bedroom!" Hank said in a very firm tone.
"One is so not my boyfriend and secondly you can not just come here and patronize me! I can't do this on my own and he has been there for us, but nothing more than a friend!" Buffy yelled her temper rising at a very fast rate.
"Buffy calm down." Spike whispered in a very soft voice.
"This has been an eye-opener and I have decided that Dawn should come back with me to LA. You apparently lack the maturity to take care of your sister and yourself. Your mother would turn over in her grave if she saw your behavior." Hank growled putting his finger very close to Buffy's face.
"I really think you need to sit down and listen to me. Spike is a friend that is trying to help us through this and he is nothing more. I needed someone and he has been here for me when no one else was and I think you owe him an apology for you accusations." Buffy retaliated stepping away from him.
Spike and Dawn were in a corner trying not to get in the way of the conversation. "Do you think I will have to go with him? I don't want to leave Spike, this is my home and I don't want to leave it!"
"Nibblet don't worry. Your sister will make him change his mind and I am promising you that he is not going to take you anywhere." Spike responded his hand closed in a tight fist to control the anger that was rising in his throat.
"Dad I think we can resume this conversation in the morning. It's late and I want to take a shower and try to forget that this conversation ever happened." Buffy replied picking up her father's things and carrying them up the stairs.
It felt wrong taking her father's things into her mother's old room. It was wrong in her mind. But it did used to be his room with her mother and it was the only room that wasn't occupied by anyone. And she couldn't just ask him to sleep on the couch.
She wanted to make him leave the house and never come back but she knew that if she did that it would only make her current situation with her father worse, and she really didn't need it any more complicated than it already was.
She walked down the stairs and pulled on her jacket. "Dawn if dad asks where I am just tell him I went to sleep and not to bother me because I'm trying to calm myself down and if he interrupts me it will ruin the peaceful essence that encircles the room." Buffy instructed.
"No problem Buff I'll just act like you are into that and he will probably see right through me but that's okay because he probably won't ask to see you after the fight you just had with him." Dawn responded pulling her sister into a quick hug. "Oh and Spike you let anything hurt her and I will kill you."
"Nibblet you know I wouldn't let anything hurt your big sis." He whispered messing up her hair playfully.
"Bye!" She called after the pair as they walked out of the house. "They make the perfect couple if only they could see that."
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"So Buffy how are you gonna handle this whole thing with your dad. And remember I can always eat him for you, yea it might hurt a little but I could handle it." Spike offered getting hit in the back of his head in response.
"Thank-you for everything but I don't know if it will work out. I froze in there and what if I can't convince him to let Dawn stay here. I am not as confident as you are Spike." She whispered laying her head on his shoulder lightly.
"Do you want me to patrol tonight so you can rest?" Spike asked as he put an arm around her shoulders amazed that she was letting him touch her.
"No I want to be out of the house for a while and this is the only thing that I want to do right now. I would go to the Bronze but then none of my friends are there so it would be a lost cause. Well now that I think of it, it sounds like a great idea. So you wanna come with?" Buffy asked looking into his deep blue eyes. She felt content and safe in that moment just looking into his eyes. She wondered if all of the people around him lost themselves in his eyes like she was doing at that very moment.
"If you want to be seen with me I don't see why it would be a problem." He responded turning his face away from her.
"Why do you turn your eyes away from me when you know I love looking into them? They are beautiful Spike you really shouldn't hide them." Buffy whispered turning his head back to look at her.
"I don't know I just hate people seeing my emotions in them and I hate my emotions showing. It really makes me feel like a Poof." He responded walking into the Bronze.
"Do you want to dance?" Buffy asked looking out onto the dance floor while she gently pulled on his arm urging him to dance. Her heart pounded for reasons she didn't want to know.
He didn't respond he just led her onto the dance floor and pulling her against his chest softly. She curled her arms around his neck and swayed gently with the music. He took a deep breath and he could smell the light smell of vanilla and Jasmine. She drew little circles on his back and held him tight against her. The world seemed to melt away leaving just the two of them, the dance floor and the soft music that poured from the stage.
She breathed in his scent and it consumed her. It smelt of cigarettes and her, it would normally make a person sick but to her it was comforting. Her heart was beating faster then normal and Spike could feel the beating against his chest like it was a part of him.
Buffy looked up at him and their eyes meet and he let her stare into his eyes for what seemed like an eternity. His eyes mesmerized her and it calmed her fears almost instantly. Her hand went up and she rubbed her hand down his soft cheek. Her hand was shaking but neither of them seemed to care. She pulled down his face and their lips meet in a soft and fiery kiss. Their tongues dueled and then she broke the kiss. She laid her head on his shoulder and her laced his arms around her.
The song ended and she pulled him outside. He expected her to tell him that it was a mistake but she didn't she just wrapped her arm around his waist. "Walk me home."
The walk there was hell for him he didn't know if she wanted him to say something or stay quiet so he chose to be quiet because he had no clue what to say. "Spike stop right here."
"Why are we stopping?" He asked confused by the sudden speech.
"I don't want dad to see us together because I don't want him to think I went to see you, I know I did but I'm not ready to tell him that." Buffy responded pressing her lips to his in a brief passionate kiss. "Night William."
"Night Slayer." He called as Buffy ran to the house at a dead run.
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"So Buffy can I come in?" Dawn asked through the closed door to Buffy's room.
"Sure. So did dad ask anything? Oh by the way nothing was out it was a clear patrol." Buffy replied running a brush through her golden blonde hair.
"No dad didn't ask anything. So nothing at all was out? I thought with the slayer being distracted and all that I thought that there would be a ton of things out." She responded
"Well there was nothing out so I guess they know nothing about me beside I'm the slayer and I am gonna kill them if I find them in my town." Buffy replied in an agitated tone.
"I guess that's why. So there was not even one vampire out?" She asked confused at how boring her sister's patrol had been.
"Well Spike was out on patrol with me so if you count him as a vampire then yea there was a vampire out. But we better change the subject because dad could over hear us talking about vampires and he would probably try to say we are insane. Then we would try to get around it and it wouldn't work so lets not put us in the situation." Buffy rambled on not realizing Dawn was giving her a very weird look.
"You are so very weird when it comes to your job. Speaking of job are you gonna start working anywhere?" Dawn asked switching her weight on to her other leg.
Buffy looked at her sister as though she was insane and she couldn't here a word she was saying. "Dawn I'm a little tired can we finish this conversation in the morning?"
"Sure Buff. Get a bath to because you look like crap." Dawn added leaving the room as silently as she came.
"I think I will do that. It will help take away some of the tension that I am feeling right now."
She laid down on the bed and remembered the fights her mother and father used to have that would make her and Dawn so sad. They would yell and scream and sometimes they would even take the fight up stairs so he could do god knows what to her.
Her mother would be so sad and she wouldn't even tell them what was wrong.
Her mother had picked them up from school one and they had known something was wrong by the way that her eyes were not bright but very dull. She had taken them home and told them that their father and her were going to move into separate houses and they needed to choose where they wanted to live. They both chose to stay with their mother and it had broken their father's heart but they didn't want to leave the house they had grown up in.
Buffy's heart broke at the memories and she felt more tears start to form. She pushed them back. She was sick of crying over what her father had made her life.
She was consumed by sleep and she was very willing to go wherever it would take her. Her body curled up into a ball as the tears racked her body why she could not control them.
I'm sorry about this chapter being up so late. The electricity was down all week so I couldn't finish it. The next chapter will be very long and it will be a very sad chapter with a happy ending. Expect it up around the first or second week in March. Please review and don't lie, I want to know exactly what you think even if you don't like it. - Trinity
You are a scarred and wounded soldier lying on the battlefield sobbing because you don't have the courage to stand. You feel like your heart is dying and the only thing in the world is pain. Why do the chosen always have to feel so much pain? You are the only think standing in your way of victory and happiness. You have only one ally and that is your enemy. Happiness lies in the heart of your undertaking. Pain lies in the arms of your father and hope is in the eyes of your comforter. Get up and walk the path you are intended to follow and you will be the one to make it through the world. Now you are a lifeline and the cable cannot be broken as long as you stay up! Pain is only in the mind and the mind is so weak. Don't hide from your Destiny live it!
"Willow Did dad call when I was out last night?" She asked setting down on the couch beside her best friend.
"Yea sorry I forgot to tell you. He said his plane would be leaving today at noon and he would be here as soon as he can." She explained.
"Thanks Will I am gonna go out for a little bit, I'll be back in an hour or so." Buffy said pulling on her coat and walking out the door
Buffy's POV- What am I suppose to do I just can't make him leave Dawn in my care. I feel like I am on a ship and I am about to get seasick or something. I need to fight him but he's my father and he only wants the best for Dawn, but I can't live without her. I need to forget about this, about her, about my life, I need to feel nothing. I don't have anyone to turn to. Spike would hold me and make me laugh but I don't know how to talk to him after last night. I know nothing happened and I was just upset but I know I felt content in his arms and I shouldn't feel that way. The way he talked to me, it just . I don't know, Okay it made me feel like I did when I was with Angel. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I can't let myself make that kind of mistake again. Buffy thought as silent tears fell down her rosy cheeks. She started sobbing and before she even knew what happened she was pressed against a cold chest, his arms encircling her, comforting her, but most of all letting her cry out her fears and the millions of emotions that were in the heart and mind of the slayer.
" Shh it's okay Luv, it's okay." Spike whispered stroking her back gently.
Years of fears and unshed tears fell onto her enemy's shirt. He swiftly pulled her from her feet and carried her back to his crypt. He gently sat her down and let her cry into his shoulder.
Spike's POV as he held her - She feels so much pain. More than any girl should ever know. She carries the world on her back and she doesn't even show it. This pain shouldn't be upon her. I wish she was happy and not in this situation. I don't know what happened so I don't know what to say but I don't think she needs someone to tell her what to do, I think she needs someone to listen. I will kill That Bastard if he hurts her! She needs happiness not regret.
"Spike! He's on his way. I can't do this. The way he talks to me, it's like I can't do anything I am powerless when he's around."
"Luv, Shh it's okay. I promise it's gonna be okay. Buffy look at me." He commanded his voice turning cold but not hard.
Buffy lifted her tear stained face and looked into his gentle blue eyes. "I feel really stupid right now."
"Don't. I won't let him hurt you. And if he took Dawn away that would hurt you so I promise it won't happen. Have I ever lied to you? No, not even when I was trying to kill you." Spike whispered kissing her forehead softly.
"They're leaving today so I can talk to my father. You think you could come with me so I won't be alone?" Buffy asked her mind screaming at her to just walk out.
" Slayer, you know I will. I said if I could do anything that I would." He responded wiping the last of the tears that flowed down her soft cheek off. She nuzzled her face into his hand making him smile uncomfortably.
"What Spike does it bother you that I like your cold hands on my face?" She asked pulling her head away from him. He groaned as her warm face pulled away from him. "Spike, do you think that we really I mean really get along?"
" Slayer I think we kinda already established that. But yea." Spike retaliated pulling his leather coat on his muscular body.
" That's what I thought I just ... So do you think dad will be hard to get along with?" She asked in a soft voice that seemed to flow with the wind.
" Please don't make me nervous. Well more so than I am already. I don't really like meeting the parent." He responded handing her jacket to her. " But no I don't think he will be that hard to deal with. If it comes down to it we can always just kill him."
Buffy backhanded him and then doubled over laughing at the I'm sorry two year old look that she got from the master vampire. " I can't believe you Spike you just looked so much like a child."
" Well thank-you for telling half the population of Sunnydale!" He said in a harsh tone that made Buffy quiver.
" I'm sorry." She whispered lowering her head for a moment. " Well not really but..." She added falsely.
" Don't be slayer." He whispered and that would be the last word said until they got to the Summers' house.
" Spike you're here, with Buffy." Dawn said in a worried tone.
"Don't worry Nibblet, you're big sis asked me to come with her and give her a little support when your dad gets here." He replied rubbing her back affectionately.
" Okay that means a lot to me. You and Buffy being friends. You guys are meant to be friends. You fight for the same thing and you are both really good people." Dawn replied.
"Buffy is a good person Dawn. I'm the evil wait very evil vampire." He replied smiling softly at the young girl that stood before him.
"Look at him Buffy he's pretending to be an evil vampire, how cute." Dawn said in a baby voice.
"It is not cute it is the truth!" He yelled playfully at the girls.
Dawn tackled him making him fall to the floor and he started tickling her. "Buffy help!" Dawn screeched laughing hysterically. Buffy quickly joined them and they all started wrestling in a heap on the white carpet.
"This is not funny guys!" The youngest Summers' women yelped rolling onto her side in yet another fit of giggles.
Then they stopped and hurried to their feet as the doorbell rang suddenly. The ding-dong of the bell almost made Buffy start crying again but she was determined to be strong not only for Dawn but for her mother. Her mother would want Dawn to be with her sister and Buffy knew that. "Here we go." She whispered as Spike patted her back softly.
She slowly walked over to the door and unlatched the lock. Her hand trembled as she opened the door and it was quickly replaced by determination. I can do this I can't loose her not now. She thought as she saw her father standing there with his duffel bag and a smaller bag.
"Dad, it's... I'm glad you're here. Dawn and I have really missed you." She said in a shaky yet determined voice. "Come in."
"Thank-you Buffy and I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier, I was on a business trip." Hank replied hugging his daughter softly.
"Yea I heard about that." She replied pulling away from him
"Buffy I'm sorry I really am but there was no way that I could be here any sooner than I am." He responded firmly.
"Dad Dawn is in the kitchen doing homework I trust you remember the way." She added walking away in an angry stance.
"Dad! It you! I can't believe you are finally here." Dawn yelled jumping into his arms.
"Buffy who is this?" Hank proceeded to ask pointing at Spike.
"This is William Deverx but you can call him Spike everyone does. He is helping with the arrangements and just being a shoulder for us to cry on." Buffy replied smiling at Spike softly.
"Buffy I always thought we taught you better than this. Your mother dies and the first thing you do is let your boyfriend stay I'm guessing in your bedroom!" Hank said in a very firm tone.
"One is so not my boyfriend and secondly you can not just come here and patronize me! I can't do this on my own and he has been there for us, but nothing more than a friend!" Buffy yelled her temper rising at a very fast rate.
"Buffy calm down." Spike whispered in a very soft voice.
"This has been an eye-opener and I have decided that Dawn should come back with me to LA. You apparently lack the maturity to take care of your sister and yourself. Your mother would turn over in her grave if she saw your behavior." Hank growled putting his finger very close to Buffy's face.
"I really think you need to sit down and listen to me. Spike is a friend that is trying to help us through this and he is nothing more. I needed someone and he has been here for me when no one else was and I think you owe him an apology for you accusations." Buffy retaliated stepping away from him.
Spike and Dawn were in a corner trying not to get in the way of the conversation. "Do you think I will have to go with him? I don't want to leave Spike, this is my home and I don't want to leave it!"
"Nibblet don't worry. Your sister will make him change his mind and I am promising you that he is not going to take you anywhere." Spike responded his hand closed in a tight fist to control the anger that was rising in his throat.
"Dad I think we can resume this conversation in the morning. It's late and I want to take a shower and try to forget that this conversation ever happened." Buffy replied picking up her father's things and carrying them up the stairs.
It felt wrong taking her father's things into her mother's old room. It was wrong in her mind. But it did used to be his room with her mother and it was the only room that wasn't occupied by anyone. And she couldn't just ask him to sleep on the couch.
She wanted to make him leave the house and never come back but she knew that if she did that it would only make her current situation with her father worse, and she really didn't need it any more complicated than it already was.
She walked down the stairs and pulled on her jacket. "Dawn if dad asks where I am just tell him I went to sleep and not to bother me because I'm trying to calm myself down and if he interrupts me it will ruin the peaceful essence that encircles the room." Buffy instructed.
"No problem Buff I'll just act like you are into that and he will probably see right through me but that's okay because he probably won't ask to see you after the fight you just had with him." Dawn responded pulling her sister into a quick hug. "Oh and Spike you let anything hurt her and I will kill you."
"Nibblet you know I wouldn't let anything hurt your big sis." He whispered messing up her hair playfully.
"Bye!" She called after the pair as they walked out of the house. "They make the perfect couple if only they could see that."
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"So Buffy how are you gonna handle this whole thing with your dad. And remember I can always eat him for you, yea it might hurt a little but I could handle it." Spike offered getting hit in the back of his head in response.
"Thank-you for everything but I don't know if it will work out. I froze in there and what if I can't convince him to let Dawn stay here. I am not as confident as you are Spike." She whispered laying her head on his shoulder lightly.
"Do you want me to patrol tonight so you can rest?" Spike asked as he put an arm around her shoulders amazed that she was letting him touch her.
"No I want to be out of the house for a while and this is the only thing that I want to do right now. I would go to the Bronze but then none of my friends are there so it would be a lost cause. Well now that I think of it, it sounds like a great idea. So you wanna come with?" Buffy asked looking into his deep blue eyes. She felt content and safe in that moment just looking into his eyes. She wondered if all of the people around him lost themselves in his eyes like she was doing at that very moment.
"If you want to be seen with me I don't see why it would be a problem." He responded turning his face away from her.
"Why do you turn your eyes away from me when you know I love looking into them? They are beautiful Spike you really shouldn't hide them." Buffy whispered turning his head back to look at her.
"I don't know I just hate people seeing my emotions in them and I hate my emotions showing. It really makes me feel like a Poof." He responded walking into the Bronze.
"Do you want to dance?" Buffy asked looking out onto the dance floor while she gently pulled on his arm urging him to dance. Her heart pounded for reasons she didn't want to know.
He didn't respond he just led her onto the dance floor and pulling her against his chest softly. She curled her arms around his neck and swayed gently with the music. He took a deep breath and he could smell the light smell of vanilla and Jasmine. She drew little circles on his back and held him tight against her. The world seemed to melt away leaving just the two of them, the dance floor and the soft music that poured from the stage.
She breathed in his scent and it consumed her. It smelt of cigarettes and her, it would normally make a person sick but to her it was comforting. Her heart was beating faster then normal and Spike could feel the beating against his chest like it was a part of him.
Buffy looked up at him and their eyes meet and he let her stare into his eyes for what seemed like an eternity. His eyes mesmerized her and it calmed her fears almost instantly. Her hand went up and she rubbed her hand down his soft cheek. Her hand was shaking but neither of them seemed to care. She pulled down his face and their lips meet in a soft and fiery kiss. Their tongues dueled and then she broke the kiss. She laid her head on his shoulder and her laced his arms around her.
The song ended and she pulled him outside. He expected her to tell him that it was a mistake but she didn't she just wrapped her arm around his waist. "Walk me home."
The walk there was hell for him he didn't know if she wanted him to say something or stay quiet so he chose to be quiet because he had no clue what to say. "Spike stop right here."
"Why are we stopping?" He asked confused by the sudden speech.
"I don't want dad to see us together because I don't want him to think I went to see you, I know I did but I'm not ready to tell him that." Buffy responded pressing her lips to his in a brief passionate kiss. "Night William."
"Night Slayer." He called as Buffy ran to the house at a dead run.
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"So Buffy can I come in?" Dawn asked through the closed door to Buffy's room.
"Sure. So did dad ask anything? Oh by the way nothing was out it was a clear patrol." Buffy replied running a brush through her golden blonde hair.
"No dad didn't ask anything. So nothing at all was out? I thought with the slayer being distracted and all that I thought that there would be a ton of things out." She responded
"Well there was nothing out so I guess they know nothing about me beside I'm the slayer and I am gonna kill them if I find them in my town." Buffy replied in an agitated tone.
"I guess that's why. So there was not even one vampire out?" She asked confused at how boring her sister's patrol had been.
"Well Spike was out on patrol with me so if you count him as a vampire then yea there was a vampire out. But we better change the subject because dad could over hear us talking about vampires and he would probably try to say we are insane. Then we would try to get around it and it wouldn't work so lets not put us in the situation." Buffy rambled on not realizing Dawn was giving her a very weird look.
"You are so very weird when it comes to your job. Speaking of job are you gonna start working anywhere?" Dawn asked switching her weight on to her other leg.
Buffy looked at her sister as though she was insane and she couldn't here a word she was saying. "Dawn I'm a little tired can we finish this conversation in the morning?"
"Sure Buff. Get a bath to because you look like crap." Dawn added leaving the room as silently as she came.
"I think I will do that. It will help take away some of the tension that I am feeling right now."
She laid down on the bed and remembered the fights her mother and father used to have that would make her and Dawn so sad. They would yell and scream and sometimes they would even take the fight up stairs so he could do god knows what to her.
Her mother would be so sad and she wouldn't even tell them what was wrong.
Her mother had picked them up from school one and they had known something was wrong by the way that her eyes were not bright but very dull. She had taken them home and told them that their father and her were going to move into separate houses and they needed to choose where they wanted to live. They both chose to stay with their mother and it had broken their father's heart but they didn't want to leave the house they had grown up in.
Buffy's heart broke at the memories and she felt more tears start to form. She pushed them back. She was sick of crying over what her father had made her life.
She was consumed by sleep and she was very willing to go wherever it would take her. Her body curled up into a ball as the tears racked her body why she could not control them.
I'm sorry about this chapter being up so late. The electricity was down all week so I couldn't finish it. The next chapter will be very long and it will be a very sad chapter with a happy ending. Expect it up around the first or second week in March. Please review and don't lie, I want to know exactly what you think even if you don't like it. - Trinity