(a/n thank you everyone who has read and/or reviewed. As for your question about the Angel costume Alex... I have good spot to add that in..read and you'll find out)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- Ginny's mind was reeling the next day while she was sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, the ball was coming up soon, and she was dreading it. She did not want to see anybody's reaction to her date, hell, she didn't even want to go with her date. And then there was the 'Spike thing', as she liked to call it. It was all horrible, she thought, absolutely horrible.

Angelus watched her from across the hall, he loved his pet. Spike knew this, as he watched the both of them. But then again, in his opinion, it didn't really count as love to him. Angelus loved her as a possession. Like one would love an item, a really expensive item, or a pet of some kind. This had become more than a game to him now. It wasn't just to spite Angelus, and get revenge. He had fallen in love with the chit, and he hated himself for it. But now, he knew, he had to have her. He wasn't going to use her anymore, no, they were going to be together, and Angelus wasn't going to stop them.

Ginny walked down to a tree near the lake, and sat under it, thinking. She always liked to come and sit under this tree and think, especially during times like this. Spike came down and sat next to her.

"Penny for your thoughts" he said

"Hey" she replied, not looking at him

"Y'know, we never did do that dare, with those costumes" Spike commented, thinking back to that day in Hogsmeade. Ginny burst out laughing, picturing Spike in the angel costume again. It seemed as if the whole kissing thing hadn't even happened, and the tension between them disappeared.

"Yeah, we never did do that, did we?" She replied after she had stopped laughing

"Yeah, we're going to have to do that soon, y'know?" He said

"No, way" she said shaking her head

"Oh, yes, we are" He argued

She stuck her tongue out at him

"Fine" she finally agreed and he smiled.

"So, how about we do it.. tomorrow?" He asked

"Ok" she said, regretting the day she made that deal.

"Good, I'll meet you in your dorm thing, around..8:00"

"That works" she agreed

They spent the rest of the day talking, and enjoying each other's company.

~~~~~~~~~~the next day~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ginny woke up and changed into her costume, finally figuring out how to put on the corset. She was seriously dreading this. Then Spike came in (all the other girls in her dorm had already left) decked out in his angel costume, and she knew it was worth it. She applied some makeup, and fixed her hair while she told Spike some changes she had in their deal.

"Since this is WAY more embarrassing for me than it is for you, I'm making you cheeks rosy with blush, and I'm dragging you in by a leash" she told him, and finished her makeup.

"Oh, no, y-" he started to say, but stopped when she put her hands on her hips and glared at him, she was adorable, and he couldn't say no.

"Good boy" she said as she applied blush to his cheeks, and put a collar, with a leash attached to it, on him"

He glowered "Yeah, ok, but when we go in there, we walk in with our heads high"

She nodded.

"No blushing or running out on me, right Red?"

Again, she nodded.

And, together they walked down to the Entrance Hall.

They walked in together, her leading him by the leash. Then, naturally, someone gasped, and the whole hall turned to look at them. Ginny forced herself not to blush, kept her face blank, and walked toward the Gryffindor table. A smile crept onto her face when she saw the looks on everyones faces. Then there was laughter coming from behind her, she looked over at the Slytherin table, and saw Angelus laughing....hard. Ginny was worried he might piss himself if he laughed any harder. Draco started laughing too, and Dumbledore chuckled along with them, and then several other professors started laughing too. Harry started laughing, and Hermione and Ron looked at him oddly, like he had grown a second head. Ginny and Spike sat down at the Gryffindor table, waiting for the laughter to stop, it took a minute or two. Ron was gawking, Harry was trying to hide a smile, and Hermione was deep in thought. Another un-Ginnyish behavior to add to the very long list that I started when those vampires got here, Hermione thought. She still had yet to figure out what was going on with Ginny. She had talked to Harry about it and he felt the same way, so they decided to try and figure it out (without Ron, because they most certainly did not want to discuss that with him) But they still hadn't found anything out yet. Hermione noted that people were still looking at Spike and Ginny oddly. Spike and Ginny, on the other hand, were both trying to hide smiles. Ron was still speechless, so Ginny and Spike grabbed some food, and left before he could say anything.

Spike and Ginny went out to the tree in front of the lake and started to eat the food they had brought out with them.

"Did you see the looks on their faces?........." She asked excitedly with a huge smile.

"Yeah, Angelus was laughing so hard, he looked like he was going to piss himself!!" He replied, equally excited.

They both looked at each other, and cracked up. After they had finished laughing, Ginny looked at him, and he looked back.

He looks sooo cute with those rosy cheeks, she thought.

She looks...wow...in that outfit..he smiled and she returned it. They kept eye contact and he leaned in and kissed her. She returned it forcefully. And just as they were about to break off the kiss, they heard a low growl behind them, and they both turned to look at....

"Angelus" Ginny squeaked