sorry to all confused readers... computers are evil

"She's dead." Spike whispered softly as he stood by the open grave.

"Why would the council do this to their own slayer?" Willow asked through her tears.

"Because she didn't follow their rules." Giles murmered softly, "they didn't have her complete obedience. Didn't have her brainwashed like so many of the others."

Spike just stared at the open ground in the sunlight, remembering that night his world had come crashing down.

Three days before...

"Spike, we have been expecting you for sometime now." Wesley said standing with two other watchers.

"Yeah well do you the papers mate? I'm in the mood to kill." Spike replied casually as he lit up a cigeritte.

Then he turned to look at the watchers, blowing smoke in their faces. "So where are they?"

"Where are what?" Wesley asked calmly.

"The papers!" Spike said through gritted teeth, shifting in to his game face.

"Oh they are right here." Wesley said pointing to a suitcase in his hand, completely unintimidated. "But we have a few conditions before we let you have these."

"And those are." Spike said angrily flicking his cigerette ashes at the men. Inside he swore he was having a heart attack, if his heart beat that is, as panic started to seize his heart.

"See, we've been hearing rumors that the slayer has been having an affair with a vampire." Wesley said easily as if he was talking about the weather.

"And what does this have to do with me? All I'm suppose to do is kill the bint." Spike said icely, "And if I don't get to kill her soon, I'm going to have to settle with something a little more available." His gaze at least startled Wesley slightly, as did his insinuation.

"The rumor is that that vampire is you." Wesley said with a little less confidence then he had had before now. There was something off about this vampire, more so then the others who had fallen in love with slayers.

It was offical, Spike was the first vampire to have a heart attack. So Spike did the only thing he could do, "You caught me." He said with a laugh and a smirk, "But it isn't what you think it is."

"Then kindly tell us what it is?" Wesley said regaining some of his lost confidence.

"A way to kill her." Spike said with a smirk, upon suddenly remembering the words Angelus had mummered two years ago. "The only way to kill this girl is to love her."

"And how do you propose to accomplish that?"

"Take her off her guard. Lurer her into a false sense of security and then kill her when she least expects it." Spike said arrogantly. 'And they said I couldn't be a writer, I was just writting in the wrong genre.' He thought to himself.

"You are going to kill me?" Another voice came from the darkness. "You'll find it a little hard to do so when you are merely dust."

'Oh my god, Buffy! Please don't believe a word of what I just said. I love you pet!' Spike that as hard as he could, hoping some beniegn power would take pity on him for once in his long miserable life.

Buffy caught the breif look of panic in her lover's eyes, *Good he still loves me.*

"But then again, you want to kill me. So I would still have a problem." Buffy said quietly looking pointedly at the watchers. She turned her attention back towards Spike and with a subtle wink she said softly, "So maybe we can rvive that old alliance we once had. What do you say to that Spike?

Spike felt his heart burst with joy, 'Thank you, thank you whatever power is up there.'

"I don't know luv, what's in it for me?"

"One thing I've been denying you these past few nights." Buffy said seductively.

'The chit definitely knows how to play her cards right.' Spike thought gleefully to himself smiling internally. Exteneral though he was smirking.

"I could kill you and get all of it."

Buffy was smirking now, she pointed at herself then at the council, "You could, but then you won't have a neverending supply of, what was it that you called it, oh yes, a vampire's aphrodesiac and a chance to see what watcher's taste like."

Spike pretended to think over her offer. Then said reluctantly, "Alright luv, you appealled to me. It's a bloody deal." Buffy smiled at that, making Spike feel all warm inside. "So how do we want to handle these blokes?"

"You don't, Merde" "Wesely called and a girl that looked exactly like Dia appeared. "Take care of them." Wesley said with a wave of his hand.

"So Dia, you decided to betray us? Should have known you were good for nothing." Buffy said snidely.

The girl smirked, "Oh your Dia? My twin sister? That like pip squeek couldn't kill a fly, let alone betray someone. You, nina of Elita, should know better then that. You are gifted with foresight."

Buffy looked bewildered, "You're her sister?"

The huntress circled the two of them, "No I'm you're killer."

The girl lunged at Spike with a stake and Buffy jumped in the way and the stake penentrated her heart. Spike felt his world stop....