Title: You Always Hurt The One You Love
Author: Insane Vampiress
Setting: During the alley scene in "Dead Things"
Pairings: Buffy/Spike, Xander/Anya, Willow/Tara
Rating: PG-13(probably in later chapters)
Summary: Buffy realizes what she's doing to Spike in the alley and helps him recover.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Fox, UPN, etc. own the show and characters, if I did Spike wouldn't get beaten so often.
Author's Note: Aw, poor Spikey, and I'm not being sarcastic. I have writer's block on what to write next in my other stories, so I wrote this while trying to think. Please read and review. Buffy and Spike Forever!!!

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~Wounded and Helpless~

Buffy looked down at her beaten, bruised, broken, and bleeding lover.

She thought about what he had said. 'You always hurt the one you love, pet.' Right after he said it, Spike had passed out and now looked like a normal dead body.

"Oh, my god," Buffy whispered, realizing how badly she had hurt him. She got off of him and saw that his eyes were almost swollen shut. She felt like she was going to hurl. He was so helpless. She was crying and she knew he had been trying to help her by hiding the body because he cared about her and Dawn.

Buffy closed her eyes to quell the new tears that were threatening to escape. The slayer bent her head down and lightly, being very gentle, kissed his forehead. She stroked the wounds on his cheek that her fists had caused and wished that she could take back the stuff she'd said to him and what she had done, or at least be able to instantly fix what happened. Spike's body and feelings were both deeply injured. They both flinched.

"I'm so sorry." She lifted him up knowing that there wasn't much time before sunrise and carried him back to her house.

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When Buffy got to the door, she heard her friends talking and wondered how to explain this, especially to Dawn. She also wondered how she was going to open the door without dropping Spike.

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Author's Note: That's the first chapter, I'll try to update faster. Hey, did that rhyme? I'll try writing longer chapters, too. Please READ & REVIEW!