Buffy woke up a few hours later with the feeling she was being watched and turned to the window to see two blue eyes looking straight at her.

Spike eyed her appreciatively. "'allo luv, thought you were out for the count! Feelin' better now pet?" He grinned at her as he slid another cigarette between his lips sensuously.

But before he could light it she was pressing up against him, only the thin sheet she had pulled with her separating their upper bodies, her warmth seeping through the cool cotton and almost warming his cool skin, his jeans immediately tightening as her words slipped into his ear.

"Spike, what's it going to take to get you lovely lips to abandon that cigarette and replace it with me? Buffy smiled up at him from beneath her lashes and tilted her head in the way she knew made him weak, and was rewarded with a low growl.

He was too turned on to move faster than her, and taking his hesitation as indecision, she turned to the window, leaned out slowly, and gently dropped part of the sheet at the back so that only the front part of her, the part that could be seen from the outside, was covered.

In seconds, that seemed like hours, she felt cool hands slide tantalisingly down her back, making them both shiver with anticipation as one hand slid back up her spine to stroke her hair as the other caressed her ass to the vibrations of his purrs.

"Mmmmmmmmmmm, I love you Spike....... ahhhhhhh" at her words Spike's hand had dropped slightly to move between her legs, a slight movement making her legs weak as she tried to control the feeling of passiom sweeping through her.

She pushed her hips back a little to feel the friction better, and hoped that Spike would get the hint.

He did! She soon heard the best sound she had ever heard; a low sexy growl that was making her even hotter, combined with the sound of a zip being excrutiatingly slowly opened.

"I Love you too Buffy" and before she could respond in any way he grabbed her hips and pushed himself in to her more than willing body. She was so wet and almost scaldingly hot that he almost came right then, of course it didn't help that her slayer muscle had latched on to him internally and were pulling him even deeper even without him moving.

He opened his with great difficulty and saw her clutching on to the window frame with so much passion that she had bent the metal frame slightly. He grinned with the knowledge that he could make her feel this way just by being in her.

As much as it turned him on he wanted this to last, she was obviously enjoying this new depth of passion as well, so he slowed down and deepened his thrusts and shifted slightly to make his movements more controlled.

Buffy responded whole heartedly by rubbing her ass against him in circular motions, making him speed up and made him growl louder. "Oh Spike, sooooooo good. ahhhhhhh" Buffy moaned as Spike's hands moved from her hips to her waist, pulling her flush against him.

His hands roamed over her breasts and toned stomach, revelling in the way her muscles twitched at his attention, halting his thrusts briefly but never slipping from her.

Then, as he felt her begin to melt around him, moving as if trying to get him to move again, mewing as he reached his right hand down in front of them and stroked between her legs as he kept perfectly still. The left hand moved a few strands of hair from her neck and licked his mark gently and dropped his hand as she angled herself better for him. He ressumed his thrusts, faster than before, and waiting until Buffy started to moan with ecstacy leant down sank his fangs into her neck. As he drank he increased his stroking and after a few mouthfuls, he withdrew his fangs she leant forward to let him in deeper and they both screamed out eachothers names as incredibly powerful orgasms hit them.

"God Buffy, that was amazing, I mean wow Luv. You OK?" concern overtaking pleasure as he saw how much she was shaking.

"I'm OK, but......... I might need help walking for the next, oh I don't know.... year! Your right, that was amazing." Buffy laughed as she felt her knees threaten to give way, but her tone turned to love as he swept her up into his arms in one swift motion and lowered her gently on to the bed.

"I will carry you for the rest of your life if you want me to. I'll always be here for you Buffy. Never forget that pet! Hey now what's with the sad face, what'd I say?" Spike's face was panicked, what had he done now, just when things were going so well, stupid ponce.

"Oh Spike, I love you" Spike visibly relaxed, oh they were tears of happiness! Bloody hell, it was a good job he was undead or she'd be the death of him.

"Buffy... I...... the niblet's home!" Spike halted his lips descent to hers and studied her face for signs of guilt and panic. He found none.

Sure enough, Dawn's voice soon floated up the stairs. "Buffy? You home? If you're still up, come down. I have to tell you something! Buffy?"

Buffy went to the door and flung it open, shouting back "OK, we'll be down in a minute, got something to tell you too!" keeping ome eye on Spike as she spoke, who had put his trousers back on and had paused in the middle of doing up his belt and cocked an eyebrow at her in surprise. She had hoped he would realise that she had said 'we' and meant it. He did.

"Luv, are you sure about this? If your not ready yet then......." Buffy silenced him with a deep kiss. Spike held her close and she heard the rumble that soon erupted into a full blown purr.

"I Love it when you do that! I Love you William, and I want everyone to know that."

Spike's purr got even louder as she used his human name, she really did treat him like a man.

Ten minutes later and Spike and Buffy walked into the kitchen holding hands. "Hey Dawnie, thought you were staying at Xander's tonight to watch the horror fest on cable?"

"No, that's what I've got to tell you about! You see......... wait, your holding Spike's hand. Why are you....?........ finally, took you long enough. You may be the Slayer, but you're not that smart."

"Wait, you knew I loved Spike? When? How? Why didn't you....... arghhhhh..... I'm always the last to know. Oh well, I'm starved, you want pizza?" Buffy pouted, Spike felt himself harden again, he loved it when she did that. And with that, Dawn knew. Spike was still in slight shock that she was so happy about it, but knew it would be nowhere near as easy with the rest of the Scoobies, especially the whelp.

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An hour later they were fed and rested and more than ready for bed, when Dawn suddenly jumped up. "Guys, I almost forgot what I ran all the way home to tell you! Xander and Anya are back together!"

"What? Tell me everything! No wait, Ice Cream, then tell me!" Spike obediently went to the freezer for his luv while Dawn took a deep breath and began.

"OK, well..... we'd got up to our third film, 'The Creatures Revenge Part III', and Xander was making some lame joke about.........."

"Dawn! When I said 'tell me everything' I meant just about the part where they are back together!" Buffy reprimanded lightly, Spike was trying not to look bored as he lazily traced circles over Buffy thigh as they listened.

"Oooooh, sorry. OK, so half way through the film, Anya shimmers into the room and demands to talk to Xander 'alone'. He refuses and says that she could talk in front of me, after what she did with Spike....." at this she smiled appologetically at Spike, trying not to notice that Buffy was grimacing ".......she didn't have much leeway, anyway......."

Spike felt a strong bolt of anger mixed with severe hurt emotions flow through Buffy through the link. Hi put his arm around her and purred reassuringly as she leant against him, feeling her relax after a few seconds.

".......so then Anya started to speak and then burst into tears, and said she still loved him and missed her orgasms, at which point I said eughhh, and said it was because she was so hurt after he left her and wanted him back. She also said shed didn't want to marry him anymore, because she couldn't marry a human or she'd have her powers taken away again. He said he wanted to marry her, one day, but only without her powers or not at all, coz what if they had an arguement about what to have for breakfast and she let her temper get the better of her and eviserated him? She argued that she couldn't do that unless someone wished for it, and she couldn't wish for herself, it doesn't work that way. But Xander wouldn't back down. And then......" Dawn paused for a breath, noticing that Buffy was on the edge of her seat and that even Spike looked impressed, pressumably that Xander had stood his ground.

"....... she called...... ummmmmm........ that demon who gave her the powers......... oooohhh T'Hoffren, anyway, he came and told her that there would be no going back if she got hurt again, she would stay human. She agreed, and *poof* she's human again. Then they started making out, so I left. Cool huh?"

"Very cool, now go to bed! We'll talk about this tomorrow. Now, GO!"

Dawn didn't even protest, her eyes were getting heavier all the time, so she didn't bother fighting it.

"Night guys, try and keep the noise down huh? Impressionable teenager in the house OK?" Dawnn said cheekily, quickly ducking to avoid the Slayer's pillow that was thrown at her head.

"Night Nibblet, might wanna sleep with your head under your pillow. protect your not so innocent ears!" Spike called after her, in a very amused tone.

Buffy was about to throw a pilllow at him too, when she felt a surge of lust race through her. "What the....... what?...... huhhhhh"

"Something the matter Luv?" Spike asked, looking at her innocently, but she could hear the mischief in his voice.

"How did you do that? Teach me?" Buffy quockly realised it had come from the link, and it was the claim that was making her feel what he felt.

"It's easy pet, just focus on an emotion, and realise that you want me to feel it with you. Then reach out with your mind and feel the connection, try it."

Buffy closed her eyes and thought about what they'd been doing a couple of hours ago, and what she wanted to do very soon. Then she imagined their claim as a rope between them and mentally pulled.

"Bloody hell Luv, if you wanted me that much all you had to do was ask!" Buffy opened her eyes smiling as her eyes travelled down and she realised she had made him more than just a bit uncomfortable. She stood up, held out her hand and said, in her sexiest voice, "Well, now I'm asking! Make Love to me William, Spike, the man, the vampire, that I Love!"

Spike could only smile and swept her up in his arms, kissed her and nearly ran up the stairs. He was still speechless when they reached her bedroom, he felt like he'd waited an eternity to hear her say that. Now he could finally make Love to her the way she deserved to be loved, with perfect love and perfect trust.

Authors Note:

Sorry, couldn't resist that last bit, been watching the Craft!