A/N As for following the story line, I'm going to follow it all the way up to half way through Bargaining part 2. Then the story's going to be different. Thank you for all your reviews! Keep em coming.

Buffy woke up slowly. She glanced around at her surroundings. It was Spike's cave underneath his crypt. She tried to pull her arms down, but they were chained up. Spike stood in front of her.

"There she is. Beginning to think you'd sleep the night away." Spike said.

"Dru.. Drusilla.." Buffy murmured, remembering how she had come to be in the cave. Spike grinned and stepped away. Dru was tied to a pole across the room from Buffy.

"Not nice to change the game in mid-play, Spike. You've taken my chair and the music hasn't stopped." Dru said.

"Sorry, Pet. My house, my rules." Spike said.

"I think I shall be very cross with you when I'm free again."

"What is going on?" Buffy asked.

"Simple.. I'm going to prove something.." Spike came in close to Buffy's face. "I love you."

Buffy squinched her eyes closed and turned her face away. "Oh my God!"

"Look at me!" Spike grabbed her face and turned her back to him. "I. LOVE. You. You're all I bloody think about. Dream about. You're in my gut, my throat. I'm drowning in you, Summers. Drowning in.." Spike was cut off by laughter. "Can do without the laugh track, Dru."

"But it's so funny. I knew before you did. I knew you loved the Slayer. The pixies in my head whispered it to me. I thought they would fly away.." Dru said.

"You can't tell me there isn't anything there between you and me. I know you feel something." Spike said to Buffy.

"It's called revulsion. And whatever you think you're feeling, it's not love. You can't love without a soul." Buffy said.

"Oh, we can, you know. We can love quite well.. If not wisely." Dru said.

"You still don't believe. Still don't think I mean it. You want proof? How's this?" Spike moves to the shrine in the corner and picked up one of his souvenir stakes, then crossed back to Drusilla. "I'm going to kill Drusilla for you." Dry started to laugh and Spike pushed the stake in further.

"That's not going to prove anything. Except that you're a miserable, sick vampire I should've dusted a long time ago. And, hey, already there." Buffy said.

"Don't mock this."

"Go mock yourself."

"This is Drusilla, girl. Do you have the slightest idea how much she means to me? This is the face of my salvation. Before Dru, I was nothing. A speck. But when she bit me, she delivered me from mediocrity. For over a century we cut a swath through the continents, shared a bed, drank from the same vein.. A hundred years, and she never

stopped surprising me. Never stopped taking me to new depths. I was a lucky bloke, to touch such a black beauty. Lucky just to stand in her light." Spike pressed the stake further into Dru's chest causing her to flinch. "So you see, it means something."

"Not to me. Kill her. Why do I care?"

"Here's why: If you don't admit that there's something there.. Some tiny feeling for me, then I'll untie Dru and let her kill you instead."

"Yes. Please. I like that game much better." Dru said.

"Just.. Give me something.. a crumb, the barest smidge.. Tell me someday, maybe, there's a chance.."

"Spike.. The only chance you had with me was when I was unconscious." Buffy said. That did it for Spike. He roared and threw the stake against the wall. "What the bleeding hell is wrong with you bloody women? What the hell does it take? Why do you bitches torture me?"

"Which question do you want me to answer first?"

"I'm at the end of my bleeding tether! I don't know why I even bother!" Spike turned to Dru. "It's your fault. You're to blame for all this, you know."

"Am I?" Dru asked.

"Bloody right you are. If you hadn't left me for that Chaos Demon, I'd never come back here. Wouldn't have this sodding chip in my skull." Spike rounded on Buffy. "And you.. You wouldn't be able to touch me. Because this.. this thing with you.. it's wrong! I know it! Not a complete idiot! You think I like having you here?! Destroying everything that was me until all that's left is you in a dead shell. You say you hate it but you won't leave. What I should just do is get rid of both of you. Burn you! Cut you into little pieces! So there won't be any more bints to cock things up for.." Spike was cut off by a crossbow bolt slamming through his shoulder. He turned around and found Angel standing there. "Oh.. GREAT!"

"Ooh, Daddy's come to play." Dru said.

"Shut up Dru." Angel said. He turned back to Spike. "Who the hell do you think you are Spike? You're pathetic. And not to mention one dead vampire."

"Oooh. Now I'm scared." Spike said, mock shuddering.

"Oh, you better be. You've over stepped your boundaries. You laid your filthy hands on MY fiancé and that's a no no where I come from. You know exactly what that mark on her neck means and yet you chose to overstep. Bad move Spikey." Angel backhanded Spike and sent him sprawling into the nearest wall. Then he walked over to Buffy. "You ok?"

"I'm fine. The feeling in my arms is starting to, you know, not be there, but hey.." Buffy said.

Angel bent over Spike. "Where's the k.." Angel was tackled by Dru who had managed to get free. They went sprawling and Angel lost his crossbow. In the ensuing excitement, Spike got up and stood near Buffy. She struggled to get out of the chains holding her, but they were too deep in the stone. He was about to reach out and touch her hair, but Angel grabbed a handful of his greasy, bleached hair and yanked him back.

"OW! Bloody hell man!" Spike screamed.

Angel threw him and he landed hard next to the ladder. When Angel went after Spike, Dru went after a still restrained Buffy. Since she only had her legs to fight with, Buffy pulled a few flips and kicks, but that was wearing her wrists out. She could feel the burn marks forming from the metal rubbing viciously against her skin. Then, Angel was there, pulling Dru away. He tossed her against Spike and then undid Buffy's restraints with the key he had taken from Spike.

Dru turned to Spike. "Poor Spike.. So lost. Even I can't help you now." With that, she slipped into the wall opening and disappeared.

Spike came over to Buffy and tried to apologize, but Buffy wouldn't hear it. She punched him hard and he went flying into the shrine, destroying it. Angel took her hand and together, they walked out of the crypt. They walked all the way to Buffy's house with Spike trying to catch up.

"Buffy.." Spike called. She didn't turned around. "Come on now. Stop. You can't walk away from this."

"What part of punching you in the face did you not understand?" Angel asked.

"So we had a fight. Not our first, love. It doesn't have to change anything." Spike ignored Angel.

Buffy wheeled on Spike. "This changes everything. You're out, Spike. I want you out of this town. I want you off this planet. You don't ever come near me, my friends, and

family again. Ever.. understand?" She turned back around and walked up the steps.

"No. It's not that easy. We have something, Buffy. It's not pretty, but it's real." Spike followed her up to the door. "And there's nothing either one of us can do about it. Like it or not, I'm in your life. You can't just shut me out." He tried to walk into the house, but the invisible barrier stopped him.

"Changed the locks Spike. You no longer have a key." Buffy slammed the door in Spike's face.