Title : Marital Bliss

Author : Tia and Meli (edited by Adriana)

Pair : S/B They'll get married one day. Yes. They. Will.

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Buffy was intrigued. " So you've had this for a while now?" Spike knew that if he could, he would have turned red. *This will teach me to tell the 'bit anything.* Spike got up from his position and went to Dawn. He quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the room.

"Could you have any bigger of a mouth, are you going to start giving away all my secrets?"

" Sorry, it just slipped!" She blushed. "Anyways, it's nothing to be ashamed of. I think it was sweet you getting this for her birthday. Why you didn't give it to her is beyond me."

"Well I was gonna give it to her but...... there was that little........ well I gave it her didn't I?!"

After a couple minutes after having their private 'chat' they walked back to the room where both Buffy and Willow sat on the bed. Willow was their admiring the ring.

"It's gorgeous!" Buffy just sat there enjoying her delightful breakfast.

"It's been a while since I've had such a good breakfast. The French toast tastes just like mom's" Buffy then got a dazed look on her face for a moment. She was having a happy flashback from when she was a little girl and her mom would come in with a Saturday morning breakfast. In the middle of her flashback the phone rang and she snapped out of it. Buffy reached over and picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey Buffster, how's it going?

"Xander, is that you?"

"The one and only. I was just calling to say that me and An are gonna be arriving at the airport tonight around 7:00."

" Oh, that's great! I've got some news for you guys, too."

"What kind of news? Buffy, is everything ok over there?" Xander said, concerned.

"No don't worry, it's nothing TOO serious, you'll find out when you get here. Anyways, I have to go, Spike's calling. Later."

She quickly hung up the phone, and began to laugh.

The other three were confused at what brought on this sudden outburst.

"What's with the giggle fest Buff?"

"Oh my god Will, just picture Xander's face after I told him that I was hanging up on him for Spike!"

Then out of nowhere both Dawn and Willow started laughing hysterically. You could even see Spike holding back a smile.

***

Found in Las Vegas were Anya and Xander enjoying the last couple hours of their honeymoon that they could. Unfortunately, Xander was making this very difficult, since he was freaking out about the fact that Buffy was hanging around the undead peroxided fiend. To take his mind off of his troubles she decided to take him out to see the rest of the hotel.

"The Mirage is supposed to be one of the nicest hotels to see in Las Vegas. OOO look a magic show!" Anya grabbed Xander's arm and pulled him closer to a group surrounding an amateur magician. Xander was lost in the evil images that he was imagining about what could be happening to his best friends when all of a sudden he heard Anya shriek. "Xander! How can they be so cruel?"

Xander turned to face his newly wed wife and saw her screaming at the poor magician.

"I said keep those horrible creatures away!"

Xander sighed as he saw the adorable little white bunny rabbit in the hands of the magician wiggling his pink nose at Anya.

"An, calm down its not gonna do anything. It's perfectly harmless."

" That's what they want you to think, then as soon as you get your defenses down they hippity hop all over your vulnerable flesh!"

Xander put an arm around her shoulder and led her back to the room.

" Come on, lets go pack."

***

It was 6:30 back in Sunnyhell and everyone was in the living room awaiting the arrival of Xander. Earlier they had called Giles to let him know of the situation. He at first didn't approve, but then gave in knowing how much Dawn meant to Buffy and knew that although he didn't always approve of his ways, that Spike would do anything for the both of them. They had discussed that Mr. Lanceton was to attend the "wedding", so they were going to hold a fake ceremony at the Summer's residence. Giles would be flying in tomorrow to help set everything up. Dawn and Spike were on the floor playing a game of Gin Rummy while Willow and Buffy sat on the couch looking through the bakery's booklet of wedding cakes. If they had to go through the trouble of making this thing look realistic, they might as well have fun. After a while they heard the doorbell. Buffy got up to let the newly wed couple in. She opened the door and gave Xander a big hug. While she hugged him Anya noticed a glimmer coming from Buffy's ring finger.

"So who's the lucky guy?"

Xander was confused.

"What? oh yeah, long story short, me and Spike are getting married!"

By now the rest of the group had come to the corridor to see the long awaited expression on Xander's face. Xander made a double glance.

" Huh? What?"

TBC