The lane led to a house and Buffy looked around, confused. However a thin pretty women soon came out. "Hello! I'm Madison Blake, the community president, this is my husband Jeremy," she said as a tall middle-aged man came out behind her.

Buffy smiled and reached over to shake her hand. Madison shook her hand, all the while smiling. "And you must be William!" She said, and shook Spike's hand. Spike shook her hand, surprised.

Madison kept smiling. "Yes we're very sorry about your father, but I hope he made it to the wedding?" Buffy was puzzled. Wedding? All she could do was guess that somehow her friends had contacted Madison and explained about Buffy's "husband" William. She guessed that explained his companionship well enough though didn't it?

She didn't know that when Giles had woken up in Sunnydale he had been confused, but extremely relieved that Buffy had gotten on the train. He was a little wary about Spike, but realized Buffy could handle herself.

Willow had made a call to Madison Blake explaining that Buffy and William would be arriving at the appointed house in Roseland. Buffy had gotten married to William suddenly and instead of her and her father (Giles) coming to the house, she and William would live there instead.

"Well, I bet you guys are really tired after your honeymoon!" Madison laughed. Buffy blushed and all Spike could do was smirk. "Let's show you to your house." Madison gestured to a car and they all got inside.

As they drove through the streets Buffy was amazed at the size of Roseland. It was more than a gated community. It was like a gated city. They even drove through a "down town" area with a grocery store, a restaurant, dry- cleaners and other helpful shops.

Fifteen minutes later they were pulling into the driveway of a nice well- sized house. Buffy got out of the car and looked up at the tidy white house with an spotless lawn and picket white fence. It was beautiful.

Madison watched her reaction. "It's wonderful isn't it? The perfect place to start raising little ones!" Buffy had to stop herself from laughing. If Mrs. Blake only knew...

Spike meanwhile, was shocked. This was the stuff his nightmares were made of. Perfect house, perfect lawn, perfect everything. He felt trapped. The only thing that stopped him from turning to flee was the fact he loved Buffy and would do anything for her. He sucked it up and followed the Blakes and Buffy into the house.

Buffy felt close to tears as she saw what was to be her home. It was everything she had ever wanted and thought she could never have. The house was fully furnished, and Madison didn't fail to mention what a good idea it was to buy the house outright instead of making payments every month. Buffy wondered how rich Angel really was.

When they went upstairs Madison pointed out there were three rooms, also perfect for babies. Madison seemed to like to talk about babies. As far as Mrs. Blake could tell Buffy and "William" were a darling couple. She wondered why they seemed so distant being just married, but gave it over to the fact that they were probably shy.

"Well," Madison said once they were back downstairs. "I hope you like Roseland, everyone does, and I'll be seeing you later to see how you're doing. Tomorrow the neighbors will probably be coming around to see how you all are. Um, there's a community meeting the Hall on Tuesday so I hope I'll see you there!"

Buffy and Spike thanked Madison and Jeremy as they left. The door closed and they were left in silence. Buffy looked at Spike and he at her. Buffy yawned.

"It's been a really long day Spike, I'm going to bed." She started up the stairs and Spike followed her. She went into the master bedroom and turned around, looking at Spike with wonder as he followed her in.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked. "To bed," Spike said, nodding at the large bed with feather pillows. Buffy laughed. "I don't think so. You're going into the other room."

Spike shook his head. "What makes you think you get the master bedroom chit?" Buffy laughed. "Because I'm me. Now go." She pointed towards the door. Spike grinned evilly as a thought popped into his head.

"But love, you know when newly weds move into a new house they're supposed to christen the rooms." He walked towards her predatorily. Buffy opened her mouth in a shocked O as she got what 'christening' meant. She backed away. "Don't you dare Spike! Go!"

She laughed as Spike lunged for her. She dodged him and danced around to the other side of the bed. "Go away! I want to take a shower!" She laughed again as he jumped over the bed at her. "Shower needs to be christened too!" She squealed and ran out the door and down stairs, beginning a mad chase through the house.

However, vampiric strength soon won over the Slayer, who, after all, still needed to breath to catch her breath. Spike reached out and finally tackled Buffy as she started back up the stairs. He turned her around.

"I win," he said devilishly. Buffy struggled to catch her breath. "Don't you...dare. I...have to go to...bed." She laughed, her side hurting from the exercise. Spike chuckled as he brought his face close to hers.

"Goodnight Buffy," he said softly. Buffy stiffened. He was going to kiss her. Oh God how she wanted him to...

Spike kissed her forehead softly. Buffy quickly tucked away any emotions she had just felt to the back of her heart. She reminded herself again it was wrong.

She smiled shyly and squirmed from beneath him, running up the stairs and closing the door to the master bedroom.

Spike sighed. Living with her was going to kill him. He was sure of it. How was he supposed to sleep while she lay in the bedroom next to him? He wasn't even tired. He wouldn't be tired until dawn. He sighed again.

As much as he wished he could have kissed Buffy then, he was glad he didn't. He didn't want to force anything. If Buffy wanted him, then she would come to him. This he was sure of. Until then, he would just have to wait.