The rest of the night went over pretty smoothly, well all things
considered. Lindsey was being pretty touchy-feely with Buffy and this was
not going over well with Spike. However Buffy didn't notice this because
she was just so happy to have "one of her bestest friends back". Spike
wanted to heave.
He knew that he had to tell Buffy what he had heard Lindsey say on the phone, but the question was: Would she believe him?
The gang was getting ready to leave and saying their good-byes, Dawn had already gone upstairs for bed.
"So Lindsey, where are you staying while your in town?" Xander questioned as him and Cordelia headed for the door.
"Sunnydale Motel" Lindsey answered with a shrug, "not the best but I'm only gonna be sleeping there."
"Yuck, that place is disgusting" Cordelia shuddered at the thought of staying in a cockroach infested place.
"Agreed, I'd rather stay at the Hilton a couple miles outside of town and support the Hilton sisters then stay there." Buffy said also shuddering, however from thinking about Paris and Nikki.
"Well that wouldn't be getting the real Sunnydale feel" Lindsey joked.
"Neither is cockroaches, how bout you just stay here?" Buffy offered.
"No I couldn't I wouldn't want to impose." Lindsey said kindly denying the offer but on the inside thrilled that his plan was working so fast.
"It wouldn't be imposing, you can sleep on the coach." Buffy said trying to make the couch look appealing, "I'd offer you a room but Willow and Tara have the master bedroom now and Dawn and I take up the other ones. But the couch is so comfortable. Emphasis on the comfortable."
"Well if you don't mind" Lindsey said shyly.
"Nonsense" Willow added, "the more the merrier."
"Yeah and it'll give us more time to catch-up" Tara said.
"Okay then, let me just go grab my bags from the car" Lindsey said as he stepped out the door with Xander and Oz trailing to help him with his stuff.
"We're gonna go to bed you guys" Willow said after whispering something to Tara.
"Ok" Buffy said giving them each a hug, "night"
"See you in the morning" Willow responded, and leaned out the doorframe and yelled out to the guys, "Night guys"
"Night Willow" Xander said as he trudged up the steps with one of Lindsey's bags.
"Night Will" both Oz and Lindsey answered.
The two girls went upstairs.
"Well I think we're gonna call it a night as well." Cordy said.
"Yeah night guys" Xander agreed and the two were off.
"We're heading as well," Anya, said, "I have some other ideas for the night that shall have pleasurable consequences."
"Night" Oz agreed with a slight blush.
"Bye guys!" Buffy yelled after their retreating form.
This left only Spike, Buffy, and Lindsey in a very, very awkward moment.
"So . . ." Buffy started.
"I need to use the bathroom" Lindsey said, "Do you mind?"
"Nope, you remember where it is?" Buffy questioned.
Lindsey pointed up the stairs and Buffy nodded her head in confirmation.
"So . . ." Buffy started once again.
"Yeah" Spike agreed.
"I'm really sorry your surprise got ruined" Buffy told him apologetically.
"No big deal" Spike said while having an inner debate on when to bring up the whole hearing Lindsey talk about some plan on the phone that didn't sound like it would end good. "I have to tell you something" No time like the present.
"Yeah" Buffy asked.
"Can we go outside, it's kinda private" Spike whispered.
Buffy looked around the room failing to see who was going to listen to the conversation, "Um . . .Spike" Buffy said pointing out the obvious.
"I know it's just I don't want anyone to accidentally hear what I have to tell you." Spike said feeling nervous.
"Ok then, we can go outside on the porch." Buffy offered and the two headed to the back.
The two entered the porch and sat on the bench together. It seemed so weird that twenty-four hours ago they were at his house doing . . .well you know. And now there was an unsettling silence around them. Buffy didn't know what Spike had to tell her but she could tell that he was tense and this made her nervous. She wasn't sure if he was mad about the Lindsey situation or what but she wasn't too keen on finding out.
Spike decided to break the silence; "You remember when I went into the kitchen to get a drink when Lindsey was on the phone?"
"Yeah" Buffy nodded.
"Well I heard him talking, on no fault of my own," Spike quickly added, "And he said something that I think you need to know."
"Well what is it?" Buffy asked.
Spike ringed his hands together nervously, "Well he started talking about how he was gonna have you going back with him to L.A. by the end of the week at the rate things were going and how you were very valuable to him and. . ."
***Buffy's Bathroom***
Lindsey was brushing his teeth with a happy smile on his face. He knew that Spike would tell Buffy what he had overheard and this didn't really bother him.
He knew he had he charm to win Buffy over and he was confident in himself and come on Spike and Buffy had only been dating for a little while.
What reason did she have to believe him? He was probably just jealous of little old me. She isn't bright enough to believe him or see through my fake charm.
And with that he rinsed off the toothbrush out of his mouth and smiled his charming smile to the mirror and left.
***Buffy's Porch***
Spike had finished telling Buffy what he had heard and she seemed pretty shell-shocked.
"Wow" Buffy stated for the twelfth time.
"Yeah" Spike agreed.
"That's definitely not something Lindsey would say" Buffy said for the tenth time.
"Yeah" Spike agreed, although he really didn't know Lindsey.
"I mean I just can't believe he would do something like this" Buffy said.
"I know, I mean he seemed nice," Spike agreed.
"No I mean he wouldn't do something like this" Buffy said feeling angry.
***Buffy's Stairs***
Lindsey walked down the stairs with an extra bounce in his step. He was feeling good, really good.
He walked into the living room and put his toothbrush back in his suitcase and then sat down on the couch.
Lindsey turned the T.V. on and scanned the channels, finally settling on an old episode of M*A*S*H.
He was getting into the episode when a teary-eyed Buffy walked into the hallway followed by a sad looking Spike.
"Leave" Buffy said not throwing a second glance his way.
Spike walked out the door without a fight, this surprised Lindsey but he didn't comment on it.
"Buffy what's wrong" Lindsey asked ready to swoop in and be the comforting hero.
"Nothing, just something Spike said" Buffy said as she headed for the stairs, "Night"
"Night" Lindsey replied, stunned that she didn't fall into his arms and tell him the story of what the evil boyfriend told her. Oh well, plan will still work.
Buffy reached the top of the stairs with a smile to herself and woke up Dawn and headed into Willow and Tara's room to make a call, no one else would be going in that room tonight.
***Wes & Spike's Apartment***
"Hey" Wes said getting up from the couch where a pretty brunette was sitting, "This is Fred"
"Hi" Spike said giving her his charming smile and shaking her hand. "Sorry I've had a rough night, I'm gonna head to bed okay?"
"Sure" Wes said with a nod.
"Nice meeting you" Fred called after him.
"You too" Spike responded.
"Must have had a long night" Wes responded as him and Fred returned to the movie that was on T.V.
Spike lay on his bed when he got into his bedroom thinking about his conversation with Buffy. He felt bad for being cold towards Fred but he had to prepare and his mind was boggled right now.
***Buffy's House***
"Wow" Xander said.
"Second that" Cordelia added.
Even Oz looked shocked, which was saying a lot.
The gang was all sitting in the living room listening to what Buffy had to tell them. They all congregated after their workdays had ended for a Scooby meeting. And this was the only time when Lindsey was out of the house; he was having dinner with some old friends that the Scoobs never really liked.
"Well, we'll help" Xander stated firmly.
"Yeah, who does he think he is" Willow said with a look of disgust on her face.
"Knew I could count on you. So . . .let's make it up to him" Buffy continued.
Later that night Buffy was in the kitchen cleaning up the dinner dishes that the gang had used.
"Hey Buffy" Lindsey said as he walked into the kitchen.
"Oh hey" Buffy said startled, "Didn't hear you come in. How was dinner?"
"It was fine" Lindsey said as he walked over to the sink to help Buffy with the dishes.
"Oh don't worry I'm almost done." Buffy said kindly refusing his offer of help.
"Nonsense" Lindsey said not backing down from his offer.
The two finished the dishes in companionable silence.
"So . . .wanna watch some T.V. with me?" Lindsey offered.
"No I'm pretty tired" Buffy said as she headed towards the stairs leaving a disappointed and doubting Lindsey. "Oh I forgot to tell you, tomorrow we're having a get together type thing here with a whole bunch of people you were friends with and what not. Should be a hoot"
"Sounds great" Lindsey said with his hopes rising again.
"I knew you'd love it" Buffy said with a huge smile, "Night"
"Night" Lindsey said with a smile.
That night Lindsey went to bed a happy man.
***Magic Box***
The next morning the gang was all meeting at the Magic Box and taking the day off from work to plan. Dawn was even allowed to stay home from school, but just this once.
"Ok so everything is ready for tonight?" Buffy asked nervously.
"You betcha" Cordy said with a false enthusiasm.
"Come on Cordy it wasn't that bad" Xander said trying to comfort his girlfriend.
"Not that bad! I had to cook, how could that not be bad?" Cordelia yelled attracting some looks from the customers.
Buffy and Anya decided to keep the Magic Box open because, well, Anya wanted more money.
"Cordy calm down" Willow said, "I had to do way more then you"
"Oh yeah, computer stuff, so hard for you" Cordelia said sarcastically.
"Hey this was tough business but everything's set up." Willow replied.
The Scoobies went along discussing the plans for tonight the rest of the afternoon because they wanted everything to be perfect.
***Wes & Spike's Apartment***
"Hey man" Wes said as he walked into the entrance of Spike's room.
"Hey" Spike answered while buttoning up his shirt.
"What's wrong?" Wes asked.
"Nothing," Spike quickly replied receiving a yeah-right look from Wes, "nothing, just had a lot on my mind."
"Ok" Wes said, "Where you going?"
"Party" Spike responded.
***Buffy's House***
"This is great you guys" Lindsey said. "Thanks so much"
"No problem" Xander replied with dripping kindness. "Anything for our friend Lindsey."
As he said this he received a strange look from Lindsey and an elbow in the stomach from Cordelia.
"What?" Xander asked Cordy.
"Nothing" Cordelia said with her stern voice, "let's get some food"
With that the two were gone
"Yeah I think we're going to head to the bedroom to do the nasty" Anya said dragging a helpless looking Oz away.
"Those two never stop do they?" Lindsey laughed.
"Nope, we've tried to make them stop" Willow stated firmly, "Nothing works, they're like magnets."
Lindsey laughed, these people were so nice, and he was beginning to remember what it felt like to have true friends. He almost felt bad for what he was gonna do, almost.
The party continued with more people coming and more partying going on. Everyone seemed to be having a great time. That is until Spike decided to show up.
"Buffy can we talk?" Spike said coming up from behind her and interrupting her from her conversation.
"Spike what are you doing here?" Buffy said with shock.
"I need to talk to you" Spike stated firmly.
Lindsey noticed Spike enter and saw him walk over to Buffy. Nothing was getting in his way. "Spike I think the lady said no" Lindsey said approaching them from behind.
"Lindsey can you please get him to leave" Buffy said shakily. Lindsey smiled and nodded; finally he got to be the protector. Lindsey grabbed Spike by the arms and pulled him out of the house. He was once again surprised at the argument that he didn't put up.
The two were standing in the yard when Spike swung a right hook at him knocking over the surprised Lindsey.
"You think she won't fucking figure it out" Spike yelled.
"Keep it down. I don't want you to ruin my party" Lindsey laughed as he began to get up but was suddenly stopped by Spike's foot on his chest.
"She's going to find out. I'll make sure of that," Spike said firmly.
"Find out about what?" Lindsey said feigning innocence.
"Find out what? That you plan to take her to fucking L.A. away from her friends and sister and fucking marry her for money. You're right she won't find out," Spike said ridiculously.
"By the time she had any idea what's going on she'll be dead" Lindsey said this all with a smirk. Lindsey took this moment to get up and head back towards the house. As he was walking up an angry looking Buffy walked out.
"Is he leaving?" Buffy asked clutching Lindsey's back as if it were a shield.
"Buffy you have to believe me." Spike pleaded.
"Spike, you heard the girl, she doesn't wanna talk to you" Lindsey said firmly with a smirk.
"Fine, fine!" Spike said with a punch in the air as he retreated around the house.
Lindsey and Buffy headed back inside together as Willow rushed to the door.
"Is everything okay?" Willow asked looking at Buffy and receiving a nod. "Good well I'm just gonna go check outside and make sure he's gone."
Willow walked over to the tree . . .
The rest of the party went smoothly, everyone was having a good time and Lindsey soon forgot about Spike.
"Excuse me everyone!" Buffy yelled towards the front of the room as everyone quieted down, "As you all know this is a welcome back party for Lindsey, one of my nearest and dearest friends."
There were hoots from the crowd and a smile from Lindsey. Like candy from a baby he thought to himself.
"I know, what a great guy he is" Buffy chuckled, "And to celebrate this great guy we have a video in his honor."
The video played with clips from his friends at the party saying nice things about him.
"Lindsey you were always a great guy and I wish you'd stay in Sunnydale but you're a man of bigger things" Kate finished, one of Lindsey's old friends who now works for Sunnydale P.D. and came to the party right after her shift.
The last part of her raising a drink to him was cut off by an image of Lindsey and Spike in the front lawn.
"She's going to find out. I'll make sure of that," Spike was saying on the screen
"Find out about what?" Lindsey said dripping with sarcasm.
The crowd seemed confused by the tape but all listened intently anyways.
"Find out what? That you plan to take her to fucking L.A. away from her friends and sister and fucking marry her for money. You're right she won't find out," Spike yelled.
"By the time she had any idea what's going on she'll be dead" Lindsey said as the tape went off.
Spike entered from the kitchen with a smirk firmly implanted on his face, "Told you she'd find out"
Spike walked up to Buffy and put his arm around her waist and kissed her forehead.
Lindsey carefully started backing up but bumped into his friend Kate, the police officer. She whipped out her handcuffs and read him his rights.
"I guess you were right Willow" Cordelia started. "The computer stuff was harder, but good job editing that film. You got a lot of good stuff"
"Thanks Cordy" Willow smiled, "Good dip"
"Buffy come on you know I was just joking" Lindsey pleaded with her.
"Come on Lindsey, you know I'm smarter then that all it took was one call with Dawn's help and I got all the dirt on you."
"Yeah" Dawn said finally making herself seen, "Who knew a Lilo & Stich voice changer could do so much."
The gang was all smiling at him, it felt good to be superior to him for once.
"And I'd say I was pretty believable. I pulled that little scene from the backyard from Jerry McGuire." Spike laughed.
Kate took Lindsey away, glad that she to this party straight from work, in her police squad.
Everyone started to head out after that exciting party.
"Well that was a night I won't soon forget" Xander said.
"Me neither" Willow said.
"I got an idea." Buffy said with a smile, "How bout everyone stays here tonight and I make breakfast in the morning?"
"Sounds good," Everyone said.
"Ok, you guys can sleep down here, blankets are in the hall closet" Buffy said pointing towards the closet
"What about me?" Spike asked with a grin.
"Well you get to stay in my room" Buffy said grabbing his shirt and pulling him in for a kiss receiving groans around the room from the gang.
"See I'm not the only one" Anya said with a smile.
"Ha, ha" Buffy said throwing a pillow at her. "Night guys, we're going up"
Everyone said good night and headed towards their respective sleeping areas.
***Buffy's Room***
Spike and Buffy sat on her bed together while holding hands.
"Nice room you got" Spike commented.
"Thanks" Buffy answered nervously.
"I especially like the bed." Spike said with a wolfish grin.
"It's really comfortable" Buffy said as she turned towards him feeling her nervousness drift away.
"I don't know if it's sturdy though" Spike commented knocking on one of the legs.
"We could test it out" Buffy commented with a smile.
"If you want" Spike agreed.
And with that the two tested out the bed and yes, sure enough, it was sturdy.
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I hope everyone liked the story, I know this chapter was so long but I wanted to finish most of it today, there's only going to be one more chapter, that would be the epilogue. And I'm only writing this if you guys review and tell me you want an epilogue. By the way this chapter was probably confusing beyond the telling of it but I swear to you it would have made a lot more sense if you could see it. I left a lot of little clues about the gang was plotting throughout the entire story and if you reread it you'll pick them up. Anyways hope you like and if you want either an epilogue (this would feature Buffy on tour with Spike) or and epilogue (Buffy and Spike at the end of his tour) review, I spent a long time on this story so please give me some feedback. Anyways, sorry long and confusing. Hope you liked and thanks for reading.
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He knew that he had to tell Buffy what he had heard Lindsey say on the phone, but the question was: Would she believe him?
The gang was getting ready to leave and saying their good-byes, Dawn had already gone upstairs for bed.
"So Lindsey, where are you staying while your in town?" Xander questioned as him and Cordelia headed for the door.
"Sunnydale Motel" Lindsey answered with a shrug, "not the best but I'm only gonna be sleeping there."
"Yuck, that place is disgusting" Cordelia shuddered at the thought of staying in a cockroach infested place.
"Agreed, I'd rather stay at the Hilton a couple miles outside of town and support the Hilton sisters then stay there." Buffy said also shuddering, however from thinking about Paris and Nikki.
"Well that wouldn't be getting the real Sunnydale feel" Lindsey joked.
"Neither is cockroaches, how bout you just stay here?" Buffy offered.
"No I couldn't I wouldn't want to impose." Lindsey said kindly denying the offer but on the inside thrilled that his plan was working so fast.
"It wouldn't be imposing, you can sleep on the coach." Buffy said trying to make the couch look appealing, "I'd offer you a room but Willow and Tara have the master bedroom now and Dawn and I take up the other ones. But the couch is so comfortable. Emphasis on the comfortable."
"Well if you don't mind" Lindsey said shyly.
"Nonsense" Willow added, "the more the merrier."
"Yeah and it'll give us more time to catch-up" Tara said.
"Okay then, let me just go grab my bags from the car" Lindsey said as he stepped out the door with Xander and Oz trailing to help him with his stuff.
"We're gonna go to bed you guys" Willow said after whispering something to Tara.
"Ok" Buffy said giving them each a hug, "night"
"See you in the morning" Willow responded, and leaned out the doorframe and yelled out to the guys, "Night guys"
"Night Willow" Xander said as he trudged up the steps with one of Lindsey's bags.
"Night Will" both Oz and Lindsey answered.
The two girls went upstairs.
"Well I think we're gonna call it a night as well." Cordy said.
"Yeah night guys" Xander agreed and the two were off.
"We're heading as well," Anya, said, "I have some other ideas for the night that shall have pleasurable consequences."
"Night" Oz agreed with a slight blush.
"Bye guys!" Buffy yelled after their retreating form.
This left only Spike, Buffy, and Lindsey in a very, very awkward moment.
"So . . ." Buffy started.
"I need to use the bathroom" Lindsey said, "Do you mind?"
"Nope, you remember where it is?" Buffy questioned.
Lindsey pointed up the stairs and Buffy nodded her head in confirmation.
"So . . ." Buffy started once again.
"Yeah" Spike agreed.
"I'm really sorry your surprise got ruined" Buffy told him apologetically.
"No big deal" Spike said while having an inner debate on when to bring up the whole hearing Lindsey talk about some plan on the phone that didn't sound like it would end good. "I have to tell you something" No time like the present.
"Yeah" Buffy asked.
"Can we go outside, it's kinda private" Spike whispered.
Buffy looked around the room failing to see who was going to listen to the conversation, "Um . . .Spike" Buffy said pointing out the obvious.
"I know it's just I don't want anyone to accidentally hear what I have to tell you." Spike said feeling nervous.
"Ok then, we can go outside on the porch." Buffy offered and the two headed to the back.
The two entered the porch and sat on the bench together. It seemed so weird that twenty-four hours ago they were at his house doing . . .well you know. And now there was an unsettling silence around them. Buffy didn't know what Spike had to tell her but she could tell that he was tense and this made her nervous. She wasn't sure if he was mad about the Lindsey situation or what but she wasn't too keen on finding out.
Spike decided to break the silence; "You remember when I went into the kitchen to get a drink when Lindsey was on the phone?"
"Yeah" Buffy nodded.
"Well I heard him talking, on no fault of my own," Spike quickly added, "And he said something that I think you need to know."
"Well what is it?" Buffy asked.
Spike ringed his hands together nervously, "Well he started talking about how he was gonna have you going back with him to L.A. by the end of the week at the rate things were going and how you were very valuable to him and. . ."
***Buffy's Bathroom***
Lindsey was brushing his teeth with a happy smile on his face. He knew that Spike would tell Buffy what he had overheard and this didn't really bother him.
He knew he had he charm to win Buffy over and he was confident in himself and come on Spike and Buffy had only been dating for a little while.
What reason did she have to believe him? He was probably just jealous of little old me. She isn't bright enough to believe him or see through my fake charm.
And with that he rinsed off the toothbrush out of his mouth and smiled his charming smile to the mirror and left.
***Buffy's Porch***
Spike had finished telling Buffy what he had heard and she seemed pretty shell-shocked.
"Wow" Buffy stated for the twelfth time.
"Yeah" Spike agreed.
"That's definitely not something Lindsey would say" Buffy said for the tenth time.
"Yeah" Spike agreed, although he really didn't know Lindsey.
"I mean I just can't believe he would do something like this" Buffy said.
"I know, I mean he seemed nice," Spike agreed.
"No I mean he wouldn't do something like this" Buffy said feeling angry.
***Buffy's Stairs***
Lindsey walked down the stairs with an extra bounce in his step. He was feeling good, really good.
He walked into the living room and put his toothbrush back in his suitcase and then sat down on the couch.
Lindsey turned the T.V. on and scanned the channels, finally settling on an old episode of M*A*S*H.
He was getting into the episode when a teary-eyed Buffy walked into the hallway followed by a sad looking Spike.
"Leave" Buffy said not throwing a second glance his way.
Spike walked out the door without a fight, this surprised Lindsey but he didn't comment on it.
"Buffy what's wrong" Lindsey asked ready to swoop in and be the comforting hero.
"Nothing, just something Spike said" Buffy said as she headed for the stairs, "Night"
"Night" Lindsey replied, stunned that she didn't fall into his arms and tell him the story of what the evil boyfriend told her. Oh well, plan will still work.
Buffy reached the top of the stairs with a smile to herself and woke up Dawn and headed into Willow and Tara's room to make a call, no one else would be going in that room tonight.
***Wes & Spike's Apartment***
"Hey" Wes said getting up from the couch where a pretty brunette was sitting, "This is Fred"
"Hi" Spike said giving her his charming smile and shaking her hand. "Sorry I've had a rough night, I'm gonna head to bed okay?"
"Sure" Wes said with a nod.
"Nice meeting you" Fred called after him.
"You too" Spike responded.
"Must have had a long night" Wes responded as him and Fred returned to the movie that was on T.V.
Spike lay on his bed when he got into his bedroom thinking about his conversation with Buffy. He felt bad for being cold towards Fred but he had to prepare and his mind was boggled right now.
***Buffy's House***
"Wow" Xander said.
"Second that" Cordelia added.
Even Oz looked shocked, which was saying a lot.
The gang was all sitting in the living room listening to what Buffy had to tell them. They all congregated after their workdays had ended for a Scooby meeting. And this was the only time when Lindsey was out of the house; he was having dinner with some old friends that the Scoobs never really liked.
"Well, we'll help" Xander stated firmly.
"Yeah, who does he think he is" Willow said with a look of disgust on her face.
"Knew I could count on you. So . . .let's make it up to him" Buffy continued.
Later that night Buffy was in the kitchen cleaning up the dinner dishes that the gang had used.
"Hey Buffy" Lindsey said as he walked into the kitchen.
"Oh hey" Buffy said startled, "Didn't hear you come in. How was dinner?"
"It was fine" Lindsey said as he walked over to the sink to help Buffy with the dishes.
"Oh don't worry I'm almost done." Buffy said kindly refusing his offer of help.
"Nonsense" Lindsey said not backing down from his offer.
The two finished the dishes in companionable silence.
"So . . .wanna watch some T.V. with me?" Lindsey offered.
"No I'm pretty tired" Buffy said as she headed towards the stairs leaving a disappointed and doubting Lindsey. "Oh I forgot to tell you, tomorrow we're having a get together type thing here with a whole bunch of people you were friends with and what not. Should be a hoot"
"Sounds great" Lindsey said with his hopes rising again.
"I knew you'd love it" Buffy said with a huge smile, "Night"
"Night" Lindsey said with a smile.
That night Lindsey went to bed a happy man.
***Magic Box***
The next morning the gang was all meeting at the Magic Box and taking the day off from work to plan. Dawn was even allowed to stay home from school, but just this once.
"Ok so everything is ready for tonight?" Buffy asked nervously.
"You betcha" Cordy said with a false enthusiasm.
"Come on Cordy it wasn't that bad" Xander said trying to comfort his girlfriend.
"Not that bad! I had to cook, how could that not be bad?" Cordelia yelled attracting some looks from the customers.
Buffy and Anya decided to keep the Magic Box open because, well, Anya wanted more money.
"Cordy calm down" Willow said, "I had to do way more then you"
"Oh yeah, computer stuff, so hard for you" Cordelia said sarcastically.
"Hey this was tough business but everything's set up." Willow replied.
The Scoobies went along discussing the plans for tonight the rest of the afternoon because they wanted everything to be perfect.
***Wes & Spike's Apartment***
"Hey man" Wes said as he walked into the entrance of Spike's room.
"Hey" Spike answered while buttoning up his shirt.
"What's wrong?" Wes asked.
"Nothing," Spike quickly replied receiving a yeah-right look from Wes, "nothing, just had a lot on my mind."
"Ok" Wes said, "Where you going?"
"Party" Spike responded.
***Buffy's House***
"This is great you guys" Lindsey said. "Thanks so much"
"No problem" Xander replied with dripping kindness. "Anything for our friend Lindsey."
As he said this he received a strange look from Lindsey and an elbow in the stomach from Cordelia.
"What?" Xander asked Cordy.
"Nothing" Cordelia said with her stern voice, "let's get some food"
With that the two were gone
"Yeah I think we're going to head to the bedroom to do the nasty" Anya said dragging a helpless looking Oz away.
"Those two never stop do they?" Lindsey laughed.
"Nope, we've tried to make them stop" Willow stated firmly, "Nothing works, they're like magnets."
Lindsey laughed, these people were so nice, and he was beginning to remember what it felt like to have true friends. He almost felt bad for what he was gonna do, almost.
The party continued with more people coming and more partying going on. Everyone seemed to be having a great time. That is until Spike decided to show up.
"Buffy can we talk?" Spike said coming up from behind her and interrupting her from her conversation.
"Spike what are you doing here?" Buffy said with shock.
"I need to talk to you" Spike stated firmly.
Lindsey noticed Spike enter and saw him walk over to Buffy. Nothing was getting in his way. "Spike I think the lady said no" Lindsey said approaching them from behind.
"Lindsey can you please get him to leave" Buffy said shakily. Lindsey smiled and nodded; finally he got to be the protector. Lindsey grabbed Spike by the arms and pulled him out of the house. He was once again surprised at the argument that he didn't put up.
The two were standing in the yard when Spike swung a right hook at him knocking over the surprised Lindsey.
"You think she won't fucking figure it out" Spike yelled.
"Keep it down. I don't want you to ruin my party" Lindsey laughed as he began to get up but was suddenly stopped by Spike's foot on his chest.
"She's going to find out. I'll make sure of that," Spike said firmly.
"Find out about what?" Lindsey said feigning innocence.
"Find out what? That you plan to take her to fucking L.A. away from her friends and sister and fucking marry her for money. You're right she won't find out," Spike said ridiculously.
"By the time she had any idea what's going on she'll be dead" Lindsey said this all with a smirk. Lindsey took this moment to get up and head back towards the house. As he was walking up an angry looking Buffy walked out.
"Is he leaving?" Buffy asked clutching Lindsey's back as if it were a shield.
"Buffy you have to believe me." Spike pleaded.
"Spike, you heard the girl, she doesn't wanna talk to you" Lindsey said firmly with a smirk.
"Fine, fine!" Spike said with a punch in the air as he retreated around the house.
Lindsey and Buffy headed back inside together as Willow rushed to the door.
"Is everything okay?" Willow asked looking at Buffy and receiving a nod. "Good well I'm just gonna go check outside and make sure he's gone."
Willow walked over to the tree . . .
The rest of the party went smoothly, everyone was having a good time and Lindsey soon forgot about Spike.
"Excuse me everyone!" Buffy yelled towards the front of the room as everyone quieted down, "As you all know this is a welcome back party for Lindsey, one of my nearest and dearest friends."
There were hoots from the crowd and a smile from Lindsey. Like candy from a baby he thought to himself.
"I know, what a great guy he is" Buffy chuckled, "And to celebrate this great guy we have a video in his honor."
The video played with clips from his friends at the party saying nice things about him.
"Lindsey you were always a great guy and I wish you'd stay in Sunnydale but you're a man of bigger things" Kate finished, one of Lindsey's old friends who now works for Sunnydale P.D. and came to the party right after her shift.
The last part of her raising a drink to him was cut off by an image of Lindsey and Spike in the front lawn.
"She's going to find out. I'll make sure of that," Spike was saying on the screen
"Find out about what?" Lindsey said dripping with sarcasm.
The crowd seemed confused by the tape but all listened intently anyways.
"Find out what? That you plan to take her to fucking L.A. away from her friends and sister and fucking marry her for money. You're right she won't find out," Spike yelled.
"By the time she had any idea what's going on she'll be dead" Lindsey said as the tape went off.
Spike entered from the kitchen with a smirk firmly implanted on his face, "Told you she'd find out"
Spike walked up to Buffy and put his arm around her waist and kissed her forehead.
Lindsey carefully started backing up but bumped into his friend Kate, the police officer. She whipped out her handcuffs and read him his rights.
"I guess you were right Willow" Cordelia started. "The computer stuff was harder, but good job editing that film. You got a lot of good stuff"
"Thanks Cordy" Willow smiled, "Good dip"
"Buffy come on you know I was just joking" Lindsey pleaded with her.
"Come on Lindsey, you know I'm smarter then that all it took was one call with Dawn's help and I got all the dirt on you."
"Yeah" Dawn said finally making herself seen, "Who knew a Lilo & Stich voice changer could do so much."
The gang was all smiling at him, it felt good to be superior to him for once.
"And I'd say I was pretty believable. I pulled that little scene from the backyard from Jerry McGuire." Spike laughed.
Kate took Lindsey away, glad that she to this party straight from work, in her police squad.
Everyone started to head out after that exciting party.
"Well that was a night I won't soon forget" Xander said.
"Me neither" Willow said.
"I got an idea." Buffy said with a smile, "How bout everyone stays here tonight and I make breakfast in the morning?"
"Sounds good," Everyone said.
"Ok, you guys can sleep down here, blankets are in the hall closet" Buffy said pointing towards the closet
"What about me?" Spike asked with a grin.
"Well you get to stay in my room" Buffy said grabbing his shirt and pulling him in for a kiss receiving groans around the room from the gang.
"See I'm not the only one" Anya said with a smile.
"Ha, ha" Buffy said throwing a pillow at her. "Night guys, we're going up"
Everyone said good night and headed towards their respective sleeping areas.
***Buffy's Room***
Spike and Buffy sat on her bed together while holding hands.
"Nice room you got" Spike commented.
"Thanks" Buffy answered nervously.
"I especially like the bed." Spike said with a wolfish grin.
"It's really comfortable" Buffy said as she turned towards him feeling her nervousness drift away.
"I don't know if it's sturdy though" Spike commented knocking on one of the legs.
"We could test it out" Buffy commented with a smile.
"If you want" Spike agreed.
And with that the two tested out the bed and yes, sure enough, it was sturdy.
VERY IMPORTANT:
I hope everyone liked the story, I know this chapter was so long but I wanted to finish most of it today, there's only going to be one more chapter, that would be the epilogue. And I'm only writing this if you guys review and tell me you want an epilogue. By the way this chapter was probably confusing beyond the telling of it but I swear to you it would have made a lot more sense if you could see it. I left a lot of little clues about the gang was plotting throughout the entire story and if you reread it you'll pick them up. Anyways hope you like and if you want either an epilogue (this would feature Buffy on tour with Spike) or and epilogue (Buffy and Spike at the end of his tour) review, I spent a long time on this story so please give me some feedback. Anyways, sorry long and confusing. Hope you liked and thanks for reading.
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