The End and Beginning
Chp. 13

Spike opens the door and whistles. "Damn Angelus, last time I seen you, well not last time*because that time you were KISSING MY SLAYER* He thinks, " but the time before that, you were in a run down warehouse. It seems you've moved up in the world."

His gaze finally rests on Angel, and he's standing in direct sunlight.

"Uh, Angel is there somethin' you're not tellin' me here?"

Buffy sees that he's staring at Angel.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you about that."

"What did you forget to tell, SLAYER? He growls out "That Angelus is human, too?"

"Oh, god, no. It's not like that, William."

*Uh, oh, she used William, this isn't gonna be good, either that or she means what she's gonna say. * Spike thinks.

"The windows are treated with something that keeps a vamp from going POOF, in the sunlight."

Spike lets out the breath that he didn't know he was holding. Then says "Well that was a big build up, for nothin' Pet."

"I was just trying to get you to pay attention, instead of goin' off half cocked about something so minor."

"Half cocked, it would've been whole cocked if you'd have said something other than that, Goldilocks."

"Do you actually believe that I would forget that Angel was human" I may forget stuff, but I don't think I could forget to tell you he is human. Although when I first saw him, I thought the same thing."

"If he was you would have never brought me back, you'd have forgotten about me and went off with Brood Boy over there. He says dejectedly, head hanging/looking at the floor.

Buffy drags him back to the door, "Excuse us." She says shutting it.

(Out in the hall)

"Spike?"

He won't look at her, just stands there with his head down, still, studying his fingernail, and leaning back on the door.

"Spike?" she says, again, putting her hand under his chin and making him look up at her, which also make him look her in the eyes.

"Even if Angel was human, I would have brought you back. I don't want him. I thought that I made it clear, that I don't love him like that anymore."

"You still love him though."

He said it as a statement, but she took it as a question.

"Yes, I do, but not in the end all, be all sense, not anymore. I love him like I love the rest of the Scooby's. Spike YOU'RE THE ONE." She says repeating his words back to him. "You told me that not to long ago, and I didn't want to be. Do you know when I wanted to be? The night before the final battle, I was laying there wrapped in your arms and it came to me that yeah I really did want to be the one for you, because you were the one for me." She was pacing, but now she's looking him straight in the eyes when she says the end. "I see that now, I saw you that night. I saw what was there and I wanted it." (I think this is my favorite line so far, 'cause I saw it and I wanted it.)

He looks at her like she's given him the greatest gift in the world, he feel like spouting poetry, but thinks better of it.

He stands up straight, wraps and arm around her, and snarks, " Right then, glad we got that straightened out. Let's check this place out, pet."

She chuckles "God I pour my heart out to you and you snark at me, typical Spike. You become human and you're still the same old Spike that is annoying and that I love."

"Well Sweet 'art, you got my heart soul literally, din't think I needed to make another speech about how I felt for you, I laid it all on the line that night, in hopes that you'd see it, took you bloody long enough, but you finally seen what I wanted you, too."

"Well if you still wanna check this place out, I know where you'd like to go."

"Where's that, Pet?"

"The weapons floor. Gunn took me up there last night."

"Who's Gunn, Pet?"

"The black guy from Angels crew."

"Should I be jealous, luv?"

"Oh, ho you have nothing to worry about."

"Why's that? He looks like a nice enough, Bloke."

"Well first of all, because I'm in love with you, and second of all I think he ahs a thing for Fred."

"You'd better have said that first thing." He says squeezing her a little and kissing the top of her head. " The Big Bad might have come if you hadn't."

"Spike why would I raise hell and high water to get you back if I didn't?"

"Don't know, luv, but I'm sure glad you did." He says looking at her with that look of amazement again. (Can't get enough of that look.)

'Fred, huh? That little slip of a thing I met earlier?'

"Yep." She says popping her P.

"That's interestin'."

"Why's that, Spikey?"

"They just don't seem to mesh to me. He's the muscle and from what I see she's the brains, they just don't fit."

"And we do?"

"Yeah, Pet we do, we're perfect for each other, I knew that a bloody long time ago."

"Really?"

"God yes, Luv. I love you for who and what you are, and from what you said earlier, you love me the just the same. I bloody well hope that was what you meant."

"Well yeah, I meant that and so much more. It's not the duster." She says fingering said items lapel. " It's a part of the whole Spike package, but it's not the WHOLE package, and I'm in love with the whole package, both the Spike and William parts, I love them both and together they give me the Spike I love. What I'm saying is I love you for you not some grungy old duster, not the Big Bad, not William but the whole integrated being. I love Spike, my Spike, not an image you think you have to have."

"Pet, you keep sayin' things like that and you might get a man all riled up and damn it he might just want to take you right here, in this hall, and whoever walks by can have a bloody eye full of just how bloody beautiful a naked slayer can be, not to mention the sexy man that's ridin' her." He says turning her around so he can kiss her.

The kiss deepens into something intense and he licks her bottom lip asking for entrance into her mouth, her arms wrap around his neck, playing with the hair on the back of his neck, she grants him his wish. His tongue slips inside and caresses the whole of her mouth, before it finds hers and they dance.

Breaking away panting and breathless, she says you're just full of yourself, aren't ya?" Then starts the kiss again.

(A.N. I hope the kiss was half way decent anyway it was my first really descriptive one so I have No Idea if it came out the way I imagined, but I hope I got the point across.)