The End and Beginning
Chp. 28
(Spikes Bint I'm glad you're still enjoying the story, and I finally got around to reading the rest of Strange Bedfellows 2 last night so enjoyed it. Everyone else thank you so much for the reviews, a Spike kiss to everyone. I'm sorry I couldn't remember who everyone was, but thank you oh so much.)
Everyone piles off of the bus, bags in hand and chattering about everything they had bought that day.
The Slayers all enter into the lobby, after busting through the doors, and still chatting.
Spike, Buffy, and the rest of the gang enter after everyone else has headed up to their rooms to put their stuff up and rest.
"Well Pet, it seems you made all the bitty slayers happy."
"Yeah, where'd they all go, anyway? Just think if we had taken them to a mall, instead of Wal-Mart." Buffy says flippantly, walking over to the check in desk, where Gunn is sitting.
"Hey you guys, I think a tornado just came through and went right up the stairs to cause a disaster." Gunn says referring to all the teenage girls that had just blown through.
Buffy looks over her shoulder at Spike, who was contemplating the whole mall scene, in his head.
"Honey?" She asks.
"I don't think I would want to be near that mall." He says, shaking his head, trying to get the picture of the carnage he was imagining out of his head.
"Huh, Oh." Buffy says laughing, slightly.
"Even I couldn't stand the carnage that would be reeked, with thirty teenage girls and two fashion deprived Slayers. They'd have to declare it national disaster area." He quips, laughing at the look on Buffy' face.
Buffy is standing there with her mouth hanging open, Gunn behind her laughing his ass off at these two. Buffy starts laughing right with him after the initial shock of what Spike just said.
"Well yeah that probably describes it to a tee." She chuckles out.
Spike smiles at her, then drops all the bags he was holding, and grabs her hand, after she drops her bags.
He's been playing with the package in his pocket, since they left the store and wants to give it to her. He wants to do it in private.
Xander and Andrew come in carrying a huge TV. box with a Playstation box balanced on top. They're chatting about the video games and not paying any attention to what they are doing and smack right into Spike, who had his back turned to the door.
"Hey watch what the bloody hell you're doin'." He shouts, turning around.
"Sorry, Spike we didn't see you there." Andrew says apologetically "I'm gonna play LotR first, I've been dying to play it since it came out." He says turning his attention back to the conversation that he and Xander was having.
'Plus the T.V. and the game console were my idea.' Andrew whines.
"Yea, but you got Tekken and that is such a kick ass game." Xander whines back at him.
" My god, you guys are acting like two five-year-olds. Andrew play for an hour and save the damned game, Xander play for an hour then save your game." Dawn says walking over to them and shaking her head at them. "You did buy memory cards right?"
"What do you think we're stupid enough not to get memory cards? Of course we got them." Andrew says sarcastically.
"I know you two and well yes I'd expect you guys to forget at least one thing." She replies, turning back around to face her sister and Spike. She smiles at them and walks off toward the stairs, " So there you go one plays for an hour, then the other plays for the next one. Now go hook up the damned thing so you'll shut up." she tosses back over her shoulder as she walks up the stairs.
Buffy, Spike and the rest of the Scooby's along with the part of Angels team that's there have all heard and seen all of this conversation and are laughing so hard they can hardly breathe.
"Man she told you guys, didn't she?" Gunn says through his chuckles, as he recovers first.
"She is a bossy little chit, just like her sis." Spike says as he recovers, "Guess that's one reason I love'em so damned much." He says as he catches the look Buffy throws over her shoulder at him.
Xander and Andrew are still too stunned to say anything.
Which starts everyone laughing at them again.
"God, Pet. I've got to get out of here, before I bust a gut laughing at these two. Let's go on up to the room and put this stuff up." Spike says picking up a bunch of bags and grabbing her hand. He heads up the stairs, dragging her behind him. She grabs the bags that are left as he drags her by them.
"Spike, slow down, and quit draggin' me!" She shouts at said ex- vamps back.
"Sorry Pet." He says as he slows down and lets go of her hand, letting her regain her equilibrium.
'Just wanted to get away from those two, before my gut burst.'
"I understand that my sides were beginning to hurt."
They begin walking and come to their room and enter. Sitting the bags down, Buffy starts rummaging through them, hunting the bleach and Sweet 'N' Low.
"Pet, what are you huntin' for?"
"The bleach and Sweet 'n' Low. I figured we'd get your hair fixed. The curls are cute, but I want my Bleach Boy, back." She says as she finds the items and lifts them from the bag.
"Luv, before we do that, I have something to show you." He says as he fumbles around in his pocket for the gifts he got.
"What, do you want to show me, baby?" she says standing up with the boxes still in her hands.
He pulls his hand out of the pocket that held the gifts and hands them to her. He smiles at hr hoping that she'll like what he got for her.
"Here I got this for you, it's not much, but I hope you like it."
"Oh, prezzies." she says, ripping the gold shiny paper from the box. Smiling like a kid at Christmas.
Spikes still standing there, chuckling at the way she is acting.
She looks up at him as she opens the box. She looks back down and sees the beautiful platinum cross and gasps. "This is. . . Oh, my god, Spike." She finally says as she hugs him, "It's beautiful, I love it! The stones are the same color of your eyes. It's totally. . .Oh, my god!" She exclaims, jumping up into his arms, and kissing him, hard on the lips.
He breaks the kiss and says "Maybe I should buy you stuff more often, if I gonna get that reaction." He goes back down for another kiss.
"Yes please." She says, still in his arms.
He holds her tight, running his hand up and down her back, and through her hair. Loving to have the feeling of her in his arms.
He lets go of her, still holding her, just loosely. "There's more, Pet.' He says, pointing to the other box, that's still in her hand.
She makes short work of the wrapping and opens the box to see matching earrings for the necklace; the only thing is that they don't have the pretty little dove over and to the right of the sapphires. She looks over to him. "This stuff must have cost a lot." She states, in a matter of fact tone. "Is this the reason for me having to pay for all of your stuff? You used your check to buy this didn't you?"
"Well, yea. I thought you'd like to have something from me, that I didn't nic." He says, looking sheepishly down at the floor. "It is from my heart, because you are my heart, I wanted you to have a piece of it back."
He sees the tears glistening at the corners of her eyes, as he looks back up from the floor.
She looks down, then looks straight in his eyes, "Whoever said that you were a bad poet, didn't know what they were talking about." She smiles at him. "You know when I first seen that box, I thought that it would be a ring."
"Figured a ring would freak you."
"Well, it probably would have. I love this though. Would you please put it on me?" She says, handing it to him.
"Lift your hair, Pet." He says taking it out of her hand. He places it around her neck, as she lifts her hair.
"I'll never take it off." She says looking down at the necklace. She drops her hair, fingering the pendant. "It really does match your eyes you know."
He's still standing behind her, and lifts her hair back over her shoulder and places a soft kiss on his mark. It sends a tingle through her body and she trembles.
He comes to stand in front of her, and says, "Ready to make me the Big Bad, again?" he pulls her to him and wraps her in his arms.
"Yea, baby. Let's go Sweet 'n' Low your head." She laughs; leaning into his chest, and still not believing that he actually is going to put Sweet 'n' Low in his hair.
Spike releases her and heads to the bathroom, to get ready for the bleaching.
She follows a few seconds later, with the bleach and Sweet 'n' Low in hand.
When she enters she puts the stuff down and turns to Spike who is leaned over the sink, wetting his hair down.
She sees the muscles of his back rippling as he runs his hands through his hair. She can't resist tracing them lightly with her fingertips. She suddenly hears his sweet, deep and muffled voice, and jumps back a little surprised, by it.
"Luv, are we bleaching hair or what? 'Cause you keep doin' that and we aren't gonna get to the hair for a while. I'm not complainin' though, wouldn't mind shaggin' your brains out right about now, but you want your Big Bad back, and the only way your goin' to get him is if you bleach his hair."
"I never said I wanted my Big Bad back, I said I wanted my Spike back." She says blushing bright red.
She opens the boxes of bleach and Sweet 'n' Low.
"Put five or six packets of that stuff in the bleach and shake it up real good, Luv." He says as he wraps a towel around his neck.
She takes his advice and prepares the mixture. She looks up at him, with his hair all wet, and messy. She draws in a deep breath. "Oh, yummy!" She whispers under her breath.
"Heard that, pet. Do you want to eat me?" Spike chuckles.
She blushes a deep pink, "Go sit on the toilet." She demands, because she's to embarrassed to ask politely and it makes her mad, that he can get to her so easily. Oh who is she kidding she loves every second of it.
"Pet? I think it would probably be better to do this over one of the sinks."
"Yea, I know but, you're way to tall for me to do it over one."
"Well, Luv." He says as he opens the door and heads to the bedroom and grabs a desk chair that was sitting in the corner and dragging it into the bathroom, grinning. "We can always do it this way."
He places the chair in front of the sink, sits down on it and leans his head back, still grinning at her.
"Smart ass." She says, as she places a hand on the side of his face and pours the mixture over his head.
"Yea, and you love it don't you?" He chuckles, "Damn, that stings."
(Okay I'm going to clarify something now. When Spike says Slayer he means Buffy and/or Faith. When he says slayer he means one of the others. He doesn't really consider them Slayers, in the sense that if Buffy hadn't shared her power, they wouldn't be anything, but little girls, and that's how he sees them. In his mind there's only two real slayers.)
Chp. 28
(Spikes Bint I'm glad you're still enjoying the story, and I finally got around to reading the rest of Strange Bedfellows 2 last night so enjoyed it. Everyone else thank you so much for the reviews, a Spike kiss to everyone. I'm sorry I couldn't remember who everyone was, but thank you oh so much.)
Everyone piles off of the bus, bags in hand and chattering about everything they had bought that day.
The Slayers all enter into the lobby, after busting through the doors, and still chatting.
Spike, Buffy, and the rest of the gang enter after everyone else has headed up to their rooms to put their stuff up and rest.
"Well Pet, it seems you made all the bitty slayers happy."
"Yeah, where'd they all go, anyway? Just think if we had taken them to a mall, instead of Wal-Mart." Buffy says flippantly, walking over to the check in desk, where Gunn is sitting.
"Hey you guys, I think a tornado just came through and went right up the stairs to cause a disaster." Gunn says referring to all the teenage girls that had just blown through.
Buffy looks over her shoulder at Spike, who was contemplating the whole mall scene, in his head.
"Honey?" She asks.
"I don't think I would want to be near that mall." He says, shaking his head, trying to get the picture of the carnage he was imagining out of his head.
"Huh, Oh." Buffy says laughing, slightly.
"Even I couldn't stand the carnage that would be reeked, with thirty teenage girls and two fashion deprived Slayers. They'd have to declare it national disaster area." He quips, laughing at the look on Buffy' face.
Buffy is standing there with her mouth hanging open, Gunn behind her laughing his ass off at these two. Buffy starts laughing right with him after the initial shock of what Spike just said.
"Well yeah that probably describes it to a tee." She chuckles out.
Spike smiles at her, then drops all the bags he was holding, and grabs her hand, after she drops her bags.
He's been playing with the package in his pocket, since they left the store and wants to give it to her. He wants to do it in private.
Xander and Andrew come in carrying a huge TV. box with a Playstation box balanced on top. They're chatting about the video games and not paying any attention to what they are doing and smack right into Spike, who had his back turned to the door.
"Hey watch what the bloody hell you're doin'." He shouts, turning around.
"Sorry, Spike we didn't see you there." Andrew says apologetically "I'm gonna play LotR first, I've been dying to play it since it came out." He says turning his attention back to the conversation that he and Xander was having.
'Plus the T.V. and the game console were my idea.' Andrew whines.
"Yea, but you got Tekken and that is such a kick ass game." Xander whines back at him.
" My god, you guys are acting like two five-year-olds. Andrew play for an hour and save the damned game, Xander play for an hour then save your game." Dawn says walking over to them and shaking her head at them. "You did buy memory cards right?"
"What do you think we're stupid enough not to get memory cards? Of course we got them." Andrew says sarcastically.
"I know you two and well yes I'd expect you guys to forget at least one thing." She replies, turning back around to face her sister and Spike. She smiles at them and walks off toward the stairs, " So there you go one plays for an hour, then the other plays for the next one. Now go hook up the damned thing so you'll shut up." she tosses back over her shoulder as she walks up the stairs.
Buffy, Spike and the rest of the Scooby's along with the part of Angels team that's there have all heard and seen all of this conversation and are laughing so hard they can hardly breathe.
"Man she told you guys, didn't she?" Gunn says through his chuckles, as he recovers first.
"She is a bossy little chit, just like her sis." Spike says as he recovers, "Guess that's one reason I love'em so damned much." He says as he catches the look Buffy throws over her shoulder at him.
Xander and Andrew are still too stunned to say anything.
Which starts everyone laughing at them again.
"God, Pet. I've got to get out of here, before I bust a gut laughing at these two. Let's go on up to the room and put this stuff up." Spike says picking up a bunch of bags and grabbing her hand. He heads up the stairs, dragging her behind him. She grabs the bags that are left as he drags her by them.
"Spike, slow down, and quit draggin' me!" She shouts at said ex- vamps back.
"Sorry Pet." He says as he slows down and lets go of her hand, letting her regain her equilibrium.
'Just wanted to get away from those two, before my gut burst.'
"I understand that my sides were beginning to hurt."
They begin walking and come to their room and enter. Sitting the bags down, Buffy starts rummaging through them, hunting the bleach and Sweet 'N' Low.
"Pet, what are you huntin' for?"
"The bleach and Sweet 'n' Low. I figured we'd get your hair fixed. The curls are cute, but I want my Bleach Boy, back." She says as she finds the items and lifts them from the bag.
"Luv, before we do that, I have something to show you." He says as he fumbles around in his pocket for the gifts he got.
"What, do you want to show me, baby?" she says standing up with the boxes still in her hands.
He pulls his hand out of the pocket that held the gifts and hands them to her. He smiles at hr hoping that she'll like what he got for her.
"Here I got this for you, it's not much, but I hope you like it."
"Oh, prezzies." she says, ripping the gold shiny paper from the box. Smiling like a kid at Christmas.
Spikes still standing there, chuckling at the way she is acting.
She looks up at him as she opens the box. She looks back down and sees the beautiful platinum cross and gasps. "This is. . . Oh, my god, Spike." She finally says as she hugs him, "It's beautiful, I love it! The stones are the same color of your eyes. It's totally. . .Oh, my god!" She exclaims, jumping up into his arms, and kissing him, hard on the lips.
He breaks the kiss and says "Maybe I should buy you stuff more often, if I gonna get that reaction." He goes back down for another kiss.
"Yes please." She says, still in his arms.
He holds her tight, running his hand up and down her back, and through her hair. Loving to have the feeling of her in his arms.
He lets go of her, still holding her, just loosely. "There's more, Pet.' He says, pointing to the other box, that's still in her hand.
She makes short work of the wrapping and opens the box to see matching earrings for the necklace; the only thing is that they don't have the pretty little dove over and to the right of the sapphires. She looks over to him. "This stuff must have cost a lot." She states, in a matter of fact tone. "Is this the reason for me having to pay for all of your stuff? You used your check to buy this didn't you?"
"Well, yea. I thought you'd like to have something from me, that I didn't nic." He says, looking sheepishly down at the floor. "It is from my heart, because you are my heart, I wanted you to have a piece of it back."
He sees the tears glistening at the corners of her eyes, as he looks back up from the floor.
She looks down, then looks straight in his eyes, "Whoever said that you were a bad poet, didn't know what they were talking about." She smiles at him. "You know when I first seen that box, I thought that it would be a ring."
"Figured a ring would freak you."
"Well, it probably would have. I love this though. Would you please put it on me?" She says, handing it to him.
"Lift your hair, Pet." He says taking it out of her hand. He places it around her neck, as she lifts her hair.
"I'll never take it off." She says looking down at the necklace. She drops her hair, fingering the pendant. "It really does match your eyes you know."
He's still standing behind her, and lifts her hair back over her shoulder and places a soft kiss on his mark. It sends a tingle through her body and she trembles.
He comes to stand in front of her, and says, "Ready to make me the Big Bad, again?" he pulls her to him and wraps her in his arms.
"Yea, baby. Let's go Sweet 'n' Low your head." She laughs; leaning into his chest, and still not believing that he actually is going to put Sweet 'n' Low in his hair.
Spike releases her and heads to the bathroom, to get ready for the bleaching.
She follows a few seconds later, with the bleach and Sweet 'n' Low in hand.
When she enters she puts the stuff down and turns to Spike who is leaned over the sink, wetting his hair down.
She sees the muscles of his back rippling as he runs his hands through his hair. She can't resist tracing them lightly with her fingertips. She suddenly hears his sweet, deep and muffled voice, and jumps back a little surprised, by it.
"Luv, are we bleaching hair or what? 'Cause you keep doin' that and we aren't gonna get to the hair for a while. I'm not complainin' though, wouldn't mind shaggin' your brains out right about now, but you want your Big Bad back, and the only way your goin' to get him is if you bleach his hair."
"I never said I wanted my Big Bad back, I said I wanted my Spike back." She says blushing bright red.
She opens the boxes of bleach and Sweet 'n' Low.
"Put five or six packets of that stuff in the bleach and shake it up real good, Luv." He says as he wraps a towel around his neck.
She takes his advice and prepares the mixture. She looks up at him, with his hair all wet, and messy. She draws in a deep breath. "Oh, yummy!" She whispers under her breath.
"Heard that, pet. Do you want to eat me?" Spike chuckles.
She blushes a deep pink, "Go sit on the toilet." She demands, because she's to embarrassed to ask politely and it makes her mad, that he can get to her so easily. Oh who is she kidding she loves every second of it.
"Pet? I think it would probably be better to do this over one of the sinks."
"Yea, I know but, you're way to tall for me to do it over one."
"Well, Luv." He says as he opens the door and heads to the bedroom and grabs a desk chair that was sitting in the corner and dragging it into the bathroom, grinning. "We can always do it this way."
He places the chair in front of the sink, sits down on it and leans his head back, still grinning at her.
"Smart ass." She says, as she places a hand on the side of his face and pours the mixture over his head.
"Yea, and you love it don't you?" He chuckles, "Damn, that stings."
(Okay I'm going to clarify something now. When Spike says Slayer he means Buffy and/or Faith. When he says slayer he means one of the others. He doesn't really consider them Slayers, in the sense that if Buffy hadn't shared her power, they wouldn't be anything, but little girls, and that's how he sees them. In his mind there's only two real slayers.)