DO YOU ALL HATE ME RIGHT NOW? WELL I'M SORRY TO SAY IF YOU THINK THAT'S
BAD, JUST WAIT. ANYWAY R/R.
"So, Buffy, today is Spike's day right?" Dawn asked Buffy. They were sitting on her couch and the kids were down for their naps.
"Yeah, he's coming in an hour" Buffy said as she flipped through the channels on the TV.
"Are you okay?" Dawn asked.
"Sure, why wouldn't I be, I mean I got pregnant when I was eighteen, got married, go raped, go pregnant, go divorced, my life's been peachy" Buffy said sarcastically and then began to cry.
"Oh Buffy" Dawn whispered and hugged her. "Don't cry."
"I can't help it, how did everything get so messed up? How did we grow apart so much?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know sweetie, but you both wanted this right?" Dawn asked.
"We both said it was for the best, I mean. . .god I just hate him, I hate him!" Buffy yelled.
"Is that hate spelled l-o-v-e?" Dawn asked.
"No, I don't love him anymore, not at all, I hate him" Buffy said and the doorbell rang. Buffy quickly wiped the tears away and answered it and saw Spike.
"What are you doing here?" she asked coldly.
"It's my weekend with the kids, where are they" he said, trying to walk in.
"Ah! Stay right there, I'll get them, it will take me a while, you're an hour early" Buffy said, shutting the door in his face. "Can you help me get everything together Dawnie?" Buffy asked.
"Sure" Dawn said and they went upstairs to get the kids. Twenty minutes later they had everything together. Buffy and Dawn took them outside where Spike was waiting in his car.
"Okay, everything they need is here, make sure it is all returned" Buffy said and Spike took Robbie.
"Yeah whatever" Spike mumbled. Buffy took Charlotte from Dawn and put her in her car seat and kissed her.
"Okay baby, you're gonna go with daddy alright, mama loves you" Buffy said.
"I wov you too mama" Charlotte said. Spike put Robbie in his car seat and Buffy went over to him and kissed him. "Bye Robbie."
"See you Monday" Spike said in monotone and drove away.
Willow and Oz were sitting in their living room watching TV. Buffy and Spike had been divorced for two weeks and they both had different opinions about it. Willow was on Buffy's side and Oz was on Spikes.
"Can you pass the chips?" Oz asked.
"Here " Willow said and gave him the bag. "It isn't Buffy's fault you know."
"Well it's not Spike's" Oz said, not looking at Willow, just looking at the TV.
"He was the one who initiated it" Willow said.
"Aren't you supposed to be Spike's best friend?" Oz said, now facing her.
"Things change, look I love Spike okay, but I'm going to be there for Buffy" Willow said.
"And leave Spike out in the cold, you're a great friend" Oz mumbled.
"You know what, I'm going over to Buffy's" Willow said. She got Taylor and went over to Buffy's house.
Meanwhile Spike was pulling into Xander's complex. He got Charlotte and Robbie out of the car along with all their stuff and carried them upstairs. It was Xander's turn to watch Gracie so she was there also.
"Hey man, need a little help?" Xander asked as Spike entered the apartment.
"Please" Spike said and Xander took Robbie and his diaper bag form Spike. "Thanks."
"No problem" Xander said.
"Where's Gracie?" Spike asked.
"Taking a nap" Xander said as he and Spike went into the living room.
"Man I just want to thank you again for letting me stay here, it won't be long I promise" Spike said.
"Take your time" Xander said. "How are you doing?"
"Don't know, good I guess, I just hate her so much, I just. . .er! hate her!" Spike said angrily.
"Man you can't fool me, I know that-" Xander began, but Spike cut him off.
"No, don't say that, I don't" Spike said.
"How'd you know what I was gonna say?" Xander grinned.
"I. . ." Spike said at a loss of words. Xander just smiled.
Willow arrived at Buffy's and walked in without knocking. She just wanted to get away from Oz and. . .all boys!
"Buffy?" she called.
"Hey Will, what are you doing here?" Buffy asked, coming out of the kitchen eating a cookie.
"Sorry to barge like this, but. . .I just need to get away from Oz" Willow said and put Gracie down in Robbie and Charlotte's playpen.
"Oh it's not trouble, my mom just came to pick up Dawn so I'm glad you're here" Buffy said.
"You lonely?" Willow asked.
"A little, without the kids" Buffy said.
"And Spike?" Willow asked.
"I wish everyone would stop asking me that, no not Spike, I don't want to. . .I mean I don't love. . .look I don't want to talk about it" Buffy said and sat on the couch.
"Okay, we don't have to talk about it, we can. . .watch a video" Willow said, sitting on the couch also.
"I just. . .I'm just so tired" Buffy said, laying her head on Willow's lap.
"Well if you're tried sweetie why don't you go to sleep" Willow said.
"Not that kind of tired, I'm just so fed up with all of this, it's like we did a 360 degree turn in the direction of bad and I just. . ." Buffy said.
"I thought you said you didn't want to talk about it" Willow said.
"I don't know what I want" Buffy told her. Not even a half hour later both girls were sleeping.
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It was Monday morning and Spike was getting Robbie and Charlotte ready to go home.
"Got everything?" Xander asked him.
"Yeah" Spike said Xander picked up Charlotte and followed Spike out to the car. Spike put Robbie in his seat and Xander put Charley in hers. "All right, I'll be back late, I need some air" Spike said.
"Whatever man, do your thing" Xander said.
"See ya" Spike said and drove away. He arrived at Buffy's house a little while later and knocked on her door and she answered.
"Hi babies" she said happily and took Robbie.
"Can I come in to put her in bed" Spike asked sarcastically, remembering when she shut the door on him a couple days ago.
"Fine" she said and went upstairs and he followed he put Charley in her bed and Buffy put Robbie in his and they left and turned out the light. "Uh you left some things here" Buffy said and went into the bedroom, he followed.
"What stuff?" he asked. Buffy handed him a box. He looked inside and saw some CDs, a couple pieces of clothing and a small box. He opened it. "This is your engagement ring."
"Yeah, my wedding ring too" Buffy said.
"Why are you giving me these?" Spike asked.
"Because we're not married anymore Spike, I mean it would be kind of silly to keep them right?" Buffy said.
"It's like a gif, you get a gift from someone, you don't give it back because you get divorced, or you stop talking to them" Spike said and gave her the box back.
"Thanks" Buffy said quietly.
"How ya been?" Spike asked.
"Okay, you?" Buffy asked.
"Fine, totally fine, better than fine" Spike said.
"Me too" Buffy said.
"I should get going, I'm late for lots and lots of getting drunk" Spike said and left. Buffy opened the box and looked at the rings. She went into her bedroom and put them in the drawer next to her bed. She climbed in bed and went to sleep.
Spike was sitting at the bar now drinking. He wanted, no he needed to get Buffy out of his head. He didn't love her anymore. He took another shot, then another, then another.
"Drowning your sorrows?" a girl asked.
"Not drowning, just wallowing" Spike said. The girl smiled and so did Spike.
"Hi, I'm Anya" Anya said.
"Spike" Spike said and shook her hand.
"So, Spike, bad day?" Anya asked.
"Bad month, just got divorced" Spike said.
"I'm sorry" Anya said sympathetically.
"Don't be, I'm not" Spike said.
"No if I was your wife, I certainly wouldn't let you go" Anya said teasingly.
"Yeah well, Buffy was a bint, most of the time" Spike said taking another shot.
"And the other times?" Anya asked, moving closer.
"The other times, she was. . .amazing" Spike said.
"Do you miss her?" Anya asked.
"No" Spike said bluntly. "Let me by you a drink."
"I can do better than that, why don't you come to my place and we can have drinks there" Anya said.
"Sounds good" Spike said.
Anya and Spike were now in Anya's apartment making out. they hadn't broke the kiss from the front door to the couch. They were now making their way to Anya's bedroom. Spike lifted her up and continued to kiss her passionately. The door to Anya's room sung open and once they were inside Spike shut it with his foot. They both fell back on her bed and Spike broke the kiss to begin unbuttoning her blouse. Anya removed Spike shirt. Once hers was off too Spike kissed her again. *The next morning*
Spike woke at 9:45 the next morning. Anya was laying there watching him sleep.
"Hey" he said.
"Morning" she said and kissed him. "You were amazing last night."
"Ditto" he said and they smiled.
"Your wife was a lucky woman" Anya said.
"Yeah, her loss" Spike said grimly.
"Her loss" Anya said and kissed him again. "My gain." He turned her over so that he was on top of her and they began to make out. Suddenly Anya's phone began to ring and she broke the kiss and answered it. "Hello? Oh god, yeah, alright I'll be there, bye."
"Who was that luv?" Spike asked.
"My sister, my son's sick I have to go, you could come with me if you wanted" Anya said.
"Sure" Spike said. "You never told me you had a son."
"You never asked" Anya said.
"What's his name?" Spike asked.
"Tyler, he's named after his father" Anya said, getting up and getting dressed. Spike did the same.
"Where is his father?" Spike asked.
"Somewhere, I don't know, he left when Tyler was just a baby" Anya said.
"How old is he now?" Spike asked.
"Five" Anya said. "We'd better go."
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Buffy opened her eyes. The sun was shining bring and high in the sky. She rolled over to look at the clock. It was 10:26. She slowly sat up and got out of bed and went to her kids' room. Charlotte and Robbie were awake.
"Hi babies" Buffy said.
"Mama!" Robbie said happily.
"Hi" Buffy smiled and picked him up.
"Mama, where daddy?" Charlotte asked.
"Sweetie daddy doesn't live here anymore" Buffy told her daughter.
"Why?" the little girl asked.
"Because. . ." she tried to explain. Thankfully the phone rang and Buffy answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey Buffy" Cordelia said happily.
"Hey Cordy" Buffy said.
"Look I'm going to do you a favor" Cordelia said. "I'm going to watch your kids today and you're going to go to a spa."
"What?" Buffy asked confused.
"I got you an appointment, you're going, that's final" Cordelia said.
"Hey I'm not gonna argue, thanks Cordy" Buffy said.
"No problem, thank Willow too, she helped pay for it" Cordelia said.
"You guys didn't have to do this" Buffy said.
"It's no problem, we love you and we want you to relax, so I'm going to come and get them for you, the appointment's at 4:00" Cordelia said.
"Thanks" Buffy said. They hung up and Buffy got the kids' things together. Cordelia arrived an hour later and took the kids. Buffy decided that since she had a lot of time on her hands that she would go to the store. She drove to Hurley's Supermarket and walked inside. She just wanted to get a few things. She was walking down the cereal aisle when she saw Spike and some girl kissing. 'Oh-my-god' she thought. They stopped kissing and Spike looked straight at her. Buffy tried to turn away so he didn't see her, but he did so she walked up to them.
"Buffy" Spike said, surprised to see her.
"Hi" Buffy said firmly.
"Uh, what are you doing here?" Spike asked.
"Shopping, who's your friend?" Buffy asked.
"Oh, this is Anya, Anya this is Buffy me. . .ex" Spike said.
"Hi, nice to meet you" Anya said.
"You too" Buffy said and shook her hand. "Well I have to go and shop so. . .see ya" Buffy said and walked away.
"She seems nice" Anya said.
"Yeah" Spike said and looked on at Buffy as she walked away. Buffy finished shopping and went back home and called Willow and Cordelia on three way.
"Hello?" Willow said.
"Will, hold on I got Cordy on three way" Buffy said and pushed the button so they could all talk. "Hey you both there?"
"Yeah" Willow and Cordelia said at the same time.
"Okay, get this, Spike has a girlfriend" Buffy said.
"What?" both girls said in simultaneously again.
"Yeah, I saw them making out at the supermarket" Buffy said. "Can you believe that, I mean we've only been divorced for two weeks."
"Why do you care, I mean you said you didn't love him anymore right?" Willow asked.
"Well. . .I. . ." Buffy tired to say.
"You still love him don't you?" Cordelia asked.
"No I. . .yes" Buffy finally gave up.
"I knew it, I knew that you still loved him" Willow gloated.
"Okay, stop it, look I do love him, but that doesn't change anything alright, we're better of apart" Buffy said.
"Okay, whatever you say, but I still think that you two should get back together" Cordelia said.
"Look I have to go, thanks again guys for the spa appointment" Buffy said.
"See ya later" Willow said.
"Bye" Cordelia said.
"We love you" Willow added.
'I love you guys too, bye" Buffy said and hung up the phone and plopped on her bed. She frowned at the quiet in the house. She went downstairs to put away the groceries and then went back upstairs and turned on her stereo and turned it up really loud so the house wasn't so soundless. She just listened to music until it was a half hour till four and she went to the spa place. She looked at the sign. It read 'Delilah's. She walked inside and there weren't many people there.
"Hello, can I help you?" the woman behind the desk asked.
"Hi, my name is Buffy. . .S. . .B. . .uh, hold on one sec please" Buffy said and took out her cell phone and dialed Cordelia's number. She didn't know whether Cordy put her appointment under Summers or Bryson.
"Hello?" Cordelia answered.
"Cordy, I have a question" Buffy said.
"Buffy?" Cordelia asked.
"Yeah, look, what name did you put the appointment under?" Buffy asked.
"Oh, Summers, I didn't want to upset you so I didn't put it under Spike's last name" Cordelia said.
"Thanks hon, bye" Buffy said.
"Bye" Cordelia said and they hung up.
"Uh, Buffy Summers" Buffy said. "Sorry."
"That's okay, just get divorced?" the woman asked.
"Am I that obvious?" Buffy asked, smiling a little.
"I went through it too" the woman said. "My name's Callie."
"Hi" Buffy said.
"Here we are, Jean Luc will take care of you, wait one second and I'll get him" Callie said. She went into the back room and came back. "It will just be a minute."
"Okay, thanks, um, Jean Luc, is he French?" Buffy asked.
"Yes, he's. . .well he's hot" Callie said.
"Ooh, I like hot, my ex husband is hot, hot" Buffy said and Callie smiled.
"Not to get into your business, but it sounds like you still love him" Callie said.
"My friends keep telling me that, I mean I want him to be there for my kids, but we just have problems" Buffy said.
"You have kids, you look so young" Callie said.
"Yeah, two, Charlotte is two and Robbie is almost one" Buffy said.
"Wow, I have a daughter of my own, she's thirteen, her name's Madelyn" Callie said.
"Oh, that's a pretty name" Buffy said. Jean Luc came out a while later and Buffy went in the back with him.
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Spike and Anya arrived back at her apartment later that day.
"I can't believe that Tyler didn't want to come home with me" Anya said.
"Well he wanted to stay with his cousins" Spike said turning her around and kissing her.
"Let's go to bed" Anya said.
"I'm not tired" Spike said.
"Either am I" Anya smiled and they went into her bedroom.
"So, Buffy, today is Spike's day right?" Dawn asked Buffy. They were sitting on her couch and the kids were down for their naps.
"Yeah, he's coming in an hour" Buffy said as she flipped through the channels on the TV.
"Are you okay?" Dawn asked.
"Sure, why wouldn't I be, I mean I got pregnant when I was eighteen, got married, go raped, go pregnant, go divorced, my life's been peachy" Buffy said sarcastically and then began to cry.
"Oh Buffy" Dawn whispered and hugged her. "Don't cry."
"I can't help it, how did everything get so messed up? How did we grow apart so much?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know sweetie, but you both wanted this right?" Dawn asked.
"We both said it was for the best, I mean. . .god I just hate him, I hate him!" Buffy yelled.
"Is that hate spelled l-o-v-e?" Dawn asked.
"No, I don't love him anymore, not at all, I hate him" Buffy said and the doorbell rang. Buffy quickly wiped the tears away and answered it and saw Spike.
"What are you doing here?" she asked coldly.
"It's my weekend with the kids, where are they" he said, trying to walk in.
"Ah! Stay right there, I'll get them, it will take me a while, you're an hour early" Buffy said, shutting the door in his face. "Can you help me get everything together Dawnie?" Buffy asked.
"Sure" Dawn said and they went upstairs to get the kids. Twenty minutes later they had everything together. Buffy and Dawn took them outside where Spike was waiting in his car.
"Okay, everything they need is here, make sure it is all returned" Buffy said and Spike took Robbie.
"Yeah whatever" Spike mumbled. Buffy took Charlotte from Dawn and put her in her car seat and kissed her.
"Okay baby, you're gonna go with daddy alright, mama loves you" Buffy said.
"I wov you too mama" Charlotte said. Spike put Robbie in his car seat and Buffy went over to him and kissed him. "Bye Robbie."
"See you Monday" Spike said in monotone and drove away.
Willow and Oz were sitting in their living room watching TV. Buffy and Spike had been divorced for two weeks and they both had different opinions about it. Willow was on Buffy's side and Oz was on Spikes.
"Can you pass the chips?" Oz asked.
"Here " Willow said and gave him the bag. "It isn't Buffy's fault you know."
"Well it's not Spike's" Oz said, not looking at Willow, just looking at the TV.
"He was the one who initiated it" Willow said.
"Aren't you supposed to be Spike's best friend?" Oz said, now facing her.
"Things change, look I love Spike okay, but I'm going to be there for Buffy" Willow said.
"And leave Spike out in the cold, you're a great friend" Oz mumbled.
"You know what, I'm going over to Buffy's" Willow said. She got Taylor and went over to Buffy's house.
Meanwhile Spike was pulling into Xander's complex. He got Charlotte and Robbie out of the car along with all their stuff and carried them upstairs. It was Xander's turn to watch Gracie so she was there also.
"Hey man, need a little help?" Xander asked as Spike entered the apartment.
"Please" Spike said and Xander took Robbie and his diaper bag form Spike. "Thanks."
"No problem" Xander said.
"Where's Gracie?" Spike asked.
"Taking a nap" Xander said as he and Spike went into the living room.
"Man I just want to thank you again for letting me stay here, it won't be long I promise" Spike said.
"Take your time" Xander said. "How are you doing?"
"Don't know, good I guess, I just hate her so much, I just. . .er! hate her!" Spike said angrily.
"Man you can't fool me, I know that-" Xander began, but Spike cut him off.
"No, don't say that, I don't" Spike said.
"How'd you know what I was gonna say?" Xander grinned.
"I. . ." Spike said at a loss of words. Xander just smiled.
Willow arrived at Buffy's and walked in without knocking. She just wanted to get away from Oz and. . .all boys!
"Buffy?" she called.
"Hey Will, what are you doing here?" Buffy asked, coming out of the kitchen eating a cookie.
"Sorry to barge like this, but. . .I just need to get away from Oz" Willow said and put Gracie down in Robbie and Charlotte's playpen.
"Oh it's not trouble, my mom just came to pick up Dawn so I'm glad you're here" Buffy said.
"You lonely?" Willow asked.
"A little, without the kids" Buffy said.
"And Spike?" Willow asked.
"I wish everyone would stop asking me that, no not Spike, I don't want to. . .I mean I don't love. . .look I don't want to talk about it" Buffy said and sat on the couch.
"Okay, we don't have to talk about it, we can. . .watch a video" Willow said, sitting on the couch also.
"I just. . .I'm just so tired" Buffy said, laying her head on Willow's lap.
"Well if you're tried sweetie why don't you go to sleep" Willow said.
"Not that kind of tired, I'm just so fed up with all of this, it's like we did a 360 degree turn in the direction of bad and I just. . ." Buffy said.
"I thought you said you didn't want to talk about it" Willow said.
"I don't know what I want" Buffy told her. Not even a half hour later both girls were sleeping.
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It was Monday morning and Spike was getting Robbie and Charlotte ready to go home.
"Got everything?" Xander asked him.
"Yeah" Spike said Xander picked up Charlotte and followed Spike out to the car. Spike put Robbie in his seat and Xander put Charley in hers. "All right, I'll be back late, I need some air" Spike said.
"Whatever man, do your thing" Xander said.
"See ya" Spike said and drove away. He arrived at Buffy's house a little while later and knocked on her door and she answered.
"Hi babies" she said happily and took Robbie.
"Can I come in to put her in bed" Spike asked sarcastically, remembering when she shut the door on him a couple days ago.
"Fine" she said and went upstairs and he followed he put Charley in her bed and Buffy put Robbie in his and they left and turned out the light. "Uh you left some things here" Buffy said and went into the bedroom, he followed.
"What stuff?" he asked. Buffy handed him a box. He looked inside and saw some CDs, a couple pieces of clothing and a small box. He opened it. "This is your engagement ring."
"Yeah, my wedding ring too" Buffy said.
"Why are you giving me these?" Spike asked.
"Because we're not married anymore Spike, I mean it would be kind of silly to keep them right?" Buffy said.
"It's like a gif, you get a gift from someone, you don't give it back because you get divorced, or you stop talking to them" Spike said and gave her the box back.
"Thanks" Buffy said quietly.
"How ya been?" Spike asked.
"Okay, you?" Buffy asked.
"Fine, totally fine, better than fine" Spike said.
"Me too" Buffy said.
"I should get going, I'm late for lots and lots of getting drunk" Spike said and left. Buffy opened the box and looked at the rings. She went into her bedroom and put them in the drawer next to her bed. She climbed in bed and went to sleep.
Spike was sitting at the bar now drinking. He wanted, no he needed to get Buffy out of his head. He didn't love her anymore. He took another shot, then another, then another.
"Drowning your sorrows?" a girl asked.
"Not drowning, just wallowing" Spike said. The girl smiled and so did Spike.
"Hi, I'm Anya" Anya said.
"Spike" Spike said and shook her hand.
"So, Spike, bad day?" Anya asked.
"Bad month, just got divorced" Spike said.
"I'm sorry" Anya said sympathetically.
"Don't be, I'm not" Spike said.
"No if I was your wife, I certainly wouldn't let you go" Anya said teasingly.
"Yeah well, Buffy was a bint, most of the time" Spike said taking another shot.
"And the other times?" Anya asked, moving closer.
"The other times, she was. . .amazing" Spike said.
"Do you miss her?" Anya asked.
"No" Spike said bluntly. "Let me by you a drink."
"I can do better than that, why don't you come to my place and we can have drinks there" Anya said.
"Sounds good" Spike said.
Anya and Spike were now in Anya's apartment making out. they hadn't broke the kiss from the front door to the couch. They were now making their way to Anya's bedroom. Spike lifted her up and continued to kiss her passionately. The door to Anya's room sung open and once they were inside Spike shut it with his foot. They both fell back on her bed and Spike broke the kiss to begin unbuttoning her blouse. Anya removed Spike shirt. Once hers was off too Spike kissed her again. *The next morning*
Spike woke at 9:45 the next morning. Anya was laying there watching him sleep.
"Hey" he said.
"Morning" she said and kissed him. "You were amazing last night."
"Ditto" he said and they smiled.
"Your wife was a lucky woman" Anya said.
"Yeah, her loss" Spike said grimly.
"Her loss" Anya said and kissed him again. "My gain." He turned her over so that he was on top of her and they began to make out. Suddenly Anya's phone began to ring and she broke the kiss and answered it. "Hello? Oh god, yeah, alright I'll be there, bye."
"Who was that luv?" Spike asked.
"My sister, my son's sick I have to go, you could come with me if you wanted" Anya said.
"Sure" Spike said. "You never told me you had a son."
"You never asked" Anya said.
"What's his name?" Spike asked.
"Tyler, he's named after his father" Anya said, getting up and getting dressed. Spike did the same.
"Where is his father?" Spike asked.
"Somewhere, I don't know, he left when Tyler was just a baby" Anya said.
"How old is he now?" Spike asked.
"Five" Anya said. "We'd better go."
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Buffy opened her eyes. The sun was shining bring and high in the sky. She rolled over to look at the clock. It was 10:26. She slowly sat up and got out of bed and went to her kids' room. Charlotte and Robbie were awake.
"Hi babies" Buffy said.
"Mama!" Robbie said happily.
"Hi" Buffy smiled and picked him up.
"Mama, where daddy?" Charlotte asked.
"Sweetie daddy doesn't live here anymore" Buffy told her daughter.
"Why?" the little girl asked.
"Because. . ." she tried to explain. Thankfully the phone rang and Buffy answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey Buffy" Cordelia said happily.
"Hey Cordy" Buffy said.
"Look I'm going to do you a favor" Cordelia said. "I'm going to watch your kids today and you're going to go to a spa."
"What?" Buffy asked confused.
"I got you an appointment, you're going, that's final" Cordelia said.
"Hey I'm not gonna argue, thanks Cordy" Buffy said.
"No problem, thank Willow too, she helped pay for it" Cordelia said.
"You guys didn't have to do this" Buffy said.
"It's no problem, we love you and we want you to relax, so I'm going to come and get them for you, the appointment's at 4:00" Cordelia said.
"Thanks" Buffy said. They hung up and Buffy got the kids' things together. Cordelia arrived an hour later and took the kids. Buffy decided that since she had a lot of time on her hands that she would go to the store. She drove to Hurley's Supermarket and walked inside. She just wanted to get a few things. She was walking down the cereal aisle when she saw Spike and some girl kissing. 'Oh-my-god' she thought. They stopped kissing and Spike looked straight at her. Buffy tried to turn away so he didn't see her, but he did so she walked up to them.
"Buffy" Spike said, surprised to see her.
"Hi" Buffy said firmly.
"Uh, what are you doing here?" Spike asked.
"Shopping, who's your friend?" Buffy asked.
"Oh, this is Anya, Anya this is Buffy me. . .ex" Spike said.
"Hi, nice to meet you" Anya said.
"You too" Buffy said and shook her hand. "Well I have to go and shop so. . .see ya" Buffy said and walked away.
"She seems nice" Anya said.
"Yeah" Spike said and looked on at Buffy as she walked away. Buffy finished shopping and went back home and called Willow and Cordelia on three way.
"Hello?" Willow said.
"Will, hold on I got Cordy on three way" Buffy said and pushed the button so they could all talk. "Hey you both there?"
"Yeah" Willow and Cordelia said at the same time.
"Okay, get this, Spike has a girlfriend" Buffy said.
"What?" both girls said in simultaneously again.
"Yeah, I saw them making out at the supermarket" Buffy said. "Can you believe that, I mean we've only been divorced for two weeks."
"Why do you care, I mean you said you didn't love him anymore right?" Willow asked.
"Well. . .I. . ." Buffy tired to say.
"You still love him don't you?" Cordelia asked.
"No I. . .yes" Buffy finally gave up.
"I knew it, I knew that you still loved him" Willow gloated.
"Okay, stop it, look I do love him, but that doesn't change anything alright, we're better of apart" Buffy said.
"Okay, whatever you say, but I still think that you two should get back together" Cordelia said.
"Look I have to go, thanks again guys for the spa appointment" Buffy said.
"See ya later" Willow said.
"Bye" Cordelia said.
"We love you" Willow added.
'I love you guys too, bye" Buffy said and hung up the phone and plopped on her bed. She frowned at the quiet in the house. She went downstairs to put away the groceries and then went back upstairs and turned on her stereo and turned it up really loud so the house wasn't so soundless. She just listened to music until it was a half hour till four and she went to the spa place. She looked at the sign. It read 'Delilah's. She walked inside and there weren't many people there.
"Hello, can I help you?" the woman behind the desk asked.
"Hi, my name is Buffy. . .S. . .B. . .uh, hold on one sec please" Buffy said and took out her cell phone and dialed Cordelia's number. She didn't know whether Cordy put her appointment under Summers or Bryson.
"Hello?" Cordelia answered.
"Cordy, I have a question" Buffy said.
"Buffy?" Cordelia asked.
"Yeah, look, what name did you put the appointment under?" Buffy asked.
"Oh, Summers, I didn't want to upset you so I didn't put it under Spike's last name" Cordelia said.
"Thanks hon, bye" Buffy said.
"Bye" Cordelia said and they hung up.
"Uh, Buffy Summers" Buffy said. "Sorry."
"That's okay, just get divorced?" the woman asked.
"Am I that obvious?" Buffy asked, smiling a little.
"I went through it too" the woman said. "My name's Callie."
"Hi" Buffy said.
"Here we are, Jean Luc will take care of you, wait one second and I'll get him" Callie said. She went into the back room and came back. "It will just be a minute."
"Okay, thanks, um, Jean Luc, is he French?" Buffy asked.
"Yes, he's. . .well he's hot" Callie said.
"Ooh, I like hot, my ex husband is hot, hot" Buffy said and Callie smiled.
"Not to get into your business, but it sounds like you still love him" Callie said.
"My friends keep telling me that, I mean I want him to be there for my kids, but we just have problems" Buffy said.
"You have kids, you look so young" Callie said.
"Yeah, two, Charlotte is two and Robbie is almost one" Buffy said.
"Wow, I have a daughter of my own, she's thirteen, her name's Madelyn" Callie said.
"Oh, that's a pretty name" Buffy said. Jean Luc came out a while later and Buffy went in the back with him.
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Spike and Anya arrived back at her apartment later that day.
"I can't believe that Tyler didn't want to come home with me" Anya said.
"Well he wanted to stay with his cousins" Spike said turning her around and kissing her.
"Let's go to bed" Anya said.
"I'm not tired" Spike said.
"Either am I" Anya smiled and they went into her bedroom.