A/N- Okay, after a BIG author's block, one night, while I was trying to sleep and I just couldn't (I hate those nights, they make me all sleepy the next day), this idea plopped into my head. So, the next night (I think), I sat in front of my computer and started writing this chapter. And here I am now. Hope you guys like it. Please, I'm on my knees, review!
"Please? Please, pretty please?"
"No."
"Please?? Spike, I'm begging you."
"No! There's no bloody way, Nibblet, so get over it."
"Spike, please... for me?"
"Oh, no. Don't you even try. It won't work. Why do you have to go, anyway? She's not your relative or something."
"Because she's one of my best friends' little sister. I promised her I'd go."
"What is it, again?"
"I told you. It's a ballet. Her debut. It's not a very big role, but it's her first one."
"Why don't you take Darren?"
"I can't take him as my date, he's gay!"
"Nobody has to know that."
"You can tell he's gay. He can't be any more obvious."
"Well, you have other friends, don't you? I'm sure there are plenty of guys that would happily accompany you."
"But I want to go with you. I have fun with you. Please, Spike. Please? Please?"
Spike sighed. "You'll turn me into the bloody Poof."
"That can't ever happen. You are the mean, evil, fearful William the Bloody."
"You think so?"
"Absolutely."
"Okay, I'll go."
"Thank you!" she said, giving him a quick hug. She walked to the door, but before walking away she stopped and turned around. "Oh, and by the way, it's formal. So you can't wear like you usually do."
"For God's sake, Nibblet!" he yelled, but she just grinned and walked away.
"Remember: Saturday at 8! Don't be late!"
*-*-*
Dawn walked in her dorm, her petite friend was waiting for her.
"You have a date? For the ballet, I mean."
"Yeah."
"So, who are you taking?" Lucy asked her friend.
"Spike."
"What's going on with you two?"
"What do you mean?"
"Do you have like a thing, or something?"
"God, no! He's just my friend."
"You're spending a lot of time together."
"Well, I haven't seen him for a long time, we have to catch up, you know."
"Right. So you don't think he's hot?"
"He's hot, but he's just my friend."
"Yeah, right."
"It's true!"
"Aha..."
"Lucy!"
*-*-*
"Stop laughing! I swear, if you don't stop laughing in this very moment, I'll bloody kill you."
Dawn supported herself against the wall, bending from the laughter. "You... you can't kill me."
"I'm not kidding, Nibblet. I don't care about the bloody chip. Stop laughing!"
"I'm sorry," Dawn said, still laughing. "It's just that you look so... so... nice!"
"Take that back! I'm evil."
"Whatever you say, Spike."
"I am!"
"Yeah, yeah. But it's not everyday you see the Big Bad wearing a toxido. It makes all the meanness in you disappear. And the fact that you watch 'Passions' doesn't help much."
"Shut up. Can we go now?"
"Uh, no. We have to wait for Lucy. She and her boyfriend will be here any minute."
"So, you make me wear like a clown, and besides that, you make me wait!"
"Exactly."
"I shouldn't have agreed. In fact, I don't know why I bloody did."
"Oh, it's not so bad. You look great, as a matter of fact. And where else am I going to find a really hot vampire who doesn't want to kill me?"
"Can't."
"So you would kill me?" she said, raising an eyebrow.
"I wouldn't doubt it. No, giving it a second thought, I wouldn't kill you, I'd turn you. You'd make a good vampire."
"As if. You wouldn't even if you could. Besides, Buffy would stake you."
"How would she know?"
"I'd tell her."
"Would you do that to your sire?" said Spike, in fake indignation.
Dawn shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe. In the meantime, I'd rather stay alive."
"As you wish, bit."
Dawn smiled, and Spike's unbeatable heart stopped. Then, there was a knocking on the door, and Lucy and a tall boy, with black hair and tan skin came in.
"Hey, guys."
"Where have you been? We've been waiting for hours," Dawn said.
"You're exaggerating," the boy said.
"Okay, alright. Only for about then minutes, but anyway."
"Uh, Dawnie, won't you introduce the guys?"
"Oh, yeah, right. Uh, Spike, this is Carl, Lucy's boyfriend. Carl, this is Spike, a friend from Sunnydale."
Carl leaned forward to shake Spike's hand, who returned the shake awkwardly. "Hi, nice to meet you."
"Uh, yeah, you too."
Dawn shot a look to Spike, but said nothing. "So, shall we go?"
"Your friend's boyfriend is weird," Spike whispered to Dawn in the back seat of the car Carl was driving.
"He's not."
"He shook my hand."
"So what? He's just polite, something you'll never be."
"Luckily."
"In fact, I think he's kinda cute. He kind of resembles Antonio Banderas."
"You're crazy," Spike said, feeling a sting of jealousy.
"Am not. I think Lucy is really lucky to find such a nice guy."
"You'll find the right someday, bit. You just have to be patient. Who knows? Maybe he's nearer than you think."
"Yeah... So, Lucy, who else is going?"
"Oh, well, just family, you know. Mom, Dad, and my cousins. You know them, Claudia and Christian."
"Oh, no..." Spike heard Dawn moan.
"Oh, c'mon. He's not that bad, besides, you have your escort here to protect you," Lucy said, grinning.
"What's wrong with your cousin?" Carl said.
Lucy grinned. "He's crazy about Dawn." Spike felt that sting of jealousy again.
"So?"
"He's a dork. And once he spots her, he won't leave her alone."
Dawn groaned. Lucy and Carl laughed. Spike didn't make a sound.
"Can we not talk about Christian, please? He's so not my favorite subject."
*-*-*
"Oh, my God..." Dawn gasped. "It's been like... forever... since I last was in a place like this," she said, looking around her at the enormous building. "I'm glad I'm not paying for this, otherwise I'd probably be broke for the rest of my life."
"Damn right, bit," Spike agreed.
"Oh, come on, guys. It's not that expensive," Lucy complained.
"Easy for you to say. Your parents are reach."
Lucy just rolled her eyes, that lit mischievously suddenly. "Hey, Dawn, look who's coming."
They all turned around. Spike spotted a short blond guy, kind of fat, with round big glasses and a tall, skinny, blond girl, also with glasses that made her already big eyes look even bigger.
"Those are her cousins? They don't look like her at all," Spike whispered to Dawn.
"I know...Hey, Claudia!... Christian... So, Lucy, in how many time does the show start?"
Lucy grinned. "Like in half an hour."
"Oh, good! That way we'll have time to catch up, Dawn!" Christian said.
Dawn shot a pleading look at Spike, but he grinned maliciously at her and shook his head. She shot him a poisonous look while Christian dragged her away from him. That would show her not to make fun of him. But his plan had a mistake: Dawn being with Christian and Lucy being with her boyfriend, that left him with...
"Hi! I'm Claudia. What's your name?" ... the geek cousin.
Spike shot her a really cold look, but she didn't seem to care. "Well? You can talk, can't you? What's your name?"
"It's none of your business."
"You know, that's not polite."
"Well, I'm not polite. In fact, I'm not good at all. And if I could, I'd bloody kill you right now. But today's your lucky day, I can't kill."
"Do you actually think I'll buy that? I'm not five, you know."
"Oh, yeah?" he said, before turning into his game face just for a second, enough for her to see, but not for anybody else. She turned pale.
"Oh, God..."
"No, see, that's where you're mistaken. God has nothing to do with this. Now, if you excuse me, I'll go and find your bloody brother before he kills from boredom my friend, okay?" he said, leaving the poor girl shaking in fear.
Spike found Dawn with no problem. She had a desperation look on her face, while the stupid git seemed to be having the time of his life. As Spike drew closer Dawn spotted him, and relieve was written in her eyes.
Christian kept talking, as if he hadn't seen Spike.
"Where's Claudia?" Dawn muttered to Spike.
"I don't think she'll be a problem, bit. She won't come near me."
Dawn shot him a look. "Spike, what did you do?" she said, hitting him playfully in the arm.
"I told you, luv. I'm evil."
Dawn smiled. "I just won't worry 'cause I know you can't harm anybody." Spike seemed satisfied with that answer.
"Dawn? Dawn, did you hear me?" Christian's annoying voice interrupted.
"Um, sorry, what were you saying?"
Christian shot a cold look to Spike, who returned it.
"I was saying, that if you'd like to go out with me next Friday?"
Dawn turned pale, and shot Spike a pleading look. He would had happily helped, but he was blank.
"Oh. Oh, Christian, I'm flattered. But I'm already dating someone."
Christian's face darkened. "Who?"
Dawn looked desperately around her. "Uh... who? I'm dating... him," she said, pointing Spike, and pleading him with her eyes for him to play along. "Yeah. Yes, I'm dating Spike."
He looked from Spike to Dawn, and from Dawn to Spike. "No, you're not."
"You heard her, mate. So back off," Spike said, trying to sound menacing.
"You're not dating him. You just want to get rid of me."
"That may or not be true. But I guess you won't ever know," Spike said coldly.
Christian's former blushed face was now in a tone that resembled gray. "Prove it."
"Prove it?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah. If you're dating, then prove it."
"You're bloody crazy, mate."
"Then you're not dating. And I can go out with you."
"Oh, come on. Can't you just take her word for it?"
"No. Prove it. Prove that you're dating this asshole."
"Hey!"
"What? Christian, please. How are we supposed to prove it?"
"Kiss."
"What?!" they both said.
"What? If you're really dating, then you shouldn't mind."
"Give me a break," Dawn sighed. "This is nuts."
"Come on, luv. Let's show this idiot that you're not lying."
Dawn turned to look at him, shocked. Spike shrugged, letting Dawn know he was just trying to help. Or at least that was he was telling himself. Dawn smiled a little, and shrugged too.
"Okay," she said, before coming closer to Spike. Spike hesitated before leaning down to her. Dawn moved awkwardly her chin up to his. Then they did it. Spike linked his lips with Dawn's; and they started to kiss, slowly. Spike put his hands around her waist. Dawn moved her hands hesitantly to his neck. Spike let himself go. Feelings that had been accumulating through the past weeks they had shared together, flow. After a few seconds, though, Dawn broke the kiss, gasping. They looked at each other for a moment, before Dawn looked down, blushing.
"Wow..."
"Yeah..."
A/N- Review please!!! What do you think? Please, give me some ideas of what you think should happen.
... tbc...