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"Please, Miss Garbeza....let me see her!"

"No," Frenchie replied stubbornly, folding her arms across her bosom as she shook her head back and forth in defiance. "You saw what you did to the poor thing! I believe that you blew her away with your excessive sense of grandeur and good looks, my dear, so now the little darling is lying peacefully in bed, and I highly doubt that she'd like to be disturbed!"

Spike sucked in his breath due to his deep frustration, insisting hotly, "We know each other, Miss Garbeza! I think that she'd be perfectly fine with me visiting her since we haven't even seen each other for FIVE FRIGGIN' YEARS!!!"

"Five years?," Frenchie reiterated, suddenly growing rather pallid.

Spike nodded, raising an eyebrow. "Yeah.....why?"

Looking his dubious form over from head to toe, Frenchie surmised with slight uncertainty, "You're the young man from Ellewood City that Faye claims to love so unconditionally.......aren't you?"

Spike blushed. "Sh-she actually talks about me?"

"Well there's no need to feel all big and bad about it," Frenchie teased, giving him a playful wink. "Needless to say, she hasn't forgotten about you, if that's what you're all in a huff about."

"Oh, thank God," Spike breathed, letting out a tremendous sigh full of alleviation as he raked his fingers through his moppy moss-green bangs and cast his gaze heavenward. "I was so afraid that she would either have another lover or I'd find out that she doesn't even care about me, anymore."

Frenchie smirked. "If she told you that, she'd be lying through her teeth."

The crimson in Spike's cheeks only deepened, his heart fluttering within his chest with a profound, fervid hope as he asked breathlessly, "So.....can I see her?"

"Yes," Frenchie decided, nodding while bestowing him with a sweet smile full of off-white, cracked teeth. "Come with me, sweetheart."
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(Coldplay's "The Scientist" plays)
Faye clung to her pillow and held it close against her bosom, tiny, prismatic tears forming amidst her ebony kohl lashes as she let out a shaky, breathless sigh and bit her lip in frustration.

Rolling over in bed, she curled up into the fetal position, realizing bitterly, "I love Spike with all my heart, yet now that we're finally reunited, I'm terrified to even lay my eyes upon his handsome face. If I can't even look at him, for God's sake, what am I going to do?! Can I just open my heart up to him all over again.....especially after all these years?!!"

"Faye?"

She whimpered the moment that she overheard the deep, familiar, sultry voice, her heart hammering wildly within her taut bnosom as she acknowledged breathlessly, "Spike...........what do you want?"

Slightly taken aback by her frankness, he gingerly entered the room and shut the door softly behind him, replying apprehensively, "I-I just wanted to see you......that's all."

"Oh," Faye mumbled with mock apathy, not even bothering to turn over in order to look at him as she continued to mulishly lay on her side and gaze out of her tiny bedroom window in despair. "Have a seat.......if you'd like."

"Ok," Spike agreed, sitting down upon the foot of her bed with slight trepidation as he looked her dejected form over anxiously.

"That's not a seat," Faye announced sharply, deep-down completely unsure of why she was so frustrated with her lover. "I specifically told you to sit on that chair in the corner!"

Spike frowned deeply. "No you didn't."

"Don't argue with me!" Faye screeched, shooting up in bed in an instant as her jade irises blazed over with a fiery sheen full of sheer disdain. "I'm not having a very good day, Spike, so just-just leave me alone!!!"

"You can't honestly say that you don't love me," Spike insisted, completely ignoring her sudden temper tantrum as his deep, two-toned irises burned into her own like two hot pokers as he subtly scooted closer to her. "I came here with the hopes of finding you, Faye, and now that I have, don't even think about getting away from me now that I have what I want......got it?"

"Don't threaten me," Faye warned, gritting her teeth together tightly as she stuck her chin up into the air in order to become eye level with him. "I'm warning you, Spike.....I am nobody's whore!"

"I never said that you were," he argued, his gaze softening as he tentatively allowed his index finger to travel down along the smoothness of her pale, satin cheek, his imposing aura captivating her like a moth to the flame as he ever so slowly pulled her body closer to his own.

Blushing as she felt a tantalizing amount of his heat radiating upon the flesh of her neck due to his warm breath, Faye managed to push him away, confessing shakily, "Y-yes, Spike.....I-I've missed you, I must admit, but I'd really like to be alone right now, if you don't mind. You do understand what I'm going through right now......don't you?"

"I'm trying," Spike acknowledged, moving away from her as if he had been burned, his two-toned irises darkening over with despair as he gazed into her eyes with a heavy, excessive yearning. "I-I guess that I can understand the fact that you'd like to be alone, but why are you shunning me, Faye? I'll be completely honest with you.....it really hurts."

Bowing her head in dismay, Faye apologized ruefully, "I'm so sorry, Spike.....I-I just can't face you right now since I know that I'll just end up wanting you at a time that I shouldn't be. I will, however, try to talk to you some time tomorrow, ok?"

"Promise?" Spike begged, his dark, shimmering eyes pleading with her like those of a lovesick puppy's.

Faye smiled warmly. "I promise."

"Thanks," Spike mumbled, sending her a rather disappointed glance over his shoulder as he strode on over towards the door and opened it up with a slight squeak. "Bye."

"Bye," Faye returned weakly, her bottom lip quivering the moment that he had egressed the room and out into the hallway, her heart wrenching painfully within her bosom as she fell forward atop her blankets and buried her face into her hands amidst her severe misery and woe.

"Why did I DO that?!," her mind screamed in question, tears raining heavily down her pale, satin cheeks as she curled up into the fetal position and let out a miserable sob that violently racked her shoulders. "I love him, don't I?! If I do, then why the hell did I send him away?! Oh, I'm such a damn fool! Why does my mind never seem to work when I need it to most?!"
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Arexu yawned loudly as she thumbed through a rather boring mystery novel, her hand carelessly plowing throughout her auburn locks as she crossed her legs and tried her best to concentrate on the contents upon the manila-colored pages.

Just as she finally began to get a bit engrossed with its description, the telephone on the small end table beside her reading chair rang its shrill, piercing ring, thus startling her to the point that she let out a tremendous shriek and dropped her book to the floor with a subtle thud.

Now thoroughly irritated, Arexu muttered profanities under her breath as she lifted the phone up off of its cradle and brought it up to her ear, demanding hotly, "Hello? Who is this?!"

"Why, is that any way to treat an old friend, Arexu?" the voice crackled over the other line in a deep, coarse tone. "I mean, you could at least be polite during your formalities."

The fine hairs on the back of Arexu's neck stood on end as she managed to choke in utter disbelief, "R-Randall?! Is that YOU?!!"

Chuckling, the voice acknowledged smugly, "You bet, babe, and I'm back in town. The police FINALLY released me just a few days ago, so I looked up your number and decided to call you."

"What the hell for?!" Arexu demanded harshly, arching an eyebrow in suspicion. "You've never needed me for a worthy reason, Randall, so this had BETTER be good!!!"

"Don't worry....it is," Randall assured her, smirking. "'Plan Annihilation' has been collecting dust within the bowels of my intelligent mind over the past five years, so my intention of this call is to convince you to join up with me and come to New York."

"To attempt murder.........again?!" Arexu shrieked, not believing her ears. "Randall....this is crazy!"

He grinned due to his own self-assurance, agreeing arrogantly, "I know, but with you by my side, I believe it's possible."

Swallowing, Arexu nodded, agreeing, "Alright, fine.....I-I'll help you, but it's only because I know that you'd get back at me by harming my sister if I disagreed!"

"Smart girl," Randall commended, chuckling as he struck a match and brought it up to the cigarette that was dangling precariously from his lips. "I've got two train tickets to New York, so meet me at the Ellewood City train station by 10:30 tonight.....got it?"

"Got it," Arexu acknowledged, sighing heavily in defeat. "I'll be there."

"Good."

Click. Beeeeeep.

Now only hearing the dial tone, Arexu let out an exasperated shriek and chucked the phone down to the floor, realizing miserably, "That bastard is using me as his pawn! What am I going to do?! I can't kill Faye........she's never done anything to deserve such a terrible sentence!!!"



A/N: ~Gasps!~ What's going 2 happen 2 Faye-Faye?!!! lol, I'm sorry 4 being such a dork, & I am SUPER sorry 4 making Faye act all weird around Spike! . I promise that it WON'T happen AGAIN!!! lol....ya c, there's sum sexual tension & whatnot since they haven't seen each other 4 five yrs., so she's all nervous, heh. -_-' Don't worry...she'll get over it! =P Then there'll b~cough~sum adult situations....AGAIN. ~blush~ ::^^:: Heh. lol....R&R PLEASE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luv ya bunches! ^,~
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