Chapter 4
The two of them left the kitchen, Willow locked the door and gave the key to OZ who put it in his pocket and then they walked towards the steps, which led down to the basement.
Spike was sitting on a chair in the darkest corner of the basement, watching the newest episode of his favourite soap "Passions", Hannah and Paul had just announced their engagement.
He could sense them coming even before they had reached the steps, Wolf boy, he didn't want to know what he smelt like but red she had a unique smell of vanilla and strawberry and sandalwood.
He got off his chair and strode towards the door and opened it using his vampire-enhanced speed, before the two people outside had even reached it. Willow was the first one to react to the situation, she jumped forward and put her arms around him and whispered, "Welcome Home" in his ear. He hugged her back for a minute and then let her go saying "Glad to see you Red and you." he nodded at Oz who nodded back and said "S'up man, I got to go call Dylan you ok babe?" the second part was directed at willow who looked at him and then looked at spike and said "Yeah I'll be fine" before watching him turn around and walk back up the stairs.
"Well Red do you want to come in then," Spike asked her and once again she nodded and followed him inside the basement, she waited for him to sit down again in the same seat he had been sitting in before the interruption and she sat in the old comfy blue chair that used to be in the lounge before Joyce had died.
She looked at him, looking at the nervous way which he was sitting staring at his hands before asking him, "Where have you been spike?" He looked up into her clear emerald green eyes, which showed nothing but compassion towards him before answering, "Any where but here mostly pet." He had a small smile on his face but nothing like the cocky smirk, which he normally wore.
Willow smiled back and asked her second question "Was last night the first time you've come back?" Spike's head darted up at this and he said " My Baby did see me then? I was careless I know but last night when I saw her, she looked so much like Buffy I. I guess I just forgot myself, I ret and come and see her 5 or 6 times a year. Just to see her . Always round now like to see how excited she looks at her birthday party. try to make a little holiday of it.. See her and then visit Buffy, Joyce and the bit's graves." he said with a weak smile.
Willow's heart contracted when she heard this, "Why didn't you tell us? You don't need to see her from the outside, you should have come in to talk to us, to her. she's missed you." "She doesn't even remember me pet." he said softly.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that she must had learnt to call Angel "Peaches" off you cause no one else does and yet she does all the time, and it took us ages to persuade her not to call Xander whelp boy!"
"She calls angel peaches?" he asked a smirk rose to his face.
"Yes" willow said with a grin "It nearly killed him at first, I think the shock of it but I think he now prefers to think of it as a term of endearment from his little god daughter."
His smirk deepened as he said " More of a ponse then ever then!"
"And that! Whenever she gets her one way or wins and argument that's what she does, she smirks like you, so mister don't tell me that she doesn't remember you cause you now all the signs point to a yay on the remember daddy spike front."
He laughed at last part and thought about how much he had missed willow on his journeys out of all buffy's friends she had been the one who accepted him the most.
"I trust you pet, I just had to come back all the time to see if she was ok. I needed to that my baby. Buffy's baby was ok. she's all I got you know and it's torture to keep her away from me but she deserves better, she deserves normal. Knew that was all buffy ever wanted for her." He had a dull look on his face when he said that, and willow didn't know what to say to him it was true that all buffy had wanted for violet was for her to have the normal life which she had never been able to but she had also wanted spike to be part of her life, to be the loving father and confident which she knew was buried deep inside his dead heart.
A couple of minutes of silence passed between them before willow asked,
"Have you eaten yet?" Spike shook his head and said, " I was going to last night but I got so absorbed watching her drink tea? There was no time to go to the hospital or anything. Why?
"Yell you should come upstairs I've got some in the fridge in my room. Angel's coming tomorrow and violet doesn't know well about his um. eating habits so we keep it up stairs."
"Is she home?" spike asked quickly and willow shook her head. "She's gone out with one of her friends Erin, to see some girly movie in the cinema and then she stopping by Tara's on the way back so she shouldn't be back til about 9 which gives you plenty of time to have a good meal cause you look like you need it and a shower and do some laundry and then you'll be ready to meet her cause it's 5 now so that gives you loads of time."
"I'll shower and I'll eat but I'm not staying to meet her, she doesn't need me any more meeting me again would only confuse her and mess up the new life which she's got." He said sharply as he stood up.
They both walked towards the stairs on the inside of the basement and walked up them willow in front this time and knocked on the door at the top for Oz to let them into the house. Moments later they heard the key turning in the door and Oz was there he smiled but didn't say anything to them because he was on the phone.
Willow walked out of the utility room which is where the door to the basement was, they hadn't gone down that way earlier just ot be sure that they wouldn't let anything into the house, from the utility room she passed through to the kitchen and then into the hall along the hall and up the stairs turning on her second left into her and oz's bedroom.
The blinds where shut so when spike followed her into the room he was able to have a quick glance around it rather than having to dive straight into the wadrobe where the blood was. They had moved into Joyce's old room. It was painted a soft shade of cream now with chocolate velvet coloured drapes and bedspread with matching pillows on their king size four poster bed.
It was all old fashioned and antique furniture through out the room there was a dressing table and stool and a small desk chez lounge.
Willow let him have his little look at the room while she went into the wardrobe to get him something to eat.
"which you like AB or O neg?" she shouted out into the room.
"O neg please pet."
"Ok she answered" she poured the blood into a cup which said "Wicca is as Wicca does" which she had gotten when she went to a Wicca convention with Tara the year before because she thought it was really cute and put it into the microwave. She heated it to the right tempreture and then checked it before going back out into her room and giving it to spike.
"I hope it's the right temperature there's plenty in there if you want any more so help your self and then bathrooms right through that other door." She said with a smile
"I've got to go and start dinner now but if you need anything just give me a shout ok?"
"Thank you. for everything. I mean everything Red."
The two of them left the kitchen, Willow locked the door and gave the key to OZ who put it in his pocket and then they walked towards the steps, which led down to the basement.
Spike was sitting on a chair in the darkest corner of the basement, watching the newest episode of his favourite soap "Passions", Hannah and Paul had just announced their engagement.
He could sense them coming even before they had reached the steps, Wolf boy, he didn't want to know what he smelt like but red she had a unique smell of vanilla and strawberry and sandalwood.
He got off his chair and strode towards the door and opened it using his vampire-enhanced speed, before the two people outside had even reached it. Willow was the first one to react to the situation, she jumped forward and put her arms around him and whispered, "Welcome Home" in his ear. He hugged her back for a minute and then let her go saying "Glad to see you Red and you." he nodded at Oz who nodded back and said "S'up man, I got to go call Dylan you ok babe?" the second part was directed at willow who looked at him and then looked at spike and said "Yeah I'll be fine" before watching him turn around and walk back up the stairs.
"Well Red do you want to come in then," Spike asked her and once again she nodded and followed him inside the basement, she waited for him to sit down again in the same seat he had been sitting in before the interruption and she sat in the old comfy blue chair that used to be in the lounge before Joyce had died.
She looked at him, looking at the nervous way which he was sitting staring at his hands before asking him, "Where have you been spike?" He looked up into her clear emerald green eyes, which showed nothing but compassion towards him before answering, "Any where but here mostly pet." He had a small smile on his face but nothing like the cocky smirk, which he normally wore.
Willow smiled back and asked her second question "Was last night the first time you've come back?" Spike's head darted up at this and he said " My Baby did see me then? I was careless I know but last night when I saw her, she looked so much like Buffy I. I guess I just forgot myself, I ret and come and see her 5 or 6 times a year. Just to see her . Always round now like to see how excited she looks at her birthday party. try to make a little holiday of it.. See her and then visit Buffy, Joyce and the bit's graves." he said with a weak smile.
Willow's heart contracted when she heard this, "Why didn't you tell us? You don't need to see her from the outside, you should have come in to talk to us, to her. she's missed you." "She doesn't even remember me pet." he said softly.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that she must had learnt to call Angel "Peaches" off you cause no one else does and yet she does all the time, and it took us ages to persuade her not to call Xander whelp boy!"
"She calls angel peaches?" he asked a smirk rose to his face.
"Yes" willow said with a grin "It nearly killed him at first, I think the shock of it but I think he now prefers to think of it as a term of endearment from his little god daughter."
His smirk deepened as he said " More of a ponse then ever then!"
"And that! Whenever she gets her one way or wins and argument that's what she does, she smirks like you, so mister don't tell me that she doesn't remember you cause you now all the signs point to a yay on the remember daddy spike front."
He laughed at last part and thought about how much he had missed willow on his journeys out of all buffy's friends she had been the one who accepted him the most.
"I trust you pet, I just had to come back all the time to see if she was ok. I needed to that my baby. Buffy's baby was ok. she's all I got you know and it's torture to keep her away from me but she deserves better, she deserves normal. Knew that was all buffy ever wanted for her." He had a dull look on his face when he said that, and willow didn't know what to say to him it was true that all buffy had wanted for violet was for her to have the normal life which she had never been able to but she had also wanted spike to be part of her life, to be the loving father and confident which she knew was buried deep inside his dead heart.
A couple of minutes of silence passed between them before willow asked,
"Have you eaten yet?" Spike shook his head and said, " I was going to last night but I got so absorbed watching her drink tea? There was no time to go to the hospital or anything. Why?
"Yell you should come upstairs I've got some in the fridge in my room. Angel's coming tomorrow and violet doesn't know well about his um. eating habits so we keep it up stairs."
"Is she home?" spike asked quickly and willow shook her head. "She's gone out with one of her friends Erin, to see some girly movie in the cinema and then she stopping by Tara's on the way back so she shouldn't be back til about 9 which gives you plenty of time to have a good meal cause you look like you need it and a shower and do some laundry and then you'll be ready to meet her cause it's 5 now so that gives you loads of time."
"I'll shower and I'll eat but I'm not staying to meet her, she doesn't need me any more meeting me again would only confuse her and mess up the new life which she's got." He said sharply as he stood up.
They both walked towards the stairs on the inside of the basement and walked up them willow in front this time and knocked on the door at the top for Oz to let them into the house. Moments later they heard the key turning in the door and Oz was there he smiled but didn't say anything to them because he was on the phone.
Willow walked out of the utility room which is where the door to the basement was, they hadn't gone down that way earlier just ot be sure that they wouldn't let anything into the house, from the utility room she passed through to the kitchen and then into the hall along the hall and up the stairs turning on her second left into her and oz's bedroom.
The blinds where shut so when spike followed her into the room he was able to have a quick glance around it rather than having to dive straight into the wadrobe where the blood was. They had moved into Joyce's old room. It was painted a soft shade of cream now with chocolate velvet coloured drapes and bedspread with matching pillows on their king size four poster bed.
It was all old fashioned and antique furniture through out the room there was a dressing table and stool and a small desk chez lounge.
Willow let him have his little look at the room while she went into the wardrobe to get him something to eat.
"which you like AB or O neg?" she shouted out into the room.
"O neg please pet."
"Ok she answered" she poured the blood into a cup which said "Wicca is as Wicca does" which she had gotten when she went to a Wicca convention with Tara the year before because she thought it was really cute and put it into the microwave. She heated it to the right tempreture and then checked it before going back out into her room and giving it to spike.
"I hope it's the right temperature there's plenty in there if you want any more so help your self and then bathrooms right through that other door." She said with a smile
"I've got to go and start dinner now but if you need anything just give me a shout ok?"
"Thank you. for everything. I mean everything Red."