Chapter 1:
Unexpected Love

Spike sat in the corner of an abandoned tomb with his palms pressed firmly up against his face, thinking about what he had been feeling lately. "I know this is not the way it's supposed to be", he thought to himself, "I can't have feelings like this."

He was startled by the tomb door opening and Buffy coming in. "You comin' Spike?" she said nonchalantly.

"Yeah, be there in a bit." he replied. Buffy then stepped out of the tomb and joined the gang.

Spike slowly got up from the concrete floor and staggered to the door. As he walked out he saw Willow, Xander, Buffy, Dawn, and Angel standing by a gravestone talking. "You know, Glory can't be all that bad! She was created so she can be killed! Right?" Willow said as Spike sat down next to a gravestone.

"But she's a god. Gods can't be killed." Buffy said.

"I don't really understand what's going on." Angel said confused.

Spike looked at him and smiled. "This big bad god decided to get stuck here in our dimension and now she has been makin' all our lives a bloody hell trying to get back to hers. She's turned Tara into a complete idiot!"

Willow yelled at Spike, "HEY! Don't you talk about Tara like that!"

"Face it. You and I both know it's the truth. And we both know Glory need to pay!" Spike responded swiftly before Willow gets even angrier with him. "We need to find a way to stop her from using Dawn in the ritual."

"But how?" Xander said confused.

"I don't know. But I'll be damned if I let her take Dawnie." Buffy said with anger. "Let's go!" Buffy and the gang started walking to the Magic Shop as Spike and Angel stayed behind for a second.

"What are we going to do?" Angel said.

"About what?" Spiked said curiously getting up from where he was sitting.

"You know, about this. Are we going to help them or what?"

"Of course we are. It's our neck too we're riskin'!" Angel stood up tall and started walking with Spike to the Magic Shop. "Alright." he said.

Spike rubbed up against Angel and slightly touching his hand. He looked down to the ground and kept walking towards the Magic Shop.