Title: Because You Loved Me

Summary: A/U Buffy Summers has the perfect life, great boyfriend, awesome friends and amazing parents. Her life is going great until someone new decides to join it. Will this new person cause her perfect life to crumble before her? Or make it better then she ever thought possible?

Disclaimer: I do not own them

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Buffy sat outside of Sunnydale High, underneath a tree. Her books were open, and she was trying to get some work done, but her mind kept traveling to different things. To Spike, to their kiss. Then to Angel, to their love. Then to her cousins. It was all so confusing and each thing had no connection.

"Heads up!"

Buffy looked up to see a football flying right for her. She shielded her head from the blow, but it never came. Slowly, she removed her arms from her eyes and looked up to see what had blocked it. Spike stood there, holding the football. He glanced down at Buffy before chucking it back to the few guys who were tossing it around.

"That was some performance pet, I give you a ten," Spike said, sitting down.

"You liked it? I thought I was very good," Buffy laughed. "Mr. Rhymes so did not see that coming."

"What got in to you? I've never seen you act that way."

"You and me both. I don't know, I just kind of . . . Wanted so badly to tell him off. He's always on my back and hey, its not like he can expel me for that, the worst I can get is a suspension, which I've had before."

"You, suspended?" he laughed, "I don't believe it."

"Believe it. It was in fourth grade, some girl pushed me in the mud, and so I got up and pushed her back. It was so not fair, the teacher had to walk out in time to just see me push her. She started it. I'm still mad at her for that," Buffy pouted.

"You can really hold a grudge." He looked around for a minute before picking a piece of grass and shredding it to many different pieces, she watched his movement. "So, I saw your cousin this morning."

"Yeah, that was Faith. She's eighteen and she thinks you're hot."

"Think I got a shot?"

"Well, if you enjoy being used, sure."

"What about the other one? The younger one?" Spike asked. "Saw her with Angel in the office earlier."

"That would be Natalie. If you try anything Spike, and I mean anything, I'll hurt you. But, she'd probably hurt you bad herself. She's only fifteen you know? Plus, she doesn't even swing your way," Buffy said.

Spike choked on his own saliva, "You mean she's a lesbian? At fifteen?"

"Is there something wrong with that?"

"N-No. its very . . . Interesting," Spike smirked.

"Why do guys like that stuff? Its not like two guys kissing turns us girls on. Well, most of us anyway," Buffy said.

Spike shrugged, "Just the way we men are."

"So, what are you doing out here?" Buffy asked.

"I asked to use the bathroom, then I saw you out here, the rest I believe you know."

"I see," she said. "I just didn't think you'd really want to talk to me. I mean you left on kind of a sour note and now we're sitting here, acting as if it never happened. What happened to you staying away from me? This doesn't look like you're keeping your word."

"Do you want me to?"

"I want a lot of things Spike. Some from you, some not. Things that no one will know. Things that I will never get. It doesn't matter if I want it or not, its what you want. If you decide to stay away from me, its your choice, I wont complain, maybe its for the best if you do anyway."

"So that's a yes then."

"Never said that."

"So it's a no?"

"Never said that either," Buffy sighed and began to pack her things up. "I have to go. I have class soon. I have to meet my cousin. Bye Spike."

He sat there, watching her walk off into the school. His eyes never left her body until she disappeared into the school. The choice of whether or not he ever saw her beauty again was all up to him, and surprisingly, he didn't know what he wanted to do.