Author: Bitten And Staked

Title: City of Angels - Chapter Seventeen - Trip to the mall.

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Summary: Buffy gets a little too into kissing Spike again and her trip to the mall with her sister and Jane turns horrible.

Timeline: set in between season 5 and 6, in my alternate world where Buffy didn't die. Spike's crypt is trashed during the final showdown and Dawn convinces Buffy to let him stay since he protected them both.

Series: Part 17 of ?

Pairing: Buffy and Spike. Romance, love and nooky.

Rating: PG13

Disclaimer: everyone else owns Buffy and all associated with her.

Feedback: always welcome so email me - webmaster@talesoftheslayer.com

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An hour later there was a knock at the door, Spike answered it and let the two ladies in. Dawn immediately started stealing the potato chips on the table and Jane hung around with an air of impatience. Finally Buffy came out of the bedroom, she had slipped on her brown leather trousers and red halter neck top.

"See you later honey." Buffy slipped her arms around Spikes waist and he responded by pulling her closer and breathing in her scent.

"Have fun pet, don't be too late back."

Spike was about to release her when Buffy bought her mouth up to his and placed a kiss onto it that rapidly turned hungry. In response he plundered her mouth with his tongue with little resistance from her and he felt her hands pull him in harder for a deeper kiss. He ran his tongue along the roof of her mouth again and this time Buffy responded by forcing her tongue into his mouth and wriggling it in a little swirling motion that drove him crazy.

Spike felt his knees weaken under her probing tongue, he wanted this to continue but could feel eyes boring into them from their company. He pulled Buffy off him and smiled into her eyes as he licked his lips, she looked a little flushed and wobbled slightly as she headed towards the door.

At the door she turned back to face him with a grin spread across her face.

"Damn I love you Buffy and that evil tongue of yours." Spike grinned back at her.

"Lets go out tonight? Take Dawn into LA." She gave him a smile that shone brighter than the sun and he couldn't say no.

"Okay." He blew her a kiss as she left the room closing the door behind her. That was the ninth time this week he had told her he loved her and she had just smiled at him warmly in response. Spike felt change was a foot.
Jane stepped onto the escalator in the mall and smiled at Buffy as she tucked Dawns hair behind her ear.

"Buffy, I don't think I've ever seen anyone so full of love as you."

"Huh?" Her words came as a shock to Buffy, after all she had gone on a vision quest to find out why she felt she couldn't love and now an almost stranger was telling her she was full of the stuff.

"They way you look after your sister and don't think I haven't noticed you and William together when you think no one is watching."

"Well, you know he is my boyfriend." Together when no one is watching, what's getting into you Buffy? Let's try this again vampire = bad.

"He's very attentive to you both, like you've been through a lot together. If I was a hopeless romantic I would say he'd die before he let anything happen to you."

Buffy swallowed hard and wondered if Jane had been spying on them in Sunnydale too.

"I think you two are very much in love, but he does spend a worrisome amount of time indoors. Is it the skin allergy?"

Dawn snorted into her diet coke. "Sorry. Skin allergies are so not funny, my bad."

"We're going out tonight, promised me and Dawn we could go out in LA." Buffy was still stuck on the fact that her and Spike appeared to be very much in love, she liked him but love? Not love, at least not yet.

"He did? Yay Spike." Dawn covered her mouth quickly and Buffy shot her a dark look.

"Did you just call him Spike?" Jane stepped off the escalator and headed towards the ice cream parlour. Buffy felt panic rise in her gut.

"Yeah, it's a nickname you know. He's in a band back in Sunnydale I don't know where he got the name but he likes it so we usually call him Spike." Or William the bloody, slayer of Slayers and that means me although these days he would rather be staking me, if you know what I mean. Buffy hoped the moment would pass.

"Like when he calls Dawn niblet?" Jane smiled and Buffy looked incredulous. Was everyone slipping up except her?

"I already explained that's because I'm small and the youngest. I prefer niblet more than pint size." Dawn sat down in one of the booths and piled in her shopping bags next to her forcing Buffy to sit next to Jane.

"I know Dawn. You three seem to like your nicknames. He always seems to be calling Buffy pet and love. I think it's sweet of him."

Buffy mentally replied. Yeah, it's better now that he isn't trying to tear our throats open and drink us dry. And who says we're very much in love miss nosey pants. She touched the scar on her neck and visually imagined Spike taking a bite out of her, it sent her nerve endings off in a silent scream.

"Buffy, that's some scar."

"Wild dog attack, years ago now all in the past. I'm hungry, lets get something sweet." Buffy hid behind the menu card.

"LA is so cool. This mall is way better than the one in Sunnyhell." Dawn smiled across at them.

"Dawn!" Buffys eyes widened at the sound of Spikes pet name for her town.

"Sorry, it's a Spike-ism that he uses because he's got that nasty skin allergy."

Buffys face fell into her hands, she spent the rest of the mall trip walking around in a daze and thinking over what was going wrong today.

She had woken up alone which felt wrong, then she had play sparred with Spike which was a high point in the day but that ended up in her dad seeing her straddling Spike and feigning staking him. And the way Spikes hands had made her feel when he had run them up her thighs, very bad. Then there was the holding hands back to their room and that kiss. All very bad and all very wrong of her. To cap it all, the mall trip was turning nasty with Jane playing the Spanish inquisition on both Dawn and Buffy. She just wanted to be home now in front of the TV with Spike and Dawn, watching Passions or whatever crap he was watching.