The Exchange Student

A Death Marked Love challenge: -

Summary: Buffy and her family get a foreign exchange student for two semesters (I changed it to a whole year) and guess who it is? It's Spike of course and he and Buffy hate each other at first and then they start to like each other. But her father hates the idea of Buffy and Spike together because he's a bad influence on her. Must have:

-AU B/S fic

-Buffy can be the slayer or not

-Spike is human, but still has his "bad boy" image

-the Scoobies

-Dawn can exist in the fic or not (writer's decision)

-Buffy is a junior and Spike is a senior

-Buffy visits Spike in England

Thanks to Jo my beta reader and my friend Hattie for all the help. My grammars getting better honest. *g*

Everyone is human; there's no vampires or hellmouth. I really screwed with the characters, especially Dawn; but I think they're good changes. Plus plenty of characters popping up in the most unlikely places.

I don't own any of the characters. I just borrow them from Joss and anyone else who is involved in the making of Buffy.

If you want to use any of my fanfics on other websites, just let me know your taking them at spikerox@yahoo.co.uk

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Unwanted Arrivals

Buffy sighed heavily and crossed her arms. She wanted to be at the mall, hanging out with Willow and Cordelia or at the Expresso Pump with Kendra or at the park with Xander and Angel. But instead she was stuck at the airport, with her parents and little sister waiting for the stupid exchange student to show up.

"When's he gonna get here?" Dawn asked. Buffy glared at Dawn out of the corner of her eye; it was her fault that this guy was coming in the first place. She had been the one that had agreed with their Mom and Dad to sign up with the foreign exchange programme.

"Look's like he's not coming," Buffy suggested. "I'm going to the mall, my cell phone's on if you want me." She turned and started to walk away.

"I'm so glad that you're enthusiastic about William coming, Buffy," Joyce said sarcastically, raising an eyebrow at her oldest daughter. "You have to whole summer to go to the mall."

"He's here," Dawn announced as she started to fiddle with her jet-black hair.

Buffy turned around, looking totally unimpressed, to see her father greeting the stranger that would be invading her house for a whole year. She scanned him up and down and took an instant disliking for him; he had bottle blonde hair and was dressed all in black. *Dawn's gonna get on with him* She thought.

Buffy had worked very hard to almost own the High School, leaving it very easy for Dawn to take over the Junior High and follow in her footsteps at being the most popular girl in school. But no, Dawn didn't want to be popular. Dawn wanted to dress in black and hang around at bars like the Fish Tank and listen to Slipknot music.

"Hello William," Joyce smiled. "How was the flight?"

He didn't answer, just shrugged his shoulders. "It's Spike." He said through clenched teeth. "I ain't been called William since I was seven." Buffy rolled her eyes at his stupid nickname; it sounded more like a dog's name then a person's.

"I'm sorry," Joyce apologised. Buffy coughed quietly, hinting for attention. "Spike, these are our daughters, Dawn," Dawn smiled, a rare thing for her, "and Buffy." Buffy didn't move; she kept the same bored expression on her face.

"Pleased to meet you too, Pet," Spike mumbled under his breath, just loud enough for Buffy to here. She through him a glare that could kill someone.

"Daddy, can I go now?" She asked impatiently. "I need to go to the mall to get a new dress for the Bronze tonight."

"Buffy," Hank Summers said sternly. "I already told you, you're not going to the Bronze tonight. We're all going out to the Grape Vine for a meal."

"But, Daddy!" Buffy moaned. "I promised everyone that I'd be there. If I'm not there. it'll be like the end of the world."

"I'm sure it won't, sweetie," Hank reassured. Buffy didn't believe him.