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A/N: Ok I started today with no time to write and now I don't seem able to stop...haven't decided if that's a good or a bad thing yet! Thanks to Shero, lilmamaday, Tobert, Shan, theoneandonlygurl, Hannah, thatannoyingirlishkid, Jennifer, Red wulf, Kari Mouke, Faeries Twilight, aakos, LovesBitch2 and Aaron for the lovely supportive reviews. If I've missed anyone I'm sorry – I can only go on those reviews that ff.net have posted, I really do appreciate every single one of you, hell I appreciate the fact that you're even willing to read what I write at all! Is it me or are these notes getting longer?
Chapter 10: Never hurt a vampire's best friend!
"I think Buffy's having lusty wrong feelings about Parker!" chirped Willow happily.
"I am not!" claimed Buffy.
"No you're not!" said Willow, suddenly thinking about what she'd said.
"Oh I so am!" Buffy admitted sheepishly.
"No I mean they're not 'wrong feelings'" Willow corrected herself. "You can feel that way about anyone you like. You're young, you're single?" Willow frowned. "You are single right?"
Buffy thought about that for a few moments. *Do over protective vampire best friends who get all 'grrr' if a guy so much as looks at me count?* she wondered. She liked that Spike looked out for her, worried about her, offered to torture anyone who looked at her sideways...although that last one was slightly on the disturbing side. It meant a lot to her that he wanted her to be happy and not taken advantage of. Ever since the messy ending with Angel he'd insisted on vetting every guy she even considered going out with. "Yeah Will, I'm single." She said eventually.
Willow grinned, happy that Buffy seemed to be over the Angel missage. She'd actually thought Buffy had been seeing someone secretly not long after graduation since she'd declined going out with the gang several times in a row. But when Willow asked her about it she'd been denial girl. Willow had let it drop, figuring Buffy would tell her about any secret beau she might have if it got serious enough. When Buffy had started spending every day of the last week with Parker Abrahms however, all of her suspicions had been quickly forgotten in favour of this latest love interest.
"You should go talk to him." Willow suggested, nodding in the direction where Parker could be seen playing pool in a far corner of the Bronze.
"No." Buffy replied, "We're not here together, I'm here with you guys..."
Buffy's resolve had soon faded however when Parker had offered to walk her home. She found her self pleasantly surprised that she was able to speak to parker so freely. She'd only ever been able to speak like this with Xander and Spike before... although those conversations tended to be a little less normal. Parker had even believed her story about the angry puppy! Everything in this relationship seemed to be going right, the only thing missing was the approval of Spike. Parker was the only romantic interest she'd had over the last year that Spike hadn't given the third degree the second he met them...but that might have had something to do with the fact that Spike had no idea Parker existed. It wasn't even that Buffy was keeping quiet about it; she would never keep anything from Spike! He just hadn't been around much the last couple of weeks.
Spike had stayed in town when he had come down to see her during the summer, keeping a very low profile of course - when he found out that Angel had moved there after graduation LA kind of lost its appeal. But for the last month or so he'd seemed to be really distracted. For a while Buffy had been worried that being in Sunnydale was causing him to slip back into his depressed state, but when asked he'd just told her that he was working on a project and promised that he wasn't killing anyone in the process.
Buffy mildly wondered if Spike would ever feel in the mood to kill anyone ever again. She'd asked him about it last time she had spoken to him. All he'd said in response was that he had no desire to do something stupid enough to make her mad at him. *Hey! Why am I thinking about Spike on my date?* she thought as Parker leaned in to kiss her goodnight when they reached her dorm room after inviting her to a frat party tomorrow night. Before contact could be made however, Willow and Oz came running up with news of an angry puppy named Harmony...
"But Spikey it's not fair! He was a looser – no one was going to notice!" Harmony whined.
"I noticed!" Spike yelled, uncaring of the various partygoers who had turned to stare. "I told you before we got here not to kill anyone!"
"He's not dead!" Harmony insisted
"Only because I pulled you off of him!" Spike shot back. He really wished he'd staked the annoying bint the moment he'd met her...but unfortunately a vampire had his needs and he'd been drunk at the time. The only reason he'd even agreed to come to the party with her at all was the off chance that the slayer would be there.
"You're no fun!" Harmony pouted.
"Oh I wouldn't say that!"
Spike sighed when he heard the slayers voice. Hopefully she would put him out of his misery and stake Harmony for him! Spike was about to beg her to do just that, but when he turned to face her he saw the dark haired hormone bomb with his arm around her.
"Well well, lets check out the new boy." He said. Spike instantly went into protective mode and looked the boy up and down. Decent clothes meant the boy had money. Polished features – the boy was good looking and he knew it. He had the air of the vulnerable puppy dog, which Spike didn't buy for a second. Then there was the fact that he was daring to touch the slayer before Spike had given his express permission.
"Hi, I'm Parker." The boy offered. Spike just looked at the proffered hand then back up at Parker's face. Something in Spike's blue orbs must have startled the boy because he took several steps back. Spike chuckled despite the glare he was getting from the slayer.
Harmony must have taken the glare as an indication that the slayer was about to get stake happy because she took off running. Spike looked at Buffy and raised his eyebrow, their silent indication that she should follow him. Buffy nodded imperceptibly and Spike ran after Harmony. When Buffy caught up with the two vampires outside she and Spike traded several blows for show. Harmony, not wanting to get staked took off running again. Buffy and Spike breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do me a favour slayer and stake that bint!" Asked Spike
"I was planning on it anyway!" She informed him "She bit Willow last night!"
Spike was shocked. "I told her not to touch any of your pals slayer I swear."
"I know, don't worry. Willow's fine." Buffy grinned, remembering he conversation with Willow. "So you're Harmony's new boyfriend?"
Spike shuddered in disgust. "I shagged her once slayer! Once! And I was so wasted I don't even really remember it! Now I can't get rid of her!"
Buffy smiled. "Sounds like Harmony – Just be grateful you don't have a pet rabbit or else I think it would be well and truly boiled by now!"
Spike chuckled before remembering something. "So what's with the new boy toy?"
Buffy sighed and gave him the details of how they'd met.
"So you've been seeing the guy for a week and this is the first time I've heard about it?" Spike voiced his disapproval.
Buffy raised and eyebrow at him. "Well if you'd been around more I would have told you about him!"
Spike was instantly contrite. "Sorry slayer. I've just been working on something is all...not that I'm sure how much you'll need it anymore with this Parker bloke."
Buffy suddenly brightened at the mention that he was doing something for her. "A present for me? What is it?" She asked grinning.
Spike just smiled. "Ask your watcher about the Gem of Amara pet." He then kissed her on the forehead and moved to leave, he turned back however to add. "Be careful with that boy luv, I don't like him."...
Giles had laughed when Buffy had asked about the gem. She'd admitted Spike had told her he was looking for it and didn't correct his assumption that he'd use it to try and kill her. Buffy knew differently, she also knew that the ring wasn't the myth that Giles claimed it was – Spike wouldn't have told her about it if he didn't believe it was true. Buffy's head was reeling with the information that Giles had just supplied her with. Spike was looking for the Gem of Amara, something that would make any vampire who had it 100% unkillable. And he was going to give it to her, obviously expecting her to give it to the man who had wanted to take her into the sunlight. Buffy needed space to think. Grabbing her bag she left Giles's apartment and headed back to campus...
"We had a good time alright." Parker was saying. Buffy felt like she was going to throw up. She hadn't been looking for Parker, but she'd found him...hitting on another freshmen only hours after they had slept together. "No need to make a big deal out of it." Parker turned to leave but Buffy grabbed his arm.
"Was it...is there something I can do? Something I can change?" She asked, trying desperately to force back tears at the thought of being rejected once again.
"No Buff, it was a wild ride!" Parker grinned. "But I think we should see other people ok?"
Buffy wasn't sure how she would have replied but the need was taken away due to the growling red and black blur which leapt on Parker, knocking him down and was now beating the crap out of him. A small part of Buffy wanted to let Spike beat Parker to death like he was obviously going to do if she left him to it, but unfortunately her slayer morals made her pull him off the human that lay twitching on the ground.
"Leave it Spike." She instructed him as she held him back from leaping at Parker again.
"But Slayer he..." He was cut off by Buffy.
"I know what he did Spike, but please, I just want to forget the whole thing!" she pleaded.
Spike wasn't happy about it. He hadn't killed anyone in over a year but for this boy he was willing to make an exception. Unfortunately the look the slayer was giving him held him in place. "Fine the boy gets to live!"
"Thank you." Buffy sighed, and then she noticed something. "Err Spike, its sunny out you're not on fire!"
Spike grinned and held up his hand, forgetting about Parker who was slowly crawling away. "Yep. The Gem of Amara. Official sponsor of today's Spike Vs Buffy match!"
"Huh?" Buffy asked. "You want to fight me?"
"Well yeah!" Spike replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Come on slayer! You wont let me kill that tosser, and you're the only decent opponent round here. I have to hand this ring over in a bit and I wanna spend my time in the sun doing what I enjoy most!"
"Fighting with me?" Buffy asked incredulously.
"Well more like sparring." Spike pointed out. Buffy sighed and dropped into a fighting stance. Spike grinned and lunged at her...
A/N: And that kiddies is my version of Harsh light of day. Lets pretend that Spike took the ring to LA but didn't torture Angel...or you can pretend he did if you like - either works for me. But no Angel isn't coming back because he looked a gift horse in the mouth and destroyed the ring – silly boy! More soon!
A/N: Ok I started today with no time to write and now I don't seem able to stop...haven't decided if that's a good or a bad thing yet! Thanks to Shero, lilmamaday, Tobert, Shan, theoneandonlygurl, Hannah, thatannoyingirlishkid, Jennifer, Red wulf, Kari Mouke, Faeries Twilight, aakos, LovesBitch2 and Aaron for the lovely supportive reviews. If I've missed anyone I'm sorry – I can only go on those reviews that ff.net have posted, I really do appreciate every single one of you, hell I appreciate the fact that you're even willing to read what I write at all! Is it me or are these notes getting longer?
Chapter 10: Never hurt a vampire's best friend!
"I think Buffy's having lusty wrong feelings about Parker!" chirped Willow happily.
"I am not!" claimed Buffy.
"No you're not!" said Willow, suddenly thinking about what she'd said.
"Oh I so am!" Buffy admitted sheepishly.
"No I mean they're not 'wrong feelings'" Willow corrected herself. "You can feel that way about anyone you like. You're young, you're single?" Willow frowned. "You are single right?"
Buffy thought about that for a few moments. *Do over protective vampire best friends who get all 'grrr' if a guy so much as looks at me count?* she wondered. She liked that Spike looked out for her, worried about her, offered to torture anyone who looked at her sideways...although that last one was slightly on the disturbing side. It meant a lot to her that he wanted her to be happy and not taken advantage of. Ever since the messy ending with Angel he'd insisted on vetting every guy she even considered going out with. "Yeah Will, I'm single." She said eventually.
Willow grinned, happy that Buffy seemed to be over the Angel missage. She'd actually thought Buffy had been seeing someone secretly not long after graduation since she'd declined going out with the gang several times in a row. But when Willow asked her about it she'd been denial girl. Willow had let it drop, figuring Buffy would tell her about any secret beau she might have if it got serious enough. When Buffy had started spending every day of the last week with Parker Abrahms however, all of her suspicions had been quickly forgotten in favour of this latest love interest.
"You should go talk to him." Willow suggested, nodding in the direction where Parker could be seen playing pool in a far corner of the Bronze.
"No." Buffy replied, "We're not here together, I'm here with you guys..."
Buffy's resolve had soon faded however when Parker had offered to walk her home. She found her self pleasantly surprised that she was able to speak to parker so freely. She'd only ever been able to speak like this with Xander and Spike before... although those conversations tended to be a little less normal. Parker had even believed her story about the angry puppy! Everything in this relationship seemed to be going right, the only thing missing was the approval of Spike. Parker was the only romantic interest she'd had over the last year that Spike hadn't given the third degree the second he met them...but that might have had something to do with the fact that Spike had no idea Parker existed. It wasn't even that Buffy was keeping quiet about it; she would never keep anything from Spike! He just hadn't been around much the last couple of weeks.
Spike had stayed in town when he had come down to see her during the summer, keeping a very low profile of course - when he found out that Angel had moved there after graduation LA kind of lost its appeal. But for the last month or so he'd seemed to be really distracted. For a while Buffy had been worried that being in Sunnydale was causing him to slip back into his depressed state, but when asked he'd just told her that he was working on a project and promised that he wasn't killing anyone in the process.
Buffy mildly wondered if Spike would ever feel in the mood to kill anyone ever again. She'd asked him about it last time she had spoken to him. All he'd said in response was that he had no desire to do something stupid enough to make her mad at him. *Hey! Why am I thinking about Spike on my date?* she thought as Parker leaned in to kiss her goodnight when they reached her dorm room after inviting her to a frat party tomorrow night. Before contact could be made however, Willow and Oz came running up with news of an angry puppy named Harmony...
"But Spikey it's not fair! He was a looser – no one was going to notice!" Harmony whined.
"I noticed!" Spike yelled, uncaring of the various partygoers who had turned to stare. "I told you before we got here not to kill anyone!"
"He's not dead!" Harmony insisted
"Only because I pulled you off of him!" Spike shot back. He really wished he'd staked the annoying bint the moment he'd met her...but unfortunately a vampire had his needs and he'd been drunk at the time. The only reason he'd even agreed to come to the party with her at all was the off chance that the slayer would be there.
"You're no fun!" Harmony pouted.
"Oh I wouldn't say that!"
Spike sighed when he heard the slayers voice. Hopefully she would put him out of his misery and stake Harmony for him! Spike was about to beg her to do just that, but when he turned to face her he saw the dark haired hormone bomb with his arm around her.
"Well well, lets check out the new boy." He said. Spike instantly went into protective mode and looked the boy up and down. Decent clothes meant the boy had money. Polished features – the boy was good looking and he knew it. He had the air of the vulnerable puppy dog, which Spike didn't buy for a second. Then there was the fact that he was daring to touch the slayer before Spike had given his express permission.
"Hi, I'm Parker." The boy offered. Spike just looked at the proffered hand then back up at Parker's face. Something in Spike's blue orbs must have startled the boy because he took several steps back. Spike chuckled despite the glare he was getting from the slayer.
Harmony must have taken the glare as an indication that the slayer was about to get stake happy because she took off running. Spike looked at Buffy and raised his eyebrow, their silent indication that she should follow him. Buffy nodded imperceptibly and Spike ran after Harmony. When Buffy caught up with the two vampires outside she and Spike traded several blows for show. Harmony, not wanting to get staked took off running again. Buffy and Spike breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do me a favour slayer and stake that bint!" Asked Spike
"I was planning on it anyway!" She informed him "She bit Willow last night!"
Spike was shocked. "I told her not to touch any of your pals slayer I swear."
"I know, don't worry. Willow's fine." Buffy grinned, remembering he conversation with Willow. "So you're Harmony's new boyfriend?"
Spike shuddered in disgust. "I shagged her once slayer! Once! And I was so wasted I don't even really remember it! Now I can't get rid of her!"
Buffy smiled. "Sounds like Harmony – Just be grateful you don't have a pet rabbit or else I think it would be well and truly boiled by now!"
Spike chuckled before remembering something. "So what's with the new boy toy?"
Buffy sighed and gave him the details of how they'd met.
"So you've been seeing the guy for a week and this is the first time I've heard about it?" Spike voiced his disapproval.
Buffy raised and eyebrow at him. "Well if you'd been around more I would have told you about him!"
Spike was instantly contrite. "Sorry slayer. I've just been working on something is all...not that I'm sure how much you'll need it anymore with this Parker bloke."
Buffy suddenly brightened at the mention that he was doing something for her. "A present for me? What is it?" She asked grinning.
Spike just smiled. "Ask your watcher about the Gem of Amara pet." He then kissed her on the forehead and moved to leave, he turned back however to add. "Be careful with that boy luv, I don't like him."...
Giles had laughed when Buffy had asked about the gem. She'd admitted Spike had told her he was looking for it and didn't correct his assumption that he'd use it to try and kill her. Buffy knew differently, she also knew that the ring wasn't the myth that Giles claimed it was – Spike wouldn't have told her about it if he didn't believe it was true. Buffy's head was reeling with the information that Giles had just supplied her with. Spike was looking for the Gem of Amara, something that would make any vampire who had it 100% unkillable. And he was going to give it to her, obviously expecting her to give it to the man who had wanted to take her into the sunlight. Buffy needed space to think. Grabbing her bag she left Giles's apartment and headed back to campus...
"We had a good time alright." Parker was saying. Buffy felt like she was going to throw up. She hadn't been looking for Parker, but she'd found him...hitting on another freshmen only hours after they had slept together. "No need to make a big deal out of it." Parker turned to leave but Buffy grabbed his arm.
"Was it...is there something I can do? Something I can change?" She asked, trying desperately to force back tears at the thought of being rejected once again.
"No Buff, it was a wild ride!" Parker grinned. "But I think we should see other people ok?"
Buffy wasn't sure how she would have replied but the need was taken away due to the growling red and black blur which leapt on Parker, knocking him down and was now beating the crap out of him. A small part of Buffy wanted to let Spike beat Parker to death like he was obviously going to do if she left him to it, but unfortunately her slayer morals made her pull him off the human that lay twitching on the ground.
"Leave it Spike." She instructed him as she held him back from leaping at Parker again.
"But Slayer he..." He was cut off by Buffy.
"I know what he did Spike, but please, I just want to forget the whole thing!" she pleaded.
Spike wasn't happy about it. He hadn't killed anyone in over a year but for this boy he was willing to make an exception. Unfortunately the look the slayer was giving him held him in place. "Fine the boy gets to live!"
"Thank you." Buffy sighed, and then she noticed something. "Err Spike, its sunny out you're not on fire!"
Spike grinned and held up his hand, forgetting about Parker who was slowly crawling away. "Yep. The Gem of Amara. Official sponsor of today's Spike Vs Buffy match!"
"Huh?" Buffy asked. "You want to fight me?"
"Well yeah!" Spike replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Come on slayer! You wont let me kill that tosser, and you're the only decent opponent round here. I have to hand this ring over in a bit and I wanna spend my time in the sun doing what I enjoy most!"
"Fighting with me?" Buffy asked incredulously.
"Well more like sparring." Spike pointed out. Buffy sighed and dropped into a fighting stance. Spike grinned and lunged at her...
A/N: And that kiddies is my version of Harsh light of day. Lets pretend that Spike took the ring to LA but didn't torture Angel...or you can pretend he did if you like - either works for me. But no Angel isn't coming back because he looked a gift horse in the mouth and destroyed the ring – silly boy! More soon!
