Chapter Fifty-Three: Message

Buffy and the kids moved from the door to her bedroom, and they all slept together as Alex was scared to leave his mother and still felt he n eeded to protect her, even though he knew she was protecting him and the twins we're scared and confused and wanted to be with their mom. So the all slept together on the bed. Buffy stayed up for a while with Alex curled in to her left side. Jamie curled into her right, and Katie on her lap, she constantly tried to call Spike. She left him voice mail and texts but still nothing, she finally thought of something that she hadn't used before, she selected the video message, she turned round the phone and pointed to camera at her and the kids and left one final message.

Spike stumbled down the street drunk, he looked up and realised he was at Angels hotel, he was about to stumble in when he saw Faith come out, she spotted him and walked towards him.

"Spike, what you doing here?"

"Hey Ffffaith wanna help me kill Angel, it will be fun." He slurred.

"What? Your wasted man lets get you home." She said walking closer to him.

"No, don't wanna go there, what am I doing here any way he probably back there with her, shagging her with my kids in the next room, my kids." Spike said with tears in his eyes.

"Spike come on and get in the car and tell me what the hell you are talking about." Faith said putting an arm around him and leading him to the car.

"He is probably back in my house, shagging my wife with my kids next door, my lovely kids, Alex is my right hand man you know." He said stumbling

"Yeah I know" Faith said carrying most his weight.

"And Katie, my little princess, and Jamie the baby of the house, Alex gives him a right hard time you know." He said laughing as Faith pushed him into the car.

"Spike what is happening?" She said getting in but by that time he had past out.

"Ok, lets get you home to Buffy."

"No, your place." He said waking up for a brief second.

When Faith arrived at her and Robin's apartment she carried him inside and dropped him on the couch.

"Faith, hey where you..." Robin started

"What's he doing here?" Robin said pointing at an unconscious Spike.

"Think he had a bust up with B, kept saying stuff about Angel shagging B with the kids in the next room." Faith said confused.

"What the hell does that mean?"

"I don't know, I have to call Buffy" Faith said picking up the phone.

"Faith are we ok?" Robin asked.

Faith took a deep breath and looked at him.

"We'll talk later." She said dialling.

"Spike" Buffy said down the phone, Faith instantly knew they had had a fight as she always did that when you call her and she was waiting for him to call.

"No its Faith, and by the way you answered the phone and that fact I've got a unconscious bleached blond on my couch tells my you had a fight."

"Spikes there? Is he ok? What's he said? Is he coming home?" She said frantically own the phone.

"He hasn't woken up yet, I just thought you would want to know he's ok, little homicidal but ok." She said.

"Homicidal, who does he want to kill?" Buffy asked.

"Angel, said something about Angel is in his house shagging his wife with his kids in the next room, Buffy what's going on?" Faith said.

"Oh god, Faith come round tomorrow and I'll tell you the whole story."

"Ok see you later B."

Later on Spike woke up with a splitting headache and something vibrating in his pants, he looked around and realised it was 3 o'clock in the morning and he was at Faiths. There was a blanket thrown over him and his shirt was off, he reached into his pants and pulled out his phone, he opened it and realised it was a video message from Buffy. He pressed play and watch as he saw his whole family on his bed, no Angel just Buffy, with sleeping Alex, Katie and Jamie all with her.


"Hey Spike, I hope you get this message, I've been calling you all night, except when I've been crying, or rather we've been crying." She said looking at the kids.

"They cried them selves to sleep when you left. I'm not trying to guilt trip you if that's what you're thinking but they miss you. We miss you Spike please I am so sorry, nothing is happened between me and Angel I swear. Please come home so we can talk, call me when you get this message, I love you." She said ending the message.

Spike rewound it and watched it again and paused it on the family, he rubbed his hand over his face and leaned back on the couch, he looked at his children's angelic faces and the beautiful face of his wife. He felt a tear come down his face, he heard Faith come in to the room and sit next to him. Spike rewound the message again to show her and see it again. She watched it again then when it was finished she put a reassuring hand on his back.

Robin watched from the hallway.

"You gonna tell me what happened?" Faith said.

"I got home and they were kissing her, end of story." He said angrily.

"Ok, now that's the short story, I'm kinda looking for the long." She said.

Spike took a deep breath and knew he could talk to Faith and that she wasn't only Buffy's friends she was his too.

"I came home, like I normally do, expecting to hear that Alex and Jamie had been fighting or that they locked Katie in the cupboard again, or that Katie had tricked Buffy in to reading her multiple amounts of stories, she tricked me into reading her 6 different books one night." He said laughing.

"Have to admit you have got some wild kids there man." Faith said lifting her feet and curling them underneath herself to get comfy.

"Yeah, I know, I love them more than anything, I was looking forward to kissing them goodnight like I usually do when I get in...but instead I find..." Spike gritted his teeth and took and deep angry breath before carrying on.

"Him in my house kissing Buffy. As soon as she spots me she tries it with the old, 'Spike I can explain' crap. Angel and me had I fight, and he told me that, Buffy doesn't love me as much as she loves him. Because I wasn't him, I could take hearing that so I grabbed a stake ready to dust his arse and then..." He stopped again.

"And then?" Faith said.

"She stopped me, protecting her lover I suspect." He said looking at his lap.

"Her lover? Are you nuts, did you listen to that message she left you, she is not with Angel." Faith said.

"But I don't know that, and even if she wasn't, I couldn't forgive her, not just yet, I need time, could I crash here for a while?" He said looking over at her.

"Sure, I'll try not to peek on you in the shower." She said punching him playfully.

"I'll try not to make it to obvious when I peek in on you in the shower." He said jokily.

Robin watched with anger in his eyes.

'Why is she looking at everyone except me?' he thought sadly as he went back to his room.