Chapter Fifty-Five: Misunderstanding
After Spike and the kids came back from Wonder world they were all so exhausted from going on every ride in the park, they stayed at Faith's. Katie sleeping in with Faith and the boys sleeping on the couch and Spike on the floor.
In the morning the kids got up and dress ready for their mother to come pick them up, Spike was still sleeping.
"Hey B, come on in." Faith said as Buffy arrived at the door.
"Hey, are they ready?" Buffy asked.
"And waiting." Faith said as they walked into the house.
Buffy took a breath; Faith knew exactly what she wanted to ask.
"Is... is he here?" She asked.
Faith smiled reassuringly at her.
"He's still asleep." Faith said.
Buffy nodded and walked into Faith's room where Katie was sitting quietly playing with a doll and her brothers were chasing each other around the room. As soon they spotted their mother, Alex and Jamie stopped running about and Katie got up and ran into her mothers arms.
"Hey baby, you ready to go?"
"Yep, is daddy coming with us?" Katie asked.
"I don't know baby, why don't you let Faith take you to the car, while I go see if your dad's awake."
"Ok." She said jumping out of her arms.
Katie and the boys all ran out the room. Buffy took a deep breath and headed towards the front room where she saw Spike lying on the floor sound asleep and Wood standing over him trying to wake him up.
"Hey." Buffy said.
Wood turned round smiled at her.
"Hey, just trying to wake him, I need the space." He said.
"Good luck, he's a deep sleeper." She said.
"The fact that I've been shaking his ass for the last five minutes gives it away." Buffy nodded and watched Spike start to stir.
"Mmmm, Buffy." Spike murmured as he tried to grab Robin.
Buffy smiled, "At least I know he wants me in his dreams."
Spike opened his eyes and jumped back as he realised it was Wood in front of him and not Buffy.
"I need you to wake up, I need the space to work out." Robin said getting up and leaving the couple alone.
Spike stood up and looked at his wife and sat down on the couch running his hands through his hair.
"Hello Buffy." Spike said not looking at her.
"Hey." She said going and sitting next to him.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Came to pick up the kids." She said.
"Oh yeah right, so how are you and Angel doing?" He asked harshly.
Buffy frustratedly slapped her hands in her lap.
"Grr Spike how many times do I have to tell you, nothing is going on between me and Angel, how could you think I would do that to you?"
"The fact that I came home and found you kissing him was a big clue." He said sarcastically.
Buffy sighed and looked at him as he continued not to look at her.
"Are you ready to hear my side of the story now?" She asked.
Spike just shrugged his shoulders.
Buffy sighed again and explained to him exactly what happened, not leaving out a single detail.
Faith and the kids got to the car and had just finished strapping them in, thinking 'boy do I so not want kids yet' as they all struggled and fidgeted which caused the whole process to take twice as long.
"Faith." Alex said.
"Yo."
"I forgot that teddy we got for mommy, I have to go and look for it." He said.
Faith looked at him.
"You kidding?" She said.
Alex smiled and shook his head.
Faith sighed and knew she couldn't leave the twins in the car on their own, so the only option was to let Alex run in and get it.
"Ok, go, be quick." She said as Alex unbuckled him self and ran in side.
Buffy had just finished telling Spike what happened.
"So you see, it was a total misunderstanding baby, I didn't know Angel was talking about me and I certainly didn't know he was going to kiss me." She said placing her hand on his that was rested on his thigh.
Spike just shook his head trying to process everything she said.
"So what you're saying is you just let him kiss you." He asked, you could still hear the anger in his voice.
Buffy moved closer to him
"Of course not, you're the only one I want, Spike, please believe me and come home." She said nuzzling his neck.
She started to kiss him up his neck, Spike gritted his teeth trying to push aside the sensations she was making him feel.
"I miss you so much baby, I hate sleeping with out you."
She said working her way up his neck then up his jaw line.
"Please Spike." She said as she made her way to his lips.
Spike froze for a second as she made contact with his lips before jumping up out of her wandering arms.
"NO BUFFY, NO, you can't just kiss me, and expect me to forgive you just like that, to forget what I saw!" He yelled.
Buffy stood up in front of him.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry." She said as she could see him getting worked up and didn't want to upset him further.
Spike looked at her and then looked down to the floor.
"Look just, give me some time, to think things over, just need to process everything ok."
Buffy looked at him unsure of what he was thinking.
"Ok," she said sadly as she walked to the door, she stopped before she got there she opened it and walked back to him.
"Spike, you do know how much I love you right?" She said desperately.
Spike didn't answer.
Buffy shook her head and walked out the room.
"I love you too." Spike said to himself.
Spike and Buffy didn't know that through out the conversation their oldest son listened with tears in his eyes.
Once Buffy and the kids got home, the spent the day together before they all went to bed, it took a while for Buffy to fall asleep, as she couldn't get used to not having her husband by her side.
Down the hall Alex got out of bed and shook his brother awake.
"J, J wake up." He said shaking his little brother.
"What, I'm tired." He moaned.
"No wake up, I know how to get mom and dad back together."