Chapter Fifty-Nine: Bet

It was the night Buffy and Spike were meant to go out, they all had spent the day and night together, playing and talking and hugging, but tonight was just for Buffy and Spike.

Buffy was busy in her room picking out an outfit for her night out with Spike, when she felt the strong arms of her husband wrap around her waist.

"You know, picking one outfit shouldn't take all year luv." He purred into her ear.

Buffy smiled and turned round in his arms and jutted out her lower lip, pouting at him.

"I just wanna look sexy for you honey." She said sweetly as she started to back him up.

"You always look sexy to me."

Buffy smiled up at him as she still backed him up to the bed.

"You know, we could ask Faith to take the kids early then we could skip tonight and make our own fun." She said seductively.

"Why Mrs Crawford, are you trying to seduce me?"

Buffy smiled as they fell down on to the bed.

"Always." She said before kissing him.

Faith was walking down the hall when she peaked into their room.

"Hey hey hey, save it for later huh, there are still minors in the house." She said before walking off.

Buffy huffed at the interruption and pecked Spike on the lips once more and got off him.

Buffy and Spike were finally ready to go, Buffy wore a short black dress with spaghetti straps and her hair hung in curls around her shoulders.

Spike wore black trousers with a black button down shirt with thin white strips that were hardly noticeable but gave the shirt character.

"We're leaving." Buffy yelled.

Alex and the twins came running to their parents.

"Do you really have to go?" Katie asked.

Buffy and Spike knelt down to their kids, their hearts nearly broke at the site on Katie's face, she always got like this when she wasn't with either one of them.

"We'll only be a few hours, promise, then when we get back, we will say goodnight, you will be asleep and you can sleep at Faiths ok." Buffy said.

They all nodded.

"Will you be drinking Vodka and Coke?" Alex asked.

"Or Gin and Tonic?" Jamie asked.

"Or scotch on the rocks?" Katie asked.

Buffy and Spike frowned.

"Who has been teaching you this?" Spike asked.

The three kids all looked up at Faith, Buffy and Spike followed their gazed and eyed their best friend.

"Er, come on brats, say good bye to mommy and daddy so we can go watch cartoons." She said avoiding Buffy and Spike gaze.

The kids hugged their parents and Buffy grabbed Spikes hand and car keys and walked out.

Once they were out Alex looked out the window.

"Faith, how come mommy and daddy are taking your car?"

Faith instantly ran to the window as they drove away in her prized sports car, the car nobody was aloud to drive except her, they only time someone else drove that car was on Spike and Buffy's wedding day.

"Oh my god my baby." She cried.

Buffy laughed and jumped up and down in her seat, this was the first time ever, in ten years that she had got the chance to drive Faith's car.

"I wish I could have seen Faiths face when we took this baby."

Spike chuckled "Yeah, she must of..." Spike didn't get a chance to finish his sentence before the car phone rang.

Spike put it on speaker.

"Hello" Spike said cheerfully, knowing full well who it was.

"SPIKE, WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TAKE MY CAR?"

"Its such a pretty car Faith, we just wanted to have a bit of fun." Spike said.

"WITH MY BABY... wait, please god tell me you are driving, please do not tell me that your psycho behind the wheel wife of yours is driving my car." Faith pleaded.

"Hey, I'm sitting right here you know." Buffy said offended.

"BUFFY, WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE LUV."

"Oops sorry, my bad." She said swerving.

"SHE'S DRIVING? SPIKE ARE YOU INSANE? BUFFY ARE YOU HEARING ME?"

" Very load, and very clear" She said

"IF I FIND ONE SCRATCH ON THAT CAR, ONE LITTLE DENT, I WILL..." Faith didn't get a chance to threaten Buffy because Spike started making crackling noises.

"Faith, we're losing you gorgeous." He shouted down the phone, signalling for Buffy make the sounds.

"SPIKE, YOU ASS, DON'T YOU HANG..."

Spike smiled as he hung up, then took the phone of the hook.

The both started laughing as they knew how pissed she must be.

"I swear, she loves this car more then she loved Angel."

As soon as Buffy mentioned his name, Spike's laughter died.

Buffy noticed him stop and sharply stopped the car sending Spike lurching forward in the seat

"Spike please don't freeze up every time I say his name. Someone once told me that you can't bury the past and hope for it to go away, all that shit with Angel is in the past but if it ever pops into your mind, don't let it eat away at you, don't let it eat away at our relationship, just talk to me ok, because I will love you know matter what." She said stroking his face.

Spike smiled at her and gave her a quick kiss.

"By the way Buffy, Faith will destroy you if you hurt this car, so why don't you let me drive huh." Spike said.

"No, no I can do it see." Buffy said pressing down on the accelerator, the car speed forward and nearly hit a lamp post, Buffy braked just in time.

Spikes nails were digging in to the dashboard while Buffy's hands gripped the wheel; she looked at Spike. Spike raised his eyebrows at her

"Err, maybe you should drive," She said sheepishly.

"Good idea." He said as she got out and walked round to the passenger side.

As Spike came to a stop in front of the big club he was about to climb out when Buffy grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her for a passionate kiss.

When she broke the kiss he sat back in a daze.

"Well...er" Spike said.

"I've got an idea." She said moving closer to him and stroking his face.

"What's that then my love?"

"Well, I love you more then anything, and I want to prove to you that our relationship is solid, nothing and no one can come between us, I want to make sure you know it, and you know I know it."

"So what do you propose?"

"A bet."

Spike brows knitted together in confusion.

"The bet is that I can get more phone numbers in an hour then you." She said.

Spikes eyes widened,

"As long as these phone numbers are from women it's fine by me." He said.

Buffy smiled at his obvious jealousy and nuzzled his cheek.

"Baby, that's no fun, come on, one hour, at 10 o'clock, it's all over. " She said.

"And what are the terms of this bet" He asked as his hand worked its way to her backside

"That's the great part, the winner gets to request anything they want." She said kissing the side of his mouth.

"Mmmm, tempting, very tempting." He said rubbing her ass.

"So have we got a deal?" She said taking the hand that was on her ass and holding it up in front of them, she looked him in the eye and twiddled his wedding band.

He looked at her and smiled.

"We've got a deal" He said as he watched her take his wedding band of and slip it onto his middle finger, when it was on, she kissed the both fingers before holding up her own in front of him.

He looked at her and did the same to her hand.

"Ground rules luv, or no deal." He said.

"Ok."

"No kissing."

"Oh god no, defiantly no, and we have to stay in sight of each other, which means no going out side with anyone." She said.

Spike nodded.

"No one touches your ass, that's my territory". He said reaching behind her and squeezing her behind.

"Same goes for you mister." She said squeezing his ass.

She smiled lovingly at him and put her hand behind his head and kissed him, he was about to get out the car when she said.

"Oh and first one to intervene loses twenty bucks, of course that will be you."

"Hey, what makes you so sure it's going to be me"? He said.

"Spike, you are my husband, and I love you, but never in my life have I met someone who gets so jealous so quickly like you." She said looking in to his eyes and resting her forehead on his.

"Oh yeah, well we'll see about that." He said quickly kissing her on the lips before exiting the car.

She laughed at him and jumped out the car.

The walked side by side to the club doors, the gave each other on last kiss before breaking apart and entering the club, and parting separate ways

Buffy and Spike had spent the last 50 minutes chatting up and dancing with other people, every now and then they would wink at each other, even though they were in the company of someone else.

"Hello gorgeous." Spike purred into a brunette girls ear.

She turned round and smiled at him, he held out his hand.

"Wanna dance?" He said.

She nodded and walked onto the dance floor with him

Spike looked round for his wife and gasped when he realised she was right next to him dancing with a shortish man, Spike raised his eyebrows as he saw the man sliding his hand down to Buffys ass. Buffy raised her eyebrows when the girl worked her hand down to his ass, simultaneously they both grabbed the wandering hands and moved it north, nodding at each other understandingly. When the song finished they both whispered in their partners ear, the man gave Buffy his phone number and the woman gave Spike hers.

Buffy and Spikes eyes locked and Spike slipped the number in his pocket, while Buffy slipped hers in her purse, they looked at his watch and grinned at her, he took a step towards her when a leggy blond girl stepped in front of Buffy, she shot Buffy a look before she backed Spike off the dance floor

Buffy really didn't like the look of her.

Buffy watched as the girl rubbed up against her man and whisper in his ear, she watched her grope his butt and even though he glanced at Buffy and kept moving her hand away from his ass, she just redirected her hand and touched his crotch.

Buffy saw red, that part of him belonged to her and only her.

She marched over to them, pulling out $20 from her purse, she stood behind them and showed Spike the money.

Spike smiled proudly before pushing the girl off him

"Come on baby, I'm willing to show you a good time." She said.

"Sorry luv, I'm taken, forever and always." He said looking into Buffy's eyes.

The girl looked at Buffy then stomped off.

Buffy walked to him and slammed the money into his chest.

"Now what was that about me giving first?" He said cockily.

"Shut up you, she was just too much, grabbing your thing, your thing is my thing and my thing only." She said pointing down to his crotch.

Spike laughed and kissed her nose. "You are so adorable"

She smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Well it is my thing, and anyway, if some guy came up and grabbed my boobs you would rip their head off."

"No I wouldn't... no one did did they, because quoting my lovely wife, these are mine and mine only." He said pointing to her boobs.

She laughed at him and buried her head into his chest taking in his scent,

"How many numbers?" She said.

Spike dug his hand in to his pocket.

"Fifteen, what about you?" He said taking out the numbers.

"Fifteen, well looks like we're both as irresistible as each other baby." She said taking out her numbers.

They both walked over to a bin and look at each other then simultaneously the thirty numbers dropped into the bin.

Spike was about to lean down and kiss her when he felt and hand in his back pocket, he looked over his shoulder and saw the girl he turned away earlier wink at him and walk away, Spike felt in his pocket and smiled when his found, another number.

Buffy frowned and looked over Spikes shoulder at the girl.

"That bitch." She said.

Spike chuckled and tightened his arms around her.

"Well that bitch just made me win our bet luv." He said smirking before screwing up the number and throwing it away.

"Don't think so baby, its was only suppose to last an hour and its..." Buffy looked up at the clock on the wall.

Spike looked up to.

"Ah 9:59." He said smugly.

"Shit, fine you win." She said bringing his head down for a heated kiss, they heard several gasps around them and figured it was from the people they had hit on all night.

Spike broke the kiss and lifted his left hand, Buffy smiled and moved the ring to its rightful finger, then raised her own so her rings could be put on their rightful finger, once that was done they kissed again before walking to the dance floor.

Spike and Buffy didn't part for the rest of the night, they heard several comments around them, from 'Oh my god, they are so cute' to ' Look at her, he could do so much better.'

But neither Buffy nor Spike took any notice because they were in each other's arm, where they both wanted and needed to be, forever.

When the slow song ended, Spike all of a sudden broke his hold on Buffy, she whimpered slightly from the loss of heat from his body.

"Hey, come back, I was warm." She said trying to snuggle back into his arms.

Spike took a step back and grabbed her hand and led her outside.

"Spike, come on, I wanna dance." She whined.

Once they were outside Spike backed Buffy up against a wall.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

Spike smirked and stepped forward so his body was flush up against hers with no space between them.

"Well, I've just worked out what I want from our little wager." He said rubbing up against her.

Buffy could see the look in his eye, it was the same look of lust he got when he wanted her, but this look was different, she hadn't seen this look since they were having their affair 11 years ago. When she had just come out of heaven and they had sex everywhere and anywhere.

"Spike, no." She said.

"Why not? I won the bet, fair and square, and I should get my reward." He purred in to her ear while kissing her neck.

Buffy held back a moan.

"But here, now, cant we just wait till we get home?" She said playing with the hairs on the back of his head.

"We will be doing it at home luv, this is just extra." He said slipping his hands down and rubbing her ass.

He pulled his head back and looked at her, she looked at him then smiled, as soon as she smiled he lifted her up so her legs wrapped round his waist and kissed her feverously .

Faith walked around the house checking the locks, she was about to check the front door when she heard a bump upstairs, she sighed and stomped up

"Damn, my best friend steals my car and I'm still left looking after her kids, so gonna kick her ass." She mumbled.

She got upstairs and was greeted by Alex in the hall way.

"What's the matter little prince?" She said walking over to him.

"I'm thirsty, can I have a drink please?" He asked.

Faith raised her eyebrow and looked up at him.

"Sure, of course this isn't any kind of way to avoid going to bed right?"

Alex looked up at Faith guilty then grinned his father's grin. "Right." He said.

Faith rolled her eyes and walked with him down the stairs, she all of a sudden noticed the front door was open. She stopped Alex on the stairs and turned him around.

"Go back up stairs, I'll bring you some juice." She said, Alex sighed as the whole point of him asking for a drink was to stay down stairs.

Faith made sure Alex was back in his room then cautiously walked down the stairs, she heard footsteps and walked around into the living room.

Her eyes widened as she was greeted with the face she hadn't seen in just under a decade.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Faith said with her hands on her hips.

"Hi Faith, long time no see." Riley said.

"Well id stay here and have a beer with you and catch up on old times but..." Faith didn't finish her sentence as she leaped on Riley and grabbed her; he just pushed her away

Faith looked up at him, shocked at how strong he was.

"I'm sorry Faith, I don't want to fight you, all I want is to get on with my life, and there is only one way I can do that." He explained calmly before walking away towards the stairs.

Faith saw where he was going and jumped up.

"HEY, NO, YOU ARE NOT GOING UP THERE ASSHOLE!" She yelled.

Riley merely turned around and shot her in the gut, Faith looked up at him before falling to the ground unconscious.

"I'm sorry Faith, nothing will get in my way." He said before walking upstairs, Alex was at the top of the stairs and saw Riley raise the gun and fire, he ran to his room and grabbed a crayon and paper.

Riley walked into the little pink room, on the door it said 'KATIE' in big letters, he smiled and walked in, he saw the little girl curled up in her small bed holding a small pig with a bow on it. On the bow it said, MRS GORDO

Riley walked over to the little girl and got some tap out of his pocket.

"Mommy, daddy?" She murmured.

"No Katie, I'm your new daddy." He said walking over to her.

Buffy and Spike pulled up in Faiths car giggling like school kids, Spike kissed and touched Buffy in the car as she feebly fought him off, Spike pushed her onto her back in the front seat.

"Spike, stop." She giggled pushing weakly on his chest

"Mmm come on, let's christen Faiths car huh." He said wiggling his eyebrows.

She laughed and brought his head down for a kiss, he broke the kiss and rested his forehead on hers' she started chuckling

"What's so funny pet?" He asked.

"Its just that it amazes me that after 10 years of ups and downs, I'm still head over heels in love with you." She said looking into his eyes intensely.

Spike smiled and pecked her on the lips.

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm still head over heels in love with you too." He said rubbing noses with her.

"That makes me feel a lot better, I love you Spike." She said sincerely.

"Love you too Buffy." He said kissing her again.

Buffy smiled at him then a bright light caught her eye, her smile dropped hen she realised it was an ambulance.

"Oh god, Spike." She said terror evident on her voice.

Spike frowned and turned his head to see what she was looking at, as soon as he did he jumped off Buffy and out the car, Buffy was right behind him as the ran to the scene.

They ran into the house and caught glimpse of Faith on a stretcher.

"Faith, oh god, what happened?" Buffy asked a paramedic.

"One of the neighbours called us, she's been shot, who are you two?"

"This is our house." Spike growled.

"Ok, I think you best go speak to the police, give a..."

The paramedic didn't get a chance to finish because Buffy had pushed him out the way and ran up stairs.

Spike asked the paramedic what hospital they we're going to when he heard Buffy scream.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Spike feared the worst when he heard his wife scream.

'Oh god, please let them be safe, I'll give my life and soul, just let my kids be ok.'

Spike ran into his son's room to find it empty

"Oh no" He said to himself before running to Katie's room, Spike was met with Buffy on the floor silently crying into Mrs Gordo.

Spike ran over to his wife and pulled her into his arms.

"They're gone, Spike, our babies, they're gone." She cried into his arms.

"We'll find them Buffy, I promise, god do I promise." He said hugging her tightly.

AN: It will be over soon so keep reading to find out what are Rileys plans for Spike and Buffys children