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I'm trying to post here quite regularly, one of my readers said that she would explode if I didn't and I really don't want that to happen, (Sesen Obsidian, you know who you are).
Buffy and Spike stood facing the door of the Magic Box. They were trying to steel themselves to actually walk through it. Spike wasn't exactly keen to admit it but he was almost as terrified as Buffy obviously was. He was going to be a big part of her life. He got that, but the people through this door were a big part of her life too. They had been for five years. They had talked before, about what they were going to say; how they were going to say it . . .
"Look just explain to them that I love you and you love me and we're together."
Spike nodded, "You know what Xander's going to be like though don't you?"
Buffy nodded and closed her eyes; "I'm trying desperately not to think about it if you must know. He's going to start in about how many times you tried to kill us, how you're a soulless demon, you know the usual."
"Well he accepted Angel eventually didn't he pet?"
Buffy shrugged, "He never really did. That was the thing, he tolerated him because I was in love with him, but I don't think that he ever truly accepted him."
"Well, I don't want to be best friends. All he has to do is tolerate me, and I'll tolerate him."
"He's going to really focus on the whole, 'you tried to kill us' thing. And 'what happens if the chip stops working'."
Spike felt himself tense, "That's still an issue is it?" Didn't she know? Even if it did, he wouldn't hunt anymore. He'd lose her and she was much more important than feeding, even if something happened to her, he wouldn't do it. He knew that she would hate it. He would not do anything to cause her to feel anything but love for him. He just wouldn't. Didn't she get that?
Buffy smiled sympathetically and sat across his lap straddling his waist, "I know that you love me. It's not an issue anymore. I trust you. I'm just saying that they might not. It's not a question of whether I can deal it's a question of whether you can."
Spike relaxed and wrapped his arms around her waist, "I can deal. There are only two of your friends whose opinions I give a damn about. The witches. And after I helped with Tara, they kinda like me."
Buffy smiled, "Yeah, you were definitely the good guy."
Spike frowned and pretended to sulk, "You mean I'm not bad anymore?"
Buffy lowered her head to kiss him, "Don't be stupid. Of course, you're bad.
* * * Spike proving how bad he was had made them late for the Scooby meeting. Now they were still trying to steal themselves to open the door, "We could just run away? Join the French foreign legion? How does that sound?"
Buffy was only half kidding but Spike was apparently having none of it, "They're kinda big on the whole going out in the day. And what about you're mom, your sister, the Hell mouth, glory, the Scoobies . . ."
"Yeah yeah okay." Buffy put her hand and the door handle, "You ready?"
Spike took a deep unneeded breathe and nodded.
Buffy opened the door and they stepped inside.
* * *
Xander was quite anxiously waiting for Buffy and Riley to arrive. Giles hadn't told them anything except that they would be coming round tonight. He simply wouldn't tell them anything else, but he had that look. That look he got when one of them was doing something that he didn't approve of. Xander was worried. Obviously, Buffy had caught up with Riley or Giles wouldn't have said that 'they' were going to be here, but why was he being so secretive.
* * *
Willow had a feeling that she knew what was going on. There was no way that after the way Buffy had been talking about Spike that things could continue as they had been. Had something happened? Was it possible, was 'they' Buffy and . . . Spike. In a way, Willow hoped so. In a very warped kind of way, she liked the blonde vampire. He of course had threatened their lives, but he really did seem to have changed. And he loved Buffy. Any fool could see. And Willow had the feeling that Buffy really did love him. And Spike was . . .well there really wasn't anything other word for it . . .Spike was cool. Willow knew that she could get to like him very much.
* * *
Xander's head snapped up as soon as the door opened. He looked as though he had seen a ghost. Buffy took a very deep breath, "Hey guys."
Xander took in the fact that Buffy's hand was in Spike's, "Buff? What is going on? Where's Riley."
Buffy looked at them all and sat down at the table with Spike next to her, "Guys I need to tell you some stuff. Now this is kinda hard for me so just let me talk and then . . .well we'll have a Q & A session later. Okay, first off all Riley's gone. He left last night. I told him to go because I told him that I didn't love him. He took it pretty well and went off with the military. Second. I told Riley to go because for a while now I've been in love with someone else. And that person is Spike." Buffy took in the looks on the faces of the people around her, people that she loved. Giles looked stressed but accepting. Willow smiled at Buffy, proving that at least she had one of her best friends support. Tara's face showed a pleasant blandness. Anya was smiling pleasantly but Xander's face showed absolute horror. "I don't expect you all to like it. But I do expect you to accept it. Because you all love me."
A stunned silence followed. Willow was the first to actually move. She stood up and walked round the table to wrap her arms around Buffy. Buffy was surprised but she didn't hesitate to return her friends embrace, "Congrats Buffy."
Buffy smiled at her friend with tears of gratitude in her eyes but it was what Willow didn't next that shocked everyone. She walked round Buffy had bending down she hugged Spike. Spike was as shocked as anyone but he returned it awkwardly, Willow stood and took one of his hands, "Because Buffy trusts you, I do to unless you give me a reason not to. There is a condition though."
Spike frowned but nodded, "What's that?"
"If you hurt my friend, I'll take out my voodoo doll and make you sorry that you're a man."
Spike smirked, "I can live with that."
* * *
Xander couldn't believe that this was happening. He had thought that she would have gone to Riley and that they would have made up. But instead, she had gone and fallen in love with the blood sucking undead! Xander stood, "Buffy?"
Buffy had been smiling at Willow but now she looked to him, "Yes?"
"Are you out of your mind?"
Buffy flinched at the harshness of his tone, "No Xander. I'm not out of my mind. I love him, we don't always choose these things, and I know that the vampire, slayer combination isn't ideal but it's the way that it's going to be and the way that it is. I want you to tell me that you can accept this."
Xander just stood there shaking his head with his mouth open. Spike stood quickly, eyes flashing just a tinge of yellow, "You won't accept it? Not even for her, not after everything that she's done for you."
Buffy tugged on his arm, "Spike sit down please."
"No Buffy." He spun round again to face Xander, "Has she ever judged you about your decisions? I don't think that she has."
Xander seemed to find his voice, "You're the evil undead, and you want to me to accept that my best friend loves you? What? Isn't a normal guy enough?"
Buffy started to cry, and Spike got angrier, "True I'm the evil undead but in case you haven't notice your girlfriend has been around killing people for a thousand years before I even started. So you've got the jump on me." Spike looked to Anya, "Not trying to offend you love."
Anya just smiled, "I'm not offended. It's al the truth."
Xander glared at the vampire, "She's not a demon anymore."
"Yeah and that was stolen from her. I don't kill anymore and that was stolen from me. But even if I had the choice, I wouldn't go back to it. I'd choose Buffy."
Xander didn't seem to have anything to say.
"I'm not telling you that we have to be friends. I'm saying that you have to tolerate me and I'll tolerate you." Spike pointed to Buffy, "She has been you're friend for five years, are you really going to lose her because you don't like her boyfriend?"
Xander looked at Buffy. He didn't want to lose his friend. His friends were everything to him; they were his family. And if she wanted to be with Spike, well the vampire was right, it didn't matter how much he disapproved, it wasn't his choice. He wasn't prepared to lose. "You're right. I'm sorry Buffy."
Buffy smiled at him and she moved forward as he hugged her. She knew that he didn't like Spike, but then Spike didn't like him either. They would just have to get on. They were both important to her.
I'm trying to post here quite regularly, one of my readers said that she would explode if I didn't and I really don't want that to happen, (Sesen Obsidian, you know who you are).
Buffy and Spike stood facing the door of the Magic Box. They were trying to steel themselves to actually walk through it. Spike wasn't exactly keen to admit it but he was almost as terrified as Buffy obviously was. He was going to be a big part of her life. He got that, but the people through this door were a big part of her life too. They had been for five years. They had talked before, about what they were going to say; how they were going to say it . . .
"Look just explain to them that I love you and you love me and we're together."
Spike nodded, "You know what Xander's going to be like though don't you?"
Buffy nodded and closed her eyes; "I'm trying desperately not to think about it if you must know. He's going to start in about how many times you tried to kill us, how you're a soulless demon, you know the usual."
"Well he accepted Angel eventually didn't he pet?"
Buffy shrugged, "He never really did. That was the thing, he tolerated him because I was in love with him, but I don't think that he ever truly accepted him."
"Well, I don't want to be best friends. All he has to do is tolerate me, and I'll tolerate him."
"He's going to really focus on the whole, 'you tried to kill us' thing. And 'what happens if the chip stops working'."
Spike felt himself tense, "That's still an issue is it?" Didn't she know? Even if it did, he wouldn't hunt anymore. He'd lose her and she was much more important than feeding, even if something happened to her, he wouldn't do it. He knew that she would hate it. He would not do anything to cause her to feel anything but love for him. He just wouldn't. Didn't she get that?
Buffy smiled sympathetically and sat across his lap straddling his waist, "I know that you love me. It's not an issue anymore. I trust you. I'm just saying that they might not. It's not a question of whether I can deal it's a question of whether you can."
Spike relaxed and wrapped his arms around her waist, "I can deal. There are only two of your friends whose opinions I give a damn about. The witches. And after I helped with Tara, they kinda like me."
Buffy smiled, "Yeah, you were definitely the good guy."
Spike frowned and pretended to sulk, "You mean I'm not bad anymore?"
Buffy lowered her head to kiss him, "Don't be stupid. Of course, you're bad.
* * * Spike proving how bad he was had made them late for the Scooby meeting. Now they were still trying to steal themselves to open the door, "We could just run away? Join the French foreign legion? How does that sound?"
Buffy was only half kidding but Spike was apparently having none of it, "They're kinda big on the whole going out in the day. And what about you're mom, your sister, the Hell mouth, glory, the Scoobies . . ."
"Yeah yeah okay." Buffy put her hand and the door handle, "You ready?"
Spike took a deep unneeded breathe and nodded.
Buffy opened the door and they stepped inside.
* * *
Xander was quite anxiously waiting for Buffy and Riley to arrive. Giles hadn't told them anything except that they would be coming round tonight. He simply wouldn't tell them anything else, but he had that look. That look he got when one of them was doing something that he didn't approve of. Xander was worried. Obviously, Buffy had caught up with Riley or Giles wouldn't have said that 'they' were going to be here, but why was he being so secretive.
* * *
Willow had a feeling that she knew what was going on. There was no way that after the way Buffy had been talking about Spike that things could continue as they had been. Had something happened? Was it possible, was 'they' Buffy and . . . Spike. In a way, Willow hoped so. In a very warped kind of way, she liked the blonde vampire. He of course had threatened their lives, but he really did seem to have changed. And he loved Buffy. Any fool could see. And Willow had the feeling that Buffy really did love him. And Spike was . . .well there really wasn't anything other word for it . . .Spike was cool. Willow knew that she could get to like him very much.
* * *
Xander's head snapped up as soon as the door opened. He looked as though he had seen a ghost. Buffy took a very deep breath, "Hey guys."
Xander took in the fact that Buffy's hand was in Spike's, "Buff? What is going on? Where's Riley."
Buffy looked at them all and sat down at the table with Spike next to her, "Guys I need to tell you some stuff. Now this is kinda hard for me so just let me talk and then . . .well we'll have a Q & A session later. Okay, first off all Riley's gone. He left last night. I told him to go because I told him that I didn't love him. He took it pretty well and went off with the military. Second. I told Riley to go because for a while now I've been in love with someone else. And that person is Spike." Buffy took in the looks on the faces of the people around her, people that she loved. Giles looked stressed but accepting. Willow smiled at Buffy, proving that at least she had one of her best friends support. Tara's face showed a pleasant blandness. Anya was smiling pleasantly but Xander's face showed absolute horror. "I don't expect you all to like it. But I do expect you to accept it. Because you all love me."
A stunned silence followed. Willow was the first to actually move. She stood up and walked round the table to wrap her arms around Buffy. Buffy was surprised but she didn't hesitate to return her friends embrace, "Congrats Buffy."
Buffy smiled at her friend with tears of gratitude in her eyes but it was what Willow didn't next that shocked everyone. She walked round Buffy had bending down she hugged Spike. Spike was as shocked as anyone but he returned it awkwardly, Willow stood and took one of his hands, "Because Buffy trusts you, I do to unless you give me a reason not to. There is a condition though."
Spike frowned but nodded, "What's that?"
"If you hurt my friend, I'll take out my voodoo doll and make you sorry that you're a man."
Spike smirked, "I can live with that."
* * *
Xander couldn't believe that this was happening. He had thought that she would have gone to Riley and that they would have made up. But instead, she had gone and fallen in love with the blood sucking undead! Xander stood, "Buffy?"
Buffy had been smiling at Willow but now she looked to him, "Yes?"
"Are you out of your mind?"
Buffy flinched at the harshness of his tone, "No Xander. I'm not out of my mind. I love him, we don't always choose these things, and I know that the vampire, slayer combination isn't ideal but it's the way that it's going to be and the way that it is. I want you to tell me that you can accept this."
Xander just stood there shaking his head with his mouth open. Spike stood quickly, eyes flashing just a tinge of yellow, "You won't accept it? Not even for her, not after everything that she's done for you."
Buffy tugged on his arm, "Spike sit down please."
"No Buffy." He spun round again to face Xander, "Has she ever judged you about your decisions? I don't think that she has."
Xander seemed to find his voice, "You're the evil undead, and you want to me to accept that my best friend loves you? What? Isn't a normal guy enough?"
Buffy started to cry, and Spike got angrier, "True I'm the evil undead but in case you haven't notice your girlfriend has been around killing people for a thousand years before I even started. So you've got the jump on me." Spike looked to Anya, "Not trying to offend you love."
Anya just smiled, "I'm not offended. It's al the truth."
Xander glared at the vampire, "She's not a demon anymore."
"Yeah and that was stolen from her. I don't kill anymore and that was stolen from me. But even if I had the choice, I wouldn't go back to it. I'd choose Buffy."
Xander didn't seem to have anything to say.
"I'm not telling you that we have to be friends. I'm saying that you have to tolerate me and I'll tolerate you." Spike pointed to Buffy, "She has been you're friend for five years, are you really going to lose her because you don't like her boyfriend?"
Xander looked at Buffy. He didn't want to lose his friend. His friends were everything to him; they were his family. And if she wanted to be with Spike, well the vampire was right, it didn't matter how much he disapproved, it wasn't his choice. He wasn't prepared to lose. "You're right. I'm sorry Buffy."
Buffy smiled at him and she moved forward as he hugged her. She knew that he didn't like Spike, but then Spike didn't like him either. They would just have to get on. They were both important to her.