A/N : This fic went to the back burner for a while due to huge demand for more of Our Little Secret, apologies to anyone who's been waiting for more of this. Thanks to the reviewers of the previous chapter; SweetBitter, Spuffyfan4eva, WVUChrisF, rubi-elektra, Spikes Bint, wings(of)paper, SlayGal, toya96 spikeswife1 (sorry, not much in the way of action here, just love!). Here's the next chapter, it's not very long and to be honest it's kind of just filler before the next more important chapter...anyway, I hope you like it anyway, it was definitely fun to write!
(For disclaimer, etc. - see chapter 1)
Chapter 14
"Woah, honeys. This is just too much to take in" Lorne exclaimed as the LA gang sat around the conference room table, looking across at Buffy and Spike who stood together.
"I did sort of expect it I suppose" Wesley admitted.
The Slayer and the vampire had just announced their plans to go back to England together. Of course they'd expected Buffy to go home soon but now she and Spike were, for want of a better word, an item, and he too would be living in England, at the Slayer Training Centre it seemed.
"Well, I had no clue this was even going on!" the green demon pointed out, "You got your Slayer/Vamp updates in little bitty bite size chunks, I got the happy, the sad, and the Lord-only-knows-what thrown at me and not even a minute to swallow!"
"Well, I think it's great that you two are so happy together" Fred smiled as she got up from her seat and moved to hug first Spike then Buffy, "You totally deserve it. Although, I'll miss having you around" she told the vampire she had come to have such affection for.
"Oh come on" Lorne complained as Wesley and Gunn also got hugged by Buffy and shook hands with Spike, "Don't leave me out of the happy here, I was just a little shocked is all"
"We're sorry to shock you, Lorne" Buffy smiled, trying not to laugh at how distressed he was getting about it, it must be kinda of disheartening to be the only empath demon there and yet the only one who didn't know about the latest development of feelings "We didn't expect this to happen so fast ourselves, it just kinda did" she explained as she hugged him before going back to Spike and loving the way he automatically put his arm around her shoulders. With a smile she slipped her own arm around his back and leant her head against his shoulder.
"It's gonna be damn quiet around here without you man" Gunn grinned to Spike who gave him a nasty look that was clearly fake.
"S'pose I'll miss you buggers too" he admitted with a shrug and Wesley smiled.
"I'm sure you'll do just fine without us Spike" the Englishman commented, "although as Gunn says, it will be ridiculously quiet without you around, and I dare say it will take time to adjust to being without one of our best warriors...two in fact" he realised, his smile fading slightly.
In all the joy of Buffy and Spike's love and happiness, Angel had gone briefly to the back of their minds, now he was back and as stupid as it was a small part of each of them felt guilty for being happy when he was gone.
"Wherever his soul is now, it'll be a good place" Spike said, knowing that everyone of them was thinking the same thing he was, "And I know he'd want us to be happy" he added, receiving nods from everyone. Their letters from the original souled vampire had told them that. "Well, he'd want you lot to be happy at least" Spike smirked, "dunno so much that he'd be joyous about me and the Slayer here getting loved up"
"I think he's smiling down on us" Buffy told him and the others, "All of us, no matter what we do"
The group all agreed, it was much more pleasant to think of their friend that way.
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It was a couple of hours later, and after the gang had digested the news of Buffy and Spikes departure and all got themselves some breakfast, the Slayer and the vampire had headed back up to her room. Buffy had called home briefly to say Spike would be coming back with her in a couple of days. The news was met with little surprise, it seemed they'd all kind of expected it, and Buffy was a little shocked that Giles or Xander hadn't been more against the idea. It nagged at her a bit but she didn't want to mention it, why question things when they were so good? There had already been too many reasons for arguments and tears in her young life. When everyone was prepared to get along, and forgive and forget, perhaps it was best to just leave well alone.
As soon as she'd got off the phone, Buffy had continued to tell Spike about her life in England, the Slayer Training Centre and her work in general. For the most part he looked suitably interested in her words, but as usual he began to get restless and bored. He had his arms around his girl, holding her close as she rattled on about the Scoobies and such, and he liked that she was eager for him to catch up on her life but he had other things on his mind too, made clear to her by the way his fingers began to play with the edges of her clothes.
He breathed in the scent of her hair as he began to kiss a path down the side of her face and her eyes fell closed at the feel of his gentle touch. He was suddenly aware she'd stopped talking, though he wasn't intentionally doing it to make her shut up or anything, he just felt the need to kiss her and touch her and be close to her. He'd spent such a long time with her keeping him at arms length and then he'd stayed away from her completely these past five years. Finally they were here together, completely in love. He knew how fragile life was, even his own un-life, and he wasn't going to waste so much time with words when he had the chance to be close to the woman he loved like this.
His lips soon found hers and deep kissing ensued, eliciting moans from both of them as they shifted position and they lay down together. His body on top of hers pressed her gently down into the cushioned seats as their hands began to explore each other again...
A rapping on the door shattered the beautiful spell for Buffy and she broke off the kiss.
"There's someone at the door" she said breathlessly, but Spike refused to let this moment end so soon and quickly recaptured her lips.
The person beyond the door knocked again and Buffy wriggled away a little.
"Ignore it" Spike begged trying to distract her but she was not to be reasoned with.
"It might be important" she told him mock sternly, putting both hands on his chest and pushing him gently off her. She stood up from the couch and made for the door, leaving a pouting Spike behind.
"You're no fun, Summers" he complained, but she just smiled and rolled her eyes at him. Sometimes he was such a baby about things.
"Hello honeybun" Lorne grinned as Buffy opened the door, but the smile soon slipped from his face as he entered the room, "Ooh, I'm picking up some seriously wobbly vibes in here" he noted, looking at Spike then Buffy, "Did I interrupt something?" he asked worriedly.
"Yes you bloody did" Spike snapped half-heartedly as Buffy went to sit beside him, trying not to laugh at what appeared to be sulking.
"It's fine Lorne, honestly" the Slayer told her demon friend, trying to placate Spike with a hand on his knee and a smile that promised normal service would be resumed after this short interlude.
"Well, just two shakes and I'll be right out of your hair anywho" Lorne promised, "I just wanted to make a suggestion. The guys and me, we were thinking a bon voyage type shindig might be in order seein' as how you two gorgeous people are leaving us for greener pastures so soon"
"Do you know how long it's been since I went to a party?" Buffy asked rhetorically, it had been a very long time! "I am totally in, what about you sweetie?" she asked the vampire beside her. He smiled like an idiot at the pet name she used. He didn't remember ever being anyone's sweetie and whilst it made him sound more than a little on the poof-y side, he didn't really mind, not when she said it.
"Could be fun" he conceded, "'Specially if I get to dance with the most beautiful girl in the world" he added, leaning in to kiss her briefly.
"So it's settled then" Lorne smiled and clapped his hands in glee, "Tonight, seven thirty at Caritas, the new and especially sparkly version which you have yet to see, cutie" he gushed to Buffy before catching the look Spike was giving him, the get-out-of-here-so-I-can-kiss-my-woman-senseless look, and the demon quickly backed up towards the door "yeah so, I'll see you guys later" he added quickly as he disappeared.
"Thank the powers that be, he's gone" Spike sighed, immediately diving back on his girlfriend and resuming their earlier position, which she had no problem with at all. He had his hand inside the back of her blouse and was just expertly unhooking the clasp of her bra one handed when there was another knock on the door.
"For bloody hell's sake" the vampire shouted in annoyance as he sat himself and Buffy back up, re-fastening what he recently un-fastened, "Can't the wankers leave us alone for ten minutes!" he complained. Buffy stood up and made for the door, planning to get rid of the person on the other side as fast as possible. In truth she was just about as disappointed as her lover that they'd been interrupted again, she just didn't get quite so obviously mad about it as he did.
"Buffy, is Spike in there with you?" Wesley asked as the door opened.
"Er, yeah" the Slayer asked frowning a little, "Is something wrong?"
Those words prompted Spike to appear at the door beside her, running his hands back through his hair to make it stay down. For reasons he didn't understand at all, Buffy's hands seemed to like being in his hair when they were getting intimate and she made a right bloody mess of his style!
"What's up, Wes?" he asked his English friend.
"There's a young man in the reception area" he explained, "He says his name is Connor and that he needs to speak to you...should I know what this is about?" he asked warily.
"Nah, it's fine" Spike told him, moving to fetch his coat and pulling it back on, "Just something me and the Slayer here have to deal with before we go" he explained as they went down to see the boy.
Of course it presented a problem, if they were going to England they were leaving the boy with no-one to turn to, and Spike had promised his old grand-sire that he'd be a helping hand to his son.
'Why does it have to be so bloody complicated?' he asked himself silently, as he and Buffy travelled down in the elevator together, realising his chances of getting a good shag in this afternoon had just flown completely out of the window.
To Be Continued...
A/N2 : The next chapter will hopefully be longer and more interetsing than this, still if you liked this reviews are always gratefully recieved :-)
[A new chapter of Our Little Secret has also been posted tonight]