When In Rome
Thanks for the great reviews, since ya'll gave me a warm fuzzy feeling, I'm giving something back to you! Read on!
10 Truth Or Dare
The door dramatically burst open. Andrew stood in the frame breathing heavily. "I have been insulted!" he cried charging in. Then he noticed the circle of faces staring at him "Oh sorry, didn't mean to interrupt." he retracted, embarrassment replacing dramatic indignation.
"Hello, Andrew." Buffy sighed rolling her eyes. And that's when he noticed it. The Scoobies were scattered throughout the little hotel room, and among them was Spike.
"Oh, the world is so beautiful!" He exclaimed running up and hugging Spike. "Your part of the world again! You've come clean! Freed from the shackles of lies and secrecy, you can once again walk among the living."
"Wait, you knew he was back and you didn't say anything?" Buffy asked, pissed off.
Andrew giggled nervously "B-b-but h-he told m-meÐ".
Buffy interrupted him, laughing. "I'm just playing with you Andrew. Spike already told me everything."
Andrew first laughed too, relieved. Then he realized he'd been duped and got upset whining "Hey!"
After a while the Scoobies resumed what they had been up to before Andrew had burst in. Buffy was telling Spike about everything that had been going on, some of it he had already heard from Xander, but he couldn't tell a story like her. She made everything sound like it was the most important thing ever, at least to him anyway. He was so happy just to listen to her talk, and to watch her and make her laugh. Meanwhile, Dawn was apparently relegating Willow and Xander with a funny story, until something she said reminded Willow of something that happened to her and Xander in the fifth grade, and she set about trying to remind Xander about it. Then Dawn just looked at them blankly.
Andrew felt left out.
"Hey guys! Guess what?" Andrew called out. After a while Spike sarcastically called out "Barry Manilow finally busted you for stealing his wardrobe?"
Andrew took a deep breath. His therapist said he should work on not always needing to be the center of attention. But heyÐ he decidedÐ that was a work in progress. "Let's play truth or dare!" he suggested.
He was surprised at how little convincing it took to get them all to play. "Okay, I'll start because it was my idea!" Andrew said enthusiastically. "Who wants me to ask them a question?"
"Andrew, that's not how it works. " Buffy informed him "You just ask someone truth or dare, whether they want you to or not."
"Okay Brainy the Andrew's self esteem slayer, truth or dare?" he asked Buffy smugly.
"Dare." She said without losing a beat.
"Hmmmn..." Andrew said pondering the situation.
"Ooo! Tell her to make out with Willow... or Dawn! Tell her to make out with Dawn!" Xander said nearly panting with excitment.
"Ew, she's my sister, sicko." Buffy said crinkling her face with disgust.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." He recanted, embarrassed. "You can't blame me! There are linoleum floors!"
"What does that have to do with *anything*?" Buffy asked confused.
"Okay! I have it!" Andrew interrupted "Exchange an article of clothing with someone else!"
Buffy giggled and reached across the circle and pulled one of Dawn's socks off. Dawn mildly complained and Andrew sighed "I tried, man." He said turning to Xander.
"Okay. My turn. Uh..." She sat on her choice for a while, but there was really only one person who was really a contender. "Spike, truth or dare?"
"Truth." He answered without skipping a beat "I've got nothing to hide."
Buffy was hoping he'd say dare, she could've told him to take off his shirt or something, but she was almost embarrassed to ask the question she really wanted to know the answer to. "Okay," she finally said "have you, I mean, do you, are youÐ I don't know! Relationships, have any? You know, the romance kind?"
The answer was just as tough for Spike as the question was for Buffy. "Um, well, me and Harm kinda had a thing..."
"I was talking current, Spike, not ages ago." Buffy said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah. Current-ish. But it's over now, we're just friends." Spike said lightly.
"WHAT?!" Buffy asked loudly. Dawn slightly recoiled, great, she thought, more drama. But then suddenly Buffy calmed down, which Dawn knew was also trouble. "You're turn. Ask someone." She said.
"BuffyÐ" Spike tried to continue, but Buffy interrupted.
"Uh, no no no. Let's continue." Buffy said, coolly. Spike sighed. Great. Not even a day and the Slayer was already pissed. Someone call Guiness, this guy must have broken a record.
He looked around the circle of faces trying to choose a questionee "Uh, Willow." Spike said, half heartedly.
"Let's see... dare!" she said excited and ready for action.
"I don't know... make a turnip appear out of thin air."
Willow raised her eyebrows. "A turnip? That's not very scandalous, Spike." She said disappointed.
"So then..." Spike paused, thinking of something better "Do the one thing in all the world you wish you could do."
Willow froze for a moment, and suddenly a turnip appeared on his lap. "The one thing in all the world you want to do is give me a turnip?" Spike asked, raising one eyebrow.
"I can't do that thing. I know, I tried." Willow said, and Spike didn't push any further. He could tell when a person had enough. Willow put on a smile, trying to get back into the game. "Okay Dawnie, choose."
"Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, and my mother says to pick the very best one and Y O U spells you!" Dawn said tapping her designer Italian boots on every beat. "Truth won." She said.
"Okay, have you kissed any boys." Willow asked.
"That's such a stupid question." Dawn lamented "You already know that. Remember that vamp football playing guy."
"Oh, right. Momentary lapse of judgment, that doesn't count. Have you kissed any *Italian* boys?" Willow corrected.
Dawn froze for a moment before saying "I don't have to answer that question. I already did your truth."
Buffy's eyes widened. "Oh my God! You did! You did and you didn't tell me about it! Oh my God!" She freaked.
"It was no big deal." Dawn said exasperated. "He just said 'Lei guarda realmente piacevole, vuole avere i miei bambini?' So I said 'PerchŽ s", ci˜ sembra spettacolare.' And then we ha avuto il sesso."
"What?" Buffy asked.
"She says they screwed like bunnies," Spike answered, and Buffy looked like she was about to explode "But I'm pretty sure she was joking."
"Yes I was joking! Not everyone in here is a slut." Dawn shot back.
"Are you calling me a slut?" Buffy asked outraged.
"Uh huh. Buffy is to slut as peanut butter is to jelly."
"Dawn is to gross as Joan Rivers is to freakish alien hybrid." Buffy retorted.
"Buffy is to a loser as Mary-Kate is to Ashley"
"Dawn is to nerd as ugly is to Dawn."
"Wow, do you guys do this a lot?" Xander, whose eyes (with an "s" he happily noted) had been quickly switching back and forth to watch the current speaker, asked. Their argument had changed from anger to a silly game.
"Kinda." Dawn answered perkily. "Shall we continue with the games. Okay, Andrew. Truth or dare?"
"I don't have anything to hide. I'm an open book. Give me your best shot."
Dawn giggled. "Okay... who's your biggest movie star crush?"
Without out missing a beat Andrew said "Yoda." and then after a quick second of realizing what he said his eyes widened and his hand went over his mouth in surprise.
The Scoobies looked at him oddly. "Did you seriously just say the balding little green dude 'weirdly, who talks'?" Dawn asked.
Andrew gave a nervous chuckle. "I anyone want a soda?" he asked before standing up and bolting out the door.
TBC
Thanks for the great reviews, since ya'll gave me a warm fuzzy feeling, I'm giving something back to you! Read on!
10 Truth Or Dare
The door dramatically burst open. Andrew stood in the frame breathing heavily. "I have been insulted!" he cried charging in. Then he noticed the circle of faces staring at him "Oh sorry, didn't mean to interrupt." he retracted, embarrassment replacing dramatic indignation.
"Hello, Andrew." Buffy sighed rolling her eyes. And that's when he noticed it. The Scoobies were scattered throughout the little hotel room, and among them was Spike.
"Oh, the world is so beautiful!" He exclaimed running up and hugging Spike. "Your part of the world again! You've come clean! Freed from the shackles of lies and secrecy, you can once again walk among the living."
"Wait, you knew he was back and you didn't say anything?" Buffy asked, pissed off.
Andrew giggled nervously "B-b-but h-he told m-meÐ".
Buffy interrupted him, laughing. "I'm just playing with you Andrew. Spike already told me everything."
Andrew first laughed too, relieved. Then he realized he'd been duped and got upset whining "Hey!"
After a while the Scoobies resumed what they had been up to before Andrew had burst in. Buffy was telling Spike about everything that had been going on, some of it he had already heard from Xander, but he couldn't tell a story like her. She made everything sound like it was the most important thing ever, at least to him anyway. He was so happy just to listen to her talk, and to watch her and make her laugh. Meanwhile, Dawn was apparently relegating Willow and Xander with a funny story, until something she said reminded Willow of something that happened to her and Xander in the fifth grade, and she set about trying to remind Xander about it. Then Dawn just looked at them blankly.
Andrew felt left out.
"Hey guys! Guess what?" Andrew called out. After a while Spike sarcastically called out "Barry Manilow finally busted you for stealing his wardrobe?"
Andrew took a deep breath. His therapist said he should work on not always needing to be the center of attention. But heyÐ he decidedÐ that was a work in progress. "Let's play truth or dare!" he suggested.
He was surprised at how little convincing it took to get them all to play. "Okay, I'll start because it was my idea!" Andrew said enthusiastically. "Who wants me to ask them a question?"
"Andrew, that's not how it works. " Buffy informed him "You just ask someone truth or dare, whether they want you to or not."
"Okay Brainy the Andrew's self esteem slayer, truth or dare?" he asked Buffy smugly.
"Dare." She said without losing a beat.
"Hmmmn..." Andrew said pondering the situation.
"Ooo! Tell her to make out with Willow... or Dawn! Tell her to make out with Dawn!" Xander said nearly panting with excitment.
"Ew, she's my sister, sicko." Buffy said crinkling her face with disgust.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." He recanted, embarrassed. "You can't blame me! There are linoleum floors!"
"What does that have to do with *anything*?" Buffy asked confused.
"Okay! I have it!" Andrew interrupted "Exchange an article of clothing with someone else!"
Buffy giggled and reached across the circle and pulled one of Dawn's socks off. Dawn mildly complained and Andrew sighed "I tried, man." He said turning to Xander.
"Okay. My turn. Uh..." She sat on her choice for a while, but there was really only one person who was really a contender. "Spike, truth or dare?"
"Truth." He answered without skipping a beat "I've got nothing to hide."
Buffy was hoping he'd say dare, she could've told him to take off his shirt or something, but she was almost embarrassed to ask the question she really wanted to know the answer to. "Okay," she finally said "have you, I mean, do you, are youÐ I don't know! Relationships, have any? You know, the romance kind?"
The answer was just as tough for Spike as the question was for Buffy. "Um, well, me and Harm kinda had a thing..."
"I was talking current, Spike, not ages ago." Buffy said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah. Current-ish. But it's over now, we're just friends." Spike said lightly.
"WHAT?!" Buffy asked loudly. Dawn slightly recoiled, great, she thought, more drama. But then suddenly Buffy calmed down, which Dawn knew was also trouble. "You're turn. Ask someone." She said.
"BuffyÐ" Spike tried to continue, but Buffy interrupted.
"Uh, no no no. Let's continue." Buffy said, coolly. Spike sighed. Great. Not even a day and the Slayer was already pissed. Someone call Guiness, this guy must have broken a record.
He looked around the circle of faces trying to choose a questionee "Uh, Willow." Spike said, half heartedly.
"Let's see... dare!" she said excited and ready for action.
"I don't know... make a turnip appear out of thin air."
Willow raised her eyebrows. "A turnip? That's not very scandalous, Spike." She said disappointed.
"So then..." Spike paused, thinking of something better "Do the one thing in all the world you wish you could do."
Willow froze for a moment, and suddenly a turnip appeared on his lap. "The one thing in all the world you want to do is give me a turnip?" Spike asked, raising one eyebrow.
"I can't do that thing. I know, I tried." Willow said, and Spike didn't push any further. He could tell when a person had enough. Willow put on a smile, trying to get back into the game. "Okay Dawnie, choose."
"Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, and my mother says to pick the very best one and Y O U spells you!" Dawn said tapping her designer Italian boots on every beat. "Truth won." She said.
"Okay, have you kissed any boys." Willow asked.
"That's such a stupid question." Dawn lamented "You already know that. Remember that vamp football playing guy."
"Oh, right. Momentary lapse of judgment, that doesn't count. Have you kissed any *Italian* boys?" Willow corrected.
Dawn froze for a moment before saying "I don't have to answer that question. I already did your truth."
Buffy's eyes widened. "Oh my God! You did! You did and you didn't tell me about it! Oh my God!" She freaked.
"It was no big deal." Dawn said exasperated. "He just said 'Lei guarda realmente piacevole, vuole avere i miei bambini?' So I said 'PerchŽ s", ci˜ sembra spettacolare.' And then we ha avuto il sesso."
"What?" Buffy asked.
"She says they screwed like bunnies," Spike answered, and Buffy looked like she was about to explode "But I'm pretty sure she was joking."
"Yes I was joking! Not everyone in here is a slut." Dawn shot back.
"Are you calling me a slut?" Buffy asked outraged.
"Uh huh. Buffy is to slut as peanut butter is to jelly."
"Dawn is to gross as Joan Rivers is to freakish alien hybrid." Buffy retorted.
"Buffy is to a loser as Mary-Kate is to Ashley"
"Dawn is to nerd as ugly is to Dawn."
"Wow, do you guys do this a lot?" Xander, whose eyes (with an "s" he happily noted) had been quickly switching back and forth to watch the current speaker, asked. Their argument had changed from anger to a silly game.
"Kinda." Dawn answered perkily. "Shall we continue with the games. Okay, Andrew. Truth or dare?"
"I don't have anything to hide. I'm an open book. Give me your best shot."
Dawn giggled. "Okay... who's your biggest movie star crush?"
Without out missing a beat Andrew said "Yoda." and then after a quick second of realizing what he said his eyes widened and his hand went over his mouth in surprise.
The Scoobies looked at him oddly. "Did you seriously just say the balding little green dude 'weirdly, who talks'?" Dawn asked.
Andrew gave a nervous chuckle. "I anyone want a soda?" he asked before standing up and bolting out the door.
TBC