Moving on

Chapter 6: Confrontation

By: Rogue-Slayer13

Summary: See pervious chapters.

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Fred woke up to the sound of a phone ringing somewhere in her apartment. She looked at Spike who was asleep on the floor next to the couch. The two had been watching a movie and had fallen asleep. Fred carefully got off of the couch, as not to step on Spike and began searching for the phone. She could tell by the ring that it wasn't her phone, so she figured Spike must have a cell phone. Fred quickly found Spike's jacket and the source of the ringing.

"Hello?"

"Uh, hey, is Spike there?" Buffy was shocked to have a woman answer the phone.

"May I ask who's calling?"

"I'm Buffy, Spike was supposed to call me back when he got home and it's like noon now so I asked Owen for his number."

"Okay, let me get him for you." Fred put her thumb over the bottom half of the phone as a sort of makeshift hold button.

Fred walked back over to Spike as gently nudged him with her foot. "Spike, Spike wake-up."

"What is it Luv?" Spike as he sat up asked.

"You have a phone call."

"Who is it?" Spike asked as Fred handed him the phone.

"Buffy," Fred replied.

"Ello?" Spike answered holding the phone up to his ear.

"Why's there a woman answering your phone?" Buffy demanded.

"I was asleep so Fred got the phone for me."

"You spent the night with her!" Buffy's voice was full of outrage.

"We fell asleep watching a movie, why do you care anyway?"

"Why do I care! I thought we had something special!"

"So that's why you hooked up with The Immortal?" Spike shot back.

Fred could tell that things were going to get ugly so she went ahead and went in her room to get changed. When Fred came back out of the bedroom, she found a very depressed Spike sitting on the couch.

"How'd things go?" Fred asked cautiously.

"She wants to get together tonight for dinner," Spike replied.

"Oh, like a date?"

"God I hope not," Spike commented.

Fred brightened up at this. "I guess you two have a lot to talk about."

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"So, did you have fun at your little sleep over last night?" Buffy asked sarcastically.

"As a matter of fact I did," Spike replied as he took a drink of his water.

"How can you do this to me? You follow me around for months saying that you love me and then the first chance you get you run off with some bimbo who works for Angel."

"I'm going to ignore that rude comment about Fred for now and a dog can only be kicked so many times before it runs away," Spike pointed out.

"I thought you loved me." Buffy looked across the table at Spike.

"I did love you Buffy, but you never loved me back. You can't expect me to wait around forever, especially now that I don't have forever to wait around."

Buffy got quiet for a moment and then looked up at Spike with tears in her eyes. "You right, I had something really great and I let it get away," Buffy said sadly. "I guess it's time for us to move on."

"We can still be friends," Spike offered. "That's one relationship we haven't royally screwed up yet."

"Friends, I like that." Buffy gave a faint smile.

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Fred was watching TV when someone knocked on her door. She got up and answered it too find Spike standing on the other side. "Spike, what are you doing here? I thought you had to talk to Buffy."

"I did, we had dinner and we talked some things over," Spike replied.

"Really? Did you guys get everything sorted out that you needed to?" Fred asked as Spike stepped into the apartment and she closed the door behind him.

"Uh huh, she said that it was time for us to move on," Spike replied.

"That must've been hard."

"Not too bad. She moved on a long time ago and I've already moved on." Spike looked over at Fred.

It took Fred a second to catch onto what he was talking about. Fred smiled and threw her arms around Spike and gave him a quick kiss.

"Moving on's nice," Spike said.

"I thought you might like that," Fred replied with a smile.

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The End

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