Title: It Just Won't Quit

Disclaimer: Not mine... Not that I'd want to 'own' them... keep maybe...

Notes: More randomness. Really shouldn't repeatedly listen to songs... The song is Meat Loaf 'It Just Won't Quit' from the album 'Bat Out Of Hell II Back Into Hell'. I thought it suited the situation well.

Spike was glad Harmony was out and he sank down into his leather chair, sighing as he recalled, for the twentieth time that day, his dream. Since dreaming of the Slayer and waking sweating and begging that it wasn't true Spike had been restless to the point he had simply driven Harmony out because his pacing had got on her nerves. Not bothering to stand he stretched out a leg and turn on the television with the edge of his boot. He hoped it would distract him but clearly Harmony had been fiddling with the settings because a music station flared into life.

"Oh bloody hell," Spike swore before the music hit him.

And I never really sleep anymore
And I always get those dangerous dreams
And I never get a minute of peace
And I gotta wonder what it means
And I gotta wonder what it means

Spike wanted to turn it off but it got under his skin and he couldn't move.

Maybe it's nothing and I'm under the weather
Maybe it's just one of those bugs going round
Maybe I'm under a spell and it's magic
Maybe there's a witch doctor with an office in town

His life was so unfair. What higher power had decided to put on one of the songs that would cut straight into him?

Is this a blessing? Or is it a curse?
Does it get any better? Can it get any worse?
Will it go on forever? Is it over tonight?
Does it come with the darkness? Does it bring out the light?
Is it richer than diamonds?
Or just a little cheaper than spit?
I don't know what it is but it just won't quit

I don't know what it is but it just won't quit

Spike frowned. It was just a song and it couldn't tell him anything...


And there used to be such an easy way of living
And there used to be every hope in the world
And I used to get everything that I went after
But there never used to be this girl
No there never used to be this girl

It couldn't be real. Not real. It was a lie, a stupid, meaningless dream...

Maybe I'm crazy and I'm losing my senses
Maybe I'm possessed by a spirit or such
Maybe I'm desperate and I got no defences.

Can you get me a prescription for that one perfect touch?

Spike shivered as an unwanted image of Buffy touching him, flittered in front of his eyes.


Is this a blessing? Or is it a curse?
Does it get any better? Can it get any worse?
Will it go on forever? Is it over tonight?
Does it come with the darkness? Does it bring out the light?
It's a stairway to heaven or a subway going down to the pits,

(Ohh is it some kind of love?)
I don't know what it is but it just won't quit
I don't know what it is but it just won't quit.....

Spike ground his palms into his eyes, trying to shake the images away. Love? Was it really true?

Is this a blessing? Or is it a curse?
Does it get any better? Can it get any worse?
Will it go on forever? Is it over tonight?
Does it come with the darkness? Does it bring out the light?
Is it richer than diamonds?
Or just a little cheaper than spit?
I don't know what it is but it just won't quit
I don't know what it is but it just won't quit

Maybe it shouldn't quit. Maybe it wasn't supposed to...

There was a time when nothing ever really mattered
There was a time when there was nothing I didn't know
There was a time when I knew just what I was living for
There was a time and the time was so long ago
There was a time and the time was so long ago
And I never really sleep anymore........

"Oh god I love her. I love the Slayer!"