Away From It All
Chapter 6: Sleep Over
By: Rogue-Slayer13
Summary: See pervious chapters.
Disclaimer: The characters of Btvs and Ats belong to Joss Whedon. Spike's family members and other character you've never heard of before are mine.
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"Do you think your mom would mind if we all crashed here tonight?" asked Anya bluntly as Spike and Angel came back outside.
"I don't think she would," said Spike as he sat down on the steps next to Xander. "We could probably crash out in the living room or something."
Spike's family had retained their old house upon their resurrection, so they had a nice three story Victorian style house with a wrap around porch and plenty of room for five still at home children and their friends.
"Great, we can watch movies and eat a lot of junk food," said Willow.
"What about your sisters?" asked Xander. "Will they want to come down too or will they want to have some girl time? I don't mind either way."
"They'll probably want to spend most of the night talking to Kathryn and plotting a way to corrupt her," said Spike.
"Corrupt her?" asked Fred.
"Yeah, they're a big part in the punk rock revitalization effort and they want to share it with Kathryn," said Angel.
"Punk never died if you ask me. It just got way to main stream with all of the posers and then when they lost interest you were just left with the hardcore punkards," said Anya.
"Exactly!" Spike put in his ante in the poker game that was still going on between Xander, Gunn, Oz, and himself.
"So, we're going for the standard movies, pizza, chips, popcorn, ice cream, soda, and anything else not nailed down kind of night?" asked Gunn.
"Yep," said Faith.
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"Mum, can Faith and the guys stay tonight?" asked Spike as the group finally came inside due to the rain that was beginning to fall.
"If you don't make too much noise," replied Anne as she came into the kitchen. "Are you all staying for dinner too?"
Spike looked at his friends and watched as Xander made an exaggerated gesture of licking his lips and rubbing his stomach.
"I think Harris is trying to motion that he'd like to, either that, or its some crude hand gesture," said Spike.
"Let's hope it's the former," replied Anne with a smile.
"I like your cooking Mrs. Edwards," said Xander.
"Well thank you Xander," said Anne as Spike lead the group out of the kitchen.
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"What's with the sleeping bags and junk food?" asked Mary as she came down the stairs with Kathryn and Eryn.
"Yeah, we ate not even an hour ago, you guys couldn't possibly be hungry again," said Kathryn.
"Or still, I watched you eat half a pan of stuffing alone, Xander," added Eryn.
"Ha, very funny," replied Xander as he went about piling the coffee table with various bags of junk food. "If you must know, we're having a little soirée."
"Why weren't we invited?" asked Mary.
"Would you want to hang out with your brother and his friends?"
"Not really, but it's the thought that counts," said Eryn.
"Well, we knew from pervious experience that you wouldn't want to come so we saved on paper and passed up the invitations."
"When'd you become Mr. Money Conscious?" asked Kathryn.
"When I was in charge of groceries at my house for a week."
"Ooh, a whole week? You're such a big boy now Xander," said Mary as she, Eryn, and Kathryn walked out of the living room laughing.
"Spike! Your sisters are mean!"
"Get over it," said Spike as he came into the living room with more food.
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"We can't possibly eat all of this."
Fred looked at the coffee table that was groaning under the weight of four bottles of soda, four bags of chips, a box of doughnuts, a package of cookies, a bowl of popcorn, and a bag of assorted candy.
"That's not even all of it," said Gunn as he and Oz finished moving the last of the furniture out of the way.
"Yeah, we've got ice cream in the freezer," said Oz.
"Do we also have large quantities of Pepto-Bismol?" asked Faith.
"Yeah, I'm sensing a major stomachache will be happening later this evening," said Willow.
"We don't need any medicine, we're men," said Xander proudly.
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"Oh God," groaned Xander as he rolled around on the floor. "I'm sorry! I'll never eat so much food again!"
"Xander, we aren't even half way through our first movie," said Faith.
"The pain! ," moaned Xander as he curled up into the fetal position.
"I'll go get the Pepto," said Fred as she got up from her spot on the couch and headed for the bathroom.
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"Sweet bubble gum flavored relief," sighed Xander as he poured a good amount of Pepto-Bismol down his throat.
"Now that Harris' stomach crisis is over, can we get back to the movie?" asked Angel.
"Yeah," said Spike as he took the DVD off pause.
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Samuel came down stairs to find the living room over run with bodies. Xander and Anya were curled up on the love seat, Gunn was lying in one of the chairs with his feet over the side, Spike, Fred, and Faith were curled up on the couch, Angel was in the other chair, and Willow and Oz were on the floor. Sam continued on his way through the living room, careful not to disturb anyone and headed into the kitchen.
"Mum, are you aware that we have a living room full of sleeping people?" asked Sam as he took a seat next to his sisters and Kathryn.
"Yes, your brother's friends stayed the night." Anne set a plate with scrambled eggs, bacon, and pancakes in front of Sam.
"When did they go to bed?"
"They were still up when we came down for some ice cream," said Kathryn.
"Yeah, we practically had to pry the chocolate chip out of Xander's hands." Eryn poured syrup on her pancakes.
"That's sounds like him."
"I'm just glad that Spike and Angel didn't kill each other." Mary reached across the table for some orange juice.
"Maybe they did," replied Sam. "A dead man and a sleeping one look enough alike."
"Don't talk like that," scolded Anne.
"Sorry mum," replied Sam.
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Spike and the others woke up a little bit after Sam came down. They went into the now full kitchen to get something to eat.
"Geez, you guys need a bigger kitchen," said Anya as she made her through the five-inch gap between Eryn's chair and the wall.
"Or a smaller family." Sam looked at Spike and then at Bridget who was sitting down next to Kathryn.
"Sam, you are to cherish the time you get to spend with your brother and sister before they move out," said Anne.
"Yeah, you never spent anytime with Thomas and once he left home you complained about never seeing him," added James.
"Sides, Spike's outta 'ere in how many weeks?" asked Eryn.
"Two," replied Gunn.
"I envy you," said Bridget. "You get your own place with Gunn, Oz, and Xander, while I'm still 'ere at home."
"You'll be out in a year," said Mary.
"Yeah, and then I'll get your room," added Eryn.
"I feel the love in this family," said Faith as she grabbed a piece of toast off Spike's plate.
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To Be Continued . . .