Spike smiled down at Dawn as she slept soundly in her bed, her chest rising slightly with every breath she took. Some how he knew where ever she was, she was happy and safe. He missed her more then anything. Being in this house didn't help at all. She was everywhere, in everything he touched. Dawn was looking more and more like her everyday and it was killing him. He moved to the door and flicked off the light, looking back at Dawn one last time before closing the door as quietly as he could.
He made his way down the stairs and to the couch, he sat down getting comfortable and grabbed the remote. He started to flip through the channels randomly, until finding something he wanted to watch. With a satisfied sigh, he leaned back and started to watch the TV show, slowly drifting to sleep.
Willow walked into the house, Tara and The Buffy-bot behind her. She smiled seeing Spike asleep on the couch. "I'll wake him!" Buffy-bot said cheerfully moving to the vampire and poking him on the chest.
"Hmm, Buffy." He moaned softly, turning over so he was facing the couch and away from the Scoobies.
Tara and Willow exchanged a sad smile, "Buffy, why don't you go upstairs, looks like Spike's staying the night." Willow said with a smile and Buffy-bot nodded with a grin and walked up the stairs and to her room.
"I'll go and get him some blankets." Tara offered, "You're all demon gooey." She said with a smile, "You should get in the shower." Tara watched the more powerful witch walk up the stairs and into the bathroom.
Tara sighed and walked to the closet, she grabbed a comforter and brought it to where Spike was and covered him with it. Tara rolled her eyes as she heard him growl low in his throat and murmur, "That's right, kiddies, the Big Bad."
The next Morning
"Is he ever going to wake up?" Dawn whined looking toward the living room where the blond vampire still lay sleeping on the couch. "You'd think as soon as you opened the pancake batter he would be up and kickin'." Dawn said with a small laugh.
"He does like pancakes." Tara said with a smile sitting down next to the Buffy-bot. "Do you think we should wake him?"
"No need for that." Came a male, English voice. The girls turned and noticed him standing at the door; a black, tight, T-shirt clinging to his muscular chest, his hair ruffled, he reached up and scratched his chest through his T-shirt. "So, what's for breakfast?" Spike asked sitting down next to Dawn, who smiled up at the blond vampire.
"Eggs and pancakes." Willow answered with a smile as she cooked it. "Funny shapes or round?"
Spike smirked, "What ever comes out, love." He said running his fingers through his bleached locks, he looked over at the Buffy-bot who'd been staring at him since he'd walked into the room. He hated her gaze; he hated how much she looked like Buffy.
Xander walked through the door with a smile on his face, "I come to the house after a hard day at work!" He said congratulating himself.
"Hey, whelp, it's like twelve in the morning," Spike told Xander with an eyebrow raised.
"Okay, so maybe I'm about to GO to a HARD day a work... er, or shut up fang face!" Xander huffed.
Spike smiled, "Sure thing,"
Buffy-bot looked at Xander angrily; "You shouldn't talk to Spike like that!" She snapped, "You should trust his brain just as much as his god-like body." Buffy said giving Spike a glimmering smile.
Spike looked down at the table, then looked up at Willow fire burning in his eyes, "Thought I bloody told you to get that stuff out of her system," Spike growled.
Willow looked at the angry vampire, "I did, or... I thought I did." She looked at the Buffy-bot, "Some of her wires must be crossed, I could have sworn I reprogrammed her." Willow said.
Spike clenched his jaw, "Well then, Red, you're going to have to do it again."
Dawn looked up at Spike, her big green eyes catching his ice blue ones in a comforting gaze. She smiled at him, in a sisterly way. "I'm gonna go back to the crypt." He said pushing the seat back and moving into the living room where he grabbed his duster. "See ya, bit."
"BYE SPIKE!" Dawn shrieked as she heard the door close.
The Summers House Night
Dawn came out of the kitchen holding a cup and walked down the hallway, "So, my homeroom teacher, Mr. Lefcort, was like, 'Your sister's a example to us all.' Hmm! She wanted to make it national Buffy day." Dawn announced. She put her glass on the coffee table and sat on the sofa next to Spike. A pizza box and a plate with a half-eaten slice of pizza on it, adorning the table.
Spike nods, "Makes sense."
Dawn turns to him, "It does?"
"She responded to Buffy-Bot because a robot is predictable, boring. Perfect teachers pet. That's all schools are, you know. Just factories, spewing out mindless little automatons."
Dawn raises her eyebrows with a smile.
Spike continued quickly. "Who go on to be ...very... valuable and productive members of society, and you should go." Spike said his voice growing soft, "Because Buffy... she would want you too." Spike whispered looking down at the cup of water he had in his hand.
Dawn nodded, "Check. One mindless automaton coming up."
They sit in silence for a minute.
"So, uh, what do you fancy, bit, uh, game of rummy?" He asked getting up, placing his cup down and walking over to the desk.
"Well, uh, Willow and Tara said they'd be back early." She watches as Spike opens a drawer and starts looking for the cards. "You really don't need to hang, you know, if you're bored."
"I'm not, and yeah, I do." Spike said, grabbing some cards from the drawer, he closes it and pushes a chair opposite from Dawn.
"But I'm fine alone. It's not like anyone's after me." Dawn explained. "I'm not the key anymore, or if I am, I don't open anything... remember?"
Spike sighed and his reply was soft, "I'm not leaving you by yourself, so forget it." He said sitting in the chair.
"I'm just saying--"
Spike slams the cards down on the table, hard, stopping her from what she was going to say and making her jump. He looked away from her, "No, I'm not leaving you... to get hurt..." He told her his tone softening, "Not again." A brief moment of silence and Spike looked down at the cards, "Now deal."
Dawn nodded and picked up the cards.
TBC ...
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