Chapter 3
Sunnydale - Same Time
"Dawn get up! You're going to make me late." Buffy Summers yelled up the stairs to her sister, who she knew was still in bed. It was Friday, the last day of school before summer vacation.
"Alright all ready." Dawn yelled back. Buffy shook her head and went back to making her lunch.
"Mornin' pet." A sexy British voice said behind her. Sexy? Where did that come from? Buffy asked herself.
"Morning Spike." She tried not to sound to happy to see him, even though she kind of was. "Hey, before you sit down, do me a favor?" Spike nodded. "Go up stairs and knock on Dawns door and see if she's up yet. And Willow too." She requested.
"Sure luv." He turned and headed up the stairs to Dawn's door. He rapped on the door.
"Yes, I'm up." Came the muffled reply. Spike rolled his eyes and knocked again. "I said I'm up." Spike knocked again. This time the door flew open. "Wh- oh, it's you. I'm up, see? I'm dressed and ready to go down stairs so you can make me some pancakes." She smiled sweetly at him.
"Good mornin' Dawn. Go down stairs and I'll be right there." Spike said pulling her out of her room and shooing her down the stairs. He moved to Buffy's Mom's old room and knocked gently.
"Come in." He heard from inside. He turned the knob and opened the door. The red head looked up from the book she was reading on her bed. "Oh, Good morning Spike." Willow said with a cheerful smile.
"Mornin' Wills. Buffy just wanted me to make sure you were awake. I think you were being to quiet, so she thought you were still asleep. I'm going to make pancakes, you want any?" Spike asked. Willow closed her book and stood up.
"I would love some pancakes." She walked past him and down the stairs. Spike closed her door and followed her down.
"I hear you're making pancakes. You making enough for everyone?" Buffy asked. She was sitting on a kitchen stool with her back to him, reading the comics. How she new he was there, was beyond him.
"If there's enough pancake mix, yes I will. If not, then only you girls get some. I'll find something else for the SIT's to eat." He explained pulling out the mix and a bowl. Lucky for him there was only enough for Buffy, Dawn and Willow. He decided the SIT's would have to have cereal or something. He tried not to laugh as he watched Buffy and Dawn practically inhale their food in their rush to leave.
They finished in record time, and started running around for last minute things before running out the door. Spike picked up Buffy's schedule and waited. The door opened back up and Buffy ran it and grabbed it from him and pecked him on the cheek before running back out. Spike looked at Willow, who had witnessed the whole scene, and raised his eyebrows.
"I think that meant thank you." She told him. He laughed and shook his head.
"I'm going to wake the Potentials up. Be ready for a stampede." He turned and went down the basement stairs. "Alright girls. Time to wake up! Up, Up, Up!" He pulled each of their blankets off them and threw them in a pile. The girls moaned and some tired to cover their heads with their pillows. He took their pillows and hit them with them.
"Come on get up before I call Buffy and tell her you all want to die 'cause don't want to get up and train." He threatened. Oh yeah, that was a threat. He thought. They're not even moving. "Get up now!" He shouted. They all jumped up at the sound of his raised voice. "That's more like it. Now get dressed and come up stairs and have some breakfast. Then I want you all to go out back and stretch. Then do you exercises. Willow'll tell you which ones." He turned and went back up to the kitchen.
"Had to yell, huh?" Willow asked rinsing of the dishes Buffy and Dawn had left.
"If they had just listened the first time I said something, I wouldn't have had to yell. I don't like yelling." He pulled a pack of pigs' blood out of the fridge and a mug out of the cupboard. He ripped open the package and poured the thick liquid into the mug and popped it in the microwave.
"I know. It's your soul. A lot of people don't like to yell." Willow told him sitting back down. There was a clatter of shoes running up the basement stairs and one by one the SIT's walked in to the kitchen. "Good morning girls. Did you all sleep well?" Kennedy went around her and kissed her on the cheek before turning and going through the cupboards to find something to eat. The SIT's mumbled in response. Except Kennedy.
"I did." She voiced.
"That's because you got the cot, and we got the floor." One of the girls, Amanda, said sitting down and pouring cereal into a bowl.
"I'm going to stop the bickering before it starts. Find something to eat, eat it and then go out back." Spike told them before leaving the kitchen.
"I think we made him mad." Another SIT, Jamie, said taking the cereal from Amanda and pouring herself some.
"Duh." Kennedy said sitting on a stool next to Willow and eating a breakfast bar.
Sunnydale High - Lunch
Dawn sat in a chair outside her sisters' office. She had a stomachache and the nurse had excused her from the rest of her classes. She didn't know whether it was from eating her breakfast to fast or from something she ate at lunch. Whatever it was, it was making her stomach churn. Of course Buffy wasn't in her office, she was probably still eating. Oh, why did I have to think of food. She groaned inwardly.
"Dawn? What's wrong? Are you ok?" Dawn lifted her head and saw Buffy coming toward her. She shook her head and told her what was wrong.
"Alright. I'll be right back." Buffy turned and went into Principal Woods's office. She emerged a few minutes later. "Come on, he said I can take the rest of the day off. We get to start our summer vacation early." Buffy smiled at her sister and help her up. She went into her office and grabbed her stuff. "Let's go." They went out to the parking lot and got in Buffy's car and drove toward the house.
They pulled into the Summers driveway and got out of the car. Yelling could be heard from the back yard.
"I guess I should go back there and see what's going on." Buffy told her sister as she put her stuff down by the front door. "You go upstairs and lay down." Dawn nodded and headed up stairs. Buffy went through the kitchen and saw Spike standing in front of the window. Away from the sun of course. "What's going on?"
"What are you doing home so early?" He asked looking at her with raised eyebrows.
"Dawn wasn't feeling good." She explained. "What's going on?" She asked again.
"They're fighting. I told Willow to let them have go at each other. Let out some aggression before you got home." He told her looking out the window at the SIT's.
"Do I get a go at them?" She asked walking out the kitchen door. Spike smirked and watched her approach them. She pulled Amanda off of Jamie and pushed her to the ground. The yelling stopped and they all stared at the Slayer.
"You guys want to fight? Good then tonight you are all going to go patrol. I'm taking the night off." She turned on her heel and walked back into the house.
"I guess that means I'm working tonight?" Spike said as she walked to the fridge.
"Nope. They're on their own. You can stay here or go out or whatever. I going to think about what I'm going to do." She told him taking out a can of soda.
"How 'bout we go to the bronze." Spike suggested. Buffy looked at and raised her eyebrows.
"We? Where do you get we?" He gave her a look that said she wasn't going out and leaving him there. "Fine I guess you can come. I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when the sun goes down." She left him grinning in the kitchen.
