Author's note

Sorry, about this I know you people hate these but you have to read this one too. This is of course the chapter where Buffy and Spike are at the beach. I have never been good at writing beach scenes, which is why I am still wondering why I decided to have them go to the beach. I just want to thank all you kind people who have been reviewing constantly: Anyanka0705, funkydevil206, Buffy Summers, Xtremely-Canadian, Spuffygrl, Wiccagrl, sunnysweetie, nikkie, star2421, PadfootObssessed329, Faith, DingoesAteMyBaby, Mia, Katie, niaya-isis, Celestria-17, sPIKEaNDmE, Elizance and last but definitely not least I would like to thank my best friend, Katie R. She doesn't go to but she does read my fics and it was also thanks to her kind words that I have been continuing this story. I just want to thank you all for your reviews. With out them this story might have not continued and I probably would have stopped writing BtVS fics. You guys are great and I hope that you will continue to read and review.

Now on to the Story.

Chapter 27

Beach

As soon as they arrived at the beach, Buffy slipped out of her clothes and adjusted her bathing suit. It was a cute littlered and light bluenumberthat didn't leave much to the imagination. Shethen began putting water proof sunscreen on. Spike had alsoworn his suit underneath his clothes. He was wearing a pair of navy blue swim trunksand relaxing on his towel, sunglasses resting on his face.

Buffy glanced over at him and shook her head, "Did you put sunscreen on?"

"What's that love?"

Buffy held out the bottle, "Sunscreen, you know it protects you from the deadly rays of the sun."

Spike sat up, "I'm supposed to put that on?"

"You never put sunscreen on when you go to the beach? What is wrong with you?"

Spike layback down, "I've never been to the beach before."

Buffy stared at him, "You've never been to the beach before? And how long have you lived here?"

Spike shrugged, "I'm from England, dark and rainy a lot over there, I 'ave been to the beach once, but it was at night. No sun to toast me then."

Buffy shook the bottle upside down, "Who did you go with?"

Spike glanced at her, deciding if he should answer or not, "your not going to get all jealous and leave are you?"

Buffy gave him a funny look and poured some sunscreen on his back, "Why would I?"

"Well, I went with my ex, reckon you know 'er."

Buffy stiffened a bit but rubbed the sunscreen over every inch of his back and neck, "She goes to our school?"

"Yeah."

"Who is it?"

"Drusilla Hawthorn"

Buffy stopped, "You mean that wacky girl that no one can understand, she's got long black hair and wears red lipstick way too much, her nails are painted black just like yours and she wears these long dresses that look like they came out of a history book"

Spike sighed, "Yeah, that's the one, but don't be callin' 'er names. Least she's not ripen' 'earts out and eatin' 'em for dessert."

Buffy frowned, "ew. Thanks for the imagery."

Spike chuckled, "Any time pet."

They were quiet for a while, Buffy continued rubbing his back even though the sunscreen had long sunken in. A question worked its way into her mind and she tried to push it away. But it wouldn't budge.

"Spike?"

"Yeah pet" he answered sleepily

"Did you love her?"

"Who?"

"Drusilla."

"I did, but I don't anymore. Dru was fantastic. Loved her to death, even when I found out she was sick. But then she cheated on me, more than once. At first I stayed with 'er because I felt a bit sorry for her. Being not quite right in the head and all. But Dru is smart. She isn't 'wacky' all the time. And most of the time she knows exactly what she's doin'. So I dumped 'er. Probably was before you came to good old Sunnyhell. Sometimes she still bothers me. Tries to get back together but I won't."

Buffy moved to sit next to him, "I wish I could have someone who loved me like that."

Spike looked at her, "You've got tons of people who care 'bout you, your mum, your friends, and me."

Buffy laid her head on his shoulder, "You?"

Spike nodded, "Well, yeah. I think maybe it's possible that I have started to care about you too."

Buffy smiled, "Well if youhave started tocare about me,thenI guess i might have started to care about you too."

Spike put an arm around her, "We've been talking for a while now love, don't you wanna have some fun?"

"Yeah but what can we do?"

"Well I don't bloody know, this is my first time at a beach during the day. What do you usually do at the beach?"

Buffy shrugged, "I just sunbath, but we could do somethin else. Are you hungry? There's a hotdog stand over there." She pointed out the little yellow hotdog stand sitting in the shade.

"You fancy one pet?"

"I am getting kinda hungry should be about lunch time now"

"Alright, don't you go wanderin' off." Spike took off for the hotdog stand, wallet in hand.

Buffy looked at the ocean that lay ahead of her, the beach was a great place to hang out. It wasn't too crowded right now. But there was still lots of people mainly tourists, college kids, old people and an assortment of young kids playing along the surf and in the sand.

She jumped as a Frisbee nearly sliced off her head and landed in front of her towel.

Up ahead she saw the group of college guys that had been playing with the Frisbee, she saw one of the guys, the youngest looking one, heading towards her. But she couldn't see who it was because the sun was shinning too brightly.

As the guy approached her, Buffy grabbed the Frisbee and stood up to meet him, but was horrified when she saw who it was.

She felt her whole body go numb and her smile had disappeared.

"Pike?"