Disclaimer: I quite obviously do not own anything to do with Buffy. If I did, I wouldn't be living with my two annoying brothers. If you REALLY want to sue me, go ahead. I'm not stoping you. Do you seriously want all my pocket lint? (I know Marius would...)

Summary: This takes place right after Buffy is brought back to life by Willow at the beginning of Season 6. It took Buffy dying to see how much she really did care for Spike. Well, they started having the beginning of a great relationship until a few of Spike's former acquaintences needed a place to crash...

(In the back room of The Magic Box, where Buffy is training. No one is there except for Spike, who is watching her)

Spike: Bloody hell, Slayer! What are you doing!?

Buffy: (grunts while trying to lift a 600 pound barbell) I thought I told you not to bother me while I'm trying to train. It takes concentration, you know.

Spike: Looks more like masochism than training.

Buffy: I want to make sure no one I care about is going to get hurt if I can help it. If I hadn't sacrificed myself, Dawn would be dead. And, as long as I'm protecting my friends, I would be happy if I wasn't killed again.

Spike: Didn't you go to heaven though?

Buffy: Yeah, but it just wasn't the same as being on regular old Earth with all my friends. (Gives up on picking up the barbell and hangs it back on it's rack) Come on, Spike. Let's go home. I can't concentrate any more. Too much thinking about the past makes my head hurt.

Spike: (raises eyebrow) Are you sure it isn't just my devilish handsomeness getting to you?

Buffy: (rolls eyes) Oh, Spike. How do you always manage to see right through me?

Spike: You forget you're talking to the Big Bad.

Buffy: Of course. (She comes in for a passionate kiss, which ends about a minute later, seeing as how Buffy is human and still needs to breathe)

(It is an uneventful ride home, with Spike driving and Buffy sleeping. Spike looks down on the sleeping Buffy and realizes how much better his life had been since she had admitted her feelings for him. On arriving at Buffy's house, Buffy wakes up.)

Buffy: It's just you and me tonight Spike.

Spike: You aren't one for subtlety, are you pet? And we're just supposed to forget Nibblet is also a resident of this house?

Buffy: Mind in the gutter much? Anyway, Dawn is spending the night with Giles.

Spike: Have you noticed an increase in owls around here?

Buffy: (looks in nearby tree and sees twenty owls, hooting impatiently) Now that you mention it, I have. I've never heard of any owl-demons, so I think we're okay.

Spike: Well, let's not waste all our bloody time chatting where the nasties can attack us.

(They walk up to the door and Buffy opens it.)

Spike: I'm starving, Slayer. Still got some blood around here?

Buffy: If you mean the piggy kind. It should be in the kitch—(sees her living room filled with vampires).

Spike: What the bloody hell are you all doing here?!

Ooooooo. Cliffy. Sort of. You probably think I'm a horrible writer by now, but please review so I can know how much you hate me. This was my serious chapter. Things are about to get really weird, even considering all the things that happen on the Hellmouth. Who are these vampires? What do they want? How the heck did they get in without an invitation? Review please!

-Ayshieka