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Chapter 3. Soul
Spike got off the cross and looked at Buffy, he had a burn of a cross across his chest. Spike looked at her and put his top on.
"You need help." She said softly.
"No I just need to be left alone."
"Spike it looks like you're still crazy to me."
"Well so would you, if you could feel the hundreds and thousands of people I have killed."
"Angel told me how it felt."
"Angel. He soul is a curse! The stupid poof." He laughed.
"But you have still got a bit of the old Spike in you."
"Of course I have!" He smiled. "I'm still Spike I just have a more soulful side of me."
"But you still need help."
"If I do, I don't want yours."
"Why not?"
"Buffy this is not the Spike you use to know…Well it sort of is. But the point is I'm different and what I did…tried to do." He hung his head. "It haunts me."
"You're a different man."
"I'm not even a man."
"Spike." She said softly.
He looked at her and saw that she was going to be there and help him.
"Where are you staying?" She asked.
"Anywhere." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Come on, let's go."
"Where?"
"Well I know Tom wont like it, but my house."
"Tom?"
"Yeah…I have been dating him for a few months."
"That's good." Spike smiled.
They both walked out of the church and back to Buffys house. As he walked in and looked around he could smell Buffy everywhere and he stared at her as she walked into the living room to see the gang.
"Guys…I have some news."
Spike walked in.
"Get him out of our house." Dawn said angrily and stood up.
"Its different now."
"Why? Doesn't he love you anymore?"
"He's got a soul." Willow said.
"What?" Xander half shouted.
"How did you-" Buffy started saying.
"I can feel it." Willow answered.
"That's what Anya was on about in the Bronze."
Spike nodded.
"So where is he staying?" Dawn asked.
"The basement."
Xander walked up to Spike. "You touch her, I'll kill you."
"And um by the way. Spike has no chip anymore."
"WHAT! These just gets better and better."
"I'll go make my way down to my new room. Doesn't look like I'm wanted here." Spike said.
"Spike your never wanted here!" Xander said.
Spike just looked at Spike and walked away.
"Are you sure about this Buffy?"
"He has been crazy for the last three months. Angel told me what it was like, to feel the people he killed, remember? He nearly killed himself!"
Nobody said anything. "Spike has changed I can feel it, Willow can feel it and Anya can. So I know he's not lying to me."
Buffy walked down to the basement and Spike was sat on pull out bed with a cigarette.
"Looks like you do your training down here now." He said.
She walked down and leant on the table opposite him. "Yeah."
"Look Buffy I'm not here to try and back with you. I can see clearly now more clearly that I use to see things."
"You were never clear Spike." Buffy smiled.
"Hey is this a private conversion or can anybody join in?" Tom said and walked down the rest of the stairs and kissed Buffy.
"Hey." She said sweetly.
"Hey, hey Spike? What are you doing here?"
"Asking a friend for help." He said smiling at Tom.
"You're helping him?" He said to Buffy.
"He has a soul."
"William the bloody has a soul?" Tom laughed. "Doesn't sound like William the bloody."
"It's just Spike and you don't know nothing about me. Expect what you read in your books." Spike stood up.
"I know enough." Tom said and looked at Buffy. "So we still on for tomorrow?"
"Huh?"
"The picnic?"
"Oh yeah, sure." She said and smiled.
"Well I'm going to grab a shower." Tom walked back up the stairs and Spike watched him.
"A picnic?" Spike said surprised.
"Yeah what's wrong with a picnic?"
"Just doesn't seem like you luv." Spike smiled.
"Things change. You should know."
"Yeah I should. Now you shown me my home can I go out?"
"Sure, I mean you don't have to ask me if you wanna go out. Where are you going?"
Spike smiled at her. "Bag some vamps. Come if you want."
"I think I need some time to get-"
"Right." Spike sighed and walked to the stairs. "See you later then." Spike walked up the stairs.
Tom walked into the kitchen and saw Xander and Spike walked past without saying anything.
"Hey xand."
"Hey."
"So you okay will the Spike deal?"
Spike heard and rolled his eyes and walked out the front door.
"No." Xander simply said.
"Why not?"
"Spike and Buffy…They're past."
"They have a past?"
"They were sleeping buddies."
"She had sex with him?"
"Yup, last year."
"When he had a soul?"
"Nope, he was soul free and had a chip he was in love with her. Then when she tried to break it off he tried to rape her. Until then we have not seen him until tonight."
"So he got the soul because of Buffy." Tom said slowly.
"Got it in one."
"Do you think she still has feelings for him?"
"I don't know. But if Buffy trusts him then ill give her the benefit of the doubt. Even though I hate Spike."
Xander left the room and Buffy walked out of the basement.
"Hey, thought you was going for a shower?"
"Well." He smiled. "I thought you could join me."
"Humm." She smiled and laced his hands though hers. "Sounds like a plan. I'll go turn it on."
"Okay I'll be up in a sec!" He smiled at Buffy and when she walked out of the room the smiled faded from his face.
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