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Chapter 10. Three weeks gone.

It had been three weeks since Spike left, his jacket still was on Buffys chair in her room, and she looked at it almost everyday hoping he would return. Now that he was gone she knew how much he meant to her and how she needed him in her life.

She walked down the stairs getting ready to go out patrolling.

"Hey Buffy!" Dawn said cheerfully.

Buffy smiled and walked towards the door. "I'll see you guys later." She said and opened the door.

Tom was stood there at her doorstep and Buffy looked at him and sighed. He took a deep breath and Buffy just pushed past him and closed the door.

"Buffy." He said and followed her.

"Go away." She said walking away from the house.

"No." He said manly.

Buffy turned around and saw him stood right in front of her face, she rolled her eyes and hit him to the ground. "Get out of my life." She said and walked away from him.

Tom laid on the ground he wiped his mouth and spat the blood out he got back up and ran up to Buffy.

"I can't let you go." He said walking along side her.

"Well I have let you go. About three weeks ago."

"Being without you…It's hard."

"You will get over it."

"I won't get over you."

"You're not what I want."

"Your what I want though."

Buffy said nothing.

"I never knew I was going to fall in love with you Buffy, I just thought I'll meet the slayer, the one who is known around the whole world." He took a deep breath. "And then I saw you. Everything around you stopped, time stood still. I knew I never had been in love until I laid my eyes on you."

Buffy stopped walking and faced him. "And what was meant to do what?"

Tom shrugged his shoulders.

"Make me forgive you and fall into your arms. Well I don't work that way."

"I noticed." Tom sighed.

"Please just go away."

"Make me."

"I thought I did when I hit you."

"It's gonna take more than that." He smiled.

She carried on walking and he walked along side her again.

"Look Tom-"

"No wait let me say one more thing." He breathed in. "Just tell me now that you don't have any feelings for me at all. And I'll get out of your life."

"I do have feelings for you still, but I can't." She shook her head.

"Why can't you?"

"He might come back." She whispered.

"Spike." He sighed. "It's been three weeks."

"I know."

"Please can we just give us one more go."

"I don't know." She said and walked away from him. "Don't follow me."

Tom watched her and kicked the air with his foot and walked the opposite way.

Meanwhile Spike walked along the streets of LA still new to his surroundings. He lit up a cigarette and saw a couple, he stood and watch them kiss and cuddle from the back it looked like Buffy he closed his eyes clicked his neck. He opened them again and saw a person stood in his face.

"What the hell do you want?" Spike sighed.

"Money, please can you spear some money." The man said.

"Pfft." Spike walked past the man and carried on walking.

He reached a dark ally way and walked down it, his car was parked outside a building, which looked like nobody had lived in it since the 18th century! He sat down on a small wooden chair and sat alone in the dark.

Buffy walked alone in the cemetery gripping her stake in her hand tightly and closed her eyes as she thought about Spike. She opened her eyes with a sigh and saw a vampire rising out from its grave. It got out and growled at Buffy, Buffy staked it without any hassle and carried on walking.

She went to the bronze and looked around to see if anybody was there, but no sign of the gang. She sat at the bar and ordered a drink and saw Tom staring into his drink on the other side of the room. Tom looked up and sighed and didn't notice Buffy.

Buffy walked over to him with her drink and sat down.

"Buffy?" He smiled.

"Hey."

"What you doing here?"

"Same reason as you." She said and raised her glass.

"Right." He nodded.

"You're right, Spike is gone and I doubt it very much he will be back. He made that pretty clear when he left. I need to move on with my life but not with you."

Tom looked down and back up Buffy. "At lest I tried."

"Still friends?"

"I'm going back to LA."

"What is it with everyone moving to LA!"

"I got a job there."

"Oh."

"So I'll be moving there."

"When?"

"Well I was meant to leave by two days ago. But I got so caught up trying to get you back but I thought I wouldn't need to have the job."

"So when are you leaving."

"About…" He looked at his watch. "Now." And drank the rest of his drink.

"Goodbye Tom."

Tom smiled. "Hope everything works out okay."

"You seen calmer."

"I can't get you and I have no realised that."

Buffy smiled.

"Bye Buffy." He smiled and left her to sit alone.

Spike walked out of his 'house' and walked down the ally and out on to the streets. He needed some action so he hit some bars and sat alone and drank.

"Waiting for someone?" A vampire came up and asked him.

"No luv, on my own."

"Then can you buy me a drink."

"Whatever she wants." He said without really caring to the demon barman.

"So what's Spike doing in a place like this?"

"You know me?"

"Of course I do Spike." She smiled.

Spike looked at her and tilted his head. "Please be dear and explain."

"I'm a friend of Angels as well."

"Didn't think Angel hung around with people like you."

"Well you know Angel."

"Oh god I do" Spike sighed and sipped his drink.

"He said get out of his town."

"Did he now?" Spike smiled.

"Yes."

"Now I thought Angel would come tell me himself."

"He's a busy boy, he's has stepped up in the world."

"That's nice."

"He saw you last night. He could smell the slayer all over you."

"Are you in love with her." A voice said what came behind Spike.

Spikes span around on his seat and saw Angel stood there.

"I wonder when I would see you." Smiled Spike.

"What are you doing here Spike?" Angel sighed.

"Just passing I'll be gone I a few weeks maybe months but soon."

"No. Leave now."

"And go back to Sunnydale?"

"No just go anywhere but here!"

"Talked to Buffy lately?"

Angel sighed. "Last I heard she was with a boy called Tom."

"That she was, don't know if she still is."

"What?"

"I came back to Sunnydale and to answer you question yeah I am in love with her."

"So why are you here?"

"I can't be with her, same reason you cant."

"More like she wont be with you."

"No see I've had a bit of a change."

Angel sat down next to Spike. "Beer." He said to the barman. "Like what?"

"Oh now you're willing to sit down and talk to me about my troubled life." Spike put his hand on his chest. "I'm touched."

Angel hit Spike in the arm. "Don't push it boy."

"Boy?"

"I got years on you."

"Yeah so you have." Spike shrugged his shoulders and lit up a cigarette.

"Where's your jacket?"

"I forgot it."

"You left it here?"

"At Buffys."

"And your not going back to get it?"

"I want to but I wont."

"Look were getting of the subject here. You said you changed?"

"Got me a soul."

"You what!" Angel shouted and stood up.

"I got a soul."

"You cant!"

"I have."

"But-But."

"But I've stole your thunder?"

"What did Buffy say?"

"I did it for her, the whole bloody soul thing. She couldn't love me when I was soulless so I went and got one."

"Can you loose it?"

"No."

"So you could be with her."

"Could, should, would?"

"She said about your past."

"She did?" Spike said stunned.

"Yeah."

"Wow. Didn't see that one coming." Spike laughed.

"I'm getting to a point here."

"Oh do carry on chap!"

"She said what happened in that year and how you 'helped' her."

"She used me!"

"Spike!"

"Sorry."

"I could see it then she had feelings for you." Angel sighed. "I can't believe I'm going to say this." Angel paused and looked away and looked back at a smiling Spike. "She needs you."

"She told me that."

"So why are you here? In my town."

"Because I'm no good for her!

"I can become evil you can't! Never ever again."

"I know but I'm still Spike at heart."

"You don't-"

"It was a phrase you silly bint."

"Go back to Sunnydale."

"You just don't want me in your town."

"Spike look. You know how I am when it comes to Buffy, would I want you to have her or you stay here in my town and see you every so often."

"Good point. Why are you helping me?"

"Because its for Buffys sake as well."

"You know what Angel. Your kinda all right, apart from the brooding and all that bollocks."

"So are you going back?"

Spike sighed. "No." He whispered. "I might I can't not yet. We left things…" He sighed again. "I don't want to say. Look at me talking to you about my troubles." He smiled.

"Just please stay out of my way." Angel said and walked away.

"Believe me I bloody will try." Spike called out to him.