First off, I'd like to thank everyone who has been reviewing this story so far. As I said before, Lindsey will not be brought back in this one, but I did come up with an awesome way to get him back in the game in another story. So, after this one, and it's sequel are finished, Lindsey will be brought back.

A/N- This chapter isn't a nessecary part of the storyline except for the last paragraph. So, feel free to skip aheadif you aren't a Buffy/Spike fan. It's basically them making up along with a few instances of name calling.

Knocking on a door, Buffy said quietly, "Spike? You in here?" There was no reply. Cautiously, she opened up the door and peeked in. What she saw was a sullen Spike sitting (try saying that 5 times fast)on the edge of the bed in the room. Walking over to the Vampire, she sat down beside him on it. "What's up?" she asked. He ignored her, so she tried again.

"Shouldn't you be down there with the Scoobies? You know, celebratin' the whole fact that the soddin' world's not endin' and is all safe and sound again?" he snapped eventually.

"Proably, yeah. But I'm not. Know why?" Spike had an idea, a few actually, but he kept his mouth shut. He wanted to hear what she had to say. "Because I missed you. So did Dawn. After you were destrpyed saving the world, Sunnydale, and all of us, she and I found a private place and cried ourselves to sleep. We did so every night for a month."

"Why not after?" Spike heard himself saying.

"Becasue by then we were in Rome and we could we could cry in the open." Spike's mouth made a silent "O" as Buffy continued her narrative. "Every night, Dawn and I would sit and annoy Andrew by playing the Ramones, the Clash, and tons of other bands that we knew you liked in your memory. Eventually, Dawn went off to school again and stopped listening to the CDs. I still did though, even when she asked me not to. The only time I didn't was when she had friends over and I didnt want to embarras her. I still hummed them though."

"And the Immortal? When and where does he enter this picture?"

"A fewdays before you came to Italy actually. I met him at a work party and he invited me to dinner sometime in the next few days. After dinner, we went to this one club. I don't remember the name of it though."

"Misteque." Spike said quietly.

"The who?"

"The Misteque.That's what it was called. Angel and I saw you there."

Buffy's eyes showen with suprise, but said nothing about his comment. Her suprise was enough for Spike though. "The Poof said we were to busy to stop and say hi, and I didn't feel like a fight about it, though I ended up getting one." he replied to the unspoken question of why.

She only nodded, then continued. "Well, a few days after that, he stopped by again and invited me to his yacht."

"He has a bloody yacht. Why am I not suprised." he muttered.

"That's where he told me what he was. An Immortal."

"No, THE Immortal." Spike interrupted.

"Fine. THE Immortal. He asked me if I would consent to becoming what he is. I turned him down, and left him there. He never came around again. Then Giles called and said another Apoclypse was happening and wanted us over here."

"So here you are." Spike finished for her.

"And here I am." she agreed. Then, there was silence broken only by the beating of Buffy's heart and her breathing. "So, what's your story?" she eventually asked him.

"Angel touches amulet, I pop out as a ghost, I become corporal, and help save the world."

"That's it?"

"What? You were expecting a novel?"

"No 'I missed you', or what you did to remember me?" Her voice sounded hurt.

"I missed you, yeah. What sane person wouldn't after they met you? Just, after I saw you with the Immortal, I thought that you had moved on, and that I needed to as well. Not that I wanted to though. That was the furthest thing from my mind."

"What about before that? When you first came back?"

"Well, unitil Andrew showed up, I didn't know where you lived," then, he added quietly, "or if you even cared."

It wasn't quiet enough though. "Of COURSE I care!" she shouted at him. "Don't you remember what I said in the Hellmouth?"

"Sure I remember. I thought that was just, well, talk." he finished lamely.

"Spike, you're an idiot."

"Thanks for the compliment Slayer."

Then, once again, there was silence. Suddenly, on a whim, Buffy leaned over and kissed him. Suprised by her action, Spike didn't know what to do for a second. Then, his brain started working again and he kissed her back.

Buffy broke apart from him only after she couldn't hold her breath any longer. "What do you think about starting over? Us, I mean. From the beginning?" she asked.

"Like, when I first met you and tried to kill you?"

"After that."

"When I was your captive?"

"After you got your soul back."

Spike was enjoying himself immensly as he said, "When I was crazy and the First's puppet?"

She tossed a pillow at him and replied, "After all that too."

"So, basically, after my whole 'You're the One' speech."

"Yeah, that sounds good."

Spike laughed. Someting he hadn't done in a long time. "Some beginning."

Buffy shrugged. "It works."

"Guess it do, don't it?"

"Yeah." she sighed. Before the silence became too unbearable again, Buffy spoke. "Since we're starting over and everything, I guess I'll be the first to say it. Spike..."

"I know, I know. I'm an idiot, and a pig."

"Well, not exactly what I had in mind, but those are true as well. What I was going to say was, Spike, I love you."

"Me too." He shook his head. "That caome out so wrong."

Buffy laughed. "I know what you were going for. I gonna go downstairs for a bit. Wanna join me?"

"No thanks. Not with the pirate and ol' Broody Brow going at me every chance they get." He noticed the pout appearing on the Slayer's face. "Ohno. Not the pout. I'll make you a deal though. Meet me up her tonight and tell me all about the Scoobies."

"I guess I can live with that."

Coming down the stairs, Buffy asked, "So, what's I miss?"

Xander Harris, her long time friend turned to answer her. Before he could say anything though, there was a piercing scream from upstairs.

Buffy and Willow turned to look at each other. "Spike!" they both yelled at the same time.

What happens next? Gotta RR to find out. And once again, I apoligize for the long time periods between posts. I'm busy with school.