Chapter 6

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The next morning Spike woke up relieved that the slayer still in his arms. He gently ran his fingers through her hair; she stirred slightly and then slowly opened her eyes.

"Hey," Buffy said in her morning voice.

"Sleep well?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, actually that was the best sleep I've had in months," she replied.

"You hungry?"

"Starving."

"What do you want?"

"Well we should definetely have something edible"

"Right. And since I only have blood in the fridge I guess we'll be eating out," Spike said sitting up in bed.

After they got dressed they headed out to the nearest cafe. Buffy had had to wear her outfit from the day before as her stuff was at the hotel with the rest of the guys. She had taken a shower before they left, but she had wanted to put fresh clothes on. She wanted to look her best for Spike. They didn't talk much as they walked.

When Buffy and Spike entered a small cafe they spotted a familiar 'tall, dark and forehead' guy sipping coffee and downing donuts as if they were tictacs.

"Oh my god, hey Angel, can we join you?" Buffy asked sitting down as Angel gave a slight nod, "How come your on your own?" she continued.

"Well Illyria went to the hospital to check on Gunn and I have no idea where Lorne is," Angel replied.

After some awkward small talk, Buffy and Angel started trading stories about the last year, Spike occasionally adding a comment, which was proving to be a hard task.Once they had finished eating they headed to the Hyperion (Angel had decided to go back to using it as Angel Investigations, since they destroyed the Wolfram Hart building). They continued talking on their way there. The three of them sat down at Angel's old desk, Angel felt strange being back in the hotel.When Angel got to the puppet story, Buffy couldn't stop laughing for nearly twenty minutes straight. Every time Spike went to open his mouth to speak Buffy or Angel would start talking as if he wasn't there. At this point he wouldn't have been surprised if he caught fire and the pair of them continued their little walk down memory lane. Then all of a sudden Buffy's cell phone rang.

"Thank fuck for that," Spike muttered under his breath.

"Hey, oh hi Willow," Buffy said when she answered the phone.

The ex-vamps watched her in silence.

"Yeah, that's great, see you there, bye," she said putting her cell phone back in her pocket, "Look you guys, I've gotta go, Giles got me a place, and well I need to see my friends anyway."

"A place?" Angel asked.

"Oh, right, Icompletely forgot, me and the guys are gonna live here in L.A., not Giles though he's gonna be running slayer central in England. It's good to be back in the states."

"So the rugrats won't be staying here then," Spike asked, not wantingto run intothe younger slayers everywhere he went. God how he hated them.

"God no, they're all on a one way trip to England, until they've completed their training, then they'll get shipped off to demon hotspots around the world, or that's the general idea anyway. I'd love to stay but I really have to go. See you guys later?" Buffy said before getting up to leave.

"Definetely," Spike and Angel said in unison.

"Cool."

The champions kept their eyes on the blonde slayer as she left the coffee shop. When she was gone Spike decided that he would go back to his place, even the sight of Angel sickened him right now. His grandsire might as well of had Buffy sitting on his lap. The word flirting doesn't even cover what Spike had just witnessed. This morning he had been confident that Buffy liked him just as much as he liked her, but now he wasn't so sure.

"Where are you going Spike?"

"What's it to you?"

"It's just a question."

"Well... sod off you fucking wanker. I don't have to tell you anything Angel, cos unlike your other mates I don't worship the ground you walk on," Spike said, raising his voice as he walked towards the door.