I've Never…
Reason To Celebrate
PG-13
Summary: Set during and after the end of The Gift. Dawn dies instead of Buffy. Buffy doesn't want to be alone in her house so she turns to Spike for company. With a pink dress and a lot of alcohol involved the two become closer. AtS crossover.
Disclaimer: We own nothing, it all belongs to Joss.
After a couple of minutes of going through Buffy's clothes, there was a knock at the door.
"Buffy!" Spike yelled.
"I'm still in the shower! Answer that for me, please!" So Spike stumbled his way down the stairs all-the-while mumbling to himself. As he opened the front door he hid behind it to shield himself from the sun.
Once he shut the door he turned, coming face-to-face with a laughing Xander.
"Why are you wearing…" Xander looked up and down Spike, "that?"
"Hey! Don't make fun of the ensemble!"
"Forget it. Why are you here?"
"Why am I here? Why are you here?"
"I came to check on Buffy, but instead I find a vampire in a dress."
"Excuse me but I didn't have any clothes to change into."
"Why did you take of your other clothes?" Xander asked raising his voice.
"For you information I took a shower here."
"Well now you're not, so you can leave."
"Sorry, but I think not."
"And why is that exactly?"
"Excuse me, but does sunshine ring a bell."
"Whatever Spike just go down to the basement and stay there."
"I don't have to."
"Well, you don't expect to stay up here and hang out with Buffy do you?"
"Actually I do." Buffy stated as she walked down the stairs in her pajamas with a towel on her head.
"You're kidding right?" Xander asked exasperatingly .
"No actually I'm not."
"You are actually planning on hanging out with this thing?" Xander asked pointing to Spike.
"Oi!" Spike shouted.
"You stay out of this okay? No body wants to hear what you think."
"Leave him alone Xander, if it wasn't for him I probably would have fallen off that tower yesterday."
"Oh, this is just a sympathy thing," Xander said the sound of relief in his voice.
"No it's not."
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know okay, now would you just stop it?"
"Okay, okay."
"So why did you come here in the first place?" Spike asked trying to get back into the conversation.
"A little less talk from the vampire in a dress!"
"Xander what did I just tell you?"
"Fine, okay, I just came here to check on you, but now I think I'll just leave."
"Maybe you should." Buffy reached for the door and held it open for Xander. After Xander left Spike just looked at Buffy and asked,
"Would you like me to help you brush your hair?"
After finding more reasonable clothes for Spike to change into, the two went and sat at her vanity table with Spike brushing her hair. There they sat in silence until Spike spoke up,
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For looking out for me with the whole Xander thing."
"Aw, it was nothing." After finishing Spike set the brush down.
"I'm getting kinda hungry here pet."
"You must be it is like almost one O'clock. Hey why don't I go for a walk and get you some blood."
"Yeah, okay, it'll be good for you to get out some."
A couple of hours later Buffy walked through the door with two brown grocery bags.
"Luv, I didn't need that much blood."
"Oh, I know. This bags yours and this one's mine."
"You need blood? Is there something you're not telling me?" Spike asked jestingly.
"This isn't blood it is beer."
"What's the celebration?"
"Nothing really."
A couple of drinks later.
"You know I really enjoy having you around like this."
"Really, aw, I feel so special," Spike said mockingly.
"No really and I've been thinking about it all day. So I was wondering if you would like to you know, stay here awile."
"You serious?"
"Yeah, and I kinda don't want to be alone in this house all by myself."
"Well since you put it that way, sure I guess so."
"See now we have something to celebrate."