Beginnings

-Spike's Apartment-

Buffy wakes up, she's in a bed and soon after waking she realizes that it isn't her own, slowly the events of the night before filter back into her mind. Buffy remembers his cool hands running across her skin. She remembers soft touches and passionate kisses. Then she turns over then and notices that there is no one next to her. Buffy's memories of the intimacy that her and Spike shared the night before drift out of her thought as she grabs the bed sheet and wraps it around her body as she stands. Buffy walks out of the bedroom, the smell of coffee wafts through the air. When she reaches the small kitchen she sees Spike, sadly now dressed, pouring two cups of coffee, she also notices that he's on the phone.

"morning luv," Spike says turning to face her.

"Who are you on the phone with?"

"Currently the wankers have me on hold, but I'm trying to get a hold of Angel."

Buffy reaches for her coffee and takes a sip only to pull the glass away from her nearly spitting out what she had drank and setting it on the table.

"Hot… I think I'm gonna go and get dressed, maybe this'll cool down by the time I get back."

Spike just smirks at her as she walks off back into the bedroom, images of her small naked form float through his mind as she watches her body move beneath his sheet. Buffy gets dressed and puts her hair up into a pony tail then starts to walk back into the kitchen, however she stops right in the entrance way and watches Spike, it appears that someone actually picked up on the other line. Spike turns slightly, Buffy can still see the side of his face, however he was still turned far enough away from her that he couldn't see her.

"Angel…no, I'm not calling to bloody… Angel just listen alright… remember when you were tryin' to get rid of me and… yes, I know you're always trying to get rid of me, but… Peaches will you just shut up for one bloody moment, this is important… I'm thinking that I'm gonna take your offer to transfer to another division of Wolfram and Hart… yea; I'm going to see her… No, I'm not just stayin' with Wolfram and Hart just cause you said you'd pay me, though that is part of it… I want to keep doing what I'm doing, helping people, and maybe stay in touch with what's goin' on here in L.A… yea, I have a flight out today…yea…alright, bye."

Spike hangs up the phone and turns to face Buffy as she walks into the room. Buffy notices that he's in a good mood and she's sure that their previous night of passion has something to do with it; he stares at her as she waits to find out what happened, then slowly moves closer to sit next to him.

"What'd he say?" Buffy questions softly although she already has a good idea of what he's going to say.

"Well, he's not too happy, but he's setting me up with the England division, and I got us a flight out tonight, and I used Wolfram and Hart resources to book a vamp safe flight, so in about five hours we'll be on a plane back to England."

"So then I guess all I have left to do is call Andrew and have him inform the troops that your back… we're really doing this aren't we?"

"Yea, we are."

The End