Chapter 3: Sensations

The next morning Buffy got up out of her bed, took a shower, and went back to her room to make her bed. As she straightened the comforter on top of her bed she had that "feeling" again. She paused and let her slayer sense kick in to find out what was really going on. Buffy senses a pair of eyes were watching her from the corner of her room near her closet. However when she turned around and looked over in the direction of closet she saw nothing.

"Buffy!" Dawn's voice echoed the apartment.

"Yeah!" Buffy called out, eyes still focused in the corner of the room.

"Where's my green shirt?" Dawn called back.

"Just a minute." Buffy said as she still looked around her room. She began to walk over towards her closet slowly and cautiously. She grabbed the door handle of her closet and quickly opened it. Buffy let out a sigh as she saw only her clothes and shoes.

"Buffy!" Dawn called out again impatiently.

"Coming!" Buffy said and shut her closet and started walking into the hallway.

As Buffy walked out her room and into the hallway, the ghostly figure of Spike walked a few paces behind her. His hands were buried deep in his leather jacket.

Buffy stopped half way down the hallway and turned around to come face to face with Spike. She blinked a few times and looked around.

"I'm here luv…come on you know I'm here, otherwise you wouldn't be turning around…" Spike talked to her face. However his words were useless. Spike reached his hand out to touch her face but before he got there Buffy turned around and continued to walk down the hall and into Dawn's room.

"What did you want?" Buffy asked when she reached Dawn's doorway.

"Nothing, forget it…I decided to go with the pink shirt." Dawn said as she checked herself out in her mirror. When Dawn faced Buffy she noticed Buffy's tired eyes and low glum expression. "What's with you?"

"Huh?" Buffy asked in a daze.

"You look tired." Dawn laughed.

"Probably because I am…I had trouble sleeping…" Buffy told Dawn with a yawn.

"Huh…think its jet leg?" Dawn asked.

"How could that be it…I mean we lived here for a while." Buffy laughed.

"True…" Dawn said, "Well I'm going to school so you have the whole apartment to yourself so you can go back to bed."

"Seems tempting, but I was going to go to Giles today…" Buffy said.

"Oh…what for?"

Buffy shrugged, "Oh you know…just a visit." She lied.

"Oh…well tell him 'hey' and tell Andrew to get a life." Dawn came forward and kissed Buffy's cheek, "Bye…" she left her room and went towards the front door.

When Buffy heard the door slam shut she let out a sigh, "Alone again…" she mumbled in the quiet apartment.

"Not quit." Spike said who stood right next to her.

Buffy knocked on Giles's apartment door and then a few minutes later Andrew answered it.

"Buffy! I didn't know you were coming over!" Andrew said with a geeky smile.

"Yeah well I didn't know you slept in that." Buffy looked down at Andrew's clothes.

Andrew looked down at his Star Wars t-shirt that had Andrew's head pasted over Luke Skywalker's body. He laughed nervously and looked back up at Buffy, "Oh…I got this done on the internet."

"I wouldn't have guessed." Buffy said sarcastically and walked past Andrew and into the apartment.

"Where's Giles?" Buffy looked around the living room and found a few books scattered about.

"He went to check out that office that was for rent…" Andrew said.

Behind Andrew, Spike walked right through the wall and into the apartment.

"Oh right…" Buffy nodded and looked disappointed.

"He should be back soon." Andrew said.

Spike walked around Andrew and glanced at his shirt and snickered. He walked farther into the apartment and stood closer to Buffy.

"Yeah I guess…" Buffy said and crossed her arms and shuttered.

"Are you alright?" Andrew noticed Buffy's shutter.

"I just keep getting these weird feelings…do you feel that?" Buffy glanced around the room and right a Spike.

Spike took a deep breath when she looked directly at him and sort of into his eyes.

'Come on, see me.' He kept thinking.

Andrew paused and tried to sense something but he didn't, "Nope…"

"I thought I was only feeling it in my apartment but…" Buffy drifted out.

"Well maybe it's a slayer thing…or you know…your adjusting…or indigestion." Andrew said.

Buffy gave him a weird look, "You know sometimes you should not talk."

"That's what Mr. Giles says too." Andrew said.

Giles then walked into the apartment.

"Buffy…I thought you'd stop by later…" Giles said.

"Well I wanted to…" Buffy stopped and looked at Andrew, "Andrew, this is kind of private."

"Oh…well…umm…sure." Andrew said and went into the kitchen.

"You can still hear us in there." Buffy yelled to Andrew.

Andrew immerged from the kitchen and laughed nervously, "Right…" Spike, Giles, and Buffy watched him go into the bedroom and shut the door.

"You have no idea how much I want him gone. I rather have Spike chain in my bathtub again." Giles mumbled.

Spike raised an eyebrow at that and smirked at that comment.

"Speaking of…" Buffy said.

Giles looked up at Buffy and noticed she was anxious to know the news about the amulet. "Oh…right…well I looked through every book and I couldn't find anything…there seems to be no text on the amulet…and who or whatever mailed it went through a lot of trouble for you to get it." Giles said.

"Yeah…" Buffy looked down at her feet.

"I'm sorry Buffy." Giles whispered.

"…their…theirs something else too…" Buffy said and looked back up at him, "I've been getting these weird feelings…like…like right now even…I feel like something is here."

Giles tilted his head and looked at her with interest, "And this has been happening since the amulet?"

"Pretty much…" Buffy asked.

"Is it unsettling?"

"I…not really…I just feel like someone's looking at me from the corner or…" Buffy sighed, "Do you sense it?"

Giles looked around his apartment. At one time he looked at Spike for a moment.

"Come on Rups…" Spike mumbled up his breath, hoping that Giles would see him too.

"Sorry Buffy…" Giles said.

Buffy walked on the sidewalks of London in deep thought. She zoomed in and out of crowds subconsciously. Beside her Spike walked. He was having trouble trying to avoid walking through people's bodies but sometimes he had to.

"Buffy, god will you slow down…" he said, even though he knew she couldn't hear his request.

She stopped at a street corner and looked both ways before crossing the street. She lowered her head as she continued to walk.

Down the road a man in his car dropped his cell phone and while trying to recover it he didn't see the stop light…or Buffy.

Spike looked up and saw the fast car coming and then looked at Buffy, who was about to walk into his path.

"BUFFY!" He yelled and ran up from behind her and knocked her out of the way and to the other side of the sidewalk.

The man in the car looked up and screeched his brakes of his car.

Buffy was on the ground on the sidewalk. She was already, no injures, and she got up to her feet. She looked around the area to see who pushed her but found no one. A few people that witnessed what happened started going up to Buffy and asked if she was alright. Buffy didn't answer, she just kept looking around to see who pushed her out the cars way and saved her life.

The guy in the car got out of his and approached Buffy.

"I'm so sorry miss…" the Englishman said, "Are you alright? Do you need anything?"

"No…I'm fine." Buffy mumbled in a daze and continued to look around.

Spike stood a few feet away from her and was panting hard. He was deathly afraid a moment ago but at the same time he was amazed. 'I touched her…' he thought to himself.

TBC……