Chapter 5: Out of My Mind

As soon as the bell rang, Buffy shot out of her seat and raced to the bathroom, avoiding everyone. She ran into the farthest stall, locked the door and slid down the wall and put her head in her hands.

Oh god, she was a slut. She had a sex dream about her mortal enemy and kissed him in vamp face! It was official, she was insane.

She had the incredible urge to start crying. Why me? She couldn't face anyone ever again.

"Buffy?" Willow called into the bathroom then spotted her bag and feet.

"Buff, you okay?"

"No," Was the muffled response.

"It's not that bad," Willow told her.

"Wills- I moaned Spike's name out loud in class!"

Willow winced feeling a rush of sympathy for her best friend.

"It wasn't that loud- and more of a sigh than moan," Willow tried to console her.

"Ugh," Buffy groaned, "I'm a vamps-are-sexy whore!"

"No you aren't," Willow told her firmly through the stall door, "You were just-"

"Having an erotic dream about a killer?" Buffy supplied sarcastically.

"Well he is hot," Willow tried to justify.

No response.

"Please come out, the bells about to ring."

With great reluctance, Buffy opened the door.

"You have to make sure I don't fall asleep," Buffy told her.

"Promise," Willow replied as they raced to class.

2nd and 3rd period thankfully went by as they normally did and Buffy met Willow outside her class and they made their way to the library.

"So, nothing weird happened?" Willow asked tactfully.

Buffy shook her head, "Nada-thank god." Then she remembered that she told Giles she'd come back at study hall-which was now.

"Ugh," Buffy said out loud and Willow looked at her, concerned.

"What?"

"I told Giles I'd come back for study hall. Great more time with the bleached va-" she quickly changed her word when a group of people passed them, "va-vacuum."

Willow bit her lip and patted her friends back, "It won't be that bad, there's no way he could ever know about the-you know," Willow hinted.

"Right, no way he could ever know," Buffy reassured herself as they approached the library doors.

Willow gave her a quick hug, "See ya," and darted off to class before the bell rang.

With a deep breath, Buffy pushed open the library doors and was greeted with the sight of Giles hunched over several books.

"Hey, I'm back," Buffy called and Giles looked up, "Oh. Good."

"Anything happen?" Buffy questioned, setting her bag down on the table.

"Well, erm, not really, um, Spike is still chained up in my office," Giles said then muttered, "And will not stop whining."

Buffy rolled her eyes, "I'll go see what he needs."

She walked over to the office and opened the door to see Spike still chained and looking incredibly bored, staring at the wall.

"Giles said you were whining. Do you need something?" Buffy asked crossing her arms over her chest pushing any thoughts of a certain dream out of her mind.

Spike sighed, "Well, I'd love to be out of these bloody chains, but since that isn't happening I could use some blood. I'm hungry."

Buffy glared at him, "We don't have any here, you're gonna have to wait till later."

"Right of course," Spike snarled.

"Well you're welcome to go and get it yourself, but I hear the sun's not really good for your complexion." Buffy told him.

Spike growled at her and tried to reach out and grab her, "I'm gonna fuckin' drain you dry Slayer."

Buffy snorted, "Please, is that the best you got?"

Spike tilted his head and looked straight into her eyes, "Untie me and I'll show you my best."

Buffy was so very tempted to do so and show him exactly how many ways she could kick his shiny white ass, "Please I'm dying for a good slay."

They held each other's gaze, eyes narrowed, daring the other to make a move. Buffy was about to say screw it and untie him when she heard a dreaded voice.

"Well Mr. Giles you certainly have some interesting books."

Buffy's eyes widened like saucers and hissed, "That's Principle Snyder!" She tried not to panic, she hated that little nazi.

Spike rolled his eyes, "That's lovely; I don't give a bloody damn. Come on we were gonna fight Slayer." He said loudly and Buffy slapped a hand over his mouth.

"Shut up!" She whispered fiercely, praying Snyder hadn't heard him.

No such luck. Uh oh.

"Mr. Giles, what was that?" Snyder questioned, clearly suspicious and moved towards his office.

"Er…that was my…um," Giles stuttered. Snyder frowned and opened the door to reveal the Summers girl standing besides a young man who looked like trouble and was smirking.

"Who are you?" Snyder demanded.

"That's…um…Spike," Giles supplied.

"He's Giles's nephew!" Buffy blurted, earning looks from Giles and Spike.

"He's helping out while he stays here for a few days." Buffy lied.

Snyder glared at the punk man named Spike who was eyeing him back.

"Yeah…my Uncle Rupes, nice man." Spike said sounding incredibly stupid in Buffy's opinion.

"We were just cleaning out Giles's office. I have a free period," Buffy said trying to make herself look good. Stupid principle.

"I smell something funny here," Snyder said and glanced between the two blondes, "I'll be watching you." and thankfully left without another word.

As soon as the door swung shut, Buffy tightened her grip on Spike's arm and pushed him back in the chair.

"Well that went well," Giles muttered.

"Yeah…Uncle Rupes," Spike smirked at the older man who just sighed and left his office back to the books.

"God you're so annoying," Buffy commented while tying the ropes extra tight and binding his feet.

"Yeah, you're amazing too Slayer," He said sarcastically while trying to wiggle out of the ropes.

"Stop it you asshole," Buffy hissed, pulling the ropes even tighter making Spike growl which started a whole new round of insults.

Giles poured over the Book of Sao (I have no idea what that is I just made it up) sighing as he heard Buffy's and Spike's voices in his office. Then he noticed an interesting passage.

'Binding spells are generally used in battle or for protection purposes however binding spells of the Druids are also, when performed during an intimate act, bind the two mentally and emotionally. The spell, however, must be consummated otherwise the pair find themselves physically ill and eventually they slowly become insane from separation from their mate. In modern times, most couples avoid these types of spells because of the deep connection and irreversibility of the spell once consummated.'

Oh dear, Giles thought and took of his glass and rubbed them clean. He knew it was imperative that the spell was broken as soon as possible, but the idea of Buffy become sick was too much of a risk for the Hellmouth. At least the spell would never be consummated, Giles thought positively as he continued to hear the bantering voices, but instead of feeling reassured, he felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Oh dear indeed.

At the sound of the final bell Buffy dragged herself to the library wishing she didn't have to deal with the stupid fucking vampire.

"Damn him," she muttered as she opened the door and dropped her stuff off. Time for training.

"Oh, hello Buffy, ready for training?" Giles asked as he came out from the locked cage.

"Yep, I just need to go back and change," Buffy began then realized said stupid fucking vampire was chained up in there. Great now she had to change in the bathroom. Buffy scowled, her mood going from bad to worse.

"I'll be right back," She said and went to change.

A minute later she was back, "Okay I'm ready."

Fifteen minutes later Buffy was working on her concentration, trying to balance herself on the table doing a hand stand. Giles was doing the soothing meditation stuff. All that 'be in your center', let the world fall away stuff. Slowly Buffy could feel herself drifting from her surroundings and all that was left was her.

The Slayer.

She could feel her power moving swiftly through her body, she could feel her…being.

Cool.

Spike, meanwhile was sitting in his chair, chained up no less and watching the stupid Slayer doing some Tai Chi rot. He yawned; bloody great this was, being all tied up and hungry. And no nice happy meals on legs! Only pig's blood for him while he was bound to Betty the Vampire Slayer.

He narrowed his eyes at the perky blonde, willing her to fall down, 'YOU STUPID FUCKIN' BITCH! FALL!'

Then to his amazement the Slayer let out a shriek and collapsed on the table and fell off. Spike let out a laugh as he watched her face redden and she glared at him through the window.

"You are so dead!" Buffy yelled, furious beyond belief. That stupid little…UGH! She had been so focused and actually getting the whole balance stuffy when Spike started yelling something about her being a bitch and fall.

She turned to Giles, "Giles did you see that? He made me fall and I was so getting it this time!"

Giles looked baffled, "Buffy, Spike didn't say a word,"

Buffy turned to glare some more at Spike who was still chuckling, "Fucker," she muttered under her breath and stomped into the office.

"I can't believe you did that! Asshole!" She hissed and punched him for good measure.

Spike growled, "Listen Betty I didn't do anything."

"You yelled and I fell down," Buffy accused, "And my name is Buffy."

Spike stopped laughing and looked at her like she was crazy, "You're off your rocker. I didn't say anything, ask Watcher."

"But I heard you…" Buffy trailed off and looked at Giles who paled visibly.

"What?" Spike asked.

"I believe you and Buffy are, er, linked telepathically," Giles speculated.

"We're what?" They shouted in unison.

"Psychically connected," Giles repeated, "Buffy direct your thoughts to Spike."

Buffy frowned and looked at Spike, 'I'm gonna fuckin' dust you.'

Spike smirked, "Yeah, you can try."

Buffy's eyes widened, "You heard it?"
"Loud and clear pet," Spike told her, "Now hear this." 'BITCH!'

Buffy winced at his 'loud' voice and replied, 'Please can't you do better than that? You're fucking chained up, what are you gonna do, rattle them?'

Spike growled, 'I'll show you chained up,' and proceeded to yank as hard as he could to pull him self out of the chains.

Giles watched with a mixture of annoyance and curiosity as the two blondes continued their silent fight, however he noticed the chains were loosening and decided to speak.

"For god's sake Buffy stop goading him," He demanded and Buffy had the decency to look sheepish.

"The two of you are stuck together for the time being. By Monday everything can return to normalcy but if you could refrain from killing each other until then it would be most helpful," Giles said clearly exasperated.

"Fine," Buffy and Spike responded not looking at each other.

"Good. Now-" Giles was cut off by the sound of the doors opening and Xander's voice calling out, "Giles? Buffy? You guys here?"

"Wait," The three heard Willow call, "Xander don't go-"

Willow's warning, however, was too late.

"Ah! Spike! Is here!" Xander yelped leaping back away from him not noticing the chains.

Then Willow came bursting in the room, "Sorry I couldn't stop him," she said apologetically.

Xander was starting to hyperventilate, "Evil dead guy-here and stop who?"

'Who's the whelp?' Spike silently asked Buffy, his 'voice' tinged with amusement and disgust.

'Xander and he's not a whelp.' Buffy told him before turning to help Willow calm him.

"It's a spell," Buffy explained.

"Spell? To what? Have Spike join the forces of good?" Xander asked sarcastically.

"No more like the spell we did outside of the warehouse accidentally bound Buffy and Spike together," Willow said meekly.

Xander's eyes widened comically, "We did this? And Buffy and Spike are what?"

"There, well, bound together for the time being, it's, erm, complicated but fortunately by Tuesday this shall all be a nightmare," Giles said then muttered, "A horrible nightmare."

"This is so not of the good," Xander said feeling the need to point out the obvious.

"Tell me something I don't know. At least you don't have to hear an annoying asshole vampire in your head."

"He's in your head?" Xander asked, jaw dropping.

"In your head?" Willow echoed his shock.

"Um, we found out that the two are physically linked by their thoughts, but we've only been able to determine they can still verbally abuse each other just as well as they would normally." Giles said dryly.

Willow had a pensive look on her face, "Wow. Imagine how amazing you two would be fighting. You'd be unstoppable!"

Everyone gave her a look.

"Just trying to be optimistic," Willow said defensively.

"Does this mean Spike is going to be hanging around us like Dead boy?" Xander asked.

"NO," Spike snarled, "I wouldn't hang around you sods if you paid me."

Angel! Buffy realized she hadn't spoken to him since the other night we're she'd blown him off. Great now she was losing her boyfriend too. And they'd just gotten past the whole 'me slayer you vamp' thing.

'Worried about Peaches? Don't worry, luv, he always sticks around for a pair of open legs.' Spike sneered making Buffy clench her fists in an attempt not to pummel him.

'Shut up Spike. At least I have someone,' Buffy shot back making Spike let out a low growl.

"Stop it," Giles ordered, "Buffy I want you to patrol tonight over in Restfield and Main Street. Call me if anything should happen."

"Yep." Buffy agreed and turned to Spike, "Come on, we're going." She quickly unchained him but kept a firm grip on his arm as they walked out of the library.

"Wills I'll call you later." She said to the redhead and yanked Spike out before he could threaten one of her friends.

Xander finally noticed the chains and the chair and turned to Giles with a suspicious look, "Hey G-man why do own a chains?"

Buffy proceeded to yank Spike along until he finally wiggled out of her grasp, "Stop pulling me you bloody woman, I'm going with you!"

"Just making sure," Buffy replied and started heading towards the cemetery.

"Where you going?" Spike asked.

"Patrol."

Spike grinned, finally some nice violence!

"I could definitely use a nice rough'n'tumble before bedtime." Spike said gleefully.

"You know," Buffy muttered under her breath, "So could I."

Three hours later the duo trudged back to Buffy's house.

"Bloody hell what was that?" Spike broke the silence. Buffy shrugged, "Guess demons really don't like me."

They'd encountered at least ten of the 'Slayer and vampire must die' demons before deciding to get out of there before more showed up. At first it had been kinda annoying then it got painful and really annoying.

At least, Buffy thought, she'd worked off all the excess energy since training. And none of the energy she had built up was because of Spike or that stupid dream that never happened earlier. Nope, just from training.

Spike was happy. Or at least as happy as he could be in his situation. He'd worked off the all the excess energy from sitting in a chair all day and none of it was from the Slayer, no all from the soddin' chair. He followed Buffy inside and started to go to the couch when he caught sight of Buffy bending over to untie her shoes and her delectable ass tilted up into his face. He smirked and gently moved pass her, making sure his hand brushed against the lower part of her ass near her crotch. Buffy straightened with a yelp and glared at him.

"What now?" He lied.

Buffy just narrowed her eyes and then marched up stairs. As soon as he heard the door slam and let a wide grin break out. He had to admit that teasing the bitch was just as much fun as fighting her.

He stripped his clothes off and tried to relax on the couch. Mind as well get some sleep.

Buffy put on her favorite pajamas and curled up in bed, trying to ignore her still tingling ass and pussy. Damn the stupid bleach vampire and his sexiness. Buffy groaned, great now she was calling him sexy.

Gah! She tried to get comfortable knowing she had school in the morning.

'Sweet dreams Slayer' She heard Spike's sing-song voice in her head. Slamming her face into her pillow to muffle her scream, she realized something.

It was going to be a long night.

(A/N: long chapter-hope you liked it- new one coming soon. I thought I was going to be done with this one a long time ago but I had a lot of trouble finishing it for some reason so I just kinda wrote it. Sorry if it isn't that great- the next one's gonna be good—promise.

Next chapter: Resisting You)

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