My pardon for posting so late, it is later that I intended to post this certainpost. I've been a bit busy with my grandparents here and trying to find a job, so I've been in a more bored mood which let me tell you isn't condusive to writing, It might take a few days or even a week for me to write enough to post again. Please bear with me.

Novonia

Chapter 5

A bedraggled Spike steps though the door with a smiling Dawn behind him. Spike places the many bags decorating his arms onto the dining room table and Dawn follows suit. 'Six hours! I cannot believe we just spent six hours shopping for clothes, accessories, and school things.'

Spike and Dawn had went to an 24-hour mall in another city (by cab) to get all the different things that Dawn and he would need in the upcoming months of their stay in England. Of the eleven large bags on the dining room table only two were Spikes. Since they had eaten at the mall just before they had left Spike didn't feel the need to cook anything. "Well, this vamp is going to go to sleep, if you would please at least sort though everything before you do Dawn. I'll have breakfast ready for you in the morning, g'night luv." Spike picks up his two bags and then walks up the stairs to his rooms. He lays the two bags on a side table and then turns to lock the door leading to the small landing and stairs. He then proceeds to strip while he heads towards the large master bathroom and turns on the multi-head shower. After he is clean he turns the shower-heads to massage and then turns around and lets the water pound into his back, relaxing him immensely.

Spike turns off the shower and dries off before he heads to the bed and slips under the dark red, silk covers.

The next morning Dawn wakes up to the smell of sausage and pancakes, she stretches and slides out of the bed. Slipping her feet into the fluffy slippers she placed there the night before. She pads out of the room in her long nightgown and heads towards the kitchen, miffed by the darkened room she reaches over the sink and opens the blinds.

Spike nods to her when she comes into the kitchen, realizing that she stayed up later than usual last night. He jumps when light floods the room from behind him and Spike whirls round to the open window, where sunlight is now streaming in. "Dawn!"

Dawn jumps in reaction to Spike yelling at her, then she realizes that she had opened the blinds in full view of spike. She turns to look at him, and her eyes widen at what she sees. "Oh my God Spike!" She waits a few seconds for him to get it, then when he just stares at her she yells. "Your not burning, your sun-proof!" Dawn hugs Spike as he stares at the open window and the sun for the first time in over a century.

Then he catches a whiff of burning pancakes, "Pancakes." he says as if it would explain everything and he turns around in Dawns hug and flips the burning pancakes over. When he turns back he happily picks Dawn up a few inches off the ground and hugs her.

"How, why, when?" Dawn asks.

"I dunno bit but I think it has something to do with this ring that Dalton sent to me." He says showing Dawn the ring that graces his right middle finger. Dawn shrugs and continues to hug Spike, happy for him that he can be in the sun.

.After breakfast Dawn and Spike decide to hit the shops of the small town of Seacroft. When dressed and ready they meet in the foyer and head out to the road, for Spike it was a revelation being in the sunlight again reveling in the warmth of the suns rays. He walks next to Dawn the town only being about a short mile or two away from their house, when they get there Dawn immediately spies a little clothes shop and looks pleadingly at Spike. Spike ruffles through his wallet and extracts two twenty dollar bills. "Go crazy, and stay there until I come for you."

Dawn snatches the bills from his hand and says. "Of course." She then walks towards the shop and enters through the single front door.

Spike then walks up the rest of the street until he spots an art supply store, he heads over in that direction. He enters the store though the single front door and takes a look around. His hand reaches for the small basket to the side and then begins to go down the isles, every now and then reaching for an item and placing it in the basket. When he is finished the basket is completely full and some canvases of varying sizes underneath an arm. He heads towards the register and then points through the glass counter top at several packs of quality drawing pencils. "I want three of those and these." He places the basket and canvases on the counter top.

"Are you sure man, those things are expensive." The teenager whistles when Spike nods and then begins to scan everything though the system. Total price was more than what he had spent on Dawn yesterday, Spike takes out his checkbook from his duster pocket and writes him a check for the amount. The items are placed in various cloth bags and Spike thanks the man and heads out of the store, just as a woman was entering it. Spike accidentally bumps into her, "Sorry luv, I dinnit mean to bump into ya'."

The woman turns back to Spike, her blonde hair catches the sun and makes it look like gold. "No, I'm sorry it's my fault I'm like naturally clumsy or something."

"The names William, but everyone calls me Spike."

"Elizabeth, but everyone calls me Buffy, nice to meet you Spike." Buffy turns and walks back into the store.

"Nice to meet you too… Buffy."

tbc… (for the one that asked, I am still not sure as to what Dawn will start calling Spike - though I'm leaning towards Will)