Chapter 13
Buffy towered over the young man as f he were a piece of meat. He had just robbed a old women and Buffy had seen him. He was in big trouble now, Buffy placed her hand on his chest and the young man went up in flames. He was dead.
Buffy's friends stood there in horror, had they just witnessed their friend kill a human being?
"Buffy." Dawn stepped forward. Buffy faced her little sister and shimmered away.
"Great we lost her." Anya said as if blaming Dawn.
"It's not you're fault Dawn, we can find her again. We just need some bait." Tara was the first to look at the jeep that pulled up at the side of the curb. Out of the drivers seat fell a very battered and topless Spike.
Everyone ran to him and crowed round him.
"Spike?" Xander asked unsure what had happened to him.
"Hey, where's Buffy?" Spike looked from each of the gang. "I got something to tell her. I got myself a soul."
All the gang looked shocked as the vampire laid there.
Xander and Giles laid an unconscious Spike on the bed in the cellar. Xander and Giles then made their way to the kitchen where everyone was whispering about the newest situation.
"Do you think he's telling the truth?" Dawn asked Xander and Giles as they sat down at the table.
"I don't know."
Giles took his glasses off his face and began cleaning them with a handkerchief he kept in his pocket. "There's no clear way to tell."
Suddenly the sound of Spike screaming at nothing made everyone in the kitchen jump.
The gang came running down to the cellar and saw Spike arguing with what appeared to be nothing.
"No you're wrong." Spike was shouting to the air.
"There wrong!" Spike let out one last scream before Giles shot him with a tranquiliser gun. Spike dropped back down to the bed and was sleeping like a baby.
"What was that?" Dawn asked when the gang were once again seated in the kitchen.
"I think Spike really has a soul." Giles looked amazed as the others found it hard to follow what he just said.
"How you know?"
"Because, when angel was cursed with a soul he was forced to remember all the lives he had taken. I think Spike was doing just that."
"Maybe we could use him as bait?" Tara shocked the gang by such a ridiculous idea.
"No, that's not a good idea. He's not well."
"But think about it, Buffy loves Spike he's one of the reasons she turned into a demon. I few can get them both to spill their guts about their feeling towards each other. Maybe, just maybe we can save both them and still have time to save Willow."
"Lets get to work."
"Buffy."
Buffy heard a familiar voice behind her and turned around. There, stood in front of her was the man who had made her into what she was. Spike.
"What are you doing here?"
"Come to save you."
"I don't need saving."
"Now your been stubborn pet. Always were though weren't you?"
"I don't need saving." Buffy repeated before throwing a fireball at Spike. Spike ducked and smirked.
"Now that's what I love about you Buffy. Always know when to play rough."
Buffy fired another shot at Spike followed by another, but Spike ducked and they all missed.
"I love you Buffy."
"Shut up."
"What, is that what you've been running away from?"
"Shut up. Shut up. Shut up!"
Buffy fired more and more fireballs at Spike but all missed, she threw herself to the ground and began to cry.
Spike moved closer and held her in his arms; she began to turn back to normal Buffy, but still had tears rolling down her face.
"I love you."
"I love you too." Buffy replied and looked Spike in the eyes.
"Then why didn't you tell me?" Spike smirked and kissed Buffy on the top of her head.
"Cause, I was scared."
"Scared of what?"
"Scared of people judging."
"Buffy, to hell with them. Who cares? Anyway, I got a surprise for you. I got a soul Buffy."
Buffy looked Spike in the eyes and before they knew it they were locked in what seemed to be an endless kiss.