Summer Getaway by: chosenfire
Spoilers: BtVS Season 6, VM Season 2
Disclaimer: I own none of it, Joss Whedon and Rob Thomas do(not the singer)

Answer to the Trauma Girl Challenge by littleoldme
BtVS/Veronica Mars.
After the events of the Veronica Mars Season Two finale, Veronica attempts to deal with the aftermath of discovering that she was raped. Her personal journey ends up with Veronica in Sunnydale (or wherever the Scooby Gang is anchored in your timeline), and the Scoobies help Veronica to deal with her past.

Requirements:
Veronica interacting with some combination of Buffy, Willow, Dawn, Xander, Spike, Anya, Giles, etc.
Another Veronica Mars canon character following Veronica to Sunnydale (bonus if it's Logan or Wallace).
Veronica and Buffy (or Dawn) exchanging life stories and comparing emotional battle scars.

Bonus:
Set the fic immediately after Spike's attempted rape of Buffy, and examine the parallels between Buffy's life and Veronica's.
Have Anya offer to bring Cassidy back to life, just so she can go all vengeance demon on him.
At some point, bring Mac into the fic.

AN: To met the challenge some time was changed, this will be purely Spuffy, Angel wouldn't fit will into this story and Spike and Logan have a lot of things in common.

Chapter 2 Soul

This night, like every other on the Hellmouth, was still and empty.

Buffy twirled the stake biting her lower lip muttering under her breath "I am so bored."

She had only dusted one vampire so far and it hadn't even been satisfying because the fledging hadn't put up much of a fight.

Buffy felt a familiar tingle go down her spine and her chest tighten as her senses focused on him nearby.

She had last felt him a little over a month ago and that day still haunted her, what had almost happened, what he had almost done to her.

Buffy closed her eyes tightly against the memory…Spike.

"Buffy!" she heard a voice whisper in the quiet of the night and her eyes sought out the huddled figure on the pavement cloaked in the shadows, hiding in the dark.

"Spike." the word hung in the air filled with so many different conflicting emotions: hope, fear, concern, and confusion. She moved forward and he looked up at her. Once peroxide blond hair sleeked back now loose and curly, dark roots bleeding through the fading blond bleach.

"What happened to you?" she asked softly being careful to keep her distance from him fear still lingering in her heart.

"I tried to find it, of course" he explained softly and she was confused "Find what?"

Spike looked at her like she was crazy "The spark. The missing... the piece that fit. That would make me fit." then shook his head blond hair becoming even messier and even more tangled.

Buffy could feel her confusion growing and she pleaded with him "Please tell me Spike, tell me what happened to you."

"Buffy, shame on you." Spike laughed softly his voice filled with more pain then humor "Why does a man do what he mustn't? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would never…" he looked away from her in shame his voice becoming softer. "to be a kind of man."

Buffy forgot her earlier fear kneeling down beside him her warm palm caressing his cool cheek. At first he flinched away but calmly she kept the contact moving closer to him her green eyes locking with his chaotic blue ones.

"Spike its okay." she soothed him "Just please, tell me."

"I saw a demon about a girl." his eyes clouded with pain "to make amends, to make things right again."

He became more agitated "Angel…" he spat out the name "he should've warned me. He makes a good show of forgetting, but it's here, in me, all the time. The spark."

His eyes locked with hers once again "I wanted to give you what you deserve, and I got it. They put the spark in me and now all it does is burn." and she understood.

She saw the way his black t-shirt slipped aside to reveal multiple scratches over his heart, like he was trying to dig something out.

"Your soul." Buffy whispered softly her eyes filling with tears and Spike laughed dryly "Bit worse for lack of use." his eyes haunted with the over a hundred years of pain and misery he had inflicted.

1630 Revello Drive

"So what do you want Buffy?" Xander asked the Slayer with a grin coming into the Summer's house after Buffy had called him over.

Buffy approached him her expression grim "I need a favor." and his eyes followed hers to where Dawn sat on the couch Spike head cradled in her lap as he slept, his face troubled with nightmares the youngest Summers hands stroking his hair.

"Buffy?" Xander asked a dozen questions with her name his heart conflicted knowing what she was asking of him.

"I don't know how" Buffy told Xander softly "but he has a soul now and he's hurting so much." She looked over at the vampire "I'm not ready to… its hard right now."

She turned back to Xander pleading with him "Can you take care of him for me please. I can't lose him."

Xander looked at her then looked back at the vampire he had hated for so long, but he should know, better than others, that people changed. Sadly Spike was the closest thing he had had to guy friend since Jessie and Buffy needed him to do this for her.

"There is a couple of extra rooms at my apartment." Xander told Buffy " Plus I'm like a master vamp sitter."

The next day…

"C'mon Dawnie." Buffy yelled up the stairs glancing at her watch "Willow's plane lands in an hour and I would actually like to be on time for something once."

Dawn rushed down the stairs "Veronica wants you to call her back and I'm going over to Xander's apartment tonight."

"Why did Veronica call?" Buffy asked as the made their way to the car their mom had left them.