"You told them what?!" Spike and Willow shouted in unison.

"Well, actually, I told them that I was living with my brother William and his wife Willow because Mrs. Garret would have totally flipped if I told her that my brother's name was Spike, I mean come on..." Dawn trailed off when she realized that both Spike and Willow were staring at her. Actually, Spike's was more of a glare and Dawn found herself avoiding his steely gaze.

"Dawnie," Willow began slowly. "You told them that Spike and I were married." The redhead took a deep breath in a vain attempt to control the mixture of anger, shock and surprise that was threatening to erupt. She didn't want to be angry with Dawn, but she didn't know any other way to respond to the huge bombshell that had been dropped on her.

"Nibblet, Did you for get one little thing?" Spike asked gently. "I'm a sodding vampire!" He yelled.

"Spike." Don't yell at her." Willow chided him, replacing her anger from Dawn to Spike.

He stared at Willow. "You got to be kidding me, Red. You aren't seriously agreeing to this."

"I never said that, Spike. I told you not to yell at her." Willow said logically.

"It's the same sodding thing!" Spike could believe that Willow was actually defending Dawn.

"No, Spike, it's not. You can be angry with Dawn, just don't yell at her." Willow insisted. She couldn't believe how stubborn Spike was being at the moment.

"Bloody hell!" He yelled in frustration.

Willow made sure her resolve face was firmly in place before responding. "Or swear at or around her."

"Luv, I'm-" Spike began.

"You better not evil, Mister, because you're not." Willow said firmly as she put her hands on her hips.

"Willow. Red. Pet. Reputation, remember?" Spike pleaded not wanting to hear, yet again, how he wasn't evil.

"I'm sorry, but it's true." Willow said with a sigh.

Dawn stared at Willow and Spike wordlessly. 'Do they not see it? Do they not know that they do that?' "Oh my God. You guys, would you stop it?" Dawn finally said interrupting their argument.

"Bloody hell." Spike complained.

"Spike." Willow began.

"Stop it. Please!" Dawn said throwing her hands up in the air. "You don't see it, do you?"

"See what?" Willow asked confused as she looked around the room.

"You two." Dawn said waving her arms around again.

"What about us?" Willow asked as she looked over at Spike only to see that he was staring at her.

"You sound like an old married couple!" Dawn exclaimed with an exasperated sigh.

"Do not, Nibblet." Spike protested as he tore his eyes off of Willow and looked at Dawn again.

"Yes, you do. You guys could so pull this off!" Dawn said excitedly.

"Um, Dawnie, I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, but even if we did agree to this and I'm not saying I am or anything, but how would we get Spike inside with out him turning all flamey?" Willow asked.

"It's Back-to-School Night." Dawn said with a smile.

"Oh, Bloody Hell, Bit. Back-to School Night?" Spike said with a groan. "There is no bleeding way I'm going to another Back-to-School Night."

"Another?" Dawn asked confused.

Willow began to giggle. "Because at the last one you ended up being hit in the head with an ax?"

Spike groaned before an evil smile lit up his features. "Weren't you locked in a closet with the cheerleader?"

This time it was Willow's turn to groan. "Don't remind me."

Dawn stared at them. "Okay, do I even want to know?"

"No." Willow and Spike said in unison.

"Fine." Dawn said as she slowly began to back out of the room. "It's Thursday at seven."

"Wait a minute, Bit. We never agreed to this." Spike said, stopping Dawn in her tracks.

"I was hope you'd forget that part." Dawn said sheepishly.

Just as Spike was about to say something else a thought came to Willow. "Hey, Dawnie, what exactly did you tell them? I mean, they had to know that Spike really wasn't your brother. "

Dawn smiled a big smile. "It was actually one of my better lies. Well, right after graduation, Buffy went back to LA where she had lived when she ran away. She came back right before classes started with Sp-er-William, her husband. It threw the whole family into chaos. And then after they had been married for about a year, Will met her best friend, Willow, and fell in love. Buffy knew about her husband's feelings for Willow and in a passion boinked her ex-boyfriend, Angel who also happened to be William's older brother. They were divorced, and then mom died. But on her will she left me to Buffy and William. And when Buffy died, I moved in with Willow and William who had been married a month before Buffy died."

Willow and Spike stared at Dawn. "You told them... that?" Willow finally asked.

"Yup." Dawn said proud of herself.

"And they believed it?" Willow asked still shocked about Dawn's story. 'I'm the other woman! Well, not me, because I'm not the other woman, but the other Willow that the school expects to see on Thursday was the other woman.'

"Yup." Dawn said with a smile. "They believed every word."

You've been watching too much Passions, Nibblet." Spike said with a chuckle.

"Actually, I prefer All My Children. Our lives are too much like Passions anyways." Dawn said sagely before realizing that Spike wasn't angry any more. "Wait, are you saying that you'll do it?"

Spike sighed and looked over at Willow. "What do you think, luv?"

Willow sighed, looked at Spike and then looked back into Dawn's pleading eyes. "We'll do it. We'll pretend to be married."


TBC

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