Chapter 6 – The Whole Story
Spike and Buffy walked side by side through the second cemetery, neither one saying a word to each other since they left the house. Buffy couldn't help it, if the vampire wasn't gonna break the tension, she would. "So, that was a new kind of fun to have all my friends see us bump uglies." was that the best she had, oh god why did I say that… wishing she could take it back and try a new ice breaker.
Spike just chuckled "Well friends, and your little sis, maybe you were right luv, too much adult content for her."
"Oh God! I knew we should have kept her out of it. You're the one who told me she'd be fine!"
"Relax luv, she is, besides if she wasn't watching we mighta missed the ball of sunshine bit, and me betraying you to lead my own army."
"Yeah, what the hell was that about? You'd never do that."
"Dam right."
"So, what did you leave out?"
"What's that pet?"
"You clearly cut your stories way down, what did you not want to tell the group?"
"Well there was one story I didn't feel the need to share with the gang. I didn't share cause I knew it wasn't relevant to our problem at hand."
"Okay." She answered skeptically as she gestured him to continue.
"So back when Glory wanted Dawn, Riley stayed, you two were still together or somethin'," Spike gestured to Buffy "And him and his sneaky soilder-ness saved Dawn from the tower, before the portal could be opened, so you didn't have ta jump. And I think I died in that fight. The pane went dark after Dawn was saved." His displeasure clear on his face with that dimension.
"Oh," was all she could muster at first "So in an alternate reality Riley stayed, and saved the day?"
"Just think, if ya would've swallowed your pride you wouldn't hav' had to die." He tried to josh, Buffy tried to let out a chuckle, but was caught up thinking about her decisions. "Don't fret about it too much luv, nothing we can do about it now. Hell I spent the whole bloody summer coming up with all the ways I should have been able to save you."
A small smile escaped her lips "Yeah, I remember you telling me that. Right after you bashed your hands in to try and match my pain." Spike rubbed the back of his neck and rolled his eyes. "By the way, I know you lied to me when I came back."
He was taken back "'bout what?"
"You never crawled your way out of a coffin Spike." She raised an eyebrow expecting an admission of guilt but his face didn't change. "When Dru sired you, you didn't have a funeral."
"Oh, no wasn't stuck in a coffin then, But I have been locked in a coffin on other occasions. Once your ol' pal Angel did it to me to 'teach me a lesson'."
"Must not have worked."
"Not a lick." He smirked.
"Okay, so that's one story. What else did you neglect to tell the group for my sanity?"
Well here's your chance Spike tell her all the little details you loved to see unfold and see if she wanted them too… or see if she'd run away like this morning… "Well you heard what Anya said about those zoo-shrug demons, the pheromone stuff."
"Yeah"
"Well that makes sense, cause in that dimension I saved you from them cause you couldn't fight, then you were all over me. I brought you home and had you pleasure yourself with that little trinket under your bed. Then you were back to your normal self."
"Wait, I did that in front of you, because you wouldn't have me? In what dimension do you not want me? Cause to me it seemed like every single one of them you did." Buffy ranted, actually getting angry with the vampire.
"I always want you pet, but with the pheromone thing you didn't want me, you just wanted to shag. So I wasn't gonna take advantage of ya."
"Oh," Buffy calmed down "I get that. So what else?"
"Well that kept happening in that one, each time I save you then you get all hot and heavy, and I'd take you home to tend to yourself. Then one time you were on your own and three of them ganged up on you."
"They gang banged me?!"
"No luv, I came just in the knick and saved ya." Buffy breathed a sigh of relief for her other dimensional self.
"Thanks for that." Spike looked worried "What happened next that you look so nervous about?"
"Well with three of those ugly buggers, they knocked you out, too much of those pheromones I guess, so I ran you over to the pool, and ran you uner a cold shower. That woke you up but you were still all worked up, you started kissing and touching me, and… well I gave in. I made love to you." He sat down on a nearby tombstone "You didn't seem mad at me after that though… in case you are right now."
"I don't know," Buffy joined him on the rock. "I feel like I should be, but I mean it didn't really happen, none of it did, well most of none of it." She took a breath "But at the same time, all of it happened, somewhere, I mean that's how we were able to see everything." Then she became lost in her thoughts, clearly another dimension on her mind.
"Any niceties you wanna share luv?"
"Well, like the blood thing after thanksgiving, almost coulda happened, cause you were begging relentlessly and Angel had just pissed me off. But I knew what a bite could feel like… so obviously I didn't even wanna go there with my mortal enemy."
"Really, how'd you know the fire of a bite?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"Angel, Faith shot him with a venom that can only be cured by drinking from a slayer. So I made him drink from me, and it was, intense, and a bit erotic if I'm gonna be honest. Hence why I didn't actually give in and let you drink that day."
"Hm, you think if you had we'd be in that married dimension right now?"
"I knew you were gonna pry about that one," hoping he'd leave it at that.
"Com'on Luv, before you were shook back to reality, what'd you think?"
Staring down at her fidgeting hands she began to explain "Saw the house, loved it. Saw the beach, loved it. Saw the ring, confused but happy I found someone. Saw you wrap your arms around me, didn't believe it." She looked up at Spike's now downcast face "Saw your arms were around a pregnant belly, proud it was yours, & I didn't believe it more. Then after we went in the house and saw those two beautiful kids, I had to believe they were ours." Spike looked up "I mean that girl was the spitting image of you, your eyes, your cheekbones, I'd say your hair, but," she stroked his platinum blond head.
Spike chuckled, not taking his eyes off her "Well since we're being honest, the daughter's hair was mine too, naturally anyway." Buffy smiled and gave Spike a really? look, and Spike smiled back in turn. "But that little boy was all you Summers, your beautiful blond hair, hazel eyes, that cute nose."
"Ohhh!"
"What luv?"
"Nothing, just the boy looked familiar but I couldn't put my finger on who, and well, me duh!"
"Spittin image of his mum," they both were beaming at the thought, Buffy kept trying to picture Spike with curly brown hair, but it just wasn't coming. "I'd love to meet those kiddies someday, all three."
Reality was jerking her back, as the blushing grin left her face. "To bad that'll never happen in this dimension. Kinda need to be human to have the wife and kids thing work."
"Yeah, I guess," disheartened by the cold slap of reality "So that 'never' this morning still rings true, even after nearly every dimension telling you we should be together. That's not a logical enough reason for ya pet?" Easy Spike, you're gonna make her prance off. He could tell she was about to pop up, so he softened his words and continued. "I'm sorry luv, you throw me is all. This morning you're trying to tell me to stay away from you but now here we are patrolling and chatting like always, even reveling in the idea of our beautiful kids. But you still got that look like you wanna run."
"Kinda do," she admitted "How do you always know what I'm thinking before I do?"
"I know my girl, usually." After a moment, Buffy stood up
"Patrolling then?"
"Right pet," Spike stood and picked up the ax he had set down "Off we go to kill things."
"Willow?"
"Yeah, Dawnie?"
"You think they're gonna actually end up together?" The two were alone in the dining room, still researching the sunshine spell logistics, everyone else had gone to bed around 11:00.
Willow looked up from her book, "Who?" Dawn gave her that really? look the summers girls were so good at. "Oh, Spike & Buffy. Dawn I'm not sure you should be getting your hopes up for that, I know you like Spike but he's done a lot of damage, and he is a vampire."
"But they ended up together in most every dimension."
"Yeah, the ones where Spike didn't kill Buffy."
"The dimension I talked about, with the sunshine spell, that looked so easily like it could be a future for this one."
"Yeah, I get that, but they weren't together at the end."
"They were, I just didn't feel the need to expand on it." Willow looked a bit confused at the teen "I don't know exactly what she said cause I'm not a crazy good lip reader like Xander. But I'm almost positive she said she loved him, then she pulled him in for a kiss, that's when Xander threw the blanket on top. She was pulling him out of whatever trance or spell or whatever was controlling him, with, love! And after the uber-vamps were gone, and everyone else was celebrating; they stayed under their blanket, catching up."
"Dawn just cause you liked how it turned out there doesn't mean it's gonna happen."
"I know, I'm just asking what you think?"
"Honestly, after watching him attempting to rape your sister, it's different."
"Well, not to make lite of it, but if he had never done that, would he have gone to the ends of the earth to get his soul?"
"…I suppose not, since he hadn't up until then…"
"Look I didn't see any of the bad stuff, I just managed to see lots of sex, but they seemed to go together so well. I think, I mean it didn't look awkward…"
"They've always been a good match Dawnie, I think that's why they've never killed each other, neither one was really able to."
"I can see that, but I'm also gonna add that I think they've honestly loved each other, deep down from the moment they met. That's why it never fully worked with Riley, Buffy didn't commit as much as him, and not because of her slayer studies, me, or Mom."
"When did you get all insightful?" Willow asked, kind of astonished by the teens intuition on personal matters.
Dawn laughed "Spike asked me the same thing earlier." Just then the kitchen door opened and the aforementioned 'couple' strode in. "How was patrolling?" trying not to be too loud to wake the sleeping potentials.
"Eh," Buffy said as she handed her weapons to Spike who went to quietly put them back "One lousy vamp, no FIRST agents. Anything I should know tonight?"
"Nah, Dawnie & I are still working on the sunshine spell. Xander's got your list together, he'll go over it with you tomorrow."
"And, I guess Andrew and Anya heard a couple of things, but it's easier for them to explain it." Dawn finished.
"So this mean I actually get to go to bed?" Buffy asked excited as Spike slunk back in the room.
"Yeah, I think me and Willow are gonna call it a night too."
"Good idea Dawn, sleep for brain equals good." With that the braniacs headed for the stairs.
"Kay, I'll be right up just gonna grab a munchie."
"Night Buffy, Night Spike." Dawn imparted as she made her way up the stairs after Willow.
Buffy looked up at Spike after grabbing a small bag of chips and a water. "Well, thanks for the help Spike."
"You didn't need me to go with ya, Slayer."
"Not tonight so much, but I do enjoy the company." Spike gave her a curious glance, then she added, "And besides if we did find something super evil tonight I know you always got my back." Buffy started to pass Spike toward the stairs then stopped next to him. "Goodnight Spike." She said with a smile.
Spike reached his hand to her face, resting it against her cheek. Then stepped closer and kissed her free cheek and said a sweet "Night luv" into her ear then stepped away to let her pass. She walked on to the stairs, trying to conceal her school girl blush, Spike watched her as she went then descended to his cot in the basement. I think that went pretty well mate. He thought to himself with a smug grin.