AN: I'm depressed and bored and can't get to sleep, so I wrote this, enjoy and review

Prompt 2-Middles

Pairing: Buffy/Spike (or course:P)

Note: This can kinda carry one from the last one-but maybe like a prequel *shrug*

Buffy was torn. Though she wouldn't admit it to anyone, in specific Spike, the allure of the darkness he offered was tempting to say the least. On the other hands, there were her friends. Her life long companions who, no matter how much she would like to believe otherwise, would not accept her relationship with the soulless vampire. She was caught in the middle of a rock and a hard place, though in reality each side was sufficiently more comforting. On one hand a bunch of friends who basically thought she was superman, and on the other hands man, a vampire, who could make her heart and body sing like no one else could. The decision was not made any harder by the fact that she was like two completely different people when she was with her friends and then Spike. How could you pick? How could you decide between yelling to the world you were in love with a vampire who didn't even know you loved him yet, or breaking his heart and telling him never to breathe a word of what happened between them under penalty of a good staking and dusting.

The two options made her sound like such a monster, and once again proved how different she was when she was with Spike compared to how she was with her friends. Should she go crazy in love with him or threaten to kill him? They always say go with your gut instinct. But Buffy just couldn't because it's always changing. When she was with her friends she loved them and when she was with Spike she loved him and hated them.

Dawn stumbles into Buffy's room, without knocking of course, and carrying a massive box with and equally massive ribbon on top. Buffy was positive where it came from, and knowing it made her stomach and mouth both expand in unison causing her belly to feel full of butterflies and a giant smile to land on her face. She leapt up and snatched the present out of Dawns arms.

"Buffy, you know you're kinda psychotic, right?"

Buffy looked up somewhat bleary eyed and out of focus. "Huh?"

"You. You act like you hate Spike when clearly you don't. I mean, it's not like I don't know what you're doing at night, and you go all swoony whenever he's near and he does love you and he has that whole bad boy thing going for him and he's really sweet and really romantic and he's actually..."

"Dawn!" Buffy cut in, and it would've sounded angry if it wasn't for the giant smile."Thank you! I just realised something." And with that Buffy took off leaving a stunned Dawn in her wake and an unopened present which Dawn then decided was her duty to unwrap and eat.

For Buffy, however, this was the least on her mind as she hurtled into Spike's crypt and leapt onto his lap, not caring about the mug of blood she spilt.

As soon as her eyes met his adorably cautious face she couldn't help but laugh and wrap her arms around his neck.

"I've finally figured it out Spike! I'm not in the middle anymore!"

Spike had no clue what this meant, but he joined her happiness nether the less and squeezed her back just as tightly as she was squeezing him.

Still not tired :(

PurpleIvy: Thank you for the review :) And yeah, expect more of the great Spuffy flavour :D

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