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well, I've finally updated, but guys, I really need idea for what should happen or there wont be a next chapter. I'm drawing a blank for all my stories. So if you want more stuff, give me some ideas – thanks guys!

Chapter Five :

"You mean you have friends? As in plural?" Spike asked mockingly, then quickly ducked as a glass went flying toward his head. "Cut that out! Fuck, what is with you and your friend attacking me!"

"What can I say love? Other then that you bring out the worst in us both. And yes, I have a few very close friends off campus."

"Ones who would kill me for you, right?"

Verena smiled slightly, sending a chill down the lanky young man's spine. "That's right. Though honestly, I don't think I'll ask them to kill you. I was told I only get one kill, and you are so not worth it wail Bush is still president..." a diabolical smile spread across her face as she got images, which I will not go into for fear of prison...

"You have a plan? Or is a condition to this that I come up with one?" Spike sneered, not liking the turn the conversation had taken. And to think he had thought Faye the real bitch! Verena was the worst type. Quiet but deadly when provoked.

"Yeah, but I have a feeling you already have one in the works. After all, you like getting bossed around even less then Faye. So I am willing to hear what you have plained, and then I'll help you clean up any loose ends." 'Rena grinned as if what she had said was the smartest thing since Einstein

"Well golly-gee, I wish I had come up with a plain to use another person's plain!" Spike mocked, his dual colored eyes wide in mocking innocence.

Verena merely smiled before slamming her knee into Spike's...ahhh, little buddy. He went down like a tone of bricks. 'Rena watched in fascinated horror as he withered on the floor as if dying. "Wow, dose it always work like that? Hey, stand up so I can try it again!"

"Finally showed someone else your bitch side I see 'Rena. Sorry Spike, had I known she was going to come here...has she threatened you yet?" when Spike merely nodded his head, still unable to talk, Faye sighed. "Verena, I thought we agreed to leave your gang friends out of college problems!" Faye bellowed to get her friend's attention. Grin had run off to get Faye as soon as he had left the room. The poor boy had no idea that 'Rena was fully capable of caring for herself in a scrap when push came to shove. That did not, however, stop her from running as fast as she could to Spike's room to save her, just in case.

"This has nothing to do with college and everything to do with you. We never said I couldn't bring them over to help handle friendship stuff. So get off that high horse of your's Faye." then noticing Grin for the first time next to her, glared angrily. "And Grin, close your mouth. What? You thought I was some sweet little thing? Guess that date is cancelled now hu?"

That pulled the black haired man out of his thoughts rather quickly. "Not on your life Verena. A deals a deal. Besides, I'm rather looking forward to seeing how you act when it's just you and me..."

Verena's face turned bright red at that and she quickly looked away. "Shut up punk. There will be a ton of people in the dinning hall for our 'date'."

Grin looked genuinely surprised at that. "Who said we were going to the dinning hall? I don't remember agreeing to take you there..."

"Where else would you take me?"

Shrugging his shoulders, he smiled. "Out."

"...The dinning hall is out. If you had side in, I would have expected vending machine food and --"

Faye covered her mouth and cried out as if in pain. "Don't you dare even talk of eat that crap again." Turning to Grin, and then to the slowly recovering Spike, she sighed. "She got really sick one month, when she had no room mate, and lived off the vending machine food. Which of course, made her worse. It was horrible! That was how we first met actually." (A true story – plus, the people at my college had been spitting in the dinning hall food. So...eww, no)

Grin looked at Faye, his blue eyes flashing angrily. "Faye, why was I not told 'Rena had been sick?"

Faye glared. "You think I wouldn't have gotten her soup or something had I known her then? It was before all of us knew each other! Besides, it's in the past, why should you care?" rasing her eyebrow, she waited for the answer she knew wold never come. Rolling her eyes toward the ceiling, she moved to help Spike up from off the floor, her hatred of him momentarily on hold because of the pain he was in. "I'm really sorry Spike. You're an ass, but no guy deserves a kick to the groin."

"Oh! That reminds me!" Verena shouted, turning toward Grim with her sweetest smile, she bite her bottom lip and took at step toward him, ignoring the fear slowly filling his eyes. "Grin...will you just stand there for a second?"

"...why?"

"I just want to test something out...please?"

"..." looking over at Spike, he noticed his friend shacking his head no violently. Turning back to Verena, he smiled back. "Only if you kiss it and make it better right afterwards..."

"I...you...pervert!" swinging away from him, she marched out of the room, muttering under her breath about finding someone who didn't know her so well to experiment on.

All three kept looking at the door long after she had left. Faye was the first to speak. "Wow, she didn't kick you out of spite. I'm shocked Grin. She must really like you."

"...Should I go after her, or would it be too dangerous right now?"

"Well, she will probably walk around until she finds some random guy to talk to, then she'll ask him if he minds if she tries something new on him and – hey! Where are you going!" but she was too late, Grin had already run out of the room shouting Verena's name, cursing about stupid women who should be locking in their rooms until they gained some comment sense.

Which left Faye and Spike together...alone. They looked at each other, then away. Then at each other again. They opened their mouths at the same time to speak, and quickly closed them again. They had nothing to argue over, nothing to fight about, and nothing to say that was not civile. If one of them started a conversation, it would be the first and only normal one they had ever had.

"I...I should go..." Faye finally stammered out, taking a step toward the door.

"Yeah...hey, did you really not send your friend here to beat me up?"

"No, I didn't. One minute I'm telling her what happened in the dens office, and the next she's gone. It took me a while, but I finally figured out where she had gone after I had finished packing. I'm really sorry Spike. 'Rena is very protective of her friends."

"I noticed."laughing slightly, he looked down at his lap and grimaced. "She has a hell of a kick. From the way you two had been acting at the party, I didn't think she could fight."

"She can't really. She knows how to fight, she just chooses not to."

"Wish she had kept to that mind frame today."

"Yeah, again, sorry. She had to pick tonight to try out one of the moves she was taught. And incase your worried, she wont call her friends down here...I don't think."

"...she was serious?"

Shrugging her shoulders, she turned toward the window. "She has a few very close friends that are into some...shady dealings. They all considers her this cute little kid who needs protecting, so, when she calls, they rush over to help her. Even though she's older then some of them, it's actually kinda funny."

"Funny, right..."

"Oh lighten up Spike! It's not like she meant to hurt you that bad. She's never kicked a guy their intentionally before. She had no idea it would hurt that much."

Glancing over at her, he shook his head. "Her other friend's aren't the only ones who think of her as a little kid apparently."

"Shut up...soo, do you have a plain to get us out of this mess?"

Laying out on his bed, he smirked. "I might..."

Faye waited, but when he didn't offer more of an answer, hummed and turned toward the door. "Fine, what ever, don't tell me. We're only comrades is all."

"We're not comrades Faye. We're not even friends."

"Yeah? Well we need to work together to get out of this mess, like it or not." and with that, she slammed out of the room in search of Verena.