Buffy felt like her heart had just exploded; she never realized how amazingly gentle his voice sounded and how much she had missed it. They stood there, lost staring into each other's eyes as a few people across the street walking by turned to stare. Spike raised a hand to brush her honey blonde hair away from her face, he let his hand run a line across her cheek before letting it fall to embrace her in his arms again.
"So um…that wasn't what I was expecting." Spike smirked a little. "I mean the kissing…not the beating I knew that was coming." Spike chuckled and Buffy let a smile spread wide across her face. It had been so long since he had seen her truly smile and it was the most beautiful thing in the world to him. "You really should smile more often luv, it makes you look ten times more amazing then you already are." Spike admitted letting his eyes admire her facial features.

"Well….i guess now I will have a little more to smile about, that is of course if your planning on staying." Buffy said, the smile leaving her face immediately at the thought." Spike cupped her face in his hands and pulled her face to make sure she was staring into his eyes.

"Buffy…I will never leave again, until the day you tell me you want me to leave town again, I'm stuck in good old Sunnydale." A genuine smile spread across his face, she pulled out of his embrace and stood there hugging her arms tight to herself. "So…you wanna walk and talk a lil' or you gotta go back to Dawn?" Spike said, his arms shoved into his pockets.

Buffy rocked back and forth on her feet for a moment, "I think I can spare a little time." She said softly, Spike put out his hand and Buffy placed hers inside of it as they began to walk down the street.

"So…What have the Scooby Gang been up to while I was away…"

Willow sat in the kitchen watching Dawn make herself a quick meal of macaroni & cheese, while Willow sat fiddling with her cup of coffee.

"So….you think Buffy really went off and found him…she probably just ended up beating the crap out of him again, she likes to do that…" Dawn paused to stir her noodles.

"I can honestly say that I have no idea what is going on, and trust me Dawnie it is driving me as nuts as it is drive you, but…Buffy will make the right decision, we both know that." Dawn nodded in agreement, making two bowls of food and setting one in front of Willow and herself. They ate in silence, both wondering when Buffy was going to walk through the door. Willow volunteered to do dishes since Dawn had cooked and half way through she heard the front door open and then close.

Willow stopped doing the dishes, wiped her hands, and went into the hallway to greet Buffy, the last thing she expected was to see the bleach blonde vampire standing next to her and both of them laughing as if they were old friends. Willow cleared her throat a little and Buffy and Spike turned to look at her. Spike nodded in her direction and Buffy gave her a smile and that was the only reassurance Willow needed.

"So, I take it everything is wonderful and sunny with you two again." Willow said returning Buffy's smile and Spike's nod.

"Well, I don't know about the whole sun thing pet, but things are definitely getting along better than before." Spike chuckled.