Title: Babysitting Duties 2/?
Author: Forsaken2003
Pairing: S/X
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: I own none, all belong to Joss Whedon
Comments: Always welcomed!
Summary: Spike and Xander babysit Dawn for the weekend.
Warnings/Spoilers: Season 5.
Beta'd by: Unbeta'd
Prompt #496 from tamingthemuse- Illuminate
Note: From now on most of my tamingthemuse stories will be named as the challenge.
After dinner Dawn put the dirty cups into the empty dishwasher. "What are we going to do now?"
"What do you want to do?" Xander asked.
"Can we go to the Bronze and play pool?" Dawn asked excitedly. Buffy never let her go with.
Neither Spike nor Xander felt like going out. They were hoping for a quiet night with Dawn going to bed and having a make out session before going to sleep themselves. "Maybe tomorrow night," Xander said. At least that gave them time to prepare. The Bronze had a tendency of attracting trouble.
Dawn pouted for a minute. "Can we watch Bring It On and make s'mores?"
"Sounds good to me," Spike said ignoring Xander waving his hands from behind Dawn's back.
With a squeal Dawn rushed off to find the graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate while Xander walked closer to Spike.
"Do you have any idea what you've done?" Xander hissed in Spike's ear.
Confused Spike said, "Yeah, we're going to watch an action movie!"
Xander shook his head. "It's a teeny bopper movie, babe. About cheerleaders."
"I… no it's not!" Spike hissed at Xander. Xander was always playing jokes on him. He waited for Xander to laugh. He didn't. "Why didn't you sodding say anything?"
"Why did you think I was waving my hands arounds like a crazy person? And if you say because I am a crazy person I'm going to slap you," Xander threatened.
Spike glowered and mumbled, "you don't know me."
Xander ignored him and went to start the fire. He heard Spike wander off to find Dawn. Probably to beg to watch another movie. There was no way Dawn was going to change her mind.
By the time Spike and Dawn came into the living room the fire was lit and the flames illuminated the living room.
"Spike, you already agreed!" Dawn said as she carried the bag of large marshmallows. Spike carried the box of graham crackers and chocolate.
"But I didn't know that it was about cheerleader," Spike moaned.
Dawn rolled her eyes and dropped the bag on the table before going to pop the DVD into the DVD player. "You should have asked before agreeing so eagerly than."
"Xan," Spike whined. "Can't we overrule this?"
"Like Dawn said. You agreed now we must both suffer," Xander said. He watched as Spike flopped onto the couch pouting like a… well Dawn. "Does that mean you don't want s'mores?"
"Make me one?" Spike asked.
Dawn sniggered at Spike. He was just so adorable. Not that she would actually tell him that. She may be his 'little bit' but that didn't mean he wouldn't find some way to get back at her.
"Yes, babe," Xander said sounding put out by the request but they all knew he was pretending. Xander loved doing little things for Spike.
After stuffing themselves silly with sugar all three of them sat on the couch watching Bring It On. Spike sat in the middle while he was sandwiched in between Dawn and Xander. Their warmth felt amazing.
While Dawn seemed to be enjoying the movie immensely and Spike was drifting in out from the movie to that morning when Xander woke him up so nicely he noticed that Xander's heartbeat seemed to increase every time the dark haired girl with an attitude came on screen. He leaned closer to Xander and whispered in his ear so not to disrupt Dawn. "What's wrong, pet?"
"Nothing," Xander whispered back. He could feel Spike staring at him not believing him. He sighed softly. "It's just the actress who plays Missy looks like she could be Faith's twin. It's really eerie."
Spike remembered the stories and could understand why Xander was on edge. Though he hadn't met Faith in her body he remembered her little spiel to him. At the time it had made him hard as hell but when he got together with Xander and he had told him what Faith had done to him all that flew out the window. "She's in jail now," he said soothingly. "And if she ever got out I'd die before letting her hurt you."
Relaxing Xander kissed Spike. A full blown make out session was about to start but Dawn interrupted them by poking Spike in the ribs with a pointy finger. "Oi!"
"As much as I love watching you two suck face," Dawn said ignoring their disgusted looks at the term 'suck face'. "But I am trying to watch this movie and you're distracting me."
"Never tell your sister you love watching us make out," Xander ordered. "She'd give us a huge lecture about being more responsible when you're around."
"I won't as long as you guys stop it right now," Dawn said in a tone that sounded eerily like Buffy.
With a huff Spike realized it was going to be a long weekend.