Hello, all! I was a lot busy lately. Work sometimes sucks! Ehehehehe… Here it is! Enjoy!
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Spike was furious. Buffy arrived three or four days ago and he could not get to her. He wanted to explain things properly because one year before she just vanished out of thin air after their improper meeting at their future apartment. She had to understand that he was a man. She was not giving him what he wanted. He had to get it elsewhere, but he loved her. He wanted her back. He would show her just how much he wanted her and apologize for what he did back there. He left his thoughts when the front gate started to open and a car came down. He could not believe his eyes. It was his Buffy with an unknown man.
- Buffy! Buffy! I need to talk to you.
He tried to run for the car, but one of the security men held him.
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Buffy heard William "Spike" Whedon say her name and she felt sick. How dare he want to talk to her after what he did? She knew he tried when she disappeared out of nowhere, but Sean and Mary, and her friends did not tell him where she went. She knew Sean broke his nose in a fight when he came around.
- Who is he?
Buffy turned from the window to look at Angel. Could she tell him about Spike?
- My ex. I caught him with his secretary in our *future* bed in our *future* apartment. He wanted to test drive the bed, I guess, and since I wanted to wait for the big day he just found someone else willing to.
- I'm sorry. It seems… he wants you back.
Buffy gave a sarcastic laugh.
- He better stay away from me. Nothing he says to me will change that day one year ago. It was… it was one week before our marriage.
- Now, I want to break the bastard's face… can I?
Angel pouted and Buffy found difficult to hold her smile.
- Sean already did it.
- Really? I have to thank him. So, you decided to go away.
- Yeah. We kind of had a big… fight… and I skipped. It was one of the few times I left Cordelia's parents really take care of me. I wanted to go away and so they helped. One day later, I was in my way to Europe.
- For you to run away, it must have hurt a lot, huh? Spike did something more, didn't he?
- Y-y-y-yes. He wanted to explain, but I just wanted to leave the apartment. He hit me in front of his lover. I threw everything I found in him and left him there. When I arrive at home with my face hurt Sean… well, let's just say I don't want to see him angry that way again. He called Spike's father to call off the marriage thing. Spike showed up and he knocked him up.
- Why are you smiling?
- Sean is a kind man. One of the best I've know. I did not see it, but Cordelia and Willow were at home and they said Sean punched Spike right in the face. He just opened the door and hit him straight. He picked Spike up by his shirt necklace and threw him around like a little doll. Everyone was surprised, except for Mary. Later, she said Sean was an amateur boxer. Can you imagine Sean at fifty-two beating the crap out of a twenty-nine Spike. I can't think about it without smiling.
Angel flashed her his loop sided smile.
- Now, let's leave the past where it belongs. The past. Where are you taking me?
- Huhhhh! I have a friend, his name is Wesley, and he and his brother Xander have a really nice restaurant near Santa Monica's pier. They are actually my in-laws. Xander is married with my sister Anya. I have to thank him for being a wedding planner because it was his wedding I was planning. Wesley will be an in-law in the end of the year. He is engaged with my other sister, Fred.
- The helper in the wedding?
- Yes. We are going to the restaurant to eat and then how about we go to the pier?
- That's nice. A walk in the beach would be good too. Tell me more about your family.
- My mother and father, Joice and Ethan, are married for thirty-three years. I have two sisters, Anya and Fred, and two brothers, Connor and Rupert. Connor is twenty, Fred twenty-five, Anya is thirty and Rupert thirty-one. I am twenty-seven.
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- Hey, can you take your hands off me? Who you think you are? Do you know who I am, Gunn. Take your paws of my clothes.
- Or what? I work here, Spike. You are not welcome here, but you still come around. Hoping to be beaten a little more? Mr. Chase wants to talk to you.
Spike turned around to see Sean Chase coming down the pathway. He straightened up and looked the man with some respect. He still remembered the last year.
- What are doing here?
- Look, Sean. I came to talk to Buffy.
- William. Leave my daughter alone. If she tells me as much as an "a" of you… if you come near her I will found a legal way to keep you away. Harassment is a felony, you know?
- I just want to talk to her.
Sean moved near Spike and straightened up so the young man could feel his power… and anger.
- Spike, it's been a year. You were the wrong side in this…
- but… but… Sean, you are a man, you know that we crave certain things and she wanted to wait. I just wanted it… Surely you…
Spike never finished want he was going to say because Sean picked him up by the shirt necklace.
- Don't say it… I've never ever cheated on my Mary… when she was my girlfriend, fiancée and now that she is my wife. You don't know anything about honor, what is a shame for your father who is a good man. I'll advice you again to move on. She already did. Nothing you do or say will change it.
Sean released Spike, turned around and left. Spike looked at Gunn who just smirked at him. He left for his car. They could hide Buffy as much as they want. He would talk to her.
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Buffy was having a really good day. Wesley and Xander, Angel's in-laws, were funny to be around. For a while, she talked with Anya and Fred about marriage stuff for Fred. Angel was in the kitchen of the restaurant helping the brothers.
- So, Angel is a cooker?
- Oh, yeah! One of the best. Believe me... you have the best luck ever...
- Thanks.
- So, are you too serious?
- I don't know... he didn't say anything so...
- It is serious.