new love, lost love

Buffy made her way through the door of the magic shop followed by Spike who had smoke coming from under his blanket as he burst through the door. “Buffy hey” Xander looked up from the book he was reading and glanced at the blonde vampire “Spike, never a pleasure, what ya doin here?” Spike made a finger to him as he sat down at the table waiting for Giles.

“Anything come up?” Buffy leaned over to see what the book was he was reading, “No Buff, Sorry, Giles has been on the phone to Wesley again and they still haven’t found anything either” Buffy sighed and sat down next to Spike while placing a hand on his knee and giving a quick smile.



He thought he was going to combust at the happiness he felt at that minute, his slayer smiling at him like that and showing affection in front of the whelp and not seeming to care whether he saw or not, he never noticed but that didn’t make a difference to Spike. He looked at her flicking through a book and watched every movement, the way she tucked her hair behind her ears when she didn’t quite understand something and the way she poked out her tongue when trying to concentrate ((I wonder if shed kill me for biting that tongue right here with the boy sitting there)) he smiled without noticing it and failed to see Buffy watching him watching her.



(( I wonder if I should just kiss him right here in front of Xander, see what happens)) she started to laugh which caught Spikes attention but Giles came froe bae back of the shop stopping him from asking what was so funny. “Buffy, glad you’re here! I take it last night didn’t go according to plan” Buffy shook her head and stood up to go to him “He was a no show which isn’t all that surprising really seen as he never does whats expected of him” Giles nodded his head in agreement and took off his glasses to clean them “Yes, quite, I have been on the phone to Wesley again this morning and they’re still having no luck, I’m sorry Buffy” she smiled weakly and sat back down with a sigh. They all sat in silence which was probably a first for any of them and Buffy couldn’t take it anymore “Look I know this seems really hopeless at the minute but I will catch Angelus and if I have to kill him I will so can we all stop with the depressing silences which by the way scream Buffy’s gonna fall apart! I’m not, I’m fine and we’ll deal” with that she walked out the shop leaving the three of them stunned.



Buffy walked the streets of Sunnydale glad that it was daylight and Spike wouldn’t follow her, he had his blanket but he wouldn’t just go out not knowing where she was or how long he would have to staythe the sun for. She needed the time to think about everything, Angelus, her feelings for Spike, god what her friends were gonna say when they found out about her feelings for Spike. She shook the thought off and decided to deal with one thing at a time, “First things first, Angelus” she carried on walking with her head down and crashed straight in to Faith. “Whoa B where’s the fire?” Buffy looked up and found herself completely lost as to where shs, ss, she shook herself out of it and turned back to Faith “Oh hey sorry bout that just got stuff on my mind” she started to walk away with the dark haired slayer in tow.



“So wanna tell me why the name Angelus fell from your lips before you fell in to me?” Buffy didn’t even look at her and really didn’t want to have the conversation bhe whe was also smart enough to know that she would need Faiths help. ”Well that’s the stuff that’s on my mind” she laughed half heatedly and waited for a reaction, Faith never gave one so she carried on “He’s back” Faith whipped her head round to look at her “What? What do you mean he’s back?” she searched Buffys eyes for some hint that she was joking but she saw nothing and gestured for her to carry on.



After Buffy had finished the whole story including the parts with her and Spike knowing Faith wouldn’t judge her she stopped to catch her breath, “And that’s it, that’s what little we know?” Buffy nodded not knowing what else she could say.

“So you and Spike huh?” she laughed and put her arm around Buffys shoulders “Come on B I want the details” the relief washed over Buffy and she laughed out loud pushing the other slayer away “Gross Faith, come on we need to get back and get weapons before the sun goes down”.



Spikeew tew the underwear back in the draw with a chuckle when he heard the front door opening and headed for the stairs, “It wasn’t nice leaving me with the scoobies like that pet, oh Faith I was just uh, looking for Buffy see if she wanted help patrolling” he smiled uncomfortably till he heard his slayers voice from the kitchen “Its ok Spike she knows about us and I should have known you’d come straight here when I left” he felt the tension leave his body and his trademark grin appeared back on his face “Really luv? Is that why you didn’t come back here, bad slayer! So have you been telling her our dirty little secrets?” Buffy came through from the kitchen and Spike pretended to be hurt when she hit him in the arm. “No I didn’t, not for the lack of her asking” Spikes grin grew wider and he winked at Faith “Well luv, we could always show her, better still she could join in” Buffy was about to kick his ass when she realised that she was the only one in the room not laughing “Funny”, he kissed her gently and brushed her hair from her face “You’re the only one I want sweetheart”. Spike could have sworn her heart skipped at ant and he kissed her again, his tongue probing her mouth only to be interrupted by the doorbell, they both groaned and Faith shook her head “Got it!” she opened the door and turned to Buffy “Shit B, we have a problem”.