Coo Coo Ca-Choo

Spike shuffled through the door to his and Xander’s room shortly before dawn. It was a school and work night or he would’ve stayed at Buffy’s. He collapsed onto his bed in an exhausted heap. Not three hours later, the alarm clock was blaring and Xander was yelling at him to get his ass out of bed for class.

“Come on, Sleeping Beauty. Class in 30 minutes.” Xander shook his shoulder.
Spike moaned and rolled over squinting his eyes open.
“Thata boy.” Xander grinned. “Late night again, eh? That chick is gonna be the death of you”
“I’m up...I’m awake” Spike mumbled.

Spike slowly raised himself up and swung into a sitting position on the side of his bed. He yawned and stretched and rubbed his eyes into focus.
“Gonna go take a quick shower, mate” Spike grabbed his bathroom accessories and a towel.
“Better make it real quick. You’ll be late” Xander told him.
“Well, I can’t very well go to class smelling like I’ve been screwing all night” Spike said.
“Thanks. Just rub it in. Spike gets all the hot monkey sex and Xander lays here watching re-runs of Star Trek and eating stale donuts all night.nks,nks, buddy” Xander pouted.

“OH! That reminds me. Got a message for you, whelp.” Spike grinned and dug into his pockets for the piece of paper Buffy had given him.
“Here, mate. Hot monkey sex awaits you” he smirked.
Xander took the paper and saw the words “ANYA” and a cell and home phone numbers on it.
“Huh? Wha?” Xander began.
“You know that odd little chit, the orgasm one from the night we ran into Buffy at the pizza parlor?” Spike asked him.
“Yeah...she was hot an oan old chick” Xander answered.
“She’s not old. She is around Buffy’s age...anyway...she has the hots for you man, asked Buffy to give me her numbers there for you” Spike explained to him.
“Seriously?” Xander said with disbelief.
“Dead serious. She wants you. Call her, mate. Now, I need to go shower, be back in 10” and with that Spike was out the door.

Xander sat down in his desk chair staring at the piece of paper with a goofy smile on his face.

Buffy sat at her desk in her office looking at her laptop. She was supposed to be working but instead she was browsing the AA website looking for local locations. She had promised Spike she would and after all the times she let him down before, she needed to do this. She found a place within a couple miles of her apartment so she wrote down the number and address on a pad of paper and then stuck it in her purse. They had meetings that very night at 6:30 so she decided she would just go there from work.

She went to stand up from her desk and winced then smiled as last night’s memories flooded her with heat. Her ass and pussy were sore and raw but it was worth it. She wasn’t sure at first if he had it in him but he sure proved her wrong. Her sweet little William turned into sexy little Spike when he was playing with her. It never ceased to amaze her after the past few months how he could be almost like a completely different person when he was in “the zone” as she dubbed it yet still the same, if that made sense. It was like he still had that sweet shyness leftover from William but had added the sexy confidence of his new persona, Spike. He was two delicious packages all rolled up into one.

“Thank you so much, Buffy!” Anya shrieked bringing Buffy out of her daydreaming.
She turned to find Anya walking from the door to her desk.
“Umm..You’re welcome...what did I do?” Buffy inquired.
“Xander called me! I just got off the phone with him. We’re having dinner tonight. And after I hope to follow it with much anticipated orgasms! Thank you!” Anya walked over to where Buffy was standing and threw herself into her arms giving her a giant hug.

Buffy awkwardly hugged her back and then pulled away.
“I hope you’ll be very happy together. I gave William your numbers last night. He must’ve given them to Xander today.” Buffy smiled.
“I need to take the rest of the day off to get my hair and nails and makeup done. Also I need to buy a new outfit. Yay!” Anya bounced away as chipper as can be.
“Have fun” Buffy called as her door closed.

Spike dozed off as his professor recited his lecture.
“Mr. Giles! Am I so utterly boring that you cannot stay awake?” a loud booming voice jolted him out of his nap.
“No! Sorry. Sir! Uhh..I didn’t get much sleep last night” Spike squeaked out turning bright red as all heads in the lecture hall turned to him.
“I dare hope that it was studying that kept you up so late, Mr. Giles. Did you learn anything from your “late night studying”?”, his professor air-quoted obviously implying more than he was saying.

Spike straightened himself up more, trying to be more confident. He looked his professor in the eye and stated in a suggestive tone, “Yes, indeed. I learned A LOT.”
The rest of the class giggled and the professor looked annoyed.
“Well, Mr. Giles, I suggest the next time you decide to...uhh...”study” late at night, you keep in mind that you have classes to attend with professors who don’t like wasting their time lecturing to sleeping students!” he reprimanded him.
“Yes, Sir. Class will be the first thing on my mind when I’m.....uhh...studying.” he smirked.
That gained another round of giggles and laughter from the other students.
“Now, as I was saying...” the professor continued his lecture.


Xander was waiting for Spike when he got out of his last class.
“Will!...Spike!” he shouted over the crowd of students.
“Hey whelp, what’s up?” Spike said.
“You won’t believe it! I got a date tonight! A real honest to goodness date! I need your help, man.” he told Spike.
“Help?” Spike inquired.
“Yeah, seeing as your the old pro now, what am I gonna wear? I need to borrow your car too” Xander started.
“WHAT? You want me to let you take my baby? Uh NO” Spike refused.
“Oh..please..come on man...I have to pick Anya up at 7 and how am I gonna pick her up if I don’t have a car? Please Please Please” Xander put on his puppy dog face.
“Christ....errr....grrrr...alright! But if you so much as put one scratch on her....” Spike warned him.
“I promise. No scratches.” Xander smiled.
“And don’t have sex in her either.” Spike informed him.
“No car sex. Gotcha.” Xander replied.
Spike sighed, “Alright then, come on and let’s get you all frillied up, mate”.
The two men walked back to their dorm unaware of a pair of cold eyes following them.

Buffy stood outside a smarickrick building holding a piece of paper in her hand with an address on it. Guess this is it, she thought to herself. It’s now or never, Buffy. Be strong. You’re a big girl. She psyched herself up and entered the building.

Two hours later Buffy was having coffee with a fellow meeting member. He had been wonderful to Buffy in making her feel comfortable at the meeting and with the introductions. She had stayed behind after the meeting was over to get some information pamphlets from him and talk some more. He offered to go next door to the coffee shop that resided there where they could continue their discussion as the building the meetings were held in was locking its doors for the night.

“...and so I finally quit and started AA and I’ve been clean and sober for 5 years, 3 months and 12 days now” he finished telling her his story with a smile.
“Wow. That’s great. Congratulations. I’ve been clean and sober for 2 days...and it’s been hard..” Buffy began.
“It is very hard at first. Heck, Buffy, it will always be hard in some way but it won’t be quite so bad after you get through the first part and if you’d like, I’d be happy to be your sponsor. I’ll do everything I can to help you be a sss.”ss.” He smiled.
“Wow..well...umm...yes..that would be nice. Thank you” Buffy smiled back at the handsome man.
“Da da di do da da di do” Buffy’s cell phone chimed.
“Sorry, excuse me” she said to the man across the table from her.
“Hello”
“Hello beautiful.” Came Spike’s accented voice.
“William! Hi...” Buffy smiled into her phone not noticing the man across the table flinching at her saying another man’s name.

“I just got to your house. Used the key you gave me last night to let myself in cause you weren’t here. Where are you? It’s after 9.” Spike questioned her.
“Oh..well..you’ll be so proud of me. I went to my first AA meeting tonight after work..” Buffy started.
“You did? That’s greluv.luv. I’m proud of you” Spike commended her.
“Thanks sweetie. Anyway...I stayed later to get some pamphlets and information since it was my first meeting and then one of the other members and I came next door to get some coffee and talk about it. I was just getting ready to leave. I’ll be home in 20, O.K.?” she explained to him.
“Alright. I’ll be here. Have you eaten? I’ll make us something for when you get home” Spike offered.
“Sure, I’m starving. Sounds good. See you soon. Love you.” Buffy smiled.
“Love you too, pet” Spike hung up the phone.

“Sorry...that was my boyfriend. I need to get going. Let’s exchange numbers if we’re going to do this sponsor thing” Buffy told her new friend.
“Sure thing. I didn’t realize you were involved. Is your...boyfriend in the program or have a problem with alcohol too?” he inquired.
“William? No. He barely drinks at all and doesn’t like me drinking that much either. He has been very supportive.” Buffy told him.
“I see” the man said. “You call me anytime you need to, Buffy. Day or night.”
He handed her his information and took hers in turn.
“Thanks! I appreciate everything you did for me tonight” Buffy stood up and gathered her purse and coat.
“It was my pleasure, Buffy. I’ll see you soon.” He smiled.
“Bye, Angel” Buffy walked out of the coffee shop and made her way home to Spike.

Continued in Chapter 16- Losing It