Livin' Life in the Fastlane
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Adult ++
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21
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Race Against the Clock
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I own NOTHING (except for the plot*smile*)! Anything in this story that falls under existing copyrights belongs to their respective owners.
A/N
So back again on track to keep the show rolling. I finally got both of them to commitment, let’s see if it’s for the better or the worse (I know, I am so mean!! :D) Hope you like it, and please do not post any reviews (lol – when I’m not begging for them, more come in, now I’ll try asking for none, perhaps I get even more then!) Oh and for the record, only two chapters to come.
Hugs to all!
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Previously on Livin’ Life in the Fastlane:
Spike went out to retrieve his car. He finds it completely out of gas and is a bit pissed about it. Giles comes to the garage and offers a deal to solve Buffy’s and Spike’s problem with the backup ride.
Chapter 19: Race Against the Clock
After Buffy, Spike and Giles returned into the garage Buffy closed the gates so that they could work in peace. She didn’t need any customer to deal with now that the time was spread as thin as it was.
Giles offered to help with the cars before he had to return to his shop. So he and Spike went over to the Toyota Supra and started to take it apart piece by piece while Buffy went into her office to fetch the list with the overnight parts from Japan available at the different shops spread over the city of Los Angeles.
After she found it she fetched a notepad and a pen and went over to Spike’s Nissan Skyline and opened the hood. She bent over the engine and examined which parts they needed for the additional 200 horse power and whether they could be delivered in time or not. After she finished her work with the black beauty she went over to see what the men were doing.
She found them arguing over some technical details. Spike stood in the space where the engine had been short ago and it was quite an amusing scene. Spike arguing with a wrench in his hand, Giles cleaning his glasses with the already oil and dirt stained towel.
“And that’s were you are wrong Gramps, you may have the engine size but you don’t have the rpms. Ergo you can never accelerate as fast as my car and you can’t beat its maximum speed” Spike stated, the wrench still swinging in his hand while he talked.
“That is not right William” Giles countered “as for the bigger engine size I’ve got more torque and so I have better acceleration, and so I reach the maximum speed earlier and so I am faster.”
Buffy had to stifle the giggling that had started when she overheard the men. They were like little boys in the sandbox who argued over their excavators and which one was nicer.
She would have wanted to wait and listen some more and afterwards fall to the ground laughing but their deadline was approaching quickly and so she had to intervene with the two gamecocks.
“You are both right, and both wrong” Buffy stated, she wanted to make a compromise between the two males “Spike you are right about the rpms, but you are wrong about the acceleration. Giles, you are right about the torque but you are wrong about the speed” she laughed at the blank looks she got from both Giles’ men.
“Come on guys” she kept going “we are running a race against the clock. And if we spend too much time on the pit stops we can’t win.”
Both men apologized for their childish behaviour and returned to work while Buffy continued writing her list of needed parts with the Supra. She examined the engine for expandable parts that had to be replaced and other gadgets needed to make it fast enough.
Half an hour later Buffy was finished and went into her office and fired up her computer. She wanted to write down all details and ordering numbers so it would be easier for the salesmen and the parts would be there as fast as possible. She wrote down the numbers, the names of the parts and a letter that told the receiver how urgent it was.
After she finished she went out into the garage to where Spike and Giles were now standing, obviously finished with the Toyota. She gave the list to Spike and asked him to drive over to the shop a friend of her owned. She told him to make sure that the order would be made immediately and that he should take everything on the list that was present in the shop with him and back to the garage.
So Spike went to wash up a little bit and left the garage in his black Skyline to fetch the parts and place the order.
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A few minutes later
Buffy was busy taking the cylinder heads from the Supra engine when Giles returned from the bathroom.
“And Buffy, what do you think?” Giles voice waved through the garage.
“Huh?” she turned around to look at the elder Giles.
“Do you think you will have finished the cars in time?” he smiled at her.
“I honestly don’t know Giles, I don’t. It all depends on the parts delivered in time and our manpower to mount them” she smiled in return but some kind of uneasiness waved from her body.
“You’re scared” it wasn’t a question. It was a statement.
“Like shit” she answered honestly “But wouldn’t you be too if you were in my position? If your whole life and the life of the ones you loved where at stake and you have nothing to decide only to follow orders to save everything or lose everything wouldn’t you be scared too?” she answered her voice slightly trembling.
“I don’t need to be in your position to be scared” Giles answered pure honesty flowing from his words “I am already scared – err… you said like shit, I think – if not even more so. Because the lives of people that matter to me are at stakes and I am in no position to influence the outcome.”
“I am sorry… “Buffy said “I sometimes forget you are Spike’s father. You two seem so different. I am sorry and I understand that you must be scared too.”
“There is no need for an excuse Buffy” Giles kept on “I admire your emotional strength. I don’t think there are many people out there who would deal with such circumstances that well. If you were my daughter I would be more than proud of you. Although I am not your father, I can still admire you” he finished.
“Thank you” Buffy said with glistening eyes and gave the elder man a hug. “Where do the Giles men take the wisdom towards other people? What is it that makes you able to look at people and see what is wrong with them and to help only by saying the right words at the right time?” she asked.
“Family secret” Giles answered, a small smile lighting up his face before he took a look at his watch “I am sorry Buffy, but I have to go now. I have to return to the shop.”
“No problem, thank you for lending the car to me, and for your deal, why don’t you come to my office when this is over and we talk about the details of your car?”
“That would be great” Giles answered and after another hug left the garage.
Buffy returned to work at the Supra but was interrupted five minutes later by loud banging on the backdoor of the garage. She went over to open it and found one of Angel’s lackeys waiting on the other side of the threshold.
“What do you want?” she asked, annoyance clearly showing in her voice.
“These are the directions to where you are supposed to meet Angel tomorrow night” he handed her an envelope.
“Wait a minute, what do you mean by tomorrow. It was said three days from yesterday” she answered.
“I am just the messenger” the lackey somewhat grinned at the enraged woman in front of him “I just follow orders. I got the information to you, now the rest isn’t my business anymore. Have a nice day slayer” and with these words he left her standing in the door.
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Spike returned to the garage about half an hour later. He was in good mood, as he had two thirds of the needed parts loaded into his car and the other third would be delivered tomorrow first thing in the morning.
He parked his Skyline in the same spot it had been earlier and went in search for his beloved woman. He found her at one of the workbenches viciously striking at a piece of metal with a hammer. He enveloped her from behind and nuzzled her neck until she stopped her attack on the offending piece of metal.
“Hey, pet, what got you so upset?” Spike asked smiling slightly into her neck.
She handed him the letter from Angel and returned to kill the metal piece.
Spike opened the letter and read.
“Hello Slayer, you see I got a bit tired of waiting so we will be seeing each other tomorrow night 10:00 pm at the old docks. Make sure to be there.”
Spike folded the paper and returned it into the envelope. He then turned around to face Buffy and saw that her anger had dissipated a bit and she was able to have a normal conversation again.
“We won’t make it in time” she started but was interrupted by Spike kissing her.
“Yes we will” he answered firmly after breaking form the kiss “I have almost all parts in the back of my car and the rest will be delivered tomorrow morning. We will start immediately and except for the turbo the Supra will be finished by tonight.”
“It is already tonight, Spike” Buffy answered.
“Well, what can I say, I have never been that much of a sleeper” he answered and smirked a bit at her. She somewhat relaxed and they focussed back on the work and on the Supra. It would definitely be along night. Of that Buffy was sure.
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At 4:00 am Buffy went into her office to prepare some coffee for Spike and herself. They were almost finished with the Toyota. The engine was back in the car and started again, only with much more horsepower now. With the new turbo arriving tomorrow it would be the best backup ride they could ever wish for. She wondered if not for Giles what they would have done. Her mind found a path of its own and Buffy suddenly found herself musing about every real father being like Giles. She didn’t consider her own father a real Dad. She and her sister just weren’t any interest to him even after her mother died a few years ago.
She was brought out of her musings when she felt Spike’s arms encircling her from behind and blindly grabbing for a cup and the pot of now finished coffee. He laid his head on her shoulder while he poured the dark liquid into the cup and lightly bit the shell of her ear. Buffy suddenly had a hard time concentrating on anything. The most important thing for her at the moment was to remain standing upright, as her legs seemed to give out. And it wasn’t from the long day. No, that was completely Spike.
“So,” he whispered into her ear “how much hp are you about to give my dad?” he now was licking said shell.
“Well…” *Oh my god, he doesn’t think we will have a normal conversation if he keeps doing that, does he?* “with the new turbo mounted tomorrow it should have about 500.”
Suddenly Spike left her ear and turned her around to look into her face. Although it had been a rough day and she didn’t look as fresh as in the morning she was still most beautiful to him. Also that fact didn’t stop him uttering the next words.
“Are you insane? You will not give my father, a man in his midlife crises so much power. He will kill himself and innocents” Spike said.
“What? I even thought about mounting a bigger intercooler before we return it to him. Perhaps change the ECU a bit with Willow’s help. It should have about 650 then.”
“You will do no such thing. It is too dangerous…” Spike’s voice got a small edge.
“Oh and that’s all? Just because you say it is dangerous I can’t do it? What do you think, if I asked him how much hp your ride should have, do you think you could win against a shopping cart? You see Spike, I am kind of a service provider and so the customers wish is my command” she jumped on the train.
Spike’s eyes sparkled mischievously as she said those last words.
“I see” he took a step forward “so you’re a person who provides services?” his ramblings about the power of his Dad’s car suddenly completely forgotten as he found something much more interesting.
She nodded and his intentions weren’t lost on her. She gave a small smile.
“So you say, mmh, if I was a customer my wish would be your command?” a predatory smirk graced his lips. She nodded again.
Spike backed her into the small storeroom next to her office. In there he found the small spare bed they kept there for late evenings and gently placed her on it. He laid down beside her and stroke her bare stomach.
Buffy started to mewl like a cat and wriggled under his expert touch. His tongue once again found her ear. He knew it drove her mad with lust and so he proceeded to give it a thorough lick and small bite here and there.
She turned around to capture his mouth with hers and both of them lost themselves in that kiss and in the respective other. When they broke apart they were panting and Buffy laid her arms around his neck and pulled him down to whisper in his ear.
“Spike, please, make love to me” she said. The beautiful look of complete awe, passion and longing for her she found in his eyes told her that the feeling was mutual and so they made love.
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To be continued…
Upcoming: Chapter 20: Last Train Home
I own NOTHING (except for the plot*smile*)! Anything in this story that falls under existing copyrights belongs to their respective owners.
A/N
So back again on track to keep the show rolling. I finally got both of them to commitment, let’s see if it’s for the better or the worse (I know, I am so mean!! :D) Hope you like it, and please do not post any reviews (lol – when I’m not begging for them, more come in, now I’ll try asking for none, perhaps I get even more then!) Oh and for the record, only two chapters to come.
Hugs to all!
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Previously on Livin’ Life in the Fastlane:
Spike went out to retrieve his car. He finds it completely out of gas and is a bit pissed about it. Giles comes to the garage and offers a deal to solve Buffy’s and Spike’s problem with the backup ride.
Chapter 19: Race Against the Clock
After Buffy, Spike and Giles returned into the garage Buffy closed the gates so that they could work in peace. She didn’t need any customer to deal with now that the time was spread as thin as it was.
Giles offered to help with the cars before he had to return to his shop. So he and Spike went over to the Toyota Supra and started to take it apart piece by piece while Buffy went into her office to fetch the list with the overnight parts from Japan available at the different shops spread over the city of Los Angeles.
After she found it she fetched a notepad and a pen and went over to Spike’s Nissan Skyline and opened the hood. She bent over the engine and examined which parts they needed for the additional 200 horse power and whether they could be delivered in time or not. After she finished her work with the black beauty she went over to see what the men were doing.
She found them arguing over some technical details. Spike stood in the space where the engine had been short ago and it was quite an amusing scene. Spike arguing with a wrench in his hand, Giles cleaning his glasses with the already oil and dirt stained towel.
“And that’s were you are wrong Gramps, you may have the engine size but you don’t have the rpms. Ergo you can never accelerate as fast as my car and you can’t beat its maximum speed” Spike stated, the wrench still swinging in his hand while he talked.
“That is not right William” Giles countered “as for the bigger engine size I’ve got more torque and so I have better acceleration, and so I reach the maximum speed earlier and so I am faster.”
Buffy had to stifle the giggling that had started when she overheard the men. They were like little boys in the sandbox who argued over their excavators and which one was nicer.
She would have wanted to wait and listen some more and afterwards fall to the ground laughing but their deadline was approaching quickly and so she had to intervene with the two gamecocks.
“You are both right, and both wrong” Buffy stated, she wanted to make a compromise between the two males “Spike you are right about the rpms, but you are wrong about the acceleration. Giles, you are right about the torque but you are wrong about the speed” she laughed at the blank looks she got from both Giles’ men.
“Come on guys” she kept going “we are running a race against the clock. And if we spend too much time on the pit stops we can’t win.”
Both men apologized for their childish behaviour and returned to work while Buffy continued writing her list of needed parts with the Supra. She examined the engine for expandable parts that had to be replaced and other gadgets needed to make it fast enough.
Half an hour later Buffy was finished and went into her office and fired up her computer. She wanted to write down all details and ordering numbers so it would be easier for the salesmen and the parts would be there as fast as possible. She wrote down the numbers, the names of the parts and a letter that told the receiver how urgent it was.
After she finished she went out into the garage to where Spike and Giles were now standing, obviously finished with the Toyota. She gave the list to Spike and asked him to drive over to the shop a friend of her owned. She told him to make sure that the order would be made immediately and that he should take everything on the list that was present in the shop with him and back to the garage.
So Spike went to wash up a little bit and left the garage in his black Skyline to fetch the parts and place the order.
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A few minutes later
Buffy was busy taking the cylinder heads from the Supra engine when Giles returned from the bathroom.
“And Buffy, what do you think?” Giles voice waved through the garage.
“Huh?” she turned around to look at the elder Giles.
“Do you think you will have finished the cars in time?” he smiled at her.
“I honestly don’t know Giles, I don’t. It all depends on the parts delivered in time and our manpower to mount them” she smiled in return but some kind of uneasiness waved from her body.
“You’re scared” it wasn’t a question. It was a statement.
“Like shit” she answered honestly “But wouldn’t you be too if you were in my position? If your whole life and the life of the ones you loved where at stake and you have nothing to decide only to follow orders to save everything or lose everything wouldn’t you be scared too?” she answered her voice slightly trembling.
“I don’t need to be in your position to be scared” Giles answered pure honesty flowing from his words “I am already scared – err… you said like shit, I think – if not even more so. Because the lives of people that matter to me are at stakes and I am in no position to influence the outcome.”
“I am sorry… “Buffy said “I sometimes forget you are Spike’s father. You two seem so different. I am sorry and I understand that you must be scared too.”
“There is no need for an excuse Buffy” Giles kept on “I admire your emotional strength. I don’t think there are many people out there who would deal with such circumstances that well. If you were my daughter I would be more than proud of you. Although I am not your father, I can still admire you” he finished.
“Thank you” Buffy said with glistening eyes and gave the elder man a hug. “Where do the Giles men take the wisdom towards other people? What is it that makes you able to look at people and see what is wrong with them and to help only by saying the right words at the right time?” she asked.
“Family secret” Giles answered, a small smile lighting up his face before he took a look at his watch “I am sorry Buffy, but I have to go now. I have to return to the shop.”
“No problem, thank you for lending the car to me, and for your deal, why don’t you come to my office when this is over and we talk about the details of your car?”
“That would be great” Giles answered and after another hug left the garage.
Buffy returned to work at the Supra but was interrupted five minutes later by loud banging on the backdoor of the garage. She went over to open it and found one of Angel’s lackeys waiting on the other side of the threshold.
“What do you want?” she asked, annoyance clearly showing in her voice.
“These are the directions to where you are supposed to meet Angel tomorrow night” he handed her an envelope.
“Wait a minute, what do you mean by tomorrow. It was said three days from yesterday” she answered.
“I am just the messenger” the lackey somewhat grinned at the enraged woman in front of him “I just follow orders. I got the information to you, now the rest isn’t my business anymore. Have a nice day slayer” and with these words he left her standing in the door.
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Spike returned to the garage about half an hour later. He was in good mood, as he had two thirds of the needed parts loaded into his car and the other third would be delivered tomorrow first thing in the morning.
He parked his Skyline in the same spot it had been earlier and went in search for his beloved woman. He found her at one of the workbenches viciously striking at a piece of metal with a hammer. He enveloped her from behind and nuzzled her neck until she stopped her attack on the offending piece of metal.
“Hey, pet, what got you so upset?” Spike asked smiling slightly into her neck.
She handed him the letter from Angel and returned to kill the metal piece.
Spike opened the letter and read.
“Hello Slayer, you see I got a bit tired of waiting so we will be seeing each other tomorrow night 10:00 pm at the old docks. Make sure to be there.”
Spike folded the paper and returned it into the envelope. He then turned around to face Buffy and saw that her anger had dissipated a bit and she was able to have a normal conversation again.
“We won’t make it in time” she started but was interrupted by Spike kissing her.
“Yes we will” he answered firmly after breaking form the kiss “I have almost all parts in the back of my car and the rest will be delivered tomorrow morning. We will start immediately and except for the turbo the Supra will be finished by tonight.”
“It is already tonight, Spike” Buffy answered.
“Well, what can I say, I have never been that much of a sleeper” he answered and smirked a bit at her. She somewhat relaxed and they focussed back on the work and on the Supra. It would definitely be along night. Of that Buffy was sure.
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At 4:00 am Buffy went into her office to prepare some coffee for Spike and herself. They were almost finished with the Toyota. The engine was back in the car and started again, only with much more horsepower now. With the new turbo arriving tomorrow it would be the best backup ride they could ever wish for. She wondered if not for Giles what they would have done. Her mind found a path of its own and Buffy suddenly found herself musing about every real father being like Giles. She didn’t consider her own father a real Dad. She and her sister just weren’t any interest to him even after her mother died a few years ago.
She was brought out of her musings when she felt Spike’s arms encircling her from behind and blindly grabbing for a cup and the pot of now finished coffee. He laid his head on her shoulder while he poured the dark liquid into the cup and lightly bit the shell of her ear. Buffy suddenly had a hard time concentrating on anything. The most important thing for her at the moment was to remain standing upright, as her legs seemed to give out. And it wasn’t from the long day. No, that was completely Spike.
“So,” he whispered into her ear “how much hp are you about to give my dad?” he now was licking said shell.
“Well…” *Oh my god, he doesn’t think we will have a normal conversation if he keeps doing that, does he?* “with the new turbo mounted tomorrow it should have about 500.”
Suddenly Spike left her ear and turned her around to look into her face. Although it had been a rough day and she didn’t look as fresh as in the morning she was still most beautiful to him. Also that fact didn’t stop him uttering the next words.
“Are you insane? You will not give my father, a man in his midlife crises so much power. He will kill himself and innocents” Spike said.
“What? I even thought about mounting a bigger intercooler before we return it to him. Perhaps change the ECU a bit with Willow’s help. It should have about 650 then.”
“You will do no such thing. It is too dangerous…” Spike’s voice got a small edge.
“Oh and that’s all? Just because you say it is dangerous I can’t do it? What do you think, if I asked him how much hp your ride should have, do you think you could win against a shopping cart? You see Spike, I am kind of a service provider and so the customers wish is my command” she jumped on the train.
Spike’s eyes sparkled mischievously as she said those last words.
“I see” he took a step forward “so you’re a person who provides services?” his ramblings about the power of his Dad’s car suddenly completely forgotten as he found something much more interesting.
She nodded and his intentions weren’t lost on her. She gave a small smile.
“So you say, mmh, if I was a customer my wish would be your command?” a predatory smirk graced his lips. She nodded again.
Spike backed her into the small storeroom next to her office. In there he found the small spare bed they kept there for late evenings and gently placed her on it. He laid down beside her and stroke her bare stomach.
Buffy started to mewl like a cat and wriggled under his expert touch. His tongue once again found her ear. He knew it drove her mad with lust and so he proceeded to give it a thorough lick and small bite here and there.
She turned around to capture his mouth with hers and both of them lost themselves in that kiss and in the respective other. When they broke apart they were panting and Buffy laid her arms around his neck and pulled him down to whisper in his ear.
“Spike, please, make love to me” she said. The beautiful look of complete awe, passion and longing for her she found in his eyes told her that the feeling was mutual and so they made love.
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To be continued…
Upcoming: Chapter 20: Last Train Home