lovers dance

“Oh God” Buffy picked herself up off the floor and buried her head in Spikes shoulder trying to hide from Mr Giles praying he wouldn’t recognise her, “Dad I can explain this” Giles laughed out loud and took his glasses off cleaning them furiously “Really William, you can explain to me why you and one of my students are going at it like rabbits in my library because I’d really like to hear that one” Spike looked at the floor trying to come up with a reasonable excuse and failing. Buffy could feel him tensing his arms and she knew he didn’t know what to say so she decided to speak, “Mr Giles, I… we were…” she was cut off by the older man raising his hand to silence her “Miss Summers I suggest you go to your next class, the bell will be sounding any second now, I will talk to you after school” he gestured for her to go and she looked up at Spike to make sure he was ok, he gave her a little smile and made the same gesture as his father “Go on pet, I’ll talk to you later” she smiled awkwardly and practically ran out of the library.



“Da, listen, we..”



“Don’t even try it William, god knows your old enough to cavort with whomever you choose but not in my library and not with a 17 year old student” he realised he was attracting attention from a couple of other students who had appeared in the library for their free period and he lowered his voice “Seriously William you have no idea how disappointed I am, she is a nice young girl but she is 17 do you know what she would have had to put up with if you two were caught today by someone other than me? Do you? High school students can be cruel William you you should know that better than anyone”

Spike stood there in silence but cringed at his fathers last comment, he was picked on a lot in his early years of high school for being a geek, it was only when he got together with Dru that he got noticed for being hot. She completely changed him, cut off his curly brown hair and bleached it blonde and dressed him in tight jeans and T-shirts giving him a knowing look when the other girls stared at his muscled body.



He brought himself out of his thoughts, not wanting to think about Dru and looked up at Giles “Da I’m sorry ok, don’t blame Buffy for this I made all the moves but I really really like her, I’m not just doing this for fun I swear” he looked at him pleadingly wanting his blng, ng, he never really took much notice about what his dad said to him but he realised he could fall in love with the blonde teen and he didn’t want anything or anyone to ruin it for him and he especially didn’t want his dad giving Buffy a hard time, she was embarrassed enough. Giles looked at him searching for some sign that his son was lying to him but he saw nothing but the sincerity in his eyes, this was the first time ever that William had asked for his approval and he qui quite moved by it, ‘Maybe Buffy will be good for him’ he thought, “Ok William I’ll let this incident go but I don’t want you messing her around, if you mean what you say then I will not stand in your way but I don’t want to find you both being err… intimate on school grounds again is that understood?”

Spikes frown grew in to a genuine smile and he hugged the older man “Thanks Da, I promise we wont go at it in the school again” he smirked at the look on Giles’ face and ran out of the door grinning leaving Giles standing there in disbelief “Dear god what have I done”.



Buffy got through the rest of the afternoon with dying of embarrassment, she had told Willow what had happened and her friend promised to help her get out of school un-noticed. They were just going through the doors when she heard the voice she had dreaded all afternoon “Miss Summers can we have that word now” she turned bright red again as she looked at Giles motioning for her to follow him in to one of the classrooms. “Wish me luck Wills and if you see my head exploding just send in the janitor to clean the room and tell everyone I said goodbye”

“Come on Buffy it wont be that bad, just nod and smile while thinking of Happy thoughts” at Buffy’s look which clearly said ‘Yeah right’ she giggled and went to walk away “I’ll call you tonight, good luck”.



She made her way nervously I to the classroom and set bookbooks down on the desk in front of her, she suddenly wished she hadn’t as Giles began to speak because she realised she didn’t have anything to fidget with to distract her. “Buffy, I know what happened today will have been embarrassing for you but we do need to have this talk. I discussed this with William earlier as you know and I have decided to give you both my blessing”



“Giles I know we shouldn’t have done what we did but please don’t make me stop seeing Spike I swear we wont do anything in school again it was just something that happened that we didn’t plan on but…. Hang on… did you just say you give us your blessing?”



Giles laughed softly and he realised what it was William saw in this girl, “yes Buffy I did, William assures me that this thing between the two of you is not just some fling that will be over with in a week but you are right about one thing you said, there will be no cavorting in school, apart from that I don’t see why you and William cannot continue seeing each other as long as you tell your mother about the relationship, she needs to be ok with you dating somebody older than you” he chuckled again at the look on her face, “Buffy”

“Ok Ok I’ll tell my mom but just so you know she has already met Spike and she seemed to like him so it shouldn’t be a problem, thanks Giles but I really have to go, I have dance class in half an hour, see you tomorrow” she picked up her books and headed for the door but before she reached her destination she ran back and hugged him “I mean it Giles, Thank you”.