"Some Day My Prince Will Come"
Summary: Buffy and Spike have been friends for as long as they can remember, till one day that line is crossed and Buffy finds herself pregnant. She is sent to live with her older sister Faith to have her baby without ever getting the chance to tell Spike about the baby or how she really feels. Will Spike find a way to get to Buffy or will she always wonder if some day her prince will come.
Prologue
August 9, 2002
"Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a beautiful princess named Elizabeth. Now Princess Elizabeth had everything she could ever want. She lived in her beautiful kingdom on the hill in the magical place called Sunnydale where she knew everyone and was liked by all.
One day Princess Elizabeth was out for a walk when she ran into her best friend Prince William who was the most handsome prince in all the land. Princess Elizabeth had always had a secret crush on him but was too shy to say anything. They walked together and talked about how they both wanted to run away and find their own dreams and not have to live up to what their parents had planed for them. As the night grew dark, they both found they didn't want to go home, so they found a spot to lay and look at the stars. They both drifted to sleep and awoke to the castle guards staring at them. Princess Elizabeth was swept away back to her castle where her Mother waited for her return. When Princess Elizabeth arrived, her Mother was very angry. She had found out that the Princess was alone with Prince William all night long and that she was secretly in love with him. Therefore, to punish her she locked her daughter away in the tallest tower of a castle in a far off land away from Prince William.
Princess Elizabeth was heartbroken that she didn't get a chance to tell the Prince that she loved him or where she was. Princess Elizabeth sat in her tower day in and day out waiting patiently for the day that Prince William would come and rescue her from her prison.
Now most fairytales end with a happily ever after, but for Princess Elizabeth she still sits and wonders if some day her Prince will come."
Buffy sat with tears in her eyes and her hands protectively wrapped around her slightly swollen tummy as she told her fairytale to her unborn child wondering how she ever got into the situation in the first place, then she remembered 'him' her best friend in the whole wide world.
'Spike'
As she sat in her room in her sister and brother-n-law’s home late that night Buffy couldn't help but smile at the memory of the one night they shared that would change both their lives forever. She walked over to her window and looked over the L.A. skyline feeling a small sense of hope wash over her as she silently prayed 'Spike will you some day come to save me.'
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CH.1 Oh my funny Valentine
February 13, 2002
Buffy sat in her 5th period English class just staring out the window daydreaming of nothing in particular when she was brought back to reality by someone snapping their fingers in front of her face.
“Hello, earth to Buffy.” Spike had been trying to get her attention for the last twenty minutes by throwing things at her, but she still hadn’t looked his way. When the bell finally rang, he walked to her desk and started snapping his fingers in her face trying to bring her out of her stupor.
“Sorry, I must have zoned out for a minute.”
“Bloody hell woman I have been trying to get your attention for the last twenty minutes or so, what’s going on in that head of yours?”
“Nothing in particular, just … oh never mind.”
“No, tell me.”
“Really it’s nothing important at all.”
“You do realize that you crinkle your nose when you’re lying, don’t you?”
Buffy sat there and looked at Spike for a moment, thinking that he was the only one who could call her on it when she wasn’t being completely honest or was in deep thought or just about anything. This was nice at times, but now it was just plain annoying.
“You know, you think you know me so well but you have no idea so just let it go!”
Spike stared at her as if she had grown two heads.
“Where did that come from? I was just curious what was wrong and you go and bite my head off. Wait, are you on your monthlies?”
Buffy couldn’t help but laugh, only Spike could go from mad to confused in no time flat.
“No Spike, I’m not on my period I’m just being stupid is all. I didn’t mean to take it out on you; you know how I get sometimes. Right now, I’m just ‘cranky Buffy’. It will pass I swear.”
Spike lifted her out of the desk and brought her up to stand on her feet. He took her in his arms and gave her a light squeeze for reassurance that in some weird way he understood and that she could be ‘cranky Buffy’ as long as she needed too. Then it dawned on him what was actually going on. Tomorrow was Valentine’s Day and she had made no mention of any date prospects. So, Spike came up with an idea.
“So…. Tomorrow is the big “V” day and I don’t have a date, how bout we do something together just the two of us, unless you already have a date that is?”
Spike sat with a knowing smirk on his face proud that he had figured out what was wrong without her even having to say a word.
Buffy just sighed and gave him an exhausted look. “Am I that transparent?”
“Sorry luv, but the look on your face, and today being the day before Valentine’s did give it away just a little bit.”
Buffy just smiled and thanked whoever was listening for making it to where she didn’t have to spend the holiday alone.
“So what did you have in mind?”
“Anything you want Princess, I myself have never seen the big fuss. What is it with all the candy, flowers, and cards rot? Who ever started it is making a killing.”
“Oh please, this coming from the guy who spent all his Junior high school years and the better part of high school writing sappy love poems to one Cecily Addams.”
“Well now you know why I don’t go for all the bollocks,” Spike said as he scowled at her.
Buffy smiled and rubbed his arm telling him that he was and would forever be ‘loves bitch’. Spike simply gave her a small chuckle and a half smile.
Feeling bad for bringing up the one girl that had made Spikes love life hell, she came up with a solution to both their problems.
“Well I’ll tell you what, tomorrow we start a new tradition. No cards, candy, or crappy flowers! We are gonna camp in front of the T.V and veg in sweats and comfy clothes and eat ice cream and junk food till we puke. Sound good to you?”
Spike smiled at the idea. “Sounds great Pet. I’ll go to the movie store and get some movies to watch, and none of that mushy crap you always pick out otherwise I won’t make it through the previews.”
Buffy punched his arm playfully “Hey, I don’t always pick out mushy movies, you just think that if someone isn’t getting disemboweled every other scene that it’s a chick flick.”
Spike and Buffy made their way to the student parking lot right as their other two friends made their way around the corner.
“So Buffster, what’s the plan for your love day? I’m sure the guys are just lining up to take off on some romantic get away for the evening.” Xander said this as he pulled Willow a little bit closer to his side. Willow and Xander had been dating for a little over a month since Xander finally got a clue and realized that what he was looking for all along was right in front of his face. Xander was a great guy if you liked the goofy, yet sweet type.
Willow was not your average 17 year old, she was way more mature than all three of them put together, but that’s what made her just Willow.
“Well Xander, I will have you know that I am not giving in to the so called ‘love day’ tradition. Spike and I are gonna stay home and watch movies and do the best friend thing.”
“That’s cool. I on the other hand am going to totally give in to Cupid’s arrow and take my girl out for our first Valentine’s somewhere special!” Xander leaned over and placed a peck on a very bright red Willow.
Spike made kissy noises to go along with Xander’s peck, leaned close to Xander, and said “Well Whelp, looks like there might be hope for you yet. You might even get lucky if you play your cards right.” Spike raised his eyebrows suggestively and laughed as both Xander and Willow almost turned purple from embarrassment.
Xander open and closed his mouth as if to say something but couldn’t find the words. So instead, he gave a flustered huff and grabbed Willow’s hand and started to walk away.
“Talk to you later Willow,” Buffy yelled across the parking lot and then turned to Spike with a slight scowl on her face.
With a cocky grin and a curl of his lips, he replied with, “What?” It took all Spike had to not fall over laughing.
“You really do enjoy torturing those two don’t you?” Buffy said as she made her way to his ol’ faithful Desoto. Wiping the tears from his eyes from laughing so hard he said, “Well someone has to get the ball rolling or they’ll both die virgins!” Buffy just started to laugh right along with him as she slid her way into the passenger seat and threw her bag in the backseat.
Spike climbed in the driver’s seat and started the ignition. He pulled out of the parking lot and made his way to the very familiar house on Revello Drive.
Pulling in the driveway, he put his hand out to stop Buffy from getting out. She turned and looked at him with confusion written all over her face. Spike looked at her, ”Are you sure you are okay with hanging out tomorrow night cause I’m sure when you get inside you’ll have tons of messages from all the wankers that were just too nervous to ask you out.”
Buffy gave him a million dollar smile and said, ”Of course it’s okay for us to hang, otherwise I wouldn’t have said yes, besides you’re the only ‘wanker’ I want to be with on Valentine’s.” With that, she leaned over, gave him a peck on the cheek, slipped out of the car, and made her way into the house.
Spike sat there for a minute with his hand on his cheek and smiled. As he pulled out of the driveway and headed home he couldn’t help but wonder when Buffy kissing him on the cheek ever made his whole body tingle. He pulled into his driveway and slid out of his car with his thoughts going in the front door being ‘this is going to be a Valentine’s I’m sure I will never forget’.
TBC