Chapter 6 - Ain't no sunshine
Buffy was a little bit confused as she turned around to see the woman Spike was looking at. She had dark, long hair and very pale skin that certainly became even paler with her black bathing suit.
“What do you want, Drusilla?” Spike asked very calmly, but Buffy could hear the anger behind it.
“Well, now. Don’t get worked up, William. Don’t you think that an old friend could come to say hello any longer? Miss Edith told me you would behave like this, but I took my chance anyway. I’m sorry, Miss Edith, I wasn’t very fair to you,” she continued and glanced at her fingernails.
Buffy raised her eyebrows. What the hell was she talking about? The girl sure gave her the creeps.
“Yeah?” Spike said, slightly bored. “Would never have guessed she’d say that.”
“She also told me,” Drusilla continued, “that you would have Sunshine with you. And there she is.” She turned to Buffy with a tight grin.
“Er… Hi, I’m Buffy,” she said, not knowing what else to say.
“Sunshine says she has a name”, Drusilla said. “And so she does. She has come here to take my Spike away from me.”
“What, wait now… What do you mean? I’m just here on vacation, I’m not-“
“Buffy, you don’t have to defend yourself against Dru. She was just leaving, right?”
Spike said, trying to make Drusilla get the point, which she obviously didn’t give a damn about.
“Sunshine has already gotten you were she wants you, Spike. Remember the time when I was the only one you cared about?”
Buffy sighed. Drusilla was Spike’s ex, and it seemed like she at least wasn’t over him at all. She felt very stupid, just sitting there while the two of them shot daggers at each other – though, Drusilla wasn’t really shooting daggers...
“Listen, Spike. Um, you two obviously need to talk and I have to get home so I’ll just... go,” she said, gliding down from the board.
“No, you stay,” Spike said and then turned, pointing at Drusilla. “She goes. I don’t have anything to say to you, Drusilla. Please leave.”
“It’s a public place. I can go wherever I want,” was Drusilla’s answer.
“Spike, it’s okay, really. I’ll talk to you later,” she said, making sure Spike got it and then went to the beach were Lilly found her.
“Buffy, how did it go?” She said, smiling brightly.
“Oh, I stood!” Buffy exclaimed, with a little fake enthusiasm. She wasn’t really sure she wanted to stay here, because even though she didn’t want to admit it, she didn’t like to see Spike with this Drusilla.
“That’s great! So, why did you go up?” Lilly asked with a frown so cute that Buffy had to smile.
“Oh, um… There were… Complications, and I think I need to get back to my house so I called it a night.”
Lilly’s frown became deeper. “It’s day.”
Buffy grinned. “Yeah, it is. But, I just felt like it was enough for today.”
“It was because of Drusilla, wasn’t it?” Lilly asked.
Buffy sighed. “You know, you’re creepily smart for your age. How old are you anyway?”
“Twelve next month. And you didn’t answer my question; was it because of Drusilla?”
Once again, she sighed and nodded. “Yeah, she’s pretty weird, huh? Do you know her?”
“I don’t know know her, but I do know who she is.”
“Spike’s ex?” Buffy asked, not liking the jealousy that was behind the question.
“Yeah. She’s a total freak. Sorry, but she really is a bitch.”
“Noticed that,” Buffy replied. “She accused me for taking Spike away from her. I wasn’t trying to!”
Lilly sighed and sat down in the sand, which Buffy did too. “Drusilla has some kind of sick obsession with him. I don’t know that much, but they were seeing each other time to time for nearly three years and when I think about it – he was pretty weird during that time. Sometimes he didn’t come to practice, and sometimes I think he was drunk actually. I mean… I’m only twelve, and I noticed something was off. She didn’t make him happy. More the opposite.”
“Oh. I have to agree with you,“ Buffy said, slightly taken by her story. “So Drusilla is a freak? Who was this Miss Edith she talked about?”
“That you have to ask Spike about. I don’t know that much,” Lilly smiled, glancing out at the couple standing in the water. “He doesn’t seem to happy.”
“No, he really doesn’t,” Buffy agreed, when she saw Spike’s angry gestures. “You know maybe I should get going-“
“He’s not going to hit her, right?” Lilly abruptly asked, worried and Buffy froze, half standing up from her sitting position with a frown.
“Why do you think that? Has he done it before?” Buffy asked, suddenly a bit scared.
“No, no. But… he seems so angry with her. I don’t like her but I don’t want him to hit her. He won’t… right?” Lilly looked at Buffy with sad eyes and Buffy felt her heart ache for the little girl. Spike’s guesses were probably right. She was so worried about someone she cared for would do something stupid.
“Sweetie, no”, Buffy said softly, once again taking her position beside Lilly in the sand. “I’ve only known Spike for a few days but I can assure you, he will never do something like that.”
A silent tear slid down Lilly’s cheek which she desperately tried to hide. Buffy didn’t let her, she took her in her arms and hugged her. Lilly started to shake and Buffy soothingly thread her fingers through the sobbing girls brown hair.
“Shh… It’s okay. Let it out.”
Lilly clutched at Buffy and she only held tighter until she heard footsteps behind her and a familiar voice.
“I’m sorry, Buffy. She’s a bloody, stupid, selfless bitch… Does she even think? I mean-“ Spike trailed off when he saw Lilly crying softly in Buffy’s arms. He sat down beside them with a worried expression on his face and mimicked the same actions Buffy were doing.
“Lilly, what’s the matter? Are you okay?” He asked, concerned. “Are you hurt?”
“She isn’t hurt, Spike,” Buffy confirmed calmly. “Lilly is just a little sad right now.”
Buffy gave Spike a look and he understood the meaning of it with a slight nod. Lilly’s hiccups became less and soon she slowly pulled out of Buffy’s embrace. She wiped at the tears around her eyes.
“I’m sorry. I don’t think I got that much sleep last night, I’m probably overreacted. Sorry…”
“No, Lilly. You don’t have to be sorry. Okay? If you ever feel bad or want to talk, you know you can come to me. Okay?” Buffy said giving the girl a smile.
Lilly smiled back and nodded. “I probably should be getting back home. I’ll see you around.” She gave both Spike and Buffy a quick hug before she stood up and walked away.
The blonde couple sat quiet for a while in the sand before Spike made eye contact with Buffy.
“You okay?”
“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be? I’d ask Lilly if she was alright instead…”
“Yeah, but I meant about… Before, you know. I’m sorry you had to meet Dru. She’s a real pain. Can’t seem to get through that thick brain of hers that I can do whatever I want.”
“It’s okay, Spike,“ Buffy interrupted. “Lilly told me a little about her.”
Spike raised an eyebrow. “Did she? How did she know about her?”
“Not much, you have to fill me in on that later but apparently she knows a little because your relationship affected their surfing practice.”
“It didn’t-“
“She said you showed up drunk a few times,” she interrupted, with a slight edge in her voice.
Spike opened his mouth but closed it again and felt all the shame wash over him. He had showed up drunk, which was right. But he had thought that they wouldn’t notice. Apparently – he was wrong.
“I know. That was a bad call, but… It was a along time ago, I know it was stupid to think that they wouldn’t notice. I was selfish and just thought about relieve my own pain, but that’s over now. I promise,” he finished, determined to make Buffy understand and she nodded. “Why did Lilly cry, by the way? Had someone been mean to her?”
Buffy shook her head. “I think you’re right about Lilly. She suddenly started to say ‘he isn’t going to hit her, right’ and so on. Finally she just broke down.”
Spike clenched his jaw and scratched the bridge of his nose. “What should we do? I mean… she doesn’t want anyone to know but… I can’t let her go on like that.”
Buffy smiled a sad smile.
“You’re really sweet, you know that? That you care so much for the girl. You really aren’t that guy I saw the first night.”
Spike grinned and glanced down. “Who did you think I was?”
Buffy shrugged and looked out over the ocean. “I don’t know. I just assumed that you were this… bad boy with the bleached hair, the leather coat, and the singing… And of course your comments the first night,” she added, with a slight roll of her eyes that made Spike smirk. “I fell for that once and look how it turned out. Angel was that charming and I immediately fell head over heels in love with him. That’s why I was so hard on you the first night. Sorry ‘bout that…”
“Nothing to be sorry for,” Spike said. “I was pretty… self-confident that night. Thought I could get anyone, and when I saw you… Well, I wanted to have you. Now, I’m more than happy to have you. As a friend of course, and seriously, if I ever meet this Angel guy I swear I’ll knock some senses into him.”
Buffy giggled. “Knock some senses into him? About what?”
“About you of course. Only a complete loser would ever break up with a woman like you.”
Buffy could feel her cheeks burn and she look down at the sand, trying to make the red disappear.
“Does anyone else know about Lilly?” Buffy asked. She really felt that she needed to change subject, and Lilly’s problems were much more important than her past.
“Lilly goes in the school Willow is working at, but she hasn’t seen anything unusual about her in classes. She’s very strong, I think, and she hides it pretty well. But such as now, she just can’t hold back.”
“Has she ever cried at your practices?”
“No. She has looked sad but nothing more than that.”
Buffy sighed and brought her hands to her face. “Maybe we can… Is it too risky to go visit at her house?”
Spike chewed his bottom lip. “I think we have to build up the trust even more before that. We can have a goal, that in a week we will come over and just check. I know that’s quiet short time and she may not trust us that much at that point, but still. What do you think?”
“I think that’s a good idea. Let’s do that. When is you’re next practice?”
“Tomorrow afternoon, at 3 pm. Maybe you could go there too?”
Buffy nodded. “It’s a date.” Damn it. Me and my stupid mouth. “I mean, not a date as… date. A date as a…”
Spike laughed. “I know what you meant, pet,” he said.
“You know, I should probably get going,” Buffy said.
“You want me to follow you home?”
“Oh, that’s not necessary. Stay here, look at the waves. It must be killing ya not to be out there,” Buffy said, smiling. “I’ll come here tomorrow then.”
“Yeah, okay. 3 o’clock,” Spike said before leaning in and repeating the kiss on the cheek which he did the night before, and as yesterday, Buffy felt the same reaction to it. If not stronger. Damn it. Things don’t seem to go my way…
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