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The three friends entered the library, chatting happily. Willow and Xander sat down at the table as Giles came into the room from his office, carrying a book. “Ah, good morning you three.” He addressed them. “Buffy, how was patrol last night?”

She shrugged. “Was okay. Staked a couple of vamps, nothing special.”

Giles nodded in acknowledgement before looking back down into the book he was reading. He was still looking into Spike; the fact that the vampire had a soul was still a complete mystery to him, since he was unable to find anything written anywhere that mentioned anything like that. A picture fell from the book.

Buffy leant down and picked it up. “This is Drusilla.” She realized.

Giles looked at the picture. “Ah yes, Drusilla, a sometime paramour of Spike’s. She was killed by an angry mob in Prague.”

“Well they don’t make angry mobs like they used to, coz she was very much alive when Will and I ran into her with Spike on Saturday.”

He looked taken aback. “Alive? With Spike?”

“Hey, wasn’t he supposed to be a good guy?” Xander asked.

“He is.” Buffy said just as Cordelia entered the library.

“Do you have any books on those Inca people? We’re supposed to make a report on that museum trip from yesterday, like I don’t have anything better to do with my time!” She said, not really caring about the book, but needing an excuse to justify her being here. She sat down at the table when she didn’t get a response.

Buffy and Willow rolled their eyes at the transparent excuse, but said nothing of it. Instead Buffy continued to answer Xander’s previous question. “Spike is good, he said he was just gonna take her to the butcher’s to get blood. But that Drusilla was a real whackjob.”

“Yeah, plus, really creepy.” Willow said.

“But you know what’s strange, I have a feeling like I already know Spike. Like, longer than a week or something.”

Willow nodded, having felt the same thing when she met Spike, but Xander narrowed his eyes in suspicion. “Is that right?” Not another souled-vampire crush! Is she gonna want everyone before she notices me?

Buffy, not having noticed the sort of jealous tone in Xander’s voice, shrugged and tried to put her feelings in words. “I mean, when he talks to me it’s like he already knows me. And it’s really easy to talk to him. Plus my spidey sense is doing this strangely familiar tingle when he’s nearby.”

“Talkin’ ‘bout me, love?” She heard very close by her ear, and she made a little jump. She turned around and looked directly into the smiling eyes of Spike.

She gave a nervous smile and tossed her hair a bit. “Spike, hi! Uh, no, I wasn’t talking about you.” She said in a dignified tone, even though she obviously had been talking about him, and he had probably heard every word of it.

“’s alright pet, I’d talk about me too if I were you.” He said with a smirk.

Man is he cocky. Buffy rolled her eyes, but couldn’t keep the smile from creeping up. “Conceited much? I was talking about the exchange student that’s coming to stay with me tonight.” She said in a ‘duh’ tone.

He held up his hands in mock surrender. “Alright, love, have it your way.”

“And what are you doing here anyway, it’s daytime. Aren’t you supposed to be all sleeping, and staying away from sunlight?”

“Took the tunnels. Had to visit the famous library, didn’t I? Where all the researchin’ an’ all that happens?” He started looking around the place Buffy thad talked about so often, not always to him of course, and right away decided it was overrated. Just a stuffy library with stuffy books that went right along with the stuffy librarian he was now looking at. The whole Scoobygang - missing a few members he knew weren’t around yet - was practically frozen to the spot, staring at him with curiosity and a little anxiety. “Mornin’ Rupes.”

Hello salty goodness. Cordelia thought, not for the first time upon seeing an attractive male.

Giles just stood gawking at the leather clad vampire in front of him, who had just greeted him as casually as he would someone he’d known for years. His mouth opened and closed a couple of times before he finally snapped out of it. “Er, h-hello erm, S-Spike, I assume?” He stammered, quickly putting his book and the picture of Drusilla away, and felt like a bloody fool, standing there like that.

“’s right mate. Hello all.” He said to Xander, Willow and Cordelia.

“Uhm, you’ve already met Willow, this is Xander, and that’s Cordelia…and apparently you already know Giles?” Buffy said, and looked questioningly at Spike.

Damn, must’ve slipped up there. “Uh, I wager you mentioned ‘im during patrol. No mistakin’ the layers on layers of tweed, right?”

Buffy smiled. “Right, Giles in a nutshell.”

“I resent that.” Giles muttered, somewhat insulted. So what if he wore a lot of tweed? “I’ll have you know that tweed is…timeless.”

Cordelia stood up and put on her most flirtatious smile as she walked over to Spike. “Well I for one have heard nothing but good things about you.” She said, even though she had no idea who Spike was up till now. She held out her hand, which Spike shook warily. “I’m Cordelia Chase, nice to meet you.” She said, holding eye contact.

“Uh, Spike.” He said, looking at her a bit strangely. Was the cheerleader flirting with him? Last time he saw her she was aiming at him with a crossbow. Of course that was when she knew him, and he was still evil.

“Hey Cordy shouldn’t you be picking up the nice Swede you’re having over?” Xander said, keeping an innocent look on his face. “You know, the handsome one you were really looking forward to have in your home?”

Cordelia looked at him angrily, her ‘moment’ with Spike ruined. “No you moron, he’s not coming until this afternoon.” She turned back to Spike, putting on her smile once again. “It’s just an exchange student thing. Don’t wanna be stuck with someone ugly, I always say.”

Spike smirked at her. She kind of reminded him of Anya with her bluntness. Then he remembered that she and the whelp used to date, so maybe he was into the type that says everything on their minds.

“I just wanna know what to expect, you know? Not like Buffy, she doesn’t even know what her guy looks like. She’s just a little insane you know?” Cordy continued, and cast a nasty glare at Buffy.

Spike turned his attention away from Cordelia and focussed on Buffy with suspicion in his eyes. “You’re sayin’ some poncy teenage hormone bomb boy is gonna be stayin’ in your house?” She merely shrugged. “You sure tha’s a good idea, love? Boys like that never know how to keep their grubby paws to ‘emselves, ‘f you know what I mean.” Shut your gob! Now! You’re soundin’ like the jealous bugger Peaches is, and she doesn’t need to know yet! He winced at his own stupidity. He was revealing way too much of his feelings for her.

“Boys like what? You don’t even know what he’s like.” Buffy said with a frown. What’s his problem all of the sudden?

“Way I hear it, neither do you, pet.”

Xander was nodding emphatically, sharing Spike’s exact sentiments. “I agree Buffy, this is not a good idea!” Suddenly he caught up with what he was saying and quickly stood up and regarded the vampire he just agreed with. “So. Spike.” He said with a gesture at him. “The ‘other one with a soul’.” He said while making air quotes with his fingers.

Spike raised his eyebrow in question.

“What’s your story? You upset one of those gipsies and they got all curse-happy like with dead boy?”

He snorted. “No.”

This caught Giles’ interest and he stood straight from his position against the table. “Oh? You haven’t been cursed? Buffy never told the exact origins of your soul, but I-I only presumed it was given through the same methods as Angel.”

Spike rolled his eyes and started retelling the somewhat true story he’d told Buffy of how he got his soul.

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“I think he likes you Buffy.” Willow said as she and Buffy exited the library a half an hour later, on their way to their first class. It was a good thing they occasionally (as in, it rarely happened) showed up at school early to recap last night’s patrol or something, or otherwise they would definitely have been late.

“Who, Spike? What makes you think that?” Buffy asked curiously.

“Well, coz of the way he reacted at hearing about the exchange student. He thought the same way about it as Xander did.”

“He didn’t think the same about it, Xander just…happened to agree with him.”

“Yeah, but do you also remember why Xander agreed with him?”

Buffy thought for a moment, and remembered to crush Xander had on her. “Well…that doesn’t mean Spike likes me. Maybe he just …doesn’t like South-American people.”

Willow smiled and gave her a pointed look. “It’s not just that, I’ve seen the way he looks at you, it’s all, you know, puppy-dog-eye-ish and stuff. Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed.”

Buffy looked at her friend with uncertainty. Was she right? Did Spike really like her? She actually couldn’t deny what Willow said, there had been looks and stuff he said that made it seem like...But even if he did like her, it shouldn’t matter right? It doesn’t. I’m with Angel now, and Spike’s feelings are not my problem. But despite what she tried to tell herself she couldn’t help the fluttery feeling she got in her stomach as she thought of Spike liking her. And speaking of Angel, she wasn’t even that sure she was actually with him. She hadn’t seen or heard from him since their kiss last Thursday. And that was five days ago, so what did that mean?

“What are you thinking?” Willow asked, pulling her out of her reverie.

She sighed. “I don’t know. I mean, Spike is a major hottie and all, but I already have Angel, and I’m not even sure what the deal with that is…”

“Wow, the only two vampires in the entire world that have souls, and both of them fall for you, the Slayer. That’s, I don’t know, kind of ironic.” Willow said, a little impressed.

Buffy looked up in alarm. “Fall? Who said fall? There’s no falling! I-I mean, I thought you said we were only on a liking base here? Not even liking, acknowledging, is more what it is. Remember? Spike already loves that girl he got all souly for.” She nodded as if having convinced herself, even though she had no idea of what she was feeling about this, let alone what Spike was feeling.

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Angel watched Buffy, as he often did to look out for her, as she and her friends hurried to the bus station to pick up the exchange student and were met with a girl instead of the boy they thought it would be. He hadn’t spoken to her since their kiss. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to, quite the opposite. He knew he was in love with the young Slayer and that was exactly the problem. She was so young, while he was 242 years old. Plus he was a vampire and she was a Slayer, she didn’t need another abnormality in her already abnormal life. They couldn’t be, so that’s why he needed to distance himself from her, no matter how much he wanted her.

But he also knew that if he didn’t do anything about it, Spike would try to make a move on her. And that was something he could not allow. He knew his Childe was selfish and arrogant, and would probably end up hurting Buffy.

He took one last look at Buffy when he was satisfied there wasn’t going to be any trouble for her tonight, before he turned around and headed to the cemetery for one last sweep before he returned home. If he’d been paying better attention, he might have noticed that the girl that had arrived that evening, was not exactly…alive.

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“Spike! Gimme a hand!” The vampire yelled, just as Xander came running out of the Bronze.

“Buffy!” He called her attention and threw her the stake he got her. She caught it and with one swift movement she had the stake plunged into the vampire’s heart.

As it combusted into dust, they heard clapping coming from a shadowy part of the alley. A leather coated, bleached blonde man came out. “Nice work love.” He drawled.

“Who are you?” Buffy asked with a frown.

“You’ll find out on Saturday.” He said, suddenly deadly serious.

“What happens on Saturday?”

“I kill you.”

With a flash Buffy was inside the school building, on parent-teacher night, just as the lights went out. Everyone looked confused for a moment, but then the windows crashed and a group of vampires jumped inside. The leader of the gang was the bleached vamp called Spike, now in full game face. “What can I say? Couldn’t wait.” He said with a smirk.

Then with another flash she found herself fighting Spike. “Now that hurt!” He said, after he’d punched his hand into the wall and she’d kicked him in the neck. He ripped his arm out, pulling a stud out with it and swung it hard into Buffy’s face, sending her across the room and onto the floor. “But not as much as still will.” He walked at her threateningly, wielding the stud to attack her again.

Several more flashes and she was shown more scenes where she fought Spike, either verbally or physically, until the last one where he knocked out a cop and came standing before her. “Hello cutie.” He said with a cocky grin, and that was when Buffy woke up with a shocked gasp, bolting upright. She was breathing heavily, as if she’d actually been fighting, instead of just dreaming it. She frowned confused. Okay…what the hell was that about?

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Mwahahaha now ain’t that fun? Hm…I’m not really sure I should have chosen to do that…oh but what the heck, maybe it’ll be funner this way…Well anyway, please review, tell me what you think!





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