Chapter 5 Getting to Know You...
“……..and I’m going to HAVE to put some pan-stick on that bruise to cover it up…and WHERE DID you get those cheekbones, hmm?”
Andrew flitted around Spike who was sitting in ‘make-up’ with the obligatory cape around him.
“You do what you have to mate, don’t mind me” Spike said studying his script.
Angel came in and threw himself into a chair glaring at both Spike and Andrew
“And good morning to you too Sweetie, got a fit of the grumps this morning have we dearie?”
“Just shut up and get on with it…bloody faggot” The last two words Angel muttered under his breath, but Andrew heard him
“Sticks and stones, sticks and stones…you only need a bit of powder, why don’t you do it yourself?”
“Because it’s YOUR job, that’s why” Angel said sourly, watching Spike through the mirror
Andrew bent and said
“Back in a tic” into Spike ear, patting him on the shoulder
“Right sit back, and shut it” Andrew whizzed the chair round until Angel was facing the mirror, and cranked the foot-bar until he was lying back at an angle
He loaded a brush with translucent powder and liberally dusted Angel’s face with it. Angel got a mouthful and coughed, pushing Andrew’s hand away. Trying to sit up, he then sneezed hard. Andrew righted the chair and whisked the cape from around him
“There you go sir, now piss off!”
Angel went out muttering
“Is that all he has done?” Spike asked
Andrew nodded
“Yeah – ignorant pig he is!”
“You surprise me!”
“Why?”
“Well…with that over-hang forehead, I thought he’d be in here hours having put on, you know like that MR Dorf job in Star Quest” Spike laced his fingers together and put them on his forehead.
Andrew began to giggle and Willow came in and beamed at them and said,
“Good-afternoon!”
“Hello!”
“What are you two giggling at?”
“Something Spike here said, can I tell her?” Andrew asked looking at Spike in the mirror
“Sure!”
“Spike said he thought that Angel’s forehead was false”
“You know, the overhang he’s got…must keep the rain off his shoes I suppose!”
“You’re wicked!” Willow said, swiping Spike’s arm, but she began to giggle too.
ooOOoo
On set: Spike, Willow, Angel, Xander – entered after, Officer Jones…………………
“Three, two – roll VT and One”
“Scene four take one, Spike in Diner” the clapperboard shut and Spike took his nod from Tara.
He took off his helmet and placed it on the counter and said,
“I hear I can get the best breakfast going here” Buffy beamed at him and said,
“You sure can, everything freshly cooked to order – can I get you something to drink while you choose?”
“Sure…coffee, straight”
Buffy put a mug on the counter and poured coffee from a Cona jug.
Willow came from behind the counter and deposited a plate with a ham steak, several sausages and a pile of scrambled eggs and toast on it in front of a sitting Angel.
“Oh that looks good!” Spike said
“Tis good, hello there, I’m Abe Hogg – Hogg’s my name, and Hog’s are my game” Angel said, holding out his hand (Spike inwardly groaned at one of the show’s catchphrases)
Spike sauntered over, shook his hand, (in reality he wished it was his throat!)
“Sorry I –“ Spike began, slightly shaking his head.
“This here is my living – (Angel pointed to his plate) I keep hogs- piggies that go to make this here breakfast – and I keep ‘em good!”
“Well in that case, I’ll have what he’s having!” Spike said grinning
“So tell me stranger, what’s your name? – You tell me your name, and you won’t be a stranger anymore” (here it comes, thought Spike)
“Cos what’s a stranger y’all?” Angel addressed everybody in the diner, and they all chorused,
“A stranger is just a friend we haven’t met yet!”
Spike sat and drank his coffee the camera panned to the door and Officer Jones walked in. Spike noticed that Angel scowled at him too…
“Morning Miss Buffy – I have here an official notice for you to put in your window for your patrons”
Buffy put a mug of coffee in front of the officer and said
“What’s this then officer Jones?” She took the printed sheet off him and studied it.
“Been a spate of thefts from Winnebago’s, tents and holiday apartments over in Heldale, people get careless when they’re on vacation, leave things open”
There were hissing and cooking sounds coming from the hot plate and Willow who’d taken over the cooking from Buffy turned and said,
“It’s getting terrible so’s people don’t know who to trust these days!” the Officer and Buffy nodded in agreement.
“Right, I’ll put this in the window right away – Xandy go out the back and bring some sticky tape and put this in the window where everybody can see it, okay?”
Xandy grinned and nodded and went off-set taking the notice with him.
“And CUT!” Thanks everybody take 5………next scene it’s um…hold on where are we……it’s closing time, we need…Willow, Buffy, and Charity…”
“Willow you can mop the floor, Buffy you be wiping down, charity can be sitting flicking through a magazine while you and Buffy discuss Spike” Tara said
ooOOoo
Buffy and Willow walked from the set to Buffy’s trailer. As they got closer Buffy saw a huge bouquet on the steps, she trotted on and picked them up.
“What the…she snagged the card and read,
“Thanks for last night, I really appreciated it, S” Buffy grinned
“Who are…” Willow began grinning
“Spike!”
“Oh my god!” Willow grabbed Buffy’s arm and they both squealed
“Oh god they’re gorgeous!”
“HE’S gorgeous!”
“Tell me about it, I’ve never seen such blue, blue eyes!”
“What’s all the screaming about – oh” Angel came by and saw the flowers, guessed who they were from. He suddenly felt angry, angry that he hadn’t thought of sending Buffy flowers.
“And WHAT did you do to deserve those, as if I can’t guess?” He asked disgustedly, he felt sick.
“You have a dirty mind Angel, and you can keep your nasty little comments to yourself!”
Willow’s smile faded to a frown
“What is his problem?” she asked Buffy quietly
“He thinks the show arrangement is a real arrangement”
“What?” Willow asked confused
“He thinks that because we’re all but ‘engaged’ on the show, that’s how it is in real life – just because I’ve gone to the awards do’s with him”
Just then Spike came through wearing his leathers
“Hey Princess…got the flowers I see”
“Yes, thanks, they’re lovely!”
“Good, glad you like them. Say listen what are you two doing the tomorrow and Sunday, anything special?”
Smiling both Willow and Buffy shook their heads.
“Well, I’ve already asked Ford and Riley, Faith and Harmony, want to go see the Automaton Spectres – I’ve still got some pull, we could all go in a stretch limo, have backstage passes and then go picnic by the river on Sunday?”
“Count me in!” Willow said grinning
“Yeah, me too – I love the Auto’s!!”
“Okay. We’ll use here as a meeting point, be here for 11 o’clock” Spike saw Xandy looking sad as he was trying to do up his coat
“Room for one more if you want to come Xandy?”
“YEAH!” he strode over and grinned at them all, and said,
“Thank you Spike”
“Welcome mate!” Spike gently popped him one on the shoulder
ooOOoo
“Now, you WILL take care of him, won’t you?” Mrs Harris looked in the Limo with more than a little trepidation
“Of course Mrs Harris, we always do” Willow said
“Hmm, I know, but a rock concert…he might wander off”
“He’ll be fine, we’ll all look after him – anyway, he’s famous – people will want to meet him” Spike said
“Don’t fuss mom!” Xandy said, he was dying to get into the Limo.
“Okay then…you’ve got my number if anything goes wrong, and don’t let him have anything to drink after 7pm else – well… be careful love.” She pulled him towards her and planted a big kiss on his cheek. At 22 she still treated him like a little child, because that’s all he was to her, a man with a child’s brain. He’d been born oxygen starved, the umbilical cord had been wrapped around his neck and he was blue. The doctors had valiantly fought to save his life, but it had left him slow and with learning difficulties. He’d been bought in for a storyline about learning difficulties, and the viewers had taken him to their hearts and he’d stayed ever since. He’d been on the show 8 years now, as Buffy’s adopted brother.
“Get off mom! Bye!” Xandy eagerly got into the Limo. His mother heard him say,
“Oh WOW a TV in the car!”
“Who are we waiting for now?” Spike asked
“Ford” Faith said, and then she continued
“I phoned him so he’d be up; he usually lies in on a Saturday morning…”
“Here he is, he’s coming…he’s just been dropped off!” Riley said getting back into the stretch Limo.
“Am I last – sorry – good job you rang me Faith!” Ford got in, and shut the door
“Wow…this is great – never been in a Limo before!”
“Want the TV on mate? – There you go…and put these on…” Spike put headphones on Xandy and he beamed.
“This is the life!” Ford said, sitting back, letting his arms drape along the back of the seat as they pulled off the car park. Meanwhile, watching from the grassy knoll by the security box, Angel scowled just how easily everybody had been taken in by that waste-of-space-junkie………
ooOOoo
Everybody had a ball at the concert! Xandy was allowed to hold a guitar and sit at the Spectre’s drum kit. By 10.30pm his eyes were drooping, and Buffy asked Spike where she could take Xander to rest.
“Back to the Limo, we can all sleep in there, there’s enough room” Buffy smiled and nodded. They took a hand each and lead a sleepy Xandy back to the Limo.
Everybody had noticed that day how Spike and Buffy had hardly moved from each other’s side, and there was a definite sexual chemistry going on………
“You go back to the party if you want, I’ll stay with Xandy” Buffy said
“I’d rather be here…with you if you don’t mind?”
“Good. I’d like that!”
They grinned at each other, and Spike looked at Xandy and said,
“Watch this mate………Da-DA! Looks like a bed now doesn’t it!” he pulled out one of the single seats that came out as a bed seat. Spike lay a pillow on the head-rest and said,
“There you go mate – get comfy” Xandy clambered on the seat and grinned
“This is good!” he said making Buffy and Spike grin. Within a few minutes, he was asleep.
“Want a drink?” Spike asked as he sat opposite Buffy
“Er..”
“Just because I’m not drinking doesn’t meat to say you can’t”
“Sure?”
“Sure I’m sure! – Let me see…we’ve got (he opened the mini fridge) um we have white wine…Champagne…vodka, whiskey, Brandy…got the mixers and ice”
“I’ll have a vodka and orange juice with ice please”
They chatted quietly and were getting on very well. Spike took out his mobile phone and went and sat by her to show her a photo of the guy he was talking about
“See him there, with the pony tail and the denim jacket full of patches…” Spike said holding his phone out to her
“Oh yes…” Spike slipped the phone back in his pocket
“Well, his name is Dave, but he was known as ‘the doctor’ – one time when he roadie for the Vamps, we needed to get a bed with a cot side on it coz Rack kept on falling out of bed, so this guy does no more than to calmly walk into the hospital laundry, grab himself a set of doctor’s green scrubs, you know those tunics and trousers they wear when operating on people – (Buffy nodded) and he then goes walking down the corridor and grabs the first trolley – I think you call ‘em gurney’s, anyway he grabs one with bars on the side of it, and wheels it out of the hospital, across the road and into our tour bus, calm as you like, nobody challenged him coz they thought he was a doctor!”
Buffy started to giggle
“We had some good times in those early days of the band…” Spike looked up and into her large green eyes
“You have the most beautiful green eyes I’ve ever seen” Spike whispered. Buffy couldn’t look away from Spike’s blue eyes, their heads began to get closer and closer, Buffy closed her eyes and parted her lips – and the Limo door flew open and a drunk Ford put his head in and laughed
“Any room for three more…standing room only!!” Outside Faith and Willow could be heard giggling and laughing
Buffy and Spike jumped apart, and Buffy said,
“Shh, you’ll wake Xandy!”
Everybody got in. Ford was drinking a can of beer, and Faith and Willow both had half full bottles of Champagne.
“Ooh…the bubbles keep going up my nose!” Willow giggled taking another swig from the bottle
Faith rubbed her tum and said
“Hoo – I’m hungry, not hiding a burger bar or something in here are you Spikey-boy?” this caused Willow to snort-laugh and Ford to laugh out loud
“Shush will you, I’ve already told you once, you’ll wake Xandy!” Buffy said looking over to him
Spike smiled, he was pleased that everybody had enjoyed themselves, he said,
“’Fraid not pet, but we could go for a take-away or something”
“Ooh yeah, lets!” Willow said
So that’s what they did. They got a huge amount of Chinese food and parked back in the field, even though it was dark they left the limo doors open for the light, spread the blankets on the grass and ate their fill.
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