Summary: It starts with a betrayal- and not the one that you were expecting.

Spike’s been tossed around by the Slayer too many times to count, but this time she’s gone too far. Her ritual of self-congratulatory humiliation has made him a laughing stock, and it’s the final straw. They’ve never been friends, but she’s forgotten that they are enemies.
No more of it.

But then the Slayer is shot, and the culprit is a freckle-faced eleven year old boy with a vendetta and wide, wet eyes. He’s an unlikely villain and the Scoobies can’t face interrogating him so Spike is tempted in to play Bad Cop while the Slayer lies unconscious in a hospital bed.
“To forgive is an act of compassion. It's not done because people deserve it, it's done because they need it.”

Categories: General Fics
Characters: None
Genres: Action, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other
Series: None
Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 13549