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Looking over his lesson plans Spike sighed. He

wanted to be at home in bed with his beautiful

girlfriends arms' wrapped around him. A smile crept

onto his lips as he thought of her. He recalled the first

time he ever laid eyes on her. She was standing with

her best friend, Willow; they were in line for some

cotton candy. She looked so damn cute in her little

pink spaghetti strapped sundress. It had been over a

year since my ex-girlfriend, Drusilla, broke up with me.

My friend Gunn kept telling me to get over her and get

on with my life. I wanted to so bad but I just couldn’t

she was my first girlfriend. I thought that I truly loved

her, but at the naïve age of 12 you don’t really know as

much as you think you do. When my mum saw how

much Dru had hurt me she packed up me and my little

sister, Faith and moved to Sunnydale, California. My

mum’s brother already lived there and we were going

to be staying with him for a while. When we pulled into

the driveway an older looking man came out of the

house.
“Hello Anne, how have you been” Rupert

Giles asked his younger sister?

“Just great Rupert. How have you been”

Anne Thornton asked?

“I’m good. Well now let’s see, William.

Wow I haven’t seen you since you were 4. How are you

my boy” He asked William?

“Ok” William answered bluntly.

Rupert saw the sadness in his nephews’ eyes but he

didn’t pry for answers.

“And Faith, my how you’ve grown! You’re

looking more like your mother everyday” He stated in

awe.
“Why thank you Uncle Rupert” Faith

replied.
“Oh nonsense, Call me Giles, Rupert

sounds too stuffy for my taste” He said.

“Cool” Faith said smoothly.

“Well there is no sense in standing

outside in this heat, why don’t you three come and for

a spot of tea” Giles said fastly.

“Ok” The three Thornton’s replied.

With that they all went inside. Spike was brought out

of his thoughts by talking, laughing, and screaming.

Yep, he thought to himself this was going to be a long

day!

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Slamming the front door to his house, Spike went over

to the couch and dropped. He had not been there five

minutes when he heard his girlfriend calling his

name from the kitchen. Struggling to get up he slowly

walked into the kitchen where he saw his girlfriend

sitting at the table with a mug of hot chocolate with

marshmallows, his favorite.

“How was your day Spike” Buffy asked

sweetly?

“It was ok, just sometimes those little

buggers get on my nerves, I never wanted to hit

someone so much in my life” Spike said a little hotly.

“Why, what happened” Buffy cooed.

“You remember that annoying guy in my

class I was telling you about” Spike asked more

calmly.

“A little, what did he do” Buffy asked

concerned?

“He was being a bloody wanker that’s

what he was doing, he would not shut the hell up, I

swear I got five words in all day” Spike exclaimed!

“Some people just don’t know when to quit

do they” Buffy asked?

“So anyway how was your day, pet” Spike

wandered?

“Ehhhhh, it was ok I guess, I didn’t really

do all that much. I mean I went to work, after work I

went to the store because I had to get something for

dinner. After I went to the store I came home, put the

food away and cleaned a little. And I just got done

cleaning like a half hour ago” Buffy stated windily.

“Wow you really did a lot today, makes me

feel incompetent” Spike said ashamed.

“Oh honey don’t worry about it, you have a

full time job, I on the other hand have a part-time job”

Buffy explained.

“I know it’s just that you do so much

around the house and I want to help you but you don’t

let me” Spike pouted.

“Ohhh look at that lip, I just want to bite it”

Buffy said flirtatiously.

“Don’t let me stop you” Spike grinned from

ear to ear.

“Maybe later, I have to get dinner ready”

Buffy said as she stood.

“Oh all right, I have to grade some papers

anyway, so I’ll be in the living room” Spike said

boredly.

“Ok have fun” Buffy said sarcastically!

“Yea Yea” Spike said as he walked into the

living room.

As Buffy watched Spike exit the kitchen she couldn’t

help but giggle.

Later that night after Spike had graded all of his

papers he went into the kitchen to help Buffy with

dinner. When he entered the kitchen Buffy was on the

phone with who he guessed was Willow.


“All right, yea, yes, I will, okay, all righty,

yea I love you too, Okay bye” Buffy said as she hung up

the phone.

Spike was a little confused only having walked in on

the last part of the conversation.

“Who was that ducks” Spike intrigued.

“My Dad” Buffy voiced.


“What’d he want” He asked softly.

“Wanted to say hi, he hasn’t seen me

since I was 14 years old” She sounded put out.

“I’m sorry Luv” He said whole heartedly.

“It’s ok, oh spike” She hinted

“Yea” He questioned?

"You Might want to get the spare bedroom ready” She said curtly!

“And why is that kitten” He sighed.


"Because he’ll be here Tuesday!!” With that

She walked out of the kitchen.

“Huh” Hesaid unsurely.

But Buffy didn’t hear him she was already out of the

room. Spike stayed glued to the spot for a couple of

minutes then he went to the spare bedroom and fixed

it up for Buffy’s Dad. He was a little unsure of meeting

her dad for the first time, he didn’t know how her dad

would react to him, he wanted to make a good

impression. But he really didn’t care what he said, he

couldn’t do anything to hurt his and Buffy’s

relationship, they were both adults over the age of 20.

After he was finished with the spare bedroom, Spike

walked around the house looking at all the pictures

they had collected over the years. There were ones

when he and Buffy were little and there were ones

form two weeks ago. Just as he was about to pick up

his favorite picture they door slammed.

“Mom, Dad we’re home” Three voices

said.

Well this ought to be a fun week, Spike thought as he

went down to the living room.

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As Spike reached the living room, he could hear

Buffy’s laughter.

“Hi Daddy” Spike’s youngest daughter,

Anya, said.

“Hello Bit, how was your day at school”
Spike asked?

“It was fine, I got an A on my history quiz”

Anya squealed!

“Great” Spike said as he turned his

attention to his eldest daughter.

“Oh Dad, can you help me my English

paper” Dawn asked sweetly?

“Sure thing Niblet” Spike assured her.

“Thanks Dad” Dawn answered.

“No problem” Spike replied.

Looking over to where his son, Connor, was standing,

Spike could tell that there was something wrong.

“You okay” Spike asked softly?

“Fine” Connor uttered.

“He got into a fight” Anya talked for him.

“Thank you big mouth” Connor yelled at

his sister.

“Well maybe if you would have answered

him I wouldn’t have to talk for you” Anya screamed!!!

“Shut your bloody mouth” Connor yelled

while using his dad’s words.

“Enough” Spike roared loud enough to

make all three of them jump.

“The three of you to your rooms NOW”

Buffy bellowed!

With not even another glance back the three made

their way to their rooms.

“I can’t believe they are acting this way,

they are supposed to love each other. Not only are they

siblings but friends. They act like they don’t want to be

around each other, hello they are triplets they need

each other” Buffy mouthed.

“I know pet, I know” Spike soothed.

“Oh well dinner will be ready soon, so can

you go talk to Connor and see what the fight was

about” Buffy asked sweetly?

“Anything for you luv” Spike smiled.

Standing up he couldn’t help but think of the first time

he ever saw Buffy.

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15 years ago.....


“Willow I don’t know, Riley was cute but he

was a little mean to me, especially when I wanted to

talk to another guy” Buffy expressed.

“I know that he was controlling, but I think

that was because he loved you so much” Willow said

in a matter-of-factly way.

“I just want someone who will love me but

let me be my own person” Buffy explained.

“I know you do sweetheart, but there are

not many nice, sweet, hot and funny guys left in

Sunnydale” Willow tried to comfort Buffy.

Buffy and Willow stood silent for a few minutes

thinking about what each other had just said. But there

thoughts were interrupted by a british voice.

“I know, yea I’m at the fair. No I didn’t know

that he was looking for me” Spike talked into his cell

phone.

Willow and Buffy both looked at each other as to

say “girlfriend” but they were shocked at what came

next.

“Yea I’ll be home in a little while and I’ll

make sure to go get faith on my way home. Yea I love

you too, Mum. Ok bye” Spike rattled on.

The two girls both were stunned, it was not often that

they found a guy that still told his mom that he loved

her.

As William walked by Buffy and Willow, he gave them a

big smile. Buffy felt her knees weaken at the sight of

his smile.

Buffy turned her attention to willow, who had a huge

smile plastered on her face.

“Wills, I have to find out who he is” Buffy

said bluntly.

Snapping out of her daze Willow looked over at Buffy.

“Did you hear me” Buffy asked?

“Yea I think I heard you, did you say that

you need to find out who he is” Willow asked swiftly?

“Yes I did” Buffy beamed.

“Well I think I know that tone, I think a little

stalking is in order, am I right” Willow asked

innocently?

“You know it” Buffy laughed!

With that the two girls walked towards Buffy’s house

hatch a plan.

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After knocking a few times on the door, Connor finally

let him in.

“We need to talk” Spike said briskly.

“Dad I really don’t want to talk about what

happened at school today” Connor said as he sat

down on the bed.

“Well to bad, because we are talking about

it, now tell me about that nice shiner you’ve got there”

Spike stated.

“Alright” Connor sighed. “I was walking

from my French class when I heard someone call my

name. It was Lindsey, she just wanted to know if we

had any math homework last night. I told her that we

did and that if she needed any help with it I would be

glad to help her” Connor told.

“Right then, but that still doesn’t explain

your face” Spike was confused.

“Well if you would let me finish I was

getting to that part. Anyway, like I said I told her that I

would help her with her math. She told me that she did

need some help with her fractions. So I asked her if

she would like to sit with me at lunch and that way we

could work on her math. All during lunch we talked

about her math, she was finally starting to get the

hang of it when the bell rang. I said bye to her and

went to my locker then went to math class. When I

walked out of class there was a guy standing there

with not the nicest expression on his face. He hit me

because his girlfriend ate lunch with me, he thought

that she was cheating on him with me. Which she

wasn’t. And that is why my face looks like this” Connor

finally breathed.

‘Ok, I understand. After dinner we are

going to have to put something on that to get the

swelling to go down” Spike reassured him.

“Thanks Dad” Connor smiled.

“Don’t mention it, now let’s go eat your

mum is prob’ly worried” Spike laughed.

Making his way downstairs to the kitchen Spike

stopped to get his daughters to come downstairs to

eat. And after explaining to them that they weren't in

trouble they happily obliged.


After dinner was finished and the dishes were done,

they all went into the living room to watch a movie.

Anya picked “The wedding Singer”. They had just put

the movie in when that phone rang.