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Hello, no, it’s not a joke, we’re back for real, thanks to my dear Sara! ;)

Thank you all so, so, so, so much, by both of us!!

Chapter 11 (There’s a little something from a famous movie, ‘How to lose a guy in ten days’)

Drusilla stared at Angel as he left and then she turned to Xander, winking at him without anyone noticing them.

In the meantime, Spike and Buffy kept teasing each other as two children, Riley approached them, clearing his throat as he tried unsuccessfully to get their attention. “Well, maybe you should drink less... otherwise you’re bound to keep making drunken mistakes that you’ll regret later...” Buffy told him bitterly.

“At least I have the alcohol excuse, what’s yours, pixie?”

Drusilla shook her head. They really seemed to be two little children, always ready to fight... and to think that they were both way over eighteen years old! The brunette girl smiled. She was more and more sure with each passing moment that they wouldn’t leave stomping their feet and sticking their tongues to each other. She was sure about their ‘crash’. It would be a very interesting crash indeed.


“Excuse me...” Riley exclaimed, touching Buffy’s shoulder.

“What?” the two blondes snapped at unison, almost scaring the boy.

Buffy recovered immediately. How did Spike manage to make her so angry that she forgot about everything else? He always managed to make her burn and a tiny voice inside her asked her if that feeling was so bad, after all.

“Sorry, Riley… what were you saying?” she said, trying to sound sweet.

“No... nothing. I just wondered if you wanted to...”

“Riley!” Xander exclaimed all of the sudden. “But... don’t you remember?”

The dark blond looked puzzled at him. Why was William’s best friend talking with him now if he had always avoided him so far?

“What?”

“Oh, c’mon, we talked about that!” he slurred. “That tonight you would come with me to that super party ... “

“Me? At a party? With you?”

“Oh, c’mon! The party I talked with you about, Giovanni’s party!”

“Do you have a friend called Giovanni?”

“Well... yes ... Giles’ Italian friend, remember we were gonna have fun and you would talk about the job you wanted so much...”

Xander was starting to have trouble to carry on with his persuading speech, as everyone stared at him in confusion.

Drusilla decided to help her partner in crime.

“Are you really gonna go to that party? Wow, everyone has been talking about it for months! All the coolest people in Sunnydale will be there tonight. If you wanna improve your career, this is the best chance you have!”

Riley’s eyes sparkled. Just hearing about coolest people and career had already excited him.

After that he had almost completely forgot about Buffy.

Drusilla smiled, seeing the booby’s face.

“Hey, Xander... do you think that I can come, too?”

“Sure, Dru, the more we are, the funnier it will be!”

“Hey!” the two blondes exclaimed at unison.

“What?”

“Can we come with you, too?”

“No!”

Spike and Buffy stared at them puzzled. Why did they have the feeling that something was wrong?

“Why the hell no?” Spike asked, turning to his best friend.

“Sorry, mate, but I only have three invitations!”

“So, you’ll leave me here to bring with you a crazy visionary and... Riley Finn?!”

“Spike, try to understand… I can’t say no to a lady. And about Riley... well, I promised him. I can’t let a friend down, now can I?”

“Right!” Riley nodded, patting his now new friend Xander’s shoulder, as William’s jaw touched the ground.

Since when did the world turn upside down?

The three of them jumped on Xander’s car, leaving the empty parking lot, where the two puzzled blondes stood in the middle.

They were still trying to get a sense to what had happened. Realization hit Buffy then.

“Gee, damn Dru! And now... how the hell am I supposed to go back home?” she snorted exasperated.

Everything seemed to fall to pieces. Maybe she could give vent to her rage with William, it seemed that fighting with him made her feel better. She turned abruptly to him as he still stared at the empty road.
“Do you realize what just happened?”

“Hell yeah, I do. I lost my ride home!”

“No. Xander left with Riley... he had always annoyed him, but now... I guess an apocalypse is coming soon!”

“C’mon, don’t be upset because your best friend dumped you... just as the girl-of-the-day-after did!”

“Hey, you just got dumped, too... by Mr. Soldiers-Rule!”

They stared at each other for a while, realizing that there was something fishy in their friends’ attitudes. .

And that they would kill their best friends due to that.

“Well, at least I’m not the one that has to walk home!” he commented, sneering. He found relaxing fighting with her.

“Hey! Are you really planning to leave me here all alone this late at night, aren’t you?”

“Why not?”

“What if I found some criminals or...”

“Well, just promise them you won’t harm anyone and everything will be fine!”

Buffy made her disappointed face, a mix of being angry and being confused.

William thought that she was beautiful. He rolled his eyes and sighed.

“Ok, pet, let’s go, I’ll give you a ride!”

She made a smile of victory and followed him, until she saw that there was only left a motorcycle in the parking lot.
He jumped on and put on his black crash-helmet and then he took a white one on the back, giving it to her.

“You get the hopeless crash-helmet!”

Buffy took it in her hands, hesitating.

“It doesn’t look so bad...”

“Trust me, once they wear it... everyone seems to be hopeless!”

She put it on and smiled at him, she had buried the war axe for a while. There was something that cheered her up that night... maybe it was the stars, maybe it was... him.

“Would you look at that, it fits you to a T!” he admitted, smiling back and fixing the belt to make her helmet firmer.

That little gentleness caressed her heart and for a while his voice didn’t remind her of her unbearable colleague, but of the man that some months before she had heard on the radio for the very first time.

She would never tell anyone, she would deny it even under torture... but she felt good while she was hugged to him during the ride to her home.

When they arrived to Summers’ House, he turned off the motorcycle and took the helmet off. He then approached Buffy, helping her to take off hers, lightly caressing her face.

He didn’t know what it was, but he couldn’t help not being gentle with her at the moment.

(End I)

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