Neither of them knew that there wouldn’t be time for their talk later.
Not until much, much later.
They’d taken for granted that the other would always be there for them, never once thinking otherwise.
And in a sense they were right. Even when he was trapped inside the amulet, not really existing anywhere else, before he’d appeared at Wolfram and Hart, Spike had gotten his wish and was able to watch over her while she slept.
Every night he’d been there, doing his best to keep her safe without actually being able to do anything.
He didn’t think she knew though, didn’t think she’d had any knowledge of his presence.
Didn’t think so that is until the day, nearly two weeks after he’d appeared at Wolfram and Hart, that she’d shown up there looking for him.
She said that she’d felt him watching over her until just recently and she knew that he was back, couldn’t explain how she knew, she just knew. When he’d persisted and asked her just how it was she knew, she’d reminded him that he was always the one that was good with words, not her, and that the best she could do was just say that she ‘knew,’ somehow she just knew.
But he was Spike and that would never be good enough for him, he’d given up trying to read into what she said, he needed to hear it, word for bloody word.
“How, Buffy?” he pushed, “How’d you know I was back?”
“Because it was like you were there every night….and then you weren’t,” she explained softly, not understanding why he needed to know how, she didn’t even know how, all she knew was that she felt him there every night while she slept and then suddenly she didn’t.
A rational person would have thought that they were finally accepting his death and would have moved on.
But Buffy never had been one for the rational side of things.
Rational didn’t go well alongside a vampire with a soul that fell in love with the one girl destined to kill them. Especially not when it happened twice.
So, Buffy, had assumed what Buffy would assume—that Spike was back…maybe not necessarily alive, but back.
She’d looked for him in England…looked in the town he’d once mentioned being from…tried the new Council to see if they’d heard anything….gone to England to see if for whatever reason he’d shown up there…..gone to the crater that had been Sunnydale. But he hadn’t been any of those places.
She’d been about to give up and try living on the rational side of the tracks when she’d thought of one more place.
Wolfram and Hart.
She didn’t think for a second that Spike would choose Angel over her, but, hey, things happened. She just hoped that it was because of circumstances beyond his control.
If in fact he was even there.
He was.
“How’d I know you were back?” she asked, once she’d decided that it was worth it to finally just give up and tell him the truth. “I knew you were back because I can feel you, I think it had something to do with that day…that day you died….I think that when we held hands and I felt your soul….I think that somehow, you got a piece of my soul and I got a piece of yours. So, now it’s like I can feel you in me…and not that way, you pig!….It’s like, we’re…..connected.”
“You really think that?” Spike asked, he’d contemplated it when he came back and remembered his time watching over her, remembered how she’d felt every night. But he didn’t think for a minute that she’d ever admit to it.
“Of course I do….and you know why it worked?” she asked, knowing she was going to get him on this one.
“No,” he said, wanting to know why she was asking, he really hated it when Buffy had a one up on him.
“Because you loved me….and I love you….even if you don’t believe me I do.”
“I do,” he replied quickly.
“Do believe me or do love me?” she wasn’t sure why she was asking, but she’d realized as soon as she’d heard his answer that she just had to know which thing he was replying to.
“Both, I do love you…and I do believe you.”
“Good,” she said, matter-of-factly, “I love you too.”
Buffy had never expected to find Spike where she did.
But he had been there….and now that she was there, they were going to make up for it. They weren’t going to take anything for granted.
Not anymore.
Not that they were back together and could finally be together.
THE END...
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here's the second part.....I also updated chapter 9 of Learning Curve earlier...and can I pimp my other short story "If It Wasn't For Your Love" a bit?