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A/N: I am so sorry about not posting this on my normal schedule. Just I had two papers to write and midterms to seriously study for. I really hope you like this one; I know I have been looking forward to posting this chapter. Be warned I probably won’t submit chap. 13 till Sunday night or Monday because I have my championship competitions for drum line on Saturday. Squee! *Nervous* Anyway enjoy!

Chapter 12: Under the stars

Buffy stood frozen unable to move. She stared at him trying to process the words in her head. When I was in jail. The words seemed to repeat over and over again in her head and for some reason it didn’t click. It put too much shock into her.

She had the fishy look on her face, wide eyes, mouth opening and closing. She wanted to ask him a question but the words weren’t coming out. Hell even the cut on her cheek stopped stinging. They stood about almost a block away from the Bronze and Buffy could hear the distant thumping of music coming from the club. The guy that you are on a date with just told you that he went to jail. Ask him about it! Say something!! Her mind was screaming at her.

Finally, the words fell out of her mouth. “What happened?”

Spike ran his hands through his hair finding it hard to find the right words as well. “It was just over something stupid.”

“Well it must have been if you went to jail.” Spike gave her a small glare. “So what happened?”

“It’s a pretty long story kitten.” Spike explained trying to get out of telling it. It really was a long story and he was rather worried she would think differently of him after he told her it.

Buffy looked at her watch. “I have about two hours so I think you have time.” Spike looked around as if he was worried someone would overhear him. Stuffing his hands in his duster pocket, Spike began to walk down the street, and silently Buffy followed him.

“I was a geek.” Buffy’s eyes went wider at his blunt and random statement. She couldn’t help but let a laugh. “Shut up you bint. I know it is hard to believe that a sexy many like me was a geek, but I was. I was till I was about 16.” Spike seemed to go into a daze as if reliving his past few years. “It all started when I met Drusilla. She was my dark princess.” He looked over at Buffy to see the hint of jealousy in her expression leaving Spike feel very happy. “She really changed me. I went from nerd with brown curly hair and glasses who acted like a bloody ponce, to well…who I am now.”

Buffy didn’t say anything. She was jealous of this Drusilla chick and she had no clue why. She hadn’t come across her at school so far or heard about so she must not still be around.

They ended up walking into a gated park with a child’s playground in the center of trees that circled around it. Both of them sat down on a bench. Spike spoke on further. “She wasn’t right in the head. Always talked about her porcelain dolls and having tea with them, had this one Ms. Edith, ugly little bugger. Claimed the bloody doll would talk to her. Also the whole damn stars. Still the woman had me infatuated with her. I found myself changing for her, doing the things for her the minute she asked them. I drank with her, did the most abnormal sex sessions, fighting, and even over time I started to do illegal things. I got the name Spike from her. After I fought this guy and threatened him with a railroad Spike if he came near Dru again.” She still hadn’t said anything and Spike was starting to get worried. She just stared at him with a curious look.

“What kind of illegal things did you do?”

Spike sighed and continued. “Just stealing things she wanted and I never even thought twice about it. Then I’d get her drugs for her. I think all the coke she was snorting was causing the psychobabble she was spitting out. Once in a while I’d do it but drugs weren’t really my thing.” Spike started chuckling and Buffy began to think he was losing it. “Now that I think back on it, I thought I was in love with her. Nope, it was just someone she made me. She could manipulate people so easily it was bloody ridiculous. Hell she even got some guy named Chaos, that went to same bar as we did. After I found out, I didn’t even stop to think. I tore at him. Nearly killed him from beating him to a bloody pulp. I would have just gotten arrested and given probation with some anger management classes, but it was the same damn day that I had gone to Dru’s dealer to get her drugs. Found them in my pocket and I was charged with battery, bloody coke possession, and underage drinking.” Buffy gasped. Spike nodded. “Yep. The hilarious thing is the stupid bint didn’t even claim to know me. Kept going on and on how Chaos was her boyfriend and that I just started beating him up.”

That stupid bitch! Buffy found herself thinking.

“Anyway since I had never had any criminal record the judge went really easy on me. Just gave me time until I was eighteen plus probation for three years. I got out three months ago. Spent six months in there. Let me tell you, I thought I was a bad ass but, in there…it was bloody different. Wouldn’t believe how many times I had to watch my back.” It was all out now. Spike stared at her closely wondering what she was thinking. Either she would tell him to stay away from her now, be really turned on by him actually being a bad boy, or she’d shrug it off. Spike hoped for the latter of the three.

Finally, she looked up from her lap and into his eyes. Nothing had changed. Spike knew she didn’t care. That it was his past and suddenly he felt rather relieved. “What happened to Drusilla?”

Leaning back against the back of the bench Spike answered, “Don’t know. Aunt Jenny told me a month after I was sentenced, Dru’s grandmother finally put her foot down, sent her to a rehabilitation center and now I hear she’s under the watchful eye of Sunnydale’s white coat doctors at the Asylum. Turned out she Schizophrenic plus with the coke it made it much worse. She was sent there because her grandmum died while she was in rehab and it sent her over the edge.”

“So is that where you were today? Your probation meeting?” She questioned. Spike just nodded. “It’s in the past though, right? You don’t do that crap anymore?”

“Pet, no. I gave all that illegal crap up and drinking when I was in jail. The only thing I do now is smoke. I’m done with fighting.” Buffy relaxed at the thought of fighting. She had too much violence in her past already and even some in her, she didn’t want another aspect of violence. “I would never hit you luv. I’m not that type of man. Besides you or Faith would probably whip my arse if I did.”

“I know.” Buffy smiled and Spike relaxed then. He pulled her close into his arms and hugged her little body to his. She didn’t tense up, just seemed to relax and melt in his arms.

“So you don’t think I’m horrible?” Spike asked seeming shy in an instant.

Buffy shook her head. “Can’t really judge when I myself have been arrested.” Spike raised his eyebrows. “Fight. I got arrested but charges were dropped. Though that one night in jail was enough to scare the crap out of me.”

Looking down at her into her eyes Spike too felt like jell-o. Here this golden goddess was, the complete opposite of Drusilla, and he felt like he was falling in love. He wanted to protect her from what ever had happened to her and keep her safe in his arms forever.

Buffy gasped when her and Spike’s eyes met. Wrapping her hand around the nape his neck, she pulled him down to kiss her lips. He urgently began to kiss her back, taking the lead of their kiss. Slowly he leant her on her back so she laid across the bench with him slightly over her. Neither caring that they were in a public place and that some elderly couple could come by on a night stroll. Their kisses turned urgent. Again Buffy was getting lost in his kisses and she was throwing all her thoughts out the window.

Spike smiled when he kissed her neck he was received with a soft moan. He had found a sensitive spot. He gave gentle kisses on her neck just below her neck, feeling her began to shiver beneath him.

“Spike…” Her sentence was cut off by another moan. “Spike please.”

Stopping his kisses, he sat up and let her sit up as well. He watched as she fixed her dress and straightened out her hair.

“I’m sorry pet.”

“No it’s fine. I just think that were…well…” Spike looked at her intriguingly a smirk on his lips leaving Buffy at loss of words. “Don’t you think…that were moving too fast? I mean we just met five days ago-”

Understanding at what she was trying to get out Spike put a finger to her lips. “Pet I understand. Don’t worry we’ll take things slow.”

Buffy smiled her thanks Happy that he was understanding.

“Why don’t we just stay here and look at the stars?” He suggested. Buffy nodded and again they got up to walk over to the clear grass. Spike laid down his duster and sat on it leaving room for her to follow. Pulling off her own jacket so it could cover them, Buffy laid down next to Spike and curled into him resting her head on his chest. Both of them looked up at the stars enjoying the clear cloudless night.

“When I was little I use to sit out with my mom and Dawnie after my dad left and she’d show us the constellations.” Buffy confided in him. He could hear the sad tone in her voice at the mention of her mother but still happy at the memories she had of her. He knew she missed her mother just as she did. However, like each other they had wonderful family to still take care of them even after some of the things they did. “I use to think they were so cool. I still think their beautiful.”

“There’s something else more beautiful.” Spike said. Buffy looked at him with a doubtful look in her eyes. “It’s you.” Buffy couldn’t help but blush at his compliment but still rolled her eyes at the cheesiness of it.

They stayed that way lightly dozing off under the stars.
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“PET!” Spike shook her lightly trying to wake her. She had her head resting on his chest still fast asleep. “Buffy love, we got to get you home before your guardian skins me alive.” Slowly Buffy’s eyes opened.

“Give me five more minutes.” The blonde murmured half asleep. Lifting up her arm, Spike observed her wrist. It was covered in a wide band of leather that was snapped to make a cuff like bracelet. He was tempted to take it off, see if his accusations of her song were true but fought against it. If there was anything she was hiding, in due time she would tell him. Instead, Spike looked at the watch that adorned the same arm.

“Buffy, it’s one-thirty.” Her eyes snapped open and sat up like a rocket seemingly wide awake.

“SHIT!!” Buffy jumped up to stand and pulled her jacket on. “We told Giles we’d be home by one. Fuck I totally forgot about Faith.” Spike got up and threw on his duster.

They quickly ran out of the park and back towards the Bronze to retrieve his car. Finally ten minutes later they pulled up in front of her house to see that no lights were on. Buffy hoped Giles had been in bed for the past couple hours and that Faith had already gotten home.

“I think I better sneak in through the window. Just incase.” Buffy told him. Spike gave her an uneasy look at the thought of her having to climb a tree. “I’ll be fine. I’ve gone through higher.” She leaned forward and gave him a kiss that was sweet enough to make Spike feel like he would need to go to the dentist.

“Make sure you clean up that cut.” He said referring to the small cut on her cheek that Harmony had lashed out on her. “Goodnight pet.” He called after her. She gave him a small wave before closing the door and jogging up across the yard to the large oak tree in front of her bedroom window.

Buffy thanked the heavens that she had left the window latch unlocked and climbed in. She stared out the window and smiled to see Spike hadn’t pulled away yet. Seeing him wave from the car, Buffy again waved. Finally, he pulled away and Buffy turned around.

“HELLO!” A loud whisper came from the other side of her room. Buffy jumped up and nearly shrieked when she heard the voice and thought it was Giles. Dawn, her now annoying little sister walked out of the shadows smiling like she had just seen the first comment come across the sky.

“Dawn!” Buffy yelled in the same loud whisper. “What are you doing?”

“Making sure you got your ass home on time. Don’t worry Giles went to bed like two hours ago.”

Buffy sighed out a relief. “Is Faith back?” Dawn shook her head no.

“I thought she was with you.”

The older sister began to tell her the events of her night, how she had gotten in the fight with Harmony the bimbo, how Spike had told her his past (Which left Dawn thinking he was even more cooler), and how they had fallen asleep under the stars. Only leaving out the parts of where her and Spike had practically had sex on the dance floor and made out on the park bench. Dawn gave her the smile that she only used on the romance movies that she insisted on watching.

“I better call Faith.” Dawn nodded and sat down on Buffy’s bed watching as her sister called Faith on her cell phone. “No answer.” She said a round of rings later. “I really hope she’s okay.”

She sat moved to change into her pajamas and then sat down next to Dawn on the bed, where they both sat cross-legged across from each other, with Buffy having Mr. Gordo in her lap.

“Didn’t you say she met one of Spike’s friends at the Bronze?”

Buffy nodded after all figuring Faith and him and probably continued to flirt until they went to his house or some other remote place and doing what Faith always did.

Abruptly the window slid open making both sisters jump and in slid Faith. Her halter was slightly rumpled and the right part of her hair was askew. She noticed both the girls were up.

“Where have you been?” Buffy asked. The blonde leaned over and covered Dawn’s ears knowing Faith might say something inappropriate.

“Riding the guy Devon as if he was a stallion.” And Buffy was right. Buffy rolled her eyes. Taking her hands away from her little sister’s ears, she ignored the glare Dawn was shooting at her.

Buffy began to tell what Dawn had said to her earlier about Giles going to bed and how her own nice Pg-13 night had gone after she had left the club with Spike following her, this time leaving out what Spike had told him. Faith gave her a wicked smile.

“Well I’m going to bed. Night you guys!” Dawn hopped up and walked to her room.

“Night Dawnie.”

“Sleep tight kid.” Faith left the room to change and came back with the first aid kit. Replacing Dawn’s place, she took out a q-tip and dipped it in a little bottle of hydrogen peroxide. As she began to clean Buffy’s little cut, with very little whining from the blonde, Faith listened attentively as Buffy began to tell her about Spike.

“Well he’s a lot different from you know who.” Faith pointed out when she had finished. She added a layer of Neosporin to her cut to make sure it wouldn’t scar. Buffy nodded in agreement.

“I really like him Faith.” Buffy whispered looking down at her hands in her lap. Faith closed the lid of the first aid kit with a snap.

“I know. He likes you too.” Buffy looked at her best friend curiously. “I had my talk with him while you were in the bathroom.” She got up and began to walk out of the bedroom.

“FAITH!!!” Buffy screamed after her enraged. Though the brunette ignored it and walked into her own bedroom ready for sleep.


A/N: Ok….first things first, Spike is 18. I don’t know for sure on the following: 1.If you get parole or probation after you served your full time in Jail. 2. If drugs cause schizophrenia to worsen. These are just things I made to fit to the story. Please don’t count on me for those facts. Well now, you know Spike’s story. Yet still learned Buffy’s. You will in due time. Please Review.
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