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Chapter 14

Saving Spike

Spike knew this was coming; he would have been shocked if it hadn’t. He sat in his crypt drinking a glass of blood and waited. He wasn’t left disappointed, not five minutes after he had arrived back at his crypt, Riley came storming through the door.

Spike stood from his chair and prepared himself for whatever Riley had to throw at him. Riley grabbed Spike by the scruff of his shirt and slammed him into a nearby wall.

“Now, now farm boy no need to get upset.” Spike smirked, holding his hands up in mock surrender.

“I think there’s good reason to be upset… What makes you think you had the right to touch what’s mine?” Riley hissed.

“Last time I checked mate, Buffy didn’t belong to anyone!” Spike spat back. “Buffy is no ones property.”

“That’s where you’re wrong. She’s mine!” He hissed as he pulled a stake from inside his coat.

Spike noticed the stake seconds before Riley plunged it into his chest. He let out a yell of pain, his eyes bulging as he realised he wasn’t dust. The stake wasn’t wood at all but plastic.

“Now, I know this time it wasn’t the real thing but I think we should take this nice and slow. We’ll finish it soon enough… I promise.” Riley smirked.

Spike knew from the look in his eyes that he wasn’t kidding around; he intended to torture and eventually kill him.

“Big man…” Spike laughed, coughing up blood. “You’re a real big man,” blood was pouring from the wound in his chest and Spike was starting to become weak. “Torturing and killing someone who you know for a fact can’t fight back… No wonder she’s sick of you.” Spike laughed again, he knew he was only pissing Riley off but at that point it was all he had left.

Riley roared in rage and Spike knew his life was about to come to an abrupt end when suddenly, Riley was thrown across the room. He hit the wall with a loud thud and crashed to the floor. Spike swayed on his feet and glanced up, Buffy was standing where Riley stood only moments before.

She put an arm around Spike’s waist and helped him to his chair before turning back to face Riley, who was now getting to his feet.

“You make me sick.” She spat at him. “Is this how you get off? Torturing and threatening to kill innocent people?”

“He’s not a person, Buffy… he’s a soulless disgusting demon!” he yelled at her.

“He may have a demon inside of him but he is still a person… You have the nerve to call him soulless after what I just saw you do? After what I just heard you threaten? When he did his pleasure killings and torturing he did it without remorse because he didn’t have a soul… What’s your excuse?” she hissed at him angrily. “What was the Initiative’s excuse?”

“We were doing good, Buffy,” Riley tried to explain. “We were helping people, saving people!”

“Adam? Was that helping people?” Buffy growled. “That little boy he tore apart? That was helping?” She yelled. “You poke and prod at people doing your experiments’, your tests, it’s disgusting.”

“They’re not people Buffy, they were demons.”

“It was wrong. You can’t stop evil by doing evil… I know that now.” She turned and moved to help Spike, who groaned softly in pain.

“You’re the slayer, your job is to kill them not fuck them… if it isn’t human you should kill it, that’s your job!” he hissed at her.

“No that’s not my job, my job is hunting evil” she spat back at him, Riley sighed.

“They want me back, Buffy.” she turned to face him “The military, they want me back…” He met her eyes. “They’re sending a chopper for me at midnight… unless you can give me a reason why I should stay.” His eyes begged her to tell him she still loved him.

Buffy took a deep breath, her expression never changing as she stared right at him.

“You should go pack then; you don’t want to miss your flight.”

Riley stood shocked and hurt.

“I’m sorry Riley, but there is no reason for you to stay here.”

He turned to leave, hurt, stopping near the entrance.

“Goodbye, Buffy.” He whispered before leaving.

Buffy shook her head not knowing what it was she ever saw in him. She must have been crazy. Looking at Spike she sighed, he was sitting back with his eyes closed.

“I’m going to have to pull that out.” He nodded his head in agreement and understanding as she kneeled in front of him. “It’s going to hurt.” she whispered.

“I know, luv.” He replied, opening his eyes to look at her, she smiled sweetly at him.

“Do you remember the first time we met?” she asked, smiling brightly. Spike let out a laugh, wiping the blood from his mouth as he watched her go over to the table to grab a dry cloth that laid on top before moving back to kneel in front of him.

“You stepped out of the shadows all cocky, clapping… I had just dusted one of your minions.” she whispered, almost seductively.

“I remember.” he smiled.

“I thought you were so hot,” he looked shocked by this. “And then I realized you where a vampire… I was so pissed, knowing I couldn’t have you… but it didn’t stop me from wanting you.” Buffy smiled at the shocked expression on his face, using the distraction to reach up and grab the stake. Spike was to trapped by her words and by the look in her eyes that he didn‘t realise what she was up to. He growled when she pulled the stake free, his vampire visage coming to the surface before she placed the cloth over it to stop the bleeding.

“Oh, you tease. I should have known you were going to do that.” He groaned.

“Sorry, I thought it would be better if I distracted you but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t true.” she replied smiling softly, watching his demon reside.

“Buffy about before…” she quickly stopped him “That’s my bad I should have explained better.” she replied, shaking her head.

“What do you mean?” she sighed, looking up at him.

“I have a bad habit of rushing into things and they tend to end bad, Riley for example… I also feel like we’re doing this all wrong, sex then a baby then we talk about dating, it’s all twisted around… It’s not our fault, we didn’t have a lot of choice but I can’t have this go bad and end with you leaving town.” She met his eyes. “It’s not just me I have to think about anymore it’s this baby too… I just want to slow things down a bit.” she tried to explain the best she could. He smiled in understanding, glad that she wasn’t pushing him away.

The where silent for a long moment, unsure of what to say before Buffy spoke.

“You can’t stay here anymore, it’s not safe.” she said standing.

“I’ll be fine, luv.” He smiled, trying to mask the pain that was ripping through his chest. “Captain cardboard is leaving town anyway.” He stood on shaky legs and watched as she began to pace.

“It’s not just him, Spike.” She ran a hand through her hair. “I can’t risk you getting hurt, not with this baby on the way.” She pointed to the door. “You can’t stop demons just walking in here to pick a fight and you can’t defend yourself against humans…” She sighed. “It’s not safe.”

“And where do you suppose I live then, luv?” he asked, leaning against the nearest sarcophagus and hoping the wound in his chest would heal fast.

“You can come and live with me and my mom.”

Spike’s eyes bugged.

“What? No. It’s not a good idea, luv.” he said, shaking his head.

“Why? Because you’re a vampire? You would never hurt us.”

“It’s not that, luv. Of course I wouldn’t hurt you or your mom, it’s just…” she quickly cut him off.

“Spike, I’m not asking I’m telling,” she raised one eyebrow. “You’re moving in with us.”

Spike sighed in defeat.

“Well get packing,” she moved towards the door. “I’m going to go out and get you some blood. you’ll need it to help you heal.”

“Buffy,” she turned to face him and waited as he walked towards her, stopping to stand in front of her.

“Would you go out to dinner with me tomorrow night?”

“Like a date?”

“Yeah.”

She smiled, her cheeks flushing.

“I’d love to.”

She turned and left. She couldn’t believe it, she was going out to dinner with Spike. A date… She felt butterflies in her tummy at the thought, she was excited and nervous, she just hoped this was the start of something amazing.


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