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Chapter two: Explaining time

Spike stirred in his sleep. He smelt his slayers scent in the air and felt the presence of a warm body beside him; he moved over and draped his arm over the body without opening his eyes.
Angel was also asleep when he felt an arm wrap around him possessively. He smelt Buffy in the room somewhere and noticed that it was a warm body that hugged him. He smiled and turned around to face the person next to him, he opened his eyes and saw Spikes blue ones staring back at him.

“Aaaaaargh” they both yelled at the same time, moving away from each other so quickly that Spike fell out of bed and landed with a bang on the floor. Buffy had heard the yelling and had rushed into her bedroom to find out what was wrong, she saw Angel sitting on the bed and Spike lying down on the floor rubbing his head, she rushed over to him and helped him back on the bed, ignoring the scowl that Angel directed towards Spike.
“Spike, what happened? Are you ok?” she asked
“I’m fine” Spike replied when Buffy was done checking for injuries “I just woke up snuggling with peaches there and it scared the crap out of me and I fell off the bed”
Buffy gave Spike a strange look, then look towards Angel then back to Spike before bursting out laughing
“You two were making with the snugglies in your sleep?” she asked them both
“I thought it was you” the both replied defensively at the same time, obviously unimpressed by her laughing. Buffy’s giggles subsided when she caught the looks on Spike and Angels faces
“Sorry, but it is kind of funny” she told them, shrugging her shoulders
“Care to explain what happened?” Spike asked her, deliberately ignoring her previous comment
“I could ask you two the same thing” she told them, Angel and Spike gave her a look that said neither one of them knew what she was talking about, she sighed and sat down at the end of the bed
“Well, the last I knew, Spike was a big pile of dust amongst the rubble that was once Sunnydale, then, he comes out of nowhere and lands on my lounge room floor, then, before I can ask what happened, he passes out, then, Angel, who lat I heard was working for an evil law firm in LA bursts in through my front door and also passes out. So, I carry you both into my bedroom and dump you on the bed so I can wait for you to wake up and the rest I guess you know. By the way, are you aware that you both have a heartbeat now?” she asked them
Spike and Angel looked at each other before their hand flew up to feel the pulse points at their necks, Buffy just smiled at the look of shock and amazement on their faces.

“You seem to be taking this quite well” Spike noted
“Yeah, you don’t seem to be to shocked” Angel agreed
“Well, the two of you have been out of it for almost three hours now” Buffy told them after looking at the watch on her left wrist “I’ve had time to be shocked, happy, worried, confused, amazed, then, I had pacing time, then here was punching time, then there was incoherent rambling time, but now, I thinks it’s explaining time” she told them
“Buffy, I don’t know how this happened or why I’m here exactly, but I will be more than happy to help you find out what’s going on as soon as I have something to eat” Angel pleaded with her
“Sure, there’s food in the kitchen, help yourself” she told him, Angel didn’t reply, he just rushed out of the room to try and find the kitchen, Buffy giggled slightly before turning her attention back to Spike
“You hungry?” she asked him
“Not really, but I remember what happened and I think I may be able to help you with the explaining part”
“Ok, shoot” buffy told him
“Ok, it goes like this…” Spike began

Spike told the story from the beginning, when he was brought back to LA and was incorporeal right up to when he had met with the oracles and made his choice. Buffy was silent through the entire story and was hanging off his every word, when he was finished, she just stared at him, mouth hanging open in shock. After she hadn’t said anything for a little while, Spike got worried
“Are, are you going to say anything luv” he asked her nervously
Without warning, Buffy’s fist collided with his nose and he clutched in pain and to try and stop the blood from coming. He then gave her one of those are-you-completely-off-you-bird looks
“Bloody hell Summers, what was that for” He asked once his nose had stopped bleeding
“I’m sorry, but how do you expect me to react? I tell you that I love you, and you leave me, then you show up and I am so happy to see you again, then I realize you’re human now and then Angel comes in and he’s the same” she started, now up off the bed and pacing the room
“You tell me that you came back and didn’t come to see me, then you tell me you had a choice between you and Angel and you picked him, didn’t you want to come back to me?” she asked, trying to hold back the tears
“Of course I did, I love you, I always wanted to come back to you”
“Then why didn’t you?”
“Because I wanted you to be able to have a normal life, that’s why I didn’t come to you the first time, then chose Angel over myself because I just want you to be happy no matter what” he told her truthfully
“You sound like Angel, it’s not your choice what I do with my life, and what makes you think you get to chose what’s going to make me happy?” she told him angrily
“Buffy, luv, first, stop pacing, you’re making me dizzy” he told her, standing up and grabbing her shoulders to stop her from moving, she stopped pacing
“Thankyou, second, I did what I did for you pet, it’s always for you, isn’t a chance to be with Angel what you want?” He asked her
“I don’t know, like you said, the day I do suss out what I want there will probably be a parade, I can’t believe you chose Angel over yourself, you were really going to give up a chance to become human to do what you thought would make me happy?” she asked
“I did” he told her
“Thankyou, that means a lot to me, but it still doesn’t mean you get to chose who I want to be with” she told him
“So, this is it then, they made you both human, it’s a forever deal?”
“I don’t know, it was only supposed to be peaches, but because we’re both here, I really don’t know” he told her
“Then we’ll have to figure it out” she told him, there was a long pause before Buffy spoke up again
“Spike, I…”
“So, do we know what’s happening?” Angel asked as he re-entered the room, chewing on an apple
“No, I, um, I need to find Giles, I’ll be back in a minute” she said before leaving the room

Angel and Spike both went back to sitting on the bed, staying as far away from each other as possible
“So peaches, I thought you’d be more shocked, what’s up with the calm, cool and collected routine?” Spike asked
“Well, I have no idea what’s going on, plus, I’ve been human before, it was a couple of years ago, I got to spend the day with Buffy, but I asked the oracles to take it back, I’m the only one who remembers” he told Spike calmly
“Why would you have given that up?” Spike asked
“I love her, I’d do anything to protect her” Angel told him flatly
“I know what you mean mate”
They both sat on the bed, Angel was munching on his apple and Spike was getting increasingly annoyed by the chewing sounds.


TBC





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