| High Stakes part 1 by Amber Spike's eyes fluttered, the face of Drusilla was in his mind calling him, tauting him "....your not a really Spike anymore, not the Spike tha' I knew....I'm gonna haunt you, and when she leaves you wil' beg me to kill you...." Her giggle shattered his sleep and Spike woke with a start. But Drusilla wasn't there, it took him a couple of seconds to realise the fact, but also that he was laying on his stomach. He winced as he tried to rise and looked behind him to see a sleeping Buffy on the otherside of the bed. Buffy, still in the clothes from the day before and her hands still stained with the blood from Spike's back, that she had spend most of the night dambing with a cloth. He smiled, she had asked him, Spike, to stay, not out of pure lustful passion that he had so many times dreamed, but out of simple...kindness! Spike rose, trying not to wake her and headed to the window, keeping out of the light. "You couldn't sleep either?" Buffy yawned as she joined Spike. He nodded, he wanted to say thank you but knew she was too stubborn to take it propally, she knew what he was thinking and smiled "I need a shower and then I've gotta pick up Dawn from Giles's...." Spike knew that this was his que to leave, though she didn't want him to, Buffy still felt strange about Spike being....well nice. "Buffy!" Giles exclaimed as she closed the door behind her "What happened....where have you been?" Buffy almost feel embarrassed, she hated it when Giles became "The Watcher" again, though she understood his concern. Dawn entred and broke the awkward atmostphere "Hey....hows..." "Fine" Buffy snapped, she didn't want Dawn to know anything about Spike, she couldn't have her worrying about him, not infront of Giles. "Hey!" Xander broke the silence "What happened to you last night Buffy, we kinda had a thingy at mine...." he closed the door behind Anya who look particually pissed off with her boyfriend as she had a different plan in mind. Just then Willow and Tara came through the door, though with a very different look on their faces "Hey guys......hey Buffy did you catch the raid? A group of Campers were attacked by a pack of Vampires over on Dumas Green....no one was really hurt..." "Guess the Buffster got to them in time eh!" Xander cried cheerfully but Buffy didn't answer, she hadn't been there, but who was? "Drusilla....have we any idea if she's left" Giles started to dry a plate that he had been washing and looked towards Buffy "Could she be responsilbe for this hasty attack?" "Dru's gone.....for now anyway...."but Buffy was then intertrupted by Dawn "Did Spike go with her....Buffy?!?" "Well we should have known Spike was involved, he probably went along with them to hit the group of Campers!" Buffy feel embarrassed and it wasn't helped by Xander's persistance to Spike's guilt "Spike couldn't have been with Drusilla when she hit the caamping site...." Giles interupted with "Theres no evidence that he wouldn't go back to her, not after their history...." but Buffy had to say something....anything! "I know he wasn't with Dru last night because....he was with me...." There was a deadly silence, no one really knew what to say but Buffy had to make sure they knew the truth, as she looked at the faces of her friends. "Not in the way you think.....ooooooooh.....say something!" "So why didn't you tell me.....you could have told me Buffy!" Willow wasn't shocked, just disappointed that not only had Buffy not told her but that she hadn't picked up anything "I mean you and....." "It so isn't what it seemed when I said I was with Spike.....Willow you know I would tell you if........look theres nothing going on, this is Spike we're talking about!" Buffy sat down under the tree, they had been walking in the grounds of the college, each wanting to ask each other questions but they had just walked. "Buffy........even you have to admit that he isn't like he was!" Willow wanted to see her friend's face for an explaination "You would tell me if anything was....wrong....even if it was about...." Buffy turned to her "Willow you've gota admit that you've been....preocupid lately..." she waited for the mention of Tara but Willow had already realised that by not knowing about Spike, showed to her the point. "I know" smiled Willow "How about I make it up to you!" "Are we talking party I'll make it up to you or....cause you know I have the worst luck with....." Willow grinned and shook her head "No a girlie night in, I'll make it up to you....just you and me, Tara has an assignment to do, we could meet at yours?" "Ok deal....as long as I get to choose the film....!" The two walk back towards College, knowing full well that a certain person would probably be mentioned later. Spike stood at the Coach stop, it was around six and though he felt he wanted to see Buffy, he had passed her house, and her and Will were there togther. Drusilla was in his mind, practically everytime he closed his eyes and after what sorta happened the night before, he knew that a break was needed and he was sure that no one would really miss him! "Where you going?" he asked the coach driver as he stamped out his cigarette, the driver looked up "The next town....why.... where you thinking of going?" Spike smiled "That'll do" as he chucked his bag on to the steps and climbed aboard. "What you running away from?" sniggered the driver, Spike pushed his bag up onto the rack and with a smile he answered "Nothing!" but all he could think of was last night with Buffy. How she gently dabbed the cuts on his back and they slept next to each other out of exsurstion, not sex just sleep. Dawn ran from Spike's crypt, seeing most of his stuff was gone rushed outside, to see the coach drive off to the next town. She ran back to her house, where Buffy and Willow sat cuddled up on the sofa watching a movie "Hey Dawn!....wanna come an join us?" Willow asked "its nachos!!" "Naaaaaaaaa its ok, you guys look cosy, I'm going to have an early night.....maybe do some work..." Buffy didn't argue, like Dawn wished she had, of-course she wanted to sit with them, for once she wanted to be envolved and always she made excuses. She was hoping that the excuses whould make Buffy ask her....but Buffy was pleased to have Willow to herself again, like old times and didn't realise Dawn slide upstairs to cry. She had no idea exactly who she was and though Buffy never said anything, Dawn knew that she couldn't feel Sisterly stuff for some one who wan't real! She hated Buffy for thinking that, and hated her even more that she never mentioned it, like Dawn was this unwanted thing that would go away and let Buffy get back to the life she lead, before Dawn. Dawn shuved some stuff in a bag and climbed out of the window, she knew who understood her best. "Ok so who decided to have a sleep-over and not invite me?" Xander grinned as Buffy opened the front door "I bring gifts!!" "Chips actually..." added Anya as she pushed past Xander and handed a bag of chips to a bewildered Buffy. She knew she should have got everyone together but Willow and her had already spent several movies of time together, before Xander expressed his want for a War movie. "I'll go and check on Dawn....let it play though I'm sure I won't miss anything important" Buffy slipped upstairs, to find the harsh wind blowing against the curtain, of Dawn's bedroom window " Not again..." Buffy cried as she ran downstairs "Dawn's gone!" She sat at the Coach stop, Dawn had already asked three drivers, which way Spike went and none of them were much help. "Hey!" She said to a driver reading a paper " Have you seen a man....about this high....where a long leather jacket, and has Peroxide blond hair?" The driver looked up with the last part " Yea, I drove him to the next town about an hour ago.....why?" "Nothing...." She looked back the with a deep breath said " When you leaving?" The rain bashed against the window of Spike's motel room, he'd kinda borrowed it, though if he had the money he would pay for it....but he didn't! He thought of Buffy and that really he sould have told her that he was leaving, though as he thought about it alittle more, why would she care? Just because she helped him out once, doesn't mean she wouldn't want him to leave, she would probably be releaved, he was! Spike was alittle startled by a timmed knock at his door, and turned off the light, just incase it was the owner who wanted to chuck him out.....Dawn stood, drenshed from the rain "Hey !" Spike lent against the door, he was amazed with her courage "Hey Dawn.....running away?" She smiled "I see I'm not the only one.... eh Spike!" |