TITLE: Yesterday's Ghosts
AUTHOR: Rainie
EMAIL: [email protected]
DISCLAIMER: Joss, not I.
DISTRIBUTION: Please ask first
CATEGORY: B/S
RATING: PG
PART: 16/16
I sometimes wonder...
There she is.
Curled up in bed.
Peacefully sleeping with Spike protectively wrapped around her.
So far we haven't had a chance to talk. Privately. However.
Thinking about it, I don't think we will any time soon.
They are inseparable.
I wonder how this happened.
If it - if he is doing her any good.
She seems so fragile, so downhearted and very, very lost.
She had come back the way she left.
Without one word.
One morning his black De Soto had been sitting in our driveway and I just knew it had to be her. My baby had come back.
It was shock to see she hadn't come all alone.
Took a lot of getting used to - still does.
Anyway, they rarely ever talk.
They are close, though. Very close. It's almost scary.
He watches her like a hawk. Never more than ten feet away.
Which is scary by itself.
Although, her letting him do so might be even scarier.
There isn't one day I do not wonder what happened to them.
My baby and this vampire...
Last thing I knew - mortal enemies. And now?
Oh, it's definitely not the hot all-consuming love she had with Angel.
Although, the way they touch, the way they comfort or look at each other might go far beyond whatever relationship she had before.
Either.
Day and night.
Vampire and Slayer.
Not quite the thing a mother had in mind for her baby.
However, I've learnt my lessons.
I won't repeat the mistakes I made with Angel.
As long as he is with her, backing her up, keeping her save...
I won't interfere. Wonder. Of course. Sometimes. All the time.
But manage, just as they do.
Somehow.
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