Are you happy now ?: we need to talk
by no1slayer
I don’t own any of the characters in this they all belong to Joss Whedon.

This is my first fanfic so I know its not going to be as good as everyone else’s. But I’ll have a go anyway. Wish me luck and please review. Tell me how I can make it better in future and which bits you like about it. 

Historians note: This happens a few years after Buffy season 7. There was no end of angel and there was no apocalypse.




Chapter six – we need to talk

Spike looked at Buffy then at the guy who had just entered the room. “Who are you?” spike asked him as his eyes looked him up and down. He looked quite smart; maybe he was a lawyer at Wolfram and Hart.

Carlo looked uneasily at Buffy then looked at Spike. “I’m Carlo” he said simply.

Spike looked back at Buffy. He felt his heart sink to the floor. Did she have a new boyfriend? It hadn’t been that long since he went away, well a couple of years, but that’s not a lot, spike thought to himself.

Buffy looked down at the ground. She swallowed hard. How was she going to tell angel and spike she was married? She looked back up at spike and angel.

“Carlo is my husband” Buffy said quietly. With his vampire hearing, spike could hear it perfectly.

“Your what?” spike asked. Even though he heard her fine. He couldn’t believe his ears.

“She is married to me” Carlo said in his distinct Italian accent. “Now who exactly are you to?”.

Spike felt like punching Carlo so hard that it would send him flying out of the big windows in the living room causing them to smash and show his anger. But he knew he couldn’t. Buffy would just get angry at him and he never wanted that. Spike was already scheming a way to get her back.

“They are old friends” Buffy said quickly before spike could say anything he would regret. “I knew them when I lived in Sunnydale”. She took a deep breathe before she continued. She couldn’t look at spike. She could feel how hurt he was from across the room. “They were in the neighbourhood and decided to drop by”

Carlo didn’t really believe Buffy but didn’t argue with her. He would talk to her later. He nodded and walked off into the kitchen to pour him self a scotch. He felt he was going to need it.

When Buffy was sure Carlo was gone. She looked back at angel and spike. “What are you two doing here anyway?” she asked.

“Well that’s a nice ‘welcome back from the dead aint it” Spike said to Buffy. He was expecting her to either kiss him or kill him. At the moment she was doing neither.

Buffy looked at him. She had missed him so much and now she had Carlo, he was nice but he wasn’t Spike.

“I’m sorry” Buffy said to spike softly. “But you can’t just come here and expect me to drop everything just because your some how alive”. As soon as Buffy said this she regretted it instantly. It sounded like she was happy to see him. Even though she didn’t show it inside she was doing cart wheels and back flips because she was so happy. But then she thought of Carlo. When she met him she forgot about spike and how much she loved him. Her love had transferred to Carlo easily.

Spike felt hurt at what Buffy had just said. “We better be going then” spike said.

Angel looked at spike then Buffy. He kept his feelings about Buffy’s marriage to himself. He loved Buffy, he always had. Angel was waiting for her to become ‘cookie dough’. He remembered their conversation they had in a Sunnydale graveyard when he had given her the amulet.

“No spike I didn’t mean it like that. I’m just confused maybe you could come back tomorrow?” Buffy asked spike.

Spike gave her a quick nod then glanced back at angel. “Come on then peaches” he said. He walked over to Buffy. He looked into her eyes and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. He didn’t want her to get in trouble with her husband.

Angel did the same and walked to the front door. Carlo was leaning against the doorframe to the kitchen. He watched the two men leave.

Buffy closed the door after them and sighed. She leaned back against the door then noticed carlos watching her.

“We need to talk” Carlo said to her simply.


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