A motorcycle rides quickly along the freeway, the light shines on a sing saying WELCOME TO CLEVELAND
The rider has a pair of goggles shielding his eyes, bleach blond hair and long black red trench coat. It is indeed Spike. He rides goes into the city. He comes to an apartment complex and parks the bike. He takes the goggles off and walks into the building.
Buffy is in the kitchen with Xander. They're sitting at he counter each with a cup of tea.
"Late night tea, gotta love it." Xander says.
"For sure."
"Buff, can I talk to you about something rather personal at the moment."
"Of course you can Xand."
"Well, I've been noticing that I've been feeling certain feelings about things."
Buffy gets a giddy like smile on her face.
"Uh-huh, and does this involve a certain cute little Wicca girl we both know and love?"
"Possibly. Ok yes. You see I've been having these feelings for her, I always have I think, and then she turned gay, and I had Anya and well there hasn?t been time, I think Willow is part of the reason I left Anya at the altar."
"Really now?"
"Yes, there"s always been a dim hope that Willow and I could have romantic future together."
"Xander, all I can tell you is this. Talk to her as soon as possible."
"I guess you're right, I could do that."
"Yes you can, and you will, because if you don't I'll be convinced to use slayer moves on you."
"Oh god, not that."
Buffy nods and smiles at him.
"Buffy, I love her, I love Willow, not just unconditionally, but in the other way too."
"She needs to know that Xander, and you need her to know that."
Willow lies awake in her bed, unaware of the conversation going on outside her room. Kennedy lies asleep beside her, her arm draped over Willow. Willow slightly pulls away and rolls on the opposite side facing away from Kennedy. Kennedy opens her eyes and leans over.
"What?s wrong Willow?"
"Nothing, I just don?t feel sleepy or much like being touched right now."
"Oh."
"Just go back to sleep Ken, I'm going out there for a little bit."
Willow gets out of bed and walks out of the room and to the kitchen where Buffy and Xander are sitting.
"Hey guys."
"Can't sleep Will?" Xander says.
"Not overly, just not in the sleepy, cuddly, touchy feely mood."
"Take a seat, have a cup of tea." Buffy says.
Willow smiles.
"Ok."
They all sit around talking and drinking. Dawn looks up from the sofa bed, eyes half open.
"Hey guys, people are trying to sleep."
"Dawnie, it's safe to say you're the only one sleeping in this apartment."
"That's because I'm probably the only sane one."
"Says the junior watcher." Xander says.
Suddenly there's a knock on the door.
"Who'd be knocking at this hour of the night?" Xander says.
"Giles?" Willow asks.
"No, Giles isn't coming for a while, he's still working things out in England with the council and all."
Buffy walks towards the door. She carefully opens it to see Spike standing at the door.
"Got a little shelter for a bloke?" Spike says.
Buffy's jaw drops and her eyes go wide. Xander and Willow stand up in disbelief as well.
"Spike." Buffy says.
Spike smiles, he tries to hug her but can't come in.
"Can I get an invite red?"
"Come in Spike." Willow says.
Spike walks in and Buffy hugs him. She pulls away looks at him and basks.
"When, how?"
"To the hows and whens we go. Well don't know, that little trinket not only killed me, but brought me back, was pretty much made Wolfram and Harts bitch until myself, Angel and few others rebelled against them, got an unholy ass kicking and then dealt an unholy ass kicking, shut down the senior partners of Wolfram and Hart, spent a few years on the run and now here I am."
"How'd you find us?"
"I asked around, talked to a few blokes, who knew a few demons who knew a few blokes. They all sent me this way."
"Oh."
"Well, um I guess welcome backs are in order." Xander says.
Dawn looks up again.
"Once again, people are still slee....."
Her eyes open wide.
"Spike?"
"Hey little bit."
Dawn leaps up and hugs him. He hugs her back.
"Missed you too niblet."
"I'm a watcher now."
"Neat on you."
Sunrise
Buffy is outside on the porch sleeping in a chair. Willow walks outside and shakes her a little. Buffy opens her eyes.
"Hey.\"
"Morning."
"It's morning?"
"Yep. Had to step outside with all the excitement?"
"Yea, pretty much. Sorry."
"No, don't be, I understand, I was ready to bail with ya."
"Thanks."
"Of course."
"I need a Willow hug."
Willow wraps her arms around Buffy and hugs her tight, Buffy almost protectively hugs Willow just as tight and for a few silent moments they hold each other. Soon they go back inside.
"So the first is back in circulation I hear." Spike says sitting with Dawn and Kennedy and Xander off to the side.
"It seems to be that way, thought it hasn't really made any type of move except for trying to taunt us as it always does."
"Keen." Spike says.
"So we'll see what it does, eventually."
Night:
Buffy, Kennedy, and Spike out patrolling in the cemetery.
"So how was Rome?"
"It was good, after a few months though, I came back to the states, I was living in Miami."
"I bet that was nice."
"It was, then the first came back and I ended up here, in the hell mouth."
Before anymore conversation can take place, men in black robes run after them with daggers. Buffy punches one of them.
"They're not bringers, they're human."
"What?" Kennedy says as she kicks one in the stomach and uppercuts him.
Spike punches one in the face and kicks another one in the sternum.
"No time for questions, just fight.!" Buffy says.
Buffy spin kicks another one, and then uppercuts him. Kennedy throws one against a mausoleum and punches him directly in the face.
"Try and get one, we should question one of them!" Buffy says as she throws one to the ground. They all run away seeing fighting two slayers and a vampire will not be a winning battle for them, all except the one Buffy has a hold on. He's knocked out. Buffy pulls his hood off and sees it's a young man.
"They're human alright, same daggers as the bringers though. Spike pick him up, we're taking him back for questioning."
Spike lifts him up and they carry him back to apartment. They walk in.
"We need a chair and rope." Buffy says. Willow grabs some rope and Xander gets a chair. They sit him down and ties his arms to the chair arms and then tie up his ankles.
"Now what?" Xander says.
"We wait for him to wake up and ask him some questions." Buffy says.
"Spike and I can take turns keeping watch to see if he wakes up anytime soon, I hit him pretty hard, he might be out for a while."
Willow and Kennedy are sitting in their room.
"So these robed guys who look like bringers but aren't attacked us in the grave yard, it is questionable."
"I bet."
Kennedy rubs Willow's shoulders.
"Why are you so distant Willow?"
"Because, I've been having thoughts, about us."
"Want to talk about it?"
"Not right now, I just want to sleep."
"Ok."
Kennedy turns the light off. Willow lies away from her and closes her eyes. Kennedy lies down next to her and looks over at her, she then turns away from Willow and closes her eyes, concern on her face.
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