A/N: Sorry about the wait, sometimes college life gets the best of you. Then Thanksgiving rolled around and the computer stayed at school while I went home. Now it’s the end of the semester and we all know that’s hell. But, I realized today that you guys deserve an update, so here it is! Thank you for reading and reviewing, and keep on doin’ it!
By the way, White Snow is a small but quaint ice cream parlor in LA. So for the benefit of this story, Sunnydale has one too!
Cocktail
Chapter 10
Dawn, Buffy, Willow, and Spike all piled out of Spike’s DeSoto, once they reached White Snow, a local ice cream parlor near the Espresso Pump.
“Look guys, as much as I would love to stay and eat ice cream with you, I told Oz I’d meet him at the Espresso Pump and then we’d catch a movie,” Willow informed them.
“Okay Will, see you later,” Buffy said, giving her a hug.
“Give him a chance sweetie,” Willow whispered in her ear, leaving a stunned Buffy staring at her.
Willow quickly said goodbye to Dawn and Spike and then turned and headed a few stores down to the Espresso Pump.
“So, shall we go in then?” Spike asked, holding the door to the parlor open.
“Yeah,” Buffy mumbled, ducking her head to avoid meeting his blue eyes, and quickly walking into the store.
Dawn just gave him a sympathetic smile before following her sister into the wonderful delicious smell that could only be found in an ice cream parlor.
Spike sighed before running his free hand through his gelled hair. ‘Get a grip mate, it’s not like you ever thought you had a chance with the eldest Summers.’ Eventually he realized he was outside and they were inside. Quickly he calmed himself, and followed them inside.
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When he got inside, he noticed the Summers women sitting at a table for four, across from each other, each drumming their fingers on the table and looking idly around.
Spike wasted no time walking into them.
“Did your hand get glued to the door?” Dawn asked, raising in eyebrow at Spike.
Spike looked genuinely confused. “Um, no. Can’t say it did.”
“Well it took you long enough to get in here,” Dawn muttered.
Spike just grinned. “So what can I get you ladies?”
“I’ll have a scoop of Strawberry Cheesecake in a chocolate waffle cone please,” Buffy ordered, while opening her purse and pulling out her wallet.
“Check,” Spike said. He noticed what she was doing and quickly put a stop to it, “No. S’alright love. I got it.”
“Are you sure?” Buffy asked, finally making eye contact with him for what seemed like the first tonight.
“Yeah, positive.” Spike assured her.
“Ahem,” Dawn cleared her throat, trying to get their attention. “I would like ice cream too.”
“Of course Nibblet,” Spike agreed, finally breaking eye contact with Buffy after what seemed like forever.
“I’ll take one scoop of Rocky Road and a scoop of Peanut Butter Swirl inside of a chocolate waffle cone please,” Dawn ordered.
“Coming right up,” Spike promised, walking over to the counter and getting in line.
Buffy’s eyes followed his every movement.
“Buffy!” Dawn yelled, waving her hands in front of Buffy’s eyes.
“What Dawn?” Buffy said, slightly annoyed.
“I’ve been talking to you for the past 5 minutes and you haven’t heard a damn thing I was saying!” Dawn whined.
“Language,” Buffy warned in her best mom-voice.
“Yeah whatever. Anyway, what’s the deal with you and Spike?” Dawn asked bluntly, after deciding to go for the direct approach instead of beating around the bush.
“What? No Dawnie…no. There is no Spike and me what-so-ever,” Buffy corrected her.
“Buffy, you aren’t fooling anyone but yourself. We all know there’s something there. I know he feels something for you, we all do. And we all think you feel something for him too,” Dawn argued.
‘When did my little sister get so intelligent?’ Buffy asked herself. “Dawn, look. I just broke up with Angel after I found out he was cheating on me. Look at the rest of my stellar history. Dad left us, Parker sent me a ‘Wham, bam, thank you ma’am’ and Riley went psycho. Really, I think I much rather stay single.”
“But Buffy, Spike’s such a good guy!” Dawn told her irritating sister. She was getting a little more than irritated though.
“How do you know this Dawn? How?!” Buffy screamed in a whisper. She couldn’t allow Spike to hear her; she knew that she already hurt him once tonight.
“Because I can tell!” Dawn argued.
“So you can just tell? For all we know he could be a serial killer. We don’t know him. I don’t and you don’t. He hardly even knows us,” Buffy tried to get Dawn to see where she was coming from.
“But Buffy, he’s... here with the ice cream!” Dawn finished with a beaming smile.
“Okay, one strawberry cheesecake chocolate waffle cone ice cream for you,” Spike fumbled a bit with the three cones he was holding and handed Buffy her ice cream.
“Oh, thank you,” Buffy grinned, as she began to enjoy the sweet taste that was ice cream.
“One rocky road/peanut butter swirl chocolate waffle cone ice cream for you,” Spike handed Dawn the cone that was in his left hand.
“Mmm, sweet chocolate-y goodness!” Dawn giggled, and thanked him.
“And then, mine,” Spike could do nothing else but smile. His two girls were smiling and he was the cause of it. Well, so they weren’t his girls, at least not the eldest. ‘A bloke can dream, can’t he?’ Spike asked himself, all the while plopping down in the seat next to Buffy, diagonal from Dawn.
“Whatcha get?” Dawn eventually asked him, after eating enough of her ice cream down to keep it from running.
Spike laughed when he finally looked at her from his ice cream cone. Handing her a napkin he said, “Nibblet you have a chocolate mustache.”
This caused Buffy to look up and she couldn’t help but laugh at her little sister’s expense.
Dawn pouted. “It’s not my fault this ice cream is so good. Thanks again Spike.”
“No problem Nibblet.”
“So back to my previous question, what did you get?” Dawn asked again.
“Cake batter ice cream in a chocolate waffle cone. I’ve never had this type of cone, but you both had it so I assume it’s good,” Spike told her.
“Just wait till you taste it,” Buffy told him. “It will be even better than you can imagine.”
Two minutes later Spike was sitting with his hands folded on the table starring at Buffy next to him. She was looking at her half-eaten cone with a look the said ‘I’m full but I don’t want to waste such good ice cream’. Spike spared a glance at Dawn, and noticed that she was still happily going strong with about a fourth of her cone left.
“Buffy pet, are you going to finish that?” Spike asked, nodding his head towards her cone.
“I want to, but no, I don’t think I can,” Buffy groaned.
“Yum, gimme,” Spike ordered, sounding like a little boy.
“Channeling your inner child?” Buffy asked with a grin.
“It’s ice cream luv, what do you expect?” Spike asked her, grinning back.
Buffy grudgingly handed him her cone. “I don’t see how you can eat half of my ice cream, after finishing a whole one of your own.
“Again pet, it’s ice cream. What do you expect?” Spike asked with the most innocent look on his face.
Dawn and Buffy looked at him, then each other, and laughed.
‘I love her laugh,’ Spike thought to himself. He silently swore that she would laugh more, even if it was at his expense.
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About a half an hour later, Dawn and Spike had finally finished off the cones, and a friendly, comfortable chat was taking place at the table.
“No way! Port Charles is not at all better than Passions!” Spike yelled at Dawn.
“Port Charles is so much sexier and out of this world!” Dawn argued.
“Yeah, out of this world alright. It has vampires and all that rot. Like vampires could ever exist,” Spike huffed, knowing he’d won.
“And what does Passions have? Old guys!” Dawn pointed out lamely. She knew Spike had won but wouldn’t admit it.
“Every soap does pet,” Spike informed her.
“Oh no,” Buffy finally spoke up.
“What’s wrong pet?” Spike asked, whipping his head to the side to look at her so fast, he probably gave himself whiplash.
She didn’t answer and he saw her staring at something. Following her gaze, he looked outside through the big windows.
Crossing the street and heading toward the parlor were Angel and a gorgeous brunette woman.
Cordelia.
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TBC!!!
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A/N: Again sorry for the long wait! Please review and I promise the next one will be sooner!
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