Title: Lil' White Lies
Author: Christine
Email: Xanderette43@hotmail.com
Rating: R
Spoilers: Three years after the season five finale ‘The Gift’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything, blah blah blah... you know the drill by now.
Dedication: To Regina cause you rock girl! whooo whoo!
Distribution: My site Lil' Nibblin... also Railroad Stakes and Sunrises, Tremble, Aurora Borealis, and Original. Everyone else, you can take it, but just let me know where its going. :)

Part Three


Dawn’s list of excuses to use to see Spike was growing shorter by the day. She knew Willow was getting suspicious and kept asking Dawn to invite ‘Billy’ over for dinner one night, but Dawn kept telling her that she wasn’t ready for anyone to meet him just yet.

As she was lacing up her sneakers, she heard a knock on her window. She jumped up and ran to it, pulling up the blinds. “Spike! What are you doing here? You know Willow’s home!”

Spike grinned mischievously. “And you know how I love living on the edge Nibblin.”

Dawn rolled her eyes and opened her window wider to let him in. He slid in stealthily and Dawn put a finger to her lips to make sure he didn’t talk loud. “You have to be quiet, she’s downstairs in the kitchen.” She put her hand to his cheek and he leaned into it. “How are you doing?”

Spike tilted his head and kissed her palm. “Fine now that I’m with you.” He leaned closer to her and captured her lips with his own gently. Dawn’s tense body suddenly became weak and Spike held onto her tightly as he walked them both over towards her bed. Dawn realized what he was doing and broke the kiss. “Spike we can’t... not here, if Willow came in-”

Spike put his finger to her lips to quiet her. “Then let’s go somewhere else Nibblet.” He gestured to her open window. Dawn shook her head. “Why the bloody hell not?”

Dawn pointed to her door. “Willow told me the other day she wants to know when I go out, so I can’t just sneak out the window!”

Spike sighed. “Nibblet, you’re almost 18, don’t you think the bloody scoobies should just back off?”

“Yeah, but if they found out about you and me.... they’d try to stake you in a second.” Dawn sighed and sat down on her bed defeated. Spike sat down beside her and slipped his arm around her waist, bringing her closer to him.

“Dawn, you know as well I as do they don’t have a bloody frigging chance of staking Big Bad Spike. That chip’s been out of my skull the past two years so if they tried anything, I could stop them in an instant.”

“I know, but...”

Spike put his finger to her lips. “But nothing Luv. Come on, let’s go have some fun.”

Dawn kissed his finger softly, and then nodded in agreement. “Ok, you win.”

Spike grinned as he patted her gently on the head. “I always win Nibblin.”

“Dawn! I just made dinner, do you want to come down?” Willow was standing on the last step of the staircase, pot holders grasped firmly in her hands. When she got no response, she called up again. Still nothing.

Willow rolled her eyes and walked briskly up the stairs, turning right and knocked on Dawn’s bedroom door. “Dawnie?” No answer.

Willow turned the doorknob and sighed when she saw that the window was wide open and no one was in the room. “Dammit!” She was about to turn around and go back downstairs when she smelled something vaguely familiar in Dawn’s bedroom. She walked to the middle of the room and breathed in. Willow’s eyes grew wide when she realized what she smelled was cigarettes.

She marched downstairs and was about to call Xander on his cell phone when the front door opened and he walked in. He saw the look on her face and immediately walked over and hugged her. “Wills, what’s the matter?”

Willow sighed and held on to him. “Its Dawn... she left again, went out through her window.”

“Well we’ll just have to talk to her again when she comes back. I’m sure she just went to visit her friends or that guy Billy.”

Willow rolled her eyes and sat down on the stairs. “I don’t think she’s dating anyone named Billy.”

Xander’s face clouded with confusion. “What are you talking about?”

Willow pointed upstairs. “Go upstairs to her room and take a whiff.”

Xander shrugged and slowly trudged up the staircase and went into Dawn’s room. A minute later he came back down and his face was ashen. They both said his name simultaneously.

“Spike.”