By Chapter 2:
"It's always so lovely here this time of year, isn't it, Rupert?" Joyce smiled holding the front door to the two-story cabin open to let Giles through.
"Sure, if you find being stuck in the middle of nowhere for three weeks lovely," Spike grumbled, trudging up the footpath, his arms laden with his bags.
"It's not so bad," Buffy said, turning to look at the hills in the distance, and the clouds dancing over them. She hoped it wouldn’t rain too much while they were here.
"Don't listen to him, Mrs. Summers. He's just cranky because I woke him up early," Drusilla smiled, walking past Joyce, she followed Buffy up the stairs and down the hall, and both girls put their luggage into their respective rooms.
"Mom, I'm going to sit out by the lake," Buffy said, coming out of her room with her guitar case in one hand and notepad and pen in the other.
"Ok, don't be too long. It gets dark early here, remember?" Joyce smiled, watching her daughter walk away.
"Where's Summers going?" Spike asked, sauntering downstairs on his way to his car to get the rest of his bags.
"To the lake, I'm going too, but you're not allowed to come," Dru laughed, bouncing down the stairs and past her brother.
"Like I wanna spend my time with you chits, anyway," Spike said frowning. "You'll both drive me insane by the time this holiday is through."
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"I don't think that passenger seat
has ever looked this good to me
he tells me about his night,
and I count the colors in his eyes.
He'll never fall in love he swears,
as he runs his fingers through his hair,
I'm laughing cause I hope he's wrong"
Buffy sang, as her fingers strummed away on her acoustic guitar. Her eyes were closed and she smiled as a gust of wind blew hair in her face.
Picking up her pen and notepad, she scribbled down some more, before trying it out.
"I don't think it ever crossed his mind,
he tells a joke, I fake a smile"
Buffy looked up when she heard footsteps coming her way. Thinking it was Spike, she pushed the notepad under her guitar case.
"You should really finish the end of that verse," Drusilla smiled coming to sit next to Buffy. She reached under the guitar case and pulled the notepad out. Her eyes scanned the page and she smiled again.
"That I know all his favorite songs, And…"
Drusilla sung softly, smiling at Buffy who wrote the line down.
"Thanks for the line," Buffy smiled, her notepad now in front of her on the grass. She strummed a few chords on her guitar and smiled at Dru.
"It sounded good, I can't wait to hear it when it’s finished." Buffy looked up and beamed in response. "You should tell him, you know," Dru smiled knowingly.
"I- I don't know wha..." Buffy stuttered her smile faltering. Only Willow knew that she loved Spike. Then again it wasn't that hard to figure out that she was in love with him. All you had to do was look at the way she looked at him. That and Dru somehow always seemed to know things she hadn’t been told.
"He doesn't know it yet, but he will. One day he will," Dru smiled and stood up, helping Buffy to her feet. "It's going to rain soon, we’d better get going."
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"Dru, would you shut it already? It's bad enough I'm stuck here for three weeks. But seriously, just cuz Da' and Joyce went out to get supplies, doesn't mean you can yell and scream and walk around the bloody house trying to sing!" Spike exclaimed watching his sister pace back and forth in front of him, attempting to sing.
"You’re being so mean Spike, I'm going to tell Daddy on you," Drusilla pouted and walked away to her room. Spike sighed and rested his head on the back of the couch. He pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache coming on. One that was probably going to last the next three weeks.
"You shouldn't be so mean to her. She was just trying to have some fun," Buffy said from the opposite end of the couch as she looked at him.
"She sounds like a fucking cat that's being strangled!" Spike exclaimed, regretting the words as soon as they were out of his mouth when he saw Buffy’s wide eyed response.
"At least she's having fun. Geez when's the last time she ever did that. She gets treated like shit at school. She probably doesn't need it from you at home either. This is the most I've seen her smile and laugh and play in a long time. You should be happy for her," Buffy sighed. She stood up and picked up her notepad and pen.
"Where do you get off telling me how to treat my own family? You’re not my bestest buddy Summers so quit acting like old times, yeah?" Spike said glaring at her. It wasn’t a question, which is why Buffy’s next response shocked him. She slowly nodded, her eyes shining with unshed tears.
"Yeah, I know," She whispered, sending him a sad look. "Wonder whose fault that is!" Buffy started to walk away.
"Buffy…" Spike sighed, but she just kept walking. He tried to follow her but she went into the shelter of her bedroom.
"She's not going to talk to you because you're being an asshole. You…asshole!" Dru yelled from behind her closed bedroom door.
"How the bloody hell did she-?" Spike asked no one in particular, stumped.
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"Wills, I just don't get it. I mean, we were best friends for years and then it's like he woke up one morning and decided, sorry I'm too good for you," Buffy said, sadly sniffling.
"Buffy talk to him. You guys still do that, right?… I mean occasionally… sometimes?" Willow sat in her room listening to her sad friend on the other end of the phone.
"I know, I just... It's so hard, you know," Buffy said pulling her legs up under herself as she sat cross legged on her bed. "I have so many memories of when things were so much easier. Everyone was happy."
Spike was walking past her bedroom and heard her muffled voice through the door. 'Must be talking to Red' he thought. He smiled sadly, hearing what Buffy was saying and remembering all the good times they'd shared as kids. The laughs, the tears, the good and the bad, they had always been there for each other. 'Not anymore thanks to you,' he sighed. ‘God I'm such an ass!’
"Yes, you are!" Drusilla said opening her door, across from Buffy's room.
"Will you bloody stop doing that?!" Spike said jumping nearly out of his skin. "You’re wigging me out!"
"It's not my fault! I can't help it, I just hear things, see things," Dru smiled folding her arms across her chest. Drusilla had always been a bit psychic. Ever since the passing of her mother she'd get flashes of the past, or things that were to come. It freaked her out at first, not knowing how to deal with them. Not sure if she could tell anyone in fear that they'd send her to the psych ward. She'd started saying things in front of Spike and Giles, things that happened only a few days later and they'd believed that what she had was a gift. Now it only gave Spike the wiggins.
"Yeah, well, tell them to show you something that'll fix what I bollixed up, alright?" Spike said walking further down the hall to his room, Drusilla following him.
"You could fix it, you know. Try not to be such an asshole and talk to her. Apologise," Drusilla suggested, in a sweet voice.
"Shyeah, right, luv. Like she'd accept it," Spike laughed lying spread out on his bed.
"You'll never know until you try it" She sighed, seeing the torn look on his face.
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"Will, I'm gonna have to call you back?" Buffy said hurriedly after hearing hushed voices in the hall outside her room.
"Ok" Buffy heard Willow say as she was half way to hanging up. She stood slowly and pressed her ear against the wood of the wall separating her room from Spike's
"Yeah, well, tell them to show you something that'll fix what I bollixed up alright?" She heard Spike say. Was he sorry for what had happened 4 years ago? Was there a chance that he could still want to be friends, which could potentially lead to more?
"In your dreams, Summers," Buffy said to herself, shaking her head. She pressed her ear to the wall again.
"You could fix it, you know. Try not to be such an asshole and talk to her. Apologise."
"We were best friends for years, luv. And I screwed it all up, didn't I?" Spike said sadly looking at his sister who was nodding.
"There’s still time, you know. Tell her before the storm," Dru said a sad look came across her face.
"I think I will. Before we go back to Sunnyhell things will be fixed, yeah? We'll be friends again," Spike smiled, more saying it to himself than anyone else. Not noticing the look that came across Dru's face as she saw what was to come.
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05/18/17 04:16 am
pj! I remember wishing one of your stories would be finished seriously about a decade ago. Amazing. I just tried an old password I used to use and amazingly got in too. Memories!
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03/20/17 01:20 am
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