Rated-R
Summary- What happens when Spike and Dawn spend a week at Angel Investigations
Pairing- Dawn/Spike (Future Fic)
Spilors- Up until season 5
Distribution-Anywhere, just let me know.
Disclaimer- I own nothing except my imagination.
A/N- Buffy is not coming back
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~Prologue~
It had been two months since Buffy's death. Dawn was finally not blaming herself, but she still wasn't over it. Every one had tried to make things easier for her; they hadn't talked much about Buffy or her death. They had always been very careful when talking about Buffy around Dawn. Spike was the only one who she talked about Buffy with.
Buffy had told him to protect Dawn, and that's what she did. He went and stayed with her at night when Willow went out. They also had one night a week when they would watch a movie at the Summers' home.
In the past two months Willow had gained custody of Dawn and Giles had gone back to England after everything had bees settled and taken care of. Xander had taken over patrol, with Spike helping out whenever he was free, but most of Spikes time was spent with Dawn.
One night Spike realized that it had been quite some time since Dawn had been out of the house. He decided to see if she was up to going out tonight, after Willow left. When they had settled down to watch T.V. he asked. "Hey, Nibblet, do you want to go somewhere tonight?"
"Not tonight," she answered full attention on the T.V.
"You can't do this forever."
"Do what?" she asked looking toward him.
"Stay in and not go out. You have to go out at some point. You know, have fun, you do remember fun, or at least know what it is don't you?" he asked with fake concern.
"Yes, I remember fun!" She made a face at him and he smiled at her. "I just don't feel like it tonight." She went back to the T.V.
"Ok. Another night then?" Spike asked
"Yeah, another night."
They sat together for a few more minutes until Dawn got up off the floor. "Spike, I'm kinda tired. I think I'm going to go to bed." She walked over to Spike who was sitting on the couch and gave him a hug.
"Are you sure, Bit? It's only quarter after eight."
"Yeah, I have school tomorrow anyway."
As she pulled away he said, "Well that a bloody awful excuse ain't it?"
"What?" she asked confused.
"If you didn't want to be around me all you had to do was say so," he said with a smile, "That was as bad as `I have to wash my hair'." She still looked confused. "You do know that it is Friday night right?"
"Oh, I guess it is."
"How could you forget that tomorrow was Saturday?" he asked with mock shock.
"Since Saturday isn't what I've been thinking about," she admitted.
"It's boy ain't it, didn't I ever tell you not to get involved with boys. Their horrible creatures, worse than anything you'll find out there," he said as he pointed to the door.
"No, it's not a boy, just the whole thing that has passed. I've been trying to get over Buffy's death and getting used to things here and trying to keep my grades up in school. It's just tiring and stressful." She sat down on the couch next to Spike and put her head on his shoulder.
"I know Bit, but I'm proud of you. You've been so strong and have coped with it so well,"
"Thanks."
"So do you want to stay up with me, or do you want to go to bed?"
"I guess I'll stay up for a few more hours."
"That's my girl, no need to go to be until at least five"
"Are you trying to get me on your weird vampire sleeping schedule?"
"No of course not."
At 12:25 Willow came home. She walked in and saw that Dawn was still awake. "Dawn why are you still up? Spike I thought I told you to make sure she went to bed."
"Well hello to you to Red. There was a movie on, but I was just about to send her there, wasn't I Lil' Bit," he looked over at Dawn.
"You were?"
"C'mon, help me out here a little," he said to her.
"Oh yeah, he was, but I talked him into letting me stay up for a little while longer, is that ok Willow?"
"Fine, but only for a little while, and Spike I'm counting on you, again, to make sure she gets there. I'm extremely tired so I'm going to bed. Good night everyone," and she went up the stairs to her room.
A few minutes later Spike got up off the couch. "C'mon Bit, time to go to bed."
"Ok," she said as she started for the stairs with Spike following behind her. When they reached the top of the stairs Dawn realized that he was doing it. "Spike, what are you doing?" Spike gave her a funny look but soon realized what she was referring to.
"I, um, uh," he started still not quite sure why he followed her, "I'm making sure you get to bed," he finished.
"Well, Spike, I think I can handle it," she assured him.
"How do I know you're going to make it to bed or even stay there?" he questioned with a smile.
"I guess that's a chance you'll just have to take."
"No, I think to make sure I'm going to have to put you there my self."
"You're kidding, right?" she asked worried.
"Nope," he answered with a serious face.
"But, what would Willow think if she found you in there?"
"Bit, I'm putting you to bed, not sleeping with you."
"But still, you don't need to do either, I'm 14 not 4."
"I'm sorry Bit, but I can't take any chances," he said as he picked her up and jogged very stealthily, as not to wake Willow, and tossed her onto her bed with a light thud. "Night Nibblet," he said as he closed the door and left.
"Night Spike." Then Dawn got up and changed for bed.
~~~*~~~
Dawn woke up the next morning at ten. She climbed out of bed and went down stairs. As she walked through the living room she saw that Spike sleeping on the couch. `I guess he never went home last night' Dawn thought. She headed toward the kitchen, trying to restrain herself from jumping on the unsuspecting Spike. She stopped and thought about it. It was mean and she knew he wouldn't like it much, but that only made her want to do it even more, so she gave in.
She ran across the room and lunged for the couch and landed with a loud yell from Spike. "Bloody Hell!" he cried as she landed on him. When he saw who had done it he began tickling Dawn.
Willow was in the kitchen when she heard Spike cry in pain and ran into the living room. She stopped at the entrance when she realized what was going on. She walked away with a question for Spike on her mind, but decided to wait till later.
Willow found the two of them an hour later in the kitchen making a late breakfast. She decided now was as good a time as any to ask Spike her question. "Dawn, why don't you go and watch some T.V.?" she said then looked at Spike, "I have a question to ask Spike."
"But we're making breakfast, can't it wait?"
"Go on Bit, I'll watch it for you," Spike said and pushed her a little to get her moving.
"Fine, but I'm not a little kid anymore. You have to let me in on adult conversation at some point," she said as she left the kitchen.
"What is it Red," Spike asked.
"What would you say if I asked you live here with us?"
"I guess I would say, ok, why not."
"Great," Willow said with a smile, "because you're good for her, Spike. She's so happy when she's around you. She'll be so happy to have you move in, that is if it'd not a problem for you," Willow asked with some concern.
"No it'll be fine, I'd love to," Spike assured her.
"Good."
At that moment Dawn came running back in. She ran up to Spike and threw her arms around him waist. "This is so great! You can sleep in Buffy's room," Dawn told him.
"Wait Dawn, are you sure. Buffy's room hasn't even been cleaned out yet," Willow said.
"Yeah, I'm sure. We can go through it and pack it up."
"Ok, as long as you're sure, Bit," Spike said to her.
"It's fine, really."
So the next week and a half was spent packing up Buffy's things and bringing in Spike's. The set Buffy's things in the basement, and helped Spike pack and bring his stuff over.
~Part: 1~
It had been over three years since Spike had moved in, and everything had turned out great. Willow and Tara had moved into their own apartment and Spike had taken over patrol, so that Xander could be home more, as Dawn got older. In fact, Dawn's 18 birthday was fast approaching, and Spike didn't know what to do.
"Hey Spike," Dawn said as she came down the stairs. She sat down on the arm of the chair he was sitting in.
"Hey Bit." Spike wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her into his lap. "What are you up to?"
"Oh nothing. I just have simple question," she said with an innocent smile.
"And what is that?"
"What did you get me?"
"What do you mean," he asked sounding confused.
"C'mon, you know what I mean, for my birthday," Dawn said frustrated.
"Your birthday?"
"C'mon stop! What did you get me?"
"You'll have to wait," he said with a smile.
"Please?"
"It's only two more days, Nibblet. Besides, I have something planned that I know you'll enjoy."
"Stop, you're just making it worse!"
"Anything to help, Bit," he said with a smile.
"Please?" Dawn begged, and Spike shook his head no. "Fine!" she said and got off his lap.
The two days went by very slow for Dawn, but when the day arrived she was so happy. She couldn't wait to find out what Spike had planned. She got out of bed and gathered some clothes and headed for the bathroom to get a shower.
Down stairs Spike was on the phone with Cordelia. "Are you sure it's ok, I don't want to impose on you guys."
"Oh yeah, it's fine. Not a problem. We'll all be glad to see her, Angel especially."
"Yeah, well, I'm not looking forward to seeing Angel."
"Well I'm not to happy to be seeing you either."
"Yeah, but it's not for us is it, it's for Dawn. I thought it would be nice for her. And we're able to stay for the whole week?"
"Yeah, it's ok. You could even stay for longer if you liked."
"No, believe me. A week is long enough for me. It might even be to long. So uh, we'll leave here tonight," as he was talking Dawn came down the stairs and was heading into the kitchen, "so we'll be there tomorrow afternoon. So I'll see, uh thank you, but we're happy with our current phone company, uh bye." He quickly hung up the phone as Dawn walked up to him.
"So who were you talking to?" Dawn questioned.
"Oh, you know just some bloody git wanting us to change phone companies," he said with a smile.
"Oh ok. Right," she said not believing a word of it. She went to the cabinet and grabbed a cereal box and grabbed a bowl from another cabinet. "So what did you get me for my birthday?" she asked as she poured milk on her cereal.
"You'll find out tonight."
~~~*~~~
Later that night Willow, Tara, Anya, and Xander all showed up for Dawn's party. When it was time to open presents, they all sat in the living room and waited for Dawn to start. After she had gone through the presents they went on to cake.
At around 8:30 they all started to leave and head home. "Well, we have to go," Xander said as he and Anya headed for the door.
"Well thanks for coming, and for the gift," Dawn said and gave them each a hug.
"You're welcome, we'll see you later, bye." They left and Willow and Tara were the only one's there with them.
"Red, you guys don't have to help clean up. We've got everything under control."
"Well if you're sure."
"We're fine Willow. It's ok," Dawn assured her.
"Ok, we'll see you later Dawnie." Willow and Tara gave her a hug and she returned it, then they left.
~~~*~~~
While Dawn and Spike were cleaning Dawn confronted him again. "So what did you get me and who were you talking to this morning?"
Spike stopped what he was doing and went up stairs to his room. When he came back down he had a small box in his hand. She grabbed for it and he pulled his hand away. "Hold on Bit. What's the hurry?"
"I just can't wait any longer!" He gave the box and she ripped it open. Inside was a silver chain with a cursive nameplate that read `Nibblet'. "Oh Spike, it's beautiful."
"And that's not all," he said with a grin. He was glad that she liked it. "I have arranged for a visit."
"What kind of visit?" Dawn asked excitedly.
"We're leaving for LA tonight, to go to Angel's."
"Spike!" Dawn cried and gave him a big hug.
"So you go get packed, and I'll finish cleaning up."
"Thanks Spike." Dawn said as she ran up stairs.
"You're welcome," Spike said as he watched her go.
~Part: 2~
They arrived at Angel Investigations around 11:30 that night. They pulled up and grabbed their bags out of the back of Spike's car. When they reached the door Spike stopped and stared at it. After a minute Dawn asked, "So, aren't we going to go in? They do know we're coming right?"
"Yeah," Spike answered still staring at the door.
"Then why aren't we going in?"
"We're going to go in. I'm just getting prepped," Spike said rolling his head from side to side.
"Oh. For what?"
"Well, it's been a while since I last saw Angel,"
"And," Dawn said impatiently.
"And," Spike said annoyed, "it didn't go over well." He gave a side-glance at Dawn.
"It never seems to go over well does it," Dawn said as she looked over at Spike with a smile.
"Ha, ha very funny," he said as he knocked on the door.
"I thought it was."
The door opened to reveal Angel standing there with a big smile on his face. "Dawn! Happy Birthday!" Angel said as he wrapped his arms around her and swung her around in a circle. "How are you?"
"Ok, and you?"
"Been good. So do you feel any older?"
"Nope."
Angel looked at Spike and nodded at him, "Spike."
"Angel," Spike said doing the same, "So where should we put our stuff?"
"`Our' stuff?" Angel asked confused, "I thought only Dawn was staying."
"No. We both we're staying."
"So you're telling me that you're staying also," he looked at Dawn, "Please tell me this is some kind of joke."
"No Angel, it's not, we're both staying," Dawn told him, "I guess you didn't get the message. Oh well."
"`Oh well', that's it?"
"Look I'm tired, so just show me to my room and I can get some sleep," Dawn said.
"Ok, it's all ready for you up stairs. Let's put your bags up there and we'll get you all set up." Angel headed for the stairs with Dawn following him while Spike stood where he was.
"Well where do I sleep?" Spike asked.
Before Angel could answer Dawn said, "You can sleep in my room, if you want."
"Wait a second. He can not sleep in your room!"
"Why not? He can sleep there tonight and we can set up another room tomorrow for him."
"Because it's not right!" Angel answered.
Angel really didn't like the idea of Spike and Dawn sharing a room and Spike knew this. So to drive him crazy Spike accepted Dawn's offer. "It's fine with me, Bit. So let's all get our bags up stairs and the two of us get some sleep."
They carried the bags up the stairs to the room that had been prepared for Dawn. When they got there and had put everything they brought in the room Angel walked out to the hallway. "Well, I guess," but the rest of his sentence was cut off when Spike shutthe door in his face. "If anything happens in there Spike you're dust!" Angel yelled through the door then went back down stairs.
Inside the room Spike and Dawn were setting up to get ready to sleep. "What did he mean by that?" Dawn asked.
"I think he means if I try to attack, Nibblet."
"Oh. And you would do that, why?"
"I don't know. I can't attack you very well anyway with this soddin' chip."
Dawn went into the bathroom to change and brush her teeth. Spike took the opportunity to strip down and change into a pair of sweat pants. When Dawn came back out, wearing a pair of shorts and old t-shirt, he was in bed already waiting for her.
Dawn climbed into bed turned her back to Spike and shut the light off. Spike did the same and soon after they both were asleep.
Some time in the middle of the night Spike half asleep rolled further into the warmth that was at his side and Dawn cuddled closer to Spike. By the next morning their bodies were intertwined, and they slowly began to wake up. Dawn was first and started to burry her head further under Spike's chin when she realized who it was. She jerked back, but was held in place by Spike's grip around her.
While she tried to push him away he held her tighter and tried to pull her closer to him. When he wasn't making any progress he woke up and his eyes went wide.
They both jerked away from each other and jumped out of the bed. They were shocked by what had happened and what made it worse for them was that they both had enjoyed it.
Dawn was the first to move. She quickly headed for the bathroom to get her shower and dress. Spike was still too shocked to do anything, he had let it happen and he had enjoyed it and hadn't wanted it to end. He shouldn't be thinking about Dawn in that way. It was wrong and it was a good way to go about getting staked.
~Part: 3~
Spike and Dawn didn't see each other again until they went down for breakfast. Dawn started to make herself some pancakes and Spike went for some blood in the refrigerator. "Can you grab the milk for me please, Spike?" Dawn asked him as he opened the refrigerator door.
"Sure Bit." He gave her the milk and she smiled at him.
"Thanks, Spike." Then she went back to her pancake batter.
They sat at the table and didn't say much. After what had happened it was kind of awkward for them to be around each other.
After breakfast they went their separate ways. Angel came down a few hours later and grabbed a cup of blood from the kitchen and sat down next to Dawn, who was reading on the couch. "What are you up to?" Angel asked her.
"Nothing just reading," Dawn answered then she said, "Well?" Dawn looked at him and waited for him to answer.
"Well, what?"
"When do I get my presents and cake?" she said annoyed.
"Tonight. If you want to know, everyone is out buying decorations for your party."
"Oh, I was wondering where everyone was."
"Buy the way, have you seen Spike?"
Dawn looked back down at her magazine, "The last time I saw him was after breakfast."
"Ok. Well I'll be around if you need me and the others should be back in a little while." He got up and left in search of Spike
Angel found Spike in the training room using the punching bag. "Spike, your room is set up."
"Oh, thanks poof. Should I leave you a tip?"
"Can't you just say thank you and leave it at that?" Angel asked irritated.
"Let me think. Um, no," Spike answered.
"Fine."
"So where is this room?"
"Right next to Dawn's."
"Hm," Spike said quietly as he nodded and resumed his work out.
"I figured you would want to be close to her incase she needs anything."
"Yeah." Angel noticed that Spike wasn't showing much emotion.
"What's wrong, Spike?"
"Nothing. I'm fine," he answered a little more up beat, "So the bedroom next to the Bit's, great."
"Ok," and Angel left. He started to wonder if something happened between Dawn and Spike. It seemed every time he talked about one of them the other would become quiet and not say much or change the subject. He decided to let it go, if there was a problem he was sure Dawn could handle it.
~~~*~~~
"We're back!" Cordelia called as she and the rest of the gang entered through the doors with their arms full of bags. Angel came down the stairs and started to take some of the bags.
"It's about time."
"Hey once we got started, we went all the way," Gunn said.
They began laying out the decorations and Dawn came into the room.
"What's going on?" she asked excitedly.
"Nothing," Angel said as he steered her away from the group, "Why don't you go out for a little while and I'll call you when we're ready for you."
"Can't I watch? Or even help?" Dawn begged.
"No, we figured we would just do all the decorating and you could see it when it was done."
"Fine."
Spike made his way down the stairs to see what was going on. "What's all the yelling for? Do I yell while you're trying to sleep?"
"Spike will go with you. Go ahead, we'll call you when we're finished."
"Ok," Dawn said a little unsure, "Let's go Spike." She headed for the door with Spike behind her.
"Where are we going?"
"I don't know, but we can't stay here."
~~~*~~~
Outside the sun had just dipped below the horizon and the sky was getting darker. Dawn and Spike got into his car and started to pull out on to the road. "Where are we going?"
"I don't know. We could just drive around."
"The entire time?"
"We could walk around LA."
"Alright."
They found a parking spot in the center of the city and got out of the car. "Well here we are, now what?" Spike asked.
"Just shut up and enjoy the night."
They walked for a while neither of them saying anything. When they did finally say something it was Spike who spook first, "Bit?"
"Yeah?"
"I think we should talk about what happened this morning."
"It was nothing, Spike."
"Are you sure you're ok? If I remember right you were the one who bolted into the bathroom."
"I was just shocked. I mean I woke up and there we are. It was kinda weird, so I bolted. I left the situation as soon as possible."
"Yeah well I have to admit, I was a little freaked out to, and after what happened we stopped talking and I want to know that you're ok with it."
"I'm fine,"
After they talked they felt better. They continued walking and checked out some stores. About an hour and a half later Angel called Dawn's cell phone telling her she could come back. "Ok Angel, we'll be there in about twenty minutes."
When they arrived back at the hotel Spike and Dawn entered to see the entire room covered in balloons and streamers. The gang was standing in the middle of the room with big smiles on their faces holding a cake with blue writing that read, Happy Birthday Dawn. They showered Dawn with a loud, "Surprise!" as she walked in the door.
"Thanks you guys." They started singing Happy Birthday and Spike soon joined in.
They sat the cake down on the counter top and Dawn blew out the candles.
"Did you make a wish, Dawn?" Fred asked.
"Yup," she answered as she quickly looked out of the corner of her eye at Spike.
"Well let's eat this thing," Gunn said as he reached for a knife.
After the cake Dawn opened her presents. During the night Spike and Dawn kept on glancing at each other. Around eleven the party was starting to die down and Dawn was tried and ready to go upstairs. "Well, I'm ready for bed. I'll see you all tomorrow," she said as she got up.
"Yeah, I think I'm going to go home to," Cordelia said as she did the same, "I'll see you tomorrow, Dawn. I'll be here around eight, Angel."
"Ok, bye."
Dawn went over and gave Cordelia a hug goodbye and said goodnight to the others and headed for the stairs.
"Dawn, I'm going with you," Spike said and followed her. Dawn stopped and gave him a questioning look. "My stuff is in you're room." She continued walking until she reached her room. She opened the door and they walked in. Spike began gathering up his things. "I figured it would be easier if I did this now instead of later when you were asleep."
Dawn watched him as he walked about the room grabbing items. "Spike," Dawn started, but then stopped. He looked at her when she didn't say anything else. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.
Spike didn't know what to do, but let her continue her assault. He dropped his arms to her waist and pulled her closer. He slipped his tongue out and she let it invade her mouth. He probed around inside until she pulled away.
They looked at each other for a second, "I've wanted to do that all day," Dawn said.
"Me to." Then Dawn walked out of his embrace, and he looked after her as she did. "Well, I'll let you go to bed."
"Yeah."
"I'll see you tomorrow. Goodnight, Bit."
"Goodnight, Spike."
Spike took his things and walked out of the room.
He walked four steps and opened the door to his room. He walked in and threw his bag on the floor with a grunt. What had he gotten himself into? This morning was bad enough, he had tried very hard to suppress those emotions, but this was too much. Not only had those emotions from this morning returned, they were way worse than before. He had to figure out what was going on before not only he, but Dawn to were in to deep.
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