*~*~*~*

I never liked the rain
Until I walked through it with you
Every thunder cloud that came
Was one more I might not get through
On the darkest day there's always light
And now I see it too
But I never liked the rain
Until I walked through it with you
I hear it falling in the night
And filling up my mind
All the heaven's rivers
Come to light
And I see it all unwind

*~*~*~*
SPIKE'S POV
*~*~*~*

*~ I love the way she looks, sitting there on the front steps of her parents' house, her head thrown back as the wind and rain falls gently on her beautiful features. Her red hair is plastered to the side of her face and her clothes are soaked, the thin cotton of her long dress sticking to her body and outlining her slender curves. The dress had started out modest enough, but now... now it was nearly indecent. Her suitcase is sitting next to her on the steps and I move to pick it up.

*~ "Ready, luv?" I ask her quietly, relunctantly breaking the quiet. She opens her eyes and looks at me, the green depths a mixture of sadness and
excitement.

*~ "Yeah," she answers, her lips cuving in a smile I can only describe as being Willowy. I hold out my hand for her to take and she does, her little, warm fingers nearly engulfed by my much larger, colder ones. I help her to her feet and kiss the corner of her mouth quickly.

*~ Later, we're sitting in the car, and she's turned toward the window, watching the storm rage through the darkly tinted glass.

*~*~*~*

I hear it talking through the trees
And on the window pane
And when I hear it
I just can't believe
I never liked the rain
Like the rain, I have fallen for you
And I know just why you
Liked the rain- always calling for you
I'm falling for you now
Just like the rain

*~*~*~*
WILLOW'S POV
*~*~*~*

*~ "You know, I never really appreciated the rain," my voice breaks the easy silence as I smile over at him. He's so beautiful. I'd never thought of a man as being beautiful before. But I've never been in love like this before. Yeah, there was Oz, and I'd loved him in my own way, and I still do... in a small, small...
very small... part of my heart. But Spike takes up more than just a peice. He's selfish and takes the whole thing.

*~ "Is that right, luv," he responds, a wicked smile twisting his perfectly shaped lips. I moisten my own lips, my eyes following the movements of his.

*~ "That's right," I say, nodding. I curl my hand around his, entwining my fingers through his. "Wanna know why?"

*~*~*~*

When the cloud is rolling over thunder striking me
It's as bright as lightning
And I wonder why I couldn't see
That it's always good
And when the flood is gone we still remain
Guess I've known all along
I just belong here with you falling

*~*~*~*
SPIKE'S POV
*~*~*~*

*~ "Why?" my throat is suddenly dry as I glance over at her and see the hunger in her eyes, the desire.

*~ "Because I never really had a reason to *like* it," she answers with her usual logic. "I mean... Before we... you know... got together, I didn't have a reason
to like staying inside. Rain meant no patrolling with Buffy and staying in to help Giles research... usually just me, him, and my computer. Not that researching
wasn't kinda fun in it's own weird way... But I'd never really *liked* staying in..." She squeezes my hand lovingly. "But then I met you. You were everything I'd always wanted. You were the bad boy... the man I knew I shouldn't want. I knew I shouldn't even give you a chance to break my heart. And I knew that eventually, if I let you in, that you *would* break my heart someday."

*~ I open my mouth to interrupt, to tell her I'd do anything in my power not to hurt her, but she cuts me off with a gentle finger on my lips.

*~*~*~*

Like the rain,
I have fallen for you and I know just why you
Liked the rain- always calling for you,
I'm falling for you now
Just like the rain I have fallen for you
I'm falling for you now just like the rain

*~*~*~*
WILLOW'S POV
*~*~*~*

*~ "That's what I was expecting," I say softly, tracing my finger along his bottom lip. He shudders, sucking my finger into his mouth. I nearly groan at the feel of his cool, wet mouth on my skin. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and turns to pull me against him. I go willingly, kissing him back with a passion I only felt with him.

*~ "But that wasn't what I found out when I got to know you better," I gasp, pulling away, resting my forehead against his as I try to control my emotions
enough to keep speaking. "The *real* you. The caring, loving man beneath the demon. You realize it was raining when we first made love?"

*~*~*~*

And when the night falls on our better days
And we're looking to the sky
For the winds to take us high above the plains
I know that we'll find better ways to
Look into the eye of the storms that will be calling
Forever we'll be falling

*~*~*~*
SPIKE'S POV
*~*~*~*

*~ I can only nod as she runs her hands under my t-shirt, her warm hands almost hot on my cold skin. I pull her up so she's straddling my hips, the heat of
her nearly searing me through the barrier of my jeans and her panties. The skirt of her dress rode up nearly to her waist as I run my hands over her thighs and up to her flat stomach and around to her perfect back.

*~ "And it won't be the last time we ever make love in the rain," I smile wickedly and nip at her lower lip, arching my hips against her, letting her feel my
hardness and what she is doing to me.

*~ "I hope not," she grins back, her little hands unbuttoning the fly of my jeans and pulling the zipper down agonizingly slowly. I bite back a groan as I'm
suddenly freed. My own hands reach for the scrap of lace she calls underwear and rip the flimsy material.

*~ "Oops," I growl, one hand dipping into the moist heat at the juncture of her thighs. She groans deep in her throat, throwing her head back as I add two
fingers. My cock tightens more as she clenches her muscles around my fingers.

*~ "No, don't tease me tonight, Spike," she groans as I flex my fingers, stretching her. "Please, I need you... I need you inside me, now."

*~ "My pleasure." I pull my hand free and grip her hips firmly, pulling her up and over me, thrusting her down as I thrust up and into her scalding hot flesh.
She arches her back with a short half-scream, half-groan. I move faster, pumping into her desperately. And outside the thunder growls, shaking the car with the force of the storm.

*~*~*~*~

Like the rain,
I have fallen for you,
And I know just why you
Like the rain- always calling for you
I'm falling for you now just
Like the rain,
I have fallen for you and I know just why you
Like the rain- always calling for you
I'm falling for you now just
Like the rain...

*~*~*~*~
WILLOW'S POV
*~*~*~*~

*~ I scream out as my orgasm slams into me and I reach over, sinking my blunt teeth into the soft skin between his neck and shoulder. He roars his release,
his face shifting. He bites into me, slamming me into another orgasm more powerful than the first.

*~ As we both calm down, all movement ceases and I collapse my head on his chest. "I love you," I whisper, tears of joy flowing down my face just like the rain is falling on the windows.

*~ "I love you," he whispers back, his big hands caressing my back and ass under my dress. "And I bloody well love the rain."

*~ As the lightening flashes in the sky, I move again, sending him deep inside. He's instantly hard again, and we start to move in time with the wind howling
just outside the rocking car. I smile and kiss him deeply. And the rain keeps falling...

*~*~*~*~

I hear it talking through the trees
And on the window pane
And when I hear it
I just can't believe I never liked the rain
Like the rain,
I have fallen for you and I know just why you
Liked the rain- always calling for you
I'm falling for you now
Just like the rain

*~*~*~*~

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