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Affinity
By Ginmar
Chapter 25
Well, well, well, wasn't this interesting?
Lorne checked his watch. Yes, indeed, it had been about an
hour since they'd gotten to Sunnydale, and Spike had driven with one hand
clamped on the wheel and what had felt like both feet and several weights jammed
on the gas pedal. Now, he was ambling with loose-limbed giddiness to the car,
accompanied by someone who could only be the Slayer, and she, too, was
suspiciously loosey goosey as well. Spike's hair was tousled, and to Lorne's
interested eyes, it was pretty obvious whose fingers had done it. As far as the
Slayer herself, she was tiny and mussed, wallowing in huge sweats, hair wild
around her face, and lips obviously just-kissed. Well, well, well, wasn't
this impressive. Back in town less than an hour, and they'd already gotten naked
and -- from all appearances -- looked like they'd soon be going at it again.
After the sterile confines of the Hyperion, it was rather refreshing in an
unexpectedly vivid kind of way.
Both of them smacked up against the same invisible
obstacle when they saw him. The body language was exceptionally
interesting. Buffy, who had been glancing surreptitiously out of the
corners of her eyes at Spike, tripped over a molecule, and thumped over her own
feet, then flushed. Spike, who had been more or less blinking his long eyelashes
non stop at the Slayer, stopped abruptly, probably at the same proton, and
stared at him blankly as if he'd never seen him before. Comprehension dawned
with visible slowness, probably at the same rate of speed as brain cells were
repairing themselves, post orgasm. Lorne watched as the vampire visibly
struggled for some clue as to his identity. He waved helpfully, hoping to
disperse the almost-visible pheromones clouding around their respective
heads. "Slayer," Spike finally said, "This is Lorne."
"Slayer," Lorne drawled. "What an unusual name for a girl. Did
this make your life interesting in the public education system?"
"Um, it's actually Buffy."
"Well, that's mundane by comparison." Lorne said. "So
where are we going?"
They exchanged glances. "We?" Spike asked. "You're not
going anywhere with us. Right now. Because we have pizza to get."
"Uh, huh." He eyed the way their hands dangled too close
together, as if they'd just been separated. "Sure, sweetness, pizza. Thirty
minutes or you get a freebie?" He eyed the house, more than a little curious.
"So, what's going on here?"
"Slumber party."
Lorne sadly reviewed his life; once the owner of a
wonderful club with all sorts of interesting people, he now looked forward to a
room full of teenagers. How art the mighty fallen? He smiled at the two of them.
"Don't be too long." Just long enough so I can plot something, he amended.
The three of them stood there and eyed each other uncomfortably, and he
wondered, were they going to christen the car right there in the street or
something? Spike opened the passenger side door, and Buffy gave Lorne a curious
glance as she climbed in. Spike squinted at him for just a second over the roof
before he got it. "You're not planning on having any little sing alongs, are
you?"
"What can I say?" Lorne asked. "I'm a musical kind of guy."
Spike shook his head, but Lorne was too much of a distraction
from Buffy, who was leaning over the seat and looking up at him. He slid in and
started the car, pulling away from the curb with such haste he left rubber
behind. Buffy settled into the seat with a sigh, and he glanced over at her. It
suddenly occurred to him that they were alone, for a while. Not necessarily
alone in hey-let's-shag-again-alone, although that was a possibility. Alone as
in no-need-to-worry-about-putting-on-a-fake-face-type-alone. Although
there was the post-coital nervousness thing to worry about, the way she got all
twitchy some times after the clothes came back on, which seemed to be what she
was doing now. He sighed, wondering how long it would take this time.
Buffy stared out the open window, the breeze
rustling her hair, suddenly confronted by more unnerving thoughts on the order
of, Oh, all alone, I see. No friends around. No need to deal with whatever this
is, no need to pretend, no need to act. She had gotten so used to the
pretense that its absence almost made her miss it. Now, that's bad, she
thought. My life has officially become a bad country song, although it's
going to be hard to work the whole vampire thing in there and still break the
Top Ten. She glanced at Spike. Plus he definitely was not the country type. She
had no idea what to do with worry-free time, and the idea of being worry free in
Spike's company was so recent an addition to her Theories of Life that she was
still writing the play book out. Hm.
Uh oh, Spike thought. She's thinking. This was not good.
Thinking led to reasoning, which invariably involved not doing fun
things, like shagging for hours, kissing where her friends might find them, and
well, doing what they were doing right now, which might very well lead to more
shagging. He stretched his arm out along the back of the seat and Buffy
surprised him by turning her cheek into his palm. Her hair curled over his hand,
and he found himself looking more at her than the road. She rubbed her cheek
against his hand, and his fingers curled automatically, response to irresistible
stimulus, feeling her skin flush even more against his hand as she closed her
eyes and leaned her head against his arm. He kept glancing at her
stealthily, which he knew was stupid, but he couldn't quite do away with the
fear of getting caught. She usually only let her guard down with her clothes,
and for her to snuggle while dressed was a milestone.
They came to a stoplight, and the absence of movement made
her open her eyes. She blinked at her, then, after a moment's hesitation,
scooted over the seat, and nudged her head into his shoulder. Do not say a
word, he ordered himself. Do not say a word. Saying a word invariably
meant he was trying to say something, but would wind up saying it in such a
fashion as to cause words. Even Iloveyou -- said at the height of
passion, and really uncontrollable -- had been known to get her dressed and
gone. So he had to bite his lip every five seconds as yet another phrase
would arise in his mind that seemed clever while merely a thought but would
undoubtedly be disastrous if he ever dared let it out. These were in fact
legion, but he refined his list while waiting for the light.
I love you. Best said while arguing.
The whole animal thing. She could climb him as nimbly as
any monkey, ride him like a rocking horse, but if he ever wanted her to do it
again, he'd best keep it to himself. Although the mental image was fun, and
accurate, dammit, he sincerely doubted his ability to turn any reference to a
primate into a complement.
Her bounteous bottom. It wasn't that it was huge, it was just
curved, and lush, and there was no way on earth he could say that without
putting parts of him in jeopardy.
Any reference whatsoever to the way he adored her super Slayer
strength in terms of duration or enthusiasm. One thing hadn't changed in a
century (as if William would have known) -- Never, ever, imply, or infer, or
suggest, or somehow indicate, speculate or otherwise give the slightest
impression, that any woman anywhere at any time or in any place might have been
to bed before with someone else and learned how to do a few things properly. Or
improperly, which was actually better, once you thought about it, and oh, Christ
if he was thinking about it, it was only moments till he was blurting it out.
The light changed, and he stamped on the gas with more
enthusiasm than necessary, startling Buffy, not a good thing, because it was
possible she might suggest driving herself.
Which he promptly forgot as Buffy snuggled closer, his arm
around her waist, her arms around his waist, and sighed in his ear. Bloody hell.
She pulled closer still, till her head was on his chest, and he got a brief
chance to bury his face in her hair before he yanked the wheel over to the curb,
and pulled her as close as he could without actually donating any organs.
Her hair smelled like mint and strawberries, and just that Buffy smell that she
had, which invariably went straight to his nerve endings. She twisted in
his arms till she was curled up in the opposite direction, almost on her back in
his lap, too easy to kiss not to, tasting his mouth while she touched his face
with the slightest of fingertip touches. He spread his legs for her so she could
wriggle into his lap and be that much closer, and then, not coincidentally, put
her bottom right where he could fit it into his hands. It wasn't a demand, he
wasn't trying to seduce her -- any more than usual, that is -- he just loved the
way her bottom fitted his hands.
"Pizza." Buffy murmured between kisses.
"Request, order, comparison, observation?"
"Mm." Buffy gave one of those little sighs. "Reminder."
"Bugger the pizza." He slid his arms around her waist, and
tightened till she squeaked. "Kissing takes precedence."
"Kids waiting at home."
"Eating you out of house and home, no doubt."
Well, hell, he thought, that did it. "It's worth it,
because Dawn's so happy." She sounded injured.
"Is she?" He stroked her hair again, and she laid her head
against his left arm. Pieta with Slayer, he thought. Interesting concept.
"Oh yes." Buffy smiled at the thought of she and Dawn on the
back porch, arms linked, grossing out at the thought of Sex. With. Boys. Or boy
vampires, she thought, trying not to giggle outright at the sudden thought of a
vampire in a Cub Scout uniform. Spike raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Well, your name came up in the conversation."
"Probably in vain."
"Hm, dramatic much? No, this was the Talk."
"The Talk?" He heard the capitals, and wondered what sort of
initiation rite he'd missed.
"You know, the Talk. Sex came up." He raised an eyebrow again,
and she was torn between envy at his eyebrow skills and... well, more envy.
She'd always wanted to be able to do that. "Sex with you."
"You talked about sex with Dawn?"
"Actually, it was more like the other way around." She made a
gesture of collision. "I didn't know what hit me. Train wreck time."
"Not fun, was it?"
Buffy rolled her eyes. "I'll turn her loose on you when we
get back and you'll see. " He gave her one of his Spike looks, which mixed
skepticism with just plain sex, eyeing her so challengingly that she leaned up
and kissed him.
"Oh, hell." He took a deep breath. "Let's go."
"Why?" She wriggled against him, deliberately, he was sure.
"Pizza, you said. Sooner we get back, sooner I can get you
alone."
"In a houseful of girls?"
"Worked before." He pointed out silkily.
Well. That was what was called an irrefutable argument right
there. "Pizza then." She sat up sulkily, sticking out her lower lip. He gunned
the motor, then leaned over and kissed her lightly.
"Pizza." Buffy sighed, in the way of reminding him.
"Pizza," he agreed, but he didn't stop kissing her.
"Pizza!" Buffy gave him a small shove, and he sighed,
with great patience and pulled away. Domino bastards, he thought, and pulled out
into traffic.