Forever, Always, and Then Some

Chapter 37

 

Buffy: Spike, I want to know what happened tonight. And I want the truth.

Spike: Well when they grabbed you I headed here and hooked up with Angel and we got you back.

Buffy: Okay that was the abridged version. Now I want the complete uncondensed version.

Angel: (growls) You better talk.

Buffy: Honey, you are not helping.

Spike: Why don’t you go play with yourself and leave the little lady with me.

Buffy holds up her hand to get Angel to back down.

Buffy: One more remark like that and I will put you out of my misery. Now start talking.

Spike: Fine, I came over to talk to you and suddenly you pitched into my arms. Then theses guys grabbed you and took off. I took your van and headed here.

Buffy: Spike you are leaving out a hell of a lot I think. Wanna start again. Last chance.

Spike: Lord, okay Dru came to me and told me she had some friends that could help remove this sodden chip. So I came to LA with her.

Buffy: Wolfram & Hart?

Spike: Yeah, them.

Buffy: And they were going to do this out of the goodness of their heart?

Spike: No they wanted to me to help them get back at Angel. I thought they wanted me to kill him.

Buffy: Oh so you are telling me you would have killed my husband in exchange for them removing the chip.

Spike: That is not what they wanted.

Buffy: But that is what you thought?

Spike: I don’t know. All I know is after they were able disable the chip, they told me they wanted the kid and if I distracted you, than I was a free man.

Buffy: Free to maim and murder. How nice.

Spike: Come on love, what else do I have. Looks like you prefer the nancy boy that can’t give satisfaction to a real man.

Angel smiles at Buffy. Buffy catches his eye and knows he is thinking about how he tries to satisfy her.

Buffy: So in order to return to your murderous way, you started with helping them kill my son. (Buffy struggles to control her temper).

Spike: Bloody hell, the damn kid is not yours. What does it matter what happens to him?

Buffy: One more comment like that and you are a pile of dust.

Angel: Spike, why won’t you accept the truth? DNA doesn’t lie.

Spike: DNA? What the hell are you talking abut?

Buffy: The DNA test, all three of them.

Spike: I never heard of any damn DNA test.

Giles: Spike are you telling me you never saw the test results? Buffy do you have them?

Angel: There are copies in his photo album. Cordy?

Cordy: Its on my desk I was putting in the pics

Angel reaches over and picks up the album and hands it to Spike.

Spike: Daddy’s Little Prince. Please how lame.

Buffy: Hey I made that.

Spike opens the album and sees Conner’s birth certificate.

Spike: Bloody hell. Since when is your name Angel Liam Summers? And the kid’s middle name is Alexander. You expect me to believe this is legit. I know what the girl was doing this summer, and it did not include an pregnancy.

Buffy: Spike just look at the next three pages.

Spike flips to the first DNA report.

Spike: So I am to assume the female B is Buffy. Who the hell is the D? Darla?

Buffy: No, Dawn.

Spike: Little Bit?

Spike goes onto the other DNA reports.

Spike: This can’t be right. You can’t pluck a kid out of the air and suddenly be his mom.

Buffy: I guess we need to tell you the whole story. Spike, do you remember when you said that there is consequences to magic. Well that is pretty accurate. Spike do you remember that Thanksgiving at Giles’?

Spike: The one with the Indians?

Buffy: That’s the one.

Angel: Spike was there?

Buffy: Oh yeah, he had just gotten his chip and we had him tied to a chair. He looked like a giant pin cushion afterwards.

Angel: I did not see him.

Buffy: Oh no unlike I never saw you either?

Angel: Fine, just finish, so we can be rid of him.

Buffy: Spike, after I found out Angel had come to Sunnydale, I decided to stop by and see him in LA.

Spike: I remember you were pissed.

Buffy: Well I can’t stay mad at Angel for long. Well things happened while I was in LA. Amazing things.

Buffy continues with the story. When she is done.

Spike: So you are trying to tell me that Darla carried your son and no one knew.

Angel: Exactly. Darla herself never knew it was not hers. She actually loved him in the end.

Lindsay: Darla pregnant? She must have been so scared.

Angel: Scared? More like angry. She only cared about the baby in the final days. His soul was able to affect her. It gave her the ability to love someone. Truly love someone for the first time in 400 years.

Lindsay: So she sacrificed herself, so he would live. Sounds like a real mother to me.

Buffy: Lindsay, I agree. I will always be grateful to Darla for what she did.

Lindsay: Well all this explains why Wolfram & Hart are after the baby, but why now they know he is truly human.

Angel: Because they won’t accept the DNA test.

Spike: And because I told them that there was no way he was Buffy’s.

Angel: Wonderful.

Spike: Well no one bothered to fill me in before now. What the hell was I to think?

Buffy: Spike, granted I never set you down and gave you the details, but you knew I loved Conner, that should have been enough for you.

Spike: So are you going to kill me or let me go.

Buffy: I can’t let you go as long as the chip is not working.

Spike: I doubt, Wolfram and Hart are going to continue after tonight.

Buffy: Spike, I saw you hitting the Holtz people, so I know it is not working.

Spike: I don’t know what happened. At the compound the chip was not working at first and then it was. I saw Gavin with the controller but never saw it again. When I cam here, I thought it was still working but when I hit the first guy I found it was inactive.

Buffy: So you think it is working or isn’t?

Spike: I don’t know.

Buffy: Uh Gunn do you mind letting Spike try to hit you?

Angel looks at her curiously.

Gunn: Why not, what is one more bruise tonight.

Spike hits Gunn in the jaw and Spike feels no pain.

Buffy: I guess it is not working.

Fred: Uh Spike try again.

Gunn looks at Fred.

Buffy: Fred, why?

Fred: Just do it please.

Spike: Fine with me.

Gunn: Fred I hope you know what you are doing.

Spike strikes out again but this time he grabs his head in agony. Everyone looks at Fred.

Buffy: Fred, how did you do that?

Fred holds up the controller.

Angel: Fred, where did you get that?

Fred: Well I saw that lawyer dude with it looking at Spike and how he smiled when Spike grabbed his head so I just picked it up when he fell down. When you were fighting here I just flipped the switch the other way.

Spike dives for the controller.

Spike: That’s mine.

Angel and Buffy both grab Spike and throw him back in the chair before he can reach Fred.

Buffy: Sit down.

Buffy reaches for the controller and Fred hands it to her.

Buffy: Spike, so this is your salvation. This little piece of plastic and wires restores your ability to harm humans

Spike just looks at her.

Buffy: So you want me to give you this and let you go on your happy way.

Spike: I know you’re not.

Buffy: Very perceptive. My only question is what do I do with it?

Spike just stares at her.

Buffy: I could keep it. There may be that occasion that it would be a good thing for you be able to be able to battle humans. Hmmmm.

Spike: Not going to happen, is it.

Buffy: Of course not.

Buffy holds the control box up and proceeds to crush it into little pieces. Spike’s eyes watch in grief.

Buffy: Now that we have effectively castrated you once again. Should we let you continue to walk this earth?

Angel: My vote is no.

Buffy smiles at Angel. Buffy looks at the others.

Buffy: Anyone want to speak up in Spike’s defense?

No one speaks up.

Spike: Ah come on slayer, I am just a neutered little puppy, what harm can I do now. And there is no way those lawyers will help me again.

Buffy: True, but how can I ever trust you again. How can I be sure you won’t try to redeem yourself with them by helping to harm Conner or Angel or even me for that matter?

Spike: I love you, I could never let anything happen to you. Why do you think I helped rescue you?

Buffy: Okay explain why you let them take Conner. If I lost him it would destroy me.

Spike: How was I to know he was really yours, no one bothered to tell me anything. I just turned around one day and you tell me you are married with a kid. What was I suppose to think?

Buffy: You were suppose to believe me when I told you that he was mine. Conner and Angel are my life. You tried to destroy that out of nothing but sick jealousy. You thought if you got rid of Conner, I would leave Angel and come crawling to you. Even on my worst day that would never happen. You disgust me.

Spike strikes out at her in anger. He grabs his head in pain. Angel grabs him. Buffy laughs. Everyone looks at her as if she has gone mad.

Spike: How did you?

Buffy: Looks like I am not broke after all.

Spike: What did you do?

Buffy: I found love again. Love is what makes us human. Angel let him go.

Angel looks at her and releases Spike.

Angel: You going to let him go?

Buffy: You don’t think I should?

Angel: Not after what happened, no I don’t. Unless you have feelings for him.

Buffy smiles and walks up to Angel and but her hands around his neck.

Buffy: The only vampire I have any feelings for is my husband.

Buffy pulls him into a deep kiss. Spike turns green.

Spike: Stake me now, I can’t watch this another second.

Buffy looks back at him and then goes back to kissing Angel.

Giles: Buffy?

Buffy: Huh?

Giles: What have you decided?

© 2005 Tara