The Dance by Amanda Rex
Enigma
"Because I've tried everything else, and it hasn't worked," he took a deep breath, and decided to take a chance. "Because I'm a fool, and I'm still hoping something will work."
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Buffy POV: ...and then I'll be done
Spike POV: The Beast
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"...Hell," she finished for him.
The memory of being alone with her on the porch, he just couldn't let it go. She'd been a little restless, almost pacing as she'd shared just a scrap of her night with him. Spike had felt his body following, unbidden, each move she made, in some sort of absurd and ethereal dance with Buffy as the lead.
"You never answered me. Why are you being so reasonable?"
"I'm not Oz's girlfriend anymore," Willow said seriously. "That's how people met me here at college. And, in high school, I was Xander's friend. His stupid, doesn't-get-that-he-won't-love-her friend. Now, though, it's different. I'm just me. Not me and someone else. He's not coming back, Buffy. I know that. It's time to evolve."
"Hope is aching elsewhere in my chest. Hope that afterwards he held her and told her how much she means to him. How much he loves her. Because that is what I would have done, had it been me."
"Because you love her, you dumb git," he said to himself, and stopped walking. He was dumbfounded. He knew there was a fire between them. He'd even accepted how deeply he'd begun to care about her well-being, and that of the Niblet. But...love? The kind of love he'd once clumsily tried to put into verse?
My heart was beating erratically when I woke up this morning, almost as if it thought to hurry me on my way. Home to her. Maybe that's what it's been up to all this time.
Winner of the 1999 Scooby Resident Hacker Award for Best Representation of Willow Rosenberg.
"Finally, something had made sense as the rest of the world struggled and tore at itself to survive. With her, he could be anything. So while he didn't know, couldn't possibly know, what had happened to the girl who had once loved him fiercely, he was positive he had to fix it."
Mature Content
This story is told from two different perspectives, first from Buffy's perspective, and then from Spike's. They are both stand-alone stories, but you'll only get the full picture by reading both of them.
"Bloody..." he whispered.
