Magic Moments

After a quick check to make sure that Spike’s foot was indeed not broken, a furious snogging session ensued.

The initial tender kiss was replaced with a desperate dance of lips and tongue, both men needing to communicate their desire and passion through the meeting and touching of their bodies.

Or, in other words, they were gagging for it.

Spike manoeuvred Xander backwards until they both flopped down on the couch. With a need for much more contact than they already had, Spike attempted to wrap himself around Xander’s body. It was difficult with the rather large baby-bump in the way, so Spike tried a half straddle with a hint of hovering to combat the problem.

It didn’t work.

They bumped heads and Xander ended up with cramp in both legs. Don’t ask how. It’s just too much of a long story to tell.

They now sat on the couch, Xander receiving a nice leg massage and Spike giving said massage and sulking.

“Maybe the bump disappears?” Xander suggested. “You know, when Willow does the whole abracadabra thing. Maybe I just go back to normal?”

Spike raised a hopeful eyebrow. “You might be right, pet.”

“Go look at that webpage.”

Spike obliged and within a couple of minutes his expression had changed from sulky to ecstatic. “You’re only bloody right, you know. Says here that once the spell is done you’ll pop straight back to normal!”

“That’s great! When can we do the spell? Can Willow do it straight away?”

Spike turned back to the screen. “Erm…here we go, Skuki induced pregnancy…babies will be oven ready after twenty four hours.”

“That’s in just a couple of hours. Okay, that’s good.” Xander suddenly didn’t sound so sure.

“Worried, pet?”

“Yeah. In a couple of hours we’re gonna have two babies. *Two*, Spike. This is so huge.”

“Bloody right. Gonna be a dad. Both of us.”

“Together,” Xander finished.

“Yep. Scared?”

“I think it’s the rest of the world that should be scared.”

Spike laughed. “I reckon you might be right on that.”

“So, we just wait?”

“Not much else we can do. Just a couple of hours, pet, then we’ll have two kids and lots of sex.”

“We could still have sex while we wait.”

Spike thought about it. “Yeah, I guess if I bend you over the…”

The phone rang and Xander was quite grateful for it.

“Yeah?...Oh, right…Eh?! Bugger me! No bloody way…Shit, fuck and bollocks. Didn’t even think!...’Course…Where?...Got it…I’m on my way.”

Spike hurried to the door, grabbing Xander on the way.

“Spike?! What is it? What’s going on?”

“Buffy. She’s only gone and found that damn Skuki demon. She’s currently beating the shiny-shite out of it, as we speak.”

“So?”

“So, she’s trying to get it to reverse the spell.”

“Oh my god! She can’t do that! She wouldn’t!”

“She would and she is. Willow found them. Buffy won’t bloody believe her that we want to keep the nippers. Thinks she’s under a spell, too, probably.”

Xander swore enough to make the Devil blush and together he and Spike started a slow lumber, made slightly faster by insistent dragging, to the car.

A screech of tires, a flattened Californian Red-Legged Frog and an old lady with palpitations later, and the DeSoto pulled up outside a pet shop.

“Here?! How would Buffy have found the Skuki here?”

“Haven’t got a clue, luv,” Spike said as he dashed around the car and used every ounce of his vampire strength to heave Xander out the other side. It was a good job that the sun had long since set or by the time Spike had levered Xander out of the car he would have been turned into a pile of vampire-scented bath salts.

The two of them rushed inside and quickly looked around. There, at the far side of the shop, in amongst a pen full of kittens, were Buffy and an unconscious Skuki demon.

“Oh, hey, guys! Over here! I’ve made a bit of a boo boo.”

“So I bloody see,” Spike said, glancing down at the Skuki. “What the bleedin’ hell happened?”

“Well, I saw the cutest kitten in the window and I just had to come and pet it.”

“Uh-huh. And you bought the Skuki with you?” Xander asked, pointing down at the blue demon.

“Noooo. The Skuki was already here, probably trying to eat all the kittens, I bet.”

Spike rolled his eyes for what felt like the zillionth time that day. “Don’t be daft. Skukis love kittens. I would imagine it just came in to pet one, too, maybe even pick up a bag of kibble. You’ve probably just knocked out this shop’s best customer.”

Buffy looked down at the Skuki. “Ooops. Sorry!” She called down to it.

Willow stepped out from behind a very large sack of dog biscuits. “I don’t think it can hear you,” she remarked.

Buffy had the good grace to look suitably guilty. “I’m so sorry, you guys. I tried to get it to reverse the spell, I really did. But I was so annoyed by the whole kitten-eating thing that I…*may* have hit it a little too hard and…knocked it out before it could get with the reversing.”

Xander released a relieved breath and squashed Buffy into a tight hug. “Thank the gods. Buffster, it’s okay, we want to keep the babies. We don’t want the spell reversed."

“Really? Are you sure, Xanny? Babies with Spike? That’s so….*babies*?”

Xander nodded.

“As in two?”

Xander and Spike nodded.

“As in twins?”

Xander, Spike and Willow nodded.

“And you’re gonna keep them?”

Xander and Spike nodded.

Buffy had a quick think. “That’s…Oh my god, think of all the shopping!”

Willow jumped up and down and started to clap. “I know, I know! That’s what I said! This is so exciting! Let’s go and buy tiny little things!”

“Hold up a minute,” Spike insisted as the girls nearly made it to the door. “What about the delivery spell?”

Willow held up a brown paper bag. “Got the stuff here,” she said, walking back to where Spike was standing and shoving the bag into his arms. “The spell needs to be cast in about two hours. Take all this and Xander back to Giles’. I’ll be there once I’ve done an itsy bit of shopping. Don’t worry, I’ve given Giles and Tara all the details and they’ll meet you there. Just take it easy for a couple of hours. Should I get you some basic stuff? Like diapers? Yes, I’ll do that. Come on, Buffy, let’s shop.”

“I’m right behind you, Willow. I am so going to buy a Hug and Tug Horse!”

“And a Whoozit!”

“Yeah!”

The girls left the building and Xander looked back down at the demon. “Do you think it’ll be mad when it wakes up?”

“Probably. Best scarper, eh? Give it some time to calm down.”

“So, we just go back to Giles’?” Xander asked.

“Looks like it.”

“And then what? I mean, what…? Where…? How…?”

“Yeah, lots of questions, pet.”

“Do you have any of the answers?”

“’Course I don’t. But don’t fret, luv. We’ll work it all out. Let’s just get back. We’ll have a long, calm sit down and a nice cup of tea , yeah?”

“Yeah, okay. Spike?”

“Mmm?”

“Have you ever changed a diaper?”

“Nope.”

“Me neither.”

Spike seemed to consider this. “Oh well, not to worry. You’ll learn in no time.”

“Yeah…Hey! Wait a minute..!”

TBC…