Waiting... | By : CWoodhaven Category: BtVS AU/AR > Het - Male/Female > Dawn/Spike(William) > Dawn/Spike(William) Views: 8689 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 4
Being invisible sucked.
One minute she and Buffy had been having a humongous fight out in the street, and the next poof, she was gone. It freaked her out.
Buffy was sure it was the work of these three geeks that had been annoying her lately: Jonathan, Warren and this other guy. Dawn didn’t care, she was just pissed. She had been hoping to meet Spike this afternoon, maybe hang out and work on some more spells.
But instead, Buffy sent her home, to ‘stay out of trouble’ while she and Willow worked on a solution. Dawn got the message loud and clear. Buffy thought she would just get in the way. And although it wasn’t as if Buffy could actually tell if she went home, she really didn’t want Spike to see her like this. It was embarrassing.
Dawn had just turned the corner down from the Magic Box when she heard the squealing of brakes and caught sight of a black van. It had just narrowly missed a blue BMW. From her vantage point, she couldn’t see the driver of the van, but she heard him shout out the window to the driver and then mashed the horn. Instead of a normal beep, one of the Star Wars songs came out. Dawn’s eyes widened. If that didn’t scream geek, she didn’t know what did.
She thought they’d have something super geeky and lame on their license plate, but it was normal: THX 1138. Dawn repeated the numbers on the license plate over and over while she raced back to the Magic Box. Maybe Willow could cross reference it or something and find out where they lived.
As she got there, a customer was just leaving, so she was able to dart in behind them without opening the door herself. Buffy and Willow were talking at the big table, so she headed over, but stopped suddenly when she heard her name. She paused to listen, a sick feeling starting to form in her stomach.
“…and thank god she wasn’t here when that woman from social services showed up. I can just imagine how it would have gone if Ms. Kroger had seen Smurfette,” Buffy rolled her eyes.
“Buffy!” Willow chastised.
“Seriously Will, what was she thinking? Mom would have had a heart attack if she saw it. And that eyebrow thing just screams delinquent.”
“She’s just finding herself.”
Dawn stood rooted to the spot, unable to move. It was like she was watching a car accident in slow motion, every detail magnified out of proportion. She was both fascinated and horrified.
“Well, she’s not going to get lost with that hair,” Buffy quipped. “I wish …” she sighed, “I don’t know.”
“What?” Willow prodded gently.
“I just… She’s making things so hard, you know. I don’t get it. It’s like she wants to get sent into foster care. I know things are tough for her, but I was never this bad.”
“Yeah, but you had the whole slaying thing going on. How many times did you lie to your mom about that?”
Buffy sighed, “This is so not the same thing. Plus you saw how well Mom took it when I was honest with her. Dawn is just so much trouble. I mean look at her, now she’s invisible.”
“That’s not really her fault, Buff,” Willow pointed out.
“I know, I know. But she was supposed to be in school today. I was so sure she was skipping when I saw her on the street. I swear she never said they had a teacher work day.” Dawn gritted her teeth – she had told Buffy, twice.
“Things will get better Buffy.”
“Will they? ‘cause right now, I’m thinking that the monks made a huge mistake sending her to me.”
“You don’t mean that!”
Dawn’s heart was plunging down to somewhere around her knees, it was as if all her fears were being confirmed.
“I’m serious. Maybe the state’s right and she would be better in foster care.” Buffy said harshly.
And that was it. Dawn felt her heart shatter. She turned and ran out, not noticing that she had knocked into a display of crystals sending shelf upon shelf of them crashing to the floor. She pushed through the door, and ran to the only place she felt safe.
She never even saw that all the color drained out of Buffy’s face or heard the horrified whisper, “Oh my god, Will, what have I done?”
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Dawn thankfully found Spike in the lower level of the crypt. He was just lying back on the bed leafing through a book. He looked up from his book when he heard her on the ladder, his eyes narrowing, but made no other moves. As Dawn finished climbing down the ladder and turned to face him, she barely registered the addition of a large number of candles now being used to illuminate the room.
“Whatever beastie you are, toddle off elsewhere,” he said coldly, then shifted into his vamp face, “Less you came looking for a party?”
“It’s me, Spike,” Dawn said quietly. As much as she wanted to fall apart, now wasn’t the time. She needed to get visible first, and then she could fall apart.
His vamp face melted back to human and he looked confused “’Bit?” he asked, sounding so concerned. Just seeing that he was concerned caused her to burst into tears in spite of her resolve. She was pathetic.
He tossed the book on the bed and was on his feet before she could blink back the first wave, holding his arms out. “Nibblet, come here,” he said.
She ran to him, marveling at how strong his arms were and how weird they must look around her nothingness. Tears just poured out, all the rage and pain she’d been holding in over the last several months came flooding out.
“Shh,” he soothed. He stroked her hair and back gently.
She felt like she was going to come apart at the seams, and if he moved his arms at all everything she ever was would just melt out into the ether. As if she never existed.
When it finally seemed that the well was beginning to run dry, she choked out a “Sorry” and tried to pull away, suddenly very conscious she just sobbed like a big baby in his arms. Then she realized something else, he was also not wearing a shirt. She began to pull away in earnest, praying that she hadn’t gotten some of her invisible snot on him.
“Hey, hey, none of that” he said firmly, and held her in place. “You gonna tell me why you’re all Hawley Griffin?” *
“Huh?” Dawn said confused. She pulled back again, genuinely needing some space. This time Spike let her go.
“What happened, ‘Bit? You just wake up ghosty this morning?”
While Spike threw his shirt on, Dawn explained about the geeks and the bright red light that made her vanish. His jaw tightened when heard her tale, but otherwise he was silent.
She left out most of the stuff about Buffy. She wasn’t dealing with that now, she had no intention of restarting the waterworks.
“Can you help?” she asked once she’d finished.
“Sure, pet, whatever you need.”
She told him she had a license plate number, but he said that wasn’t necessary.
“You know these guys?” she asked, incredulous.
“Know about them, yeah,” he shrugged. She looked at him strangely, which he couldn’t see, of course, but her silence must have alerted him that something was amiss. “What?”
“There’s just a lot about you I don’t know,” she said wonderingly, realizing it for the first time. Then she shook her head pushing that thought away, she didn’t have time for that either. “Can you make them fix this?” she asked.
“As good as done, sweets.”
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They exited the sewers into the shadows outside the geek’s lair. The huge black van was parked off to one side, so Dawn was sure this was the place.
Checking out the outer entrance, Dawn was not impressed. It looked like a weird cross between a garage and a basement, and was about one step up from a shed. She said to Spike “You gonna need an invite?”
“Nope.”
She saw him point to the well worn ‘Welcome’ mat outside the entrance. Morons.
“Let’s go then.”
One mad dash later, Spike was smashing though the door. In the blink of an eye after that, he was stepping out of the deadly sunlight before more than a few wisps of smoke could form. Dawn followed a few steps behind him.
The three geeks jumped up at the noise, looking terrified.
“Hello kiddies” Spike said menacingly.
Dawn hadn’t seen him like this in forever. Strong, confident, in his element: a demon to be feared. The geeks were practically wetting themselves. Good.
“S-Spike, what can I do for you?” the Warren guy said.
In the end, it was incredibly simple to get fixed. Spike had grabbed Warren by the throat and held him hostage, while Jonathan and the other guy set their invisibility ray up and fired it at her.
One burst of red light later, she was visible again.
“So, pet, want me to kill him for your trouble?” Spike smiled evilly. Warren looked panicked, his eyes bulging.
Dawn frowned thoughtfully, playing along, partially because she didn’t want the losers to know about the chip, but also because she did want them to pay somehow. She reached out to the nearest shelf, and swept the contents to the floor. “No, but I do think they need to redecorate,” she said maliciously.
Spike looked a bit put out, but shrugged and dropped the guy. Once things started to break though, he looked positively merry. The geeks cowered in the corner, whimpering and begging as he started taking apart their collectables one by one.
When Spike’s attention was fully on his task, she edged toward the door. “Sorry, Spike,” she whispered, and slipped out into the sunlight, where he would be unable to follow.
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She stood at the edge of the cliff, staring down at the swirling water far below, harder to see now that the sun had gone down. But she could still see the white caps of the waves break as they hit the jagged rocks below.
She wondered if she hit the crashing waves below, she would explode into a ball of energy. Part of her wanted to. Maybe take out half of Sunnydale. Petty, but screw it. Hopefully it would be the part that Buffy was in, she thought spitefully.
She knew the instant that he arrived.
“There you are. Been looking everywhere for you.” Spike walked up next to her
“Sorry, I just needed…” she gestured vaguely, unsure what to say, “Thanks, though.” She wasn’t sure if she was thanking him for finding her, or helping with her visibility problem.
He smirked, “No problem, pet. I left the little tossers crying their eyes out, trying to put their wee little plastic dolls back together.
“So, you gonna jump?”
That was the million dollar question, what she’d been building toward since she’d gotten there. “Maybe,” she said honestly looking at him.
“What about the slayer?”
She laughed hollowly, turning away. “What about her?” she said, “Buffy honestly wouldn’t care right now if I did jump. She’d say she did, but deep down…” Dawn closed her eyes, and forced herself to speak the awful truth, “Deep down…she’d be relieved.”
She opened her eyes, and was mildly surprised that the rest of world was still turning after that revelation. Part of her felt like it should have stopped, or at least paused, to honor her monumental grief.
She missed the delighted look that crossed Spikes face, before it was replaced by a more thoughtful expression.
He moved behind her, and slid his arms around her waist, pulling her to him. She tensed for a moment, and then relaxed into the comfort he offered. From here she could rest her head on his shoulder. “Life’s hard, kitten. Only losers take the easy way out,” he said softly.
“Worked out for you,” she saw him smile out of the corner of her eye.
“Point,” he said.
“Why do you care anyway? No one else does,” Buffy doesn’t were the words that wanted to slip out, but she stopped them just in time.
He was silent for a moment, and then said silkily, “You have such lovely darkness in you pet. I can feel it. Have since I got back. Let me help you let it out.”
His voice sent tingles all over. He couldn’t mean what she thought he meant. “How?” she asked in a small voice.
His hands slid underneath the bottom edge of her shirt, and gently stroked the skin there. She gasped at the touch. “Trust me pet, I can take care of you,” he whispered. His lips just grazed the skin of her ear as he spoke.
Suddenly her tingles had tingles, and she was having trouble thinking straight.
“You don’t love me,” she blurted out.
“Do you love me?” he asked back gently.
She thought about it, did she love him? She saw his point. She did, and she didn’t. This was all so new, that she really didn’t know what she felt. All she did know is how she didn’t feel. She didn’t feel useless, or worthless, or not there when she was with him.
“I’ll worship you, precious,” he continued, still gently stroking her stomach in little circles, “Treat you the way you deserve to be treated.”
The sensations he was creating were overwhelming. Her heart was pounding in her chest, her breasts felt like they had somehow swelled and her nipples had hardened and gotten so hypersensitive that even breathing seemed to make them ache. Her stomach clenched tightly, and she felt something else clench down there.
“Let me worship you, Dawn” he said, and she felt his tongue trace the shell of her ear.
She closed her eyes and hissed, “Yesss.”
“Good girl.”
End Chapter 4
tbc
* Ok, this reference was a stretch, but Hawley Griffin was the name that Alan Moore gave the Invisible Man in the graphic novel ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’. H.G. Wells never fully named the character, just gave him the ambiguous name of Griffin (without specifying if that was a first or last name). The line really didn’t flow without a first and last name. It barely flows now, but I digress. Let us pretend Spike sat up one day when he couldn’t sleep and read it. Also, the movie character had a different name…it was a thing. And for the record, I am not that much of a comic book person, but wikipedia is a wonderful thing.
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