Weird Things Happen to Good People
by: s_x_shipper

Part One 

He just lay there looking up at the midnight sky. His brain was 
screaming at him for being out at night with no protection at all, 
it had come to the point where he didn't actually care what happened 
to him. His parents didn't care, they wanted him gone anyway and his 
friends... they were probably too busy with collage life to actually 
notice that he was gone.... they'd been like this for a while now, 
he saw them rarely, only when he went to their little 'scooby 
meetings'. Even then he just sat there reading in the corner and 
when he was done he'd grab Spike and walk home. 

Xander stood up and looked back and fourth between trees. He was 
more than overly surprised no demon-y things had come and found him 
laying on the ground. He started stalking over to the statue in the 
middle of the park to sit. The marble base was cold and slightly 
dusty. "What am I doing?” Xander sighed, he didn't know who he was 
talking to but it didn't matter it made him feel better as if 
someone was listening to him. 


~*~*~*~
Spike walked towards the door rather quickly. When Xander hadn't 
shown up for the meeting Giles told Spike to walk over to his house, 
he was sure Xander wouldn't mind. "I can't believe them" Spike 
hissed under his breath as he was shoved out the door, "what if 
Xander got eaten on the way over or something, the bloke's a bloody 
demon magnet! Stupid slayer." The truth was Spike really didn't mind 
Xander all that much, he was funny and a pretty good fighter aside 
from what the scooby's thought. Almost brave, he'd never once run 
from a fight.... at least not a fight with Spike..... 

He only liked a select few of the Slayerettes and Xander was on the 
top of the list, Spike didn't mind 'Red' or her 'witch friend' he 
thought them rather cute and the watcher wasn't as bad as he would 
have thought, of course he's way more fun when he's drunk.. but 
that's another story... Spike most utterly hated Slutty and her 
boy-toy commando. 

Slutty was so pushy and bossy and childish *and* mean to her 
friends, she was so wrapped up in her own life (and Riley) that she 
hardly noticed he was there, or in this case not there. 

Spike had noticed some changes in Xander over the past little while, 
he was quieter than usual and didn't sick around after meetings and 
the gang never went to The Bronze anymore, not even to hunt. The odd 
time Xander would show for patrol but even when he did he didn't 
seem all that enthusiastic about it. 

Spike realized that he was standing in front of Xanders house, he 
smiled to himself and walk to the basement door. 'KNOCK KNOCK' "Are 
you in there Pet?" No reply. Spike knocked again, still no reply.... 
so he did what any good friend would do, he broke down the door. He 
walked into the small basement, looked around eyeing articles of 
clothing laying about, but saw no Xander. He wasn't overly worried 
since Xander *could* defend himself, but Spike decided he would go 
out and find Xander... you know to bother him or something........ 


~*~*~*~
Xander still sat on the statue, he was deciding what he should do 
with his life, he had been doing this for 5 years now and through 
all of that he had come up with..... Nothing, that road trip he 
started after high school had finished too soon and that car was now 
laying in a large heap on the ground in the back yard. "wow" Xander 
muttered "life really does suck, when I was young I had Willow and 
Jesse... but now... it's just not the same, Wills is still my best 
friend and all, but I really don't have that same kind of friendship 
with her and she's so busy with school and research... I can't talk 
to her anymore. And Jesse...." He sighed, feeling the tears well up 
in his eyes. 

Xander heard a noise in the bushes, but didn't move just sat there 
muttering. He saw something slip out from the trees, he couldn't 
care less, he remained seated, waiting to die, waiting for his well 
deserved moment of pain that would make him happier than he had been 
in years. He closed his eyes... waiting... waiting... Nothing... 

"Hey Pet! There you are, I've been lookin' all over town for you" a 
heavy accented voice came from his left ear, it was almost a 
whisper. 

"Spike?" Xander was quiet but stern "what the hell are you doing 
here?" 

"What, can't a mate look for 'is friend?" 

Xander opened his eyes "friend?" 

"Sure why not" 

"..." 

"Well you know the watcher and them folks weren't worried about you, 
so I figured someone should be..." Spike sounded just a little 
sarcastic. 

“Uh huh" Xander sounded annoyed and a tiny bit surprised 

"..." 

"yeah well you found me" Xander looked kind of pale and the moon lit 
his face up. "so can you go away now?" 

"plus .... I needed some blood" Spike said ignoring Xanders last 
comment. "... yeah... so.. um ...anyway, what are you doing out at 
this time of night? You could have gotten killed. You didn't even 
move when I came out of the woods." 

"Oh, I was just thinking" Xander was quick to answer, like he would 
tell Spike, evil soulless vampire dude his problems.... "It's 
just... I got fired *again* today." 

"Oh... " Spike sat down beside him. 

Xander waited for some snide remark but it never came. 

Spike didn't answer he just sat there, they sat there for at least 
an hour before they even looked at each other again. With a small 
childish grin Spike stood up and said "It's almost dawn, we'd better 
get home." 

"Good idea" Xander said in a 'trying-to-sound-happy' tone and they 
walked off through the park towards home. 


~*~*~*~
Xander woke with a start, and looked at his clock "5:32 PM already" 
he moaned and sat up. He felt too tired to move, looking around the 
room he saw Spike still sleeping in his chair, then he remembered 
that morning sitting on the statue in the park... the phone rang "Oh 
shit". He stared at it as if it would shut up but it didn't, so he 
picked it up "hell-" he was cut off "yes Willow we can come over and 
help" "...." "Ok well yeah we'll be there in a... K.... B-" click 
"Ok then... Um... Shower is a good idea" Xander stood up and 
carefully walked to the washroom, he looked in the mirror ("wow I 
look like shit"). 


~*~*~*~
"Hey Pet" Spike was awake but still in his chair "what are we doing 
this evening?" He grinned 

"Going to Giles' for a meeting" Xander didn't look up from the pile 
of clothes he had laying on the washing machine 

"Aw do we have to?" Spike whined, "I'd prefer killing some demons, 
or going to a bar or... anything" 

"Well we can go on patrol with Buffy after" Xander shoved all of the 
clothes into his hands and walked back into the washroom. 


~*~*~*~
Spike noticed Xander, once again, sitting a little to quietly in the 
corner of the room with a book on Magick Cures, but he wasn't 
actually reading and Spike knew this mostly because Xander's eyes 
weren't moving and he seemed to be staring right through the book. 
("I could do *this* all day") Spike smirked. 

"I hate this!" Buffy was whining about some demon ruining her 
favorite dress while in battle "What are you smirking at Spike? Hey 
Giles can I *stake* him?" She emphasized the word stake, letting it 
roll off her tongue, to imaginably hit Spike in the face. 

Spike was snapped back into the real world "Oy, that ain't fair, I 
can't hit back" 

"I know that's what's so fun about it!" She gave a fake innocent 
giggle and Spike scowled. 

"I know it would be fun Buffy" Giles took off his glasses eyeing 
them carefully "but I'm afraid it wouldn't be fair" 

"Hey" Spike looked between the two of them but was ignored 
completely 

"...but as soon as he gets that chip out of his head..." Buffy's 
voice died out before she could finish, backing away after Giles 
gave her a pointed glare. 

Spike looked back to Xander who was now laying back on the couch, he 
didn't know why Xander was even there, he wasn't doing anything, 
maybe just being there made him feel less ignored, Spike walked over 
and sat down beside him "Hey Pet" Xander didn't move "Hey you who 
Pet... Xannnddder..." 

Xander seemed to snap back into reality and realized someone was 
talking to him "Hmm.... What?" 

"Earth to Xander, come in Xander" Spike grinned, not an evil grin 
but what you could call an 'I'm-overly-amused-at-your-lack-of-sense' 
grin. "Are you here tonight Xanpet" 

"...No... I'm not and I think I'm gonna go home now, I-I'm really 
tired so um you can just stay here if you want" Xander stuttered as 
Spike moved in closer. 

"Let's go then Pet" Spike stood and hoisted Xander up with him, 
Xander kind of bumped up against Spikes chest, Spike felt Xander 
shudder uncomfortably. 

"Oh.. Um ok I'll go get my coat and tell" he took a deep breath 
"Buff" 

Spike smiled again and let Xander's arm go "K Pet, don't take long I 
was hoping to watch another tape of Passions tonight" 

"..." Xander turned and walked over to Buffy. 

Spike listened to Xander and Buffy talk "um Buff I'm going home I'm 
a little tired, sorry I couldn't come on patrol, and Spike's coming 
too." "Oh" said Buffy "Um that's ok we really don't need you to come 
anyway, you know me and Wills make a great team, and Giles comes 
along to write stuff about the thingy's we slay you know it's all 
boring and stuff so yeah it's ok" 

"Um ok well" Xander smiled weakly "I guess I'll see you later" 

"Ok Bye" Buffy turned and started talking to Willow again. 

As soon as Xander turned the smile faded and a hurt look appeared, 
Spike saw it only for a second but Spike saw it while no one else 
even cared to look. 

"We're off" Xander smiled again. This time Spike couldn't see any 
hurt but he knew it was there, he could smell it. 


~*~*~*~
When they arrived at the house Xander pulled out the couch an sat 
down. 

"Hey, Spike. Do you wanna.. Um.. Sit?" 

"Sure" Spike replied plopping down a little too close to Xander 
"What's on the telly?" 

The two of them sat and watched Jay Leno until Xander fell asleep. 


~*~*~*~
Xander woke up once again, much more rested than he had been in what 
felt like years. He remembered the last night and Spike, which he 
soon realized had also fallen asleep. In his bed, right beside him 
("Waaay up close"), was a pretty little vamp, he was pale ("Duh" 
Xander thought), a little thin, and had the most beautiful eyes in 
the world and his lips were so precious, when Spike wanted he could 
have the cutest poutiest look on his face (like now), he looked so 
innocent and pure when he slept... Xander smiled and slowly climbed 
out of bed, careful not to wake the sleeping Spike, and headed for 
the shower. 

The water was warm, which was nice, water was nice, everything 
seemed so much nicer all of the sudden, he never could have thought 
Spike could be so nice and gentle, especially to him, he could just 
imagine that: Xander Harris the vampire snuggle-bunny ("Gods no! 
Spike isn't even my friend") Pulling his mind away from Spike, 
Xander stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel, "Shit, I 
forgot my boxers out there" Xander moaned "ugggh" So he wrapped the 
towel around his waist and walked out quickly, hopefully Spike 
wouldn't be awake and he would have to worry about..... 

"Nice towel Pet" Spike grinned an approval and did that eyebrow 
thing only he can do. He was still laying in the bed with his boxers 
on, sitting on top of the blankets. 

"I-I'll be back" Xander said uncomfortably grabbing his boxers, a 
shirt and pants and scurried off to the washroom. 

Spike smiled at that uncomfortable conversation and decided to not 
get dressed, just for fun you know? Xander felt dizzy...... and 
horny, but it wasn't Spike... Of course not, Spike was just playing 
with his head ("Mind Games! Yay team") Xander walked out of the 
bathroom only to find a Spike stretched out on his bed with a smile 
that was kind of dopey looking. 

"What?" Xander stared at him. 

"What what" Spike looked at Xander coolly. 

"Never mind" Xander rolled his eyes and took an unnoticeable breath 

"So Pet, you had a good sleep, its nearly 5:45 in the afternoon" 

"Um yeah.. So what should we do tonight?" 

"What are you suggesting Xan " Spike leered and waggled his eyebrow 
smiling wildly. 

"I don't know what your thinking but I was thinking... We could rent 
a movie" Xander looked at him, a little blush crept onto his face 
and he shrugged. 

"Exactly what I was thinking Pet" Spike threw his arms up and placed 
them behind his head stretching nonchalantly. 

Xander stared at Spikes chest, ("Talk about a six-pack"). Then 
turned around and walked to the fridge. He grabbed a mug and a 
packet of blood, shoved it in the microwave, then settled himself on 
the counter. 

When the blood finished heating up he poured it into the mug and 
walked back into the bedroom. 

Spike still sat on the bed exactly the same way he was before, 
stretched out like a big kitty-cat. 

"Here, and get dressed would you" Xander said, handing him the mug 
and looking at Spikes pale, bare, chest... again 

Spike followed Xander's gaze down to his chest then he looked back 
up at Xander, smiling he sat up, Xander was snapped back into 
reality by the vampire once again. 

Spike grabbed the mug from Xander and then stood. 


~*~*~*~
"It's 10:50pm you know" Spike turned off the television 

"And your point is" Xander looked at him, puzzled expression on his 
face 

"Are we getting a movie?" Spike walked over to the couch and flopped 
down beside Xander, a little too close again 

"Oh.. Yeah sure, what should we get?" 

"I donno" 

"We'll figure it out when we get there." Xander stood up 

"K" Spike followed, grabbing his duster on the way out. 


~*~*~*~
The walk over to the nearest Blockbuster was quick and quiet, 
neither of them talked much at all. Both lost in their own thoughts. 


The girl at the counter smiled cutely at both of them when they 
walked in "Hello" she said leaning over the counter showing off her 
cleavage. 

"Hey" Xander waved, not even noticing her flirty greeting. "So what 
should we get?" 

"Ooh I'm definitely stuck between 'Prissilla Queen of the Desert' 
and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show'" 

"How 'bout Rocky Horror?" Xander walked over towards Spike and knelt 
down 

"Hmm?" Spike said ripping his eyes away from Xander's ass "Sounds 
good to me" 

"All righty then." 


~*~*~*~
The walk back wasn't quite as quiet, a conversation had actually 
taken place not much of one, but it was there. 

"So... Hey, how many Rocky Horror conventions have you been to in 
all of your many years?" Xander asked starting to walk closer to the 
blonde 

"12... There was this one..." Spike replies with a grin appearing on 
his face "I really shouldn't tell you but... What the hell. This one 
convention I went to, just 14 years ago, and guess who I saw there? 
The Watcher! He was dressed as Frank, I mean seriously stockings and 
all! I just never knew it was him until I went through his closet 
one day when I was staying at his house and found a ton of these 
pictures of him at all of these different conventions..." 

Xander's eyes went wide "You're not serious?" 

Spike grinned wildly 

"Oh my Gods! You're serious!" 

"Serious" Spike said with a quick nod 

Xander in almost complete giggles now trying to picture Giles 
dressed as Dr. Frank N. Furter. 


~*~*~*~
When they got back Xander set up the tape and brought over some 
extra blankets to cuddle up in. 

"Should I make popcorn?" Spike asked 

"Do you even know how to use my microwave, oh Annoying Fangless 
one?" 

"Yeah actually I do. I'm not *that* old, older than you but not 
*that* old. And certainly not hard on the eyes either" Spike said 
smirking. 

"Yeah well, I'd call you 'Sexy Annoying Fangless one', but it 
doesn't have that same ring to it..." Spike leered at him and took a 
step forward "aaand the gang would lock me in a rubber room..." 
Xander added quickly seeing Spike's change in expression. 

Spike stood up straighter and almost looked flustered "uhhh... I'll 
go make popcorn" and walked into the makeshift kitchen. 

Xander pulled out the bed and put a few of the extra blankets on it, 
then pushed play just as Spike walked back into the room. 

The opening theme started
//Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...//


"I've always wondered who played 'The Lips'" Xander mused 

"Patricia.... You know, that Magenta bint." 

"Really?" Xander shoved some popcorn into his mouth then reached for 
another handful. 

*BANG* then... *Corney music here* 

Then two almost identical yells: "What the fuck!"


TBC