Sex101
Chapter Twelve
"Anya, I want out of this stupid bet!" Spike whisper-yelled at Anya as she came out of Giles' bathroom.
"Why are you whispering?" she asked in her normal voice. "They're all gone."
"Oh," Spike said, looking around Giles' apartment. "Where'd they go?"
"Buffy and Willow needed ingredients for some spell to make Buffy study better and Xander wanted pizza, so Giles drove them. Congratulations, by the way. You're now a Scooby - on temporary probation, of course. Willow made this big speech and got them all to agree that you've been helpful so… I guess that makes you one of the good guys now."
Spike frowned. He didn't want to be one of the good guys - why couldn't Willow just leave well enough alone? Because she was Willow, that's why, and he wouldn't change anything about her. "Oh," Spike said again.
"So what's this about you wanting out of our bet?"
"I want out, that's all."
Anya scowled. "Oh no, mister. We have a bet. You have to keep Willow happy without using your penis for two weeks. If you give up, I get your coat. But you can't give up. What about the wish? Don't you have something you want to wish for?"
"Was gonna wish the chip gone," Spike said with some sadness. Even though Clem had made him see the error of this thinking, he'd been wanting it gone for so long that it was sad to lose the dream.
"Well, there you go. You have something good to wish for. Why would you want to give up a wish like that? If you're tired of Willow already -"
"Not tired of her. I wanna -" he stopped, realizing what he'd been about to say. "I just do is all."
"No way. You promised me you'd keep Willow out of the way."
Spike frowned. "Out of the way? What's up, Demon Girl? You got plans you don't want Willow to know about?"
Anya sat heavily on the couch. "No, it's just- She's boyfriend-less and you know what happened last year, right?"
Spike shook his head.
"Well, Willow and Xander got into this - thing. Xander calls it a fluke but I don't know. Willow broke up Xander and Cordelia with just her lips. She used them on Xander! And now that Oz is gone, I'm afraid Xander's going to dump me and go back to Willow's lips!" She was almost hysterical now, but she calmed down slightly and finished her diatribe. "You can't give up on Willow so soon - you have to keep her away from my Xander!"
"Not giving up on her," Spike confessed. "Wanted to -" Defeated, Spike slid his coat off his shoulders and held it out to Anya. "It's yours, or will be after tonight. You won it fair and square."
"Oh, I get it," Anya interrupted with a smile. "You want to have sex with her. Well, that's different."
What Anya and Spike didn't know was that Giles and the Scoobies were just outside and had heard - and seen, through the tiny window by Giles front door - this entire exchange. Accusing glances were turned Willow's way. Until Buffy whispered, "He's willing to give up his coat for you, Will."
"Heck," Xander added, none too quietly, "He gave up getting rid of his chip for you."
"It seems he really does care for you," Giles added with consternation. He still hadn't gotten used to the idea of soulless demons having tender feelings, no matter how much Anya had adamantly argued that they did.
They trooped inside, Willow leading the way.
"Is that why you - " Willow tried to ask Spike, but couldn't quite get the words out.
"Red, did you - " but everyone was talking at once and Spike had to whistle to get them all to stop.
"Looks like the cat's out of the bag," he said as Buffy glared at him. He went to Giles couch and sat down, wanting the last fifteen minutes to have never happened. If the whelp had heard all of that, he'd never hear the end of it.
Willow went and sat next to him. "You're not losing your coat," Willow told him confidently, ignoring the looks of her friends. "We can wait."
"Maybe you can, but I don't think I'm goin' ta make it," he told her with a sexy leer that only ended when Buffy came over and glowered down at him. "What do you want, Slayer? Here ta stake me for not shaggin' yer best mate?"
"No," Buffy informed him. "Not that I'm happy about what's been going on, but you being willing to stay chipped for Willow's sake means a lot. Yeah, we heard the whole thing," she replied with a grin.
"Great, just great," he said, dropping his head into his hands and waiting for the backlash to start.
And start it did. Everyone tried to get a word in before Giles raised his voice and told them all to settle down. No one didn't like it, but everyone sat and waited for Giles to continue.
"Willow, I know you probably didn't want whatever's going on with Spike to come to light, but now that it has, would you mind explaining it to us?"
Willow turned bright red and looked like she wanted to go hide.
"Maybe I should explain it," Spike offered.
"No, this is my mess, I'll tell it," Anya said, speaking up for the first time since the Scoobies had gotten back.
"Does it have to be you?" Xander still couldn't believe that his girlfriend had the inside scoop on the Spike and Willow business. Spike and Willow. He was never going to get used to the sound of that.
"Yes, me," Anya answered with a sigh. "You see, it all started because I was afraid Willow was going to try to steal Xander back."
"Yes, we understood that," Giles broke in. "It's why -"
"I'm getting to that," Anya explained. "See, Oz and Willow had some sex problems. Well, Oz had the problems obviously, not Willow, but I wasn't going to tell her that. I let her think it might have been her. So I suggested she go to Spike for some help, because Spike is really perfect for her, even if none of you could see it. And I didn't want her coming after Xander now that Oz is gone. Because he's mine now. Xander, not Oz," she clarified. The group - except for Spike - nodded to show that they understood.
"And well, I needed Spike to cooperate. So I bet him a wish that he couldn't keep Willow happy in bed for two weeks without having intercourse. I knew he could, of course, but again, I didn't tell him that. I needed him to go along until he saw that Willow was the girl for him. And now he does. And he wants to have intercourse with her, so I won the coat."
"You didn't win yet," Willow said with some venom. "We haven't…you know."
"But Will, if you don't… you know - then Spike wins and gets his wish. He's going to wish the chip gone," Buffy thought it was time someone pointed this out. The thought of Willow sleeping with Spike was too much for her though and she finished with, "What am I saying? Willow is not going to sleep with Spike! Forget about the stupid bet and the stupid wish!"
"Can't," stated Anya. "We made a bet, you can't go back on that. Someone has to lose and Spike already forfeited. Not that I care, I don't give a crap about his stupid coat, I just want him with Willow so that she and Xander won't get together."
Spike wrapped an arm around Willow's waist and pulled her close. "My Red won't be getting anywhere near the whelp, so no worries there."
"Oh no," Willow got into the conversation at last. "Spike will be keeping that coat. The bet's not over yet. He's going to win."
"In order to win," Xander reminded her, "You have to keep doing - whatever you've been doing. And you're not going to!"
"In order for Anya to win," Willow pointed out, "Spike and I have to… have to…"
"Have sex," Buffy finished.
"Uuuuugh!" Xander exclaimed, a shiver running through his body.
"Okay, enough of this," Giles broke in. "I think this is something that's up to Spike and Willow to decide. It's really none of our business."
"It is my business if my bestest bud is boinking the undead!" Xander responded.
Buffy reminded him, "But like you said, he was willing to give up his wish for her. That's gotta mean he loves her, right?"
No one answered.
"Right?" she asked Spike.
Spike remained speechless until Anya kicked him in the shin.
"Means she means a lot ta me, that's what it means," Spike clarified, not willing to use the "L" word quite yet.
Willow just smiled at him. "You haven't lost that bet yet, Spike. We can win this, I know we can."
"But if they're not doing anything together, who wins the bet?" Xander asked.
"I do," Anya replied at the same time as Willow said, "Who says we won't be doing anything?" She grabbed Spike's hand and pulled him off the couch and out of Giles apartment.