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Backfire - Spander Files

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Spike turned his head toward Xander and smiled. An honest genuine smile that<br />

Xander had never seen before.<br />

“The last time we shagged, right here in this bed, I was thinking of you.”<br />

“Me?”<br />

“Of course.” Spike sat up and tugged off his duster, tossing it across the room to<br />

land on a chair. He leaned down over him and Xander reached up and ran his hand<br />

over Spike’s cool chest, still shirtless after all this time. Xander barely remembered<br />

what Spike looked like with a shirt on.<br />

“I’m sorry that you weren’t concentrating on her, it being your last time and all.”<br />

Spike shrugged. “I think she did know. That it was our last time. She spoke of you<br />

afterwards. Not by name, of course. It was all metaphors and riddles. But she<br />

knew.”<br />

The vampire leaned down and captured Xander’s mouth in a hungry kiss. When<br />

they broke away, Spike pulled Xander’s dirty come-and-Spike-blood-stained t-shirt<br />

off of him. Xander wondered briefly why he had put that shirt back on in the crypt.<br />

Spike’s look of revulsion matched Xander’s feeling of disgust. Not over what they<br />

were doing, or about to do, but over Xander’s sticky smelling body. All of the<br />

craziness of the last couple of hours had helped Xander forget that he was still<br />

covered in the aftermath of his encounter with Angel.<br />

“Ick,” he mumbled.<br />

“Agreed.” Spike nodded toward a darkened doorway on the other side of the room.<br />

“There’s a shower through there.” Xander clamored off the bed and snagged a<br />

candle. He heard Spike call from behind him, “Make it quick.”<br />

And it was. Remarkably quick for a young man who’s recent showers had been<br />

long and meticulous. And although speedy, by the time he emerged, the pull toward<br />

Spike was terrible-strong, this being the longest they had ever had to go before

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