Talking, or possibly going to sleep.

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But I shouldn't need you to. And I don't like that I do. Wesley didn't want to say either of those things, so he curled himself into Spike's touch and sighed.

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"You care for me, too," Spike said, his hands still slowly caressing Wesley's skin.

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Wesley nodded, the movement tiny but perceptible. "I know."

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"That's good, isn't it?" Spike asked, trying valiantly to understand Wesley's mood.

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"Of course it is," Wesley said gently. And it was, really. It was only the fact that he yearned for it so desperately that was an issue.

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Spike felt like he was missing something, but he had no idea what. "Love you," he murmured, hoping that it might be the right thing to say.

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Relaxing in Spike's arms, Wesley smiled. "Then I'm really very lucky."

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"I'm not so sure about that, but I can count the number of people I've been in love with on one hand with fingers to spare, so you're at least in an elite group." Spike chuckled softly. "Though you might not be too happy about being lumped in with the other members about anything."

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Wesley tried very hard not to tense up. "I'd imagine you'll always be in love with her," he said, attempting not to sound jealous. "Angel still is."

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"'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds'?" Spike quoted absently, the verse coming up from somewhere in the hazy depths of his mind. "Suppose I will, in some ways. Can't just remove someone from your heart when things don't go the way you might've wanted." Spike pressed a kiss to Wesley's hair. "But you'd know that."

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"Yes, as much as I might have preferred not to have learned that particular lesson." Wesley stroked his hand over the small of Spike's back awkwardly, attempting to apologize wordlessly for having brought up both Angel and Buffy in the same few sentences.