Back in bed again

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Continued from here.

"No doilies?" Wesley asked, trying to sound upset. "And here I was thinking they'd look so nice with our decor."

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"If I wanted tea cozies and antimacassars, I'd've moved in with an old biddy with blue hair and ten cats," Spike said, narrowing his eyes. He couldn't stop the corner of his mouth from curving up in a grin.

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"We can't have ten cats?" Wesley asked, pouting rather unconvincingly. "What about nine, then?"

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Spike leaned in and nipped lightly at Wesley's tempting lower lip. "Only if I can use them to pay off poker debts."

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"Absolutely not. If we had nine cats, we'd need to save them for emergency meals if we were ever snowed in." Wesley blinked innocently. "That does happen in New York, you know."

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"I'm not eating cat," Spike said, trying desperately to sound firm instead of amused. "The fur'll get stuck in my teeth. Somehow we'll have to manage picking up the phone and having something delivered. Even if it has spinach on it."

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"Maybe I'd eat the cat," Wesley said, although he couldn't quite suppress a shiver at the thought. "No. That's awful. We'll just have to have lots of spinach and red meat delivered, and you can eat me." He darted his tongue out across Spike's lips suggestively.

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"You're not food." The idea of biting Wesley again sent a little jolt of excitement through Spike, though, and he traced very lightly over his bite mark on Wesley's throat.

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"Parts of me are," Wesley said, closing his eyes at Spike's touch. "There's nothing wrong with that. It's... well, it's rather nice. I like it."

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"No, there's a difference, love," Spike explained as he brushed the tips of his fingers over each of the spots of dried blood that marked where his fangs had pierced Wesley's skin. "I might bite you, taste your blood, but you're not food. One's about us; the other's about draining you dry."

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"All right," Wesley said, conceding the point, because what really mattered was that Spike was comfortable with what they were doing. "I like being yours."

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Spike smiled slowly and openly. "I like you being mine."

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Wesley snuggled in closer, sighing happily. "So. Where will our nine cats sleep? Because I'm not inclined to share the bed with anyone but you."

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"We don't need the nine cats, remember?" Spike reluctantly stopped focusing on his bite mark and slid his fingers through Wesley's hair instead. "We're ordering in."

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"We could still have the cats -- they just wouldn't be an auxiliary source of food," Wesley said.

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"Do you want cats?" Spike asked. He tried to remember if Dru had ever had a pet that had lasted longer than a day or two.

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"Not necessarily," Wesley said, although the thought had crossed his mind on more than one occasion. "Probably not. It wouldn't really be responsible, would it."

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Spike blinked and entirely failed to understand Wesley's logic. "Why wouldn't it be responsible? They require more than giving them food and water?"

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"Well, what if we were away for a few days unexpectedly?" Wesley asked. "Things like that do happen in our line of work."

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"We could get use of those feeder things that holds lots of dry food. That'd last more than a few days. My buddy Clem had one for his kittens." Spike shrugged. He could imagine Wesley sitting on the couch, his long fingers stroking the fur of a cat sitting on his lap, and he felt vaguely jealous.

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"Maybe some day," Wesley said. "Actually, with the way cats are, one may adopt us when we least expect it."

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"Adopt you, maybe," Spike replied. "Doubt one'd have much to do with me."

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"You might get along famously with a cat," Wesley said, stroking the back of Spike's neck.

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Spike snorted his disagreement. "More likely it'd spent all of its time with you and claw me if I tried to get near."

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Wesley grinned. "You're jealous of an imaginary cat."

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"No, I'm not," Spike said quickly. "Can't be jealous of something that doesn't exist."

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"I don't want a cat," Wesley said, ignoring Spike's protest and kissing him. "Just you."

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Spike couldn't let it go, though. "You want a cat and me." He didn't know why the idea bothered him; it was just an animal, and when it came down to it his fangs were bigger.

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"I don't know that I want a cat," Wesley said reassuringly. "I was really just making conversation. We can talk about it some other time."

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"Sounds more like some night I'll come home and find my side of the bed taken over by a sleek little tabby with a temper," Spike commented.

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"We're in the city," Wesley pointed out. "I suspect that any cat, tabby or not, would be more flea-ridden than sleek."

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"Not after you got your hands on it." Spike grew even less pleased as he pictured Wesley giving a cat a bath in the very same tub they just vacated.

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Wesley frowned. "Do you really think I'm the type of person who's inclined to bring home strays?"

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Spike raised his eyebrow, and his mouth twitched with faint amusement. "Wouldn't be the first, would it?" he said, giving Wesley a gentle squeeze.

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It took Wesley a moment to understand what Spike was saying. "Ah, but that wasn't the same thing at all," he said lightly. "I needed you. I'm the one who got lucky, here."

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That comment made Spike feel nicely warm. "You didn't know you needed me when you invited me to stay with you," he pointed out, since he just didn't seem to be able to stop on a happy note.

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Wesley looked at Spike thoughtfully. "Maybe I did," he said slowly. "Maybe there was some part of me that knew."

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Spike would have liked to believe it, but it seemed like a rosy glow Wesley was putting on far less romantic reality. "And maybe there was a bigger part of you that felt sorry for me. Doesn't matter why; I'm just glad you did." He ghosted his fingers through the hair at Wesley's temple and around behind his ear.

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"So am I," Wesley said. "Besides, I don't have time for a cat. I'd rather give all my attention to you." God knows there didn't seem to be enough time in the day to look at Spike all he cared to.

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"If you change your mind, we can talk about it," Spike said, although he still didn't feel any particular enthusiasm about the idea. He smiled and added, "About the cat, not about paying attention to me."

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"Let's not worry about it right now," Wesley said, snuggling in closer. "Everything's so perfect."

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"Is it?" Spike asked softly. Wesley had said it so easily, but perfection seemed to Spike like such a fragile and unobtainable state. He wanted so badly to live up to it.

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"I have you, we're in our own flat... what more do I need?" Wesley said it lightly, but he was very serious.

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"Could be quite a lot," Spike replied, stroking his hand down Wesley's back.

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"I suppose it could," Wesley said. He pushed Spike over onto his back and leaned down over him, careful not to move his body too quickly. "But there's nothing else. We're going to be ridiculously happy together, you and I. Do you hear me?"

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Continues here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/reality_bends/79103.html).