Pandora <Spike-is-Sexy@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

There's a question that just popped into my mind as I was chatting with some fellow Spike/Buffy lovers: How do you think Spike would propose to Buffy?

Then I got to thinking about how much he has changed throughout the seasons, so I figured it would be better to separate the question into seasons. So, how do you think Spike would or would have propose(d) to Buffy in Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6? I'd love to hear what you all come up with.

Pandora

Following is Tracy (aka Jericho TGF)'s reply:

Pandora,

Great question!!  And LOL at the thoughts you have!!  I'm going to put my thinking cap on....

<Turns to look frantically for her thinking cap>  Oh....COME ON!  It was here just a minute ago!!! <Lifts couch cushions and races from room to room...without finding the cap>

<pout>  Well, hell.  <deep sigh>  Oh well, it's not like that thinking cap fit me anyway.

Okay, so you may not get the most intelligent of responses, but I'm going to try my hand at it anyway.  Here we go...

The Big Bad was in all his glory, all evil and arrogant.  May have gone something like this:  <Spike tilts his head and leers at Buffy>  Think about it, Slayer.  You.  Me.  An unlife of blood, torture, and mayhem.  Bloody good time, that.  Take a walk on the darker side o' Spike, Slayer.  You marry me, I turn you...  <blows a kiss while Buffy looks revolted>  'Course, you'd just be a minion, baby.  Can't have you all supergirl strong and independent.  So what do you say, Slayer?  <strokes his chest>  Wanna go for a ride?

Now, we only saw him for one episode, but it's an episode that will live in infamy.  Lover's Walk.  Spike is all drunk and weepy.  Quite cute, really.  So a proposal may have gone something like this....  <Following his, "You'll never be friends" speech>  I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.  <takes a deep breath and looks around with blurry drunkenness, then has that 'drunk moment of clarity'>  Oh, sod it.  Look at me.  I'm bloody miserable.  'Course, lookin' at you makes me feel a lit'le less pathetic, Slayer.  You know what we should do, ducks?  We should forget the objects of our misery and go the road together.  Yeah, that's it.  You stake the great poof there, I'll stake Dru, you and I can get together and reign hell on each other - take out the middle men, so to speak.  What do you say, Slayer?  Be a marraige made in hell.  Lets tie that knot.

Well, this one's hard, because we actually SAW him propose in Something Blue, but that was a spell.  What would the deeply offended and newly neutered vampire say without the influence of Willow?  Maybe something like this....  <chained in a bathtub>  I'm changed in a tub drinkin' pig's blood from a novelty mug. Doesn't rate high in the Zaggat's guide.  Only thing worse would be shackled to you for life, you bloody bint.  That would tickle that fancy o' yours, though, wouldn't it?  Probably marry me just to make my unlife more of a cesspool than it is now.  That what you want, Slayer?  Want to marry me and cement my future o' horror and pain?

Spike's in love...but doesn't want to be.  Ah, the angst.  Those were the good old days, really.  So how about something like this.  <Season finale - in Buffy's house>  I know I'm a monster, but you treat me like a man, and that's... <pauses>  <looks at her earnestly>  What if I wasn't a monster, Buffy.  Would there ever be a chance?  I know our history inn't exactly one for the blissful couple record books, but sod that.  We may die tonight.  All o' us.  Give me something.  Please.  If I wasn't the monster you loathe - if there wasn't all that blood under the bridge...could you love me?  Consider spendin' your life with me?  If I wasn't a vampire, Buffy, would you marry me?

And here this torturous journey ends.  This really would have been MUCH better if I'd been able to find that thinking cap of mine.  However, season 6 has shown us a spike that has no more artifice - he's bared himself both literally and figuratively to Buffy.  So his proposal may go something like this.... <standing on the balcony at the Bronze, looking down at Buffy's friends dancing>  You'll never belong in their world, pet.  You belong in mine.  Darkness is your home, Buffy and it's where I live.  Live in it with me.  For as long as your heart beats, live in it with me.  You'll be free, woman.  With me you'll be free to walk in the comfort of the shadows without havin' to furrow that brow o' yours over that sad lot down there.  Give in to it.  Marry me.

Okay, there you go.  My take on the love of Spike's life.  Have at it people!