Summary: Spike is Buffy's swimming coach. He has been hateful to her since day one, a fact that hurts her because she is in love with him. Little does she know that his behaviour only serves to hide his own feelings. Tragic circumstances bring them closer together.
The sound of splashing was emanating from the pool around the corner, signifying the arrival of several swimmers. Spike didn’t care – a definite change in his usual attitude. Typically he’d be out there waiting, preparing to give any late comers an extra ten laps. But today something was different. Buffy. Or more precisely, the girl who was currently grinding up against him in a tiny bathing suit as their tongues furiously tangled together. Spike’s hands were clutching her ass, massaging the firm globes even as her own hands were running up and down the bare skin of his back under his t-shirt. They pressed closer and closer, his rock hard erection cradled against her stomach. She rubbed up against him more firmly and he gasped.
“Baby! We’ve gotta stop. Now. Everyone will be out there within the next five minutes. And I’m gonna need a few minutes to myself right now.”
Buffy grinned coyly at him, a wicked thought entering her head. She looked around – yep, they were securely hidden behind a partition near the changing rooms with no one around.
“Five minutes huh? Seems like an awful long time.” She trailed a finger seductively down his chest.
“Not from where I’m standing baby. I’m gonna need more than that to get myself under control.”
She leaned up to his ear, blowing on the lobe gently before grasping it lightly in her teeth. He gasped. “You promise to be quiet and I’ll get you under control real quick.”
Buffy didn’t even give him a chance to respond before dropping to her knees on the tiles and pulling down his track pants. She hadn’t really expected him to wear underwear so it was no surprise when his huge erection stood out long and hard in front of her. Buffy smirked up at his stunned face and leant in, kissing the tip before slowly licking his cock from base to tip. Spike stifled a groan and lightly took hold of her head as she reached round and grasped his ass. Remembering their time limit, Buffy took the head into her mouth and swirled her tongue around it, tasting the slightly salty pre-cum that had pooled there. She pushed her head further down until she had almost taken him all in, then hollowed out her cheeks and pulled back, sucking as she went. She repeated the action several times and moved one hand down to fondle his balls. His grip suddenly tightened on her head and Buffy knew she could speed it up. She quickened her pace, suddenly hearing his hoarse stage whisper.
“Buffy, baby, oh God I’m gonna cum…please baby.” Spike clenched his eyes tightly and lifted one hand to bite down hard on his knuckles as he shot his load into her mouth which was still sucking on him voraciously. Finally spent without having let out any type of noise that might have given them away, he collapsed back against the cool tile wall.
Buffy made sure he was completely clean of all his spendings, not too hard given she had swallowed most of it, and pulled his pants back up. Yep, definitely within the five minute mark. She stood up and he clutched her to him in a close hug, softly kissing her on the lips as he whispered to her.
“Buffy, you’re so sweet. That was so good, thank you darling. I wish we had more time so I could show you how much I…care for you, but I think they’re waiting.”
“Mmmm, they are, I can hear them.” Had he meant to say something else? She heard the pause in his voice, but maybe it was just wishful thinking on her part. God, but he’d been so good to her today. Driving her to the hospital in the morning and coming in again, then driving her to her classes at the Sunnydale campus. And not once making her feel like an obligation or a nuisance, no matter how guilty she felt about him doing all of it for her.
Spike kissed her again and turned her around. “You go in first pet, I don’t want to have to give you extra laps for showing up after me which is what everyone would expect.”
Buffy nodded and walked out to the pool area, grabbing her swimming cap and goggles on the way. She only had to wait a few minutes before Spike emerged and yelled for everyone’s attention. Luckily Riley was over in another lane so she didn’t have to put up with any of his affections, especially in front of Spike. She was going to have to find a good time to break up with him.
“Alright everybody, listen up. You’ve all been training really hard up until now and I truly appreciate that. You’re a great bunch of swimmers. But we all know that in a couple of weeks we’re going to LA to compete against a lot of other great swimmers, so now’s the time we really need to step up the training and work even harder. I know we can come out of that meet with a lot of records and medals to our names. Start off with five hundred meters your preferred stroke and wait for my next instructions.”
Everyone nodded, waiting for him to go on. When he didn’t, they looked at eachother in confusion. Spike never finished a speech without reprimanding someone for something, or warning them about disobeying him. Even just telling someone that their technique was getting sloppy recently. But instead he just stared at them with a slightly goofy grin on his face until one by one they turned around and sped off. Buffy waited until everyone had gone before blowing Spike a big kiss, giggling when he pretended to catch it and blow one back to her. She turned around and pushed off the wall, not noticing the meters pass her by. She was in love.
***
The changing room was quiet as Buffy packed her belongings from her locker into her sports bag. She couldn’t wait to get out and see Spike. Having taken an intentionally long shower, Buffy knew nobody would be left by now. She shut her locker door and jumped a mile when she found Riley standing behind it.
“Jesus Riley! Why the hell would you do that? And what are you doing in here? It’s the girls changing room, you’re not allowed.” Buffy’s heart was racing furiously in her chest. Geez, stalker much?
“Come on baby, its only you and me. Everyone else has left, I knew you hadn’t so I came in. No big deal.”
“Coach’ll kill you if he catches you in here.” Especially with me, she silently added.
“He won’t. Say, feel like going for a drive?”
“A drive? A drive to where?”
“Nowhere. Sometimes I just like to drive around. Just relax, let it wash over you. The air, motion. Just let it roll. Its not the destination, it’s the journey, you know.” No, she really didn’t. This guy was one sick puppy. Buffy took a deep breath and thought of Spike.
“Listen Riley, I am actually glad you’re here. There’s something we need to talk about, and I guess there’s really no easy way to do it. I, uh, I don’t think we should see eachother anymore.”
Riley took a step forward and placed a hand on her shoulder. “Buffy, I can see something’s bothering you and has been for a while now. But don’t worry ’cos I completely understand. I’ll give you some time to deal with whatever it is, and then we’ll see where we stand okay?” He chucked her chin in what she assumed was supposed to be a comforting gesture, smiled at her and walked out. Buffy stared after him for a full minute, trying to figure out if he was kidding or just incredibly dense. Well, either way he was out of her life romantically. Which left her free to go find Spike.