Notes: This one was done in ten minutes because I did it for a sort of game on a forum but then I liked it and wanted to add it to this post. So just take note this one took ten minutes to write.

Reluctance

Her thick red-lipstick coated lips, touched the tip of the glass, reluctantly. Before she could tip the drink back she slammed it down onto the table, her eyes glaring at the glass as if it were a snake about to strike.

"No!" Dawn shook her head back and forth dramatically. "I'm not trying it," she said surely.

"Nibblet, come one!" Spike chuckled amused at her reaction. "It's just a pint of bloody booze, not poison."

"It might as well be," she narrowed her intoxicating crystal blue eyes in his direction. "Only idiots drink alcohol," she reprimanded, a snobbish tone in her voice.

"I'm an idiot then?" The blonde vampire asked, lifting her glass from the table and guzzling down half of the foamy liquid.

"Well," she hesitated. "Sometimes."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, your little sex-capades with Buffy pretty much proved that fact," her melodic giggle resonated through the bar.

"Touche," Spike raised one-scarred eyebrow in response.

Dawn's chocolatey brown hair fell around her shoulders as she looked down at her lap. Maybe she shouldn't be so open and honest as she was with him, but she couldn't help it. When she was with Spike she was herself, no one else understoodwhat that really meant. As of lately, her sister was busy with her new boyfriend, Willow was busy with a league of witches she was teaching, Giles was preparing the new slayers for their destinies and Xander was, well, off being Xander.

"So Platelet," Spike leaned across the bar where they were sitting. "It's your 21st birthday and you don't want to get smashed," he shrugged. "What do you want to do?"

Sparkles danced in her owl-like eyes, as she looked up at him from underneath thick dark eyelashes. She felt an urgency inside her chest, screaming for her to be honest, while inside her head was professing a profound hesitation.

"I have a few ideas," she smiled, reluctantly. "If your up for it?"