Title: Champion Less Author: Trina Rego Copyright: November 13, 2001 Rating: PG-13 Summary: After Tabula Rasa, Spike decided he's going to leave town, sick of Buffy's games.  Will Buffy be able to convince him to stay?  (This is just a short fic I wrote because I was mad at Buffy.) Timeline: After Tabula Rasa Distribution: Please! Anywhere! Just tell me! Spoilers: Once More With Feeling and Tabula Rasa Feedback: Please! Even if you don't like it, just let me know! It's my first B/S fic, so I would really like some feedback on it! BNL182@portone.com Champion Less ****************** She was a bitch. A cold-hearted bitch at that; didn't care about anyone but her damn self. But still he loved her.  And that was what killed him.  He loved her, would do anything for her, but still she rejected him time and time again.  He had proved himself to her, shown he wasn't the monster she thought he was.  Her mum (though gone now), her sister, and even her friends had accepted him. But no, it was never good enough for her.  And now, with the kissing, and then leaving, and then kissing, and then leaving.  He sighed, it was just too much. Spike looked down at a puddle.  It had been steadily pouring for an hour now, and he was soaked to the bone.  It didn't matter though, he could ignore the rain, even ignore the fact that it was freezing outside.  He was always cold anyone, dead men didn't generate a lot of heat.  He sighed. This is what he'd been reduced to, sitting in the pouring rain in the back of an alley.  He had come here to pay the Loan Shark back, and had decided to stay, not wanting to run into Buffy while she was on patrol.  Sure he wanted to see her, wanted to do more than that.  He wanted to take her in his arms, comfort her, and tell her everything would be allright.  It was what she wanted to.  It was what she needed.  But she couldn't accept that. And her kiss and run act was getting pretty damn absurd.  He could only take so much.  And for her to kiss him like that and brush it off as nothing, or runaway as if it had never happened.  It wasn't worth it, not in the long run. **************