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Sandy Places Among the Angels
Chapter One

Xander stood in the middle of his apartment. His. Apartment. All his. He would jump up and down and yell 'who-hoo' but there was a vampire lounging in the living room, trying to be seductive or sultry or *something*, Xander wasn't sure which. He did know that if he stopped digging through his box of books for a victory dance, Spike would interpret it as 'come undress me'.

Xander had to stop for a minute, and figure out why that was a bad thing. He stared at his packed box of books, and tried to remember. Unload books, have sex. Unload books, have sex. What was he missing, here? Oh, right -- he'd already stopped and had sex five times, now, in the last three days instead of unpacking.

He was going to be living out of boxes for the foreseeable future if he kept up that pattern. He glanced over at Spike again and tried to remember why that was a bad thing. Spike was slouched in the chair -- it looked like he'd even slid down another inch or two, to appear even more wanton than he had two minutes ago. He wasn't doing anything, just sitting, looking around, as if he were waiting and ever so slightly bored, but resigned to waiting patiently.

For someone to stop unpacking, and jump him, no doubt.

Xander determinedly wrenched his eyes from his boyfriend and turned back to the boxes of books. He was *not* going to stop and jump Spike again. He *had* to get this unpacking done.

Besides, it was Spike's turn to do the jumping. Spike didn't seem to realize that, though. Or if he did, he was demonstrating a definite lack of interest in fairness. Big surprise there, Xander told himself. Although when it came to sex, Spike was generally willing to do...anything if it meant having it. Even being fair. So if he weren't jumping Xander now, that either meant he was in favor of Xander getting *some* unpacking done before the weekend -- or he was planning something.

Considering Spike had never been big on interior decorating -- abandoned warehouse was his idea of chic -- Xander was willing to bet it was the latter. That left the ball in Xander's court. Did he keep working, try to get as much done as he could, before Spike struck? Or act now, and disrupt the vampire's plans?

Unless that was Spike's plan. Play the innocent and make Xander do the jumping. That way Xander couldn't protest he should be unpacking. That meant, if he wanted to disrupt Spike's plan, he should keep unpacking.

If it *wasn't* Spike's plan, then it would force Spike to make the first move. Either of which would mean Spike would have to get his ass out of the chair and do *something* to get sex, other than sit around and look hot. Not that he didn't like Spike looking hot. Just...sometimes Xander wanted to be the lookee, not the looker.