"Slayer you keep that up and I won't need to bleach my hair it'll be white on it's own!" Spike held on for dear life as Buffy tried to follow instructions on how to simply drive down a straight, wide street.

"Mom refused to try to teach me after only a month of lessons and I was drummed out of Drivers Ed," Buffy was in near tears. How was she ever going to be able to run the household like her mom had if she couldn't even drive a car? "You said you could teach anyone," she taunted the vampire.

No way was Spike one to back away from any challenge from his Slayer. "Okay. We'll do this yeah? Gonna have to start with the basics though and not with my baby either. We'll use your mom's car."

"But it's a standard!" Buffy was in horror. If she couldn't master an automatic transmission where you just put it in gear and drove how did Spike expect her to deal with clutches and gears and things?

~~~

"That's right, Slayer, nice and easy," Spike smiled as Buffy moved her hand gracefully over the 'teaching device' of choice. "Now slip it into second nice and easy. Oooooo yeah, just like that!"

For some reason third gear always caused giggles from both of them. It took several weeks before they even attempted reverse but she was learning.

"So, Spike....think we can use an actual car and stick shift before long?" Spike just smiled and laid back for another lesson.

~fin