Touch Starved. (can be changed of course) by handwithquill +4
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Categories: Alternate Reality, All Human
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Summary:

William Pratt had a horrible childhood. His mother died when he was a toddler and the family he was given to was abusive. Mentally, Physically and Sexually. As he grows up, he learns to associate touch with violence and/or sex. He becomes hard and cold and Punk, calling himself Spike, hiding his bleeding heart deep inside himself.

 

One day he's in a bar when someone knocks into him, he starts and epic fight.  When he’s arrested, instead of putting him in jail, the judge sends him a court Psychologist. He resists talking, but ends up doing so because he's hurting and actually wants someone to listen. The Psychologist says that his sentence can be shortened if he joins a group the Doctor is putting together for Touch Starved people.  Spike agrees and that is where he meets her

 

Buffy Summers just turned 20, and her life sucks! Her dad abandoned them 5 years ago, and three months ago her mother died, leaving her to raise her 14 year old sister. She’s had to drop out of college and get a job flipping burger just to try and pay the bills. Then one day on the bulletin board by the bathrooms at work, she see an add for a job helping Touch Starved People. She calls because any money is helpful, but she’s a little leary of having to hug or touch a stranger. She thinks it might be a mistake when she gets paired up with him.

 

What does a man do when he's been told they make all touches sexually and then they meet the most gorgeous woman he’s ever seen? Is he really attracted to her or is it just the hug she's required to give him. The whole reason he’s in this group is to make his brain not send all his blood south when she hugs him, but that's all it does.

 

Buffy feels sick for feeling this way abut him, she doesn't know his history, but knows he's touch starved. How can she help teach him there is such a thing as innocent touches if she just wants to touch him all over in non-innocent ways?

 

You can add as much or as little to the abuse that William endures.

You don't have to add it, but it'd be nice if you had some Spike/Dawn bonding. Maybe she's acting out as she did on the show and he helps her adjust? Also, maybe have Spike helping Buffy learn daily life things, like balancing a budget and stuff like that?