Lancaster
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, Joss and all those guys own it all.
SUMMARY: Demons are real only Buffy doesn't know it yet, the Slayer before her lived much longer than expected so she's called at the age of 19. It's all a little hard, especially with a charming Brit wanting her.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Spike is human and there will be a few family changes.
FEEDBACK: Yes please it really inspires me to carry on. And it's always good to get extra ideas.
~*~
CHAPTER ONE
"Buffy now I've made a list I want you to go through it and check everything off. If you forget anything you can't just come home." Joyce told the girl who was packing up her whole life.
Buffy rolled her eyes, her mom had been totally worry mom ever since she decided to go over to England for college. Joyce was so proud of her but she was worried her little girl all the way over in another country, how could she look after her.
"I know I'm being too much but I worry." Joyce said patting her only child on the head. This was one of the last times she'd get to do this, now that her baby was all grown up.
"Mom I know but you need to chill, I'll totally be fine. And yes I have got everything. Now are we going to lunch?"
Buffy Summers was an average girl from a small town in Southern California, doing something very un-average, moving to England. Her friend had summered in Europe but her parents weren't high-flyers. Now was her chance to shine, to be one of those girls.
Her mother snapped her out of her daydream of tea in the park, "Honey are you coming?"
So they were off for the last mom daughter lunch for a long time, Buffy felt a little sad.
~*~
The flight had been long and hard, nine hours stuck in her seat next to an old lady to smelt very strongly of pee. And then it was even worse when she stepped of the plan, the temperature hit here straight away and not in the good oh I'm on holiday sort of way. More in the oh God I'm going to die sort of way.
The train from the airport had been crowded and that smelt of pee to. Buffy sat wearing a white vest top and black sweats feeling like crap. The one good thing was that in English colleges you didn't have to have a roomie in your halls, which was great. Back in the states her friends started college in September and had told her horror stories of psycho roommates, well not for her.
A twinge of loneliness did come over her when she dumped her bags in her en- suite room. Not too much space, but still she was in a foreign country with no friends and not a clue where to get some food from.
They lady that met her had told her that everyone was feeling the same and making friends would be easy, but for tonight she felt like the only girl in the world. Then there was a knock on the door.
"Hello." A red headed girl said as Buffy opened the door.
"Hey."
"I'm Willow, I live next door. I just thought I'd say hi you know."
Buffy looked at the girl, she was not the sort of girl who she would have hung with back home but for know she was all she had.
"I'm Eliza, but call me Buffy really. I'm from the states."
The conversation flowed freely between the two, Buffy felt bad for her first judgement, this girl was kind of cool in a kooky sort of way.
"Hey I'm starving and I don't know where anything is you wanna grab a bite to eat with me." Buffy asked.
"Cool I was getting a little hungry myself."
With that they headed off, Willow was so glad the girl hadn't just shut the door in her face. One look had told Willow that Buffy was a popular cheerleader type, and at school all Willow had been was a bully's punch bag. But Buffy could be a friend and that would be cool.
~*~
Spike thrown his bag on to his knew bed, Uni life was going to be great at last he was out of the house. His mother had begged him not to live in, it did make more sense to stay at home seeing as how the campus was only ten minutes away but he longed for the student lifestyle he'd heard so much about.
Leaving his twin sister would be hard, she was going to Lancaster University as well but she was staying at home with mother. While Spike lived it up.
The room was small, but Spike didn't care it was his own. His mum wouldn't be barging in at all hours to collect his washing while he was watching a 'special' movie. It would do, he was sure that he could have one hell of a time here, and before long his sister would be begging to stay over. But he wouldn't let her because he'd be entertaining girls.
He laughed to him self as he fell on to his new bed.
He was so tired, getting here had taken a little longer than expected because he'd spent quarter of an hour eyeing up a cute blonde.
Yep life here was gonna be good he thought as he drifted off to sleep.
~*~
Rupert Giles was not looking forward to the next day, first day of term at Lancaster. Normally this day wasn't so bad, but this year he had to deal with all the student registering in his department.
Students to meet, papers to fill in, it was all a lot off work. Not that he wasn't paid well for it. When he had told him friends that he was a professor of popular myths and legends they laughed, but he was the one laughing now while he earned over £50000 per year.
Still he had other matters to deal with, they had still not found her. As soon as they did he would have to look after her another job to add to the list. His head started to ache at the thought of it. He reached for the scotch, he needed it.
TBC... Kinda Cute
CHAPTER TWO
Giles was angry already, why was it always him who was left to deal this stuff when no one else wanted to? It was made worse by the fact that none of the students took his course to learn, they all thought it was a joke. Every year was the same his first year class would be full but then come year two and he'd be left with two students wanting to take it as their major.
Quite frustrating.
This year's class was the same as every other year, there was the book types, the sporting types and the party types. And like every other year there were more of the party types than anything else.
He was sat at a little table in on of the main lecture theatres on campus trying to make sure every student signed in and got a timetable. Not an easy task when there is also ten or more clubs trying to get the students to go a party.
~*~
"Well it's been really nice meeting you guys." Buffy smiled as she pushed the flyer into her bag. Already she'd met four cute guys this morning, and yet she still hadn't managed to do what she'd come here to do.
"Buff I really think we should find that Giles guy." Willow pleaded, Buffy saw the look in her eyes. She must be the type to really study Buffy thought as she stood on her tiptoes looking for a sign to indicate a registration point.
It was easier to find than she thought, it was the table that had no one stood around it. She grabbed Willow's hand and dragged her through the crowd.
Last night had been good for both the girls, having a friend. They had talked all night about who they were where they came from. It made Willow feel special to sit with the slim pretty blonde. It really did make her think that University was going to be different for her.
~*~
Giles looked up from his book when he had a piece of paper in his face, her looked up and saw another 'party' student, only this one looked a little thick as well.
"You Mr Giles?" the girl asked.
Giles smiled back at her, great an American, probably a cheerleader. He took the paper from her hand and got her to sign the sheet.
"Ms. Summers here is your timetable, thank you." Giles then looked towards the other girl who also had a registration form in her had, she looked a little more studious.
"Oh look I've got you for one of my classes." Buffy added.
"Y-your taking Popular Myths & Legends?!" He said half in surprise and half as an actual question.
"Yeah."
Giles did not say anymore, he was rather hoping that the little red head would be in his class.
A if reading his mind the girl looked up and said, "I'm Willow and I'm taking it to." She spoke quietly as if frightened of the whole situation.
Buffy noticed that Giles looked a little more interested now, she didn't care though she'd only taken the class because she had to pick two electives apart from her major. She'd heard that Popular Myths & Legends was easy because it was all made up.
Willow was grinning at Giles who she like straight away as Buffy pulled her away from the table, "Come on now we can go party."
Giles sighed when he heard that, as he thought a party girl more interested lipstick than passing the year.
~*~
"I was like fuck off you bloody poof."
Giles looked up as the loud voice interrupted his reading, searching to find where it had come from. He soon realized he didn't have to look far, approaching the table was a young man dressed head to toe in black and with the most awful hair.
It was long before the man handed Giles his registration sheet, Giles saw the name and understood everything, the young man was William Evans.
Every year they got one, a student whose IQ was off the measuring scale but yet wanted to be a rebel. He'd heard a lot about Mr. Evans he was very clever but seemed more concerned with looking good and music. The young man was trouble but had come here because that way he didn't have to get a job.
Handing over the sheet Giles was half pleased to see that Mr. Evans was taking his course as a his major, although deep down he knew that it was probably one because he thought it was the easy option.
~*~
Spike saw the blonde again, she was cute but after the whole Dru mess he'd gotten into he didn't really want to start anything. One date with Dru had turned into a relationship and in the end he'd ended up getting hurt.
Women nothing more than trouble he thought, although the blonde was so tasty.
~*~
Buffy and Willow were leaving the lecture theatre now, they gotten all the party invites they needed and done the boring college stuff.
"I was thinking tonight if you want we could go into the city, look around. I've got a cousin who lives here he said he'd show us around. Well I m-mean if you want to."
Buffy noticed how nervous the girl was and wondered what the hell had happened to her to make that way.
"Oh yeah that'd be cool. What's your cousin called?"
"Alexander, but we call him Xander. He said he's bring his friend and his sister with him. So gives us a chance to meet people." Willow explained, "But I don't know who they are, but Xander said they come here."
Buffy smiled, she could tell that her new friend was a nice warm-hearted girl. As she thought this a guy caught her eyes, he was wearing leather and had dyed blonde hair. He was kind of cute.
TBC.....
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, Joss and all those guys own it all.
SUMMARY: Demons are real only Buffy doesn't know it yet, the Slayer before her lived much longer than expected so she's called at the age of 19. It's all a little hard, especially with a charming Brit wanting her.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Spike is human and there will be a few family changes.
FEEDBACK: Yes please it really inspires me to carry on. And it's always good to get extra ideas.
~*~
CHAPTER ONE
"Buffy now I've made a list I want you to go through it and check everything off. If you forget anything you can't just come home." Joyce told the girl who was packing up her whole life.
Buffy rolled her eyes, her mom had been totally worry mom ever since she decided to go over to England for college. Joyce was so proud of her but she was worried her little girl all the way over in another country, how could she look after her.
"I know I'm being too much but I worry." Joyce said patting her only child on the head. This was one of the last times she'd get to do this, now that her baby was all grown up.
"Mom I know but you need to chill, I'll totally be fine. And yes I have got everything. Now are we going to lunch?"
Buffy Summers was an average girl from a small town in Southern California, doing something very un-average, moving to England. Her friend had summered in Europe but her parents weren't high-flyers. Now was her chance to shine, to be one of those girls.
Her mother snapped her out of her daydream of tea in the park, "Honey are you coming?"
So they were off for the last mom daughter lunch for a long time, Buffy felt a little sad.
~*~
The flight had been long and hard, nine hours stuck in her seat next to an old lady to smelt very strongly of pee. And then it was even worse when she stepped of the plan, the temperature hit here straight away and not in the good oh I'm on holiday sort of way. More in the oh God I'm going to die sort of way.
The train from the airport had been crowded and that smelt of pee to. Buffy sat wearing a white vest top and black sweats feeling like crap. The one good thing was that in English colleges you didn't have to have a roomie in your halls, which was great. Back in the states her friends started college in September and had told her horror stories of psycho roommates, well not for her.
A twinge of loneliness did come over her when she dumped her bags in her en- suite room. Not too much space, but still she was in a foreign country with no friends and not a clue where to get some food from.
They lady that met her had told her that everyone was feeling the same and making friends would be easy, but for tonight she felt like the only girl in the world. Then there was a knock on the door.
"Hello." A red headed girl said as Buffy opened the door.
"Hey."
"I'm Willow, I live next door. I just thought I'd say hi you know."
Buffy looked at the girl, she was not the sort of girl who she would have hung with back home but for know she was all she had.
"I'm Eliza, but call me Buffy really. I'm from the states."
The conversation flowed freely between the two, Buffy felt bad for her first judgement, this girl was kind of cool in a kooky sort of way.
"Hey I'm starving and I don't know where anything is you wanna grab a bite to eat with me." Buffy asked.
"Cool I was getting a little hungry myself."
With that they headed off, Willow was so glad the girl hadn't just shut the door in her face. One look had told Willow that Buffy was a popular cheerleader type, and at school all Willow had been was a bully's punch bag. But Buffy could be a friend and that would be cool.
~*~
Spike thrown his bag on to his knew bed, Uni life was going to be great at last he was out of the house. His mother had begged him not to live in, it did make more sense to stay at home seeing as how the campus was only ten minutes away but he longed for the student lifestyle he'd heard so much about.
Leaving his twin sister would be hard, she was going to Lancaster University as well but she was staying at home with mother. While Spike lived it up.
The room was small, but Spike didn't care it was his own. His mum wouldn't be barging in at all hours to collect his washing while he was watching a 'special' movie. It would do, he was sure that he could have one hell of a time here, and before long his sister would be begging to stay over. But he wouldn't let her because he'd be entertaining girls.
He laughed to him self as he fell on to his new bed.
He was so tired, getting here had taken a little longer than expected because he'd spent quarter of an hour eyeing up a cute blonde.
Yep life here was gonna be good he thought as he drifted off to sleep.
~*~
Rupert Giles was not looking forward to the next day, first day of term at Lancaster. Normally this day wasn't so bad, but this year he had to deal with all the student registering in his department.
Students to meet, papers to fill in, it was all a lot off work. Not that he wasn't paid well for it. When he had told him friends that he was a professor of popular myths and legends they laughed, but he was the one laughing now while he earned over £50000 per year.
Still he had other matters to deal with, they had still not found her. As soon as they did he would have to look after her another job to add to the list. His head started to ache at the thought of it. He reached for the scotch, he needed it.
TBC... Kinda Cute
CHAPTER TWO
Giles was angry already, why was it always him who was left to deal this stuff when no one else wanted to? It was made worse by the fact that none of the students took his course to learn, they all thought it was a joke. Every year was the same his first year class would be full but then come year two and he'd be left with two students wanting to take it as their major.
Quite frustrating.
This year's class was the same as every other year, there was the book types, the sporting types and the party types. And like every other year there were more of the party types than anything else.
He was sat at a little table in on of the main lecture theatres on campus trying to make sure every student signed in and got a timetable. Not an easy task when there is also ten or more clubs trying to get the students to go a party.
~*~
"Well it's been really nice meeting you guys." Buffy smiled as she pushed the flyer into her bag. Already she'd met four cute guys this morning, and yet she still hadn't managed to do what she'd come here to do.
"Buff I really think we should find that Giles guy." Willow pleaded, Buffy saw the look in her eyes. She must be the type to really study Buffy thought as she stood on her tiptoes looking for a sign to indicate a registration point.
It was easier to find than she thought, it was the table that had no one stood around it. She grabbed Willow's hand and dragged her through the crowd.
Last night had been good for both the girls, having a friend. They had talked all night about who they were where they came from. It made Willow feel special to sit with the slim pretty blonde. It really did make her think that University was going to be different for her.
~*~
Giles looked up from his book when he had a piece of paper in his face, her looked up and saw another 'party' student, only this one looked a little thick as well.
"You Mr Giles?" the girl asked.
Giles smiled back at her, great an American, probably a cheerleader. He took the paper from her hand and got her to sign the sheet.
"Ms. Summers here is your timetable, thank you." Giles then looked towards the other girl who also had a registration form in her had, she looked a little more studious.
"Oh look I've got you for one of my classes." Buffy added.
"Y-your taking Popular Myths & Legends?!" He said half in surprise and half as an actual question.
"Yeah."
Giles did not say anymore, he was rather hoping that the little red head would be in his class.
A if reading his mind the girl looked up and said, "I'm Willow and I'm taking it to." She spoke quietly as if frightened of the whole situation.
Buffy noticed that Giles looked a little more interested now, she didn't care though she'd only taken the class because she had to pick two electives apart from her major. She'd heard that Popular Myths & Legends was easy because it was all made up.
Willow was grinning at Giles who she like straight away as Buffy pulled her away from the table, "Come on now we can go party."
Giles sighed when he heard that, as he thought a party girl more interested lipstick than passing the year.
~*~
"I was like fuck off you bloody poof."
Giles looked up as the loud voice interrupted his reading, searching to find where it had come from. He soon realized he didn't have to look far, approaching the table was a young man dressed head to toe in black and with the most awful hair.
It was long before the man handed Giles his registration sheet, Giles saw the name and understood everything, the young man was William Evans.
Every year they got one, a student whose IQ was off the measuring scale but yet wanted to be a rebel. He'd heard a lot about Mr. Evans he was very clever but seemed more concerned with looking good and music. The young man was trouble but had come here because that way he didn't have to get a job.
Handing over the sheet Giles was half pleased to see that Mr. Evans was taking his course as a his major, although deep down he knew that it was probably one because he thought it was the easy option.
~*~
Spike saw the blonde again, she was cute but after the whole Dru mess he'd gotten into he didn't really want to start anything. One date with Dru had turned into a relationship and in the end he'd ended up getting hurt.
Women nothing more than trouble he thought, although the blonde was so tasty.
~*~
Buffy and Willow were leaving the lecture theatre now, they gotten all the party invites they needed and done the boring college stuff.
"I was thinking tonight if you want we could go into the city, look around. I've got a cousin who lives here he said he'd show us around. Well I m-mean if you want to."
Buffy noticed how nervous the girl was and wondered what the hell had happened to her to make that way.
"Oh yeah that'd be cool. What's your cousin called?"
"Alexander, but we call him Xander. He said he's bring his friend and his sister with him. So gives us a chance to meet people." Willow explained, "But I don't know who they are, but Xander said they come here."
Buffy smiled, she could tell that her new friend was a nice warm-hearted girl. As she thought this a guy caught her eyes, he was wearing leather and had dyed blonde hair. He was kind of cute.
TBC.....