Hi! So, how is everyone doing? I'm having a great day so far. Well, don't worry, I can tell you at the end of this. Anyways, I got some great reviews for this story so far. In answer to tanya2byour21's review, this is the 4th story I my Buffy "series." Which, I've decided to call this series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS): Season 9. I know, I skipped a season, but that's because I'm leaving that to Joss Whedon and his comic series. It's just going to be tweaked differently from those stories. Anyways, the reason why December 30th is a good day. Well, today is my birthday, so in honor of my birthday, the only present I want from my readers is more reviews. So please take your time to do that today. *smiles bashfully* Alright, on to Chapter 2 of Starting Over Again.
Chapter 2
Faith came downstairs. She had overheard a couple of girls talking, so she had to find out the truth. She found Giles and Willow asleep in the living room, so she moved on to the kitchen. She clearly heard typing. Faith smirked at the sight. "I thought you were suppose to be bad with technology?" Faith asked her sister slayer, hoping for a rhetorical answer.
Buffy looked up to see Faith stretched out in the doorway. Buffy fixed her robe to cover her exposed skin. She had a mug of coffee in one hand and the laptop up and running in front of her on the table. "Ha ha," Buffy replied dryly. "So, what's the real question, Faith?"
Faith laughed. Buffy was always good at sensing people by their moods. "Well, I heard some of the girls talking, so I need to know if some rumors are true."
Buffy asked, "And what rumors are those?" She was only partly paying attention as she was scrolling through whatever website she was looking at. Buffy took a sip of her coffee.
Faith slowly admitted, "Let's say a bunch of the potentials were talking about this place and an eviction notice."
Buffy spit out her coffee after almost choking on it. I thought Angel said he didn't tell anyone else? Buffy thought to herself. "Oh really?" Buffy tried to sound like she had no clue what Faith was talking about. "Where did they get that idea?" And the Oscar goes to…anyone, but Buffy.
"So it is true!" Faith yelled. "Why didn't you tell anyone?" Faith wasn't sure about this, but she liked Rome. It was fairly quiet and secluded, which most would think didn't appeal to Faith, but she also thought of the fiery side of this town. Rome managed to blend some of its classical culture blended with the modern ideas of the current world.
"Well," Buffy smiled shyly, "we only found out last night and I was completely wigging about it. I mean, where are we going to put everyone when we leave?" Buffy was still very nervous about what was going to happen after the expiration date comes.
"So, you were planning on telling us this morning," Faith stated.
"Actually, I didn't want everyone to panic yet, so I was going to relax from classes and things while the others and I continue to look for places."
"That's not fair, B. We could help out with packing seeing that we have to be gone in…" Faith didn't actually here the amount of time they had. "In how many days?"
"We are to be off the premises in thirty days, and seeing that we have to be packed before shipping to whatever new location, we should be prepared to be out in about two weeks. I think I worked that out well?"
"TWO WEEKS!" Faith exclaimed. "Buffy-"
Uh-oh, she used my name. This is bad.
"You should be glad we head about this. There's too much to do and not enough time," Faith simply said.
"Look, it's no big deal-"
"You got that right, now that I'm here," Faith beamed at Buffy.
"Huh? What does that have to do with anything?"
"I will start getting the girls to pack. Then, I can help you go searching for a new place. After all, divide and conquering would work better."
Buffy swallowed. She always got a little concerned when Faith was enthusiastic seeing that nothing good can happen when Faith tries to control desperate situations. "Um, that's wonderful, Faith," Buffy lightly spoke, "but-" She never finished her sentence when someone continued her sentence.
"We already found a couple of places that we think will work."
Buffy got up to greet him. Loudly she said, "Good morning, Honey." She went to kiss Angel's cheek, then whispered in his ear, "We do, huh?"
He nodded at her. "Oh really, where about?" Faith asked.
"Well, here's the best part about it. You, Buffy, and I are VERY familiar with the area."
Buffy stared at him, connecting the dots. Faith said, "We better not be returning to Sunnyhell, besides, there's nothing there, so we're not rebuilding."
"That's not it, Faith. We're going to Los Angeles," Buffy shook her head, sitting back in front of her computer.
"That's it. I was thinking about it. I'm alive, even more than before, I'm still the CEO of Wolfram & Hart, why not rebuild the company and turn it into a school."
Buffy knew she could fake her way through this part of the discussion. "Angel, I know we talked about this, but isn't that building trashed, because I remember jumping out the fifth story window so I didn't have a ceiling collapsing above my head."
"That's the greatest part." Buffy was glad to see him, but the grin on his face made her want to laugh. She took a breath to control the urge. "I talked to the CEO of Wolfram & Hart, Rome, Ilona Costa Bianchi. She told me that I was in charge of the international headquarters of Wolfram & Hart, and so I settled with her. She can have the title of being the CEO of the international headquarters if she had the company fund the school and she was surprisingly willing to do it."
"Wow, but where do we house the slayers? There isn't enough room for housing and teaching in that place."
"Another part of this is that she will pay for reconstruction and pay out the mortgage of a hotel a few blocks away. I happen to know for a fact it is very roomy, it's not far, and it is well preserved for an abandoned building."
Faith rung in. "The old hotel you were at." She turned to look at Buffy. "B, this idea is pretty ingenious. I think it could work. How did you think of it?"
Buffy stood up and walked over to Angel. She wrapped her arm around his waist to bring him closer and put her other hand on his cheek. She looked up into his eyes. "I have the most AMAZING boyfriend in the world that I would never trade for the best looking man in the world." Faith started cracking up.
"So, are you finally facing facts and telling me that I'm not good looking?"
"No, I'm just saying that there would be no difference if I traded or not, because I have him right here in my arms." She smiled at him, then drew his lips closer to her own.
Faith broke the moment. "Look, I'm glad you guys are happy, but can you have you loving couple moment in another room, or just completely stop?"
Buffy broke away. "We have a room. Go find another." Buffy and Angel kissed.
Dawn walked into the kitchen. "Hey, what's for breakfast?"
Buffy lightly pushed Angel away from her. "I know you're excited, but think of all the girls who live here."
Angel shook his head. He bent and whispered to her ear, "Do you feel better making me blush?"
"Actually yes. You look better with a little more color." Faith snickering could be heard all over the room. She couldn't control her laughter.
Dawn just looked around at the group unsure. "Um, did I walk in on some meeting I probably shouldn't have."
"Nope, just Angel and I appreciating each other."
"Talking about the eviction notice I'm sure." Buffy just stared at Dawn with her death stare. "What?' Dawn asked innocently.
"How did you know about the notice?"
"I-uh-" Dawn couldn't fake her sister out at this point of the morning. Lord knows, Buffy barely could.
"Dawn," Buffy said firmly.
"Okay, I overheard Angel talking about it with Willow and Giles. I told Spike and we told some of the others."
"So that's how it was spread." Buffy looked over to Angel.
"Wait, was it not suppose to be told?"
"Just a tad, Dawnie," Faith jumped in.
Angel spoke up, "Looks like she missed that part of the directions." He chuckled lightly, than put his arm around Buffy's waist.
Dawn said sheepishly, "I'm sorry; I thought everyone was going to find out this morning anyway."
"You know what," Buffy said, "it's okay. I was putting off telling the slayers because I wanted to make sure we had a plan but now it doesn't matter because I believe we have a few places now."
"Really? Where?"
"A little city called Los Angeles."
Dawn's jaw dropped. "I think she's speechless," suggested Faith.
"Oh my God! We're going home. I've missed LA so much!"
"Now she's excited." Buffy looked at her boyfriend and asked, "What would I do with out you?"
Angel responded, "I don't know, possibly go on with life with no purpose at all." Buffy playfully swatted him. "Come on, you know you won't be able to get rid of me. I'll always be with you."
"Thanks for that." She gave him a quick peck on the lips. "Well, now that we don't have any servants or workers, looks like we're it for breakfast. I vote that Angel cooks." He gave her the "thanks" look.
Faith raised her hand. "I second that!"
"Okay then, get to work, Mister." Angel moved to start making muffins. "Faith, can you work on toast and Dawn, can you go to the market and get a bunch of juice?"
"No problem," the two girls answered in unison and ran of to do their tasks.
Angel looked at Buffy. "So, what are you going to do, Your Highness?"
Buffy gave him the "knock it off" look, then grinned at him. "Well, I was thinking that I could help you with stuff, like if you say, 'Can I have some sugar?' I walk to you with this." She walked to him and lightly kissed him on the lips.
Chuckling during the kiss, Angel pulled away. "What if I accuse you of not giving me enough sugar or too much?"
"Then this is what I do. If it's not enough sugar," Buffy pulled Angel to her and kissed him with all the passion she could muster, "If it's too much, then this will happen." She kissed him, searching every crevice of his mouth with her tongue."
They both chuckled. "As much as I'm liking this idea, I think we need to get breakfast done."
Buffy pouted with her puppy dog face. She rolled her eyes and replied, "Okay." Angel kissed her hair and continued working on muffins.
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"No wonder why we don't have a lot of money. We are feeding a hotel full of hormonal teenage girls who all have extremely high metabolisms."
Angel laughed at Buffy's statement. Why didn't she think of it before? "Well, should we announce our plans?" Angel whispered to her. She nodded and squeezed his hand.
Buffy stood up. "Excuse me, can I have everyone's attention for a moment, please?" The giant group of slayers quieted down and looked up. "Thank you. Now, I believe everyone has heard about the eviction, but for those who haven't, we found an eviction notice last night and we have to be out of this palazzo in thirty days." Nobody reacted, so that was easy for Buffy. "The good news is that we do already have a new place to relocate to." Everyone chatted in astonishment. Giles and Willow both gave the other surprised look. "Now everyone, please let me finish." Buffy politely waited for the chattering to stop. When it did, she continued. "Now, we should have everything packed in two weeks, so we can meet the deadline for this place and get out of here with no problems. So, first off, there will be no more classes until we are fully relocated with everything together. Secondly, I will be out of Rome for the duration of this month to get things set up. Lastly, I grew up around the new place we are moving to and I hope you all like the town as much as I do. So please applaud Angel for his dedication to help us relocate and also," everyone waited for it, "since I won't be on any of your flights to the new city, I would like to say, 'Welcome to Los Angeles; The City of Angels.'" Everyone gasped in excitement. LA was way different than what they were use to. Buffy sat back down and whispered to Angel, "You know, it really is the City of Angels." Angel and Buffy smiled and then they shared a kiss.