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It had been two weeks since Conner moved to Sunnydale, and started attending school. It was a typical Monday morning as Conner drove to school. It was at the only four way intersection between his home and school, where a canary yellow sports car, sped out in front of him nearly crashing into the side of his truck, the female drivers head bouncing along to music while she sped on her way to the school.
After the near collision Conner drove rather carefully the rest of the way to school arriving at seven forty-five. He was just exiting his truck when he heard a male voice calling his name. Turning towards the sound he noticed a shaggy head of brown hair jogging towards him.
"Hey Xander." Conner said when Xander was closer to him, a small grin coming onto Conner's face. Even though he and Xander had started the friendship poorly Conner quickly found a friend in the other young man. Both young men grinned as they turned away from the truck and began there trek up to the school.
"So Conner have you heard about Superboy's latest save." Xander asked the other boy a small grin on his face. Conner wanted to groan at the name that they had given him, the day after Clark showed himself to the public and Lois named him Superman, Conner had been called Superboy by the newspapers the very next day.
"No Xander who did he save this time?" Conner asked his friend a small sigh in his voice.
"Well there was a school bus that had lost control and Superboy jumped in front of the bus and caught it with his bare hands. I mean how awesome is that." Xander said admiration coloring his voice. As the two walked towards their first class Conner found that most of their conversation revolved around his superhero persona, to his minor irritation.
His classes passed quickly and before he realized it Conner found himself stumbling through the lunch line, trying to grab one of the less toxic looking foods that were set out for them. When he finally managed to make through the line and pay, he turned looking for a seat, he found the abandoned table that he had sat at for most of the past two weeks lunch periods, because even though he had friends in Buffy, Willow, and Xander they spent most of their lunches in the library and even though Conner found that he respected Mr. Giles, he had no intention of spending his lunch in the presence of the man. So with measured steps Conner began his short trek over to the table that he always sat at, only to feel a foot shoot out in front of his own, forcing Conner to shift his center of balance so that he didn't break the other kids ankle, in doing so Conner lost his balance like many kids do and fell forward, landing on his lunch tray. The food being crushed against his chest. He groaned as he heard the laughter of the student body all around him, slowly moving his arms underneath himself to begin pushing himself up when he felt two pairs of hands latching onto each of his shoulders. He looked to the side to discover Willow helping to lift him up on one side, whilst Buffy held the other.
"Thanks." Conner said to the two, a large smile splitting his face. He let the two young women lead him away from the cafeteria and towards Xander's locker. "Um why are we heading towards Xander's locker?" Conner asked when he realized the path they were traveling.
"Well when we were younger Xander used to get picked on a lot so he started bringing a second shirt to school. Hopefully that hasn't changed." Willow stated as she smiled up at Conner. He looked at her with a small smile before confusion settled onto his face at the sight of her running up to Xander's locker and quickly spinning the combination. He looked towards Buffy in minor amusement when Willow giggled in joy at before grabbing a shirt out and handing it to Conner. Conner froze as he took in the hideous shirt that Willow had just thrust into at him, it was a bright baby blue button up, with pink and yellow flowers set at intervals all over it. He looked at both girls for a second before looking back at the shirt.
"No offence to Xander's taste in clothes, but I'd rather not wear a shirt." Conner stated jokingly only to freeze in terror as both Buffy and Willow looked at each other identical grins on their faces.
"Well if that's how you feel then." Buffy began with a grin splitting her face.
"Lose the shirt." Willow finished sporting the same grin. Conner looked between both ladies in horror, turning quickly to try and escape. He took off down the hallway, running corners trying to find a safe room as he heard the pounding footsteps of the women behind him. With two quick turns Conner found himself bursting through the doors of the library, where he came face to face with Mr. Giles, Xander sitting in the chair not far from the door. Conner had barely gotten the chance to turn around when he heard the heavy breathing of two people stopping behind him.
"Dude what happened to your shirt?" Xander asked after he got over the fact that the three just burst through the doors.
"Tripped in the cafeteria." Conner responded before he looked at Mr. Giles. "Hey Mr. Giles you wouldn't happen to have any shirts I could borrow would you?" Conner asked of the older man.
"Well I may, let me go check." Mr. Giles responded as he turned and began the trek into his office. Everyone listened as they heard him rummaging around in his office before his voice traveled out into the room. "Yes I happen to have one here." He stated as he brought out a dark blue button up shirt, extending it towards Conner.
"Thanks Mr. Giles." Conner said with a grin as he turned to enter the office only to find his way blocked by Willow her arms crossed over her chest, Buffy standing behind him her hands on her hips with one hip cocked out to the side.
"Well change shirts Conner." Willow said a grin covering her face as she said this almost like she thought that he would be to chicken to. That suspicion irritated Conner so without any hesitation Conner looked her and then Buffy in the eyes and said. "Fine." His hands reaching up and unbuttoning the top button, before making the trek down, he watched as Buffy and Willows eyes followed the buttons down until he finally finished the last button. He swapped grins with Xander who was just as amused at their female friend's expense as Conner was before he easily removed his shirt reveling his bare chest to the girls for around ten seconds just long enough for him to drop his original shirt and slide on the new one. And then with agile fingers he buttoned the new shirt up and walked over to where Xander was sitting.
"So Xander what are you up to my friend?" Conner asked as he sat next to the other young man both quickly delving into a conversation that mattered little to the two young women.
By the time lunch ended and Buffy and Willow had come back down to earth Conner had been convinced to join them at the Bronze that night. He also somehow found himself with a house mate for the night, because Xander had managed to trick, (although Xander would say that it had been Conner's idea.) Conner into having Xander spend the night.
The rest of the day pass uneventfully, Conner's drive home was luckily much the same, no crazy female drivers trying to crash into his truck.
Day turned to night as Conner found himself driving towards the under eighteen nightclub. He felt the music as it pounded against his sensitive eardrums, grinning as he noticed other kids his age dancing around. His grin turned into a full out laugh as he noticed Xander dancing around out on the floor stumbling into different people and just plain out looking foolish. Conner had just began to head towards the stairs when he noticed Buffy leaving, turning his head to look back at Xander and Willow he also noticed that there was a tall man, hair styled where his bangs went up at an angle, staring at Buffy, moving out of the way just before Buffy turned to look right at where he was once standing. Noticing that no one was there Buffy continued her walk out the doors. Conner had just stepped out the doors on the upper level when he noticed the other man following Buffy as well as three men in what looked like medieval knights armor traveling across rooftops, so with out a seconds hesitation Conner slipped into superspeed down to his truck and changed into his other outfit. Jumping back onto the roof he began to follow the same path watching stunned as the three men began to attack Buffy, he was preparing to jump down when he noticed the dark coated man grab one of the three, by his long mane of hair and yank it back, another short fight ensued in which the man that Conner heard Buffy call Angel was injured. The two taking off at a run, Conner followed waiting for the moment when he could take the three out without any risk of anyone else getting hurt. He grinned when he noticed the three circling outside of a house, rushing in to catch there attention.
"Hey ugly and friends." Conner yelled grinning when the three turned his way before all three charged at him, leading them away from civilian homes Conner could only grin as he finally slowed to a stop turning to confront his would be assailants.
"Bring it." He said raising one hand into the air cockily. The first lunged at Conner swinging wildly, Conner ducked under the swing his fist flying into the attacking mans stomach, forcing the man to the ground. The second two chose to attack together Conner quickly spun out of the way of their fists taking each man by the head and cracking them together. All three lay on the ground unconscious. Conner was preparing to wrap them in an iron bar so that he could deliver them to the police when two men jumped him from behind surprising the young hero; he quickly forced them off his back, spinning so that he could confront the other two. He had barely caught the first punch when he noticed a sight that horrified him more then Xander's shirt, both of the men's faces were hideously deformed, the bones above the eyes protruding horrendously, bumps peppering their faces, eyes appearing to be sunken beady and yellow, and their canines lengthened. The distraction was just enough for a third of these men to jump at Conner, the sound of the air splitting around the body alerting Conner to the descending man, so Conner spun his arm flying out behind him smashing into the jumping man sending him flying backwards, and to Conner's horror straight into a broken tree branch, which pierced the man's chest. Conner was sickened at himself, for he had just killed a man, but to his amazement the body exploded into dust. His confusion lasted only a second until he heard the braking of a twig, spinning to find that the rest had disappeared. With so many strange things happening that evening Conner rushed home quickly dialing Smallville.
"Hello." Come Clarks strong voice over the phone.
"Clark, I think I just did something really wrong." Conner basically screamed over the phone.
"Conner calm down, just tell me what happened." Clark responded calmly. And so Conner spent the next half hour going over every detail of the night with Clark hoping that Clark could help him.
"Clark what do I do?" Conner asked almost pleading tears threatening to burst from his eyes.
"Conner I'm not." Just then Conner overheard a door slamming on the other side of the phone before he heard Chloe's voice echoing over the phone.
"Conner it's Chloe. Listen I overheard what happened and I need you to do me a favor." Chloe's voice came over the phone.
"Ok Chloe." Conner responded hoping that Chloe would be able to help him.
"Conner there is a man in Sunnydale who knows about what you are, and everything that's been going on down there, I want you to go and find him." Chloe said calmly.
"Really Chloe, are you sure I can trust him?" Conner asked uncertain about the fact that someone knew about what he was.
"Yes Conner, now tomorrow I want you to find a man by the name of Rupert Giles, he'll be able to help you ok." Chloe's voice said over the phone.
"Wait Giles, as in my high schools Librarian." Conner asked incredulously, he didn't understand why his high school librarian would be able to help him but if Chloe said he would then he would. With that thought echoing through his head Conner found himself listening to the dial tone.
"What does nobody say goodbye anymore." Conner mumbled to himself before heading up stairs to get changed and then going back to the bronze.
Conner groaned the next morning as he rolled out of bed, throwing his glasses on his face as had become his habit, before walking down the hallway and into his guest room finding Xander face down on the bed clutching the second pillow tight, and unless Conner's ears were being deceived, mumbling about Cordelia. Conner just grinned before waking his friend up.
After both young men had gotten breakfast and gotten ready for school, Conner found himself with Xander in the passenger seat of his truck messing with his radio. Xander finally settled on a radio station just a Conner pulled into a parking spot at school and shut off the truck. Conner watched as Xander began to jog towards Buffy and Willow, and desired nothing more then to follow, but he had something else he had to do, so with slow strides, becoming more nervous as he went Conner soon found himself standing in front of the library's doors.
"Come on Conner you can do this." He said to boost his confidence before he calmly with head held high walked right into the library, and up to Mr. Giles office finding the older man sitting with an old book lay across his desk.
"Mr. Giles" Conner said calmly catching the older man's attention.
"Yes Conner." Mr. Giles responded closing the large book that he had been reading.
"My friend Chloe tells me that you can answer my Questions." Conner responded as he removed his glasses and looked directly at the older man, as Giles back straightened and his eyes widened.
Ok and that's chapter four, which is also the first part for the episode Angel in season one of Buffy. I plan to have the next chapter out shortly. I'd like to thank mmooch for your review of my story and I'd also like to thank everyone who has put this on story alert.
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