Bullet to the Heart

Chapter 4

well...all i can say is WOW. I havent written in over 2 years...

well, here yah go :)

Buffy stood in stunned silence. A part of her embarassed, the other part still in the blissfull aftermath of her orgasm. She knew as well as he did that they were being watched carefully from the corners of the room. The faint beeping of the camera reminding her to smile pretty for the pictures that were being taken as she stood there.

"What have you done Angel?"

He first looked at her blankly, then he looked directly into the camera's lens and smirked.

"Was it good for you too Rie?"

At that moment Buffy came to a realization. She had been played.

Three Months Before...

March 18th, 2012

"Come on Dawn, we're going to be late!"

Buffy glanced at the clock on the stove as she quickly drank down her morning cup of orange juice in one hand and glanced over the Sunnydale newspaper with the other. Hearing a crash from the stairwell, she looked up to see her younger sister Dawn fumbling to put on her shoes while at the same time putting on her jacket.

Buffy smiled, "Still attempting to make it in the circus huh Dawn?"

Dawn scowled at her older sister. "Well I still don't see the need as to why I am forced to go to school on a Sunday."

Buffy sighed, having explained this to Dawn six times over the course of the last two days. It was the first Sunday of the month, evaluation day. Over the past two years Buffy Anne Summers has had to prove herself to Social Services that she is the best suited guardian for her sister Dawn Michelle Summers. With financial records, confirmation letters from the psychologist, and transcripts of Dawn's grades in hand; she has had to sit and endure the pressure of many a migraine as Miss Walker, the Social Worker, evaluates, criticisizes, and belittles Buffy's progress in raising her sister alone.

Running a hand through her scalp, Buffy sighs. "Dawnie I told you. Now that you're fifteen you're required to show up to Miss Walker's meetings with me. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is. Trust me when I say I wouldn't take you if I had the option. No one else should have to endure that woman's bitchy attit...I mean deceiveness."

Dawn rolls her eyes, "You just don't like her because she reminds you of mom so much." The sudden slam of Buffy's glass on the counter startles Dawn and she looks to her sister.

With her hand clasped tighly on her glass, Buffy takes a deep breath to calm herself.

"No Dawn, she doesn't. At all. Now we need to get going unless we're going to be late." She gently places her glass in the sink and the newspaper on the counter and goes to grab her keys by the back door. Dawn goes to follow her but stops and sighs sadly the counter.

"Not again."

"Dawn! Hurry it up!"

"Coming," Dawn says as she rushes past the kitchen and out the front door, leaving behind the well-read newspaper on the counter.

"Sunnydale Secrets

Well-Known Journalist Killed in Accidental Shooting on US Army Base

Houston, Texas.

On April the 24th, 2010, Joyce Renae Summers was killed instantly with a shot to the head due to an accidental gun fire during a training session on US Army Base Tungesten in Houston, Texas. Officials say it was an accident and that no further prosecutions have been made..."