Chapter 6

"Wesley" Mr O'Neil said "I'm taking a few weeks off, I don't know how many or when I'll be back but I want you to get me on tomorrows flight to London and get me Ms Summer's doctors number"

Wesley looked completely bewildered. He was half tempted to ask Mr O'Neil if he was kidding but the look on his face was telling him he wasn't

"Uh ... Sir but what about the company? Are you really going to leave Angel run it alone? He's hardy the biggest thinker in the building"

"I agree with you Wesley. My son does lack wisdom but I think it's time for him to handle things on his own for awhile, don't you agree?"

Wesley counted to three in his head, it was a rhetorical question he knew that but he wanted so badly to give his honest answer that would get him into a lot of trouble with his boss.

"I've built this company from scratch and would love to leave it to my only son but I am not stupid, I can see he is not yet capable of running it single handily so going away will give him a great opportunity to prove himself to me"

"What if he doesn't?" Wesley paused trying not to look into Mr O'Neil's eyes. The silence was too much so Wesley thought that maybe eh didn't understand "Prove himself that is" He explained

"Well I'm hoping it wont come to that but if it does then I'll just have to make other arrangements"

"Such as?" Wesley pressed looking over his glasses at the older man

"I haven't thought that far ahead yet" Mr O'Neil looked at the video footage of the CCTV camera and saw a certain blond police office enter the building. It was he that told Angel to date the detective, it was his man at the police station that told him of the undercover operation his colleague was leading to bring down Wolfram & Heart and it was also the same man who told him Kate Lockley would be the detective undercover so when Mr O'Neil told his son to start dating her so they could keep a closer eye on what she was up to he knew Kate would accept for the same reasons but what she didn't know was that they had her right where they wanted her.

Wesley got up from his seat guessing the meeting was over. He didn't understand why anyone in their right mind would trust Angel with a multi million dollar company. That's all he cared about was having a good time.

"Oh and Wesley don't forget to get me Ms Summers's doctors number"

"Yes sir" Wesley said as if he was a soldier in the army while wondering what the hell Mr O'Neil wanted with Buffy's doctor

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"Yeah well fuck you" Buffy shouted down the other end of the phone before slamming it closed. She had called nearly ten people to try and get her weekly fix but for some reason no one had anything for her. Browsing through her phone book on her shocking pink flip phone she came to the contact she was told to stay away from, Parker. Parker knew everyone who had contacts in L.A. He wasn't anyone important but on the streets he was well known.

"Parker, hey it's Buffy" "No wait, Parker don't..." It was too late. Parker left Buffy listening to the beeping sound that confirmed he had hung up

The next thing Buffy knew tears were falling from the sky. She ran to the nearest bus shelter to hide from the shower as she was only wearing a small leather skirt and a white boob tube and the drops of rain felt like ice on her bare skin. As usual the bus was late. Arriving twenty minuets after it was due to arrive making her late for work again.

She saw the school bus's drive past. She should have been on one of them sitting near at the back with her ear phones in listening to music trying to ignore the sound of people yammering on but instead she was on the public transport 

bus on her way to work. At the moment work was where she preferred by she knew sooner or later Principle Snyder was going to phone her mother telling her she hasn't been showing up for school and when that happened Joyce was going to keep her under lock and key.

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"You're late. Again" Angel put one leg over the other in his large black leather chair but the way he acted it was like a throne and he was a king sitting in it. The only thing missing was a crown.

"I can't control what time the bus comes. If you want to blame anyone blame the bus company"

"If it happens again I'm taking it out of your pay"

"You can't do that! It's not my fault!" Buffy shouted. He was being really unreasonable

"It's not my fault either and I can do what every the fuck I want to"

At that moment Mr O'Neil chose to walk in. Never had he bothered to go to someone else's office for a meeting, he didn't have to. He owned everything in this building so people should come to him. But today was different, today he fancied a walk.

"Is that anyway to speak to a woman?"

Buffy and Angel's head turned to the man in his fifty's wearing a white suite. He always liked to be different, stand out from the crowd sort to speak

"Ms Summers" Mr O'Neil took Buffy's hand and kissed it gently. Angel rolled his eyes. His father could probably charm a nun into sleeping with him, actually the whole convent and all at the same time.

"Is there something I can help you with?" Angel asked rudely knowing he would probably regret it later

"As a matter of fact there is" Mr O'Neil sat on the chair in front of Angel's desk. It felt wrong too Angel. He was always the one to sit the other end of the desk, not his father. What was going on? "I'm going on a vacation. I don't know how long for but I'm trusting you with the entire firm"

Angel didn't know what to say. For a moment he thought his father was joking but then remembered his father never joked when it came to business

"When ... w... will you go?" Angel finally managed to say after getting over the shock

"Tomorrow"

"Tomorrow?" Angel shrieked jumping up from his throne. It was too soon. He wasn't ready. What if he ran the business into the ground? It was so much responsibility. Never had he been trusted with something so big before

"Yes tomorrow. I wont see you until I get back now as I have to tie up some loose ends before I go so just to make a few things clear Ms Summers is not to be dismissed while I'm gone and I'm trusting you with the most important thing I have Angel. Don't let me down" Mr O'Neil got up to shake his son's hand

"Uh.. Thanks?"

"Good luck Angel and remember Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"Bye"

"See you" Buffy called after him "Well that was freakishly weird wasn't it?" Buffy said when she was sure Mr O'Neil was gone

"Yeah it… really was"

"Maybe he's having a midlife crisis" Buffy said out loud but Angel wasn't listening he was too busy going over what just happened. His father had just had a one minuet conversation, well it wasn't even that he just came into his office, announced he was leaving and went. Just like that leaving him to take care of everything

"Sir, Kate's here to see you" Lilah announced from the door giving Buffy a cold glare. It was Buffy's job to make appointment's and to let Angel know when someone was here to see him so why was she doing it

"Send her in"

"Who's Kate?" Buffy sat on the edge of Angel's desk ignoring the look in his eyes that was telling her to get the hell off his desk

Angel thought for a minuet before replying. He could either tell Buffy the truth, that she was an undercover cop that he was only dating to distract or he could simply tell her she was his girlfriend. Lying to her was the better option as he couldn't risk her telling Kate that they knew what she was up to but for some reason he didn't want to tell her he was seeing someone. It was completely ridiculous. Buffy was sixteen years old, a child. How could he be having those kinds of thoughts for a child?

"My girlfriend" Angel looked at the floor trying to get the image of Buffy lying on his desk with him on top of her out of his head. He really had to get it together but she wasn't exactly helping matters

"Oh" Buffy swung her legs kicking the desk with each movement "Does she know you kissed me?" She smirked

"What? Wait a minuet you kissed me!"

"You didn't exactly object"

"You didn't give me the chance" Angel grunted. As soon as he got into the office he hoped that Buffy would have forgotten about the even yesterday

"Oh you loved it" She looked at Angel's distraught face and chuckled "Relax. I was only having a bit of fun. You need to stop taking things so serious"

"Yeah well when a kid kisses you like that we'll see how you take it"

"A kid?" Buffy raised her brow and leaned across the desk in a seductive manner "Oh hunny a kid couldn't do half the things I can do" She said in a low husky whisper

Angel held onto the handles on the chair like it was a stress ball. He wasn't stressed; he just needed something to hold to stop himself from pushing Buffy on her back

"This whole tease thing is getting old Buff" Angel then decided to play her at her own game. She was trying to get him all worked up, annoy him anyway she could, make him feel powerless

"I don't know what you're talking about" She said innocently curling the front of her golden locks with her finger like a school girl

"There's a lot you need to learn about men kiddo" He watched Buffy trying to stop the offence from showing on her face "This isn't high school babe. Men like something classy to look at, not something that looks like it belongs on a street corner."

Before Buffy could reply with an equally offensive comment the tall blond detective stood by the door smiling brightly

Angel got up to kiss her on the cheek grinning at the fact that it was he who got the last work. Buffy on the other hand was fuming. She didn't know whether she was embarrassed or angry

"I'm not interrupting anything am I? It's just you said that we could go for lunch" Kate looked at Angel then to Buffy with suspicious eyes. Yes, she was undercover but she was genuinely falling for Angel and was trying so hard not to let it show. If the other officers knew then they would immediately pull her from the case, the biggest case of her life.

"Of course not. Kate this is my personal assistant, Buffy" Angel explained seeing the look of jealousy in Kate's eyes

"Hey" Kate smiled to Buffy but didn't get a smile back

"We should get going. Buffy I'll be back before three. If I have any appointments during the time I'm out tell them to go see Mr Manners" Angel grabbed his coat and left

"Yes sir" Buffy muttered

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The day had gone extremely fast and was Buffy's busiest day yet. Harmony advantage of the fact Angel had gone out for lunch leaving Buffy to deal with the incredibly pissed of Clients. Every time the phone rang some one would ask for Angel O'Neil and when Buffy told them he was unavailable she then had to listen to a ear full of abuse.

Buffy stopped walking when she reached her small house. Rummaging around in her hand bag she found the key and put it into the key hole. The first thing she noticed was the many bottles of whiskey covering the floor, with it came the strong smell.

Joyce was sitting in her usual chair looking very blank

"Where have you been?" She asked never taking her eyes off her daughter

"School" Buffy replied

"Funny that is because I had a call off the Principle. He told me you haven't been in for days. Now you better sit down and stop lying to me young lady before I..."

"Before you what? Tell Dad? Go ahead! What's he going to do? Send me a letter? Ohh I'm scared" Buffy shouted not even bothering taking a seat "Those threats might have scared me a year ago, two years ago but not now. Nothing you can say can scare me anymore. Look at you; you're disgusting, trying to act like you care. It's taking you this long to find out I haven't even been going to school and that's only because Snyder phones. I'm surprised you were awake when he called because correct me if I'm wrong you're usually knocked out in the day aren't you from your drinking marathon"

"How dare you talk to me like that! I am your mother!"

"Since when?! You haven't been a mother for a while now. Not to me, not to Dawn. I'm tired so I'm going to bed you have fun drinking alone down here" Buffy didn't even look at her mother as she calmly walked up the stairs. She was sick of it, of all of it. Her mother needed to sort herself out and until then she wasn't going to take any shit off of her, mother or no mother.

A/N: Update! Whoooo. Sorry it's taken me so long. Thank you for all your wonderful reviews they are really great. I know your probably like this chapter is really pointless but it really isn't. It has a lot of small significant events that will be cleared up later on such as why Mr O'Neil wants Buffy's doctor's number. That will be a crucial part of the story.

I'm also trying to make Mr O'Neil's character likeable but dislikeable at the same time, if you get me. In case I haven't made things clear about Kate she's a undercover cop send to investigate Wolfram and Heart. Angel already knows she's undercover so is dating her to make sure she doesn't find something she isn't supposed to. Kate doesn't know that they know so she's dating Angel to get closer to Wolfram and Heart. Anyway thank you all.