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Ariella rushed down the halls of the hospital. She didn't care if people were in her way, she pushed her way through. Caleb and Buffy had told her that her brother was in an accident. Stupid Reid had a PMS moment on the guys when they wouldn't leave him alone about using and crashed Pogue's bike. Nice move on her brother's part. Caleb and Buffy weren't far behind her. They were acting awkward the whole ride to the hospital. Ariella would have laughed if Reid wasn't hurt. She pushed right pass Pogue and Tyler and ran right inside the room. She stopped dead in her tracks upon seeing her brother.

"Reid." She said, tears filling her eyes. He looked horrible. No, worse than horrible. Reid's eyes opened and he shot up, almost immediately regretting that though as a pain shot through him. He groaned in pain, which only made Ariella want to cry more. He was her older brother. He wasn't suppose to be in pain. Reid rolled his eyes, trying his best to be strong for his little sister.

"You going to stand there all night, or actually come inside?" He said in a rasped voice. Ariella let out a laugh, but it came out more like a sob. She rushed to his side and wrapped her arms around him. She sobbed into his hospital gown. "Oh enough with the tears. You know it will take a lot more than one motorcycles crash to get rid of me." Reid said to his sister. Ariella just rolled her eyes at him.

"I know that, dumb ass. Just move over already." Ariella sobbed. Reid chuckled and moved over so she could come on the bed. She climbed in, careful not to pull on any of the wires. Reid wrapped his arms around his sister and held her. Caleb and the others came in after. Reid chuckled. Caleb and Buffy couldn't have farther apart if they tried.

"Looks like boss man finally made his move one the beautiful sl . . . Buffy." Reid said. Luckily for them, Ariella didn't catch his slip up. None of them felt right keeping things from her, but they needed to do what they had to do to keep her safe. Caleb and Buffy both blushed and shared a look. "About damn time." Reid muttered, making Ariella giggle. Sleep finally caught up with Ariella, and Reid was a really comfortable pillow.

"Who would have thought that big brothers make such good pillows." Ariella mumbled out to the group. Reid chuckled and rolled his eyes at his sister. The others just laughed quietly to themselves. Reid nodded his head to the spare blanket on the chair behind Tyler. Tyler nodded and picked it up. He covered Ariella with it gently.

"I'll take your word for it Ari." Buffy said to her friend. Ariella got comfortable and smiled as she nodded. She yawn as she slowly drifted off to sleep. Reid chuckled at how silly she could be sometimes. He moves a stay piece of her blond hair behind her ear, the best he could anyways. He doesn't care if he looks like a lovey dovey loser. She's his sister and he does, no matter what others think, care for his sister's well being.

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Buffy unlocked her dorm room door and let Caleb in. She winces as she limps inside and over to the bathroom. She looked in the mirror and winced upon seeing how awful she looked. Caleb sat on Buffy's bed and took a breath. Right now was the one second, since his race with Chase in the pool, that he was able to relax. He looked at Buffy and frowned. She was trying, unsuccessfully, to take off her jean jacket. He sighed and got up from his spot on the bed. He made his way up behind her and helped her with her jacket.

He wanted to kill Chase, again, just from seeing Buffy. He knew she was probably use to this, what with her job being fighting vampires on a daily basis and all, but it still made his blood boil. She gave him a weak smile, which she knew he saw straight through. Only a few could do this, see through her mask, see her hidden pain. Caleb was one of those very few. She still hadn't turned to face him yet though.

"It's over." She whispered out. She wasn't really saying to out loud to him. She was just merely stating what needed to be true. It was over. Chase was gone. Caleb and her were . . . together? Who knows? They'll figure it out later. Ariella's back and safe. Reid's recovering, now with the help of Ariella. Good luck to Reid, he's gonna need it. Ariella's not going to let him do anything that he would normally do, which means anything stupid. Yup, he's going to go nuts by the next hour.

"Buffy--" Caleb sighed, but trailed off, not knowing what to say. Buffy turned around and looked up at him. Their eyes locked in with the others. Buffy gave him another small smile. It was over.

"It's really over, Caleb. I mean, I know they didn't find a body, but Chase, you saw it. He went into the explosion. It was fuzzy when it happened, but I did see him go in. Maybe no body is good. Less explaining we have to do, you know?" Buffy said in a ramble. She was still in racing mode, her head was going a mile a minute.

"Buffy, breath. Just . . . just take a breath. Everyone's safe that needs to be safe. We did it." Caleb said as he pulled Buffy in his arms. Her head laid on his chest and listened to his heart beat. It was peaceful in her opinion. It made everything around her slow down. Buffy took a deep breath, like he told her too.

"Happy?" She said into his soot covered shirt. He chuckled and looked down at her with a smile. She looked up and met his eyes. Their eyes locked. Buffy frowned realizing something. Angel was right. She was getting attached to Caleb. Caleb looked at her confused.

"Buffy, what's wrong?" Caleb asked her.

"I got attached." She let slip out. Caleb looked at her even more confused now. He didn't know about the reason why she and Spike had come to Ipswich yet. "Too Ipswich I mean. I shouldn't have got attached to this town, but I did." Buffy said sadly to him. It wasn't a complete lie. She did get attached to this town, and the people living there. Caleb frowned, thinking that she thought their kiss was a mistake and she'd be leaving as fast as she could.

"I . . . I don't." Caleb started, but didn't know quite what to say to her. She rolled her eyes at him. She knew what he was thinking, but he couldn't be anymore wrong. Buffy chuckled softly into his shirt, leaving Caleb very confused now. "What's so funny, Buffy?" Caleb asked, clearly missing something.

"You think I regret the kiss we shared at the barn, don't you? You couldn't be anymore wrong, Caleb. I couldn't regret it even if I wanted to, which would never happen." Buffy laughed as she held Caleb's head in her hands. He rolled his eyes, now knowing what was making her laugh.

"You're leaving Ipswich though, aren't you?" Caleb said in a hushed tone. Buffy sighed and looked at the floor for a moment. He was right. Her home was back in Sunnydale, not here. She had family and friends waiting her to return. She looked back up at Caleb and ran her thumb down his cheek.

"Not now, but yeah. I can't stay. I have people who love and need me back home Caleb, just like you do here." She answered him. He nodded he understood. "Can we just take this day by day, at least for now?" Buffy asked him. He nodded as his eyes flickered from her lips to her eyes. She caught the look in his eyes and smiled shyly at him. She knew what he was thinking.

"Sounds like a plan." Caleb said before he leaned down and captured Buffy's lips with his own. They started out slowly, both moving together in sync with the other's. Buffy, forgetting all about the pain in her arms, wrapped her arms around his neck. Caleb held her close in his arms as they kissed.

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Reid yawned, but couldn't stretch like he wanted to as he woke up from his cat nap. "What the hell?" He said in a tired voice as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes with his left arm. He couldn't move his right for some reason unknown to him. He opens his eyes and looked down. He suddenly remembered that Ariella had fallen a sleep in his arms when Caleb brought her. He smirked and tilted his head as he watched his little sister sleep.

He wasn't watching her in some weird un-brotherly way. He missed his sister is all. He had been the reason it was so easy for Chase to take her. He was glad she didn't know of anything that went down. He was doing something right for once. Ariella's eyes flutters opened on a moments notice. She jumped back, some how not pulling on any wires, and fell off the bed with a yelp.

"God dammit, Reid!" Ariella yelled as she rubbed her head. Reid leaned over his bed and smirked his ass off at his little sister. It wasn't long before he started to bust out laughing. "This isn't funny! That really hurt." Ariella said in a childish voice to Reid. This just made him laugh more.

"One little, naive, sister. That was so very funny. Two, stop whining and get up from the floor." Reid said, a small chuckle still hinted in his voice. Ariella shot him a glare and stuck her tongue out at him as she got up. She dusted herself off. "I'm bored. Let's hit Nicky's with Baby boy." Reid said as he went to pull out his IV, but Ariella grabbed her purse Tyler had dropped off for her while the two were napping and swatted his hand away. "Ow! What the hell Ari?" Reid yelled as he rubbed his other arm.

"There is no way I'm letting you out of that bed unless it's to go to the bathroom or the doctor tells me so. If it's shorter than a half a week at least I will know you used on the staff, Reid." Ariella said sternly to him. Reid rolled his eyes and shot her the bird. Ariella stuck her tongue out at him and gave him the finger right back.

"You're such a little bitch sometimes. You really know how to ruin my life, I swear." Reid muttered as Ariella got ready to leave. She needed to change and pack some things for tomorrow. No way was she leaving her brother alone. He'd just leave and lock her in a closet. She stopped at the door and turned to look at him, a smile beaming from her lips.

"That's my job as a little sister, so get use to it." She said before she left. She was quick doing this for a good reason. 'SMASH.' She winced upon hearing something shattering against the door. She knew it wasn't meant to hit her, just make her jumpy. Reid didn't like rules, and that's what she just put on the table. Rules.