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By Angel's girl
Chapter 4
"So you're telling me that in Angel's state Buffy took
him to her house and he spent the night there?"
"Yea it certainly looks that way."
"Oh my god."
"What."
"Giles is on his way over to Buffy's right now."
Willow got to her feet and headed back into the store.
"Willow where are you going?"
"I'm sorry I have to go now. I have to get to Buffy's."
Willow walked back into the store where Xander, Anya and
Dawn where still seated round the table.
"So Wills what's up with commando boy?"
She didn't reply as she walked behind the counter and
grabbed a few supplies.
"Hey, you have to pay for those you know. You can't just
take things. When Giles isn't here I'm the boss."
Willow paid no mind to Anya's ramblings and put her
supplies into her knapsack and then headed for the door. Before she could reach
it though Xander had a hold of her arm. She turned to find her eyes lock with
her friends.
"What is it Wills?"
"Angel, Buffy and Giles about to walk in on them. I'm
worried."
"I'm coming with you."
Willow simply nodded and the duo headed out leaving Anya
and Dawn to deal with Captain whiney in the back room.
"So what's the plan?"
"Plan?"
"Yea, you do have a plan here?"
"Well actually I just figured I would wait until I got
there and saw what was happening and something would just come to me."
"So there is no plan?"
"There's no plan. Sorry."
"That's okay I mean it's not like we haven't walked into
some unknown situation without the vaguest clue before so we'll manage."
"Yea we'll manage."
"Yea cause that's what we do."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Willow and Xander were coming up Revello drive when they
could hear sounds akin to shouting coming from Buffy's house. The two ran up
the steps, stakes in hand, and tried the front door finding, like Giles had,
that it was unlocked. Noting that no one was in the living room and the noises
seemed to be coming from upstairs Willow and Xander headed up. They ran down
the hall until they came to Buffy's room and they stopped a minute and took a
deep breath.
They looked each other straight in the eye and then 1…2…3…
"Giles." Willow shouted.
"Buffy." Xander bellowed.
"We're here." "Attack." They said simultaneously as they
jumped into the room.
Of course the shouting in the room as well as all other
activity had abruptly ceased when the dynamic duo leaped into the fore.
Although only momentarily as Willow and Xander absorbed what was going on.
Giles was sitting on a chair in the corner of Buffy's
room looking … well if I had had to describe it…absolutely totally and
completely mortified. And hey who could blame him. Xander continued his scan of
the room to find Buffy standing by the bed wearing nothing but…a bed sheet?
Xander kept going, well okay knowing Xander he probably
gawked at Buffy standing there half naked but eventually he looked away. Okay,
okay he didn't look away until Willow poked him in the ribs…forcefully but when
he finally did continue looking he saw that Angel was on Buffy's bed.
Actually Angel was tied down to Buffy's bed.
(Okay this next bit is for all of us that appreciate
thinking about Angel in various stages of undress!J To anyone who doesn't I'm
sorry.)
Manacles held Angel's hands above his head emphasizing the
corded muscles of his arms. His chest was bare and a slight sheen glinted
across his sculpted pectorals and carved washboard abdominal muscles. It could
have been sweat or maybe it was from the bottle of lotion that was lying on the
bed next to him.
You could see the smooth contours of his hip rise and
then dip down dragging your eyes to his powerful thighs and calves, once again
the leg muscles being pulled taut because of the matching set of manacles
clamped around his ankles.
You could tell that Angel was trying very hard not to
move although he looked, okay he looked pissed being as he was vamped out, he
still managed to look embarrassed and hey I would be to if the only thing
keeping my um privates private was Mr.Gordo who was precariously perched across
his lap. (It's all Buffy could do considering Giles had burst in and she had
snatched up the sheet for herself, the blanket having fallen between the bed
and the wall and temporarily unattainable.)
Xander's gaze came back to Buffy as he was giggling at
the picture Angel presented. Although when his eyes met Buffy's he could see
nothing but anger. Buffy took a step towards him and he shrieked grabbing
Willow and recoiling out of the room shouting,
"Run away, run away."
"Indeed." Was Giles' response as he followed Willow and
Xander's retreat out of the room and to the relative safety of the downstairs.
Buffy made to follow after them and was almost out the
door when…
"Uh Buffy?"
Buffy turned to see Mr. Gordo falling off Angel's lap rendering
him completely naked once more and Angel was helpless to do anything being as
he was well still cuffed in place on the bed.
"The three of you better park your butts in that living
room and stay there. I'll be right down."
Buffy walked over to the bed and leaned down giving Angel
a feather light kiss before pulling off her sheet and draping it across Angel's
hips effectively covering him this time.
"You don't go anywhere!"
"Funny girl." Angel replied as he shook his chains.
She then pulled on a t-shirt and shorts and stomped
downstairs to find Giles, Willow and Xander sitting in a row on the couch
waiting for her as she had requested…all right demanded.
Actually it surprised Buffy. She had thought that for
sure they would have taken off and hid away from her for at least a few days rather
than face her after that humiliating moment.
Buffy stood in front of them her hands placed sternly
upon her hips.
"What the HELL was that?"
"Well I heard that Angel had attacked you…" "Riley came
into the shop all upset…" "I was just coming with Willow…"
They all were speaking at the same time and Buffy couldn't
figure out what any of them were trying to say.
"STOP!"
She put her hand on her head as if she was getting a
headache and closed her eyes a minute before opening them and setting her gaze
upon her friends again.
"All right it doesn't matter why you all showed up and
burst into my bedroom at one of the most inopportune moments EVER. All that
matters now is that no one breathes a word of this to anyone. This whole thing
here…never took place…in fact you all were never even here today. Riley is not
to know anything. Not one of you knows the whole story and I'm not sharing so let's
just go with what he don't know won't kill him but if he finds out I'll kill
you. Okay."
Before anyone could answer Buffy heard a voice behind her
ask.
"Don't tell who what?"
Buffy turned slowly where she stood only to find Riley
standing in her house for the second time that day.
Oh shit!
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