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Rating: PG13ish - R, maybe NC17 in some areas (where aloud) deals with rape, teen pregnancy, abuse, slight drug use, language and sex. (Edited to be at least R, except where aloud)
Summery 15 year old Buffy Summers has run away from her abusive father, her mother is dead and she has no other family. This is an A/U fic.
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Chapter 3
Buffy had been there a week so far. She had rejected most of the places that they had found. Most of them wanted you too 'Work things out with your family' and counseling about your family. Buffy had made it clear she wanted nothing to do with her father. The other places were cheesy, Not offering much help besides a place to stay and food. Angel wasn't one to send a 15 year old girl away to a place that wasn't going to help her build a life.
Besides he liked having Buffy here. Sure he had friends, he even had a younger brother and sister. But she was different from all of them.
She tossed down another pamphlet. He looked up at her, waiting to hear what was wrong with this place.
"They'll give me job training to work at a fast food joint." She muttered. She pick up another one and started looking at it. She had offered to leave, after the first day, and second, forth and fifth. He had wondered if she had gave up leaving until
something was found. But then it had only been two days, so who knew.
He had to admit, he really enjoyed having her around, she was like sunshine. Happy and carefree. He would be sad when she did leave.
She tossed another into the pile. Picking up another she began to read it, but tossed it down before even reading half of it.
"This is hopeless." She groaned, but still she picked up pamplet.
"You don't have to go to one of these places." Angel started. She looked at him, raising an eyebrow.
"What would I do?" She asked him.
"You could stay here, with me." He offered. She looked at him, trying to figure out if he was serious or just pulling her leg.
"If you wanted, it gets lonely here sometimes, and I like having you around." He didn't know if she would take his offer or not, but he prayed she did, there was just something about her that made him smile.
"What's the catch what do you want from me?" She asked. Did he expect her to sleep with him, or clean and cook.
"Nothing. I have plenty of money, the only thing is you'll have to see your father at least one more time, maybe a few times more." He warned
"Why?"
"I'd have to talk to him, ether get legal custody of you or get you emancipated." He explained to her "If something happened or you want to go back to school."
"Oh." She replied. She didn't say anything for a long time. They just sat there for well over an hour. Buffy would pick up and look at some of the shelter books. Angel wondered what she was thinking about, if she wanted to do it, or if she would rather go to one of the facilities they had looked at. He'ed give her whatever she wanted, spoil her rotten, he knew it. She was just younger then his sister, Faith. But Faith didn't really like to be spoiled, she got enough of the from their parents. And Spike, wasn't about to let Angel spoil him ether. He wondered what she was having a harder time deciding staying or seeing her father. He waited for her, not pressuring her to hurry up.
"Okay." She finally mumbled out. "If you really want me to." She finished Angel smiled.
"I need your fathers name and number." He told her. She wrote it one a piece of paper and handed it to him. Angel left to make a few calls leaving Buffy alone.
She still wasn't sure why she had said yes. But she was tiered of taking care of herself. But Angel had offered, and for some reason she felt she had made the right choice.
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Three days later they were in L.A. Meating with Buffys father. Angel had insisted she buy a new dress to wear. So they sat in the waiting room of his office building. She was so worried her father would say no, make her stay with him. She didn't know why she trusted him. She felt conferrable around him, she didn't have to act like someone other then herself. He came from the same type of background as her, and knew how she felt about almost everything.
"Miss Buffy, your father can see you now." The redheaded older lady told her.
"Thanks." Buffy thanked her, trying to remember if she had worked here before she had ran away. Buffy led Angel down the hall to her fathers office. Not bothering to knock they just walked it.
"Hello Buffy, so nice to see you after 6 months." He father greeted them.
"Glad to know you kept track of how long I'd been gone." Buffy spat out. Hank Summers looked up at his only child. He could tell she wasn't overjoyed to be here. He had fucked up his chance.
"What can I do for you Buffy?" He asked his daughter, eyeing Angel.
"I want to be emncipated" Buffy told him. Her father didn't say anything, but drew his aattentionto Angel.
"And you are, her boyfriend?" He asked the young man.
"No sir, just a friend, oofferedher a place to live." Angel responded, trying to get the older mans aa aprovle
"And your name?"
"Angelus O'Conner." He politely iintroducedhimself.
"Are you related to Lime O'Conner?" Hank asked him.
"Yes sir, he is my father."
Hank nodded his head, and smiled. "Your father is a good man." He commented. "I have worked with him many times."
Angel nodded his head in reply. It was quite for a moment, Hank thinking over what his only child was asking him.
"Whatever you want Buffy. I have no right to you anymore. I messed up. If that's what you want then I shall let you have that." Hank told her.
Buffy smiled. He had said yes. "Thanks father." Buffy told him. She wanted to hug Angel but figured it wwouldn'tt be a good idea to do in front of her father.
"I shall draw up the papers you will need today, how long are you staying in L.A?"
Buffy turned to Angel.
"A week or two." Angel replied.
"Give my secretary your number to where your staying and I'll get this in front of a judge in a few days, at most a week." Hank told them.
Buffy stood up to leave. "Thank you dad." She told him.
Hank Summers smiled, maybe he was finally doing something right. "Buffy should you ever need anything, even after this, I will always be your father." He told her.
She nodded her head.
"It was nice meeting you Mr. Summers." Angel shook his hand.
"You to Angelus, tell your father I said hello."
They left after that, nether saying a word to the other until they got into the elevator
"Angelus?" She questioned his name.
"What kind of a name is Buffy?" He asked her.
She just shrugged
