Title: Summer Love
Author: Nimisha
Rating: PG-15 for swearing
Disclaimer: None of the characters from BtVS or Angel, belong to me in any way, instead only some stupid, freaky minor characters, rather they belong to Joss Whedon, UPN, Fox and probably others too, they are currently being borrowed for some non-money making fun.
Summary: Rewrite of Meteor Garden. Juz the stupid F4 stuff. : þ
Couples: B/A (DUH), S/F, W/O
Timeline: AU
Distribution: Anywhere… juz email me, k?
Dedication: To all B/A fans out there
Feedback: Please? I totally survive on it!! By the way, I would like to thank those who wrote feedback to me. Keep 'em coming in!
A/N: I will be trying to update daily now…
Addressing to all those who reviewed… first off…
Spiral: You will see their characters evolving later, as I am not very good at writing this at first. Let's just say, my interest really sparked near the middle of the story… I am an Asian, so that's how we talked too… so, hehe… you can guess how we talked…
Headcase: Don't worry, Mr. Giles will be up soon. Oh, he is APPEARING in this chapter, in fact. Well, and he was also quite a weird person too.
AR: Sorry, but we will continue WITH the Buffy torture. It will become worse in this chapter, well, the worst one, in fact. This fic was to actually show how strong-willed Buffy actually was and also to show the cruelty and arrogance of Angelus, so you have to bear with the torture… Sorry. But keep the reviews coming in. I love to read your opinions.
AznAngel: Hmm.. Spuffy? Oh no, I am TOTALLY B/A shipper, though I don't really mind if there is B/S. I hate C/A though (no offense to all C/A-shippers, that is my opinion), but Spuffy is DEFINITELY out of question…
Ivy: This IS Angelus. Not Angel, might I say. Spike was out of character in this fic, actually. So we've gotta make Angelus the head. After all, he would NEVER allow Spike to be the head.
MidnightNewYear, Lindsay, Southernbelle and all the others who had posted reviews before…: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REVIEWING! KEEP THEM COMING IN! J
***
Buffy walked down the path to the workers' carpark as she tied her hair into a French braid.
"He is just as much as a jerk as the others. I thought he is better that them. I'm really an idiot." Buffy muttered to herself. She stopped dead when she lifted her head up to look at her scooter.
She looked at the scooter dumbly as it fell to pieces...literally. Some idiots had dismantled her scooter's engine.
~~~
Buffy started to push her scooter up the slope slowly when a black convertible stopped at her side. Buffy found herself facing the face of her enemy at the moment, Angelus.
Angelus smirked at her. "Well, well, well, look who we have here. I've got two pieces of news for you. The good news is that your determination had won my respect. But alas, the bad news is that I will work harder to torture you. " he said before driving off again, leaving Buffy behind with a cloud of dust.
Buffy stared after him with a fierce hunger to carry on fighting against him.
I will win you, Angelus, I swear.
~~~
Buffy started to train regularly to work on her stamina, she cannot have no stamina when the others were all chasing her round that damn school. She started to brush up on her fighting skills, as she had learnt a few forms of fighting when she was younger and her parents were richer.
Every morning, she would wake up before dawn to run for 3 miles. Then, she would start on her practice by executing some of the gymnastics movements she learned on the mat in the basement of the house before she started the actual practice.
~~~
One afternoon, Buffy was in her room, sitting on her bed. She was cutting something and drawing on it.
Joyce was puzzled. Her daughter was very strange these days. "Buffy, do you want some ice-cream? I bought it for you just now, it was your favourite!"
"I'm kinda busy now. Can I eat them later?" Buffy yelled back.
Joyce stared at Buffy's door, disbelieving. Buffy had NEVER rejected any offer about ice cream…
~~~
Buffy ate furiously while her father looked at her in disbelief.
"Uh... Buffy?"
"Yea?"
"You already ate the fourth bowl of rice, do you know that? Are you sure you're alright?" Hank asked in concern.
"I'm a growing girl and growing girls need food for the body. I need to save more energy." she said brightly when she finished.
"Oh."
"I'm done." Buffy said as she took her back. On her way out, she knocked on her parents' bedroom. "Mom, I'm going!"
Hank quickly opened the rice cooker. To his dismay, there was no rice anymore. "I don't have to eat anymore." Hank sighed and walked to his room's door. "Joyce, your daughter ate the whole pot of rice. Do you think she is pregnant?"
***
F4 sat in the school's cafe, talking and joking leisurely when someone suddenly stalked up behind Angelus.
"Freaks four!" Buffy said as she stuck something onto Angelus' head when he turned to the source of the voice.
"Don't think I'm afraid of you people. Now it's my turn to declare war on you. Watch your backs." she narrowed her eyes at them before turning to leave. Everyone was looking at them. Spike smiled. He knew Buffy had a fierce determination.
"Wow, that's the first time someone dared to challenge us." Doyle commented.
Angelus took down the thing that was stuck on his head to look at it. Doyle snatched it.
"Well, what did she write?" Oz asked.
Doyle grinned and passed it to Oz and Spike.
"It's really ugly." Spike smirked.
Angelus just stood up, looking at the disappearing form of Buffy Summers. He felt a strange feeling rising up in his heart.
***
At the cake shop...
"What?! You really did that, Buffy?" Willow asked with admiration.
Buffy nodded sagely. "Yup. I don't believe I cannot win them."
"That's great. I'm supporting you. The Buffy Summers that I knew had come back, the one who was brave and a sense of righteousness. You should pay them back ten times the things they did to you, let them regret that they ever hurt you."
Buffy nodded in agreement. "I will let them regret it for the rest of their lives."
"Hear, hear. You must work hard!" Willow encouraged her.
"I will." Buffy answered firmly.
"So what is your battle plan anyway?"
"Uh... battle plan?" Buffy asked.
"To fight them."
"Uh... I'm not so sure." Buffy replied.
"Then, what do you think F4 will do to you next?"
"Uh..."
Willow looked at Buffy in disappointment, the happy mood disappearing quickly. Buffy also frowned as she pondered the question.
***
Oz walked up to the stairs and met the waitress on the way. "Master Osbourne, the others are waiting." the waitress greeted Oz who just nodded. He entered the private room where Doyle and Angelus are waiting. They waved their hands in greeting.
"Sorry I'm late."
Angelus looked around Oz. "No problem. Where's Spike?"
"His servant said he's asleep already."
"I swear, this guy really loves sleeping. He has to sleep for at least 15 hours a day." Doyle laughed. "Hey, where's the girl that came last time?"
"A woman's preservation period is only a week." Oz replied simply, knowing that his friends understood. He never had a girlfriend for more than a week.
"So it's already a week, huh?" Doyle asked. Angelus gave him a look that simply said "Duh".
"Nowadays, life is a bore. There's nothing interesting going on." Angelus sighed as he refilled the red wine in his cup.
"Really? I don't think so. That hot chick... um.. Buffy Summers, isn't it? She is quite the character and had lots of courage, doesn't she? I mean, she dared to go against the mighty Angelus Renaldi. I think we haven't meet such an interesting person as her before." Doyle remarked.
"I think she's really cool, that Buffy." Oz commented out of the blue.
Doyle nodded his agreement. "She was tortured so many times in school, yet she never conceded defeat. Angelus, she is very much like Cordy. You won't be able to win her." he said, referring to Angelus' older sister.
"What are you talking? I cannot win her?" Angelus asked in anger.
"Wanna bet?"
"Sure. Rules of the bet as always."
Oz grinned. "I'm in. I bet Doyle wins."
Angelus looked at them, irritated. "Prepare to lose this time." he said, although his heart was uneasy.
***
Buffy looked at her scooter in frustration. Her scooter was chained to the fence this time by the huge chains. She sighed and started to remove the chains. An hour later, she still could not manage to get it break. Suddenly, she sensed someone approaching her. She turned to look at the person but was slapped in the face.
"What..." Buffy looked up to see four males in front of her. "What are you people doing? This isn't funny."
"We think it's time for you to have a lesson, lady." One of them answered. Buffy stood up.
"What the hell do you mean by that?"
"We'll make sure you learnt your lesson by beating it into you." The second said and punched Buffy. She reacted instinctively and blocked it. She started to run, knowing she was no match for four guys. But even then, she was slow, the guys quickly caught up with her and started to beat her up.
Even then, Buffy was able to hold on her own, until she accidentally gave a right hook to one guy's jaw to forcefully that it bled.
"What the...?" the guy touched his injured mouth and saw there was blood. "You bitch!" He slammed Buffy to the wall and started to tear at her shirt. Buffy could not wrench away from his grip and used her legs to kick his groin.
It was too much. They had came on suddenly. She was too startled to remember that she knew how to fight. She only thought of one thing… RUN.
"You're so gonna get it." One of the others spoke up as the guy fell and they advanced to Buffy menacingly. They pushed her to the ground and started to kick Buffy.
Suddenly, a voice sounded out. "Stop it."
They all turned to see Spike there. "I said, stop it."
"But that's what Angelus wanted us to do..."
"That's enough!" Spike lost his temper. That caused all of them to quickly escape from his wrath. Buffy whimpered in pain as she tried to sit up. Spike saw that and walked to help her.
"Thank you." she said.
"Don't thank me. No one saved you. I just don't want to see this kind of things happening around in front of me." Spike said coldly before he turned to walk away.
Buffy sat there and looked after him angrily. She dropped her gaze and started to pull her sleeve up, wincing at the pain. Then she peeled off the bottom part of her shirt and stared at the bruises.
Then, reality crashed in. She was almost beaten to death and raped by some people she did not know at all.
Buffy started to hug her knees to the chest and sob harshly, crying out all the pent up emotions in her heart. The pressure from her parents, the torture from the last few weeks and the pain, both physical and mental, in her. She just sat there and cried for all she was worth.
Spike was walking away down the long hallway when he heard the sounds of her crying traveling to his ears, the misery in them. He stopped.
Buffy kept crying until she heard some movement to her left. She stopped and looked.
"What are you doing?" she said to Spike who was leaning on a pillar upside down. Spike got down and landed to sit just next to Buffy.
"When I was young, a friend taught me that ,when your tears could not stop getting out, if you stand upside down, the tears that was going to come out would not come out."
He turned to Buffy. "Have you learnt that?"
Buffy stared at him wordlessly.
Spike felt something in him. An instinct to protect her from the cold world, from harm. She looked so innocent.
"If you wanted to cry next time, try turning upside down." he said abruptly before standing up and leaving Buffy alone.
***
A telephone rang and Rupert Giles walked over to answer it. "Yes? Uh huh... uh huh... Young Master classmates were here to find him. Okay."
He ended that conversation and radial another number. "Where is Young Master? Swimming pool? The indoor or outdoor one? Yes... all right . Inform young master that the people he was waiting for has arrived." He answered crisply and hung up the phone.
~~~
Angelus swam down the Olympic-sized swimming pool quickly before turning back and swam another lap. The well-toned muscles on his body could be seen clearly. He turned to see his butler approaching and got out of the pool.
"Young Master." Rupert greeted politely. Angelus nodded and the two maids by the pool put the bathing robe on him and gave him towels. Rupert nodded stiffly and Angelus dismissed him. He gestured to the four students to come near. "So? Was it done?"
All four of them shook their heads guiltily.
"Not successful? Are you people pigs? I'm so impressed that you are all stupid until you could not even best a girl." he exploded.
"But that girl isn't that easy to go against. We actually wanted to just hold her down and then beat her up, give her a little lesson..." the leader explained before being punched by Angelus.
"Who called you to do this? I just told you people to scare her only." Angelus said angrily.
"No, no, no... we were not successful too. That girl actually knows how to fight. See? We almost got kicked in the ass by her. All of us got some injuries. Parker even got kicked in the groin. We almost succeeded in the end, but Spike appeared."
"Huh? Spike?" Angelus was so surprised that his anger had momentarily decreased. He turned to think.
"So do we get the money?" Parker asked. Angelus turned.
"Do you still think you have the right to take it?" he asked and kicked Parker into the pool. The others all backed away. When Angelus gestured them to turn, they all docilely turned and were all kicked into the swimming pool.
