Saturday morning Buffy just got off the phone with Willow. She gasped when
a pair of hands wrapped around her waist and pulled her on top of him.
Letting out a little laugh she said, "I see you're up."
"Mm-Hmm... Who was that?"
Angel asked, then kissing her neck.
She smiled, "It was Willow. She
wants to meet us at the Expresso Pump to hang out and then maybe we'll go to the
Sun Cinema... there's supposed to be a good romantic comedy out called 'I'm With
Lucy'. There's a hot actor in it.. his name is David Boreanaz."
He looked away for a second thinking,
"Hmm, never heard of him. He's... not... hotter than me is he?"
Buffy gave Angel a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Nuh-uh! No one beats your divine hotness. I love you and only
you."
"Aww that's sweet." Angel
chuckled.
Buffy who was already dressed got away from
Angel's grasp. "You mister have to get dressed pronto because we're meeting
them in 15 minutes."
"15 minutes?! Heh and what if I wasn't
awake by then?"
She grinned sweetly, "Then I'd drag
you out of bed and to the Expresso Pump with you clad in boxers. Then the guys
would gawk at you 'cause they didn't think of that to impress their
girlfriends... and then all the girlfriends of the other guys would stare at
your grown wishing they could get their hands in your pants. I'd giving each and
every one of them a deadly icy glare. Maybe one person would even attempt
at touching you so I'd bitch slap them and then we'd make love like
bunnies."
Angel laughed, "You've thought too
much about this... how long have you been up."
"Not long. Really I swear. Now hurry
up."
Angel got dressed and they went to the
coffee place where Willow and the gang were waiting.
Xander looked up from his Vanilla Latte,
"Hey Buffy. Angel."
Angel sat down and Buffy sat on his lap.
"Hey." They replied in unison.
Cordelia gave a half sincere smile,
"Hi. . . Nice shoes."
Buffy stole a quick glance at her pumps.
"Thanks... they're the same ones I've been wearing almost all week."
Willow's eyes sparkled and she grinned,
"So..."
"So?" Buffy replied.
"Watcha been doin?"
Buffy couldn't help, but grin.
"Nothing special why?"
"Come on ... What did you two do
last night? You are just shooting off rays of pure bliss." She
put on her resolve face. "I won't stop bugging you about it, so
speak."
Quietly Buffy said, "Ok... but I'm
only telling you."
"Hey that's not fair! You can't
say that you're going to tell Willow a secret in front of me and not tell."
Xander spit some of his latte on Angel's cheek. Angel hastily wiped his cheek,
grimacing.
Cordelia's eyes widen, "And me!
I need to know."
Xander looked at her, "You are the
gossip queen... she tells you all of USA will know." She hit his
shoulder hard. "Ouch! That hurt!"
She smiled, "Well watch what you say
about this gossip queen."
Angel chuckled.
Buffy lightly grabbed Willow's arm and
brought her a good distance away. After Buffy whispered what happen last
night the scooby gang could hear a loud, 'Wow.'
As they were walking back to the table
Willow continued grinning and saying, "Wow."
"If you knew what I felt that last
night you'd be saying more than wow." Buffy grinned.
"Wow." Willow blindly sat back in her chair.
Angel grinned at Willow's reaction. Buffy
obviously explain in great detail. Then glancing at Xander he had to
chuckle. The look on Xander's face was really funny. He just looked like
he would burst if someone didn't tell him. Well too bad for him he's not going
to know. Breaking the silence, "So... Movie?"
"Yeah, I'm With Lucy.. we all good to
go?" Buffy asked.
Xander was looking back and forth at Willow
and Buffy... wondering what words could have been exchanged. He got out of
his seat and held Cordelia's hand. "Shall we your majesty?"
Cordy smiled, "Very cute.
Yes we shall."
Buffy looked at the grinning redhead,
"Willow? You alive in there?"
"Huh?" She chuckled, "Me?
Yeah. My blood is just pumping with liveliness, but I don't think anyone was as
lively as you t--" Buffy hit her. "Ouch... You meany."
Buffy smiled, "Put it in the
vault."
"Oh it's been vaulted. Just now.. I
even changed the locks and threw away the key."
"Good. Let's go." Buffy put her
hand on Willow's shoulder. Willow giggled.
Throughout the entire movie Buffy wasn't
paying attention. Her and Angel were too busy with thier tongues tied.
Wasn't much different for Xander and Cordelia. By now Cordy completely forgave
him. It seems Willow was the only one actually watching the movie.
Outside Willow asked the four of them, "So what'd you guys think?"
Cordelia said, "It was very
good."
Xander said, "Very funny."
"I'd see it again any day just as long
as I'm with Buffy." Angel said in which Cordelia rolled her eyes.
Buffy smiled, "It was indeed funny...
I thought David Boreanaz looked kinda funny in that bandana and pink shirt he
had on while playing tennis."
"I liked Monica Potter's
sunglasses.." Cordelia chipped in.
Willow smiled, "Glad you guys saw
something."
"I better get back home. Dawn should
be home soon from her friends house. We're gonna do some bonding sister
stuff."
"Should I make myself scarce?"
Angel asked.
"Nah, you don't have to. . . just as
long as we don't kiss in front of her for at least one day I'm sure she'll be
fine." She smiled.
He smirked, "I'm not sure if I can
resist your beauty."
She blushed, "That's so sweet."
Cordy hit Xander, "How come you never
say such nice things to me?"
"Ouch! Will you women stop hitting
me?!" Buffy playfully hit Xander. "Come on, Cordy I always say nice
things... like right now. . uh you are the sunshine in my day."
A huge smiled appeared on Cordy's face.
"Oh my god that's the sweetest thing you've ever said."
"Wow... it was." Xander smiled in
pride and then they kissed.
Buffy whispered to Angel, "Maybe you
are his inspiration."
Then Xander put his arm over Angel's
shoulder, "Ya know... we guys can do some bonding do.... maybe talk about
some stuff about last.... night."
Angel gave him a friendly glare and brushed
his arm off. "I don't think so." He put his arm around Buffy.
"I'm with this girl."
Xander waved his hand, "Ah you're no
fun. . Cordy let's go find a closet."
Willow smiled at Cordelia and Xander
leaving. "Since we are across from each other, Buffy I'll be sticking
with you guys a while longer. You don't mind right?"
Buffy shook her head, "Nope. Let's
go."
The day went buy faster then Buffy
expected. After one full day of fun and a dream Sunday afternoon had
arrived. In just a few minutes Angel would be leaving and so would the
fun. Sure there's Dawn, but whenever Angel left she would just nervous
occasionally. She wished she'd taken up on his offer to stay at his house.
Even bring Dawn with her. There was just a feeling about the house tonight
that she couldn't shake off. To shake it off she did some stuff around the
house and hung out with Dawn. Before long night would come and then
school. Then she'd be happilly talking to Angel again.
By midnight Hank was completely drunk. He didn't
know why he was about do something horrible he just felt this anger boiling.
Eventually it lead him into Buffy's room. Startling her awake he tossed
her to the floor. Buffy got up and he took his broken beer bottle and
sliced her cheek, then he punched her in the cheek. She turned to the
hallway and ran towards Dawn's room to wake her up, to get her out of the house,
but before she opened the door Hank pushes her down the stairs. Buffy groaned in
pain at the bottom of the stairs, holding her leg which was by now broken.
She looked up with wide tearful eyes as Hank started slowly walking down the
stairs.
She struggled to get up, using the banister
to help her. Beside the door was a baseball bat that Hank keeps there in case of
intruders. Buffy grabbed it and used it as support as she staggered out
the door to Willow's house. She frantically knocked on the door shouting,
"Willow!"
Hank saw her at Willow's door and yelled,
"Stupid girl get back here!"
Willow opened the door and gasped at Buffy.
"Buffy!"
She saw Hank coming and shut the door,
locking it.
A minute later Hank was banging on the
door. Iris Rosenberg opened the door a crack with the chain on it.
"Yes, Hank?"
"Don't 'Yes, Hank' me you stupid son
of a bitch! Get me Buffy!"
Iris frowned and grimaced at the smell of
alcohol, "I'm afraid I can't do that. You should go back home and get a
good nights rest and she'll be back when you're sobered up."
"You can't keep her away from me.
Open the damn door."
"No, now if you turn and leave right
now or my wife is going to call the cops.
Hank scowled and walked away muttering
curses.
Willow's parents go back into the living
room where Willow sat holding a cryng Buffy and rubbing her back. Willow's
mom puts looks at Buffy's leg which was starting to get swollen. "What
happened, dear?" She asks gently.
Buffy sniffles and quietly says,
"He-he woke me up... threw me... punched.." She touches her cheek,
"cut my cheek and punched it. I was going to get Dawn and take her here,
but then.. threw me down the stares... I think my leg is broken."
Willow asked Buffy softly, "What about
Dawn? She's still in there. He could hurt her."
Buffy shook her head. "No, he doesn't
lay a hand on her. For some reason he just ignores her and goes after
me."
"Buffy, you can't go back there.
Stay here." She looked at her parents and they nodded.
"Will, it's ok. I'll be ok. I'll
just... stay out of his path for a while."
At school the next day, Buffy is wearing
Willow's kitten shirt and a purple skirt. She was walking using crutches.
When Angel saw her from a distance he knew who was the source of Buffy's pain;
his eyes got watery. He hated seeing his love, in pain. He walked up
to her and touched her arm. "Hey..."
"Hi." She quietly replies.
"He hurt you again." Angel said
in a low tone.
Buffy looked down at her feet.
"Yeah." She whispered.
He kissed her forehead. "You're
staying with me."
"Angel... don't worry about me.
I don't want to be a bother."
Firmly he said, "The only way you're
going to be a bother is if you worry me to death because I know you're stuck at
home with a drunken maniac." Softly he continued, "Buffy please. Don't
do this to yourself. Come stay with me. My parents won't mind, they love having
you around."
Buffy's eyes teared up, "What about
Dawn?"
"She can come too."
"I don't know.... Willow already asked
if I'd stay with her and I turned her down."
"I think she'd understand. The farther
away from that sick bastard the safer you are. Please?"
"Ok." Buffy said as he held
her in his arms. Whispered, "Thank you."
TBC
