Where Do I Belong? Discover parts 2-3
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Part 2
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"Hey, Bits. Do you need me to drop you off at Tara's later?" Faith asked that day as Buffy climb into the brunet's BMW.
"Mom said I could drive with her over to Tara's." Buffy replied in a far off voice. Her thoughts kept going back to what she had seen that day in Life Skills class. Was her mother really her mother? Was Faith her big sister, or did she have another big sister somewhere waiting for her to come home?
"Bits, are you okay?" Inquired a concern Faith. Buffy had barely said one word to her since they left the Sunnydale High parking lot.
"Yeah," Buffy lied, getting out of the BMW once Faith had parked in the Giles' driveway. "So how was work?" Changing the subject, Buffy swung her bag over her should as they walked into the house.
"Hey, Sweeties." Jenny greeted the two teenagers as they walked into the kitchen where she was preparing meat loaf for that night's dinner.
"That smells good, Mom." Buffy complemented, choosing to forget the whole kidnapping deal for the moment. "Do you need any help?" She asked, tying on the white apron with her name on it.
"That would be great, Buffy, but don't you have a sleep over tonight?" Mrs. Giles asked her golden blond daughter, handing her the eggs and the mixing bowl full of ground beef, while she began the water for the potatoes.
"Why don't I leave you two cooks to dinner, and when you're ready, Bits, I'll take you to Tara's." Faith said, leaving the two cooks in the family alone in the kitchen.
Buffy didn't say anything to Faith, but continued mixing the dry oat meal, ground beef, eggs and meat loaf powder together.
"Angel, called a few moments before you got home." Jenny mentioned, looking sideways at her sixteen year old daughter.
"Really?" asked Buffy, trying to think about the conversation at hand rather then what kept popping up on her mind. "What did he say?"
"He just said he would talk to you later." Buffy's mother replied, adding milk to the potatoes. "He sounded worried about you." Buffy didn't seem like her usually cheerful self today. "Is there something bothering you, Sweetie?"
Buffy took the pan down from the cover, "I'm fine." she swore with a laugh. "Like I told Faith I just had a hard day." She lied, placing the meat loaf into the oven.
'That's right,' Buffy coached herself, 'just keep telling them you are all right and maybe it will make you believe it.'
"Thank you for your help, Buffy." Jenny thanked her daughter, placing the potatoes on the stove.
"I love helping cook, Mom." Buffy stated, giving her mother a hug.
Mrs. Giles smiled and returned the hug.
'How can she not be my mother?' questioned Buffy letting her mother go. 'She loves me and has always taken care of me. I feel safe with her and everyone else here. 'This is my family, that little girl is not me,' she concluded walking out of the deviously smelling kitchen.
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"Matrix or Sex and The City?" Willow asked later that evening as she, Buffy, and Tara sat in Tara's pink covered bedroom in front of Tara's television.
"Sex and the City." Tara and Buffy said in unison. It was one of the three girls' favorite shows, and they had just gotten the fourth season on DVD.
"Pizza is here." Called Angel's voice from outside Tara's room.
"Bring it in, Bro." Tara yelled back, opening her bedroom door to allow her handsome older brother in.
Buffy nearly chocked on her Dr. Pepper when she saw Angel walk into the room with only a pair of sweat pants on. His tan, muscular chest just made him more handsome in her mind. Sure she had seen his bare chest before, but no matter how many times she had seen it she still thought he was hot, with a capital 'H'!
"Aren't you suppose to be hanging out with Darla tonight?" Tara asked, taking the pizza from her brother, who wasn't paying attention to her as usual.
Buffy's heart clenched at the mention of the Senior cheerleader's name. Darla had been trying to get Angel's attention since he was a Freshman and she was a Sophomore. Darla and Buffy never seemed to get along with one another. Buffy just couldn't stand that way Darla treated others, and that always lead to some problems. The cheerleading squad had two captains and that of course was Darla and herself. So ,Buffy had to work her a lot, "So you finally gave into Darla's advances" Buffy pried lightly, looking up at Angel.
"No, I was going too, but then I asked myself if I really wanted to sit through her constant babbling about herself. I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to do that. So I told her had other plans." Angel explained, sitting down beside Buffy.
"Want some pizza?" Buffy offered, feeling better. With Angel's nod Buffy handed him a plate with two cheese pizza slices and two bread sticks, along with his favorite Ranch sauce.
"Thank you." Angel said, accepting the plate from the emerald eye beauty. "How are you feeling?" He asked in an undertone when he knew that Willow and Tara's attention had returned to the 'Sex and the City' DVD.
Buffy smiled knowing what he was taking about, "I'm fine, it's just got to me, about all those children." She made up taking a bite of her cheese pizza.
"I know." Angel said, brushing Buffy's hair back from her eyes. "Listen, Buffy, I was thinking that you and me should go do something together sometime… like tomorrow night… alone." He suggested, keeping his confident smile on his face to hide the nervousness him within.
Buffy felt like jumping up and singing with glee. Angel McClay has just asked her out, and of course she wanted to say yes, "I would like that." She confessed looking up at Angel flirtatiously through her eye lashes.
"So what do you say to dinner tomorrow night?" Angel inquired, watching as Buffy's emerald eyes sparkled with excitement.
"You got yourself a date." Buffy declared, laying her chin on Angel's shoulder.
"Seven?" Angel asked in a soft tone.
"Yeah." Buffy agreed playfully as Angel wrapped his arm around Buffy's shoulder.
"Awe…" rang Tara and Willow's voices bring Buffy and Angel out of their own little world.
"Um, how much did you hear?" Buffy asked, blushing as her two friends stared at her and Angel.
"Just my brother asking you out, and you accepting." Tara said, placing her bread stick in her mouth. "I knew you were up to something." Tara accused her brother laughing at his tinted cheeks.
"I think, I'll go back to my room." Angel told Buffy. "I'll see you tomorrow night." he vowed, looking down at the beauty he was going out with the next night. "Good-night, ladies." He bid, heading out of Tara's room with a smile.
"Night." Buffy sighed, watching Angel leave.
"You got is so bad." Willow teased, squealing when she received a pillow in the face curtsey of Buffy.
"Pillow fight!" Tara yelled, hitting Buffy with hers. Thus started the pillow fight of the night.
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"I'm home." Buffy called the next day walking into her house. Hearing no reply Buffy figured everyone must be out watching her little sister's ice-skating practice. For a ten year old, Hope Giles was an exceptional figure skater for her age group.
Closing the door Buffy made her way up to her room. Throwing her over night bag in the closet, she began to think about which dress she should wear for her date with Angel that night.
Smiling with excitement Buffy reached to turn on her radio when she noticed in the mirror that she wasn't alone, "Hello," Buffy said curiously looking at the dark hair woman sitting on her bed. "Who are you?" she questioned sitting down in her chair facing the stranger.
"Pretty Butterfly," responded the dark hair girl, "such a pretty butterfly." repeated the girl in a sing song voice. "Fly high, high, in the sky."
Buffy got up from her chair as what the stranger said began to really concern her, "Why don't I call someone for you?" Buffy offered, backing away from the dark hair woman towards her cell phone.
"You aren't suppose to be here," claimed the strange woman.
"What?" asked Buffy feeling her stomach become wrapped up in knots.
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Part 3
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"What do you mean by that?" Questioned Buffy putting the phone down. "Where is it you think I belong?" She asked, sitting back down in her chair.
"This is my room." The dark hair woman snapped. "You're not suppose to be here." she went on shaking her head.
"This is my family's home." Buffy explained gently as if not to sure how this stranger was going to react to anything she said. "My name is Buffy, what's yours?"
"Drusilla." Replied a voice Buffy knew all to well, and was thankful to hear it.
"Mom." Buffy said with relief, spotting her mother walking into her room. Buffy breathed in relaxing at the sight of her mother, "You know her?" She asked in surprise when it dawned on her it had been her mother who had supplied the strangers name.
"Yes." Responded Mrs. Giles not sounding one bit thrilled at seeing the dark hair woman. "She's my baby sister, Drusilla." Mrs. Giles clarified, crossing her arms in front of her. "Buffy, can you go help you father unpack the groceries?"
Buffy sensed that her mother wanted sometime a long with her sister. Buffy had never known her mother had a baby sister, "Sure, Mom." Buffy got up and exited her room all the while wondering why her mother had never mentioned Drusilla before.
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"Pretty girl." Drusilla laughed, looking up her big sister. "Hair like gold," she sang playing with her own hair, "why can't mine?"
"Dru, what are you doing here? How did you find us?" Jenny demanded, knowing that her sister's sudden appearance after fourteen years couldn't be good.
The last time she had seen Drusilla, she had been terrified that her pimp was going to find her and take her two year old daughter away. Back then Mrs. Giles had been unable to convince her sister to stop running, and just go to the police for help. Drusilla left later that night as they all slept, leaving behind the two year old golden blond. After that Jenny had her husband and six year old daughter Faith packed up, and they along with the little two year old moved. Her husband and her decided way back then to raise the little two year old as their own instead of their niece.
"She's happy here, Dru." Jenny said tightly, not wanting to loose her precious child to her sister, who seemed to be on something with the way she was acting.
"I don't want Butterfly. The stars are changing." Drusilla giggled hysterically, falling back on Buffy's bed. "Then Butterfly will know…soon. Soon." Drusilla chanted, standing up.
"Dru, why don't I take you to see a doctor." Jenny tried to reason with her sister, standing up as well.
"No." Drusilla spat, pushing her sister back, and ran out of the room letting out a blood thirsty laugh.
"Dru!" Jenny shouted, running after her sister. Obviously, Drusilla needed help with the was she was acting. Mrs. Giles would be darn if she was going to take any chance of Drusilla hurting one of her girls. "Drusilla Leanne Romani, get back here!" Jenny screamed, reaching the down stair hall way.
However, all she saw when she got to the bottom of the stairs was the door wide open, and her husband wearing a strange _expression on his face.
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"What about this one?" Suggested Faith, holding up a black strapless dress for her little sisters to see.
"No, that's too sexy." Buffy answered from her spot on Faith's bed.
"To sexy," repeated Hope combing out her Skipper doll's hair as she leaned against Buffy's side.
The sisters were in Faith's room trying to find an outfit for Buffy's date with Angel that night. When Buffy decided that she didn't have anything to wear in her closet she went straight to Faith for some help. It would be her and Angel's first date, she had to look great.
"You're picky, you know that?" Faith said, putting her black dress back into the closet, and pulled out a white knitted knee length skirt.
"I like that one." Hope put her two cents in switching the way she was facing.
"Do you, Princess?" Hope nodded at Buffy's question.
"You could wear it with the rose half-sleeve." Faith said, grabbing her new Gucci half-sleeve shirt.
"I like that." Buffy answered, standing up. Faith handed the sixteen year old the clothes. "It's not to sexy, but not to conservative either." Buffy said to herself, looking at the clothes in her hand. "Do you have…"
"Shoes." Faith produced a pair of pink, high-strap heals. "Here you go, Bit. Now you go shower and get changed while I get the curling iron ready to do your hair." Faith instructed, ushering Buffy into the bath room.
"Plug in your big curling iron." Buffy called from the bathroom as she began her shower.
"Gotcha." Faith called back, plugging in her big curling iron.
"Who's Sis going out with?" Hope wondered hoping off of Faith's bed.
"She's going out with Angel, Pumpkin," answered Faith picking her ten year old sister up.
"Oh!" Hope smirked with her cute little giggle.
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"Bits, you are going to knock his socks off!" Faith complemented at six forty-five as she was finishing the last curl of Buffy's golden hair.
"You look pretty, Sissy!" Hope exclaimed, handing Buffy her heart locket.
"Thank you." Buffy said, hugging her little sister. She felt nerves, but also excited. Tonight Angel was taking her out, not as a friend, but as a date. Checking herself in the mirror she found that she was satisfied with the way she looked. Thank goodness for her sisters.
"You have such soft shiny hair." Faith pointed out spraying Buffy's hair.
"The only one in the family." Hope added, getting off of Buffy's lap at the sound of their mother hollering up at Buffy, saying Angel was there.
Buffy got up, and turned to face her sisters," So?" she asked one last time.
"Go get him." Faith encouraged her sister as she opened the bedroom door.
"Make him lose it." Hope said, repeating something she had heard Willow tell Buffy earlier that day on the phone.
'Here goes everything,' Buffy thought, and nearly fainted upon seeing how great looking Angel looked. Oh yeah, she was going to have a blast tonight.
Angel McClay found himself speechless for the first time in, well, ever. The minute he spotted Buffy walking into the dining room where he had been talking with Mr. Giles he nearly lost it. She was exquisite, shining like the brightest star in the sky. Tonight was going to be a wonderful night.
"Hi." Buffy said shyly, smiling her best smile.
"Hello." Angel replied, taking Buffy's right hand into his left, and graced her pearly skin with his warm lips. "You look beautiful." He told her softly, causing Buffy to blush. "Are you ready, my Lady?" Angel asked, offering Buffy his arm.
"Yes." Buffy said, still blushing as she took the offered arm. "Good-night, Daddy." She called out to her father before exciting the room.
"Good-night, Dear." Mr. Giles returned taking off his glasses to clean them in a unease habit.
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