Title- Life At The Espresso Pump
Author- Kirstee
Disclaimer- Not mine Joss Whedon and FOX own all Buffy names and other such. The theme of this story is loosely based on Bright/ Kauffman/Crane's Friends.
Description- AU. Loosely based on the TV show Friends. Six friends deal with life and what it deals them.
Dedicated- To all my friends over at the Spuffy thread on Fanforum. You guys rock my socks!
A/N- Kirstee has written another story! My God does this girl ever finish anything?! I am actually saying this to myself, of course I sound insane while doing so but that's ok. In my defense I had started this story in summer and just found it on my comp., so I finished the chapter and was going to post it on Spuffy Archives. But they are sadly not allowing new stories. So here you go I hope you enjoy my new fun story (I promise hardly any angst at all!)-
The One Where Everything Starts- Part1
"There's nothing to tell" Willow said simply as she poured some cream into her coffee.
"C'mon your going out with a guy.There's gotta be something wrong with him" Xander said from next to her.
Willow swatted the back of his head playfully.
Oz leaned forward from his chair "So nothing is wrong with him?"
Willow rolled her eyes.
"I bet he has intimacy issues" Xander said.
"Look who's talking" Willow said.
"Hey! I resent that" he said.
"My money is on performance problems, you know sexual" Anya said. "No orgasms for Willow"
"Oh come on guys, he is perfectly nice" Willow said.
"Hmmm.Not buying it" Anya said as if thinking it over.
"So do we get to meet this presumably 'Nice' guy?" Xander asked
"No" Willow said.
"Why not?" Oz asked.
"Well mostly because I would rather not scare him away before the date even starts"
"We aren't scary" Anya said.
"Pffft" Willow said. She took a sip of her coffee.
Xander groaned. "Well I guess I better get to my job"
He got up from the red couch and looked down at his friends.
Willow, they had been friends since they were little. Then when she was 13 her and her older brother had moved away.
After college Willow had moved to New York where she and Xander had met up again and the friendship again blossomed.
Anya, who had moved in with Willow when she arrived in New York. Anya was quickly accepted into the group, even though she was always blunt and straight to the point. But she was a great friend. Willow and Anya didn't live together anymore because Anya's shop made lots of money, as she so often stated. Also Anya said she needed her space so she moved 2 floors up from where Willow lived.
Oz, whose band use to play at the bar the Espresso Pump once was. Anya and Oz had dated a little but they were too different to stay together. Oz was laid back and Anya was, well.High maintenance, but she thought she was low maintenance. That was the worst kind of woman.
But Oz had also become friends with the group, so when they broke up Oz still stayed. He was still in a band, they played at some clubs that were around. Their little group went to almost all of his performances.
The bell above the entrance to the door jingled.
In came Spike, he was also part of their little group. In fact he was Willow's older brother.
He was a womanizer in every sense of the word. He and Xander lived together in an apartment across from Willow's. And almost every night there was a new girl there.
He had moved to New York a few months after Willow. Then Willow had convinced Xander to let Spike move in with him.
"So who was the conquest of last night?" Xander asked, sitting back down and temporarily forgetting about his job.
Spike flopped into a chair. He thought for a moment.
"Uhh.Theresa" he smiled, proud that he had remembered her name.
Willow and Anya both rolled their eyes in unison.
"Seriously Spike, Do any of these women mean anything to you?" Willow asked.
"Yes that's why I let them go before they can hurt me" he said, defending himself.
"Uh huh" Anya said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"So what were you talking about?" Spike asked.
"Willow's got a dateee" Xander said in a sing song voice.
"Bets?" Spike asked.
"10 on Intimacy issues" Xander said.
"I've got ten on performance problems" Anya said
"10 on cheater" Spike said.
"Well I'm glad my personal life is a way for you guys to win money" Willow said with a grand sigh.
"Aw come on were kidding" Xander said.
"Yea, yea, yea" Willow said as she went to the counter to get more coffee.
They quickly exchanged their money while Willow's back was turned.
"You in Oz?" Will asked.
"Not this time" Oz said with a laugh.
"Okay so Spike" Willow came back with a hot cup of coffee and a mini scone "You've slept with dozens of women."
"God I hope you're going somewhere with this.' Xander said.
Willow rolled her eyes "Anyways so you've been with all these women.Do you ever think you'll find The One?"
With that the Espresso Pump's door slammed open. All 5 of them spun their heads to look at who had made the commotion
A girl who looked about 20 stormed in. Her face was red with anger. She was wearing jogging shorts and a tight exercisers shirt.
"Ugh!" the girl yelled out. She stomped over to the counter.
Willow looked over at Spike, who's eyes were wide.
Willow put down her cup and went over to the girl who was now fuming at a seat by the counter.
"Um Buffy....Buffy Summers?" Willow asked tentatively.
The girl turned to look at the red head.
Buffy peered at the redhead for a minute.
"Willow?"
Willow nodded.
"Oh My God!" Buffy squealed. She pulled Willow to her and enveloped her in a big hug.
Xander, Oz, and Anya all looked at each other questioningly. Spike just looked at the two who were still their hug.
They finally pulled apart.
"Wow...it's been ages" Buffy breathed out.
"Yea" Willow said. And in that moment she wondered how she could have made it in New York without her use-to-be best friend Buffy.
"Ahem" Xander said from behind the two girls.
"Oh!" Willow said. She led Buffy over to the group.
"Buffy this is Oz, Xander, Anya and you remember my brother Spike, Don't you?"
"Yea" she gave him a soft smile and his heart skipped a beat.
"Everyone this Buffy" Willow said
A 'Hey' came from both Oz and Xander while Anya jumped and embraced Buffy in a hug.
Buffy looked at Willow who smiled, then Buffy returned the hug.
"I am Anya Emmanuella Jenkins" she said with a wide smile "It's nice to meet you"
"It's nice to meet you too" Buffy said, she couldn't help the little smile that crept up on her face.
Willow sat down on the couch and motioned for Buffy to take a seat beside her.
Buffy sat down and looked down at her lap.
"So um. Is there a reason you're so mad?" Willow asked, a little afraid.
Buffy sighed. She looked at the faces that were looking at her intently. And for some reason she knew she could trust these people.
"Ok Well, I have been living with this guy Angel." she took in a deep breath after she said his name forcing herself not to cry.
"And I was out for the weekend with some friends for a bachelorette party and I told him I would be back early Monday morning"
Spike could see where this was going.
"But it turns out the flight we were taking was actually on Sunday afternoon, So I go home early and there is Angel in bed with one of my best friends, Faith!"
She took in a deep breath to calm herself
"And that's not it.Turns out almost all of my other friends knew about him and his many affairs.And some had even been them"
"Oh Honey!" Willow said and pulled hers into another hug.
One lone tear fell onto Willow's shirt.
Buffy then again tried to compose herself.
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Later at Willow's apartment-
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Anya sat on Willow's couch snacking on popcorn out of the bag. An Infomercial for better milk drinking played across the screen.
"Hey Anya" Willow called out from her bedroom "Aren't you suppose to be at work?"
"Well since I'm the boss and everything I can order people to do things, so they're taking care of the shop" Anya said never tearing her eyes from the screen.
"Hey.Share the wealth" Spike said from the chair next to Anya.
She tossed the bag over to him.
"You better not be getting popcorn all over my living room" Willow called out again from the bedroom.
Anya ignored her. "And besides I think I'm needed here"
Anya popped another kernel in her mouth and looked over into the kitchen.
Buffy was sitting at the table, her ringing cell phone in her hand. The name of who was calling blinked up at her. Angel.
It had been ringing for the last half an hour. And Buffy just stared at it.
Spike got up and went to the kitchen, he opened the fridge door and got out a soda.
He looked down at Buffy who still sat with the phone in hand.
It rang again.
"Umm are you ever gonna answer that?" Spike asked tentatively.
She looked up at him and gave him a cold stare.
She then looked back down at the phone and it rang again.
"Arrgh!" she yelled and threw the phone on the kitchen floor, it broke into many pieces. Will looked down at in shock and Anya turned around from on the couch. Willow came out of the bedroom.
Willow rushed to Buffy's side and asked her if she was ok.
Spike sidled over and back into the living room.
Anya whispered over to him "What did you do?!"
Spike shrugged. Anya sighed and went over to the other girls.
"I just don't know why he would do this to me" Buffy said, the sound was muffled because her head was buried in Willow's shoulder
Anya threw her arms around the two girls and they enveloped her.
Spike looked at the three girls. Well this whole tenderness loving crap just miffed him.
He just chalked it up to the mystery that is woman.
Oz walked into the apartment. He looked at the girls who were rocking back and forth in a hug. Then looked down to where the discards of a cell phone were.
"Whoa" he said.
The girls finally pulled away from each other.
"Hey um Willow, Do you think I could stay here with you for awhile?" Buffy asked.
'She's cute when she's upset' Spike thought. 'No Bad thoughts Spike!' he thought to himself.
"Sure Buffy, I have an extra room" Willow said gesturing to the room.
"Oh thank you so much!" Buffy said. "Now I just got to figure out how to get all my stuff without him noticing"
"That might be a problem" Oz said as he opened the fridge. "You know considering he lives there and all"
"Well does he have a job?" Anya asked.
"Yea he's an umm, publicist" Buffy said as she picked up the remains of her cell phone.
"So we just call movers and tell them to get your stuff while he's at work.Oh, Oh It will be like Secret Ops!" Willow exclaimed.
"Willow" Spike said "You are a nerd"
She rolled her eyes and threw a pillow at him. He caught and raised his eyebrows.
"So speaking of" Spike said as he lounged in a chair next to Buffy "Do you have a job?"
"Well.No" Buffy said and looked down "I did, but Angel and I, Well.We were going to move away so I quit my job"
"Could you get it back?" Oz asked.
"I don't think so, I kinda made a scene on my last day" Buffy said sheepishly.
Spike raised his eyebrow at her and she gave him a little half-smile.
"Alright so right now you're No-Job-Buffy...But that's ok!" Willow quickly said as she saw her returned friend's face crumble.
"You don't have to worry about that right now" Willow said as she patted Buffy shoulders. Buffy nodded and she shook a little as if about to cry again.
But instead she raised her head and smiled at Willow, "Thank you" she said quietly.
"Your Welcome" the redhead said as she squeezed the blonde's shoulder.
Author- Kirstee
Disclaimer- Not mine Joss Whedon and FOX own all Buffy names and other such. The theme of this story is loosely based on Bright/ Kauffman/Crane's Friends.
Description- AU. Loosely based on the TV show Friends. Six friends deal with life and what it deals them.
Dedicated- To all my friends over at the Spuffy thread on Fanforum. You guys rock my socks!
A/N- Kirstee has written another story! My God does this girl ever finish anything?! I am actually saying this to myself, of course I sound insane while doing so but that's ok. In my defense I had started this story in summer and just found it on my comp., so I finished the chapter and was going to post it on Spuffy Archives. But they are sadly not allowing new stories. So here you go I hope you enjoy my new fun story (I promise hardly any angst at all!)-
The One Where Everything Starts- Part1
"There's nothing to tell" Willow said simply as she poured some cream into her coffee.
"C'mon your going out with a guy.There's gotta be something wrong with him" Xander said from next to her.
Willow swatted the back of his head playfully.
Oz leaned forward from his chair "So nothing is wrong with him?"
Willow rolled her eyes.
"I bet he has intimacy issues" Xander said.
"Look who's talking" Willow said.
"Hey! I resent that" he said.
"My money is on performance problems, you know sexual" Anya said. "No orgasms for Willow"
"Oh come on guys, he is perfectly nice" Willow said.
"Hmmm.Not buying it" Anya said as if thinking it over.
"So do we get to meet this presumably 'Nice' guy?" Xander asked
"No" Willow said.
"Why not?" Oz asked.
"Well mostly because I would rather not scare him away before the date even starts"
"We aren't scary" Anya said.
"Pffft" Willow said. She took a sip of her coffee.
Xander groaned. "Well I guess I better get to my job"
He got up from the red couch and looked down at his friends.
Willow, they had been friends since they were little. Then when she was 13 her and her older brother had moved away.
After college Willow had moved to New York where she and Xander had met up again and the friendship again blossomed.
Anya, who had moved in with Willow when she arrived in New York. Anya was quickly accepted into the group, even though she was always blunt and straight to the point. But she was a great friend. Willow and Anya didn't live together anymore because Anya's shop made lots of money, as she so often stated. Also Anya said she needed her space so she moved 2 floors up from where Willow lived.
Oz, whose band use to play at the bar the Espresso Pump once was. Anya and Oz had dated a little but they were too different to stay together. Oz was laid back and Anya was, well.High maintenance, but she thought she was low maintenance. That was the worst kind of woman.
But Oz had also become friends with the group, so when they broke up Oz still stayed. He was still in a band, they played at some clubs that were around. Their little group went to almost all of his performances.
The bell above the entrance to the door jingled.
In came Spike, he was also part of their little group. In fact he was Willow's older brother.
He was a womanizer in every sense of the word. He and Xander lived together in an apartment across from Willow's. And almost every night there was a new girl there.
He had moved to New York a few months after Willow. Then Willow had convinced Xander to let Spike move in with him.
"So who was the conquest of last night?" Xander asked, sitting back down and temporarily forgetting about his job.
Spike flopped into a chair. He thought for a moment.
"Uhh.Theresa" he smiled, proud that he had remembered her name.
Willow and Anya both rolled their eyes in unison.
"Seriously Spike, Do any of these women mean anything to you?" Willow asked.
"Yes that's why I let them go before they can hurt me" he said, defending himself.
"Uh huh" Anya said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"So what were you talking about?" Spike asked.
"Willow's got a dateee" Xander said in a sing song voice.
"Bets?" Spike asked.
"10 on Intimacy issues" Xander said.
"I've got ten on performance problems" Anya said
"10 on cheater" Spike said.
"Well I'm glad my personal life is a way for you guys to win money" Willow said with a grand sigh.
"Aw come on were kidding" Xander said.
"Yea, yea, yea" Willow said as she went to the counter to get more coffee.
They quickly exchanged their money while Willow's back was turned.
"You in Oz?" Will asked.
"Not this time" Oz said with a laugh.
"Okay so Spike" Willow came back with a hot cup of coffee and a mini scone "You've slept with dozens of women."
"God I hope you're going somewhere with this.' Xander said.
Willow rolled her eyes "Anyways so you've been with all these women.Do you ever think you'll find The One?"
With that the Espresso Pump's door slammed open. All 5 of them spun their heads to look at who had made the commotion
A girl who looked about 20 stormed in. Her face was red with anger. She was wearing jogging shorts and a tight exercisers shirt.
"Ugh!" the girl yelled out. She stomped over to the counter.
Willow looked over at Spike, who's eyes were wide.
Willow put down her cup and went over to the girl who was now fuming at a seat by the counter.
"Um Buffy....Buffy Summers?" Willow asked tentatively.
The girl turned to look at the red head.
Buffy peered at the redhead for a minute.
"Willow?"
Willow nodded.
"Oh My God!" Buffy squealed. She pulled Willow to her and enveloped her in a big hug.
Xander, Oz, and Anya all looked at each other questioningly. Spike just looked at the two who were still their hug.
They finally pulled apart.
"Wow...it's been ages" Buffy breathed out.
"Yea" Willow said. And in that moment she wondered how she could have made it in New York without her use-to-be best friend Buffy.
"Ahem" Xander said from behind the two girls.
"Oh!" Willow said. She led Buffy over to the group.
"Buffy this is Oz, Xander, Anya and you remember my brother Spike, Don't you?"
"Yea" she gave him a soft smile and his heart skipped a beat.
"Everyone this Buffy" Willow said
A 'Hey' came from both Oz and Xander while Anya jumped and embraced Buffy in a hug.
Buffy looked at Willow who smiled, then Buffy returned the hug.
"I am Anya Emmanuella Jenkins" she said with a wide smile "It's nice to meet you"
"It's nice to meet you too" Buffy said, she couldn't help the little smile that crept up on her face.
Willow sat down on the couch and motioned for Buffy to take a seat beside her.
Buffy sat down and looked down at her lap.
"So um. Is there a reason you're so mad?" Willow asked, a little afraid.
Buffy sighed. She looked at the faces that were looking at her intently. And for some reason she knew she could trust these people.
"Ok Well, I have been living with this guy Angel." she took in a deep breath after she said his name forcing herself not to cry.
"And I was out for the weekend with some friends for a bachelorette party and I told him I would be back early Monday morning"
Spike could see where this was going.
"But it turns out the flight we were taking was actually on Sunday afternoon, So I go home early and there is Angel in bed with one of my best friends, Faith!"
She took in a deep breath to calm herself
"And that's not it.Turns out almost all of my other friends knew about him and his many affairs.And some had even been them"
"Oh Honey!" Willow said and pulled hers into another hug.
One lone tear fell onto Willow's shirt.
Buffy then again tried to compose herself.
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Later at Willow's apartment-
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Anya sat on Willow's couch snacking on popcorn out of the bag. An Infomercial for better milk drinking played across the screen.
"Hey Anya" Willow called out from her bedroom "Aren't you suppose to be at work?"
"Well since I'm the boss and everything I can order people to do things, so they're taking care of the shop" Anya said never tearing her eyes from the screen.
"Hey.Share the wealth" Spike said from the chair next to Anya.
She tossed the bag over to him.
"You better not be getting popcorn all over my living room" Willow called out again from the bedroom.
Anya ignored her. "And besides I think I'm needed here"
Anya popped another kernel in her mouth and looked over into the kitchen.
Buffy was sitting at the table, her ringing cell phone in her hand. The name of who was calling blinked up at her. Angel.
It had been ringing for the last half an hour. And Buffy just stared at it.
Spike got up and went to the kitchen, he opened the fridge door and got out a soda.
He looked down at Buffy who still sat with the phone in hand.
It rang again.
"Umm are you ever gonna answer that?" Spike asked tentatively.
She looked up at him and gave him a cold stare.
She then looked back down at the phone and it rang again.
"Arrgh!" she yelled and threw the phone on the kitchen floor, it broke into many pieces. Will looked down at in shock and Anya turned around from on the couch. Willow came out of the bedroom.
Willow rushed to Buffy's side and asked her if she was ok.
Spike sidled over and back into the living room.
Anya whispered over to him "What did you do?!"
Spike shrugged. Anya sighed and went over to the other girls.
"I just don't know why he would do this to me" Buffy said, the sound was muffled because her head was buried in Willow's shoulder
Anya threw her arms around the two girls and they enveloped her.
Spike looked at the three girls. Well this whole tenderness loving crap just miffed him.
He just chalked it up to the mystery that is woman.
Oz walked into the apartment. He looked at the girls who were rocking back and forth in a hug. Then looked down to where the discards of a cell phone were.
"Whoa" he said.
The girls finally pulled away from each other.
"Hey um Willow, Do you think I could stay here with you for awhile?" Buffy asked.
'She's cute when she's upset' Spike thought. 'No Bad thoughts Spike!' he thought to himself.
"Sure Buffy, I have an extra room" Willow said gesturing to the room.
"Oh thank you so much!" Buffy said. "Now I just got to figure out how to get all my stuff without him noticing"
"That might be a problem" Oz said as he opened the fridge. "You know considering he lives there and all"
"Well does he have a job?" Anya asked.
"Yea he's an umm, publicist" Buffy said as she picked up the remains of her cell phone.
"So we just call movers and tell them to get your stuff while he's at work.Oh, Oh It will be like Secret Ops!" Willow exclaimed.
"Willow" Spike said "You are a nerd"
She rolled her eyes and threw a pillow at him. He caught and raised his eyebrows.
"So speaking of" Spike said as he lounged in a chair next to Buffy "Do you have a job?"
"Well.No" Buffy said and looked down "I did, but Angel and I, Well.We were going to move away so I quit my job"
"Could you get it back?" Oz asked.
"I don't think so, I kinda made a scene on my last day" Buffy said sheepishly.
Spike raised his eyebrow at her and she gave him a little half-smile.
"Alright so right now you're No-Job-Buffy...But that's ok!" Willow quickly said as she saw her returned friend's face crumble.
"You don't have to worry about that right now" Willow said as she patted Buffy shoulders. Buffy nodded and she shook a little as if about to cry again.
But instead she raised her head and smiled at Willow, "Thank you" she said quietly.
"Your Welcome" the redhead said as she squeezed the blonde's shoulder.