A/N: Ok, I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up because I'm seeing a
movie tomorrow and I have dance so if I'm not too tired when I get home
I'll update. Can't leave my loving fans hanging, lol. Once again, I'm going
to try and make this as long as I can, I've found that if I just write and
not look at the page number it's a lot easier to write more. Hope you all
enjoy and don't forget to review ;)
.:Faith:.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Not the characters. Although I would really like to own spike. Anyway nothing is mine sadly, the little exerts with Buffy and spike bickering is from a really good book vengeance in death by jd robb. Check it out, its really good. I don't own that either.
Rating: R mostly for language
Chapter Eight:
Buffy sat behind the wheel of her car frozen in shock. She was sure it was her father, it had to be. His face was still etched in her mind from when she was little. Granted that was about 15 years ago, he still looked the same.
Their eyes met and at that moment they recognized each other.
"Sir, Summers? Buffy?" Tara asked watching her partner's reaction to seeing a pedestrian. Tara nudged Buffy and asked when Buffy came back to reality, "Are you ok?"
Buffy was sheet white and her blood was cold.
"I'm fine." Buffy sped off as the light turned green making Tara yelp
As Buffy made a screeching stop at the morgue Tara had to ask again, "Seriously, are you alright? You seem a little freaked."
"I told you I'm fine. Drop it." Buffy snapped as she walked up the stairs to the dead house.
Tara stood by the car in shock looking at Buffy as she walked through the doors of the morgue. Tara eventually followed and as she reached the lobby found her partner deep in argument with another secretary that wasn't Tia.
"Listen you bottle blonde little bitch. You're going to let me in to see Ms. Burkle if I have to beat you senseless until you get it through your fucking head that I need to see her and I need to see her now." Buffy yelled as she moved closer to the blondes face
"I don't know what I can tell you miss. I can't let you see her."
"Listen, Harmony," Buffy said reading her name tag and thought, seriously? "You are now interfering in a Police Investigation and I can haul your ass into the station and have you arrested."
"Fine, alright, jeez. No need to get all 'cops' on me." Harmony said as she flipped her long blonde hair behind her ear and called Fred to tell her that Buffy and partner where on their way to see her.
Buffy pushed her way through the doors to the lab fiercely and yelled at Fred, "I need everything you have on the Ross murder."
Fred looked up from the body she was studying and made a 'huh' face.
"I need hair follicles, nail clippings, anything and everything you have that was found in on or near Marcy Ross and Sydney Meers."
"I-uh, already gave you all the information I had, but I can give it to you again if you want."
"Yeah, send it over to my office at the station." Buffy said storming out the doors she had just walked through.
Fred looked at Tara with worry and asked, "What's with her?"
Tara just shrugged and moved through the doors following Buffy.
Buffy drove in silence then pulled over at a park and got out.
"Go get us some food" Buffy said as she gave Tara some money to go over to the nearby vendor and sat at a nearby bench.
Tara came back with a couple of hot dogs and two cokes.
Tara sat next to Buffy, handed her a hot dog with everything and a coke and asked her, "I know I must sound like a broken record. But you seem like something is really bothering you. Are you alright?"
"My father was one of the pedestrians earlier." Buffy said studying her coke
"Oh." Tara said unsure of what that meant
Out of the corner of her eye Buffy saw two girls standing by a fountain talking. One pulled out a knife and stuck it in her gut. She then fell back into the fountain with a splash.
"Oh my god" Buffy said dropping her hot dog and running over to where the girl had been standing
"Are you alright? What happened?" Buffy asked as she reached the scene
"She- she wa- was just going to sh- sh- show me her ret- retractable knife fo- for her new play. And- and sh- she just . . . died." The girl said sobbing
"Ok, what's your name" asked Buffy
"Kit"
"Ok and what was the other girl's name?"
"Dawn, Dawn McNamara." Kit said
"Ok, I'm going to have you go with my partner here Detective McClay, she's going to ask you a few questions ok?"
"Ok," Kit said as Tara wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her away to go sit on a bench
Buffy stepped into the fountain and pulled the girl out. She set her gently on the concrete and began her investigation.
"This girl can't be anymore than 17." Buffy said looking down at the brown haired brown eyed girl
When Tara came back she told her to turn the record on.
"Victim has been stabbed through the stomach. Female age approximately seventeen, height, five seven, weight around one twenty. No other wounds have been found on body as of yet. Let's call it in." Buffy said rising
"The girl, Kit, said that the knife was retractable and that it was just an accident, for show." Tara said for the first time since she had come back from questioning Kit.
Buffy picked the knife up out of the water and studied it, "No retractable, no accident. It's Homicide. Bag and tag her McClay."
Buffy and Tara made their second trip to the morgue for the day, and as Buffy made her way into the lounge sneering at Harmony, Harmony automatically paged Fred to let her know that Buffy was there. Buffy gave her a sunny, semi-eerie smile and made her way through the doors that held the dead.
Fred looked up as Buffy came barreling into her lab again and asked her, "What do you want?"
"I want everything you got on Dawn McNamara." Buffy said as she made her way to the table where down was already laid out, the standard Y-incision made across her chest.
"Well, as you can see, I'm in the middle of getting you everything." Fred said going back to her work
"What can you tell me so far?"
"The knife wound killed her, obviously. She had a lovely last meal of chocolate shake and broke her shoulder a few years back but it healed very nicely."
"That's all?" Buffy asked temper starting to peak
"Well I did just get her ten minutes ago, just barely opened her stomach."
"Listen, I'm sorry, give me what you can when you can."
"Sure thing"
Buffy walked into her office with her thoughts buzzing around her head and a blonde somebody sitting in her chair with his legs propped up on her desk.
"Get out" Buffy said as she walked over and pushed his legs off her desk
"Oh come on love, I just got here." Spike said as he got up and stepped closer to her.
"You know, I could call in a couple of three hundred pound guards that would just have their day made if they could haul your ass out of here." Buffy said jutting out her chin in defiance
"What's wrong pet?"
Buffy walked over to shut her office door from people eavesdropping.
"I saw my father today."
"What?" Spike asked in a deep cold voice that had danger written all over it
"At a cross walk; I was waiting for the light to change, and I saw him, he saw me. He knows what I look like."
Spike walked over to her and started to pull her into an embrace but she just backed up.
"No, not here. People will see. We'll go somewhere else."
Buffy opened the door and started to make her way out with Spike in toe.
"Whoo go Buffy! It's about time you got laid!" said Officer Bowers that Buffy never really liked.
Buffy walked over to her, grabbed her by the lapels of her shirt and slammed her against the wall angrily.
"It would do you good, Bowers, to keep your fat mouth shut before you get your ass kicked, and everyone here will swear you tripped over your own feet. Keep it in mind." Buffy said releasing her and storming off to the elevators.
As the silver doors shut Spike turned to her and said, "That was bloody amazing! Remind me never to piss you off love."
Buffy weakly smiled and hurried off to her car.
"Maybe you should, I don't know, talk to your father or something?" Spike said and immediately regretted saying it
Buffy spun around making Spike think, if looks could put a stake through the heart.
"You don't understand do you? My father beat and raped me when I was a little girl. There is no possible way I am going to talk to him."
"Of course, I'm wrong. You shouldn't talk to him. Bad idea. Forget I said anything."
"I mean, hell I don't even know what I would do if I saw him. I'd probably kill him."
"Talking might help get out some aggression."
"What are you, are fucking psychiatrist now?"
"Doughnut?" Spike asked as he took a chocolate covered doughnut out of the pink box that he had been holding.
"You think that you can bribe me with a doughnut?" asked Buffy frowning
"I know your weaknesses, love. Plus you're a cop, and cops never turn down doughnuts." He added smirking
Buffy took the doughnut and took a bite out of it.
"I'm still pissed at you."
"I'm devastated, pet."
"Oh, shut up. I'm taking you home." She said as she took another bite
"In all honesty, maybe you should talk to him."
"Me talking to my father is only slightly more likely than me dancing naked on the Sunset Strip."
"Well, pet, if the Sunset Strip intimidates you, maybe we could try the naked dancing at my place?" asked Spike who was still smirking at her
"Bite me." Buffy said as she took the second to last bite out of the doughnut
"Pet, I'd love to, but you're on duty."
"Get in the goddamn car." Buffy ordered hitting him lightly in the arm
"Buffy, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation you know."
"Keep it up; Ill give you a public display that'll have you limping for a week."
"Oh, now I'm excited."
"Just get in the car."
As Buffy made it up to her apartment, Spike following behind, Spike decided it would be the perfect time to kiss her.
Buffy pulled away and said, "Are you crazy? Someone could see" she said as she pulled out her keys and opened the door
As soon as she had shut the door behind her Spike had her in an embrace and was kissing her with as much passion as he could muster.
Buffy pulled away so that she could breathe, although her head was spinning and her blood was sizzling beneath her skin.
"This wasn't why I asked you here." Buffy said
"And why did you ask me here?" Spike asked smirking
"I'm not sure actually." Buffy said shaking her head laughing a bit
"Well, in that case," Spike caught her in another kiss and stumbled over to the couch where they both tumbled down onto the harsh couch pillows.
When Buffy woke to the breaking dawn shining through the blinds on the windows, Buffy glanced down to the sleeping mass of platinum blonde in her arms.
Spike mumbled something in his sleep and Buffy leaned in closer to hear him, since she was curious.
"Mmm, I love you Buffy," Spike mumbled as he tried to turn over and fell off of the couch.
Spike woke with a start and asked, "Why am I on the floor?"
Buffy, in a state of shock, looked at him with wide eyes and said, "Did you just say you love me?"
A/N: Sorry I have to end it there. I'm sorry it's short but I had a mad case of writer's block which was driving me crazy. Hopefully it will wear off by tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed this chapter despite my writer's block. Review, as always : )
.:Faith:.
P.S. Oh and yes, Dawn McNamara is Dawn Summers, just a different last name . . . wanted to clear that up for anyone confused. I don't like Dawn so I figured I'd kill her : )
.:Faith:.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Not the characters. Although I would really like to own spike. Anyway nothing is mine sadly, the little exerts with Buffy and spike bickering is from a really good book vengeance in death by jd robb. Check it out, its really good. I don't own that either.
Rating: R mostly for language
Chapter Eight:
Buffy sat behind the wheel of her car frozen in shock. She was sure it was her father, it had to be. His face was still etched in her mind from when she was little. Granted that was about 15 years ago, he still looked the same.
Their eyes met and at that moment they recognized each other.
"Sir, Summers? Buffy?" Tara asked watching her partner's reaction to seeing a pedestrian. Tara nudged Buffy and asked when Buffy came back to reality, "Are you ok?"
Buffy was sheet white and her blood was cold.
"I'm fine." Buffy sped off as the light turned green making Tara yelp
As Buffy made a screeching stop at the morgue Tara had to ask again, "Seriously, are you alright? You seem a little freaked."
"I told you I'm fine. Drop it." Buffy snapped as she walked up the stairs to the dead house.
Tara stood by the car in shock looking at Buffy as she walked through the doors of the morgue. Tara eventually followed and as she reached the lobby found her partner deep in argument with another secretary that wasn't Tia.
"Listen you bottle blonde little bitch. You're going to let me in to see Ms. Burkle if I have to beat you senseless until you get it through your fucking head that I need to see her and I need to see her now." Buffy yelled as she moved closer to the blondes face
"I don't know what I can tell you miss. I can't let you see her."
"Listen, Harmony," Buffy said reading her name tag and thought, seriously? "You are now interfering in a Police Investigation and I can haul your ass into the station and have you arrested."
"Fine, alright, jeez. No need to get all 'cops' on me." Harmony said as she flipped her long blonde hair behind her ear and called Fred to tell her that Buffy and partner where on their way to see her.
Buffy pushed her way through the doors to the lab fiercely and yelled at Fred, "I need everything you have on the Ross murder."
Fred looked up from the body she was studying and made a 'huh' face.
"I need hair follicles, nail clippings, anything and everything you have that was found in on or near Marcy Ross and Sydney Meers."
"I-uh, already gave you all the information I had, but I can give it to you again if you want."
"Yeah, send it over to my office at the station." Buffy said storming out the doors she had just walked through.
Fred looked at Tara with worry and asked, "What's with her?"
Tara just shrugged and moved through the doors following Buffy.
Buffy drove in silence then pulled over at a park and got out.
"Go get us some food" Buffy said as she gave Tara some money to go over to the nearby vendor and sat at a nearby bench.
Tara came back with a couple of hot dogs and two cokes.
Tara sat next to Buffy, handed her a hot dog with everything and a coke and asked her, "I know I must sound like a broken record. But you seem like something is really bothering you. Are you alright?"
"My father was one of the pedestrians earlier." Buffy said studying her coke
"Oh." Tara said unsure of what that meant
Out of the corner of her eye Buffy saw two girls standing by a fountain talking. One pulled out a knife and stuck it in her gut. She then fell back into the fountain with a splash.
"Oh my god" Buffy said dropping her hot dog and running over to where the girl had been standing
"Are you alright? What happened?" Buffy asked as she reached the scene
"She- she wa- was just going to sh- sh- show me her ret- retractable knife fo- for her new play. And- and sh- she just . . . died." The girl said sobbing
"Ok, what's your name" asked Buffy
"Kit"
"Ok and what was the other girl's name?"
"Dawn, Dawn McNamara." Kit said
"Ok, I'm going to have you go with my partner here Detective McClay, she's going to ask you a few questions ok?"
"Ok," Kit said as Tara wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her away to go sit on a bench
Buffy stepped into the fountain and pulled the girl out. She set her gently on the concrete and began her investigation.
"This girl can't be anymore than 17." Buffy said looking down at the brown haired brown eyed girl
When Tara came back she told her to turn the record on.
"Victim has been stabbed through the stomach. Female age approximately seventeen, height, five seven, weight around one twenty. No other wounds have been found on body as of yet. Let's call it in." Buffy said rising
"The girl, Kit, said that the knife was retractable and that it was just an accident, for show." Tara said for the first time since she had come back from questioning Kit.
Buffy picked the knife up out of the water and studied it, "No retractable, no accident. It's Homicide. Bag and tag her McClay."
Buffy and Tara made their second trip to the morgue for the day, and as Buffy made her way into the lounge sneering at Harmony, Harmony automatically paged Fred to let her know that Buffy was there. Buffy gave her a sunny, semi-eerie smile and made her way through the doors that held the dead.
Fred looked up as Buffy came barreling into her lab again and asked her, "What do you want?"
"I want everything you got on Dawn McNamara." Buffy said as she made her way to the table where down was already laid out, the standard Y-incision made across her chest.
"Well, as you can see, I'm in the middle of getting you everything." Fred said going back to her work
"What can you tell me so far?"
"The knife wound killed her, obviously. She had a lovely last meal of chocolate shake and broke her shoulder a few years back but it healed very nicely."
"That's all?" Buffy asked temper starting to peak
"Well I did just get her ten minutes ago, just barely opened her stomach."
"Listen, I'm sorry, give me what you can when you can."
"Sure thing"
Buffy walked into her office with her thoughts buzzing around her head and a blonde somebody sitting in her chair with his legs propped up on her desk.
"Get out" Buffy said as she walked over and pushed his legs off her desk
"Oh come on love, I just got here." Spike said as he got up and stepped closer to her.
"You know, I could call in a couple of three hundred pound guards that would just have their day made if they could haul your ass out of here." Buffy said jutting out her chin in defiance
"What's wrong pet?"
Buffy walked over to shut her office door from people eavesdropping.
"I saw my father today."
"What?" Spike asked in a deep cold voice that had danger written all over it
"At a cross walk; I was waiting for the light to change, and I saw him, he saw me. He knows what I look like."
Spike walked over to her and started to pull her into an embrace but she just backed up.
"No, not here. People will see. We'll go somewhere else."
Buffy opened the door and started to make her way out with Spike in toe.
"Whoo go Buffy! It's about time you got laid!" said Officer Bowers that Buffy never really liked.
Buffy walked over to her, grabbed her by the lapels of her shirt and slammed her against the wall angrily.
"It would do you good, Bowers, to keep your fat mouth shut before you get your ass kicked, and everyone here will swear you tripped over your own feet. Keep it in mind." Buffy said releasing her and storming off to the elevators.
As the silver doors shut Spike turned to her and said, "That was bloody amazing! Remind me never to piss you off love."
Buffy weakly smiled and hurried off to her car.
"Maybe you should, I don't know, talk to your father or something?" Spike said and immediately regretted saying it
Buffy spun around making Spike think, if looks could put a stake through the heart.
"You don't understand do you? My father beat and raped me when I was a little girl. There is no possible way I am going to talk to him."
"Of course, I'm wrong. You shouldn't talk to him. Bad idea. Forget I said anything."
"I mean, hell I don't even know what I would do if I saw him. I'd probably kill him."
"Talking might help get out some aggression."
"What are you, are fucking psychiatrist now?"
"Doughnut?" Spike asked as he took a chocolate covered doughnut out of the pink box that he had been holding.
"You think that you can bribe me with a doughnut?" asked Buffy frowning
"I know your weaknesses, love. Plus you're a cop, and cops never turn down doughnuts." He added smirking
Buffy took the doughnut and took a bite out of it.
"I'm still pissed at you."
"I'm devastated, pet."
"Oh, shut up. I'm taking you home." She said as she took another bite
"In all honesty, maybe you should talk to him."
"Me talking to my father is only slightly more likely than me dancing naked on the Sunset Strip."
"Well, pet, if the Sunset Strip intimidates you, maybe we could try the naked dancing at my place?" asked Spike who was still smirking at her
"Bite me." Buffy said as she took the second to last bite out of the doughnut
"Pet, I'd love to, but you're on duty."
"Get in the goddamn car." Buffy ordered hitting him lightly in the arm
"Buffy, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation you know."
"Keep it up; Ill give you a public display that'll have you limping for a week."
"Oh, now I'm excited."
"Just get in the car."
As Buffy made it up to her apartment, Spike following behind, Spike decided it would be the perfect time to kiss her.
Buffy pulled away and said, "Are you crazy? Someone could see" she said as she pulled out her keys and opened the door
As soon as she had shut the door behind her Spike had her in an embrace and was kissing her with as much passion as he could muster.
Buffy pulled away so that she could breathe, although her head was spinning and her blood was sizzling beneath her skin.
"This wasn't why I asked you here." Buffy said
"And why did you ask me here?" Spike asked smirking
"I'm not sure actually." Buffy said shaking her head laughing a bit
"Well, in that case," Spike caught her in another kiss and stumbled over to the couch where they both tumbled down onto the harsh couch pillows.
When Buffy woke to the breaking dawn shining through the blinds on the windows, Buffy glanced down to the sleeping mass of platinum blonde in her arms.
Spike mumbled something in his sleep and Buffy leaned in closer to hear him, since she was curious.
"Mmm, I love you Buffy," Spike mumbled as he tried to turn over and fell off of the couch.
Spike woke with a start and asked, "Why am I on the floor?"
Buffy, in a state of shock, looked at him with wide eyes and said, "Did you just say you love me?"
A/N: Sorry I have to end it there. I'm sorry it's short but I had a mad case of writer's block which was driving me crazy. Hopefully it will wear off by tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed this chapter despite my writer's block. Review, as always : )
.:Faith:.
P.S. Oh and yes, Dawn McNamara is Dawn Summers, just a different last name . . . wanted to clear that up for anyone confused. I don't like Dawn so I figured I'd kill her : )