TITLE: Read My Heart
AUTHOR: sokkerblondie005 (duh. If ur reading this, u should kno. Just look up.)
DISCLAIMER: My all-time favorite disclaimer----- I own nothing. Joss is the Master of all Evils. (And he's their king.) Sadly, none of these are mine (although if you'll sell... I'll buy!! I'll fix their sad lives and make everything all better!) And I don't own that song... I forgot the name. But it's depressing and it's about a guy on his first date with a gurl and they get in an accident and she dies. That's kinda what the flashback is based on.
SPOILERS: This is AU, so there really shouldn't be any spoilers, now should there?
RATING: PG, for language. (stop asking me to do this, I suck!)
SUMMARY: AU. Buffy is a mind reader. Angel's a new kid with a secret. Faith is the only slayer, and all of the originals (Xander, Willow, Cordy, Oz) are the scoobies. But.... Buffy's gift has a price. And she has a secret.
EXTRAS: Couples here are B/A, W/O, C/X, J/G, and an exception in an otherwise normal 2nd season ship story. But that comes later. Uhhhh…Two weeks have passed, Angel fell for Buffy, Buffy fell for Angel. Blah blah blah. I'm sorry this took so long! Oh, basically, the couples are like they were in S2, but a few people who weren't around then are around now. Ummmm....THOUGHTS ARE IN ITALICS!
He was nervous. And it wasn't just that he was going to the Bronze with Buffy. He had a big crush on her, but that was majorly outweighed by a memory. Or... a nightmare. The last time he'd picked up a girl he liked for a date, it hadn't gone well for anyone. At all.
Flash Back
"Bye Mom! Bye, Dad!" Kate waved to her parents and ran down the front steps to Angel's car. Well, it was his dad's car, but it would be Angel's someday. The date started off well; on the drive they talked with no awkward pauses or anything. But then, it happened. A car was stalled in the road straight ahead, its engine was dead.
Angel couldn't stop so he turned to the right, into a ditch. He'd never forget what he heard. The tires squealed, glass shattered, and a high pitched scream echoed through the car. Then, silence. And the world went black.
End Flashback
Don't panic, Angel. It was a freak accident. Don't flip out. Angel thought. He let out his breath and turned on the car, praying that nothing would go wrong. He drove very slowly on the way to picking up Buffy.
"Bye, Mom!" Buffy yelled as she walked down the front steps, waving at the window behind her. Just like Kate had. Angel gulped and took a deep breath, hoping it wasn't an omen.
She looked gorgeous in super-low rise jeans and a baby blue halter. Her hair was loose and wavy around her shoulders, curling down her bare back. Angel thought she looked heavenly. (AN: Get it? Angel, heavenly. LOL- Not funny.) She stood there, blinking at him.
Is something wrong? She doesn't like my shirt? I told Spike-
"Do I have the wrong car?" She asked, grinning and sliding into the car. When Angel still looked confused, she explained, "I'm kidding, Angel. I meant that you looked so good that I was wondering if I was in the right place."
"Oh." He grinned, having finally gotten the blonde's joke. The two continued to laugh and joke until Buffy asked, "Is something wrong?"
"No, why would it be?" he asked, looking at himself nervously to check that nothing was wrong.
"You're just...No offense, but you drive really slow." Angel's eyes shot to the speedometer. He was going 15 mph.
"Uh, nothing. Sorry, not paying attention." He sped up to 30, but wasn't comfortable. Finally, they got to the Bronze, and Angel was thankful that nothing bad had happened. They quickly began dancing and having fun.
Until Parker showed up.
"Hey, Buffy." He tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around, jumped about a foot in the air, and quickly stepped back into Angel's arms.
"H- Hi, Parker. Do you know my date, Angel? He's big, and tough, and-" Angel silenced the blonde and shook Parker's hand. She shuddered, remembering...
"Ok, well, bye." Angel said after a short conversation with Parker, and steered Buffy out of the Bronze and back to his car. Once comfortably seated, he asked, "Buffy are you ok? You're as white as a sheet!"
"Oh, I'm fine." She said, shaking, and obviously lying. "It's just, Parker and I have a...history." She rubbed her shoulder vigorously where Parker had touched her. "Can you take me to Will's?"
Oh, great. She wants to go to another guy's house. He scowled, and Buffy realized what he must have thought.
It's a lot harder not being able to read him! She thought to herself.
"Willow. I call her Wills."
Oh, good. Angel sighed inaudibly, releasing a breath he hadn't known he was holding.
So Angel took her to Willow's house and left, worrying about her. Obviously, Parker freaked her out. Buffy kept a smile plastered on her face until Angel left, and she thought he wouldn't notice that anything was wrong. But as soon as the door to Willow's room closed, Buffy burst into tears. Willow hugged her immediately, asking her what happened.
"I-i-i r-ran into P-" She stopped, unable to talk through her tears.
"Peter?" Willow asked, and Buffy shook her head. Willow, unlike Buffy, couldn't read minds.
"P. P? Whose name starts with a P that would upset you that bad?" Suddenly she gasped. "Parker?" Buffy covered her ears and wailed.
"Oh, God, Buffy. Let me go-"
"No! No leaving me alone! He could come and- and-" she melted into tears. Willow got her mom to bring the phone to her room and the redhead called Faith and Cordy.
"911. At Will's. Now." she told them and hung up.
Saying "911 At 's. Now." means "Hurry your ass up and get here, cuz somethin's up!"
The two arrived in five minutes and raced up the stairs. They opened Willow's door to see Willow sitting on her bed with Buffy curled up against the headboard, tears making rivers down her cheeks. Willow tried to touch Buffy, but she scooted away.
When the brunettes got the story Willow knew, both gasped. Buffy collapsed into tears again and all four girls huddled in a pile, each comforting the tiny blonde in the middle with their own "comfort" source.
buffynangelforever - the whole point of this story is to keep u guessing! What do u think happened?
