By: Tater
Title: Lost Without You
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story idea itself.
Rating: PG13
Summery: This is about the episode that was shown last night. I have never been fond of Riley, and hate him - or really the whole idea of Buffy with Riley. Hell I hate the idea of her with anyone EXCEPT Angel. Anyways, I was not happy when Buffy ran after him thinking she loved him, so 'Instead of Buffy not letting Riley walk away, she goes after Angel'.
Author's Note: I am writing after seeing last night's ep of Buffy, because it makes me sick how she says she loves Riley. I have other stories as well, I would like it very much if you could R/R those. Oh, if you want more to this you must R/R good or bad. And please tell me a better title if you have one.
Chapter Seven:
"Well," Buffy said, walking back out into the lobby, "It'll be over by midnight, so long as she doesn't do another spell of course."
A sigh of relief went through Wesly and Cordeila .
"Where's Angel?" The slayer asked.
"He is downstairs with Spike and Dawn woke up a few minutes ago."
Buffy nodded and walked upstairs to her sisters room.
"Dawn?" She asked, knocking as she entered the room.
The younger sister was sitting on the bed with books everywhere and not looking happy.
"Whatcha doin'?" Buffy asked, trying to hide her frustration and anger with Dawn.
"Homework." Dawn grumbled.
"Good. Needs to be done, you go back on Tuesday."
"Yea." Dawn said in a very disappointed tone.
"Look, Dawnie." Buffy said sitting on the bed. "You know I am always here for you right?'
"Yea." She replied and quickly changing the subject. "Have you heard anything about mom's surgery?"
Buffy looked at her watch, "She probably still out of it and in recovery by now. I spoke to them before we left to come here and they said she should be able to see people tomorrow around 2:00 PM. They have tests to run after the surgery."
Her sister nodded.
"Dawn, look we need to talk."
Silence.
"I know what you did."
Silence.
"Want to talk about it?"
"About what? I haven't done anything."
"Yes you have, now we are going to discuss this." Buffy said sternly.
"Okay look, I never meant to ditched the whole day, me and some friends went out and hours flew by and before you know it the day was over. BUT I made up all the work and I'll never do it again."
The slayer had to hide her surprisement, this was not what she was expecting.
"Good. And don't do it again. I am going to keep a close eye on you, do you understand?"
Dawn nodded.
"I need to finish this paper or else I'll never do it." She said.
"Alright." Buffy said as she got up off the bed.
Angel was downstairs sparring with Cordeila. She had come down for their session shortly before Spike went upstairs.
Buffy came barreling downstairs messing up their concentration without realizing it.
"I don't know what to do Angel." She not looking up. "I can't seem to confront Dawn on, I need hard evidence. When I said-" Looking up she realized what'd she done. The two were looking at her.
"Oh, sorry – I'll- I'll just go back upstairs." The slayer said turning around.
"No wait." Angel said stopping her.
"No it's fine. We'll talk later."
She kept walking.
"Buffy." Angel said walking towards her. "Please don't go."
"Yea it's fine." Cordeila said smiling at the two. "We can also do this later."
"You sure?" Buffy asked.
"Oh totally." Cordy replied as she was walking upstairs and Buffy was walking down.
"What's going on?" Angel asked.
The slayer sighed.
Angel had to two of them sit down on the steps.
"Talk to me." He urged with an urgency.
Things were not going as planned. The love of his life just came back to him, an instead of talking and finding ways to make this work out they were off killing 30 vampires, stopping love spells, and doing anything and everything that in the end kept them away from what they wanted.
Was this a sign?
"Angel, I went to confront her. I told I knew what she had done. But she told me about ditching school. I had no idea. It seemed like she was truly sorry for it, but now I am going to need hard evidence before I can go accusing her of a love spell WITHOUT loosing her trust because I read her dairy. And then there's mom-"
"Oh is perfectly fine."
"How do you know?"
"Because I called for you. Said I was her brother. Joyce is resting peacefully. They said it'll still be a few hours until she wakes up, they need to do a few things to her in the morning to make sure there is no build up of fluid in her brain from the surgery. Tomorrow around 1:30 would be a good time for you to be there to see her."
Buffy smiled. She had such a wonderful man.
"Thanks for calling. But what do I do about Dawn?"
"You've gotta take the risk of her not trusting you, Buffy."
"How am I supposed to fix things if she can't trust me Angel?"
"I'm not sure. Look maybe we can collect the things she used, or have Willow cast a truth spell and pretend it messed up."
Buffy shook her head. "No. I'll handle this. I'll figure it out all on my own."
Angel leaned over and went to kiss her forehead, but Buffy moved so he'd get her mouth. The kiss was filled with sweet love. It was soft and gently. After a moment they broke apart and the slayer looked at Angel.
"Where's Spike?"
"He went upstairs before you came down. Said he was going to talk with Wesly."
"When I came down Wesly was on the phone with Spike no where to be seen."
The lovers stared at eachother for a moment and then bolted upstairs to Dawn's room. When they got there, they busted in through the door to find Buffy's sister sitting in Spike's lap.
Dawn jumped up. "You should have knocked!" She screamed at her sister.
"What in the hell are you thinking?!" Buffy yelled.
"What? Your with Angel and he's a vampire."
"Yea but he isn't under some freakin' spell Dawn!"
Her sisters face fell. She was shocked.
"Yea that's right. I know what you have done, and I have been trying to figure out how in the hell to deal with it without get mom involved."
"Please don't tell mom."
"Spell?" Spike asked.
Angel walked over to Spike while the two Summer's girls battled it out.
"Yea, Dawn aimed a loved spell for Xander, you got in the way and it hit you. Should be over in about 90 minutes."
"Guess that's why this has felt so strange huh?"
"Probably."
"BUFFY!"
"No, I do not want to hear it." The slayer said packing up several of her sister's books, candles, and anything that looked magical.
Dawn sat down on her bed and started crying causing Buffy to stop doing what she was doing. Both the vampires made their way out of the bedroom to give them privacy.
"What is it?!" Buffy exclaimed, frustrated and worried. "Why'd you do it?"
"I feel alone Buffy. I know it wasn't right, but you've always had someone, everyone at school has someone. I need someone to talk to, and I feel like I have no one! And Spike was always there, I just… I don't know."
"Dawn I'm here for you!"
"No your not. You and mom are so busy and it really isn't even your faults, I just feel like I have been left in the dark! I needed someone to love me."
Buffy too began crying. "No it is my fault. I was so busy trying to make something with Riley that wasn't there. I did put you on the back burner, I just wish you would have said something to me earlier!"
"I couldn't, with mom and everything…"
"Oh Dawn. I'm going to fix everything. I love you, you're my sister and never again will I put you on the back burner." She smiled through her tears and hugged her sister.
As the pulled apart Buffy looked at her sister, "You didn't… you didn't, um… did you?"
Dawn just looked at her. "NO!"
"Good." The slayer replied. "But this doesn't mean I am not going to be watching you for your little confession earlier about ditching school."
"Crap Buffy, I was hoping you'd forget about that."
"Sorry, come on lets get downstairs."
Dawn nodded "I'm starved."
As they walked down the stairs Dawn hollered down that she was hungry, but didn't get a response from anyone.
Buffy looked around and found Angel sitting on the couch and looked like he was in shock, next to him he saw Willow standing with Giles and Xander near by.
"Ummm…. What's going on?" Buffy asked. "Angel are you okay?"
She sat next to him on the sofa placing her hand on his knee. After a moment Angel turned to his lover. "Buffy my shanshu is beginning."
TBC………
Next Chapter, last part!!