A wicked Tale
A/N: As always, my mother tongue isn't English so please, no flames.
Eve
Chapter 6
Later that day Dawn arrived to take Buffy, she was a sweet girl and Buffy become friends with her immediately. She was 22 and Buffy felt for the first time that she might just found a friend.
They giggled and talked during the ride to the house, talking about television, music and shopping, having a great time.
When they entered the apartment Buffy was half expecting to find Riley there but of course he wasn't, he was at work, with Lilah.
"Buffy, are you o.k.?" Dawn touched her shoulder gently.
Buffy took a long breath, preventing the horrible tears from falling and tried to smile.
"Yes, I mean…I will be, it's just…"
"Hard" Dawn agreed, "I know, this is exactly what I heard Angelus say but hey, you are young and pretty, I a sure that out there you will find your prince charming. You are starting college and you'll probably meet someone nice that can love you".
"Yes, you are right Dawn". She hugged her new friend and they packed together.
They finished around noon and Dawn invited Buffy to have lunch with her.
In the worst part on town, at a small bar set Riley Finn, he was holding his fifth drink, contemplating his situation. Angelus just fired him from W & H accusing him of running illegal deals and stealing money from the company, out of respect to his fiancée, Buffy, Angelus agreed not to press charges, Riley laughed bitterly, right, fiancée, Angelus had no idea that Buffy left him. He also had no idea how could it be possible that he preformed any of his accusation, he didn't steal or made any illegal deals, unless he was set up but who would set him up and why?
He sighed, refusing to let the bitter tears fall, he heard a soft voice to his left and turned to see a pretty blond sitting there.
She looked at him, holding her own drink in her hands.
She looked familiar but from where?
"Listen buddy" she pointed a finger at him, "I am not interested, I've had enough of man".
Riley smirked, "I had enough of woman…" . Wait, he knew her; he tried to remember from where.
"Have we met before?" he asked her.
She was about to laugh at him when she looked closely, he did looked familiar.
"Well unless you befriends with my circle of friends I doubt it".
"I don't know anyone here, I only came to L.A to start my job."
"Job ha? Where do you work?"
"Worked, I worked at W & H".
It made her put her drink and look closely at him, he was very familiar.
"Well, " she told him, "I was engaged to Angelus O'Connor"
"Angelus" he shouted, when he saw everyone looking at him he lowered his voice, "of course we've met, you're Nina right?" when she still tried to find out why he is so familiar he went on, "I was Buffy Summers fiancé? Riley Finn?"
Realization hit her, "yes, right, the new wonder boy with your very young fiancée, wait, you say you WERE engage? You are not anymore?"
He sighed heavily and told her what happened, he didn't had any friends in L.A and he really needed someone to confide in and what a better way then with a total stranger.
"And now I'm out of job, no fiancée and well I don't know can life get worst?"
"It can, believe me" she said, bitterly, "wait till you hear my tale"
When she finished her story he first felt sad for her but then he realized something, after all there was a reason why he was considered a wonder boy.
"I'll be damn!" he shouted again, don't mind the angry glares he received from his neighbors.
He moved closer to her.
"Listen Nina, I think I am on to something. It doesn't look odd to you that Angelus broke up with you practically at the same time Buffy broke up with me?"
"Ho My God!" she gasped, "What, you think they planned the whole thing together?"
"No" he snapped, "Buffy would never do that! I think that Angelus set the whole thing up, I think he wanted to break us up so he can have Buffy all to himself".
Nina looked pale and then angry, "well, knowing Angelus I think you might be right after all, he never really wanted to marry me and he convinced me to go to that damn party alone, he practically pushed me there. " She remembered now how confused she was at that.
They set in silent for a few minutes, both feeling betrayed and angry.
"So, what can we do?" she asked. She wanted to kill Angelus, see him die slowly and painfully.
"Well, we will need to investigate and have profess, I am not loosing Buffy for this bastard O'Connor, I am sure that once I will show Buffy all the evidence of what Angelus did she will come back to me and we can put this all thing behind us".
"I hope you're right Riley", she put a comforting hand on his shoulder, "I wish I could say the same for me."
"You still love him" he stated, half surprised half understanding.
"Yes, well, what can I do now? I want revenge, I want my dignity back and you will get your lovely fiancée".
They raised their drinks, hearing the click of the glass.
TBC?