Title - Fia'in Summer

Summary -Two lives being led by one person. Buffy Summers is the newly famous punk singer Fia'in Slayer, what happens when her friends find out.

Disclaimer - Not mine! All characters belong to Mutant Enemy and Joss Whedon

Rating - Pg-13, I suppose.

A/N – Two updates so close together I must have a fever. Feels forehead. Nope not hot after all.

Chapter 17

The weekend had finally arrived and I was able to talk Giles into visiting a friend or two in LA. It took lots of begging and even more promises, many that I had no desire to fulfill, to get him to agree, but he did and so I was setting up the rooms for my friends.

I was so nervous, I didn't know how the Sunnydale gang was going to react to the Fred and Gunn but with all luck it will go out with a bang. The linens had been changed and the rooms cleaned, the rented movies were placed in the den and the food was pre-made in the fridge. Only thing needed was the guests.

Knock

Knock

Knock

I rushed to the door, smoothed the front of my clothes, fingered combed my hair and opened the door. On my front porch stood Angel with a smirk quirking his lips. God did he look yummy or what. His hair was spiked and he was dressed casually but still he looked as if he was ready for a night out on the town. It was some what irritating that he could look so good so easily, but since I was the one who mainly profited who was I to complain.

I pulled him forward and kissed him with all my pent up emotion, and when I finally let him go he looked sort of dazed. I did a quick look over his shoulder saw Gunn and Fred walking up the way and pulled him off to the side. He looped his arm around me and waited to greet my friends with me.

"Angel this Gunn and Fred the other members of my band," I introduced him as they stopped directly in front of me. "Fred and Gunn my boy toy Angel."

Angel mock-glared at me before sticking, his hand out to shake Gunn's, "nice to meet you."

When Fred offered her hand he grasped it gently and regally brought it to his mouth. Fred blushed and yanked her hand back while Gunn and I laughed. Angel had the tendency to tease a pretty girl when he could but I didn't worry about it because I knew that Fred wasn't his type nor was he hers.

"So you going to invite us in or we going to stand out here all day," he asked with his arm now around Fred's waist.

I put my finger to my lip and started to tap as if thinking about it, "Guess you're going to stand out here all day."

Fred giggled and Gunn growled in annoyance before pushing past me and into the house. It wasn't long after that the others arrived and we were all in the den sitting around, waiting. There was only a few things we could do without worrying about me and Gunn and Fred being exposed.

"How about we go for a swim," I suggested.

"A swim, where. It's not like you have a swimming pool, or do you?" Xander asked with a raised eyebrow, seemed was still a little sour over me and my secret.

"No Xander I don't have a pool but there is a public pool that I rented for the tonight."

Willow looked astonished along with Xander and Spike.

"B, you rented an entire pool for us to swim."

"Yeah," I said with a slightly embarrassed smile.

"Bloody hell."

"Baby you didn't have to go to so much trouble."

"I think that it is a very unselfish and welcomed idea. She has the money to spend on it so why shouldn't she."

"Anya I'm not even that inconsiderate. I think that it was a nice idea but I wouldn't even say what you said."

"She wasn't the only one to pay for it, in fact it was a combined effort wasn't it girl."

I shot Gunn a roll of the eyes and shook my head at Fred telling her what I thought of her boyfriend. It was amazing how comfortable both sets of friends were with each other. I was glad that there was no bickering, and no hero worship that got in between what could be great friendships. I didn't say anything about how they got along instead watched as the shook seeped away.

After the shook of the idea left I separated them into their respective rooms, Anya and Xander in a guest room downstairs and Cordelia and Doyle were in the other one downstairs. Gunn and Fred were in the guest room across from me and Spike and Faith were placed left of my room. When I offered Angel Giles room or my room he looked hesitant but with a reassuring grin from me he placed his bags in my room. I wasn't going to sleep with him this weekend but I was sure going to enjoy snuggling into his strong arms as I drifted off to sleep.

When all the bags were placed in the appropriate room and we had our suits on and our swim bags packed we made our way to the pool. What we didn't see was Wesley following us. Gunn had on a toque on covering his bald head and he had a diamond earring in his ear. Fred had her make-up down thick and her hair up in a nice do. It wasn't hard to see who they were up close but anyone with a distance on us would have a hard time recognizing them.

So without the knowledge of Wesley we continued on, pushing each other and flicking each other, just having an all around free time. It was a wonderful feeling, to be so free, to have all my friends surrounding me. There wasn't anywhere in the world I would rather be.

We reached the pool in record time. We split up in to female and male and made our way into the separate change rooms, dropping the bags off we made our way to the water. The boys were already in the pool, Xander and Gunn were competing on the rope and Angel was swimming the length of the pool, Doyle was waiting at the edge for Cordy and Oz had just taken a dive off the high board and Spike was racing Angel though it looked like Angel was unaware. We looked at each other and made a running jump into the pool than going our own way. I made my way towards Angel and waited for him to reach my end of the pool once more. I didn't think he knew I was here but as he reached me he grabbed my legs without once looking up and pulled under.

"You…son…f…a…," I sputtered under water, but he didn't hear me since he was on his way to the surface.

I shot up out of the water after Angel let me up and splashed my laughing boyfriend in the face with a wave of water. He sputtered in indignation and glowered at me. I knew that look and took precautions to protect myself. I swam; I swam fast and straight into Faith who I used as a shield. Angel didn't care though he caught up to me splashed water at both of us, at which point I ducked under water and continued distancing myself from him. Kind of defeated the purpose of avoiding the water being splashed but it meant that I still had one up one Angel. Next person I arrived at was Oz.

Oz looked at me shook his head and turned back to watch Angel make his way to me. I watched as well knowing that if he caught me I was going under, going under and wasn't going to left alone until he deemed so. When he was ten feet away or so I looked at Oz and seen what he was thinking. He was going to move, once Angel was close enough Oz was going to move and let him have me. Well it wouldn't do and I let him know it, I shoved him towards Angel and took off towards Xander.

"I will be you noble knight and save thee Lady Buffy from thy evil beast," Xander said puffing his chest out and trying to act brave in face of Angel's quick moving muscular body.

We both knew that if he was hit by Angel he would be of no help to me so I once again moved on, this time heading to Gunn.

"Gunn, buddy old pal old friend, do a lady a favor and be a bodyguard." I pleaded in an out of breath tone.

He grinned at me and replied, "I would Slayer if there were any ladies around."

I glared at him before moving him in front of Angel as he shot forward in attempt to grab me. I screeched as Gunn tackled Angel and both fall back in to the water. I didn't even stick around to see if they were alright I just dived into the water and swam to my next protector, but before I could even get with in a foot of Cordelia Angel grabbed my ankle pulling me back towards him, causing water to shoot up my nose.

My boyfriend grabbed my waist hoisted me up and throw me back into the water. I came up sputtering and glared at him before laughing. It was great, all my friends were getting along and so far no one had said anything to upset anyone else. This day couldn't get much better for me, but it turned out it could get worse.

Just as I thought everything in my life was going to be fine the flash of a camera blinded me. I stupor I looked towards the glass doors that led outside and there stood Wesley with a huge grin letting me know that it was him who took the picture and that he had finally got his story. I couldn't believe it after all this time; all the effort I put in to keep the world off my back on moment of letting my guard down shattered my life.

There was no way that he wasn't going to print that picture and come Monday everyone at school will know exactly who I am. My smile that had been on my face only seconds earlier was no where to be seen and I knew that my swim had been ruined. I looked at my friends sadly and got out of the pool. I could hear my friends puling themselves out as well and following me to the change rooms.

"Hey Slayer," Gunn called out to me, "don't worry about it. So the world will know now. At least you know who your real friends are."

"Yeah Buff. Forget about all them other people and remember that we liked you before we knew who you were," Xander said with a hip chuck and arm around my shoulder.

I smiled and felt Xander be forcefully pulled away and his arm being replaced by a much better one, "You'll have us to play interference at school with everyone. So don't worry about anything." Angel said kissing my ear and hugging me to him.

"Yeah let's just have this weekend it will be just us. Movies, games, takeout and staying up al night without worrying what others think. We'll lock ourselves inside and forget about the rest of the world." Fred suggested gaining a smile from Gunn.

We went our separate ways and changed quickly meeting the boys in the boot room. I had decided to forget about Wesley and the possibility of the world finding out and just to have a weekend of unadulterated fun. My friends were with me and we were going to spend the weekend lying around before I had to worry about damage control.

We got back to the house and played x-box, cooked up a mayhem, and finally just sat around the TV watching the newest movies. I was so glad to be with my friends, I didn't think I could get anymore happier.

"Hey you want to go outside for a bit."

I shivered as Angel whispered in my ear so he didn't disturb everyone else, "Yeah sure."

He stood up and helped pull me to my feet, slung his arm around my waist and made our way to the back door. As the door opened Angel's hand shot out grabbed a coat of the wall and dragged the door closed behind us as we stepped onto the back porch.

The cool air of November chilled my arms in the night. The slight shiver that it caused was caught by Angel's keen vision and only seconds later I had my leather coat wrapped around my arms. I stared out into the darkness wondering how I could have such a wonderful man. Angel was unbelievable. He knew when I needed to talk, when I needed to cry, when I needed a laugh or when I just needed him to be there for me. Ever since I moved to Sunnydale he was like that, it was terrifying at first but than I realized that what I wanted from him was most likely never going to come I made myself forget how in-tuned he was with me.

"Heavy thoughts, baby?" Angel asked coming up behind me pressing my back into his muscular chest. "What are you thinking about?"

I smiled and leant my head backwards so I could see his face, "Just how good you are to me. Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve you. Its only been a few weeks since we officially started dating but it seems like forever to me."

"For me to," He said before leaning down and capturing my lips with his in a passionate yet gentle kiss.

When his lips left me I turned back to looking out, "I don't know."

"Don't know what?" He asked me with a tinge of confusion lacing his voice.

I stepped away from his comforting embrace and distanced myself from him. I wrapped my arms around myself in attempt to chase the inner chill that was creeping inside myself, I knew that if he agreed with what I was about to admit that I would need all the comfort I could get.

"I…uh…I think that maybe that you…um…I mean to say that maybe you should think about us."

He looked confused and I couldn't blame him one bit. He stepped towards me and I knew he wanted to take me in his arms again but I couldn't say what I needed to in his strong embrace so I stepped back. The hurt that flashed in his eyes stung but I knew that he needed to hear what I was saying and actually think about it.

"I don't quite understand."

"Ok. Everyone come Monday is going to know who I am really. There's going to be media hoopla and people at school who never talked to me before will most likely try to be best friends with me, and the teachers are going to be thinking of how they treated me and be trying to make up for all their horrible behavior. Nothing is going to be the same."

"I know this. Figured it out early today," Angel said leaning against the porch railing.

The night looked like it could sallow me and at that moment I wanted it to, "Angel what I am asking you is if you want to stay with me. Everything that is happening Monday is going to effect everyone who is around me, and if you're my boyfriend still its going to have the most impact on you and your family."

"Is this what this is about, what's going to happen Monday and if you think I can handle it," Angel growled out moving towards me.

Before I even knew it my face was pressed into his chest and he was rocking me, "I know you can handle it," I mumbled into his chest. "I just want you to think about it, I mean really think about. You and your family will be under constant surveillance by the media. Nothing you say or do will be private." I pushed back a little so I could look him in the face and see what his true response was, "Think about, maybe you could stand it the constant prying into you life but can your family?"

His eyes simply held love and adoration for me. It was overwhelming. How could he be so willing to go through such a circus just to be with me.

"I love you and my family loves you. In fact they have been pressuring me to ask you out for ever, so I think that they would be more than willing to endure such prying so I can be happy."

I jumped up and wrapped my legs around him kissing his face in happiness. I couldn't believe my life wasn't ruined after all. The feelings of euphoria were overwhelming.

"God I don't know what I would have done if you had decided to leave me."

He smiled his gorgeous half smile at me and replied, "Good thing you didn't have to find out."

We stayed outside for another hour at least and when we returned to the house the gang was passed out in front of the rolling credits of the show. I didn't want to wake them just so they could head to bed so I started to drape blankets over each of them. The blanket was almost on Doyle when he woke.

"What are ya doin' lass."

"I didn't mean to wake you, I just wanted to give you and Cordy some warmth for the night," I whispered to him point glancing and Cordy's head which laid on his chest.

"Oh, well since I'm up don't worry about it Buffy. I'll just take her and head up to our room."

I nodded and moved on. Each person was paired up and snuggled around each other. They looked so comfortable and I couldn't wait to get to my room to do the same to Angel.

I crept up the stairs and as my foot touched the main floor a hand grabbed my arm and gently pulled me towards a body. I knew who it was but the startle still caused me to squeak. I couldn't believe the sound that came out of my mouth; it was an embarrassing squeak that reminded me of a mouse. The body pressed against was shaking with suppressed laughter, and frankly I couldn't blame him.

I hit him across the upper arm with all my strength and I heard a satisfying hiss of pain hiss form him. Teaches him to scare me to death and than laugh about it. I pulled him to my room and closed the door. I was slightly nervous because I had never slept in the same bed as another guy, well except for Gunn and he doesn't count since I've known him all my life.

Angel seemed to sense the nervousness in me and tried to calm me down by rubbing his hands up and down my shoulders. I relaxed with his ministrations, and sighed in contentment. It was unbelievable how relaxed this man could make me with a simple touch.

"There's nothing to worry about or be nervous about Buffy. Nothing is going to happen tonight, we are simply going to sleep. But baby if it makes you to nervous maybe I should sleep in another room."

"No," I said clutching his arm that was around me. "I want to sleep in your arms tonight, it's just that…"I spoke lowering my voice with each word.

"It's just what baby," he questioned in his silky soothing voice.

"I've never…um…"

"Yeah," he coaxed me on.

"I've never slept in the same bed as a guy. Well except for Gunn. But that doesn't count because we've been friends forever. And he's Gunn and I'm Buffy. And it's just weird to think of anything happening in a bed between the to of us," I rambled on not noticing the steady increase in Angel's growl.

I stopped talking suddenly when the vibrations from his growls finally penetrated my mind. I knew that growl, he used it every time we were at the Bronze and some guy was checking me out, it was his possessive growl. And god did please me, I loved knowing that he felt such strong emotions that he had to express it in such an animalistic way.

That night I had the best night of sleep, and I knew that I wanted to go to sleep in my boyfriend's arms every night. Though Giles may not approve I could really care when I woke up to Angel watching me and the best kiss I had ever had. It was wonderful; it was my dream come true. To finally have a significant other that knew everything there was to know about me and still love me, I couldn't get anymore happier. And nothing not even Wesley was going to bring me down.