Title: Not Everything's Perfect

Author: Sammy Jay

Summary: AU. Buffy faces up to Parker and Angel has a run in with Parker.

Pairing: B/A B/P A/E X/C W/O

Rating: NC-17

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Buffy woke up to find Angel not there. 'He probably went home this morning' she thought as she got out of bed and went to the bathroom for her morning shower.

(Hour later)

She was ready in her room. She wanted to impress Angel today especially after his confession last night. So she wore her jeans that her butt really approved of and a green tank top and her black boots that she had worn last night.

Last night. Her date. With Parker. PARKER.

All of the events from last night came rushing back into her mind. She burst into tears and fell to the floor. All of her make-up getting ruined. She had been lying there crying until she heard her mom shouting her down for breakfast and she then thought that she wouldn't let Parker get to her like this and show him that she wasn't crying about what he nearly did to her and that he was a piece of shit, nothing, worthless and meaningless and A WASTE OF SPACE! Buffy let her female pride into her and stood up sharply, redid her make up as if she had just put it on. She walked down stairs and Into the kitchen to find Dawn, Oz, Riley, Hank and Joyce all in the kitchen.

"Hey honey. You want breakfast?" Joyce asked her daughter as she came into the kitchen, holding up a bowl of coco pops to her.

"Um, no I'm not hungry." She told her mother and sat on the stool beside Riley and said Good Morning to him and he said it back and continued reading his paper.

"What are you doing here anyways? I thought you had your own place?" Oz asked his older brother.

"What? I just wanted to stay her tonight." Riley told him looking around at his family as they gave him a look.

"What I did! Ok I wanted moms big breakfast thingy she makes, but I guess she didn't make it this morning." He confessed.

"Well Riley you should have better luck next time." Hank told his eldest son with a laugh.

"Right well I better go get Angel to drive me." Buffy said to her family as she jumped off of her seat beside Riley and darted towards the front door until her mother shouted, "Oh Honey Angel called before you came down this morning, Said he couldn't take you to school this morning."

"Did he say why?" she asked her mother with a voice full of hurt.

"Um, he said he had to sort something out." Joyce said to her daughter and shrugging.

"Buffy I'll drive you to school ok." Oz told his twin.

"Thanks Oz." She said gratefully and went to sit in the living room and plopped down on the sofa.

After a few seconds Dawn came into the living room, "What's up with you?"

"Nothing." Buffy said to her sister with a motionless expression. 'Why isn't he picking me up? He loves me. He even said it last night. Maybe he didn't think I heard him. But I did. I did hear him. I'll have to tell him today at school. But what is he going to sort out?' she thought as Dawn was talking to her but she didn't hear a word.

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Angel had decided to go into school early this morning he called Joyce to let her know that he couldn't pick up Buffy.

When he got to the school he saw Parker with some girl 'junior' Angel thought as he got out of the car and towards Parker.

"PARKER!" Angel shouted him.

"Hey Angel man! Good M…" Parker said to him as he pushed the girl out of his embrace but was interrupted by the fist that came to his face and he fell to the floor.

"… Morning" he finished. "What the fuck man!"

"Stay away from her!" Angel shouted at him as he started walking towards the entrance of the school.

"Oh your little Buffy. I always thought she was a screamer, but until last night I got a lot out of her than I would've thought. But I didn't like her she not my type a little too rough." Parker practically bragged about him 'getting together' with Buffy. By this time the girl had walked away from the scene and into the school.

Angel just turned around and started laughing at the boy, not man, boy in front of him.

He just kept laughing until Parker asked him what he was laughing at.

"You. You did not hook up with Buffy, you tried to rape her, you nearly raped her and she beat up your ass for it to and that is what I'm about to do." And with that Angel's fist flew out and into his face and Parker punched him back. They started into a fight and by this time about the full school had arrived and were watching Angel kick Parkers' ass.

Oz drove in to the school parking lot with Buffy, Dawn, Willow, Kate, Anya and Xander all in the back of his van. He and Willow being at the front.

"Ooo! What's happening over there?" Xander shouted with excitement.

"Dunno!" Kate said calmly and got hiked up, "Let's go find out!"

Everyone rushed out of the van and ran over to what was happening. They where standing at the back of the crowd because it was so big.

"What's happening?" Anya asked one of the girls in her year.

"Oh Angel Giles is kicking Parker Abrams because of some girl! Angel I kicking his ass!" the girl told Anya and the rest of the group who where standing around her.

"What!" Buffy shouted. "Oh God!" She pushed her way through the crowd until she got to the front and she saw that Angel was indeed kicking Parker's ass, sure Parker got a few punches here and there but Angel was definitely winning.

'Ugh, he's so cute when he's angry! Wait a minute I have to stop this!' she thought as she looked at them on the ground. Angel straddled Parker's waist pulled him up by the collar and continuously punched him. She had let it go too far, so decided to stop the fight.

She ran into the middle of the crowd and she tried to pull Angel's arm back shouting, "Stop it! Angel!" but instead it punched her right in the face while he was punching Parker. Her head cocked back by the pressure he had put on his punches.

Angel turned around to see whom he had punched and he saw Buffy her nose bleeding from his punch. By this time all of their friends crowded round her.

"Shit!" Angel shouted. He looked around him everyone in the school was watching him and he didn't realize them he was too busy beating up Parker.

He ran over to Buffy saying, "Buffy I'm so sorry you have no idea how sorry I am. Sorry for hitting you. I'm so sorry! It was an accident," He kept saying to her over and over again and he had pulled her into a hug.

"It's ok Angel, it's just a nose bleed and a painful bone" she joked and laughed.

He laughed to. "Sorry."

"Will you please stop saying that? I know it was accident!" Buffy said to him.

"Ok." He said, "So is it OK that I beat up Parker for you?"

"It is most definitely fine!" Buffy said smiling at him and pulled him into a hug. By this time everyone had decided just to leave them on their own. But there were still a few on lookers

"Thank you! For being there for me, for beating him up for me, for loving me!" She said as she looked up at him. He looked down at her and into her eyes.

Her nose - bleed had stopped he took a wipe thing from his backpack and took away the bleeding one and wiped away the blood stains on her nose. She just looked into his big dark chocolate brown soulful eyes and drowned in them and smiled. He gave her his side smirk that always made her go weak at the knees.

"How did you know?" he asked her.

"Well when you said it last night, I sorta gave it away." She said sarcastically.

"Well I thought that you were asleep." He told her.

"You thought I was asleep?" she asked him angrily.

"Yeah." He said to her.

"So you didn't want to tell me!" she said and pushed her self away from him, "You wanted to keep it to yourself and act as if nothing happened?"

"Buffy what?" Angel asked her when he moved in towards her and she moved back.

"You said that you thought I was asleep, which means that you didn't want to tell me and that hurts Angel, it hurts that you didn't want to tell me." She told him as tears escaped her eyes and she started walking away from him.

"Buffy wait!" He shouted to her confused as well and pulled her arm back to look at him.

"No! Angel! I'll talk to you later ok!" And with that she walked away into the school building

"SHIT!" Angel cursed at him self. "How can that one little sentence lead to this, GOD!"

He went towards homeroom when the bell went and Snyder stopped him and told him to come to his office, and we all know what for. So Angel was suspended for 1 week and he didn't see Buffy.

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"Any you guys know where Angel is?" Buffy asked as they got to lunch.

"Yeah he got suspended for 1 week for beating up Parker." Xander told her.

"Really!" She said, as she sat down beside him. "Well I'm not surprised there, Snyder has been waiting for an excuse to do something to him."

"I know, ugh… he's such a little troll!" Faith said.

"So B, we saw you and Angel getting all cuddly we when we went away and then all not so cuddly. What happened?" Faith asked her.

Buffy looked at Oz not really wanting to discuss it in front of him, "I'll tell you guys later ok."

"Ok." Anya said and they got back to eating there lunch until Eve came up to them.

"Hey you guys! Is Angel here?" She asked them looking at Buffy.

"Um no he's suspended." She told her.

"Oh ok, I wanted to discuss our plans for tonight. Oh well doesn't matter I'll call. Ok Bye!"

"Bye." Buffy said quietly and confused.

"B you alright?" Faith asked her.

"Yeah I'm fine. I'll be back in a second." She told her friends she got up and stormed towards one of the tables that Scott Hope was sitting at and was greeted by him saying, "Hello Buffy! What can I do for you?"

"You can take me out on a date tonight at 7!" she told him. He has asked to go on a date with her before summer had started, but she had said no. And now with Angel going on another date with Eve she is asking Scott on a date. It's only fair. Scott was a sweet guy and he wouldn't hurt her, not like Parker did anyway. She waited on his answer.

"Yeah sure, ok!" Scott stumbled, not believing that Buffy was asking him out on a date.

"Great! So pick me up at 7 ok. I live at 1630 Revello Drive!" With that Buffy walked away from his table and back to her own and sat down. When she looked up all of her friends were looking at her.

"Buffy what did you just do?" Kate asked her

"I asked Scoot on a date. Is that okay?" She asked her friend looking at them all in anger with Angel.

They all took the hint and blabbed out:

"Yeah it's your choice."

"Up to you."

"Sure"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

"Yeah."

"Hey it's your life."

"Are you sure?" Cordelia asked.

"What?" she asked her.

"Are you sure you want to go n a date with Scott. What about Angel?" She questioned her. "We all saw you guys cuddly and I'm not one for eavesdropping but I heard you both basically I Love You."

"When did you hear that?" she asked.

"When I was walking by you guys I heard." She told her.

Buffy looked at all of her friends as they stared at her.

"He's going on a date with Eve ok. That's it! I want to date to," Buffy said.

"Why don't you fight for him!" Anya said

"I am. I'm going on a date with Scott to make him jealous!" Buffy said with a smile and all of the girls squealed with joy.

The bell rang out and they went to class.

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