Ch11

It had taken quite a few days to get here.

In good old Sunnydale.

But it would all be worth it to watch the bitch pay.

Slowly he swirled the amber liquid in his glass around again. The bottle that sat beside the cup was more than a half empty and by the time he was done it would be all gone.

The stupid bitch had ruined him.

Now he would ruin her. Make her pay.

The way he always had before. A slowly ruthless beating would do the whore a bit of good.

He smiled at that thought.

After all he like to cause pain.

**** They had all finally relented, letting her do things her way. Which the fact in its self was a heaven sent from god; moving up the steps to the school Buffy kept an eye out for Riley and his gang. The last thing she needed was a round with them, it would only convince everyone that she was safer locked away. And then she would go totally insane.

She smiled as she caught sight of Angel. He looked good as all hell and suddenly her day seemed a whole hell of a lot brighter.

**** Riley wanted revenge for the little act she had pulled.

No one interfered with him. Least of all the little slip of a girl.

He'd make her pay.

All he had to do was hurt something that belonged to her.

A flash of red hair caught his eye.

Willow for example would do all to nicely.

Riley smiled.. The red head looked like fun.

The day looked a lot better as he headed into class.

***** "UNCLE GILES!" Buffy exclaimed, as she walk through the library doors. Her uncle had Ms. Calendar propped up on the library counter and was kissing her quite thoroughly. Buffy started to break out laughing as Giles turned a dull shade of red.

"B-b-Buffy," Giles stuttered as he tried to right his coat.

"We'll be back in ten minutes," She smiled, pulling a dumbfounded Angel out with her.

"I'm scared for life," Buffy laughed as she stood outside the doors.

"You're not the only one," Angel promised. He put his arms around her and pulled her quickly to him. Giving her a small little kiss on the tip of her nose.

"Why are we standing out here? Aren't we supposed to meet in the library?" Cordelia snapped. Her hair was slightly mused and her shirt looked backwards, but Buffy really was quite sure about it.

" Heal, Delia." Xander said as he came up behind her. His clothing didn't look much better.

"What happened to you two?" Angel asked amusement clear in his voice. Of course one could get a pretty good idea given how they looked.

"Go to hell," Cordelia snapped again, as she began to brush her hair.

Angel started to laugh at her replied but quickly smothered it when Spike bellowed, "HARRIS!"

To any un-trained eye it would just seem that Spike was slightly miffed, after all he had a straight face and appeared utterly calm. But then everyone present knew better than that. Even Buffy could tell the difference and she'd never seen him like this.

"Look Spike, man, calm down----", Xander got half way through the sentence before Spike's fist landed in his jaw. Knocking him flat on his back.

And all hell broke lose.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT-" Xander asked.

"SPIKE KNOCK IT-" Cordelia whined.

"YOU'RE BEING AN IDOIT-", Faith tried to cut in above the screams.

The sound of a small foghorn brought everyone to a quick silence.

"What the hell?" Angel turned around to see his baby sister holding a small horn. He started laughing it was her little toy she used to get out of trouble and create calm.

"Thanks Wills," Buffy smiled when she turned to her friend, noting that Oz and Doyle were with her. Turning back to the other for she has with a small grin on her lips, "Now what's going on?"

"I caught them half way naked in the school closet," Spike growled out, causing both Cordelia and Xander to blush profusely.

"Why were you in the closet?" Buffy asked.

The blushes just got worse.

"Oh!" Understanding dawned on her lightly her face up bright red.

"Look what you did. Buffy's embarrassed and she wasn't even caught," Doyle teased.

Clearing his throat Angel asked," So Spike what were you doing going in the closet?"

"Looking for a mop," Faith answered with a smile, though her eyes wouldn't quite meet his.

A laugh rumbled through most of the group.

"Let me see if I got this," said Buffy," While going in to the closet to do the very same thing as them, you caught Cordelia and Xander. Now that sounds a bit hypocritical to me"

"She my baby sister," Spike snapped, though he turned another shade of red. Faith alone seemed to be amused among the four.

"So its alright for you to play hanky-panky but not for her. That seems a bit one sided Spike. But I guess your just going to have to get over it, after she's a big girl and as every right to ummm, well that is to say do the same thing" Buffy countered, only to stutter in the end.

"Holy shit B, you're a innocent. All be damned," Faith laughed.

Angel watched as his girlfriend's eyes got huge and her lovely face went up in flames. Turning quickly she walked back in to the library. He had to smile. After the story about her past he had assumed that she was no longer a virgin. And he could be happier to be wrong.

"Well let's follow her in. I for one and dieing to know what's going on," Doyle grinned at the teenagers.

About ten minutes later everyone had found a seat, though most the girls where perched atop their boyfriends laps. All except Buffy, she'd be happy to slide on to Angel's lap, but with Giles in the same room she thought it might be a bit weird.

"Everyone here, who supposed to be?" Gunn asked, looking around the room.

With a couple of nods, Gunn continued on.

"I've been informed that Buffy as told almost everyone present about her past," his eyes drifted to Giles, who was still waiting to hear it all, "Now, what Wesley and I are concerned about is her present. About a week and a half ago, her father broke out of the insane asylum, he was placed in; I won't go in to details concerning the matter. But it should be enough to say that he has every motive to kill anyone who gets in his way."

"In way of what?" Xander asked, rubbing his jaw.

"Of Buffy," Gunn answered, turning to Wesley.

"We believe that Buffy is Hank's target, considering she brought him down. Now we must take precautions, since you all have been close to her its safe to say that you might as well be in danger. First you must always be in pairs or more. Second under no circumstance are you to go out after dark. After school every day, everyone is to check in here and relate if anything odd or out of place has happened. On the weekend we will set a time that is possible for everyone to come to Mr. Giles' house and do the very same thing. All doors in the house are to be locked day or night, and don't not let anyone in until you check to see who it is. Is all that clear?" Wesley breathed out.

Every head in the room nodded vigorously.

"Very well, everyone may go about their daily actives," Wesley dismissed the group.

"You comin' B?" Faith asked as most everyone headed out the door.

"No, I have some things to take care of," She answered, turning to her uncle.

Smiling Giles put an arm around her shoulders and asked, "How about an ice cream?"

Laughing Buffy agreed.

Smiling Angel watched his girl walk out with a smile on her face. I was amazing really that she could laugh and glow with everything that had ever occurred in her life. He loved that about her, but then he loved everything about her. The glitch in the whole thing was wondering how she felt about him.

Turning Angel noticed it was only he and Gunn left in the room, picking up is bag he makes his way to the door.

"Angel?" Gunn calls before the young man reaches the door.

"Yes?"

"Hurt her in any way, shape or form and I'll have you locked up for life," Gunn stated, his eyes narrowing on the teenager.

"An empty threat since I would never hurt her," Angel shot back and walked out the doors.

****She had friends.

That would make her easier to hurt.

Before it was only she. He still got pleasure from that, but now the pain could be tripled.

He smiled. His beautiful baby girl, how he was going to ruin her.

But first he needed information on them all.

Needed to know her again.

After all she had changed, and so had he. This time she would die and he would laugh of her dead, rotting corpse.

A smirk appeared on the older man's face as he turned and walked from the school.