Finally I could get a new chapter! Enjoy!
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"Buffy, my dear, what…?"
Mary was the first person to arrive at Buffy's room. She never finished what she was going to say because she turned around, while holding a trembling Buffy, and saw the room was trashed. Clothes were all around and there was something written in the walls.
"Oh my god! Buffy, you ok?"
"What is happening here?"
Sean arrived shortly after to see his wife holding Buffy. He looked around, took everything in and looked at the words in the wall and turned again to his wife and Buffy.
"I don't know, Sean. Her room…"
"That bastard!"
Sean left his room while calling to the police and the head of his security stuff. He knew it was William, how he entered the house was something he wanted to find out. He arrived in the ground floor of the house to hear insistent knocking at the door, which he opened to find Angel there. One look into the young man's face reveled he knew something wrong was going on with his girlfriend.
"She is upstairs."
He saw Buffy's boyfriend running for the stairs and disappearing though the corridor. Angel found Buffy halfway the corridor still being held by Mary. When she heard his voice, Buffy left Mary's arms to be cradled in Angel's embrace.
"Buffy!"
" Angel"
"What happened?"
"I don't know. I just… I came inside and my room… was trashed."
"What?"
"Come on, Buffy, Angel, it is better if we go downstairs."
Downstairs, they went to the kitchen where Mary prepared something to calm Buffy down. Gunn and her husband followed them.
"I want to know, Gunn, how someone, and I bet that the said someone is William, could get inside this house without anyone noticing it."
"I don't know, Mr. Chase. The security is up and running. The house was empty all day. None of my men saw anything unusual. I will run the footage to see if we can catch whoever did it."
"I know who did it! I just what proof to throw that trash behind bars."
Sean picked the phone to make a new call.
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"He WHAT?"
Ethan Rayne was shocked by the news he got. His son had crossed the limit of the acceptable. He threatened his ex, her boyfriend and broke into his friend house to destroy the girl bedroom. He had to put a stop to it.
"I'm sorry, Sean. He developed this obsession with your girl and nothing can demote him from it. "
"I called the police. He can wait for them to appear. I'm pressing charges. I want him far from anyone in my family and if that means your son will be arrested, be sure I will do it."
"I know. I will take my providences to avoid it to happen again."
Ethan put the phone back and closed his eyes for a moment. His son was again causing trouble, but this time he went too far. He had to put a stop into his obsession before anything could get out of hand.
He looked to the ceiling asking God and himself what he did wrong. He knew he was not a caring father and because of that his son had grown without the love any child deserved. His and his mother, that caught him cheating on her, left the house and died in a car crash. He would feel the guilt for that all his life. Now, it was time to deal with his son.
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"William! William!"
One hour after Sean's call and his arrangements, Ethan found his son in his room using the computer.
"I got a call from Sean telling me you invaded his house, your ex-girlfriend room and destroyed it."
Spike looked at him with a smile in his face and crazed eyes.
"Don't call me William… I don't like it! She found it, huh? How did she take it?"
"William, my son, you have to stop it."
"Stop what, father? She knows she is mine. I just reminded her of it. I mean… now she will understand she belong with me. I mean… what could Captain Forehead offer her?"
Ethan finally saw the thing he didn't want to see. His son had lost his mind. If he had any doubt about the actions he was going to take, they were now justified. He would help his son. When he spoke again his voice was dejected and tired.
"William… Spike, I'm sorry my son."
"Sorry? What for?"
Four men dressed in white appeared behind his father. One of them shot him and he said only one thing before he passed out.
"Father!"
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Angel couldn't believe his eyes. After the police came into the room to get impressions, statements and all the bureaucracy was done, Buffy could go to her room to get some clothes. He and Mary went there for her and he could see the destruction with his own eyes, including the inscription in the wall.
- YOU WILL BE MINE! OUR LOVE IS ETERNAL! -
"That son of a…"
Mary looked at the young man in front of her. She was seeing a completely furious boyfriend with what happened to his girlfriend. He and her Buffy were dating for just two weeks and she came to like him. She hoped he could come into the family.
"Come on, Angel. Buffy will need you. You can stay here anyway… if you want. She will need you"
"I know. It's just that… he could be here when she came in. He could have hurt her and we would not be around… it just…"
"I know, but let's focus in the good things. He just destroyed her things, but didn't hurt her. I'm sure you like her enough to not let anything happen to her. We love her enough to not let anything happen to her. She doesn't deserve it, Angel. She lost a lot already. Do you love her?"
"I do."
"Did you tell her?"
"Not yet. I mean, we know each other for such a short time. I do not want to scare her. It is too soon."
"It is never too soon to tell someone we love them."
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Buffy sat in the bed in the middle of the room, while Angel was in the bathroom. Mary gave her a mild sedative so she'd sleep, but she didn't want to sleep without him by her side. She was still shocked by the last news.
The police went to Spike's house, but didn't find him there because he was taken to an asylum. She was feeling ashamed and guilt. She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't see Angel came back from the bathroom and was watching her. She snapped out of it when she heard his voice.
"Hey."
"Hi."
Angel crossed the room and gathered her in his arms when he saw the tears threatening to spill from her eyes. She sobbed hard against his chest and he let it happen. She spoke between sobs.
"Angel… I feel so… guilty. This is all… my fault."
"No no no! Buffy, this has nothing to do with you!"
"It has… I know… know it… has. It seems like… like being with me destroyed him, like it did with my parents. He was not like this."
"Buffy. Maybe he wasn't like this, but it would have happened with you or any other girl. He clearly has some sort of mental problem and being rejected seems to have triggered his change. It. Is. .Fault"
"I'm afraid… afraid I will lose you. Maybe we should end this. I don't want you to get hurt because of me."
"Shshshs! Buffy… I know it is too soon, but I want to tell you that… that I love you."
"You love me?"
"Yes. I don't want to scare you or anything. I just want to tell you."
"I feel the same way. I… I love you, Angel. I... didn't want to say anything because I know man don't like to hear this sort of thing… let alone at the very beginning of a relationship."
Angel kissed her full in the mouth. After a while, the kiss grew more passionate and he had to stop them before something happened that they weren't ready yet. He held her face between his hands, looking at her full lips of their kisses.
"I don't mind hearing it for… I don't know… three times a day is good."
Buffy gave him a small smile and Angel felt like his heart would stop. He had made her smile and that meant a lot to him considering what happened that night. He knew she was strong and would go over everything to be just his Buffy.
"Buffy, nothing will happen. He is away, being treated or whatever, and won't be able to hurt anyone."
"He can get out."
"I know, but we will be here. I will be here. Now how about you sleep?"
"it would be good."
And another night passed with Buffy safe in the arms of the man she loved.
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AN: Not a fluffy chapter, but Spike is away and our couple can get all the fluffy they want in the next chapters.