Chapter 26: Old Friends and Summers Sisters

Buffy was extremely busy Friday with Veronica having the day off. She was answering the phones, meeting with clients and potential clients as well as running out to check on a case for Weevil. She ended up meeting Weevil down the street from a house that a clients wife often went to see one of her many lovers. On the phone Weevil made it seem like he needed her ASAP but when she got there, he said he was just bored and could use the company. Buffy got into the passenger side of Weevil's car.

"This chick stays in here for HOURS! I cant even attempt at getting the money shot until she leaves because he doesn't let her in the house. She lets herself in." He told her sipping on his coffee that was now cold. "Its like only at the end .. When … when they are DONE he comes around because she like cant take her hands off of him, the horny little bitch. Its not just him either. She is like that with all her boyfriends." 'Wow, he really does need someone to talk to.'

Buffy looked over at Weevil with a smile. "Maybe her husband isn't getting it up like he used to."

"Maybe. I hear once you get married you can never get it up." He said looked over at her too.

Buffy laughed. "I heard the same thing."

Weevil reached in the back seat of his car. "You know what else I found out? Take a look." He tossed a large envelope to her. She opened it and took out some pictures. "Its not just guys! She's got a girlfriend too!"

Buffy's eyes widened when she saw the picture of the woman kissing at a front door. "She's playing both teams. Her husband really must suck." She said under her breath but loud enough for Weevil to hear it causing him to laugh. "You know, we had a party for me not to long ago and we went to LA for the weekend. I noticed you were lacking."

"Yeah, I couldn't make it. Work and a girl. But I heard you have a boyfriend." He said looking at the house.

"Yes, I do have a boyfriend and you didn't tell me there was a girl! Who is she?" Buffy said a little hurt that he didn't tell her but she also didn't directly tell him about Angel either. The point was though that she knew he knew about Angel before though.

"If I tell you promise not to tell anyone?" Weevil asked Buffy seriously.

Buffy smiled sarcastically. "What? Is it Paris Hilton?"

"Lily's back." He told her in a even tone.

"What? Lily is back? Veronica didn't say anything about her being back! She said after she graduated last year that she wouldn't come back. Wait, you and Lily? AGAIN! Didn't you learn from the last time?" Buffy said all to fast for Weevil.

He said there a minute thinking about everything Buffy had just said. "Lily is back. Yes, she is back. I don't think Veronica knows… and what was the other questions again?" He asked looking confused.

For a bald tattooed ex bike gang leader he didn't always look so tough. "You and Lily. Didn't you learn? I mean there was that huge explosion when she first left for college because Logan found out she cheated on him with you."

"Lily was cheating on Logan with a lot of guys. Lily loved guys." He told Buffy.

Buffy nodded. "Yeah, Logan told me. He loved her and she loved guys. The attention from guys. That's why he was so confused when he felt like he was betraying Lily when we first got together.. Wait, you said loved. Pass tense?"

"Look, Logan shouldn't have felt like he was betraying Lily. I moved on and I loved her too. Lily has always been easy to love. It just sucks that she played so many people at once. And yeah, I said loved guys as in pass tense. She seems to have settled down a lot. She's only been with me since she got back." Weevil said looked at Buffy.

"How long?" She asked.

"Few weeks."

"A few weeks! Someone has to tell Veronica! Do her parents know? Duncan?" Buffy was shocked.

"Like I said. No one knows. Look, she's got it in her head that Veronica doesn't need her because you, Willow and Xander are her best friends now and she's dating Logan." Weevil explained.

Buffy was confused. "We have all always been best friends… but Veronica was closer with Lily until she started changing. Lily wasn't the same person we knew."

"Yeah she did change but Veronica also became close with Wallace and then Mac.. Having 5 best friends is a little much." He told her Lily's reasoning.

"Okay, but… Veronica only got close with Wallace because Lily started her whole freak out with all the drinking and dabbling in drugs. And Veronica didn't get close with Mac until senior year when Lily had already left." Buffy argued with Weevil.

Wallace was Veronica's guy best friend, she and Xander were close but he wasn't as close with her as he was with Buffy and Willow. Wallace moved to Sunnydale in their Freshman Year of high school, he had pissed off Weevil's bike gang who were called the PCH-ers. The Bike Gang had duct taped Wallace to the flag pole on the first day. The gang had walked up to the school wondering why all the other students were gathers around the flag pole laughing with the camera's out. When they got closer they saw a young African American boy about their age tapped to the flag pole naked. Willow and Xander were to scared to go help him because in that school when someone helped another person who had pissed someone off, those people were also on the shit list. Buffy and Veronica never cared though, in total sync-ness Buffy and Veronica both pushed threw the crowed each pulling out a pocket knife and started to cut the duct tape off. After that Wallace always wanted to hang out with them, Buffy didn't mind it but Veronica just wanted to be left alone. Before long though Veronica and Wallace were joined at the hip. He would often help them with cases.

Cindy Mackenzie became friends with Veronica without pissing anyone off, other then her parents that is. Buffy and Veronica were making a little bit of money at school by using Keith's Private Investigators Database to look up information on other students families. Mostly back ground checks on their parents. While doing Cindy's Veronica found out that The Mackenzie's had won a law suite against a hospital. Turned out Cindy was switched at birth with one of the most bitchest girls in school- Madison Sinclair. Both sets of parents had become to attached to the children by the time the law suite went threw so they decided to keep the children and keep the secret. Cindy earned the nick name MAC not only because of her last name Mackenzie but also because she knew her way around any computer, she was one of the best. Willow and Oz being the other computer geniuses. Buffy and Veronica knew computers pretty well but whenever there was something they couldn't figure out they went to Willow and Mac. Willow became pretty busy with Oz, helping teachers out at school and tutoring so Mac became the number 1 go to girl when it came to computers and before long she was part of the group too. She even dated Dick Casablancas younger brother Cassidy who liked to be called Beaver. Who would every want to be called Beaver was beyond Buffy but maybe it was better then a boy being named Cassidy.

They did background checks for $5. The money started to add up and Buffy had ended up saving her money to put towards College. That was Veronica's idea too until her mom came home claiming she was sober but was actually hiding bottles and bottles of alcohol around the house. Veronica found them and as her last attempt to help her mom she used her money to check Leanne Mars into a Rehab center. It had turned out to be a waste of money because her mom left without completing the program.

Buffy turned to look at Weevil with a small smile. Laying her head back on the seat she asked. "Since we are sharing secrets, wanna know one about me?"

Weevil nodded.

"I'm pregnant." She whispered.

"WHAT!" Weevil yelled so shocked he jumped up and hit his head on the roof of the car.

Buffy laughed at his reaction. "Don't tell anyone. No one knows but Angelus so if it gets out then I know it was you! I go in a week to find out for sure but the home pregnancy test I took a week ago tells me I am."

"Oh! Here we go!" Weevil said looking at the house. A woman and a man stood by the door kissing. Weevil pulled out Keith's camera and started to snap pictures. 'These guys are pretty open about what they are doing. Maybe she wants to be caught.' Buffy thought.

She looked over at Weevil still taking pictures. "Does Keith know you have his camera?"

Weevil look at the picture he had just taken on the digital screen of the camera. "Yeah, the Sheriff knows. I asked."

Buffy smiled at the fact that even years after Keith was no long in office Weevil was still loyal to him and called him Sheriff.

"I cant believe you pregnant." He said looking from the camera to Buffy. "You killed your gold fish."

"I know!" Buffy cringed.

Buffy and Weevil went back to the office and printed off all the pictures he had taken and got all his things ready for a meeting with the woman's husband.

"Maybe she wants to be caught." Buffy said sitting at her desk playing with a pen.

"What?" Weevil asked.

Buffy put the pen down. "Think about it. She has A LOT of lovers. Woman either and her husband said she was only flirtatious with men and she doesn't exactly hide that fact that she is with him. They went outside the door to kiss goodbye. Normal with people we tail are trying to hide something they say goodbye inside or the other person says inside and hides behind the door. So either she knows she is being tailed, she wants to be tailed or the husband is in on it too. I don't know yet."

"Why would the husband be in on it too?" He asked her.

"I don't know! We have dealt with some pretty weird people. Crazy people! Why do any of them do anything they do?" Buffy wondered.

Weevil was about to say something back to Buffy when Wallace Fennel walked into the office looking excited.

"Holy cow! Look who it is!" Buffy smiled getting up to give Wallace a hug. "Is today 'see everyone you haven't seen in weeks' day?" Buffy joked.

"Yeah, it must be." The African American boy smiled.

"Okay, first question. I asked Weevil too. Why weren't you at me party?" Buffy said seriously.

"I was out of town, Baaybe!" He laughed with a little jump. "Took a lady friend to Vegas."

Buffy raised her eye brows at him. "Stop trying to act gangster, Playa."

"Well you know I'm the shit." He joked.

"Okay, next question. Why didn't you go to LA with us last weekend?" Buffy asked.

Wallace's smile fell. "You went to LA last weekend? I didn't know this!"

Buffy frowned. "Veronica! Fine, I forgive you but only because you are you, Wallace. Now why were you so happy?"

Wallace smiled again. "That girl I took to Vegas, well she is officially my girlfriend!" Doing a little dance. "Hey, you got any snicker doodles?"

Buffy laughed.

Angelus was parked outside Mars Investigations and called Buffy to tell her that he was there. They were going to go meet Joyce and for some strange reason go mini golfing. Buffy didn't peg Angel as a mini golfer but he agreed to it. She wasn't to big on it either since the last time she went mini golfing was when her mothers boyfriend at the time, Ted had threatened to smack her "smart ass mouth" as he had put it.

Angel got out of the car and walked over to the passenger side opening the door before Buffy even came out. When she did come out she was smiling. "Hey sexy." She greeted him with a kiss.

"Is that smile for me or did something else good happen?" He smiled.

Buffy got in the car and he shut the door behind her going over to the driver side to get in. "I saw two friends of mine that I hadn't seen in weeks."

"That good.. Right?" Angel asked pulling out into the street.

"Yeah, its very good. I guess relationships are just coming out of the wood work these days because both of said friends have girlfriends now and those girls are the reason I haven't seen my friends." Buffy told him. Normally she would be upset that she hadn't seen her friends because of a boyfriend or girlfriend but now having a boyfriend again she didn't mind it. She knew was love felt like now, she didn't blame her friends. "I'm actually not suppose to tell anyone about one of them having a girlfriend but you don't know her so you can tell anyone."

Angel nodded. "Are you ready to go mini golfing with your mom?"

"If I said no would it make a difference?" She questioned like a child.

Angel shook his head. "Not really. I don't see why you are so against mini golfing."

Buffy let out a sigh. "Well the last time I went mini golfing the guy my mom was seeing threatened to smack my face and my dad always used to take us mini golfing when he wasn't working or fighting with my mom… which come to think of it, wasn't very often."

"Someone threatened to hit you?" Angel said angry.

Buffy looked over at him. "It was a long time again."

Angel gripped the steering wheel and took a deep breath. Calming himself down. "You know what?" He said pulling the car over to the side of the road.

"What are you doing?" Buffy asked confused.

He unbuckled his seat belt. "Letting you drive. You have your permit, I am a licensed driver. You drive."

He got out of the car and walked over to get in the passenger seat. "Go. Drive."

"Do I get a choice?" She asked.

"Not really." He repeated to her the second time since she got in the car. Buffy scooted over into the drivers side and adjusted the seat and mirrors. Then pulled off the side of the road.

Buffy drove in silence for a few minutes. "Are you ready to meet my little sister?"

"Oh yeah. I heard she is a lot like her older sister and her, well I have grown to be pretty fond of." He smiled.

"Really? Do I know her?" Buffy played along.

"I don't think so." Angel said making a playful face.

Buffy pulled into the parking lot of the mini golf course. Turning the car off she looked at Angel and smiled. "..and no one got hurt!"

Angel laughed.

Dawn saw Buffy pull up in a black convertible with a guy in the passenger seat. "Oh my god, she really did learn how to drive AND she has a boyfriend!" Dawn said in amazement looking to her mother.

"Just be nice Dawn." Her mother warned her.

Buffy and Angel walked to where they saw Joyce and Dawn. "Hey mom. Dawnie." She said giving them hugs.

"Hello Angelus." Joyce said hugging him.

"Angelus, my sister Dawn. Dawn, Angelus." Buffy introduced them.

"Your boyfriend?" Dawn asked.

"My boyfriend." Buffy confirmed.

"Wow. Not only did you move on from Riley but you moved up too. Nice work big sis." Dawn nodded.

"Thanks Dawn." Buffy laughed but her eye were a little larger then normal from surprise.

The four of them were on hole 5 when Dawn walked up beside Angel. "So, your in the Army?"

Angel nodded. "Yeah, I am."

Dawn nodded back. "When are you leaving?" Angel looked up from where he was trying to hit the ball.

"What?" He asked his girlfriends little sister.

Dawn looked over at Buffy who was talking to their mother. "Riley didn't talk much about when he was in the Army but we did talk. He used to take me places, mostly the carnival because he liked the rides as much as I did and once he told me that when you are in the Army you don't stick around in one place for very long, you have to move a lot."

"Did you like Riley?" Angel asked her.

"Yeah, he was nice to me but he hurt Buffy so… I hate him." Dawn said crossing her arms over her chest. "So. When?"

"10 months." He said standing up tall.

Dawn looked him straight in the face, not intimidated at all. "Your going to hurt her too? When you leave."

"I hope not." He told the teenage girl.

"You better not. Or I will track you down and beat you to death with a shovel." She said and turned to walk away from him.

"Dawn!" He called after her making her stop and turn around. "If I hurt her. I will give you the shovel."

Dawn gave him a small smile. "I like you. Don't screw it up." She said walking over to her mom and sister.

The rest of the time was fun had by all. They all laughed and joked around. Buffy and Dawn would often accuse each other of cheating playfully and lightly shove each other. Angel liked to watch how the three Summers woman acted around each other. All three of them had great respect for each other but they had a even greater love. He saw a lot of similarities between the woman but a lot of differences too. They were a great family and he was happy to know them.

Driving back from the mini golf course Angel had Buffy drive again, she wasn't bad. She wasn't a pro either though. She would sometimes get a little scared when she thought a car wasn't going to stop in time but he figured that was just from being in a car accident before. She was doing well for someone who just got their permit the day before.

"Your family is great." Angel told her while she was driving.

Buffy smiled. "Yeah, they are. A little annoying at times but I love them. My mom and sister anyway. My dad, he's another story."

Angel shook his head. "Dawn. She's a lot like you."

"You know, everyone says that and I don't see it. I don't think I'm an annoying little brat… am I?" She asked a little worried about him answer.

Angel laughed. "No, Baby. Your not."

"Good, because if you said I was then you would get any goodies tonight." She smiled shaking her chest slightly. "Shit! You wont be anyway, your family is going to be there!"

"…And?"

Buffy looked over at him questioningly. "You can get it up with your parents in the house?"

Angel smiled and moved closer to her in the front seat. "Baby, I don't think having my parents in the same room would prevent me from getting it up if you are in front of me."

"Good to know." She said looking him up and down and then back to the road.

Buffy meets Angel's family in the next chapter! What do you think they are going to be like?