Chapter Two
Buffy Summers sighed and stared at the old lady in front of the room. She had been going on about WWI for about an hour and a half now and it was starting to give her a head ace. What good was learning this stuff in elementary and middle school when you have to learn it again in high school too?
Buffy looked around the room and saw that almost half the class was asleep, the half that wasn't asleep were well on there way.
She took out her phone and looked at the time and saw that they only had fifteen long minutes to go. She let out a long sigh and tried to wait as the minutes ticked slowly away.
The platinum blond at her left awoke to her sigh and slowly opened his eyes and tried to remember what class he was in. His head slowly lifted off the desk and his blue orbs looked to the front of the room. He scoffed as she saw that Ms. Taylor was still giving her lecture on WWI.
He turned to his right and saw a girl put up her phone and decided to ask her what time it was. "Do you know what time is, luv?"
Buffy took out her phone and looked at the time once more to see if it had changed before she gave this stranger the wrong time.
"It's 9:45," she said as she looked over at the boy. Blue meet green and Buffy suddenly felt weak. She looked away quickly as he sent her a sexy smile.
"Thanks" he said as he looked over her form as she turned away. He started from top to bottom, her blond hair went half way down her back and the ends were died black with strands of red in places. She was wearing a pair of black hip hugger jeans and a red tee shirt with a picture of happy bunny in the middle. Underneath it said, 'kids are the future. Frightened?'
He chuckled and Buffy faced him as he did. The smirk was still plastered on his face when she look at him. "Is there something funny…?" Buffy trailed off not quite knowing what to call him
He caught on and held out his had for her to shake. Buffy reluctantly took it and was surprised when he placed a soft kiss upon her knuckle. "Names Spike. Yours?"
Buffy smirked and pulled her hand way and got her first real look at him. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans with a tight muscle t-shirt that clung to him in all the right places. "I'm Buffy, Buffy Summers." Spike smiled and Buffy felt herself getting that weak feeling again. She shook it off and regained her composure.
"I should get back to you know….uhh" Buffy trailed off pointing at Ms. Taylor trying to remember what she was going on about again. Spike let a slight chuckle escaped his lips as her watched Buffy rack her brain trying her best to remember what the lesson was about.
The bell rang saving Buffy from any more embarrassment. The class ran out the door, not bothering to listen to Ms. Taylor as she yelled out tonight' assignment.
"Well I should go Buffy said as she gathered her things and looked over her schedule. "Damn it I don't know where any of this shit is." Buffy mumbled to herself.
The teacher glared at her in response to her curse. Buffy smiled sheepishly and walked out of the door. A tall boy with short brown hair made his way over to the still sitting Spike and waved a hand in front of his face.
"Spike! Earth to Spike!!!" The boy sighed and let his hand connect with the platinum blonds head.
"What the bloody hell did you do that for Angel?" Spike asked as he rubbed his throbbing head. Angel rolled his eyes and put his hand on his friends shoulder.
"I've been calling your name for two minutes!!! It's time to get to class, you can scam on that poor innocent girl another time. Now let's go!!" With that said Angel pulled the blue eyed young man out of his seat and out off the door. Ms. Taylor just shook her head and tried to remember why she became a teacher, it sure wasn't for the money.
Lunch or two classes later
"I saw that girl you were talking to in first and I'm sorry to tell you, she has a boyfriend." Spike's face fell as the words left Angel's lips.
He sighed and put his head on the table and sulked openly. He was hopping to see her again, his hopes really shot up when he went to third period and Ms. Hackett called the roll and he heard her name. Sadly she didn't come to class and his heart fell, with the news Angel just told him made it fell even more.
Heard a familiar voice and looked up to see the girl in question walk across the lunch room, a girl with long brown hair tide in a ponytail was at her side and two boys were following closely behind
"There she is." Spike whispered as she continued to walk past him. Angel put a hand on his friends shoulder sighed. "You are so whipped." Spike's head shot up and he glared at the spiky headed teen sitting beside him.
"What did you say peaches?" A chuckle was heard behind them and the pair turned around to see a two very amused girls standing behind them.
Spike rolled his eyes and continued to sulk now that Angel's attention was occupied by the curly haired brunette girl. She went over and sat by her boyfriend's side and gave him a quick peck on the lips. Angel smiled and fed the girl a french-fry off his plate, she giggled and the other two occupants of the table rolled their eyes.
Spike smirked. 'Who's whipped now?' he thought. The girl who was sitting next to him placed her hand on his head and stared at him in a worried manner.
"What's wrong?" Spike slapped her had away and sat up once more.
"I'm fine Faith," he said a little harshly. She frowned and hit him up said the head.
"Can you believe this Cordy?" The other girl just snickered and shook her head as she buried her head in her boyfriend's chest. Faith sighed and turned back to Spike.
"Why the sodden hell did you hit me in my fucking head!!!"
"Because I was being nice for a change and you had to ruin it by being a jack ass," Faith yelled just as loud as Spike. By now the two had an audience but they didn't care, they just keep at it while Angle and Cordy tried to break them up.
Once there little spat was over the two sat down just like nothing happened.
Cordy laughed as her boyfriend sat down beside her and he glared at the two teens that were now the best of friends again. Suddenly she turned serious as a girl walked past her in the cutest pair of shoes she had ever seen.
"Hey, where did you get your shoes?" Cordy asked as she stood and walked up to the girl.
She cocked her head to the side and thought for a moment. "They were a gift from one of my brothers." Cordy nodded and continued to ask her questions.
"I can't remember which one of them gave them to me but I'll ask." Cordy nodded happily and waited for the blond to retrieve her brothers, but she never went anywhere.
"Dean, Jer, get your asses over here!!!" Buffy yelled The entire cafeteria went silent and stared at the blond and the brunette. "What are you people looking at, don't you have lives?" After her outburst everything went back to normal and Dean and Jer walked over and stood by her side.
"You always have to make a scene, don't cha?" Dean asked. Buffy smiled up at him and nodded. She then turned her attention to Cordy and smiled.
"She wants to know where I got my shoes." Dean and Jer looked at her questionly and Buffy rolled her eyes. "One of you guys bought em' for me but I can't remember which?" She pouted to hold her case together.
"O, I bought those." Jer said looking down at Buffy's TUK black skater shoes. Buffy nodded telling him to go on so they could answerer the question of where they came from. "I bought a pair for Morgan and you at… Hot Topic."
"Cool now that the mystery is solved let's go." Buffy turned around only to crash into Dawn. "Ow."
"Sorry." Dawn mumbled as she bounced up and extended a hand to Buffy. She gladly accepted and Dawn helped her up. "Everyone left me so I came to see what was up. Are we kicking some ass?" Dawn asked hopefully. Buffy shook her head and Dawn frowned.
"Do you guys do that a lot?" Cordy asked curious as to why the girl called Dawn would ask that.
"Huh?" Buffy asked as she looked at Cordy. "You mean kick ass?" Cordy nodded and the four nodded and Cordy rubbed the back of her neck in awkwardness.
Buffy smirked and her eyes caught the sight of a familiar face. She smiled slightly and waved.
Spike waved back then made his way over to the group.
"I missed you in third period." Buffy glared at him then looked away as Dean's gazes turned to her.
"You cut class last period?" Dean asked angrily.
Cordy shook her head and turned to Spike. "You don't even know here and you making problems for her." Cordy shook her head sadly and walked away to take at seat by her boyfriend. The three friends watched Spike interact with the four siblings.
Buffy looked Dean in the eyes and smiled "I was with Jer," she said simply. Jer looked at her with a shocked expression and Buffy busted out laughing. "If I go down you gonna go with me."
Jer got a wicked smile on his face and grabbed Buffy and put her over his shoulder. "Put me down!!!" the blond teen yelled. Jer shook his head and started to spin around.
"Ahh!!! Jer put me down." Jer stopped spinning but made no attempt to put her down. She pouted and glared at Dean. "You're the oldest, why aren't you saving me from him." Dean smirked and walked over to her and ruffled her hair. "Not helping" Dawn and Spike laughed and she turned and looked up at him.
She smiled and he returned it. "They act like this almost all the time. I can't believe we're even related." Spike's smile faded and he thought about what she said. 'There related? So does that mean that those two are just her brothers and one of them isn't her boyfriend?' Spike asked himself.
"All four of you are brother and sister." Dawn nodded and Spike turned and glared at Angel. Angel stared at him questionly and when his gaze didn't go away he hid behind Cordy. She laughed and patted his head. Spike looked away and saw Jer put Buffy down.
"Thank you. After school we have to get something to eat because the food here might kill us." The tow boys nodded in agreement with their sister and started to walk away.
"Hey, wait for me!!!" Dawn yelled as she ran in their direction. She sun around and waved at Spike. "It was nice to meet you." Spike smiled and waved and she stepped into toe with her siblings.
Buffy stopped and turned around and gave him a small wave. After that she walked out of the cafeteria with the other three teens behind her.
After School
"Buffy we gotta go!!!" Dean yelled out the driver's side window. She growled and Dean rolled his eyes and turned on the radio.
"I'll see ya latter ok?" Spike nodded and Buffy smirked and jumped in the back seat. Jer and Dawn sighed in happiness while Dean just sped out of the parking lot; Buffy just continued to smirk.
She was happy about something that didn't have o do with her brothers or sister for the first time in a long time. After lunch was over she headed off to fourth period and to her surprise and pleasure Spike was there. They didn't have much work to do so once they were done they talked for the rest of the period and got to know each other better.
"Don't get too attached, ok?" Jer said as he looked back at her. She broke out of her trance and gave him a questioning look.
"What he means is don't get to close to the boy." Dean said filling in for Jer who was at a loss of words. Dan looked at Buffy and saw the emotion that played on her face. At that moment she felt sorry for her sister for the first time in a long time.
She knew Buffy had a bad past with guys but that's about all she knew. The things that she did know weren't pretty but the ones that she didn't know were worse.
"I understand." Buffy said sadly. She hung her head and stayed quit for the rest of the ride home. She knew her brothers were just looking out for her but sometimes she wanted to actually have a life that didn't revolve around them and Dawn.
"So what happened?" Angel asked Spike as the two rode in his silver Hybrid. The two boys were on there way to Angel's house since his parents were both out of town on business. Both his parents were lawyers and were out of town a lot.
"She said she would see me tomorrow. We talked in class but that's about it." Angel nodded and stopped at a red light.
"What did you guts talk about?"
"Nothing really. She's a pretty quite girl, except when she's around her sib's." Angel took that in and took off as the light changed.
"How did you get your license?"
Angel smirked. "The same way everyone does, flirt with the instructor. "Spike let out a chuckle and before they knew it they were in front of Angel's house… or mansion. Angel pulled up to the gate and put in the pass code and the gates opened, they drove threw and they closed behind them.
"Bloody show off" Spike mumbled. Angel smirked and they got out of the car and made there way up the few steps to get to the door. Angel unlocked it and they walked in. Immediately Spike flopped down on the white sofa and grabbed the remote. He turned the T.V on and started flipping to one show after another. Angel rolled his eyes and
"Connor?" Angel called.
Footsteps could be heard coming down the steps and soon a brown headed boy with a pair of ripped blue jeans and a plain black t-shirt was standing half way at the bottom of the stairs.
"Yeah?" the boy asked wanting to know why he was kneaded and what for. Angel smiled and beckoned him to come all the way down the stairs. Connor rolled his eyes and finished making his way down and stood in front of Angel so there was only about five feet between them.
"Why weren't you at school today?" Angel asked calmly know if her lost his temper now there would be no reasoning with him.
He sighed and ran his hand threw his hair so it wasn't in his face. "I didn't feel like going so I didn't go."
Angel took deep calming breaths so he wouldn't yell. Spike turned off the T.V and decided to watch the two step siblings go at it since it would be better that anything that was on T.V at the time.
"I thought I told you that you can't do what you want whenever you feel like it." Connor rolled his eyes and walked up the stairs, not bothering to answer as Angel called his name.
"Wow that was something." Angel sighed and sat down beside Spike and looked up at the ceiling ignoring Spike's earlier comment.
Things had been that way between the two step siblings ever since his, dad, John, married Connor's mom, Darla. Angel tried to be nice but all Connor wanted was to be left alone. John and Darla were hardly ever there but when they were they made the best of there time with the two of them. He sighed and thought about what he could do to make a fifteen year old listen to him.
"Buffy? The phone's for you." Buffy smiled slightly and walked out the kitchen door and up the stairs to get the phone in her room. After the chat in the car her happiness had been washed away. The three watched her go and Dawn looked angrily at her older brothers.
"What?" Dean asked with a puzzled look on his face. Dawn sighed. 'The both of them are oblivious to the fact,' she thought as she looked at Jer who had a similar look on his face.
"The both of you made her this way with you you're gonna be alone the rest of your life speech."
Dean frowned and scratched his head. "We never said anything like that." Jer nodded in agreement with Dean.
Dawn sighed. She knew some guys were stupid but she at least thought her brothers would be an acceptation. "You might as well have. Ever time she likes someone you ruin it or make sure she doesn't get close enough to experience anything. She doesn't want to be alone her whole life and you shouldn't want her to e either. "
Jer and Dean looked at their little sister in awe. They had never heard her talk like this before. Dean decided to hear what else she had to say. He loved his sister and he wanted to protect her from everything, her past way rough and that's why he acted the way he did towards her.
"We don't want her to be alone. She won't be alone; she has the three of us. Don't forget Sam, Holly, and Morgan." Jer said. Dean remained in thought and Dawn rolled her eyes at Jer.
"She will have us but have you notice a pattern with the people you just named, Holly is with Sam and you are with Morgan."
"You and Dean don't have anyone to call your own." Jer shot back
"You are so annoying." She got out of chair and stumped up out of the room and up the stairs. A minute later you could hear the sound of a door slam echo threw the house, music soon followed.
"We should listen to her. Have you seen Buffy as happy as she was today?" Dean asked. Jer looked at him shocked but shook his head no to his question.
"I want to make sure she's safe and well taken care of, maybe the way to do that is to let her try something on her own. She did mess up and get hurt in the past but we all make mistakes. We learn and grow from them too." Dean sighed tired of all the speechifying he was doing and thought it would be best if he went to his room.
He stood and walked to the door, He turned and looked back at Jer, "Think about it, ok?" With that said he walked up the stairs and left Jer alone to his thoughts.
With Buffy
"Ok, I'll tell them and we'll come get you guys.
"Thanks Buffy. I knew if I had of told Dawn she would have freaked and I didn't wanna be the cause of that. Dean would have handled it well but you might need him to hold Jer back."
Buffy smiled as best as she could. "We'll be there so just ask Holly to pack you guys some bags cause I know you don't want to leave her side right now. We'll be there soon ok Sam?"
He nodded on the other sine even though she couldn't see him. "Ok. See ya soon." He hung up and Buffy heard stomping up the stairs and then the slam of the door next to her room.
'That must be Dawn,' Buffy thought. 'I wonder what's wrong with her.' She surged it off and thought it would be best to leave her alone once she heard Linkin Park blasting from her speakers.
What felt like a drop of water fell and hit Buffy in the arm. She looked at the ceiling to see where it was coming from but stopped and felt her face as she felt something roll down face face. She was crying and she hadn't even realized it.
She wiped most of them away but stopped as she head footsteps coming up the stairs. By the sound of them she could easily tell it was Dean, they were loud enough for her to hear over Dawn's roaring music. She got up off the floor and headed out the door.
Dean was halfway down the hay when he herd someone call his room. He turned around and saw Buffy; he took in her current state and rushed to her side.
She had changed since she had gotten home and now had on a baggy pair of sweet pants and a long t-shirt that went to her knees. But the cloths didn't bother Dean it was her face that mad him worry. Buffy's face was stained with tears and her eyes were puffy and red, her hair was messy and some was sticking to her tear stained face.
"Buffy what's wrong?" Buffy didn't speak she just latched onto Dean and held onto him for dear life. They sat like that for a minute or so until Buffy spoke. "I… I got a call from Sam." She sniffed and wiped her silent tears away. "He said that Holly's in the hospital."
Dean instantly palled at Buffy words and stared out into space. "She's lost a lot of blood but the doctors say that she's gonna be ok." Buffy said shakily.
"What happened?" Dean asked Buffy shook her head and continued to cry harder. "What happened?" Dean asked more firmly, he had his supplications but he wanted to her it from Buffy.
"It was her father. He… beat her." Dean held Buffy tighter as she cried into his shirt and he rocked her back and fourth.
Dean had no idea how they were going to tell Jer but they would deal with it later. Right now he needed to take care of his sister.
AN: So how did you like this second chapter? I know it looked like I gave up on this fic but I didn't so please read and review. Suggestions are very welcome and chapter three should be up soon. Revies help me updated faster. Lol.