Statement of Buffy Summers, Taken by caseworker Shannon Delahunt of the Disciplinary Office
Delahunt: State your name for the record, please.
Summers: Buffy Anne Summers.
Delahunt: Buffy is your real name?
S: (Sigh) Yes, it is. You can check my file if you don’t believe me.
D: That won’t be necessary. Now: you attended the party at the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house on the night of the alleged incident?
S: Yes.
D: You *are* aware that twenty-one is the legal drinking age in California?
S: Yes, which is why I wasn’t planning on drinking.
D: I’m afraid that’s not good enough. By school regulations, you’re not even supposed to attend parties where alcohol is served.
S: I know. Now.
D: Ignorance of the rules is no defense, Ms. Summers.
S: I know. Look, can’t we get off me and get to the real reason we’re here?
D: Just trying to get all of the facts straight. Now. You were approached by Mr. Edwards.
S: Yes.
D: And he gave you a cup of punch.
S: Yes.
D: I’m confused. I thought you said you weren’t planning on drinking.
S: I know that this sounds *hideously* naïve, but I didn’t assume that the punch was alcoholic.
D: That *would* be naïve. But I don’t think you’re naïve, Ms. Summers.
S: Honestly, I wasn’t even thinking about it. My boyfriend was really late, I was getting worried, and this guy handed me a drink. I just drank it to be polite.
D: Ms. Summers, I assume that you attended "Safe Party Training" during Orientation? Learned not to accept drinks from strangers or leave your drink unattended?
S: I told you, I wasn’t thinking about it.
D: Apparently not.
S: Why are you grilling me like this? This isn’t *my* hearing!
D: Ms. Summers…
S: A half-hour after drinking that *one* drink he gave me, I was so completely knocked out that my boyfriend had to carry me home! Parker had to do the same for Willow! Then he finally gets lucky with Sung. Doesn’t that form a pattern for you?
D: Please calm down, Ms. Summers.
S: Since this happened, I’ve been hearing things around campus. Stories about Phi Kap, how it isn’t a safe place for women to go. Come to think of it, there weren’t many women older than sophomores at that party…
D: Are you saying that you never heard these rumors *before* the party you attended?
S: I wasn’t listening for them. I’m just a first-semester First year, I haven’t really had time to pick up all the campus knowledge yet.
D: Interesting.
S: Have you *heard* what his nickname is among his frat brothers?
D: Yes, Ms. Summers, we have. He claims that they gave it to him out of envy for his high success rate with women.
S: ‘Success’ is easy when a woman is unconscious.
D: That’s a very strong allegation, Ms. Summers. And you have very little evidence to support it.
S: I’m *giving* my evidence.
D: No. You’re making unsupported accusations and repeating rumors.
S: Excuse me?
D: Look at it from our point of view, Ms. Summers: your "evidence" amounts to your word against his. Perhaps things happened as you said, but there are other options. Consider this scenario: Ms. Olsen has a one-night stand with Mr. Edwards and is upset to discover that he’s no longer interested in her in the morning. She decides to punish him, and you and Ms. Rosenberg, as her friends, agree to help.
S: I never even *met* Sung before—
D: Please let me finish, Ms. Summers. All of you have heard the rumors about Phi Kappa Sigma and have even heard of Mr. Edwards’ nickname, so you believe that they’ll be vulnerable to certain accusations.
S: Are you pulling this *directly* out of Darren’s ass?
D: There’s no need for that kind of language, Ms. Summers. It certainly won’t help your case at *your* disciplinary hearing.
S: You know what? You’re a joke. Your entire office—your entire *system*—is a joke. You’re just trying to cover your legal asses. The fact that an *eighteen-year-old-girl* has been *raped* doesn’t matter to you.
D: Ms. Summers, if you don’t have anything useful left to say, this meeting is over.
S: I guess we’re done, then. Because nothing I say is going to be ‘useful’ as long as I’m talking to you.
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