Chapter 2
Rome
Dawn was finally home. She had been out on a date with a new guy she had met from a friend at school. He was nice with black hair and beautiful big brown eyes, of course he was Italian. They had dinner and went to the movies. Dawn hated the movies in Rome, everything was in Italian and although she now spoke the language quit well she still was used to hearing English at the movies. It was new but it made her really miss home. Not too many things made her miss home, that place held too many bad memories for her but living there, learning everything she had to, and missing the last half year of school put her ahead of the game. She had excelled in the home schooling Buffy had given her and by the time she was tested in Rome to go back to regular school she was able to skip a whole grade and go to her new school as a senior. That made Buffy so proud, but afraid that Dawn was growing up too fast. She wanted to show Dawn the world, let her see and do things Buffy herself never got to do but all in all she was very pleased.
Dawn had taught herself several new languages in her time as Watcher Junior. She learned Latin, Spanish, Greek, and Italian. She loved every minute of it. She hated school but the research into the apocalypse gave her a renewed appreciation of higher education. They needed information, lots of it, and she crammed so much into her brain that year that she felt she couldn’t stop when it was over. She had become obsessed with history, languages, and geography. Anything that could help them then and now to fight against the forces of evil, it made her feel needed somehow. It was then she decided that she would graduate from high school and go on to college to aid in her quest to become a Watcher. Buffy didn’t know this but by the time she was finished school; she would be old enough to make her own decisions about what she would do with her life.
She walked into the door of the apartment she shared with her sister and Andrew of course to find Buffy towering over a very scared looking Andrew. He had huddled all the way into the corner of the couch until he almost disappeared into the cushions. Buffy was screaming about something and Dawn was determined to find out what. She ran over to the two intending to get involved until her sister swung around and gave her that don’t-even-open-your-mouth look, so Dawn just stood there a listened to what was going on.
“How could you Andrew? How could you lie to my face and continue to stay here as if you did nothing? I can’t believe you, you have some big brass ones boy. I think you better start talking before I rip them off of you.” Buffy said to Andrew only inches from his face.
Andrew put his hands up in a defensive posture before he said anything. “Buffy please, I can explain. Just…….. Could you please back up a little, I think I may…….. piss my pants.”
Buffy backed up a little but not much. She didn’t have any intentions of letting him off even a little easy. “Fine but you better make it good because I have just about had it with people lying to me.”
Andrew put his feet on the ground and tried to settle down a bit. He has seen Buffy this upset before but it was never directed solely at him before, well except for that time at the hell mouth when they tried to close the seal.
“Okay, I did know about Spike but before you say anything…..he made me promise not to tell you. We are amigos, buds, bestest friends and telling his secret would have been evil and I don’t do evil anymore. I’m one of the good guys now. The Angel thing, well, I didn’t know that Giles wasn’t working with you on that one; he said you were making the decisions, and who was I to question that. I’m sorry Buffy, I should have told you everything but………you always seem to not want to hear about anything going on with the new council. You said this was your new life and I didn’t want to bring you down. You seem so happy now. I’m really sorry…..please…….ppplease…. don’t kick me out…..I…I…don’t have anywhere else to go.”
Andrew at this point had started to cry and Buffy started to feel her rage ebb a bit at this. She was still mad at all of them but hearing Andrew state his feelings for not hurting Buffy or going back on his word, made her feel a small amount of pride for this boy. He had come a long way since his days as a bad guy, well; he never was a very good bad guy anyway.
“I didn’t say I was kicking you out.” Buffy slumped her shoulders and walked over to the chair across from Andrew. She ran her hands thru her hair and let out a huge sigh. “Now, tell me everything that happened with that Slayer in LA, and I mean everything Andrew, including what was said with Spike. I know he is alive now so your pact with him is void. So spill.”
“Wait……what did you just say? Because I thought you just said Spike was alive.” Dawn had just jumped up from the chair she was sitting on and moved closer to the two. “Are you joking or what, cause that’s so not funny?”
“Dawnie please, just sit down, Andrew is about to tell us a nice story of something that happened not long ago that he never bother to mention before. I think we all will be interested in this little tale. By the way Spike is alive apparently and decided not to tell us, can you feel the love?” Buffy was a sarcastic as she could be stating this to Dawn but she was so shocked at this news that she barely noticed. She walked over and plopped down next to Andrew and waited for what he was about to say. In the back of her mind she new this shouldn’t be upsetting for her, not after living in Sunnydale and having her own sister coming back from the dead not once but twice.
Andrew took that as his cue and began to spill the whole tale to the room including when he left all the way thru to Spike getting his arms cut off by that crazed Slayer.
Buffy never said a word during his debriefing; she just sat there staring at him soaking in every word he said. He finished up his tale with his words to Angel, trying to describe for her the hurt and angry look on his face. I made him feel extremely bad for doing this to Angel but he felt he was doing his job and had no other choice. At the end of this conversation he saw his first reaction from Buffy. She stiffened at his words to Angel and he saw the same hurt look in her eyes that he had witnessed in Angel’s. That soon turned to a hot leer as she again rose from her chair and began to pace the room in front of him.
Dawn watched her pace for several minutes and got tired of waiting. She knew Buffy was thinking about everything Andrew had just told them but she had some questions to ask herself. “Buffy, please stop pacing. I think we need to find Spike and ask him what the hell. How could he come back and not tell us? He knew how much he meant to us, I just don’t understand. And hello, working with Angel, I thought he hated Angel.”
“Dawn wait, I just need to think. No….better yet, I think I should call Giles. He has some major explaining to do. I can’t wait to hear his little version of this one.” Buffy walked over to the phone and began to dial the number then quickly dropped it back down into the receiver. “I think I need to talk to Mort first.” She walked out of the room leaving a confused Dawn and Andrew to wonder what was going on in her mind.
“Well, that was intense; I think I need a drink.” Andrew got up from the couch leaving Dawn alone in the living room. She couldn’t believe everything she had just heard. Spike was alive, living in LA, and working with Angel of all people. If she hadn’t heard it for herself she would have never believed it. How could he not tell them he was alive? Didn’t he say that he cared about them? She was getting angrier by the minute and had no idea what to do about it. There was only one person she could think about to talk to, Willow. She had her cell number and every so often would call her on advice on school things. She gave her updates about Buffy since Buffy would not talk to her. Willow would know what to do. She grabbed her cell phone and left the apartment.
Buffy walked into her bedroom, closed the door, and began to pace the floor again. Yes, she wanted to call Giles and ask him if what Andrew had told her was the whole truth. In fact she knew Andrew had spoken the truth to her. She had gotten to know him pretty well in the past year or two and could always tell when he lied. She just wanted to hear it from Giles himself. He lied to Angel, he lied to Andrew, and hell he even kind of lied to Buffy by not telling her the whole truth about Andrew’s little trip. He once again went behind her back and done underhanded things in her name. She was pissed and would make sure Giles knew just how much.
She walked over to the phone and called the Immortal. She had asked a favor from him and before she called Giles she needed to make sure what she had asked was done. The phone rang once then twice and she was about to hang up when he finally answered. “Yes dear.” She loved the sound of his voice so low and sweet. “Did you do it?” “It’s done my love.” He almost whispered back. “Thank you….thank you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me.” He giggled, “Anything for you dear. I will see you later, yes.” He asked her sweetly. “Of course.” She stated flatly, and then hung up the phone. Buffy slumped down on the bed and began to quietly sob.
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