DAUGHTER OF MINE
Disclaimer- All recognizable characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and etc. I own Jamie and one other character that will make an appearance.
Note- I'm really jazzed about this fic lately, hopefully updates for other stories will be coming soon.
Note2- Finally some Giles/Joyce interaction.
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Chapter 9
After half an hour of searching Buffy found Jamie sitting on the bleachers over looking the football field. She sat next him. "Hey."
He nodded. "Hey."
"How's your head?" Buffy asked.
Jamie felt the cut. "Healing. I'll be fine."
Buffy stared at the bleacher in front of them. "Good, I'm glad. I… well I guess I wanted to thank you. For what you did. In the locker room. For me and Willow."
Jamie smirked wryly. "Isn't that what big brothers do? Protect their little sisters?"
Buffy studied him. "Yeah, I guess it is. I never had a big brother before." She broke into a grin. "I could get used to it."
Jamie glanced at her. "Yeah?"
"Yeah. I heard Scott Hope almost wet himself when you told everyone I was your sister." Buffy sighed happily. "I wish I could have been there."
Jamie laughed. "I could always do it again, see if I get the same reaction?"
Buffy linked her arm through his and rested her head on his shoulder. "Nah, it's alright. I'll just have a little 'conversation' with him."
They fell silent, just looking down at the grassy field, comfortable to be in each other's company.
Buffy broke the silence. "You feel it too, right?"
Jamie looked down at her. "Feel what?"
Buffy rolled her eyes at him. "The connection between us, like something was finally put right. I mean we've always been comfortable around each other, but when Willow said, well you know what she said, it just clicked. Like it all made sense."
"Yeah, I feel it too."
Buffy played with Jamie's sleeve. "I'm not going to take him away from you, you know. I would never try that."
"What?"
Buffy ploughed on. "And I'm not his favourite either, he loves you. In fact he probably loves you more, you've always been his son, and I've just been his slayer."
"Buffy."
Buffy ignored his protests. "And it's not like I've been a perfect slayer anyway. I mean what kind of slayer falls in love with a vampire?"
Jamie grabbed her hand. "A vampire?"
Buffy nodded. "I thought he wouldn't have told you. He's name's Angel, formerly known as Angelus."
Jamie's eyes widened. "The Scourge of Europe? He's a monster!"
"No, he's not. He has a soul now, he's been helping us."
Jamie ran a hand through his hair. "Dad told me Angelus was here, I just didn't think he meant he was helping."
Buffy lowered her eyes. "He didn't always. He started off just giving me warnings chock full of crypticness. Then he started helping me fight, after I got over the vampire thing of course. We kind of had a thing, not that we could actually say we were dating before the whole snake in the frat house thing."
"Dad told me about that, you were almost eaten."
Buffy smiled. "Yeah, and it made Angel ask me out for coffee. So we started dating, along with dealing with his childe."
"William the Bloody or Drusilla, or was the Puritan Penn?"
Buffy arched her eyebrow at him. "Did your research. It was Spike and Dru. That Penn guy hasn't come to Sunnydale, yet anyway. How do you know so much about him? I had to drag the whole story out piece by piece."
Jamie shrugged. "I did a paper on him for the Watchers Academy."
"Oh, fair enough. Anyway, so we were dating and then on the night of birthday, or what I thought was my birthday, one thing lead to another." Buffy took a deep breath, her eyes tearing as memories ran through her mind. "And he lost his soul. He spent the next couple of months doing everything he could to break me, he didn't just want to kill me he wanted to drive me insane first, just like he did to Drusilla."
"Oh god, Buffy…"
"Giles told you about Jenny, right?"
Jamie nodded. "Yeah, they were going out but she kept a really big secret from him."
Buffy nodded. "She was part of the clan that cursed Angel to begin with, she was sent to make sure he wasn't happy. I was angry at her, and therefore so was Giles. They were starting to work everything out, she found a way to restore Angel's soul but somehow Angelus found out and he killed her. He left her on Giles's bed for him to find. Later he even tortured Giles, physically and mentally, so he could find out how to open that Acathla demon. We fought, Willow restored his soul at the last minute and I had to send Angel to hell."
Jamie wrapped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. "So that's why you ran away?"
Buffy nodded, wiping away a few tears that had fallen. "Yeah, I wanted to give up slaying altogether. I didn't though; I ended up coming home, dating Scott, meeting Faith and caring for Angel when he returned from hell."
Jamie looked shocked. "He returned?"
"Yep, and he's almost back to normal. And it's tearing Giles up that Angel is back but Jenny isn't. There's so much that he should hate me for, Jamie. There's so much that I should have been able to do for him, I couldn't. I couldn't kill Angelus and that's why Jenny's dead." Buffy sighed. "That's why I ran last night, amoung other things, and that's why I had to talk to him. He said he didn't blame me for Jenny's death, he doesn't blame me for any of it."
"And that's good, right?"
Buffy gave a ghost of a smile. "Yeah, it is."
Jamie gave her shoulders a squeeze. "So that means you should stop blaming yourself."
"See what I mean, it's like we've known each other for years." Buffy said, not acknowledging his meaning. She looked up at him. "You know so much about me and I know so little about you. Tell me about your life, Jamie."
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Giles sat at the table, his head in his hands, berating himself. How could he have been so stupid? He knew Jamie had 'issues' with him, and he just what? Attacked him over standing up for his sister and her best friend?
His head jerked up as the library doors opened with a crash. Joyce stormed through, her hair a mess of knots and she had obviously just put on the first thing she had pulled out. She worried her hands.
"Where is she? Where's Buffy?" Her voice was panicky and high.
Giles quickly pushed back his chair. He gently grabbed her arms, pulling her hands apart. "She's fine. She just went to find Jamie."
Joyce exhaled, her tense body suddenly becoming limp. She rested her forehead against his chest. "Oh, thank god. I thought she was dead."
She started to sob. Giles wrapped his arms around her, whispering soothing nothings into her hair.
Joyce pulled back, tears flowing freely down her face. "I don't want my little girl to die, Rupert."
Giles's heart clenched in his chest, he hadn't really thought about it. He swallowed past the lump in his throat. "Neither do I, Joyce. And I'm going to do everything I can to stop that from happening."
"You two haven't been eating band candy again have you?" Buffy's slightly amused voice broke in. She and Jamie stood in the doorway.
Joyce ran over to her and squeezed her tightly. "Buffy, I thought you were hurt." She pulled back. "What were you thinking? I stayed up all night! I thought you might have been hurt! I thought you might be dead! Is it too much to ask that you call when you're not coming home?"
Buffy fidgeted. "Mom, I can explain." Her eyes darted around the room.
Joyce crossed her arms over her chest, her foot tapping against the floor. "Well, I'm waiting."
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