TODAY
�Buffy can you come in here for a second?� Joyce called from the living room.
Buffy slowly turned from the door and hightailed it in to the living room. Sitting on the
couch was Joyce and in the chair was a man she had grow to love.
�Buffy, how nice to see you again.� Giles said smiling at her.
�Giles, Mom, what�s going on?� Buffy asked setting her bag down, and sitting
next to her mom.
�Well Buffy, I came to let you in on some good news, Riley was picked up this
morning, he is now in jail awaiting a trial.�
The look on Buffy�s face told them she could not have been happier. She could
finally move on with her life fully. Her whole life she had messed up, but today she could
make a good choice. There was only one problem she had left to fix. Him, the guy who
had been the means of almost all of Buffy�s problems. Spike.
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6 months ago
�Mom I am going out to study at the library, be back late.� Buffy yelled as she
grabbed her keys and headed out the door. Pulling her bag up she tossed in inside the cab
of her truck. Change later she thought. She pealed out of the drive way and was on her
way to the next towns hang out. The Bronze, a place in a town about 20 minutes away,
but it seemed like a world away to Buffy. Tonight she was meeting James, at lest that�s
what she thought his name was. Pulling in to Sunnydale, this town was weird she thought.
Once at the club she hooked up with the guy and they made their way to the back
rooms. Once inside one of the rooms, it took seconds for the guy �James� to start
touching her. Buffy knew the drill, he touched her, she would please him any way he
wanted. She been doing this for a little over six months, and every time it was the same.
Being know as the slut from L.A. helped bring the guys to her faster.
Once things got started, �James� took only minutes to be pleased them he
dismissed her. She wondered around the club for a short time. She never got any thing
real out of these nights, just some moment that she did not have to think of every thing
else that hurt her. The feeling of want was something Buffy wanted all to often.
Buffy left the club, and made her way to the truck only to be stopped by some guy
in her face. Buffy stepped by him. �Just going to act like I don�t exists little one?�
It took seconds to put the voice to a name. Spike, the one and only great guy.
Turning around with a smile on her face she ran over to give him a hug.
�So what�s little miss been up to tonight at the clubs? Got some hot guy your
meeting now? Did you miss me?�
Laughing at him, Buffy nodded. It had been four years since that night with
Parker. Spike her savory was back.
�Oh just a bit of hopping, no man, and Spike I missed you more then I would miss
the sun.� Buffy pulled him to her truck. They started talking, when Spike brought up the
topic of sex, Buffy started to break down.
Since that night Parker tried to rape her, she had felt useless. After that night
Buffy started sleeping with guys just to feel wanted. Buffy had only been 12 at the time
she meet Spike for the first time. By the time she was 16 she had been with 32 different
guys.
�Buffy I have to tell you something, but don�t take this the wrong way. I have
always had a want for you to be my girl, my lover, my friend. A want that would not go
away, its been there since we meet. Sorry Buffy.� Spike said as he turned away from
Buffy.
Spike�s face was beat red, and he was staring at the ground. Buffy�s eyes never
left him, she moved closer putting him in to her embrace. She kissed his cheek, and lifted
his head, to kiss his lips.
****The moment sealed Buffy and Spike�s wild relationship. For four months it
seemed Buffy would only want to be with him. But soon it turned bad, it was the being of
her senior year in L.A. and Buffy hated going to school. She still was branded a slut, it
took one night to push her back to her old ways.
Spike called Buffy to his place one night. She told him she couldn�t come, to
much work, but told him maybe she could come by tomorrow.
�Buffy you show up tonight or there will be no tomorrow�s for you.� Spike
threaten her for the first tie. Buffy�s only choice was to show up. Once she stepped foot
in the door she could smell smoke and beer. She could see Spike talking on the phone,
and two guys she did not know on the couch. Seeing Buffy there he put down the phone
and pulled her in to the bedroom.
Buffy was use to the meaning less sex, she and Spike had, but it was different this
time. Spike did not take long, never did to be pleased. But instead of leaving her he
looked in to her eyes. �You lying little whore, what were you going to do tonight, fuck
some nameless guy? Who slut?� Spike started screaming. Buffy started crying. Seconds
later a hand crossed her face, leaving the feeling of sorrow and death. Spike had hit her,
and it hurt. Buffy tired to get up but spike pulled her back. HE continued to beat the crap
out of her until the door opened.
�Hey dude, she is here, with the kid.� A guys voice said from the doorway.
�Stay slut, you move and you wont see tomorrow.� Spike told Buffy, but she
would not. Opening the window she climbed out and walked to the parking lot. She
watched a young black haired girl and a boy, no older then four standing at Spike�s door.
Spike answered it, giving the women a huge kiss and squeezed her ass.
Buffy�s mental break down waited until she got to the truck. Once inside it all
came out, tears, blood and curses. Pulling out, she drove to the Bronze. There she could
find some mindless guy to fuck. Pulling off the highway at the Sunnydale exit she went
through the stop sign. It was to late to think, a bigger truck plowed in to the side of hers.
Sending her spinning to the side of the road. A tall, dark haired man stepped out of the
Ford 350. Running to help her, the man could see no damage to either vehicle.
�Are you ok, miss?� He yelled in to the truck. Buffy nodded, thanking the man
for checking on her and she pulled away. Pulling in to a near by parking lot, and got the
first look at what Spike had done to her.
The marks healed fast, but the emotional feeling stayed for along time. And Buffy
stayed with Spike. The relationship was normal, but the beatings happened when Spike
drank and that happed more and more often. Ever time he beat her, Spike would have
�Dru� over.
Dru was Spike�s so called ex girlfriend. The kid not his, but he treated him as it
was Spikes on son. Even when he was drunk he ever hurt Dru or the kid, but Buffy.
And this drove the poor girl back to her life of sex, and late nights.
Buffy stayed Spikes lover and a little slut until one night happened. It was a
Thursday night when she got a call on her cell phone. A guy named �Doug� got her
number from a friend and asked her if she would meet him at the hotel why he was in
town. She left Joyce a note saying she was going out and would be back, really late. As
she backed out of the drive a small car came down the street. Joyce watched as Buffy�s
truck pulled away. Joyce decided to follow her daughter.
When Buffy pulled in to the hotel parking lot, her phone rang again. It was Spike
she choose not to answer it. She saw the guy waiting on the park bench out side, he was
much older then her, but she need tonight. He stood up wrapped his arms around the little
girl, kissing her he whispered in her ear �I got a room lets go up.�
Joyce could not believe her eyes. It killed her to see this, but she knew something
had to be done. She drove home and made phone call after phone call. She wanted to
help her daughter. Joyce knew Buffy was doing this for attention. Something must have
happened between that one boy Spike. Joyce called a lot of people and finally got a hold
of Jenny a social worker. Jenny told Joyce to bring Buffy in only when Buffy was ready.
Buffy sat on the edge of the bed. She could smell the smoke of his cigarette. She
knew he was not done with her. She sat there naked, wanting to cry out loud. His hand
touched her back, and she rolled over to him. At lest he wanted her for more then one
wild ride. Buffy was not sure she would make it through the night.
After midnight, Buffy pulled in to the drive. She forced her self up the stairs and
into the shower. Joyce hear Buffy walk in and so she went to Buffy�s room. Sat down in
a chair and waited. After a few minutes Buffy came in, very surprised to see her mother in
there. The look on her mothers face said it all. This poor girl, had been through a year of
hotel room, back rooms, cars and many unknown buildings, just to end up breaking down
in her own room. Buffy dropped to the floor and let her mother in to the life she had keep
her out of. She told her every thing, the guys from school, the older guys, Spike, and her
problems. Both women sat there and cried for hours.
Joyce and Buffy fell asleep in Joyce�s bed and the two slept for hours. In the
morning it was a fresh start. The two stronger women made plans for a total new life. It
would take work and time, but they could do it only with each other.