Mine To Take

Chapter Eleven
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Buffy walked into the Bronze and scanned the room for her friends. She found them halfway across the room and hurried over to them. She knew Spike was lurking behind her somewhere, but since she thought he was an ass, she
didn't care. She was there to have a good time and not worry about him.

Willow smiled at her as she sat down. "Hey Buffy. What took you so long?"

Buffy grimaced and nodded her head towards the corner table Spike settled himself in. "I got a *talking too* from Spike about not waiting for him. He kept me in front of Restfield for ten minutes."

Everyone laughed as Buffy made a face, and they knew what she thought of that talk he gave to her.

"I know he is under orders from Angelus to make sure nothing happens but still. Lecturing me? Please." She griped before Xander pulled her outta her chair to dance with him since Cordelia refused.

"Hey Red, when Fluffy comes back, tell her I stepped outside for a smoke." Spike said, startling Willow as he leaned in to make sure she heard him. She jumped then turned and nodded her head. "Thanks Red."

She watched as Spike walked out of the club before she turned her attention back to her friends who were still out on the dance floor. Finally as a slow song came on, Buffy headed back towards the table as Cordy and Xander coupled up.

"Xander offered to let me dance with Cordelia, but she didn't think it was funny." Buffy told Willow beofre the two started to crack up.

~~******~~

Buffy sighed as she looked around for Spike. He'd been gone for a good twenty minutes since he last said he was going for yet another smoke. She decided not to wait around for him, and started to walk home on her own. She
got two blocks from the Bronze when she heard footsteps behind her.

She stopped still and turned around, thinking it was Spike. She was surprised to find a guy she had seen a few times at the club. She noticed how he was staring at her as he walked down the sidewalk.

"You're Buffy right?" He asked as he stopped right in front of her.

"Yeah. Do I know you?" she asked, as she tried to unobtrusively look around for Spike. She was getting a weird vibe off of this guy and didn't want to be alone with him.

"Not officially. I've seen you at the Bronze quite a few times. Been wanting to ask you to dance, but your normally surrounded by some big goon." He stepped so close to her she could feel his breath on her face.

Buffy wrinkled her nose and took a few steps back. "Who are you?" she asked as she watched him take another step towards her.

"Riley. Riley Finn." the shaggy haired college boy replied. He grinned at her before taking yet another step towards her.

"Look, Riley, it's nice meeting you and all, but I have to get home." she turned to walk away when he suddenly grasped her arm and spun her around. "Get the hell off me."

Riley tightened his hand on her thin arm and pulled her towards him. He slid his other hand over her arm to grasp it also in his tight grip. She gasped and he smiled. "This is better isn't it?" He said just before she tried to pull away.

Riley tightened his grip on her arms and yanked her forward causing her to stumble into his. He wrapped his arms tightly around her keeping her held to his chest. He leant his head down just as he was ripped away from her and
spun around. Before he had time to look at his assailant he was hit hard and knocked unconcious.

Buffy swallowed her fear and looked up into Spike's angry face. "You couldn't have waited for me, could you, you stupid bint." He ranted as he took in her shocked, angry face. He watched as her eyes narrowed as she listened to him.

"Wait for you? WAIT FOR YOU? I didn't even know where the hell you were! You disappeared to go smoke, AGAIN, and I waited for you but you didn't show!" she practically yelled at him before she suddenly burst into tears.

Spike stood there looking at her in complete and utter shock. ~What the hell  am I supposed to do now? Damn Angelus and damn him making me babysit the bint.~ he thought to himself before he stepped on the boy to get to the crying girl.

Buffy stiffened in surprise as Spike pulled her uneasily into his arms. When he tightened his arms a little though she gasped in pain. He pulled back suddenly and looked down at her arms. They were already starting to form bruises in the shape of handprints.

"Are you ok, pet?" Spike asked quietly as he started to lead her towards Revello Drive. "Anywhere else hurt, other than your arms?"

"He squeezed me a little tight, but not too bad." she mumbled as he nodded his head.

"Are you going to tell Angelus or am I?" he asked as they stood in front of her front door.

"Does he have to know? I mean, if he doesn't get back till after the bruises go away, why does he need to know?"

"Because it'll only make it bad for you if he finds out from me, pet. You need to tell him. Someone touched what is his. You know that. I know that. *He* will know that. And then that boy back there, will also know that." Spike replied as Buffy shuddered at the thought of what Angelus would do to the despicable Riley Finn.

"I......i'll tell him." she whispered before she went inside.

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Chapter Twelve
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Buffy sighed as she looked at her arms. The bruises she sustained from Riley a few nights before were almost faded. She knew by the next day she would be able to wear tank tops and sleeveless tops again. It was much to hot to keep wearing long sleeved shirts.

Well, not to mention Xander almost caught her sleeve on fire in science that day. She giggled as she
remembered the look of abject horror on the teachers face before Willow hurriedly distinguished Xanders
burner. Mr. Smitty practically snarled at Xander while he was telling him how not paying attention almost
caused some major damage. Xander just sat there looking sheepish. It wasn't funny at the time, she had to
admit, but after, she and Willow got a good laugh out of it.

She looked over at the phone before glancing at her alarm clock.

Angelus wouldn't be calling till later. He always called around 11:30 so that he got her before she went to
bed. He was either normally in between meetings or done for the night by that time.

She lay back on her bed and sighed. She knew Spike was sitting on her porch waiting for her incase she
left the house. He had been even more in her face since the Riley incident, as she called it. If she went
somewhere after dark, he was there. If she went somewhere before it got dark, he made sure Willow was
there. It was starting to really piss her off. She hated not being allowed to go places by herself if that's what
she wanted.

Spike hadn't told Willow *why* Buffy wasn't to be alone, but Willow had told her it was probably an
order from Angelus. Buffy just smiled somewhat guiltily and looked away, not saying anything.

Buffy stood up and got her jacked from the closet before heading downstairs. She opened the front door
quietly and damn near got knocked on her butt as Spike caught himself from falling backwards. He had
been leaning against the door instead of being in his usual place on the porch swing.

"What are you trying to do, fluffy, have your way with me?" he asked as he waggled his eyebrows at her.

Buffy snorted, whether from disgust or amusement he couldn't tell. She rolled her eyes before closing the
door behind her. "Your not man enough for me Spike. Ya know I like the tall, dark and broody ones." She
quipped before walking past him.

He chuckled quietly so she wouldn't hear him. He hated having her know he found her amusing and not as
intolerable as he thought he would find her.

"Where to tonight, pet?" He asked as he walked up beside her.

"The video store. I'm bored and everyone else has dates tonight, so i'm home alone."

Spike lit up and took a long drag of his cigarette before he decided to say anything. "Not some wanky chic
flick right?"

"Whatever catches my eye." She replied before she turned her head to look at him. "Are you coming in to
watch? Or are you going to sit outside and watch from the porch again?"

She had saw him doing that two nights ago. She hadn't let him know she knew he was there however.
From the look on his face, he had thought he was hidden from her view.

Spike coughed and tossed his cigarette to the ground. "You uh, noticed me eh?"

Buffy laughed, she thought if vampires could blush, he would be right now. "Yep. Caught the brightness of
your bleached head when you moved."

"Well, hell, pet, if I knew you had seen me, i'da come on in so I could have heard the damn movie as well
as seen it. Even with my vampire hearing I couldn't hear a damn thing."

"That's cuz I turned the volume down." She replied before taking off running.

Spike growled and chased after her. He caught up to her right as they hit the street for the video store.
"That wasn't nice pet." He replied even as he chuckled a little.

"Neither is spying through someones living room window." she returned before she walked in.

~~*****~~

Buffy had gotten two movies and was tapping her foot impatiently waiting for Spike. She had saw him
being cornered by Harmony earlier. She thought for sure he would have shrugged her off by now.

She peeked around a corner and grinned. He looked like he was trying not to growl and rip off Harmony's
hands as she kept trying to touch him.

She giggled before deciding she was going to go ahead and start for home. She figuered he could catch up
when he finally got away from his extra limb.

Buffy was humming quietly to herself. She knew she didn't have anything to be worried about demon-wise
because of Angelus. Spike told her the night before that Angelus put out the word that if anything happened
to her, he would eviscerate whomever tried anything. She had just wrinkled her nose and shook her head.
Even though she thought it was sorta sweet, and then she thought how sickening that thought really was.
Then she just shrugged and laughed at herself.
<P>She was so engrossed in her thoughts she never heard anyone behind her. She was suddenly grabbed
from behind with one arm, making sure her arms were pinned to her sides. Meanwhile her attacker had a
knife stuck against her throat, pressing slightly, making a thin cut where blood welled out in a slow trickle.

"Now where's your body guard tonight? I didn't see him leave the video store with you. Maybe you gave
him what he wanted so he wouldn't have to follow you around anymore, huh? Is that what you did, bitch?"

Buffy gasped in a mixture of panic, pain and shock. She felt the knife cutting slightly into her neck and the
hard around holding hers down. Her eyes widened in shock. She *knew* that voice. It was the voice in her
nightmares the last three nights.

"Ri...Riley..what are you doing?" she asked as she swallowed convulsively.

"I'm going to get what I was after the other night." he replied as he felt her shudder as his breath hit her ear.
He chuckled slightly before he bent his head to kiss the side of her neck.

Buffy felt repulsion as he kissed her neck and she tried not to let him feel her shudder as he licked it right
after.

"Let me go Riley." she whispered as tears started to form in her eyes as she realized he was in charge. He
was holding her so tight she couldnt' get her arms free no matter how hard she struggled. "Please, you can't
do this."

Riley grinned as Buffy whimpered in fear and pleaded with him. "I can do anything I want. *I* am the one
holding the knife and there is no one here to stop me."

Buffy felt him pull the knife a little away from her throat so she let her head fall a small bit forward before
suddenly rearing back and cracking him in the nose. Her vision swam in front of her eyes at the contact with
him, even as she tried to blink to clear her vision.

Riley let out a yelp of pain even as he loosened his grip on her arms. She bit his hand and made him drop
the knife, only to have him suddenly spin her forward and grab her arms with what felt like hands of steel.

She cried out as his fingers dug into her thin arms. He shook her back and forth angrily, watching as her
head started to flop back and forth.

"You stupid bitch. Look what you've done to me! LOOK!" he was practically shouting as he forced her
head up so she could look at his bloodied and broken nose. "Do you see what you've done? You will pay
for that."

Buffy saw the blood pouring out of his nose and she almost smiled in satisfaction. She knew Giles would be
proud she had finally done that move right. Suddenly she spit in his face and watched in grim satisfaction as
his features suddenly twisted in revulsion.

"You deserved both those things you sick and twisted bastard." She ground out as she struggled to get her
arms free.

Riley let go of one of her arms and wiped his face off. She punched him in the stomache and almost
doubled him over. He curled up his hand into a fist and punched her in the face. She cried out in pain as his
fist connected with her cheekbone.

He gripped her arms again as she stumbled from the force of his blow and gripped her arms harder than
before. He watched as tears slowly poured down her cheeks. He grinned before suddenly he ripped her
shirt right down the front. He licked his lips as he saw her white lacy bra. He pawed at her breast before he
was suddenly jerked backwards and spun around.

He stared in the eyes of the blonde man from a few nights ago. He suddenly knew he was in very deep
trouble.

"You bloody wanker! Didn't you learn anything the other night? YOU DON'T GET TO TOUCH HER!
SHE IS NOT YOUR'S TO TOUCH!" Spike punctuated each word with a fist to some part of the ingrates
body.

Spike finally knocked him out and left him laying on the side of the road.

"You ok pet?" He asked as he shrugged off his duster and wrapped it around the shaking young girl.

"N...n...noo!" Buffy was shuddering in reaction to what had happened and what had almost happened.
Spike wrapped his arm around her and walked her home.

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Chapter Thirteen
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Angelus was practically grinding his teeth as he had to stop for yet another red light. He had gotten into
Sunnydale not even ten minutes before and had hit every red light the town had to offer.

He had finished him business in record time because he had wanted to get back to his young lover. He put
his foot down on the gas as soon as the light turned green. He went through the intersection with a squeal of tires.

He made it to the Summers house on Revello Drive not even five minutes later. He sauntered up to the door and
into the house without even bothering to knock. He had seen Buffy's light on so he knew she was upstairs in
her room. He took the stairs two at a time and pushed open her door to see her standing by the window looking
out.

He stood there for a few moments just watching her before he walked over to her quietly. He slid his arms
around her and was surprised to feel her jump and pull away.

"What the hell?" He muttured in surprise as she turned around and he got a look at the black eye she had.
"What the fuck happened to you?"

Buffy shrunk back a little as he growled in anger. She shook a little as he stepped closer to her.

"I'm waiting. What the *hell* happened to you?" he asked again, getting even angrier at her silence.

He lost the small amount of patience he had when she didn't answer him. He grabbed her arms and pulled her
towards him. He was surprised to hear her cry out in pain.

He let go of her arms and quickly undid the tie to her purple robe and pulled it down her arms. He stood there
stunned as he saw black and blue handprints all over her upper arms. From the way she was bruised he could
tell she had been not only grabbed very hard, but handled very roughly.

Angelus titled Buffy's face up so he could look into her eyes when he caught sight of a thin cut on her neck. A
cut that he knew to be made from a very sharp knife.

"Are you going to tell me what the fuck happened to you or not?" He asked quietly as he tried to quell the urge
to beat it out of her.

She just stared at him before she quickly pulled away and flung herself onto her bed where she curled up and
began to cry.

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Chapter Fourteen
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Angelus was sitting on the bed beside Buffy. His back was leaning against her headboard while he stared
out the window. He had no idea what was going on other than someone had put their hands on her and
hurt her. If they did anything more he would make sure their death was even slower and more violent than he
was already going to make it.

He looked down when she suddenly turned over and flung herself on his lap, burying her face in his cool neck.

"I need you to tell me what happened, baby. I can't fix anything if I don't know what happened." he whispered in
her ear as he ran one hand up and down her back while the other held her head gently.

Buffy sniffed as she shifted even closer to Angelus. Unknowingly seeking protection and closeness from him.
"A few things happened since you've been gone actually." she replied as he cupped the back of her head gently
running his fingers through her hair.

"Why didn't you tell me things had been happening to you?" he asked, trying to keep his voice soft so she
wouldn't start to get upset again. "Why didn't Spike tell me? Where was he at?"

"Well, the first night you were gone I went to the Bronze to hang with the gang. Spike was there, but I didn't see
him when I wanted to go home, so I went ahead and left without him. Thinking he'd just catch up when he found
out I left. Willow said she'd tell him when he came to look for me. I heard footsteps behind me on the way
home, and I assumed it was him, so I turned around an it was some guy i'd never saw before. He introduced
himself and talked for a second before grabbing me by the arms. He said he'd seen me around the Bronze a few
times and had wanted to get to know me but you were always there. And that he noticed you weren't tonight so
he thought he'd try his luck. Luckily Spike came up to us and knocked him out. Then he walked me home, after
trying to lecture me again."

Angelus sat there digesting what his lover was telling him and heard her sigh when a growl erupted from him.
"What else happened? I have a feeling it has something to do with this same man, am I correct?"

Buffy shuddered as she recalled the events of the evening. She sighed softly and snuggled deeper into Angelus
when he tightened his hold on her.

Buffy lightly kissed his neck before she began again. "We went to the video store tonight and Spike got held up
by Harmony who wouldn't let him go. I waited but then decided that I would go ahead and head back here. I
figuered Riley had learned his lesson from Spike the other night so I didn't even really give him a second
thought. But I realize now I should have."

Buffy took a deep breathe before continuing, knowing her boyfriend was about to get a helluva lot madder than
he was already.

"Go on baby. Tell me everything."

She swallowed and then nodded. She told him everything that had happened that night, not leaving a thing out.
He was growling and changing in and out of game face by the time she was done. He had her in a crushing grip
as anger coursed through his body.

"He dared to not only *touch* what was mine, but to marr your beautiful skin. He will be begging for mercy by
the time i'm done with him." he told her as she tilted her head back and looked up at him.

"You can't kill him." she said quietly. Angelus was growling so loudly she didn't think he heard her. But he did,
and chose to ignore her for the time being. Instead he scooted her off of his lap and got up to take off his
clothes. He left on his boxers then climbed back in bed with her.

She went willingly back into his arms after they got underneath the covers and lay her head on his chest.

"Sleep, baby. It's been a long evening." He said as he gave her a kiss before watching her fall asleep.

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