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PAIRING: Buffy/ Stacy Friendship
RATING: G
AUTHOR: Shellc
DISCLAIMER: Buffy belongs to Joss Whedon and WWE belongs to Vince McMahon
SUMMARY: Buffy takes on a job to help Angel not realizing who she will have to
look after.
NOTES: Set between the end of Season 7 of
Buffy and the beginning of Season 5 for Angel
“Thanks again for this Buf”
Angel handed her the folder.
“No probs anything
to get away from Robin and Faith” she said looking through the files.
“They still fighting?
I thought they would be together by now” he sighed.
“Maybe they just weren’t meant to be” she
looked over at him
He knew she was thinking about Spike and he
just didn’t have it in him to be jealous over a dead man
“So who am I watching anyway?” broke him out
of his daydream
Now that Angel was in control of Wolfram and
Hart he was in contact with a lot of movers and shakers in
The door opened and an older woman stormed
into the room
“Listen we don’t have all day… She looked
over at Buffy and started laughing.
“Don’t tell me that’s her?”
Buffy got ready to stand up but was pushed
back down by Angel.
“I can assure you Buffy is just as capable as
any man. Now if you’d like to bring her in”
The woman glared at them before bringing the
other person into the room
Buffy looked over and did a double take. This
girl must have been at least six-foot. She recognized her from somewhere but
she just couldn’t place her.
Angel walked over to the pair.
“Miss Keibler how are you today?”
“Can we just get this over with” she yawned.
That’s when Buffy placed her-she was one of
the so-called Divas from the WWE. Hell she should know Xander
made her watch it with him every week.
“Bitch” Angel growled so long that only Buffy
could hear him.
“I’d like to introduce you to Buffy Summers”
Buffy held out her hand but Stacy just glared
at her and turned to walk out the room.
“Before you go this came for you” Angel handed
her an envelope.
Sighing she opened it and glanced over it’s contents. The look of fear on her face was so quick
anyone other than a vampire or Slayer wouldn’t have seen it. She scrupled it up
and flung it in her purse.
“Now if your ready Bunny or would you rather
sit and chat all day making googly eyes at him” she
fumed.
Buffy slowly counted to ten before getting
up.
“Get Gunn ready” she looked at him before
walking out the door. “Cause I’m gonna kill that girl”
Not even an hour later she was on a flight to
“Fold” Matt Hardy flung his cards down. He,
Buffy, Rey and Randy had been playing poker and so far Buffy had won over $1000
from them.
“Who the hell taught you to play like that?”
Randy shook his head as he leant back and grabbed a six pack of beers from the
refreshment table.
“An ex called Spike” she smiled as he handed
her one. That was one of the good things to come out of their fling.
She opened her can and took a look around “So
is she always so private?” she looked in the direction of Stacy’s room.
Matt shrugged “You get used to it plus she
pulls up the ratings”
The door opening and Christy coming over to
Buffy interrupted them
“Stacy wants to see you now”
Buffy sighed then made her way over to the
room where Stacy was sitting on the bed.
“Take a seat” she offered.
Buffy sat down
“Ok let’s get some things clear” she stood
“You do as I say when I say it”
“No”
“Also” She stopped “What did you say?”
“No I’m not one of your fans”
“I’m Stacy Keibler”
she stamped her foot on the floor.
Buffy stood up and walked over to her
“And that’s supposed to impress me?”
Although nearly a foot shorter she still
managed to slam both her arms on the wall trapping the taller Blonde between
them
“As far as I’m concerned your
nothing more than a cheap whore whom got lucky” she said right in her face
Stacy didn’t like this. Nobody had ever
gotten scared her as much and she had no doubt that this girl although smaller
could really hurt her.
“I’m not one of your puppets. If you ask me
nicely- I’ll consider doing it for you” she got as close as she could get.
“Understand?” Stacy nodded
“Then everything’s fine then” she smiled and
left the room to continue her game.
Things were going all right. She had been
doing the job a month and she was actually making friends. Randy had tried it
on with her one night and trying to show she wasn’t the usual type of Blonde
she nearly broke his arm. Funnily enough after that nobody tried it on with
her.
She was even getting on better with
Stacy-well they at least were talking now. One night a few days later changed
all that.
Every few days Buffy had noticed that Stacy
would receive a hand written letter in the post. No matter where in the country
she was. The funny thing was she would throw it away without reading it.
Buffy had asked around but nobody either knew
what was wrong or didn’t want to tell her
Which is why she
was now on the phone to Angel
“So you haven’t heard anything about it
then?”
She was currently backstage at in LA at a PPV
press conference talking to him while she was waiting on it starting.
“Sorry can’t help you Buf.
Doesn’t anyone else know?”
“No I…
“Buffy we’re about to start” Kurt tapped her
on the shoulder.
“Sorry Angel I gotta go” she put the phone
down and followed him.
It had started out a normal press conference
and there was time for one more question. Then this guy who didn’t look like a
reporter stood up.
Looking at Stacy Buffy knew something was up.
“Do you feel proud knowing the only reason your where you are is because you slept your way to the
top?”
“I’m sorry?” she stuttered from embarrassment
“Ok that’s enough” Buffy stepped in. She knew
from experience he was circling for an attack and she got ready.
“Did you honestly think I would let you walk
away Stacy. I told you before you belong to me bitch”
“Get her out of here” Buffy yelled to Batista
who was nearest to her
He turned to do as Buffy asked but the girl
had vanished
“Find her now” she yelled.
In the second that she took her attention off
him he jumped at her. She didn’t see the knife in his hand until it went
straight through her shoulder
“Son of a bitch” She gritted her teeth. She
grabbed him and hauled him into the cop car that was waiting outside.
“You need to get that seen to Buf” Randy screwed his face up at the wound.
“Later I have to find Stacy” she looked
around trying to see her
“Hey’ she turned around to see Christy
looking at her
“You better look at these it might help” she
handed her a batch of unopened letters.
After reading them she was even more
determined to find the girl.
“I’ve been everywhere are you sure you don’t
know where?” she was on the phone to Torrie Wilson- Stacy’s closest friend in
the company.
“No wait a minute have you tried the hill?”
she asked.
She remembered Stacy saying in an interview a
few months back that there was a hill in the city that she would climb up as
she always felt so peaceful there
“Torrie I could kiss you girl” she smiled as
she put the phone down
“Bit too near the edge aren’t
you?”
She did find her there unfortunately she
looked as if she was about to jump off the edge.
Stacy said nothing only shrugged
The Slayer sat down so her legs were dangling
off the edge of the cliff
“Are you insane?” she looked down at Buffy
“All due respect but I’m not the one about to
jump off” she answered
They were in silence for a while before Buffy
finally spoke
“Why didn’t you tell anyone Stacy?”
The girl refused to look at her but she knew
she was crying
“Who would believe me?”
“Me for a start” Buffy answered
“How the hell did you get with an asshole
like that anyway?”
“I was just Stacy with him. Since I was
little my life has been mapped out for me model, dancer, cheerleader- When I
meet Sean I could be myself with him”
“To begin with” Buffy began to understand
“He got too controlling that’s why I fell for
Andrew he helped me escape him”
“Andrew?”
“Test”
“Out of the fire pan into the fire” Buffy
shook her head
“I understand”
“No you don’t” Stacy trembled
“Forced into something you have no control
over and no matter what you can’t stop it even if you die. Yeah I understand. You’ve
just told the story of my life” Buffy looked away.
“How do you stop it?”
“You can’t Stace
you just have to make the most of it” she stood up and dusted herself off
before looking at the other girl
“It took me over seven years plus loosing a
lot of people that I love to
get me to understand. I got peace. I finally became a cookie”
“Cookie?” Stacy smiled at her
“Long story”
“Could I do it”
“I think you can do whatever you want” she
told the girl honestly.
“Ok” she looked over at Buffy “Maybe we
should get that seen too” she pointed at the wound on her shoulder “Does it
hurt?”
“Like hell” Buffy grinned as Stacy helped her
down the cliff.
A YEAR LATER
“It could be a Fyarl
demon?” Stacy said looking at the computer
“No I’m fairly certain it wasn’t that” Giles
looked over her shoulder
“Oh yeah sorry” Stacy laughed when she
remembered the story Buffy had told her.
“I’m sure we have seen them before though”
Buffy looked at Giles as she
racked her brains trying to remember
Stacy did change her destiny. She asked Buffy
what she meant one night and the whole story had come out. It was at that
moment that Stacy decided she wanted to help the world and handed in her notice
to WWE.
She had been with Buffy and the gang ever
since which is why she was currently with them in
The night before
they had been stopped in the street when a demon jumped out at them. Buffy was too bust trying to save Stacy and he got away so know
they were trying to see if they could find out what it was
A customer went over to the cash desk
“I’ll get it Giles”
“Thank you Stacy” he took her seat and
continued looking through the database.
She wrapped the items
“That will be $42.50 please” she smiled at
the customer
“Oh my god you’re Stacy Keibler
the wrestler” he yelled making everyone stare at her.
“No she isn’t she’s Stacy Harris my wife” Xander came up behind her and put his arms around her.
“Will you go back to the ring?” the guy asked
“Bit hard” Stacy removed her hands from her
waist and it revealed she was at least six months pregnant.
“Which is also mine” Xander
grinned at his wife still surprised that a girl like her would ever look at
him.
He had finally realized why he had never married Anya.
Yes he loved her and he certainly missed her but she wasn’t the one. That woman
was standing in front of him now.
“You can only have one Xander”
Buffy shook her head
“Yeah only one….
Something clicked in Stacy’s brain.
“I think I know what it was”
She walked over to the computer and Giles
moved so she could look
“There that was him from last night”
“A Toth demon”
Buffy looked over her “How did you remember that?”
“When you said that remark about Xander then I remembered you telling me the story and Giles
showing me the picture”
“I’m really sorry” Buffy shook her head at
her best friend
“Why?” Stacy was worried
“You really are one of us now”
Stacy smiled. That was the best thing anyone
had ever said to her.