Livin' Life in the Fastlane

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A/N
Oh my god I can’t believe it. I really finished the next chapter. I can tell you writer’s block is one of the meanest things that can happen to you. And when I finally had it ready aff.net wouldn’t let me update, but now new stuff for all my readers. I wanted to thank everybody that is still with me again and hope you like the new chapter. I know it’s dark and violent but it is needed for the storyline. Now I have talked enough, go on and read. And you know the drill, the more you review the faster I will write. (Okay you can put your hands down now *laugh*)
Hugs to all!

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Previously on Livin’ Life in the Fastlane:

The members of BSR spend the afternoon practicing and Spike finds out that he still has to learn a few things about racing. Afterwards the team celebrates with a cup of coffee and Spike and Buffy want to spend some time alone and to meet by Buffy’s car. Spike has a brief confrontation with Angel…

Chapter 11: The wrong end of a certain hand

Buffy walked along Main Street on her way back to her car and more important back to Spike. She kept dreaming about the rest of the evening and the events that may take place. She found it hard to keep a silly little grin spreading over her face and she honestly didn’t want to. For the first time in a long period she felt contempt and free. She knew that she definitely had made the right choice.

So lost in her thoughts Buffy was completely oblivious to the dark car that followed her steadily in short distance.

As she arrived at her car a few minutes later Buffy suddenly recognized somebody behind her. She turned around and found herself face to face with Riley.

“Good evening Buffy” he drawled.

“What do you want, Riley?” Buffy replied, her annoyance towards the police officer clearly audible in her voice.

“I was just wondering why a nice little girl like you is walking through the dark and dangerous allies alone at night” he answered with false sincerity “ as a Police Officer it is my duty to ensure security to everyone. You know what it says, to serve and protect.”

“Well, first off all it is none of your business why or where I walk alone at night and second I wouldn’t call it to protect and serve more something along the lines to stalk and get on somebody’s nerves” Buffy replied sarcasm dripping from her voice.

“Now, now Buffy no need to become insulting. It’s just a routine inspection. So if you would be so nice and put your hands on the roof of your car so I can see for myself that you aren’t armed or have anything dangerous on you” he still had a false smile firmly in place.

“When did I become a suspect to anything? And if you even think about anything like touching me you will have to deal with the consequences” Buffy growled.

“Oh that’s nice now you’re threatening me so I have to believe you have something to hide. So please put your hands onto the roof and don’t fight or I’ll have to call for backup.”

“I can’t believe it, are you that pathetic that you need your badge to hide behind to do some serious groping?” Buffy asked outraged but slowly put her hands onto the car’s roof “I swear, do anything wrong and you will be in the desperate need for a new job.”

“That’s right, Buffy, let them on the roof. I am now going to search you” it seemed like he didn’t even listen to the last things Buffy said.

He began to search her not missing one single spot on her body. Buffy felt more uncomfortable the longer it lasted. Finally Riley stopped and Buffy started to turn around when he spoke up: “I haven’t told you that you could turn around, yet, so don’t move.”

“What, are you insane, first you search me like a criminal and now after you haven’t found anything you still treat me like one?” Buffy’s temper rose to near boiling point.

“I have to inform you, that I am going to search your car. So please unlock it” Riley informed her.

“That’s enough, I am sick of your ridiculous inspections and even more sick of your stupid game. I will leave now and you won’t molest me any longer or I will have you face the consequences” Buffy exploded.

“Miss Summers, you oppose to an official police inspection. So I will take you into custody because I suspect that you are into criminal business and because of the possibility of you fleeing” Riley old her, business voice firmly in place while he put her hands behind her back and cuffed them “and I believe you like it a little bit rough so you won’t mind the handcuffs” he whispered into her ear after he finished his task.

Buffy was stunned speechless. She didn’t seem to understand what just happened. One moment she was dreaming of Spike and the wonderful evening they would spend together the next she stood cuffed next to her car like she had just shot the president.

She was torn out of her thoughts a few seconds later when Riley put his hand in the back-pocket of her jeans. “Now Buffy” he asked in a husky voice “where do you have the keys to your car?” When Buffy denied the answer he went on “if you don’t tell me where they are I have to search you more thoroughly than the first time” he told her while massaging one of her buttocks.

Buffy’s mind kept running a mile a minute just like her heart. She kept thinking about what Riley was capable of and how she could free herself from this situation. Screaming didn’t seem like an option because no one was around and more important nobody would believe her while she was in handcuffs and “searched” by a cop. She hoped that somebody would see and try to stop Riley. When suddenly she felt Riley cupping her breast and her mound through her clothes her mind went bland and she was overcome by blind panic. She began to sob and tears streamed down her face.

“Oh yeah, baby” Riley grunted behind her and she could feel his hardness pressing into her through the layers of clothes from behind “come on scream for me. I like it when they scream….”

Suddenly Riley felt somebody tapping him on the shoulder from behind.
hat hat – “he yelled while turning around but he never saw the fist coming that hit him square on the nose before his world went suddenly black.

Buffy, in her panic driven mind, still wasn’t able to form any coherent thought when she suddenly felt somebody behind her opening her handcuffs and slowly turning her around. She found herself staring at Spike beautiful, deep blue eyes through her own ones full of tears as he pulled her close to him and laid her head onto his chest. Buffy began to cry in earnest and heffleffled cries and sobs pierced the night. Spike all the while stroke her back and tried to calm her with soft words and small kisses to the top of her head.

As she seemed to calm down a bit Spike pulled her keys from her and opened the garage. He led Buffy into her office and told her to wait for him and to lock the door behind him. He would be back in a few seconds. Buffy did like he told her still shaking. She didn’t seem to understand what just happened.

Spike went out into the garage and returned seconds later in front of the garage where Riley still laid passed out from the blow next to his car, in his right hand Spike held a big wrench.

He cuffed Riley with his own handcuffs and woke him with flat-handed slaps to his face. As Riley slowly woke from his unconscious state Spike smiled falsely and greeted:” Good morning Mr. Tomorrow-I-will-feel-deader-than-humanly-possible.”

“Wh… What… do you want? And whyI cuI cuffed?” Riley stuttered nervously registering the homicidal glint in Spike’s eyes.

“Well to answer your questions, I want revenge and you’re a cuffed to comprehend why the lady you just molested is now in a very broken state. By the way … that is my lady” Spike told him in a too clam voice and let the wrench fly for the first time. It hit Riley right into the stomach and he doubled over in pain.

“Now, mate, how does it feel when you’re defenceless and at the will of somebody stronger than yourself?” Spike’s voice was still dangerously low.

“Fuck you” Riley coughed.

“Wrong answer” Spike stated before the wrench hit Riley’s right hand with full force and Spike felt the bones crushing.

Riley screamed from the pain and cradled his injured hand to himself. He rolled into a foetal position as good as possible with his hands still cuffed.

Spike forced Riley onto his knees by pulling his hair and dropped to look him into the eye.

“Now you listen very carefully, I won’t repeat myself. If you ever come near the mine again, let it be Buffy, her sister, her friends or my friends I promise you that not even a dentist will be able to identify the body they will find. Are we clear?”

“I’m going to kill you” Riley coughed.

Spike stood and dealt Riley a final blow square to his jaw. He felt the satisfying crunch of his jaw bone and didn’t even register the pain in his own hand. Riley passed out again, which was good for him, because the pain he would have felt would have probably killed him.

Spike picked up Riley’s unconscious body and placed it in the back of his car. Then he entered the driver’s side of Riley’s car and parked it a few streets down the block. Before he got out he broke the radio device and freed Riley from everything that would give him a possibility to escape without somebody’s help.

He finally left the driver’s side to lock up the car. He intentionally broke the key after locking up and threw the key ring into the next dumpster before he made his way back to the garage and Buffy.

When he entered the garage again seconds later he went to the small bathroom in the back to clean the wrench and his hands from the blood. After he placed the wrench in his original spot again he went over to Buffy’s office. When she opened the door she wasn’t crying anymore, but she still didn’t look like she was stable enough to drive for herself.

“Hey baby, how are you doing?” he asked in a soft voice while he embraced her.

“Better, thank you” she answered in a small voice.

“Come on let’s get your ride into the garage and then we leave” he told her.

Buffy just nodded and handed him her keys. Spike drove Buffy’s car into the building and closed the garage again. He put her into the passenger seat of his own Skyline and entered the driver’s side. He started the engine and drove out into the streets of L.A. . . He pulled out his cell phone and called Dawn.

“Yeah, hi Nibblet, I just wanted to tell you that something came up and Buffy won’t come home tonight – no everything is fine – yeah, yeah she’s going to tell you tomorrow. Good night.” As he disconnected the call he put his left hand behind Buffy’s shoulder and pulled her to his chest. She welcomed his warm embrace and started to relax again.

Suddenly Buffy lifted her head from his shoulder and looked at him puzzled.

“Spike, what did you do to him?” she asked her voice still shaking a little bit.

“Everything’s okay, pet, let’s just say he found the wrong end of a certain hand” Spike answered.

“Bu… But won’t they search for you now if he told somebody that you beat him?” she answered a little bit confused.

“I don’t think he would be that stupid. What should he tell? Hey buddies, I was out violating a lady last night and then got the crap beat out of me. So come on let’s find that criminal?! I honestly don’t think so” he told her.

“Wha… what if he’s out for revenge?” Buffy asked her concern for Spike clearly shown in her voice “I don’t want anything to happen to you.”

“Shh, baby “Spike coaxed her head back to his shoulder “everything is alright, nothing’s going to happen to me. You know I am the Big Bad, the people are scared of me, not the other way round” he joked lightly and Buffy gave him a small smile.

They arrived at Spike’s flat a few minutes later and left the car. They entered the book store through the back door only to find Giles still working over some paper work.

“Ah, William, good that you’re here, I wanted to talk to you…” his father started.

“Can we talk later, please” Spike answered” now is not such a good time.”

Giles recognized Buffy entering behind his son. Spike removed his leather duster that he had placed around Buffy’s shoulder earlier and hung it onto the wardrobe.

“Good evening Miss …” Giles greeted Buffy.

“Summers” Buffy answered “Please call me Buffy.”

“Good evening Buffy, is everything okay?” he addressed both of them “you two look a bit shaken.”

Spike put his arm around Buffy’s shoulder “yeah dad, everything is fine, we’re just knackered, ‘s all, so we’re going to lay down” he told his father while the two of them started to the stairs that led to Spike’s flat.

“Err… well good I guess I’ll see you two in the morning then. Sleep well” Giles said.

“You too” Spike called from the middle of the staircase.

They entered his flat and Spike led Buffy into the bedroom. He placed her softly under the sheets after he pulled of her shoes and socks.

“I am right out the door on the couch. If there is anything I can do for you just call me, pet” he told her. He didn’t want to join her in bed after the situation she just witnessed. He felt it wouldn’t be right.

“Spike?” her soft voice reached him as he started to leave the bedroom.

“Yeah, baby?” he queried.

“Please stay, I don’t think I can sleep alone in a room. Could you please just hold me?” she asked him in a small voice. The pleading look she gave him called to him and he entered the bed on the other side. He laid down and Buffy snuggled close to him and laid her head onto his shoulder as he placed his arm behind her head.

“I wanted to thank you again, I don’t know what would have happened if you … “she spoke up her voice began trembling again.

“Now, now pet, everything is fine and we will have none of those bad thoughts now. You are here with me and I will keep you safe. I won’t let anything happen to you” he silenced her with a small kiss to her lips.

“Thank you” was the last thing he heard before Buffy drifted off to sleep. It left him with his thoughts alone. He was also scared what might have happened if he wouldn’t have been there in time. A small thought kept nagging in the back of his mind that it looked like a setup with Angel waiting for him and Riley attacking Buffy but he pushed it aside and labelled it coincidence as his brain shut down and he soon followed Buffy into Dream Land.

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To be continued…

Upcoming: Chapter 12: The white knight in shining armour