FIC : "Of Stales & Spells" 6/? [W/B]

["satanslilangl" <satanslilangl@xxxxxxxxx>]

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= = = (Class Notes) = = = 

Willow sat in her seat, wondering what Buffy was doing right then. 
The witch had gotten her stuff together and went to get a Mocha while 
Buffy showered and changed. She'd gone to Psych Class early to get 
them their usual seats. Riley had come up to her and was telling 
her about the night before

"She didn't blow me off . . . she just left with another guy." Willow 
frowned at that, wondering what Riley had seen. "Or, at least, 
that's what I heard. Forest had said that she'd spent most of our 
short talk looking over my shoulder at some guy, and when he left she 
took off after him." Willow had to keep in a smile at that, 
realizing that it had been herself that Buffy had been 
watching. "She didn't even give me an excuse. She just 
said 'Sorry, I've gotta go' and took off. I can't believe it, I 
choked!"

"You really, really did." Willow said, as nicely as she could.

"I don't understand! I'm good at things. That's what I do! I 
work hard, apply myself, and get it done." He said sounding genuinely 
confused. 

"Well, you failed extremely well." The red-head stated, trying to 
keep her happiness down. Truth be told, she was happy that the 
slightly Teutonic TA had made an ass of himself. 

Just then Prof. Walsh walked in, Buffy creeping silently at her 
heals. She jogged to her seat next to Willow, giving Riley a short 
wave as she passed him. He took his place at the front of the 
class, waiting for the Professor to start the lecture. Willow 
smiled as she watched Buffy take out her stuff. Once Buffy had her 
Notebook and pen, she settled in her seat.

Buffy noticed the stair, and turned to smile back. Soon the lecture 
was under way, and both girls were listening intently. Willow, who 
was busy taking color-coded notes, looked up often to see if there 
had been any diagrams or charts that she could try and copy down. 
There were no visual aids, but she did notice that Riley was 
fidgeting slightly, and he hadn't taken his eyes off Buffy once since 
she had walked into the room. 

This made Willow a little worried. She knew that Buffy didn't like 
Riley like that, but she was still slightly jealous. She also felt 
sorry for the guy. Here he was trying really hard to get the 
attention of a girl, who was mutually in love with her best-friend, 
and he had gone to Willow for advice on how to court Buffy. {Well,} 
willow thought, {I'm gonna make him work for it!} If he was trying 
so hard to Get Buffy's attention, then he'd get it.

Willow pulled out another sheet of paper and quickly wrote a message 
on it, passing it to the Slayer.

'Look at Riley' the blond read. She looked up to the front of the 
class, finding Riley, and tried to figure out what was going on. 
Riley had froze. He had no idea what to do now that he had Buffy's 
attention, so he just sorta stood there, slightly open mouthed. 
Buffy looked at Willow as if to say 'What?' Willow took the sheet 
of paper and wrote 'He was doing something before. You just missed 
it.' She handed it to Buffy. 

Buffy looked up at Riley again, he froze. Buffy shook her head, 
smiling lightly, and started to write on the paper herself. Willow 
gave the TA an exasperated look while the blond couldn't see. Riley 
looked back apologetically and shrugged. Buffy handed her the note.

'Do you think he's cute?' this comment made Willow's heart stop. 
{At least I THOUGHT she didn't like him like that!} she quickly 
looked up at Buffy, she looked curious. Willow slowly turned back 
to the paper, and wrote her response.

'No, why? Do you?' Buffy smiled knowingly, as if she knew 
something the Witch didn't. She looked at Willow and shook her head 
no. she took a minute to write a slightly longer message, then 
passed it to her friend.

'Willow, it's cool if you like him. I don't, but he's seems to be 
your type. Plus, he could be the perfect Band-Aid . . . I said I'll 
wait.' Willow looked up, slightly confused. Buffy smiled back at 
her. Willow shook her head slightly, wanting to laugh at the very 
thought. She wrote one last note, and showed it to Buffy. It 
read: 'I think you and I need to talk . . .' Buffy smiled, thinking 
she knew what about, and Willow shook her head, amused at the thought 
of her and Riley together.


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= = = (Seriously Confused) = = = 
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As the class ended both girls packed their things away into their 
bags. When they started to walk through the doors, Willow turned to 
Buffy saying

"Buffy, I think you and I need to talk. This whole thing with Riley 
is-"

"Hey Buffy, you enjoy class?" Speak of the Devil, Riley had fallowed 
them out of the lecture.

"Um, yeah I did." Buffy looked between her best friend and the 
TA. "But I have to run," she gave the Witch a pointed look, "You 
know . . . gotta go to my next class." And with that she took off.

"Buffy wait!" Willow called, but Buffy just kept walking. "I don't 
know what I'm gonna do with her . . ."

"I think it's me." Riley said smiling, "I think I repel her 
somehow. Every time she gets near me she has to run off seconds 
later. Wonder why that is?" he mused.

"Riley, I think there's a hitch in the plan." Willow said delicately.

"What? What's wrong? Is she seeing someone else?" He looked both 
worried and disappointed.

"Well . . ." Willow started, then remember that in reality they 
weren't together. "She thinks that I like you. I told her that I 
don't, but she seems really set on it."

"She thinks that you like me?" Riley repeated. Still slightly 
confused.

"Yeah. She wants me to 'go for you', but -and let's get this 
straight- I don't want to. Also, she had a really bad break-up with 
a guy she'd been with for a long time. And I'm sure you heard about 
the whole Parker thing . . ."

"Yeah, I did. That guy has a big mouth. The comments he made 
about Buffy really bothered me . . ." Riley looked at the ground, 
then back up at Willow " . . . I kinda' punched him because of it."

"Also," Willow started slowly wanting to be very careful with this 
next piece of information, since she herself didn't know how to deal 
with it, "I just found out that she's kinda had her eye on someone 
else for a while. I think she'd going to try and peruse it."

"Is it that Xander guy?" Riley asked quickly. Willow laughed.

"No, but good guess."

"Well, then I'll just have to show her that I'm better then who ever 
this guy is." Willow frowned at this. She knew that if Riley tried 
hard enough he could probably get Buffy as his girl-friend {NOT 
GOOD! Definitely NOT of the good!} she thought.

"I dunno. They've known each other for a long time, and she knows 
that they like her back. They really want to get together, but-"

"They live to far apart?" Riley guessed.

"No," Willow answered quickly, "they live quite close. They just 
want to give each other time. Buffy's had it rough as far as 
relationships go." Riley nodded, as though in understanding. 
Willow knew he didn't really get it, and was going to feel REALLY 
guilty when he found out { . . . okay, and probably a little Smug 
too. But just for Good Measure!}

They both said their good-byes, and headed off the their next 
classes. Willow only had one more, and she knew Buffy still had 
two. She knew that the Slayer would go get Lunch and then head over 
to Giles' to check in with him. {I'll just head her off at the 
pass . . .}


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(Author's Note: I hope you guys like it, and I bet you can guess 
what's going to happen next [It starts with an S and rhymes with 
Poochie!] Leave me a note to tell me what you think!)