My Salvation
by Bwriter
Part two
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Part two
( AN: Attempted Rape scene coming up so be warned)
"What the fuck have you been telling people you little bitch? Did I not beat you enough last night huh? Did you want more was that it? Answer me god damn it!"
Buffy shrank away from the overpowering form of her father.
"W..what are you talking a..about? I n..nerver told anyone. Honest!"
By this point Hank had her cornered by the dining room table. Grabbing her by the hair, he dragged her upstairs this time. Buffy resorted to doing what she knew he loved hearing; her begging.
"Dad... please I swear I never told. Please don't do this!"
Hank just laughed and pulled harder on her hair. Throwing open her bedroom door he threw her inside laughing when her head connected with her vanity tables edge. Following her down he ripped her sweater from her body exposing her bra clad chest and showing off his marks on her from the night before.
Buffy was terrified now. So far he had never done this to her but she was sure that one more than one occasion he had gotten close only to be stopped by her mother. Well her mother wasn't here to stop him now. Begging him not to do what he was about didn't seem to help either.
Hank by now had off all her clothes except her underwear and Buffy really started to struggle when he reached for those. Hitting him anywhere she could reach was having no effect on him at all. As he was pulling off her panties she kicked out with her foot and just as it was about to connect with his groin he caught it in a punishing grip.
"Ah ah ah. Can't have you doing that now can we? If you don't stop struggling I'm gonna tie you up and not let you out for days. During that time I will bring down every member of my drinking club to have a go so for fuck sake stay still!"
The last part was bellowed at her and Buffy knew that he meant every word he said. Closing her eyes and praying that he would be finished quickly Buffy made her mind go blank.
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Something wasn't sitting right with Giles. He knew something was going on with Buffy but not what. He hoped Hank could figure it out. He knew fist hand what it was like to be abused by someone. When he was growing up their father had beat him at every given opportunity. Never Hank though.
These last few months Buffy had been extra jumpy when he had seen her. She looked nothing like the carefree girl he knew her once to be. Her eyes weren't as open as they once were. You used to be able to read her emotions in her eyes but lately.
Giles sat up as a sudden insight came to him. He knew that look she had in her eyes. He had it himself when he was growing up. Grabbing his coat he left for his brothers who he swore he was going to kill.
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Hank was about to go to the one place he had never been with his daughter when he heard the front door slam open and shut. Standing up and zipping his jeans back up he told Buffy not to move and left her lying there naked.
Jogging downstairs he saw his brother searching each room.
"Rup what's up? I'm kinda busy here"
Giles stalked over to him and grabbing him by the shirt collar yelled in his face;
"Where's Buffy?" Pausing to look at Hank's state of undress Giles swore and hauled back and punched him in the noise knocking him down. Giles took off running upstairs hoping that he was wrong but upon busting into Buffy's room discovering that he was very right.
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Buffy heard Giles voice downstairs but it didn't register that he was here.
Hearing her bedroom door being bust open she scooted back and curled into a ball begging her father not to do it. She felt hands on her skin wrapping a blanket around her nakedness.
After crying and begging for him not to hurt her she calmed when she realised the person holding her wasn't being forceful about it. Looking up she saw Gils concerned face just inches above her own. Throwing her arms around him she cried even harder.
Giles just continued to hold her and rock her telling her everything would be okay now.
After around half an hour of this Buffy raised her head and looked Giles in the eyes.
"C... Can I stay w... with you? Please I'll b... be good. Please?"
Giles answer was to stand with her still in his arms and walk downstairs. Noticing that Hank had fled to god knows where he carried Buffy out and placed her in the car before getting in and driving to his home. He swore to himself that she would never be hurt like that again.
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Willow was depressed. Buffy never showed the night before and now she had an assignment to finished and she didn't have any of the books she needed for it.
She was racking her brain wondering what to o when her bedroom phone rang.
"Hello? What!? I'll be right over. See you in five."
Willow grabbed her car keys and purse before rushing out of the house and over to Giles.
Giles was at a loss as to what to do. Buffy had stopped crying and was now just staring at the fire watching the flames. Thinking that maybe she needed a friend with her he walked to his phone book and searched for Rosenberg. Finding only one he called the number.
Hearing willow answer he asked her to come over to his house as Buffy was there and not feeling to well. He didn't want to explain what was going on over the phone. Giving her his address he disconnected hoping that she could help Buffy.
Willow arrived ten minutes later cursing traffic the whole was to Giles front door. Knocking once she waited for someone to answer, vaguely thinking that it was strange for Buffy to be at the school librarian's house on a Saturday, or any day really.
When the knock came at the door Buffy nearly flew off the couch where she had been sitting. Looking to Giles for guidance as to whether or not to be scared she was relieved when he smiled at her and opened the door. She was surprised to see Willow standing on the opposite side.
Willow took one look at Buffy and turned accusing eyes to Giles before running over and enveloping her in a hug.
"What did you do to her!?" The question was asked with as much venom as she could get into her voice and considering that state Buffy was in that was a lot for Willow.
Giles looked shocked that she thought he could do this to his niece. Then he remembered that no one at school knew about that and that it was in fact her own father who tried to rape her.
"Will, Giles never did anything." Willow turned her hard gaze on Buffy who flinched from it.
"Okay if you say so but why are you here wearing his clothes and looking like you've went ten rounds with Tyson?"
Giles looked to Buffy who looked at Willow. She didn't know why yet but she trusted her. Every time they met up Buffy felt a little better given her crappy life. Looking to Giles she nodded her head indicating that she wanted to do this in private. Giles getting the message rose to go out for a run though Buffy's voice stopped him.
"Don't go far will you?"
Giles smiled, bent to kiss her on the forehead and left. For Willow, this was getting stranger by the minute. She was now convinced that the girl she had a crush on was involved with a man old enough to be her father.
"Buffy? What's going on? How long have you and Giles been involved? Why are you looking beat up?" Willow was worried and nervous which automatically meant babbling for her.
Buffy was looking at her amused before she laughed for the first time in a long time.
"I'm about to tell you what's going on. Giles isn't my boyfriend, he's my uncle. I look bad because something happened and if Giles hadn't of came for me when he did I would be much worse off than I am now."
Pausing to think about how to tell Willow the following she missed the small smile on Willow's face after Buffy said Giles wasn't her boyfriend.
Looking towards Buffy she could tell that whatever she was going to say was going to be hard for her so she gave her an out of the situation for now.
"Buffy you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. Or you can tell me but not right now if you don't want to."
Buffy smiled and thought of how sweet Willow was, when by rights she should be as stuck up as Harmony and even Cordy to a degree what with her being one of the most popular girls in school, but for some reason she just knew she could trust her.
"No it's fine. I need to talk to someone about this and I can't talk to Giles he's too..." Pausing to think of a word the only one she could come up with was "...manly."
Standing up and walking over to the fire she recalled the events that brought her to Giles house in the first place. Staring into the fire she began her tale of how her father had a habit of beating her and about how last night her tried to rape her only Giles came just in the nick of time to stop him. By the end of the tale Buffy, was hunched over in tears wrapped in Willows arms.