Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters.
Chapter 3
Andrew moved around the mansion looking around in awe.
‘This place is beautiful,’ Buffy thought, ‘Its way too extravagant,’ she looked at Lex and said, “Your father never intended to step foot in this place?”
“That’s true,” Lex said, “Now please sit down Ms Summers while I arrange your death.”
“Ooh,” Buffy said, “Come on, give me a noble death: like I fought a hundred attackers off and stuff like that, something people can be proud of.”
“How about you died saving a young couple from a mugger,” Lex said, “You were shot but you managed to scare the mugger off and they tried to revive you but it was too late?”
“Perfect,” Buffy said, “How are you going to fake this?”
“First things first,” Lex said, “That list of people who can contact you if you needed to?”
Buffy smiled and wondered if she should have her mother but decided against it, ‘After all, mom did disown me.’ She wrote down ‘Rupert Giles’ and that was it.
Lex picked up the note and frowned a bit, “Who is Rupert Giles? What about your mother?”
“He’s a teacher of mine and almost like a father to me,” Buffy said, “And my mother disowned me sir.”
“Very well,” Lex said as he made the arrangements and suddenly snapped his fingers and said, “Lawrence, please show them to their rooms.”
The butler nodded, “Yes sir,” and looked at the other two, “Please follow me sir and madam,” and took them too their rooms.
Andrew looked at his and smiled, ‘This bedroom is bigger than the living room and dining room of my old house and the bed looked so big and soft,’ he jumped on to it and nearly sank into what he assumed were silk sheets and goose down pillows and he almost instantly fell asleep.
Buffy walked to her room and smiled, finally a real bed and not one that massaged her by being full of cockroaches. She found herself liking Andrew and prayed that he didn’t follow the same path that his father and brother are on.
She was about to go to sleep when Lex knocked on her door and asked, “Ms Summers, are you decent?”
“Yeah,” Buffy laughed, “Come on in Mr Luthor.
Lex came in and smiled, “How do you like the room Ms Summers? Is it to your liking?”
Buffy nodded and Lex sat down and said, “I forgot something; I’m having some friends forge a new birth certificates for you and I need a name for you?”
She thought it over and said, “Anne Winterbourne.”
“Exotic,” Lex said, “And clever use of your own last name.”
“Thanks,” Buffy said, “And thank you for doing this for me, how can I repay you?”
“Easy,” Lex said, “Protect my baby brother, he’s important to me.”
Buffy nodded and went to sleep quietly in her large comfortable bed and began to dream contently, finally.
The next morning Andrew was shaken awake by Buffy and he looked up, his eyes bleary and muttered, “What’s happening?”
“It’s time to get ready,” Buffy smiled, “Oh and you can call me Anne outside of the mansion, alright?”
Andrew nodded and he found some clothes laid out for him and smiled a bit; ‘They didn’t look too fancy,’ and put them on. He looked at Buffy and said, “The fabric feels funny.”
“Oh, it’s silk so be careful in it, no roughhousing,” Buffy laughed, “And the pants are denim so don’t worry.”
“I’m wearing a silk shirt in a rural high school!!?” Andrew nearly said in a shocked voice.
“Don’t worry, as long as it isn’t too fine we pretend its polyester, though if we admit that you might as well get beaten up. Let’s go talk to your brother.”
Lex was working in his office when Andrew and Buffy came in, he smiled, “You two are going to be late for the first day at school.”
“Umm, yeah,” Andrew said, “If I’m not going to draw attention to myself then what’s with the silk shirt?”
Lex stared in shock and yelled angrily, “Damn it!! I said cotton not silk, damn it!! Hans, get in here!!”
The butler rushed and said, “Sir? Is there something you need?”
“Yes, I said appropriate clothing, not silk,” Lex said, “This makes Andrew stick out like a sore thumb, get him a cotton shirt, now!!”
Hans nodded and mumbled out an apology and ran off to get the cotton shirt as Lex looked calm.
Buffy looked at him and said, “Wow, your heartbeat probably didn’t even go up during that little outburst.”
Lex smiled, “Hans is a good man so I made sure that he knew I was displeased and he won’t do it next time and if he does, he’s fired.”
Andrew looked a bit ill and thought, ‘Mistakes happen but he supposed, on the job, they couldn’t make a mistake but it was a wrong shirt, he didn’t poison us all.’
Hans walked in with the new shirt and Andrew pulled his shirt off and put the cotton shirt on and Lex smiled, “Much better,” he looked at Hans and thought it over and said, “Put that one in his closet, alright? I liked it on him.”
Buffy looked at her watch and said, “Come on Andrew, we have to get to school,” and they ran to a car that Lex said would be acceptable for them to use in Smallville.
“So,” Buffy said, “Andrew, do you know how to drive?”
He nodded and said, “Mom insisted that we needed to know how to drive,” he looked at Buffy and said, “You know how to drive?”
“Umm, not as such,” Buffy said to herself, remembering the crashed cars; the reason why her mom refused to let her try it.
“I can teach you what I know,” Andrew said with a smile, he got in the car and started the engine but before they left Hans ran out holding a package.
“Umm, what’s this?” Buffy asked as she took the package from Andrew’s hands and said, “Sorry, it could be a bomb.”
“And you’re going to open it inside the car?” Andrew asked while backing away.
She walked outside and opened the box and saw two wallets, she ran back to the car and said, “It’s a couple of wallets.”
Andrew looked at the wallets and realized there was at least sixty dollars in both of them, he smiled, “I think it’s just a bit of spending money.”
He started the car and they headed to town, Andrew started the GPS and typed in the school’s address and they drove off.
Lex watched them leave and said, “Hans, did you give them the wallets?”
Hans nodded and walked out of the room to make their beds while Lex walked off to his office to begin his work for the day.
Andrew looked at the road carefully; this wasn’t like Sunnydale, he had no idea what kind of dangers there were on the roads here in Smallville.
Buffy smiled at Andrew and said, “Smallville looks nice actually, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Andrew said, “But I’m going to see if we can go on the bus from now on because I’m not sure about driving on the roads here.”
“You’re doing fine Andrew,” Buffy said, “And besides, I think I can see the school now.”
“Alright Ms Winterbourne,” Andrew giggled, “Are you ready for your first day at school?”
“What’s wrong with Winterbourne,” Buffy said with smirk, “Andrew Luthor?”
Andrew nodded, “Nothing but it is the name of a creek that’s dry in summer,” and laughed a bit.
“I like Andrew,” Buffy said, “And remember: it’s Anne Winterbourne to you.
They walked out of the car and towards the school; Buffy was aware of a lot of people staring at her and Andrew and sighed: it was just like Sunnydale and swore if she saw someone look at her and crash on a skateboard she was going to scream.
“What are they looking at?” Andrew whispered to her.
“They’re looking at us Andrew,” Buffy said quietly, “We’re the new kids. I went through the same thing in Sunnydale; there were a lot of people staring at me when I walked down to meet Mr Flutie.”
Andrew sighed, “I liked Mr Flutie, he was nice, to a point though. Did you have to go through his group hug therapy? It was traumatising.”
They walked towards the principal’s office and walked in, Buffy smiled, “Umm, Principal Kwan?”
He gestured for them to sit down and said, “Andrew Wells and Anne Winterbourne, welcome to Smallville high. First, Andrew; your school records show that you have consistently got very good grades in chemistry, mathematics and biology and Ms Winterbourne; your grades are decent enough.”
“Now you are brother and sister?” Kwan asked, “Even with your different last names?”
Andrew thought quickly and said, “Different fathers: her father wanted Anne to have his last name rather than mom’s last name.”
“Okay, I have a couple of students who are going to show you around,” Kwan said, “Now please keep your noses clean here.”
They nodded and waited for whoever was going to lead them around, they didn’t have to wait long when a boy with dark hair who was incredibly tall came in. Andrew stared at him openly; he was good looking, almost perfect. He shook his head as the man introduced himself, “Hi, I’m Clark Kent.”
Buffy nodded and said, “Anne Winterbourne and this is Andrew Wells.”
“Hi guys, it’s nice to meet you both. This is Chloe Sullivan,” Clark said as he introduced the blonde next to him.
They shook hands and as they walked down the halls Andrew looked around and said, “Please tell me what’s with your mascot here?” Andrew asked as he pointed out all of the ‘Go Crow’s’ signs.
“We have a lot of school spirit,” Chloe said with a smile, “Didn’t you guys have school spirit at your old school?”
“Umm,” Andrew muttered, “It went downhill ever since our mascot and the principal were eaten in the same day by wild dogs.”
Buffy nodded, “Yes, wild dogs that got by a closed door, Sunnydale have very intelligent wild dogs.”
Clark and Chloe stared, “Your principal and mascot were eaten,” Clark said shaking his head, “By wild dogs?”
“And,” Chloe added, “They were smart enough to open a door and eat a man? What was your mascot?”
“Oh,” Andrew said, “It was a cute little piglet that Principal Flutie tried to make look like an angry razorback boar.”
“Yep, Herbert was cute,” Buffy said sadly, “And I liked Principal Flutie.”
“Was Sunnydale built over a nuclear waste dump or something like that?” Chloe asked.
“No,” Buffy said, “It wasn’t over a nuclear waste dump; it’d have honestly made sense if it was but no, we weren’t that lucky.”
As they were being led around Andrew stared at Clark and thought to himself, ‘So this is Lex’s friend? He seems really nice and open.”
“So,” Chloe said, “We end the tour at The Torch: our school newspaper which, by the way, is always looking for good staff.”
They were by themselves when Clark and Chloe left to go talk to a friend of theirs; Buffy looked at Andrew and said, “So, that’s Clark? He seems nice, doesn’t he?”
Andrew nodded and said, “He does seem nice, I like him.”
Buffy nodded as they talked about other things, noting that Andrew was deep in thought about things.
“What’re you thinking about Andrew?” Buffy asked, “You look like you’re thinking about something?”
“This,” Andrew said, “I’m not sure about what happens now, Smallville seems nice but…”
“It’s not Sunnydale,” Buffy finished for him, “You miss your friends don’t you?”
“Yeah,” Andrew nodded, “Don’t you miss anyone in Sunnydale?”
Buffy thought it over and nodded, “Yeah, a couple. But Andrew we can both make a fresh start here and new friends, Clark knows your brother and he seems decent enough.”
“By the way,” Andrew asked, “If you’re protecting me are you going to kill people?”
“Nope,” Buffy said, “But I can definitely put them in the hospital and trust me, if they tried to hurt you I would put them in a body cast.”
Meanwhile Lex had finally finished his work for Buffy and, if he timed it right, her family would get the news in a couple of hours.
TBC
A/N” That was their first day of school and they will be meeting their first meteor mutant soon, any suggestions for the mutant’s abilities and who it should be from season 1 will be appreciated. What do you guys think of Buffy’s new name?
I will be slowly going into the relationships between Andrew/Clark and Buffy/Lex soon.
How do you think Buffy’s friends and family will react to her “Death”? Keep in mind that Giles will know the truth soon.
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