Saying a sad goodbye: The sad goodbye.
by lieselot
Saying a sad goodbye.

A man with black clothes and a long black coat is standing at a beach, bathing in the sunlight.
His name is Angel, former known as Angelus, the vampire.
He has lived for over a thousand years and is now human, alive.

"So, how does it feel ?" a woman with long dark brown hair asks.
She has a beautiful long white dress on.
"I... I don't know, it's all so knew to me. It would be amazing if..." He pauses.
"If what ? I would stay alive ?"
He nods, looks at her and touches her face.
"It isn't fair, you gave this to me, why can't you stay ?"

She walks closer to the ocean and breathes in the sea air, then she looks back to him.
"I've been dead for so long now, I'm over it, really I am, the day I last saw you, I told you I'd be seeing you, and I'm just glad The Powers made it happen."

Angel walks away, mad, and then turns around.
"The Powers That Be stole you from me, they killed you for the greater good, so that i would stop W&H and look what good it did me, it cost me all my friends. It cost me you."

She steps forward to him, slowly, so he wouldn't walk away from her.
"This is my destiny, just as it is your destiny to be human, I destroyed the Shanshu prophecy for you, you may not see it now, but I do, you are an amazing person, human. And you'll do great, it's time you live your life now. Find a new love, be happy again, you deserve it."

"Cordy..." he almost cries saying her name.
"How can I find a new love or be happy without you ?"
She smiles.
"You found me after Buffy, the one person in the whole world you ever loved so much, but still, you were able to leave her behind you, so why can't you do that for me too ?"

He walks up a sandhill and sits down.
"Because you were the reason why I was able to get over Buffy, you were the reason why I kept fighting. You were always the reason."
"No, I wasn't. You have always been your own reason, I was just the one who stood by you, because I loved you, not because I was your reason, but because you were mine."
She smiles again, and gives him a kiss on the cheek.

"I really have to go now, I don't belong here, not anymore."
She begins to walk away, but Angel grabs her arm.
"Why ? Why did they let you destroy the prophecy and why did they make me human. I signed my future away when I signed the prophecy."
Cordy looks back, and sits down for just another second.
"I said, that if they wouldn't send me back and let me destroy the prophecy, that I would undo every good thing you ever did, and believe me, after hundreds of years of being dead, I knew how to do that. So, they let me do it, and then I said that if they didn't make you human, I'd destroy them, cause I know how to do that too, so they made you human."

Angel stands up and looks at the ocean.
"So they didn't make me human because I deserved it, they did it to save themselves. Well, then I don't want this, I don't want to be human, you can tell them to just take it away. Take it away and stay away."
Now Cordy was the one who grabbed his hand.
"You don't understand, I would have never destroyed them, they knew that. They were just afraid to do this and they needed a little push, that's all. If you turn back to your old self again, you'll never be happy or find peace."

He nods.
"Okay then, for you. I'll stay human."
Cordelia shakes her head.
"No, that can't be the reason why you stay human, the reason has to be you. Or else it won't matter, you'll be very unhappy if you do it for me and not for yourself. Please Angel, don't make me kick you in the but." she jokes.
He laughs and she laughs too.
He nods one last time, saying he'll stay human for himself.

But now is the hardest part, now he has to say the saddest goodbye ever. a final goodbye to one he'll never see again in this lifetime.
He doesn't say anything, neither does she, he just leans forward and gives her a gentle kiss on the lips.
A kiss that turns from gentle, to a kiss filled with passion and love.

Suddenly Angel finds him standing in his apartment, alone.
A tear runs from his cheek.
"Thank you, again." he says and then he picks up his jacket, takes his long coat of, and goes out in the open, to have some fun, for the first time in a long time.

When Angel has left, a wind blows trough the room, whispering :

"You're welcome..."

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I hope you guys liked it a bit, this was my first Angel/Cordy fanfic, and I hope it worked.
Thx for reading and I hope you leave a review! ;-)


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