Chapter 2
Utter Confusion
A/N: Sorry this is so short. I think it's some good work though, so please review.
Miranda
"I want answers NOW" Buffy screamed fighting back tears of rage. She just couldn' believe Angel didn't tell her.
"Buffy, I can explain. I should of told you--" Angel rushed toward her, arms wide open, but she ignored his advances and laughed hysterically at him throwing her hands into the air.
"S-Should have told me? When did that thought enter your thick head!" Buffy screamed letting the tears fall now. "Yeah, I think it would have been smart of you to say something. Just an idea!" She then heared Spike laughing in the corner of the room, his face shrouded in darkness. He stepped into the light and looked at her closely, smiling at her anger. "You think this is funny?"
"No, not at all." He said trying to keep a straight face and failing miserably. "But it's about time for forehead boy over here got himself yelled at. I thught it was just me who got screaned and cursed at."
"Tell me why, no how he came back." She couldn't fight crying any more.
"Luv, I really don't know why I'm back. All I know is that it has to do with that damn medallion." Buffy looked over at him and saw that he really hadn't changed at all. HIs eyes were different though. Haunted. She was dying to know what happened to him.
Buffy then unclenched her hands and sat on Angel's bed. Spike crept out of the shadows and sat sown next to her and grabbed her hand. She didn't take her hand back. It was oddly comforting to feel his touch. Welcoming. She looked back at Angel.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Buffy managed to keep eye contact though she was fully aware that it killed him to seek solace in Spike and not him. Good, she thought, let him feel pain for a change.
Angel tore his gaze away from Buffy and Spike's hand together and started to pace the room. He needed a moment to gather his thoughts. If he wasn't honest, it could ruin his entire relationship with Biffy. He couldn't let his petty jealousies and feelings for Buffy get in the way.
"I was really happy with the way things were going for us. We were talking and holding eachother and having a great time. We hadn't been this comfortable with each other since you were in at Sunnydale High." Angel stopped and looked at Buffy with sad eyes. "I was selfish. I admit it. I wanted you to myself. I wasn't to bring Spike in the mix. You had been here a day and already we were acting like we had never been apart. I'm sorry. And he was. He truly looked sorry. His apolegetic face told him that much.
Angel just stared at Buffy then and she became painfully aware that she was still holding Spike's hand.
She let go quickly.
"What, Dark Avenger makes his bloody speech and you can't talk to me? So saveing the world so you could live wasn't enough?" He said disgustedly.
"Hey wait a minute! No one asked you--" Angel said defending Buffy.
"STOP!!" Buffy screamed letting all her flow rage out in that single word. Angel and Spike, the two men that she would ever truly love, stopped what they were doing and looked up at her in shocked. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, wiping her tears.
'I need to kill something."
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The Vampire Slayer checked her new surroundings.
Los Angelos is very different from Sunnysale.
Yeah, she thought, real different. Buffy really needed to think about something other than the problems at hand.
She turned into a dark, disgusting and supposedly empty alley. Her alert and accurate hearing sensed
a struggle nearby. Buffy ran toward the noise and stopped at the familiar scene that lay before.
So familiar ir made her want to life. Almost, but not quite.
A vapire with a serious lack of fashion sense, had a girl
leaned up against the wall, about to sink his fangs into
a helpless woman's pale flesh.
From the state of the woman, it appeared that Buffy had gotten there just
in time to save her. She walked up to the vamp and casually grabbed a stake from her back poket and tapped the vamp on the back, interuppting him in mid-feed. A moan escaped from the lips of the woman. A teenager really, barely 18 years old.
Looking the vamp in the eye she said," Well isn't this your classic damsel in distress story?" The vampire turned around with a sick smile on his face.
"Yeah. Ya wanna join?"
"Tempting...But how about not." Buffy punched the vamp in the face, causing him to stagger.
"Hey bitch! Who do yo think--" Buffy didn't care to hear the rest of his sentence. She shoved him away fron the cowering girl and delivered a swift kick to the vampire's stomach. He looked at her, surprised at her strength.
"Damn, you're a strong one." He said swinging at her head.
"Yeah," she grunted."Tha's what they all say."
She ducked his punch easily and picked him up by the neck. Buffy threw him with all her strengt into the near by trash cans. She ran up to and leaped om top of him, staddeling him hard, giving the vamp no room to manuver from under her grasp. Buffy punched and punched, beating the souless thing into a pulp. The poor thing didn't have a chance.
"But all of those relationships are headed for dust."
With a last final punch she put the vampire out of his misery and staked him.
Damn, that felt good.
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Buffy walked into the room she and Angel had shared last night feeling tired from her patrol. She took off her sweat drenched clothes and slipped under the covers.
Buffy placed her head on the pillow and suddenly started crying uncontrollably. For hours she stayed like this inable to stop herself. When Buffy finally stopped she realized it eas well over midnight. Buffy sighed and turned over to fall asleep, but there was a slight knock on the door.
"Amgel, I'm really not ready to talk-"
"Um...It's not Angel, it's Dawn. Can I please come in?"
Buffy sat upright and told Dawn to come in. She had tried to ask Dawn about School but Dawn caught her.
"Oh no. I heared you crying so don't give me that ' Oh Dawnie how has school been?' line. I'm not stupid. I made it into Stanford didn't I."
Buffy chuckled at her sister. She was so funny..
"Aw, Buffy I'm sorry." Dawn said with an apolegetic look.
"For what? There's nothing you did to fill me with confusion. That's Angel's fault. And Spike."
"I know but I should have been here for you, signed up for a closer college. I shouldn't have left you..."
While Dawn droned in about how all of this was her fault when Buffy realized something.
"How did you know where I was?"
"Angel called me, said you needed someone. I had no idea you were this upset."
"Angel called you?" Dawn noded. Angel cared enpough to let her be and call her sister. That made her feel considerably better.
"Buffy, I don't think Angel and Spike are asking you to make any decisions. But you have to look at it from their point of view: Angel, who's finally found a cure the the whole no happiness thing wants to be with you more than anything and finally have the relationship he's always wanted with you. But here come's Spike, a painful reminder of his past, out to ruin everything. All that is in his eyes. And Spike, well Soike is a completely different story. When you said you loved him last year and then he dies and comes back to find that the woman he loves is with the man he hates. He feels like you betrayed him somehow, even though you didn't. Together these sulful vamps form one heap of confusion for you." Dawn announced she was finished by taking a huge gulp of air and looked at her sister.
"I never knew you had so much insight on my relationships."
"Yeah, well thanks to you and to many soaps I'm now the official relationship expert." She gigled. "That sounded so corny!"
"Yeah, but I love you anyway."
Buffy pulled Dawn close and ruffled her hair.
"I'm so glad you're here."
"Me too."
A/N Please review. I worked hard on this chapter.
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