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*****Epilogue******
Buffy and Esme sat in an all night coffee shop, drinking mocha’s. They had left Cordelia to rest in her room after her traumatic experience, and Angel hadn’t shown his face since his fight with Buffy. So Buffy had decided to choose some anti-Angel company for the evening and stopped by Esme’s to invite her out for coffee.
‘I mean, what’s his deal? It’s over…and yeah, it’s hard…but it’s even harder if he’s following me around being over-attachment-guy.’ Buffy said, staring in her mocha.
‘I suppose he just thought he was helping. He always thinks he’s right.’ Esme frowned a little as she explained away her ex’s wackiness.
‘But I mean, telling me that I can’t do that to him…I mean, hello! He’s done some pretty stupid stuff to me in the past. Admittedly he was evil at the time.’
‘He’s always been evil, in his own way.’
‘Meaning?’
‘Meaning, Angel the man isn’t very different to Angel the bad vampire. Once he gets you in his system, its not over until he says it is. I mean why do you think he hated Spike so much? He stole Dru away before he was ready to let her go.’
Buffy sighed as she thought about the scary look in his eyes, like something inside had pushed him over the edge. Like he was broken.
‘Angel was your typical rich playboy back in Ireland. He played his soft side for the ladies, made us all swoon with how romantic and sweet he was.’ Esme rolled her eyes. ‘Then he’d be out all night gambling and doing who knows what in brothels. As far as he was concerned he could just take what he wanted, no matter what it was.’
‘I just…hearing stuff like that about him…it’s just so strange. I mean, he was so different to how you describe him. Why did you fall in love with him?’
‘Why did you?’ Esme asked, Buffy opened her mouth and shut it again, looking down into her mocha again. ‘There’s just something about him. The sweet surface, and a darkness you can sense underneath that calls to you…like you need it. He’s kind of like one of those chocolate filled doughnuts.’
Buffy raised her eyebrows. ‘A doughnut?’
‘Yeah. Sugary sweet on the outside, but rich, dark and tempting on the inside. Lets face it Buffy, we both fell for the romantic fairytale, but we craved the danger underneath. The dark side. I blame the wolf in me for that, must have been some animal urge I guess.’
‘Well at least you have an excuse…’
‘You do too. You’re the slayer. You spend your life in the dark, it’s only natural that you’d want some part of that in your relationships. It’s in your nature.’
Buffy groaned. ‘Great. What am I going to do?’
‘Wait it out, he’ll get over it soon. If he doesn’t, you could just slay him.’ Esme smiled slightly to show she was kidding. Buffy sighed again and stirred the remainder of her mocha with her spoon thoughtfully.
‘Remember when the choices in life were as simple as “Shall I have eggs or pancakes for breakfast today” Simple stuff?’
‘I haven’t had to make that kind of choice for almost two hundred years…and even then it was just “Hmm, porridge or porridge” But I do see your point. Life sucks just as much when you’re dead.’
Both girls laughed and Esme went to order two more mocha’s. Buffy looked around at the few people in the coffee shop and wondered if any of them were students, and if their first look at college had been as scary as hers. She guessed it would pass, and eventually she’d fit in, and feel like a normal person again. Eventually.
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