Disclaimer: I'm not sure if that was the name of the episode where Angel gets locked in a gladiator arena fight ring, as I missed most of that episode, and the Buffy episode before it, but here goes. Just a short little "sort things out" intermission. Oh, and I played with the Buffyverse a bit. Buffy and all the other wonderful characters, sets, and ideas from BtVS and Angel belong to Joss, Mutant Enemy, Fox, and a bunch of other people. I'm just grateful they let us play here.
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"....I really think math should be dropped from the curriculum. Who invented this stupid Levinitz theory thingi?" Buffy muttered, angrily swinging her stake against her thigh.
"Lebenitz." Riley mentioned, trying to hide a smile.
"Huh. "
"Lebenitz came up with the stupid math thingy."
"Know it all..." Buffy jerked and froze, staring into the distance. "Angel..."
* * *
"Phone. I need a phone."
"Buffy...?"
"I Need a Phone."
"The. . the gas station on first street should have...Buffy. Wait up."
By the time he caught up with her, she was already at the phone, digging through her purse.
"Phone card, phone card. Damn. Do you have.. .. Collect. He's got money." She started dialing.
"When your party answers, say your name at the tone." The phone company informed her.
Brrring. Brrring. Brr. "Hello, Angel investigators. We help. the..."
"You have..."
"a collect call from"
"The nerve of some people."
"Buffy. Cordy, it's Buffy. Is..."
"Will you accept this call and responsibility for payment."
"Oh I guess."
"Angel, is he..."
"Please say yes or no."
"Yeeees."
"OK?"
"You like, broke or something Buffy. Cause I mean, we don't make that much here you know, and it's a long distance call to Sunnydale."
"Is Angel OK?"
"Huh, yeah. I mean, he's dead like always, and he got worked over a little on this last case, but that vampiric healing stuff really works."
"How hurt is worked over a little."
"How'd you know he was hurt, anyway."
"Cordy!"
"OK, ok, he got a stake through his stomach , a couple of electrical burns on his chest, and a bunch of bruises. He's OK, Buffy. Nothing vital. You know, the immortal vampire stuff. He'll heal all the way in under a week, tops. Probably be out fighting demons tomorrow. How'd you hear about it though. We only got him out an hour ago."
"Out of where? Who.. . "
"Oh, here he is, I'll put him on."
"No, Cordy, don't. I don't want..."
"Hello?" It wasn't Cordy's voice. It was deep, gentle/wild. The voice that still haunted her dreams almost every night.
"Angel." She pressed the phone against her ear and sagged against the telephone booth's dirty wall. "I...I felt that you had been hurt. I just...wanted to know you're ok."
"I'm fine. You?"
"The same. "
Silence.
"Cordy said you'd been hurt."
"Yeah, some people were reenacting gladiatorial games with monsters. Decided I'd make a good fighter and trapped me. Cordilia and Westly got me out."
"Be more careful."
"I will. ...I'm sorry it bothered you."
"You're not a bother."
* * *
Riley jumped as a hand tapped his shoulder. "Willow!"
"Hi solder boy. I thought you and Buffy were patrolling together tonight...oh. Who's she talking to?"
"How am I supposed to know? She suddenly stopped in the middle of patrol, said something about angels, and ran for the phone."
"Oh. Angel ... "
"You know?"
"Yees."
"Who, or what...."
"Maybe you should talk to Buffy about him..."
"Him? Willow, who?"
"Buffy's ex." Xander put in. "What, he'd find out soon enough anyhow." he added as Willow glared.
"Her ex? And she suddenly stops everything to phone him whenever she thinks of him?"
"She probably had a premonition that he was in danger or something. "
"They kinda have this mental bond thing going, you know." Xander added.
"She's psychically linked to her ex boyfriend."
"That's basically it." Xander nodded.
"It's a soul bond, not a psychic bond." Willow corrected.
"Soul bond. Like soul mates, true love type stuff."
"Sort of."
"Does she, ...does she still love him?"
Xander nodded happily. Willow paled slightly, and then rallied.
"Yes, but, it's not something you need to worry about.... Think of it as more of a brotherly love."
Xander snorted.
"Yeah, brotherly in the incest since of the word."
"They tried dating, because they do love each other, but it...didn't work. It's not possible for them. Their both... . magical creatures, and its sort of a fish and bird sort of thing. Fish can't survive in the air, and birds can't live underwater. There's no possibility of them even thinking about getting back together, but they do love each other."
"Well, I'd say they've thought about it..."Xander mumbled.
"Angel's no competition for you. There's a connection between them, and it'll probably never break, but... it's platonic love."
"Sex bad." Xander added again.
"So I should think of him as her ex, but not be jealous about the hold he has on her. That's asking a lot of a man."
"He just comes along with Buffy, part of the package like. Like her mother. He's nothing you should worry about, honestly. She's very happily in love with you. There's no reason to be jealous of him." Willow added earnestly.
Riley turned and looked at Buffy, who was hanging up the phone slowly, her bowed head hidden under a cascade of hair.
"Brother, huh..." He shook his head slightly, sighed, and with a wry, disbelieving look on his face, strode into the telephone booth to plant a kiss on the middle of Buffy's supprised forehead. "You have the weirdest life. "
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