(this scene takes place right after Buffy storms out of The Bronze)
Willow and Xander are still sitting at their table, and Xander turns to Willow with a puzzled look on his face.
Xander: Did I say something wrong?
Willow: Do you really need to ask?
Xander looks helpless for a moment, and then he brightens.
Xander: Should I go after her?
Willow: Do you have a death wish?
Xander: No.
Willow: Then I wouldn't go after her.
Xander's face falls.
Xander: Point taken.
Buffy goes to the cemetary where she and Angel used to meet. She sinks down on the ground near a fresh grave and dozes off. She wakes with a start when she hears a crackling sound near her. She tries to stand, but is forced back down by two strong hands on her shoulders. She cranes her neck to look up, and when she does, she sees the familiar face of her one-time love.
Angel: I'm not here to fight.
Buffy: Where have I heard that one before?
Angel lets her up, knowing that she's not going to bolt.
Angel sighs: I don't mean to be un-original.
Buffy: If you aren't here to fight, then why ARE you here?
Angel: I don't know. I didn't expect to find you here, though. I'd have thought that you'd be out fighting bad guys or something.
Buffy: Lately, I've been fighting the good guys more often than the bad ones.
Angel grins: You mean that someone besides me has you angry? I'm hurt.
Buffy:I'm sure. Do you realize that we're actually talking as if you never lost your soul?
Angel: Yes.
Buffy: Doesn't that bother you?
Angel: Why should it?
Buffy: No reason. I'm just confused as to what happened to all the "I'm gonna kill you and all your friends" thing.
Angel laughs softly: I can't help that. My identity is buried deep. I doubt that there's any getting it back. I still love you, but I want to kill you. Is that so hard to understand?
Buffy: Giles is close to finding a cure. He's trying to weed out that part about the one moment of true happiness.
Angel: Buffy...
Buffy: What?
Angel: Nothing. I've gotta go. Dru's looking for me...When we meet again, we're enemies again, agreed?
Buffy smiles ironically: Agreed.
Angel turns to leave and is almost out of sight when Buffy calls him back.
Buffy: Angel, wait a minute!
Angel turns back and waits for Buffy to catch up to him.
Angel: What is it?
Buffy: Do you want your ring back? The one you gave me?
Angel looks at her hand.
Angel: The Celtic thing? No, you keep it.
Angel smiles and then on impulse, he kisses her. Buffy looks startled and a little scared when he releases her.
Angel: Remember Buffy, we're enemies.
Buffy: Yeah, right. Sure thing.
Angel grins wickedly: Love ya.
Angel does his vampire disappearing thing and Buffy backpedals and nearly trips over a fresh grave. She nearly topples backward when the earth beneath her begans to move. She waits patiently as the new vampire struggles to extracate himself from his grave.
Buffy: Good morning. You ready to die again, fang face?
Vamp: Huh? What'd I do now?
Buffy: Why don't you look in a mirror and see? Oh, wait, you can't. Oops. Sorry about that one.
Vamp:I don't get it.
Buffy:What's there to get? You're a vampire, and I'm the Slayer.
Vamp: Oh, that. I thought you mean you were talking about something serious!
Buffy raises an eyebrow at the vampire.
Buffy: Being a vampire isn't serious?
Vamp: Um...not really. What time is it?
Buffy looks at her watch.
Buffy:It's 4:30 in the morning.'
Vamp: Then that means it's about 2 hours before sunrise. I have a lot of time to kill before I go.
Buffy: Before you go where?
Vamp: To wherever I go when I die again.
Buffy is shocked.
Buffy: You're going to just sit out in the sun and kill yourself?
Vamp: That's the plan.
Buffy: This is too wierd. I've never met a vampire with a death-wish before. Well, at least I've never met one with a LITERAL death-wish!
Vamp: There's a first time for everything.
Buffy: Why do you want to die?
Vamp: I can't live like this. I'm still the person I was before Spike and his little girlfriend killed me. I couldn't even kill a bug.
Buffy: Most of the time, you guys could care less about killing a bug or anything else for that matter. Not having a soul kinda does that to you.
Vamp: I don't have a soul? That means that the curse didn't work!
Buffy: What curse?
Vamp: This gypsy chick put a curse on me because I accidentally ran over her dog. Something along the lines that I will be cursed with a human soul until such a time that the sun sets forever on the human race and no life shall walk anymore on the earth.
Buffy: You wouldn't happen to know where this gypsy is, would you?
Vamp: How could I forget? She lives a few blocks away from some high-school. I think it's on Mayfair street. It would be a blue house, with trim hanging all off of it and peeling paint.
Buffy hugs him and grins.
Vamp: What was that for?
Buffy: I can go to the gypsy and get her to put a curse on Angel so he'll have his soul back!
A few minutes later, the sun comes up, and the vampire disentigrates.
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