Disclaimer: I do not own any of the BtVS or Dawson’s Creek characters, or anything related to these shows. Don’t sue! I’m just an 18 y/o girl...all you’d get out of me is my collection of BtVS stuff....no harm intended...
Author’s Note: I would like to express a very special Thank You to Melinda S. Dawney. She is the writer of the greatest fanfic I’ve ever read, called: Friendship. She’s the reason that I decided to give the fic a try. Thank you Melinda for all the help with the story. Without it, there’s no telling how the story would have turned out sounding. You’re the best!!
2nd Author’s Note: Okay, in my opinion, the “happiness” curse thing doesn’t make sense. The way I look at it, I don’t think it’s still there, because when the spell was cast, it wasn’t like they counted on Angel getting his soul back once it was lost because of the one true moment of happiness. So I decided that it wasn’t going to work that way in my world and that the curse wouldn’t be there! Happy Reading!!
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Part One
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It had been a little more than a week since Angel’s return. Giles, Willow, Cordy, Oz or least of all Xander knew anything about it...especially Faith. When she and Buffy had first met, she had no idea of their relationship therefore starting out on the wrong foot with the Slayer by belittling what she and Angel had once shared.
Although she had no clue of what she was going to do, Buffy knew she couldn’t hide him forever and she had to do something before he regained his full strength and was ready to venture out on his own again. She knew that it wouldn’t be long. Just two days earlier, Buffy had gone to the mansion to take Angel food and to tell him that she had been dating someone.....that she didn’t know that he would ever be back and how strongly it would affect her if he did, but yet, as she was speaking the words, it sounded more as though she were trying to convince herself, not Angel, that Scott was a great, solid type of guy.
It was clear that Angel didn’t like the idea at all. Although, little did Buffy know, she wouldn’t be dating Scott much longer because it was growing more apparently clear to him that Buffy had other things, much deeper things on her mind than him to worry about, things that he knew he could never understand. It wasn’t that Buffy didn’t care whether or not she was dating Scott, she just felt like maybe she was trying to create something that would never be there. At first she had taken it as just another rejection, but the fact of the matter was that Scott just didn’t belong in Buffy’s world.
Especially since finding out that Angel was back, soul and all, Buffy’s life had been a rollercoaster of emotions that she could never seem to control. She appeared to her friends and family too, to be severely upset, or depressed, however bad that situation might be. Usually it had never taken much to make her laugh, or even to get her to smile when Xander said something witty...but to them, she was nothing short of withdrawn and inattentive. No one knew what to do, but as it was, they were spending another boring and uneventful Saturday night sitting in the library doing research on the latest demonic uproar. Buffy sat at the head of the table doing nothing but staring off into space. She hadn’t even noticed that everyone had stopped what they were doing and were now staring at her. Finally, breaking the silence...
“Are you okay?” Giles asked. “Because, for the past thirty minutes you’ve been staring...into, well, wherever you were at, and we were just wondering if you were still alive...?” Buffy didn’t answer him. Finally taking the initiative to get Buffy alone, Willow spoke.
“Buffy, can I talk to you? About...something...in the other..room, I mean?” Without saying a word, she got up and followed Willow to the girls’ room.
The truth was, she had been off in a whole other place, thinking about the private research she had been doing in her free time. What little of it she had. Out of all the reading she had done, she found out that there was a catch in the happiness curse, and it was just the catch she had been looking for in the first place. It had said that, once the curse had taken effect that if the curs-ee, so-to-speak, were ever to regain their soul again that the curse would no longer be effective. It wasn’t like she was planning on running up to the mansion to hop in bed with Angel, she just wanted to be sure in case the situation ever came up.
Once they were alone, Willow turned around to speak but stopped when she saw a single tear roll down her best friends cheek. “Buffy...are you okay.....I mean, no, you’re not okay and we all know that, but I mean, you’re standing here and you’re crying and ever since you came back, everything’s been different. I mean, I know by now how to tell when something is really wrong and I can tell that you really need to talk to someone and I want you to know that I’ll be here to listen when you decide to talk about........well, whatever it is that’s going on.”
Buffy chose that moment to interrupt. It was then that she decided to speak. “Will....?” Buffy said, looking questioningly at her friend. “What am I going to do? My life is a complete mess and as if that’s not bad enough, I’m dragging my friends down with me and....and I mean,....oh God...who am I kidding Will? I try to pretend like there was nothing I could have done to prevent all of this from happening, that I shouldn’t have had to send Angel to hell....but you didn’t see the look on his face. I tried to pretend like nothing happened when Giles asked me to tell him what went on...and I tried to pretend like it didn’t hurt at all seeing him disappear right from in front of me...but I think...well, I just feel like when he left, he took half of me with him.”
Buffy had broken down completely by the time she had stopped talking and Willow had no idea what to say. This was the first time her friend had spoken about anything that had happened that night, so she said the first thing that came to her mind...
“I guess that means the restoration spell didn’t work then, huh?”
Just as she started to turn around, Buffy grabbed both of her arms and said, “What did you say? Will, what did you just say??” Willow had no idea why her friend was wigging out on her. “I said, I guess the spell didn’t work...” Willow said. She had barely gotten the words out of her mouth before Buffy stormed out of the restroom.
Not knowing at all what was going on, Willow ran after her, and by the time she caught up, Buffy stormed through the library doors, walked over to the table where Xander was sitting. When Xander turned around, Buffy grabbed him before he could speak and jerked him out of the chair. For some reason that none of them knew, she punched him. No one had stopped her...for two reasons, mainly. One, because she ten times stronger than them and two, because they were all too stunned to move or speak.
“How could you Xander...how could you not tell me that Willow was going to try the spell again, when you knew everything...you knew how I feel about Angel and you let me send him to hell anyway. You didn’t tell me anything. And, ‘Kick his ass’?? Did you come up with that all on your own, or did you have help on that one? How cou........no, how dare you do that to me? You are the most selfish, self-centered jerk I have ever known!” Buffy had finally spoken. And having said what she needed to say, she let him go and turned to leave.
This time it was Giles who spoke...”What’s going on here? I....I...I mean, Buffy...what are you talking about...?”
Buffy turned to look at Giles. “You’re asking me.......what’s going on Giles? Hell, I thought I’d be the one asking all the questions...but I guess I was wrong. I mean, everyone here knew exactly what was going on while I was out murdering my boyfriend and you’re asking ME what’s going on...?!?!” Buffy cried out in total disbelief.
She then turned to face Xander...saying, “Giles, you know...when I was fighting with Angel, I knew it wasn’t my boyfriend, I knew it was Angelus...but you know, I have to be honest and get this off of my chest...right as I was about to kill the demon and set Angel free from the 240 years of hell he’s lived through.....something happened and he was Angel again....my Angel, and I was scared. All I knew was that one minute we’re fighting and the next minute he’s standing in front of me and he’s hugging me and we kissed.....and I told him how much I loved him....” She paused for a moment to glance around at all of her friends then started in again. “How many of you knew...? HOW MANY???” She screamed that last part, crying at the same time, trying to get her point across. All, accept Faith and Giles, sheepishly raised their hands...Faith had not been there before when all of this had gone on. If she had been, she would have known....and well, as for Giles he was being tortured at the time and Buffy knew this.
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