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 Two
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Before they could stop her, Buffy turned and ran....She ran faster than she had ever run before in her life. She didn’t know where she was going or what she was going to do...so she just ran. A while had passed and she eventually ended up going back to the mansion. Once inside she had realized that she had no idea what she was going to tell Angel....she didn’t know if she should tell him everything that had happened back at the school, or if she should tell him what had gone on with her and Scott. She was almost certain that it would make him happy to know that she and Scott had broken up so she decided that that should be the first thing she would tell him. It would also pose as a partial excuse for her turning to him for the comfort. Being in his arms was the only thing she wanted right now...it was the only thing that was keeping her mind off of the sickening news that she had just learned.
Finally, she found herself standing in front of his bedroom door. She didn’t know if he would be there or wandering around the mansion like she had found him doing so many times before. So instead of barging in, she knocked...so softly at first that not even she could hear it. So this time she knocked a little louder. She was thankful when he came and opened the door. He didn’t appear surprised at all to see her, and invited her to come sit on his bed.
Angel could tell that the girl was upset, but wasn’t sure if he should put his arm around her, or if he should just sit next to her and listen to her cry......he decided against both and finally spoke. “Buffy...what happened....why are you crying...talk to me, please...” It was a while before she finally spoke, and when she did.....everything came out. The whole story, everything about her and Scott...everything, especially, about what she had learned from her friends earlier that evening.
“...Angel....just hold me...please. I don’t know what to do. Everything is so screwed up, and nothing has been right since you’ve been gone...since we haven’t been together.” It was at that moment that she confessed everything she had ever felt.....and everything she had ever wished for for the two of them. She told him how much she needed him and how much he meant to her. “....and I don’t know why, but ever since you’ve been back, everytime I’m here, I can’t think of anything else except how badly I missed kissing you. No matter what I do, I’m thinking about you,” Buffy said.
“Even when I was with Scott, I’m beginning to think I was merely trying to replace something that could never be substituted for. And you have to know, that when I was kissing him, it was your face I was seeing, it was your mouth I was kissing....your lips I was touching. Everything...it was all you. But who could I tell? Everyone thinks that I’m just slowly driving myself crazy and digging myself into a deep depression. Which, I think, I think that’s what I was starting to do until I ended up here tonight. I finally realized that I could never stand being with anyone but you...you’ve given me everything I could ever ask for..you’ve shown me everything I’ll ever need to know. You’ve taught me things that I would never have wanted to learn from anyone but you.....” The Slayer said.
As she went on and on, all Angel could do was stay kneeled down in front of her in a dazed frame of mind...hanging on every single word the love of his life had to say. And by the time she had finished, he was crying. No one had ever cared so much about him or at least...they had never said to him, anything remotely close to everything she had just said, and even though he had known it before, he knew now more than ever, that he loved her with everything he had in him, and sadly enough, everything that he had done to her while he was Angelus, came rushing back to him and all he knew to do was apologize.
“I’m so sorry for everything I’ve done to hurt you. All those times that I was mean to you about everything that we’ve been though....about your birthday. Buffy, you have to know that everything I said about us after that night, none of it was true.....I would do it all over again and wouldn’t change a thing. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and if it meant losing my soul all over again, it would be worth it. Everything would be worth it.” And they kissed...they kissed with a greater passion than either of them had known before and it seemed to go on for what seemed like hours to both of them.
Eventually they had ended up easing themselves back onto the bed. A moment later Buffy had stopped him and looked him in the eyes...”Angel...I’ve loved you from the first time I saw you...I don’t want to be with anyone but you.” She paused trying to think of how to word what she was about to say.....”You were...you were my first and I want you to be the only one...I don’t ever want to lose you again. I didn’t think I would make it before...and I was close, I was so close to the edge. I almost lost everything and now you’re back and you can’t..I won’t ever let you go away again. You have to promise me. Please...” She looked at him questioningly, trying so had to keep from crying that she couldn’t do anything but cry.
“I’ll never let you go...I promise. I will always be here for you, no matter where I am and I promise you that I will love you for the rest of my life. I never want to let you go...If we could stay here like this for the rest of our lives, I’d be happy...only because I’d be with you.” He was looking down at her, smiling, watching her as she lay next to and almost underneath half of his body and they lay there for a moment just taking in and enjoying the sight of each other and again, they kissed...slowly and sweetly this time.
After a few minutes, Angel stopped, raised his head and spoke. “Buffy, we can’t do this..I mean.....with everything that happened last time, I don’t think we should. I would give anything for this to happen, but It’s just that...” He was cut off when the Slayer raised up and silenced him with a kiss.
Quietly, but reassuringly, she spoke. “It’s okay...nothing bad is going to happen, I promise. I made sure. Do you really think I would have let things go this far if I thought we were going to see a repeat of last time do you? Don’t worry...I did some reading, looked some things up on my own and there was a catch in your curse. It said that if you were to regain your soul, the curse would be ineffective.”
“You’re serious aren’t you...? I never thought to look that up. How long have you know about...no nevermind that. That means, you’ve been thinking about this, haven’t you?” Angel said. He smiled down at her and before she could say anything else, he kissed her.
Buffy knew what all of this would lead to and she had no intentions of stopping it. She was with the one man that she truly loved with all her heart and soul. They knew everything about each other and yet, with each passing moment they were learning more and more. It had entered her mind several times in the past hour that Angel had never been so open with her. She realized that his trust in her was beginning to grow too.
Unlike her birthday...when she and Angel had made love for the first time...this time, she wasn’t nervous. As a matter of fact she was the complete opposite. The Slayer’s mind was reeling...thinking about all the nights when she had lay awake in her bed thinking about the events that had led to the point in time when Angel had lost his soul. At first she had blamed herself because it was she who had initiated the whole thing in the first place...she held the weight of the blame on her shoulders up to the point where she had found out it was Jenny’s fault that he was cursed with the no-happiness-curse anyway.
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