Love and everything that goes with it
by Bwriter
Part two
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Part two
A few days had passed and Buffy had moved into the mansion with Angel. She was glad the place was big as it meant she could do more than stretch her legs during the day.
"Ready?" Angel was standing at the garden doors ready to go when Buffy looked over to him.
"Yeah."
They meet Faith at the largest cemetery in Sunnydale and found her in the middle of a fight with three Vamps. Buffy went to intervene when Angel stopped her.
"Wait."
Buffy turned back to the fight to see Faith stake the biggest one first before moving onto the other two demons.
/no self respecting Vamp should be enjoying this/
'I never claimed to be self respecting'
/isn't that the truth/
Buffy focused on the fight to see another Vamp get staked and watched as the last one ran away.
Faith looked from the stake in her hand to the retreating Vampire before shrugging and throwing it with deadly accuracy.
"Hey guys."
Buffy watched as Angel bent down to give Faith a kiss but her head snapped up when she heard voices approaching.
She left the love birds to it and took off in the direction of the voices. As she got nearer she recognised Willow's.
"... Cordy be nice. She just moved here."
"Yeah but she's been moving on Angel since she got here and she's supposed to be Faiths friend."
Buffy was about to make her way back to Angel and Faith when she saw a demon sneaking up behind the group of humans.
Jumping into action she tracked the demon before going after it.
Willow, Cordy and Xander saw a blur of blonde hair before they heard sounds of a fight.
All they saw was a blonde haired girl fighting a demon.
Xander turned when he heard footsteps a stake at the ready. Seeing Angel and Faith he lowered his arm and waved them over.
"Damn it."
Angel was about to join the fight when Faith pulled him back.
"I wanna see what she can do."
Angel nodded before turning back to watch his childe fight.
Buffy was having a blast. The only drawback was the smell of the demon. It smelt like rotten eggs.
"God what the hell are you?"
The demon paused as if thinking of an answer and Buffy used its distraction, sweeping a leg out and knocking it off balance.
Angel threw her his sword with she caught without looking, leaving the gang open-mouthed.
Buffy swung the sword in an arc taking the demons head clean off before standing and jumping away to avoid the demon goo that was splattering the area around the body.
Buffy handed Angel back his sword and turned to see everyone staring at her.
"So your just an old friend of Faith's then?" Cordy's question broke the trance everyone seemed to be in.
Buffy shrugged her shoulders. That was Faith's story, she could fix it.
/god that felt good/
Silently Buffy agreed with her demon.
Looking at the Slayer she wondered what she was gonna say to pull this off.
"She is an old friend. I taught her how to fight when I first became the Slayer."
Xander looked put out.
"How come you taught her and not us?"
Faith rolled her eyes at him before turning to Buffy.
"Good fight B."
Buffy smiled, thought Willow thought it looked forced.
"How about we cut this patrol short and go to the Bronze?"
Faith's suggestion was agreed by all and Angel and Buffy simply nodded their heads.
"Great."
"Wait, even with training she looked pretty strong. What is she on steroids or something?"
Buffy smirked at Cordy before walking away with Angel, playfully bumping him with her shoulder when he congratulated her on the fight.
The gang arrived at the Bronze and Buffy headed straight to the bar to get a drink.
"Does she have a drinking problem?"
Angel threw Xander look before going asking Faith what she wanted to drink and following Buffy.
"Guys give her a break yeah?"
Cordy and Xander nodded their heads grudgingly and Willow smiled before taking Faith's arm and taking her over to a table.
"You okay?"
Buffy looked over her shoulder at Angel before turning back to the bar.
"I'm good. Drink?"
"Beer and a coke."
"What about the others?"
Angel looked back over to the table before turning back to Buffy.
"Get them cokes to."
As Buffy ordered the drinks Angel headed back over to the table.
"Buffy's getting in the drinks."
Faith got up before taking Angel's hand.
"Lets dance."
"Oh good idea come on Xander."
The two couples left leaving Willow at the table waiting for Buffy.
When Buffy got back she looked around to see everyone but Willow on the dance floor.
She sat the tray of drinks down before taking hers and handing Willow's her coke.
"Thanks."
Buffy gave her a smile before turning to watch her Sire make a prick out of himself trying to dance.
"So how long have you known Angel?"
Buffy was so caught up in his dancing she answered not thinking of the consequences.
"Close to three hundred and fifty years."
It took Buffy a second to realise what she h said and she turned to look at Willow who was looking at her with a smirk on her face.
"I knew that story was fake."
Buffy took a drink of her beer before speaking.
"How?"
"You act more like Angel's friend than Faith's."
Buffy finished her beer and starting peeling off the label.
"So what are you?"
Buffy looked up to see Willow leaning close to her.
"Vampire."
Buffy watched as Willow moved away from her as if she had been burnt.
/You and your big mouth/
'shut up I knew it was coming anyway'
Willow watched the Vampire before her tear nervously at her beer bottle before putting her hand over both of Buffy's to get her to stop.
Buffy looked up when she felt Willow's hands covering hers.
"What's up?"
Buffy was going to answer when Angel came over. She pulled her hands away from Willow's trying not to notice the look Willow threw at her.
"Buffy can I speak to you for a minute outside?"
She could tell her was pissed with her.
"Sure."
She followed him out and stepped back when he turned on her.
"I told you to stay away from her."
"Everyone left! What did you want me to do?"
Angel paused and Buffy continued.
"Where the hell do you get off giving me orders anyway? You aren't my Sire. Not anymore, you made that perfectly clear."
Angel stepped back as if she had hit him.
"I... I did what I thought was best."
Buffy could tell he believed that but she didn't want to hear it.
They hadn't noticed that Willow had come out after them.
"You left me in the middle of a field! I had no idea what was happening and there was a horde of humans chasing me with very sharp weapon's!"
Angel lowered his head and saw Willow standing at the clubs door looking at them, he went to stop Buffy but she had already turned having smelt Willow.
"Ah guys, you might want to get in here."
They followed her and both Vampire's froze when they entered.
"You feel that?"
Buffy nodded her head and without thinking grabbed Willow's hand to keep her near.
They made their way over to Faith and the others to see the Slayer also on alert.
"What is that?"
Angel shook his head but Buffy was too busy staring at the stage. She had felt this before but she couldn't place where.
The lights went out. The crowd in the club started running for the exit, not knowing what was happening.
Buffy pulled Willow closer and her human face gave way to the demon beneath, seeing Angel had done the same.
On the stage she saw something shimmer before the lights came back on.
She looked over to her Sire throwing him a look as if to say "what the hell".
She heard Xander's exclamation of "fuck" before Willow was pulled from her.
She turned wondering what was wrong when Angel gestured to her face.
Buffy felt her ridges before she switched out of game face.
"Oops."
Angel gave her a half smirk but never said anything.
"She's a Vampire!?!"
Xander was holding Willow and Cordy behind him but Buffy's attention was on the stage.
"Angel, you take left."
He followed her and broke off to the left as she took right. They met in the middle of the stage and reached out with their senses but found nothing.
"There was something."
Angel nodded his head and they headed back to the others.
"We have to go over to Giles. He just called and said he wanted us over now. Something about the book translating itself. He sounded like he'd been gypped."
They arrived at Giles place and went in, not noticing that Buffy was left on the doorstep.
/see they don't really want you here/
Buffy ignored her demon and sat on the bench outside. Just as she sat the door opened.
"Sorry. Giles come here a minute."
Giles went over to join Faith at the door and saw a blond girl sitting on the bench outside his apartment. When she looked at him he took a step back knowing who it was.
"Faith why is she here?"
Faith looked from Giles to Buffy who looked just as confused as her.
"It's a long story but could you please invite her in?"
Giles looked at his Slayer as if she had gone daft.
"Tell me your joking. Please."
Faith shook her head and Giles sighed.
"Fine. Come in Buffy."
Buffy walked into the apartment and stopped just inside before turning to face Giles.
"How did you know me?"
He made his way over to the drinks cabinet and poured a large scotch before draining it in one.
"Watcher's are trained by reading about the most vicious of creatures. Next to The Master, and Angelus, you were the most vicious I had ever heard of. Vampire and demon alike."
Angel lowered his head knowing he was to blame for that in part and Buffy saw. Her demon was feeding her images of the *fun* it used to have and she tried very hard not to throw up.
"I... I got nothing I can say to that except that everything they ever told you? I did worse. Much worse."
Faith tried steering the conversation back to the reason Giles called them in the first place.
"Just before I rang you the book... well it translated itself onto that page."
He showed them his pages of notes and sure enough the whole thing was covered in writing that the gang knew didn't belong to Giles.
"So what's it say then?"
Giles picked up the sheet of paper before clearing his throat and starting to read.
"From the depth of hell a demon shall rise. It shall walk upon the earth and destroy everything in its path. One of light and two of shadow can stop him when the time comes.
If they fail then evil will rule and the light will die. Two of shadow will find their mates and the one of light shall change it all.
One the tenth night of the tenth month the battle will rage in hell and he shall prevail. The world shall have until the storms come to prepare.
A friend shall help steer the one of light and two of shadow."
Everyone looked at Giles when he finished waiting for more.
"That's it."
Faith plopped down onto a chair as did everyone else but Buffy who stood looking out the window.
They jumped when she spoke, her voice sounded hollow.
"One of Light - that would be Faith. Two of shadow I'm guessing that's Angel and me."
Giles took off his glasses before cleaning them.
"Well we don't really know about you yet do we?"
Buffy turned to face the watcher.
/I'm hungry/
Buffy ignored her demon and picked up the sheet of paper reading over it.
"Buffy's staying to help with this so I'd say that labels her a player in the prophecy." Giles had never heard Angel defend anyone other than Faith and even then he never used that tone with him.
Buffy walked back over to the window and Willow tracked her with her eyes, which Buffy tried to ignore.
/damn Angel! Just take her already/
'no go away'
/not going to happen. I'm stuck with you and your stuck with me and right now we are agreeing on that little redhead there/
The others watched as Buffy paced in front of the window.
/look at her god what I'd give to sink my teeth into her/
Buffy mentally slammed up every wall she could in her head but it was no use. The demon was to much a part of her.
/yeah, that'll work/
The gang jumped when they heard a growl come from Buffy. Angel walked over and put a hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?"
"Just gets a little crowded in here sometimes."
Angel knew exactly what she meant and he gave her a squeeze before backing off to stand beside Faith.
Buffy, not knowing that all eyes were on her, wrapped her arms around herself taking what little comfort her could.
Willow watched her with sad eyes. Angel saw the expression on her face and decided to lay off Buffy. If she wanted to pursue a thing with Willow he would step back and let her.