Chapter One.
Buffy knew instantly where he meant when he said "our place."
It was a place that they had discovered one night, both following their hearts and finding eachother there.
It was halfway between Sunnydale and LA, their towns. Buffy first went there when her mother had become ill, she was scared and needed to lose herself somewhere. Angel had felt her pain, he had felt it for weeks, but he knew that he couldn't go to her it wasn't his place anymore. But when he felt her let go and release her pain he knew just where to find her. He didn't know how, but he knew to follow his "unbeating" heart and he had found her there, curled up on the sand, silent tears caressed her face and he went to her. They agreed on meeting at their "secret place" when they needed eachother and couldn't take the distance anymore. She had known that it was wrong and that she had Riley back in Sunnydale, but that was just it. She needed to be someone other than the slayer. When Buffy was with Angel she knew she didn't have to be the slayer anymore, the slayer was supposed to be strong, she was supposed to hold it all together and she couldn't let her family and friends down. Angel would take the pain away, he could make her feel like she was somewhere else, like she was someone else. He had held her when Riley left, she told him the real reason why he had left her and Angel couldn't help but smile. Buffy was still his.
She drove with her heart to their meeting place, not caring about the other cars around her, not caring for their innocent lives. She needed to get to there to him, to feel his arms hold her small body and take away the pain that she was suffering.
He was already there waiting for her when she pulled up, she knew he would be. Angel never kept her waiting.
She stopped, suddenly afraid. What was he going to think of her? Would he still love her?