'You have a fathers love for the child' These were the words that Quentin Travers had said earlier that day, now in her darkened room sat in a corner these words echoed in Buffy's mind.

She had never though that Giles had had these feelings towards her, however each time she replayed the sentence in her head she felt a twang of disappointment at one of those few words – Father.

Giles had always been a contant in her life, since her first day at Sunnydale High he had been there. The rest of the guys couldn't be there all of the time they tried there hardest but they just couldn't they had their own lives to lead their own beaus and their own problems.

Giles had always made sure he was there for her.If Buffy had had a bad dream, whether it be the prophesy kind or not, she could call him even at 4 in the morning, he never seemed unhappy or annoyed to hear her voice in the early hours. So even then she had been able to call him, and she often had, thaey had spoken about demons, dreams and sometimes just about small insignificant things.

Now she felt that there was nothing in the world she could not tell him, except this. She was with Angel and she did Love him completely, but something had changed, since he had come back they were so wary of each other because of the last time that they had gotten 'groiny' that all their pain had gone. So now she had changed and looked elsewhere for passion, and found it.

So now instead of sitting in her bedroom staring out of her bedroom window fantasising about spending her life with an undead, 243 year old Irish man, she now sat wondering what it would be like to Kiss Giles, to take him into her bed. To take him home to her mother and say 'Mum, I'd like you to meet my fiance... Rupert' (Rupert, that felt wierd he had always been Giles but if they were going to be together she couldn't call him that.And on second thought introducing him to her mother after the Band Candy incident could be risky)

But after tonight she had realised she had to tell him, she had nearly died tonight, so she was going to take her own advice, ' Carpe Dium' thats what she had told Willow on the first night they had spent together in the Bronze, and hey maybe that hadn't worked out all that well but this was a totally different situation.

This was Giles.

So she got up still a little sore from the beating that she had taken earlier. She slowly dressed in the dark wincing each time her clothing touched a graze. Then she slowly climbed out of the bedroom window and made her way across town.

She had something to do before she went to see Giles.

She stepped into the mansion and immediatley felt his presence in the room,

'Angel?' She questioned her voice wavering slightly

' Buffy, Hi' angel looked at her quizzically he could tell something was wrong.

' Angel, i can't see you anymore,' (Great one buff nice going break it gentle wasn't that what you said on the way here. Idiot!!!)

'What, huh, are you breaking up with me' he looked hurt like she had just stabbed him all over again.

' No er yeah, sorry this isn't how i planned this at all, Angel I love you but i csn't go on like this, I've changed my feelings for you have changed, I still love you and i probably always will but the passion has gone from our relationship because we can't have the passion i need some one who can give me that passion.'

' Ok'

And buffy walked out not wanting to face him any more.