Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Warriors and Rewards – Chapter 1

Author's Note – Hiya Guys, this is the sequel to The Escape and I am so exited to be writing this. It felt so weird when I finally finished The Escape. It was the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfic I ever wrote.

Oh yeah the date The Escape and Warriors and Rewards is 1997.

Thank you to everyone who read The Escape and is now reading this.

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It had been a month since Keenan had died and Buffy had put the rape behind her. She had told Angel everything and loved him with all her heart. People always questioned their future, as Angel didn't age but whenever Buffy looked into the future all she saw was Angel. She couldn't see herself with anyone else ever, didn't want to be with anyone else.

She and Angel spent every possible moment together; slaying, homework and Buffy spent pretty much every night with him. They would lay in bed and talk, kiss, cuddle but because of the gypsy curse they could not do what they wanted more than anything, make love to each other.

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7.20pm Monday 8th May 1997

Buffy walked into the cemetery slowly, the flowers in her hand blew gently in the breeze. The Gravestone was white with golden letters on,

Shana Marie Williams

8th May 1983 – 12th January 1997

When you left and said farewell,

We did not think that it would be forever.

Laying the roses gently on the grave, she thought of her friend, the kind enthusiastic girl, who would do anything for anyone.

This was the first time she had been here. The day of Shana's funeral had been too much to bear, she had spent most of the day in Angel's arms, he had been her rock that day, and she didn't think she would have gotten through it without him.

"It's weird to think that it's been nearly 4 months, 4 months were you haven't been there. Angel and I made Keenan pay, it was in the paper that he was missing, but nobody cares, not even his friends. So many people in Sunnydale suffered because of him, that's why not many people care, because he was the one who ordered a death or sold the drugs to a person, he was the one who destroyed the lives of the people and there family's. He deserved to die.

I wish you hadn't died; you and Errol were good together.

I still see him, he looks, I don't really know, tired is all I can think. He was so upset after you died, sometimes even now, when a door opens and someone who looks a bit like you enters, his eyes fill with hope only to remember that you're gone.

I love you, Shana; you are one of the greatest friends I ever

Her voice broke had. Happy 15th Birthday"

As she uttered the last sentence a sob ripped from her chest and was followed by many more. Lying down on the grass next to the gravestone, she let out a cry of pain and jerked up again, looking at her arm, a deep gash, which was pouring blood made her gasp. When she had laid on the floor her arm had caught the roses thorns. Buffy didn't care anymore so she closed her eyes and let her emotions take over.

Buffy didn't know how long she had lain there, sobbing but it had been awhile. The sky had darkened around her, the sun had set night had fallen. Vampires roamed the cemetery but at that moment Buffy didn't care if she was killed, which in the state her arm was in was likely, the blood would surely attract vampires, in a way she hoped it would, in a way she wanted to die.

A pair of arms suddenly lifted her up, placing her on a nearby tomb. Opening her bloodshot eyes, a pair of anxious brown ones looked into her own.

"How did you find me?"

Angel quickly ripped a piece out of his shirt and gently wrapped it around Buffy's still bleeding arm.

"I came looking for you; I smelled the blood and followed it"

"Why is life so unfair?"

Stroking her face tenderly with his hand, Angel frowned.

"How do you mean?"

"Why did Keenan pick me to rape, why did Shana have to die? Why do you have to be a vampire why can't you be human? Why did I have to be the chosen one? The slayer?"

Buffy whole face twisted in pain. Gently Angel pulled her off the tomb and into his arms again. Holding her tightly, he slid down the side of the tomb until he was sitting with his back to it, Buffy in his lap, her face buried into his neck.

"Why does nothing good ever happen to me? And when it does there's always a twist. For example, you are the most amazing part of my life, probably one of the best things that ever happened to me, the only good thing to happen to me."

"But I'm a vampire"

"I wish we were a normal couple. We save the Earth all the time and nobody even knows about it. We have to put pour lives on the line for them and what do they do! Nothing, just pretend it never happened"

Holding her closer, Angel gently nuzzled her face before kissing her gently on the lips, they stayed like that for a long time until she fell asleep. Angel carried her to the mansion, were he gently placed her under the covers and held her close with no intention of ever letting her go.

The Oracles looked down on the young couple.

"Brother, we have to do something"

"You know what the Powers that Be said, sister, be patient, we can't intervene, yet"