1 Angel/Buffy
By White Angel
1.1 Immortal Soul
"Do. do you believe in. in re-birth, Angel?!"
A weak hand touched his cold cheek as he tried to blink away the tears forming in his eyes.
One did slip down his face, painting the young man's dying hand crimson.
"Don't cry, love. It will be. ah. okay." The wincing sound made Angel's heart ache.
"Riley, please don't leave me." he had never begged like that but it seemed to be the only thing to do.
"I won't. I will be there. al-always. I will come back. back to you."
Angel's arms tightened around the human's dying form. "I will look. I will find you, I promise, I. I will find you."
"I. I love you, Angel." with those words the spirit left the cold body.
Angel screamed his pain into the night.
°-°
It had been 20 years now. On the day.
20 years ago a young man died exactly there, on the cemetery.
This also was the place his grave was.
Angel kneed in front of his love's resting place. His hand touched the engraved words on the cold stone:
'Riley Finn,
beloved Guard to an Angel, never forgotten, always missed.'
"I will look for you. I did for the past 20 years and I won't ever stop." He murmured those words every year, every time he came there.
The vampire walked around the gravestone slowly to check the small imprint on the back:
'A promise is a promise.
And I will keep mine.
A.'
"What are you doing here?"
Startled Angel turned around. He looked into green eyes, so familiar, set in a so familiar face.
"Riley?"
"Do I know you?"
"Riley, it's me, Angel!" He took a step forward, reaching out a hand.
"Angel?. I. I know you."
"Yes. Yes Riley, you do!"
"I don't. how did I come here? I was drawn. here, I don't know."
"Riley, do you remember anything? Do you remember me?"
"In you - presence. I feel safe. warm."
"Love Riley. that is love."
"Yeah. Angel, I remember. I remember everything now. I remember you, me, us. I told you. I told you I'd come back. I told you."
"Yes you did."
Riley rushed forward into Angel's waiting arms, burying his face in the taller man's shoulder.
At last.
At last his arms were filled again by the one love of his immortal unlife.
And the fact that Riley remembered. remembered in a different life. was making Angel proud.
Proud and sure of their fate.
By White Angel
1.1 Immortal Soul
"Do. do you believe in. in re-birth, Angel?!"
A weak hand touched his cold cheek as he tried to blink away the tears forming in his eyes.
One did slip down his face, painting the young man's dying hand crimson.
"Don't cry, love. It will be. ah. okay." The wincing sound made Angel's heart ache.
"Riley, please don't leave me." he had never begged like that but it seemed to be the only thing to do.
"I won't. I will be there. al-always. I will come back. back to you."
Angel's arms tightened around the human's dying form. "I will look. I will find you, I promise, I. I will find you."
"I. I love you, Angel." with those words the spirit left the cold body.
Angel screamed his pain into the night.
°-°
It had been 20 years now. On the day.
20 years ago a young man died exactly there, on the cemetery.
This also was the place his grave was.
Angel kneed in front of his love's resting place. His hand touched the engraved words on the cold stone:
'Riley Finn,
beloved Guard to an Angel, never forgotten, always missed.'
"I will look for you. I did for the past 20 years and I won't ever stop." He murmured those words every year, every time he came there.
The vampire walked around the gravestone slowly to check the small imprint on the back:
'A promise is a promise.
And I will keep mine.
A.'
"What are you doing here?"
Startled Angel turned around. He looked into green eyes, so familiar, set in a so familiar face.
"Riley?"
"Do I know you?"
"Riley, it's me, Angel!" He took a step forward, reaching out a hand.
"Angel?. I. I know you."
"Yes. Yes Riley, you do!"
"I don't. how did I come here? I was drawn. here, I don't know."
"Riley, do you remember anything? Do you remember me?"
"In you - presence. I feel safe. warm."
"Love Riley. that is love."
"Yeah. Angel, I remember. I remember everything now. I remember you, me, us. I told you. I told you I'd come back. I told you."
"Yes you did."
Riley rushed forward into Angel's waiting arms, burying his face in the taller man's shoulder.
At last.
At last his arms were filled again by the one love of his immortal unlife.
And the fact that Riley remembered. remembered in a different life. was making Angel proud.
Proud and sure of their fate.