This is one of my first stories, it got inspired by the the episode "I Will Remember You" from the TV series of Angel. Was suppose to be a short fic but it's turned into a several chapters long fic. Would love some feedback.

*I don't own any of the characters they are the property of their respectful owners J. Whedon, etc.

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Chapter 1

As Buffy walked out the door Angel looked down and felt his heart break. In one day he had managed to have and lost everything he had ever wanted, the love of his life and his mortality. He had been able to feel her, kiss her, and be with her in every possible way he had always desired. And now… it was all gone, as if nothing had happened, blessed and cursed he would live with the memory of that one day that would stay with him forever and the only one that would remember.

He heard Cordelia and Doyle coming in distracting him from his train of thought; he turned around and started to clean the window glass from the floor.

"Where's Buffy?" asked Doyle.

"Yeah, and can't you two ever have a conversation that doesn't end in destruction?" Cordelia finished.

Angel turned to face them with deep sadness in his eyes and said, "She's gone." At the sight of his reaction at the mentioning of her being gone, Cordelia and Doyle proceeded to help him clean up without another word.

/ Bus Station

Buffy left Angel's office feeling different, as she walked to the bus station she looked at the time and she could see that she was not in there with him for more than maybe an half hour, but her gut told her that it felt like she'd spent all day. As much as she questioned the awkwardness she felt, she decided that leaving would probably be best since being that close to Angel always made her feel like she could give up on her duty to the world just to be with him always.

As the bus arrived she looked back as if hoping he'd come stop her, and with disappointment on her face she got on to leave LA. As the bus began to pull away she could feel the tears build up in her eyes, thinking to herself, here we go again with the pain.

/ The Oracle's Temple

"You allowed WHAT to happen?" he said to his sister.

"I allowed the time change to happen but did not erase the consequences of their actions" she answered him simply.

"How dare you take it upon yourself to make this kind of decision?" he argued angrily.

"He gave her and their happiness up for the greater good of the world, I don't see why I couldn't allow them to have a piece of that happiness that they could have had, had they remained both human" she said calmly.

"Don't you know what this means?" he continued.

"It means we're done with this conversation brother" she said firmly.

Sighing he said to her, "Your kindness to lower beings astounds me sometimes, guess we'll see how things will unfold in this new path you've lead them through."

/ College Dorm Rooms

"Wish I hadn't let it slip that Angel was in town helping…" said Xander.

"Uh huh..." sighed Willow distracted.

"Of course she was going to want to drop everything to go confront him about his visit, anyways, I'm worried, aren't you? I just keep on wondering how the visit is going." He continued to tell her as she focused on her homework.

"We'll find out soon enough?" she answered half ignoring him.

Then as if invoking her presence, Buffy walked through the door; she put on a weak smile of happiness on her face when she realized they were both there, but knew that her friends weren't going to buy the attempt at the lie. "Miss me?" asked Buffy still smiling.

"Course!" smiled Willow.

"Don't we always?" answered Xander.

"How was LA?" asked Willow trying to be discreet about touching the Angel subject. Xander just waited for an answer impatiently.

"How was LA or how was my visiting Angel?" countered Buffy seeing through her transparent attempt at information.

"Both?" they offered at the same time.

"It was fine…" started Buffy her expression becoming serious, "I told him it had bothered me that he was here without telling me, stalking me, and making decisions behind my back, he apologized, and we said our goodbyes. Nothing out of the ordinary, the usual awkwardness and then I left."

"I'm sorry; Buffy" said Willow, "I know it must have been hard to see him knowing that you guys can't… can't…"

Xander jumped in "can't we discuss what I should do with life other than hang around here with you guys, any suggestions?"

Buffy smiled at him gratefully for changing the subject, she already knew the tragic can-never-be-together situation of her and Angel's relationship, and after seeing him and being that close to him today she would not be able to handle to further discuss how much they can never be together without literally falling apart.

"You could always enroll in school, Xander, get more education." answered Buffy.

"Yeah.. and on that note, I'm going to go ahead and head home, it's getting late, catch you guys later?" he said as he walked out the door.

"I guess the first twelve years of education were just about enough for him" chuckled Willow.

"Guess so..." laughed Buffy.

"Hey...um Buffy...?" asked Willow.

Oh no thought Buffy as she recognized her concerned tone, "Yeah?"

"Do you want to talk... you know about you know who now that Xander's gone?"

"You know... I'm beat Will, it was a long day. All I want is to get some sleep. Plus... in all honesty...there's nothing more to say on the subject." She answered as she got in her PJs.

"Okay, just checking, night then" she told her recognizing that she did not want to talk about it now.

"Night" She answered in a yawn and got into bed.