Spoiler: Season 1 of Angel "I Will Remember You"
AN: Another story that just is being reposted and fixed up a little.
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Part 1
Angel drove the 2 hours to Sunnydale, California. He was on his way, to talk to Buffy. He needed to see her, tell her the truth. He had lived with the burden for too long. And it was eating away at him.
He shifted in his seat, as he remembered that day, when he had told Buffy that he went to the Oracles. The pain on her face, the tears that rolled down her face, broke his once beating heart.
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He had just come back from seeing the Oracles. His heart broke, knowing that he had to tell her.
"I went too see the Oracles. I asked them to turn me back." He had told her.
"What? Why?"
"Because now more than ever I know how much I love you."
"No. No, you didn't..." She had said.
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Angel tried swallowing the lump in his throat, as he tried fighting back the tears. He knew that he had done the right thing. He couldn't have lived with him self if he had stayed human and gotten her killed.
But the pain in her eyes, said everything.
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He held her close to him, knowing that in a split second, she would forget. Forget everything that they had together. But he wouldn't. He would live with the guilt and pain for as long as he remained a vampire.
"I'll never forget...I'll never forget...I'll never forget..." She had whispered, as there was a flash of white light.
Just like that, it happened. They were standing in his office, like before.
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Angel whipped the falling tears with the back of his hand. That had happened 4 months ago, when she came to visit him, wondering why he stopped in Sunnydale, without letting her know. Those 4 months were hell. He thought being in hell, was rough, that was a piece of cake, but living with a memory of what could have happened, tore away at him, day by day.
When he would sleep, he would have the same dream, over and over. One day, he just decided that he had to tell Buffy; maybe it would make things a little easier. But then, he wondered if she would believe him. Be able to forgive him, for not telling her sooner.
But, first, he needed to come up with a reason, why he was in Sunnydale. That was the easy part, telling her would be the hardest thing he would ever have to do.
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Buffy lay awake in bed. She had just woken up from a dream, which she had been having for the last couple of weeks. The same one over and over.
"I'll never forget what?" She asked, as she thought about the dream.
In her dream, she kept on saying, "I'll never forget...I'll never forget," but she didn't know what it meant. She thought that maybe it was her wild imagination, about her and Angel, but something about it, made her believe it was something more. "But what?"
She looked at her alarm clock on her nightstand. It read 3:30 a.m. She climbed out of bed, and went downstairs to get a glass of milk. That usually helped her get back to sleep, after her weird dreams.
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Angel passed the sign that said, "Welcome to Sunnydale." He knew he had to find a place to rest, before the sun came up in a couple of hours.
As he drove down the street, memories of when he lived here flooded his mind.
He pulled up to his old place. Parked the car, and got out. He knew no one lived there, since him, so it was save for him.
He walked through the old place. His old bed was still there. There was no need to take it, when he could just go out and get a new one.
Angel sat down on his bed. He rubbed his eyes. Even for a vampire, he was tired, from the long drive. He stretched out on the bed, resting his head on his left arm, and soon drifted asleep.
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Buffy put her empty glass in the sink and headed back upstairs. She climbed back in bed, covering up with her quilt and grabbing her stuff animal off the floor. She closed her eyes, and fell back to sleep.