Title: Immortal Miracles
Author: Kristin Hulett Warning: Probably none, unless some of you haven't seen Buffy season 4 and Angel season 1, since the story is set shortly after those two seasons.
Summary: Buffy and the Scooby Gang find out about the prophecy about Angel turning human (the Shanshu prophecy). Then they get some strange dreams and prophecies of their own.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters on Buffy and Angel. I am only a lowly fan who liked the Angel/Buffy relationship and has my own ideas about the prophecy Wesley found. The only characters that are possibly mine are the members of the Council of Miracles (and Megan, in the epilogue). Meaning, don't sue me because what would you expect to get out of a 23-year-old without a job, driver's license, or anything that could possibly mean my family's rich. All you would get would be a lot of junk and a possibly psycho golden retriever.
Author's note: Any dialogue that is between and is either thoughts, dreams or something that happened before the action in the story.
Part One
Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Xander are at Giles' apartment researching their experiences with the first Slayer. Suddenly, Giles' phone rings. Giles answers.
"Hello?"
"Hello? Giles?"
"Yes. Who is this?"
"This is Wesley. I wanted to tell you about this prophecy I just translated involving Angel."
"OK. What?"
"Angel will turn human. I don't know when, but I know it won't be for a while. He has a lot more evil to face."
"Why did you want to tell me this?"
"I don't know. I just felt compelled to. Well, I hope you all are fine. Bye."
Wesley hangs up. Giles stands there a minute and finally seems to realize he's staring confusedly at his telephone receiver and hangs up. He thinks, "God. He's starting to sound like Cordelia."
Willow asks, "Who was that?"
Giles dazedly answers. "That was Wesley. He called to say he found a prophecy stating that Angel will eventually turn human. Apparently as some sort of compensation."
Buffy just stands there, looking shocked, for a few minutes, and then bolts out of the apartment.
Everyone turns to look at the door. Giles speaks up. "Do you think we should send someone out after her?"
Willow replies, "No. I'll see her at our dorm room later. I'll ask her what's up then."
When they all leave to go home, Willow decides to go visit Tara and forgets what she told Giles. After trying some new spells, she goes home and immediately falls asleep.
That night:
Buffy is asleep in her and Willow's dorm room. All of a sudden, she has what she thinks is a dream.
Buffy is walking into a place that looks ancient. Without warning, she sees what looks like a council of people that look like a cross between Greek gods and humans. One of them calls her name.
"Buffy Summers."
She stops, waiting for an explanation.
"We called you here to discuss the prophecy about the vampire with a soul."
"Angel?"
"Yes, I believe that is what you call him. Neither you nor he knows this, but there is also a hidden prophecy regarding you two and your relationship."
"You know about that?"
"Yes. Your love was predicted to be successful, but only when the time comes."
"What do you mean?"
"You two were destined to be together. Fate made him a vampire only so he would be alive to meet you and fall in love with you. Destiny determines everything."
"So what you're saying is that everything that has happened was always going to happen, we couldn't control it."
"Yes. It is so."
"So. It was already determined that Angel would lose his soul and kill Ms. Calendar and I would have to send him to Hell. Everything that's happened was going to happen even if I didn't do anything."
"Yes."
"You are just standing there telling me that I had to go through hell because somebody decided that it should happen. Do you get off on screwing with people's lives?"
"We are not in control of Destiny. We can alter it if someone worthy asks but we can not control it."
"Alter it. What do you mean?"
"At your consent, we can make you immortal for the time until your vampire's prophecy comes to pass."
"What about my friends?"
"We will alert them to the circumstances."
"Can they be kept alive too?"
"We can not affect that many lives. Destiny will not allow us. But, we can try to accelerate the course of the prophecy. Do we have your consent?"
"Yeah. I guess so."
"Then it is done."
Buffy sits up straight in her bed, wide awake.
That same night, Giles, Willow, and Xander all have the same dream. It involves a strange man telling them that he is turning Buffy temporarily immortal as per a prophecy. Then they wake up.