SUMMARY - Buffy's dreams take her to L.A where she finds the love of her life Angel is in trouble. The problem escalates when he is saved and Drusilla allows the slayer to see what Dru does. A bunch of girls dying, Spike coming back and tons of Drama.
DISCLAIMER - None of it's mine but the idea. All hail Joss and other writers... well some of them
PAIRINGS - Total buffy Angel as you will find out. It will be Spike friendly later on but no relationship. I don't much like Cordy ever since they made it so she wa sin love with Angel so it won't be so Cordy friendly. Not until she finds someone new to love anyway, which might happen.
REALITY BITES By Out-Of-Reality
-Ocean - Under The Water-
Angel's eyes snapped open. He's lying in his coffin at the bottom of the ocean. He had gone for three weeks before the hallucinations started. The craving for blood was higher then ever before, even in hell. He watched the fish swim by him like a lion ready to pounce yet even when he struggled he got nothing. Angel stopped counting the days after the first month, they all just blended in together. The only ways he knew how to pass his time was to visualize to create a world in his mind where he could walk, where he could see his family and where he could mend his mistakes.
He thought about Conner constantly. Wheather he hated him, wheather he should forgive him but he knew for sure he still loved him. Then he thought about Wesley, the man he hated most right now. This all could of been avoided if it wasn't for Wesley yet Angel knew there would be a day they would be side by side again, as long as he got out of the coffin somehow. Gunn and Fred flipped through his mind all the time. How happy they probably were together, how Conner was probably manipulating them, and how they would be looking for him.
Mostly his thoughts drifted to two woman, the only two he'd ever loved. Cordelia the most recent. In fact he was on his way to telling her how much he loved her that night, before Conner threw him to the bottom of the ocean. Her smile, her hair, her words, and how much she had changed flashed through his mind and made him smile. There was only one girl though, one in the whole world that could have almost made his heart beat. Buffy. Her name sounded in his head a thousand times a day as Sunnydale came rushing back to him. There were so many nights for Buffy and him that didn't end in peril, that no one got to hear about except for maybe Willow because Buffy told her everything. Even her old gang, Willow, Xander, Giles...they all came back to him.
So he did what he always did...everyday for the past 2 months...He lay there remembering, dreaming and hallucinating about what was, what is, and what could be.
-Sunnydale-
Buffy lay wide awake in her bed as she normally did. She hadn't patrolled that night and decided to go to bed early. She had been over worked and too tired for anything the past few weeks. School would be starting again tomorrow and she was already worried. It was just her, Dawn and Xander now. Willow and Giles had left a few days after she tried to end the world and Spike...There weren't enough words in the world to describe Spike. He had taken off after the bathroom scene which didn't really dissappoint Buffy at the time but now...now there was a part of her that needed Spike to make her feel real. It wasn't even the fact she hated being alive anymore, it was the fact she was stuck in her past.
Lately her dreams had taken a time travel back to the one man it always back to. Angel! She'd been having dreams like she used to about him but not the usual meet on the beach and hold me ones. Those dreams that always scared her, the dreams she always ran to him about were happening and she had no idea what to make of them. She figured with everything happening it was normal for her to turn back to her only comfort which would always be Angel but her only comfort was becoming the one thing that was killing her. So hesitantly her eyes finally closed hoping the dreams of her love would not haunt her that night.
-Hyperion - Lobby-
Fred lay on Gunn's lap half asleep. Gunn sat and smiled down at his love and Cordy paced the lobby. She had been worried sick since she got back. She had been back for almost two weeks now and from the second she got back to now her mind had been racing on where Angel could be. Conner watched with hidden anger in his eyes. He didn't know how anything could miss Angel that much, a monster created to suffer just like Conner had made him.
Cordelia finally stopped and smiled up at Conner who instantly put on a fake facade and smiled, "How you doing Conner?"
Conner just shrugged, "How you doing?"
Cordy hesitantly smiled, "I just...I miss him and...I wish we knew where he was."
Gunn nodded, "We'll find him Cordy, I promise. We're glad you're back though."
Cordelia couldn't help but smile, "Thanks Gunn." He nodded and Cordelia looked out of a close window, "We better find him. He's needed here."
Conner could only nod, "What about a patrol?"
-Sunnydale - Buffy's Room-
Buffy had finally fallen asleep but her body wasn't sleeping. She tossed and turned in her covers, grabbed her hair and even hit the walls a little bit. It was obviously a restless night.
Buffy's Dream
Buffy was running and out of breath until she jumped over a small cliff and landed on sand. When she stood she was no longer out of breath but smiling at the beach in front of her. She walked closer to the point the water was almost reaching her feet. A wave crashes on the sand and she just closes her eyes and raises her head just to feel the sun on her face. A pair of hands reach around her waist and clasp in front. She she covers them with hers and continues to stare into the water. After a few minutes that seeme dlike hours her head looks up at Angel who is now leaning his head over her shoulder. She reaches up with her hand and brushes it against his cheek.
He only smiled down at her and listened as she spoke, "How did you find me here?"
"If I was blind, I would see you."
She lowered her hand to take his again at her waist and closes her eyes again. She even squeezes a little tighter as she spoke again, "Somethings coming Angel. Why aren't you here?"
Angel smiled his small half smile that made Buffy blush, "I'll always be here Buffy. I may be in a small predicament of my own right now but I'm always behind you."
She nodded and slowly opened her eyes but as she opened them the sky got darker. "Stay with me."
Angel shook his head and slowly took his arms from around her waist. He walked towards the water still holding her hand. He stopped when the water was knee deep and smiled back at her, "Forever. That's the whole point."
Buffy shook her head as she watched him jump into the water. She didn't cry though, even as she noticed Angel never came back up her face stayed dismayed and watched. Even as a hand touched her shoulder she stood staring and she actually spoke, "Where did he go?"
Behind Buffy was a beautiul woman. She wore a red and black dress that she covered with a black un done coat that waved in the wind. Her black and somewhat curly hair sutied the grin on her face as she spoke, "Daddy went for a swim. Swimming for some time now."
Buffy shook her head, "Did you do this? Did you take him away from me?"
The woman giggled a little bit, "No but it was family, a part of the family you have never met. You need him Buffy..."
Buffy nodded, "The beach is beautiful isn't it...Drusilla?"
Drusilla withdrew her hand from Buffy's shoulder and giggled, "The waves thrash like anger that isn't released in our pitiful world."
Buffy nodded and finally turned to Dru, "I'm ready."
Drusilla slowly shook her hand and waved a finger, "Are you sure buffy? Are you really ready?"
Before buffy could answer Drusilla slit her neck with her fingernail exactly like she did to Kendra. As Buffy slowly fell flashes of her and Angel were put in front of her. The flashes of Conner throwing him in, justine, even Wesley taking a baby...Then the visions slowed as Buffy watched a dark neighborhood she knew all too well. She used to hang out at a friends who lived over there. The last thing she saw was an apartment number...The second she hit the floor though the Buffy in real life woke up.
End Buffy's dream
-Ocean - Under The Water-
Angel had smiled at the beginning of his wonderous dream but as he dove into the water he could still see Dru and buffy. The second buffy hit the sandy beach floor his eyes popped open. He even took a few un needed deep breaths and for the first time in his whole unwanted visit to the ocean hope lingered in his eyes. He knew for sure now that he would be saved because Buffy couldn't live without him and he couldn't live without her, even if it wasn't in the same city.
-Outskirts Of L.A -
Drusilla slowly sat up from laying on her little rock in a small cave by a beach. A smile spread across her face as she stood up and spun in a few circles whispering to herself. When she stopped, she stared out to the water, "She's coming, she's coming and daddy's going to be okay. She on the other hand, buffy's going to spend some time with me."
She stood grinning out to the ocean hoping her sire could feel her presence because she would be seeing him soon, she would be seeing her whole family.