Second Chances
DisguisedDiva
Disclaimer: These are sooooo pointless. Everyone knows I'm not Joss.
Distribution: Let me know.
Rating: I have no clue... just read it, no NC-17 stuff... not that that'll actually stop anyone under 18, will it? Didn't think so.
Author's Notes/Spoilers: Into the Woods, and w/e the name of the Angel episode was. The one where he fired them.
Summary: Buffy and Angel help each other through their rough periods.
Story:
Surrounded by pillows and blankets and tissues, Buffy Summers did not look like the powerful, awe inspiring Slayer she was. Any demon who saw her tonight would foolishly think she wasn't a real threat. But there weren't any demons in her bedroom, unless you counted memories of one particular vampire.
She understood why Riley had left. She hadn't gotten it until after she'd gotten home. Angel was still everywhere in her heart. He was still in the living room, getting his wounds dressed. In the kitchen attacking Spike. In her bedroom leaning through her window, kissing her. Riley was nowhere.
No, that wasn't true. Riley was still in the bed, which gave her a really dirty feeling. How could she have let him touch her the way only Angel ever should? Angel was her soul mate. How dare she think otherwise?
Slowly, she stripped her bed, throwing the contaminated sheets to a pile on the floor. She quickly flipped the mattress over, scooped up the sheets and padded down to the basement. She tossed them into the washing machine and started it up. Then she picked out sheets Riley had never slept on, which wasn't too hard, it seemed she always had the ones she didn't like on her bed with him. And still the bed felt contaminated.
She walked to the bathroom and stepped into the shower, wanting to wash Riley completely off her body, make it so he'd never been there and never would be again. It made her feel a little better. Not good, but better. She washed her hair and decided it was time for a change. Blond's were suppposed to be carefree and happy, but that had never worked for her. Yes, she'd start with her hair and make over her life.
As she dressed, she heard Dawn's alarm sound and went down the stairs to get breakfast ready for her sister. With her mom sick, Buffy had taken up several new responsibilities around the house, one being her sister's well- being.
As she moved around the kitchen there was a cheery song in her heart. It was a new day, the first day of the rest of her life. And she planned to spend the rest of her life with Angel, however she could.
"You're awfully chipper this morning," Dawn noted, coming into the room.
"Yup," Buffy answered happily.
"Did you and Riley have a nice night?" she asked. "Because I don't see him around."
"No, he left," Buffy told her.
"Early morning?"
"No, he left for good," the Slayer said, not a note of melancholy in her voice. "Hey, can you stay with Will and Tara tonight? I need to go somewhere."
"Yeah, sure, I guess..." Dawn mumbled, clearly confused by her sister's cheerful attitude the morning after being dumped.
"Great, I'll be back by tomorrow, okay?" Buffy went to call her Wiccan friends, who agreed to take her immediately. After getting Dawn off to school, she grabbed an extra stake, in case she ran into something, and hit the open highway.
Reaching L.A. mid-morning, she decided not to wake Angel and when to visit her dad, instead.
~*~*~*~
Night had just fallen and Cordelia paced around the new office. She was bored. She wasn't even sure why they'd decided to run a buisiness without Angel. It was hopeless. They had no clients. Not a single one. And no name. And the worst office on the worst side of L.A. She wouldn't hire them.
"Have a vision," Gunn demanded. Cordy glared at him.
"I don't chose when I have them. It's not magic you know! I don't snap my fingers and go ow ow ow ow ow!!!" the brunette cried, dropping to the floor. Gunn rolled his eyes.
"Alright, alright, sorry to offend Your Royal Dramaticness," he snapped. She didn't stop writhing in pain.
"No, real vision!" she screamed. Immediately Gunn and Wesley were by her side. "It's Buffy, and Darla, and Dru. We need Angel."
Disclaimer: These are sooooo pointless. Everyone knows I'm not Joss.
Distribution: Let me know.
Rating: I have no clue... just read it, no NC-17 stuff... not that that'll actually stop anyone under 18, will it? Didn't think so.
Author's Notes/Spoilers: Into the Woods, and w/e the name of the Angel episode was. The one where he fired them.
Summary: Buffy and Angel help each other through their rough periods.
Story:
Surrounded by pillows and blankets and tissues, Buffy Summers did not look like the powerful, awe inspiring Slayer she was. Any demon who saw her tonight would foolishly think she wasn't a real threat. But there weren't any demons in her bedroom, unless you counted memories of one particular vampire.
She understood why Riley had left. She hadn't gotten it until after she'd gotten home. Angel was still everywhere in her heart. He was still in the living room, getting his wounds dressed. In the kitchen attacking Spike. In her bedroom leaning through her window, kissing her. Riley was nowhere.
No, that wasn't true. Riley was still in the bed, which gave her a really dirty feeling. How could she have let him touch her the way only Angel ever should? Angel was her soul mate. How dare she think otherwise?
Slowly, she stripped her bed, throwing the contaminated sheets to a pile on the floor. She quickly flipped the mattress over, scooped up the sheets and padded down to the basement. She tossed them into the washing machine and started it up. Then she picked out sheets Riley had never slept on, which wasn't too hard, it seemed she always had the ones she didn't like on her bed with him. And still the bed felt contaminated.
She walked to the bathroom and stepped into the shower, wanting to wash Riley completely off her body, make it so he'd never been there and never would be again. It made her feel a little better. Not good, but better. She washed her hair and decided it was time for a change. Blond's were suppposed to be carefree and happy, but that had never worked for her. Yes, she'd start with her hair and make over her life.
As she dressed, she heard Dawn's alarm sound and went down the stairs to get breakfast ready for her sister. With her mom sick, Buffy had taken up several new responsibilities around the house, one being her sister's well- being.
As she moved around the kitchen there was a cheery song in her heart. It was a new day, the first day of the rest of her life. And she planned to spend the rest of her life with Angel, however she could.
"You're awfully chipper this morning," Dawn noted, coming into the room.
"Yup," Buffy answered happily.
"Did you and Riley have a nice night?" she asked. "Because I don't see him around."
"No, he left," Buffy told her.
"Early morning?"
"No, he left for good," the Slayer said, not a note of melancholy in her voice. "Hey, can you stay with Will and Tara tonight? I need to go somewhere."
"Yeah, sure, I guess..." Dawn mumbled, clearly confused by her sister's cheerful attitude the morning after being dumped.
"Great, I'll be back by tomorrow, okay?" Buffy went to call her Wiccan friends, who agreed to take her immediately. After getting Dawn off to school, she grabbed an extra stake, in case she ran into something, and hit the open highway.
Reaching L.A. mid-morning, she decided not to wake Angel and when to visit her dad, instead.
~*~*~*~
Night had just fallen and Cordelia paced around the new office. She was bored. She wasn't even sure why they'd decided to run a buisiness without Angel. It was hopeless. They had no clients. Not a single one. And no name. And the worst office on the worst side of L.A. She wouldn't hire them.
"Have a vision," Gunn demanded. Cordy glared at him.
"I don't chose when I have them. It's not magic you know! I don't snap my fingers and go ow ow ow ow ow!!!" the brunette cried, dropping to the floor. Gunn rolled his eyes.
"Alright, alright, sorry to offend Your Royal Dramaticness," he snapped. She didn't stop writhing in pain.
"No, real vision!" she screamed. Immediately Gunn and Wesley were by her side. "It's Buffy, and Darla, and Dru. We need Angel."