He leaned against a large tree in her front yard, his favorite place to sit and watch. He sighed watching his goddess lean out her window, her honey blonde hair moving across her face against the wind. It'd been a while since he had the pleasure of being able to look at her face and it felt like even longer. The bruises and scratches across his body still stung from the trials he went through…for her. He knew it was a long shot that she would ever except him again or even be able to look at him, but standing in her front yard staring at her he held a little bit of hope in his heart and newly created soul. She slowly slid away from the window and escaped his view. Standing there in the night his mind flashed back to that awful day in the bathroom. He could hear her screams of fright and agony as he watched himself try to take her over. All he wanted was to yank himself back and stop it, but he knew it wasn't possible. He had made an unforgivable mistake and if she would ever even be able to accept him for it he would kiss the ground she walked on. Not like I wouldn't already, he thought to himself and a small, quiet chuckle escaped his lips. He sighed and added a cigarette butt to the large collection piling up around him. She would know he was here, he knew that but he couldn't help but get a glance at her after all this time. Not sure how he was going to be able to talk to her or any of the scoobies for that matter, he left his loves house and turned down the street. He headed to his new home, a crypt in a different party of the cemetery. He knew it was only a matter of time before she realized he was back and where he was, but was hoping that the new place would take her at least a little longer to find.
His crypt wasn't anything like it used to be, but it managed enough for him. There was no basement for him to escape to anymore but the crypt as a whole was larger. The furniture wasn't as shabby or torn as it used to be either. He sat down on the couch that he had stolen a few days before he arrived and turned on a little bit of Passions to try and let his mind escape the thoughts of his slayer. Instead his mind escaped him again and flashed back to a time where he was angry, hurt and had found comfort from a certain vengeance demon, once again he wished he could pull himself away and could have stopped this all from ever happening. The scene of him on top of the table with Anya was enough for him to want to break down and cry. That bitch…that bitch if it wasn't for her being there…this could have been stopped…I wouldn't have to hide like some nancy boy in her front yard. These thoughts kept going through his head late into the morning until he eventually fell asleep without even bothering to turn off his tv…
Stretching her arms wide above her head as she woke up she let out a loud sigh. She had been getting much more sleep since that vampire had left town, but he still haunted her dreams. There were the dreams she enjoyed where he would take her in his arms and tell her how much he loved her and how much he wished that she loved him too. Then..she had those dreams, much like the night of the bathroom, where all she saw was the demon in him and watched as he killed the people around her that she loved..but the dream always ended right as he was coming towards her. Last night had been a mixture of both. She gathered her silky hair up into a bun and walked down into the kitchen to see Dawn preparing, or trying to prepare anyways, some pancakes and bacon. She gave her sister an encouraging grin as she sat down at the kitchen table next to Willow. Not much had been going on the last few months except for the usual vampires and a few rather troublesome demons, but nothing that they couldn't handle of course. The three of them ate their breakfast in silence, a usual thing these days, before separating to do their own plans for the day. Willow was going shopping for Xander's birthday coming up and Dawn had decided to go with her. Buffy not feeling like having any company, another usual thing lately, elected to do the grocery shopping and then have a walk around the town. Before getting started on the grocery's Buffy decided to sit down and watch some news on the tv. Everything on the news seemed usual some stolen furniture, a few disappearances, strange deaths and all. Buffy sighed and laid her head down on the couch thinking to herself how much time she seemed to have on her hands now that she wasn't sneaking around with a certain vampire…
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