Chapter 2

"Oh my Goddess!" Willow exclaimed. "I can't believe it, I mean I kind of can, because he did manage to come back from hell once, but I can't believe it! You searched everywhere for him for almost three years and BAM he knocks you down in the hallway of HIS, well, your hotel! And you say he doesn't know who he is?"

"Well, he says his name is Agent Seely Booth and he's an FBI agent. He didn't even flinch when I called him Angel, just corrected me and then asked me out for drinks." Buffy replied.

"He asked you out for drinks? Are you going? What am I saying, of course you're going, wait, you are going, right?"

"Yes, Will, I'm going" Buffy said with a smile. Willow was her best friend in the whole world and she was known to get a bit excited at times.

"I want to get to the bottom of what is going on here, Will. I mean, I've exhausted every effort I had to find Angel when I found out what Giles had done. When I heard he died, you know I couldn't accept that, I could still feel him. I've been all over the world in the last 3 years looking for him and he turns up in LA, in his hotel. I just don't understand what's going on here. He said he was only going to be in town for a few more days, then he was going back to DC."

"Buffy, I know you want to find out what happened, but be careful with him. If he can't remember his life before, this may all be quite a shock to him, so go easy, okay. I need to go, the girls are ready for their meditation class. Call me tonight when you get in and let me know how things went, love ya, Buffy. Bye."

"Bye, Will." Buffy said and she set her phone on the bed. Well, it was time to go about her daily business, but her daily business had been looking for Angel everyday for the last three years. It was a little after 9:30 so she had the rest of the day to do research. Buffy crossed her room to the desk and flipped open her laptop. She opened Internet Explorer and typed in Seeley Booth in the search bar. Her search found that he was a former sniper for the Army. He was now a well known special agent for the FBI and had worked some well known cases in the DC area. His partner was Temperance Brennan, a highly accredited anthropologist with the Jeffersonian. She had also written a few popular true crime novels. They had been working together for the last two years. Buffy could find nothing on Booth before the year 2005, and that was a small clue, he possibly didn't exist before then.

After an hour of surfing the net for info on "Booth" Buffy decided to take a walk. She was trying not to dwell on Angel but her thoughts kept drifting back to him, as they've done since she was sixteen. After everything they had been through over the years, she still thought about him. Sure, she lived her everyday life, and he wasn't always lingering there, but it was when she had those precious moments to herself. When she was taking a bath, when she was walking down the street, whenever she had a quiet moment she always thought of Angel. Even when she had been with Riley and Spike, Angel was always there in her heart. She often thought of him in those last few moments before she fell asleep. All that had been before she heard what had happened in LA and that Giles had refused to help Angel when he needed it.

It was Cordelia who came to her and let her know what was going on with Angel. Buffy had been in her room in Scotland when Cordelia came. She told Buffy about everything that had happened with Angel since Sunnydale was swallowed up. Buffy had never known that he and Spike had come to Italy to see her, she didn't know about the Shanshu, and she damn sure didn't know Angel needed her help. If she had known she would have been there in a heartbeat. For the bitch Cordy had been in life, she was equally as much a good person in the afterlife. Well, maybe except for the fact that she had blasted Buffy for her lack of actual contact with Angel.

"I mean, you guys are freakin' soul mates and you can't even take one minute out of your precious time to call him and ask how he is doing. Sometimes you are really self-centered, Buffy! I'm the Slayer and the world revolves around me, well guess what, you are not the ONLY champion of this world. Angel is just as much it's savior as you are and right now he NEEDS you, so get off you selfish ass and FIND HIM!" and then Cordy was gone.

Buffy often thought about that encounter with Cordelia. She could tell from the look in Cordelia's eyes that she had loved Angel for more than just a friend. She would sometimes find herself wondering if they had been more, but would decide it didn't matter. Cordelia had said Buffy and Angel were soul mates, and Buffy couldn't deny it. She had always known it, but she thought she could go on and live her life without him. Now that he'd been found, she planned to make sure she didn't have to live her life her life without him. Some way, some how, they would be together.