Disclaimer: Buffy tVS characters belong to Joss Whedon, Nakia does not so please don't use her.
I hope someone decides this is a fun story to read, it is interesting to write.
Chapter Two: After the Harvest
Nakia watched as the survivors left the Bronze after the vampire tried using all the kids there to free the master with the harvest. She watched as Buffy exited with Xander and Willow. She watched the Slayer for any signs that she'd received some other kind of help. She hadn't seen Angel since bringing him into town over two weeks ago. She knew he was still here but Nakia wondered if he was actually taking the initiative to help the young perky blonde. There was no real way to know unless she asked Buffy and of course Nakia wasn't a powerful sorceress or a fighter for good to the Slayer, she was a computer teacher. She was a civilian and there was no way she could walk up to the Slayer and ask if she had a new brooding friend who randomly helped when there was demon or vampire trouble.
So she watched the Slayer and her gang leave the club then headed towards one of the many cemeteries to do a little hunting before returning home. It was frustrating that she was forced to live here for the whole year but her father had a direct link to the Powers That Be and they were certain that everyone needed Angel to be in Sunnydale and he needed to be watched for a while. Nakia was a glorified babysitter and as she had no intention of allowing Angel to know she was trying to shadow his movements mostly so she wouldn't be tempted to try to talk to him.
She had too much to hide.
Nakia arrived in the graveyard and started wandering around much like the kids in this town tended to do out of sheer idiocy or possibly some strange sense of invulnerability. It brought out the predators and so she waited. Nakia didn't have super strength like Buffy did but with her magical abilities, she was capable of protecting herself so she could fight against the creatures.
"Its dangerous to be wandering around out here," someone said and Nakia groaned because it wasn't a creature of the night she could kill. She turned around and locked eyes with Angel, wondering briefly if her glamour was up but when he just smiled she was sure it was up.
"Angel, how are you settling in at home? With the Slayer?" she asked him straight away, might as well just get it out of the way.
He smiled and took a step towards her, Nakia took another step back to which he rolled his eyes, and "I am getting along well at the house thank you, it's a bit much though."
"It wasn't from me," Nakia responded as she crossed her arms since some part of her wanted to reach out and touch him and she knew she had no right to do so.
"Well thank you for taking me to it and in answer to your other question, I have been speaking to Buffy sporadically to warn her about the Master who I know is here because Darla is hanging around and she was always his pet. I also helped a little with the Caleb situation but I don't need to be hanging around them like a stalker pervert."
Nakia nodded, that was understandable since Angel 'looked' to his early twenties quite possibly. Even though she was a teacher, Nakia was actually twenty but she'd always been a smart girl, getting her degrees in half the time it would take any other person.
"Good, don't be afraid to get involved in their lives a little. If you care about these people then you are less likely to want to drink from them. You look well so you must be getting blood from somewhere?" she turned the statement into a question by the end.
"Pigs blood, butcher shop," he responded quickly as he stepped forward again.
Nakia nodded, "Got it, well I was planning on fighting vampires tonight but probably not you."
Angel grinned at her, Nakia had to avert her gaze from it because it just reminded her of future Angel and all the things she loved about him, one of them being that smile.
"Well, I could walk you home? Make sure you get there safely?" he offered somewhat sheepishly. Didn't she just say she was going to fight vampires? Nakia really needed some violence and they weren't going to come out and attack her if Angel was there.
Nakia glared at him in response, "Shouldn't you be mooning over Buffy by now?"
He frowned, "Buffy? Why would I want her?"
She resisted the urge to slap her hand over her big mouth because knowing the future can screw with it and clearly he was already screwing with things because as far as she knew, Angel had wanted to help Buffy and protect her from the first moment he saw her. "Never mind, I am hunting so go away."
He looked her up and down and she could almost feel the heat of his gaze. She was wearing her standard fighting gear, because she didn't have accelerated healing or strength, Nakia made sure to dress for survival when she went out at night. Her skin tight black suit was made of a thin leather type material that was made to withstand the claws and fangs of the demons who shared Sunnydale with them. She also wore a black leather duster that stopped around her thighs and knee high boots with buckles and a zipper up the side because who had time to buckle or tie their knee-high boots?
"So you don't want me to keep you safe?" Angel asked with a slight flirting tone that Nakia chose to assume was false. He was falling for the Slayer according to his future and she wasn't going to give her false hope a chance to see the light of day.
Also, just to up the feminine appeal, she snorted in derision and walked away from him. Apparently that wasn't enough to send him a clue since he stumbled quickly into motion to follow along behind her like a big clunking mutt that she had fed scraps once! He wasn't going to leave her alone, Nakia thought with an exasperated sigh.
She spun quickly, too quickly apparently because Angel was right behind her and Nakia ran right into him. Nakia found her chest pressed up against his and immediately tried to push him away but just as she was pushing, Angel was pulling her in.
"Let me go," she said, trying to sound stern and sure of her decision even as she was faltering. Starting to lean into him more instead of jerking away.
"I have not stopped thinking about you since you dropped me off," Angel whispered gently as he leaned in to run his nose along her neck as he pushed aside her cloak a little at a time.
"You need to stop thinking about me and start thinking about your mission," Nakia continued breathless and her hands climbed up to his shoulders. Some sense of self-preservation reared its head inside her and she revved her abilities and sent a shock of electricity through his body. Jerking back in discomfort, Angel finally gave her enough room to have a clear thought.
Angel grinned down at her then reached forward the slip his hand around Nakia's waist again. Nakia shoved him again but it didn't make much of a difference, "I mean it Angel, go home!"
He frowned at her, "You don't feel this attraction?" he asked her. Nakia averted her eyes which was answer enough for him who grinned and leaned down to press his lips against her forehead, then her nose then farther down as her breath hitched and she lifted her chin, unable to fight the burn deep in her stomach. Her lips touched Angel's gently and that slow burn erupted into her extremities and her hands slid up and over his shoulders all the while her head was pleading that she stop. That she was destroying his chance with Buffy, the person he needed to be with.
Angel's lips slid against her gently for countless seconds before he stepped back and looked down into his eyes. She looked into his dark eyes and found true emotion that she never expected to be aimed at her, from anyone let alone the one creature she'd always wished for.
Nakia pushed Angel away gently and this time the vampire allowed her to do it. "I am going home now, but I would like to see you again."
She shook her head a little to clear her thoughts before Nakia locked her eyes on his. "I will be around, see if you can find me." With that she turned and took off; she would just have to try another of the cemeteries in town. There were many of them to choose from and maybe she could slow her racing heart and stupid libido.
Angel was off limits to her or at least he was supposed to be.
