Authors Note: Can I just say...I love this.
My house was warm that night. Angel's skin was cold to the touch. As he ran his fingers across my cheek I couldn't help but think about Faith; sleeping down stairs on the couch.
That thought quickly left my mind when Angel pressed his lips against mine and closed my door behind us. He ran his hand through my hair, while the other caressed my neck. How I longed for him. His tongue moved softly in my mouth.
"Angel…" I gasped in between kisses, trying to tell him something before things went way too far.
He stopped kissing me and looked at me deeply. But he kept on moving closer to me, making me edge slowly backwards. I ran into my bed trying to resist him, I sat on my bed, having kind of fallen back. He pushed his body into mine and laid me down.
Moving his body softly on top of me he spoke, "Is there something you need to tell me?" He asked. He was so close to my face; pressing his strong body against mine.
I was a little distracted by him at first. "Yeah…" I started to say. "Angel…I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the Mohra demons…and I'm sorry about shooting you in the arm with my cross bow." I made an "I'm sorry" face as I gazed into his dark brown eyes.
He stayed positioned above me, wiping a hair away from my face before he spoke. "I understand why you didn't tell me about the demons Buffy…you didn't want to believe anything was happening. But it did," He paused and leaned down for a soft kiss. "But none of that matters now…the demons are gone, Willow closed the portal. As for the cross bow, you'll need to be punished for that." He smiled shyly at me.
"But what if," I said before his lips could reach mine again.
"What if what?" He asked as he now unbuttoned the jeans I was wearing.
As he moved down and slid my pants off, revealing my red panties, I forgot what I was even going to say. He started kissing my thighs softly, slowly running his hand across my stomach. He came up and gazed into my eyes waiting for my response.
I said nothing; I just pulled him close for a deep, passionate kiss. As he moved his body back on top of my body I felt what was under his black slacks pressing hard against me, wanting out.
I wrestled his slacks off and left on his black briefs. He got off me and stood up slowly, removing his shirt off over his head, revealing his strong stomach muscles and arms. He was lit up by the night moon so perfectly. The sight of him made me yearn for him. Leaving only his briefs on, he came back down quickly on top of me.
With one hand he removed my panties as we kissed. I closed my eyes breathing him in. I felt his hands both go up my shirt. His hand easily released my bra and lifted my body, tearing the shirt that covered the rest of my skin off.
I pulled him close, wanting his naked body pressed against mine. I felt him slide inside and I gasped in desperation. We were angled in such a way that put us in the perfect position.
Angel kissed my neck line and made his way down to my chest, kissing hard and holding me tightly. He caressed every inch of me and we moved slowly. We made love for hours til neither of us had the strength left in us. We drifted off to sleep.
I woke up the next morning trying to recall my dream I had that night. For some reason it wasn't coming to me. I just remember a bowl of blood and for some reason a bow tie. I wasn't sure what any of it meant.
I decided it didn't matter. I noticed Angel was already awake, looking at me.
"What is it?" He asked after seeing my face contort trying to remember my dream.
"Oh nothing, I just had a weird dream last night, I don't really remember it." I told him.
"Your gonna be late for school." Angel commented.
I looked at my clock that read 7:30am. I was gonna be late if I didn't hurry. Of which I then did.
I kissed Angel goodbye and he again took off into the sewers from my back yard. I told him about the wild dog incident at school. He said he would come by after dark and see if he could help us. After we were both ready I grabbed Faith and we both, using our slayer strength ran to school as fast as we could.
Giles was waiting in the library for us as usual, only difference was this time he was in the back stacking books; something I knew he just loved doing. We made our presence known loudly when we entered, seeing as no one else was there.
I could tell Faith was somewhat used to the library by now. It was kind of our unspoken headquarters. After last night I had grown a liking to Faith. We seemed to be very alike. She did seem to have a lot more hatred in her then I. She protects herself with it I think. There was still a whole lot to her that I was missing.
As Giles came down to the foyer area and put a stack of books on the counter he greeted us, "I assume from your leisurely actions, that the night went well?" He asked.
"Yep…us alive…demons dead." I confirmed.
"…and the portal?" Giles asked as he went behind the counter and Faith and I took a seat.
"Officially closed for business." Faith nodded.
"Wonderful." Giles stated, "That just leaves us with this wild dog incident then." He just had to remind.
"Any news on that, what did you find out?" I questioned, looking at my watch and noticing I was majorly late for my first period.
"Well..." Giles started. "After I asked Principal Snyder what had happened I got to see the body for myself. I think Oz will be relieved to know he is not a suspect. The victim died the afternoon before last…in the daylight, the coroner confirmed this morning. I consulted my books after examining what I could of the body. I don't think we are dealing with a werewolf at all. "He paused for a moment, giving us time to process the information.
"Well then what are we dealing with Giles?" I asked as I stood and moved over to the counter by him, Faith followed.
"Honestly, I am not quite sure." He went on, "My books don't show anything quite like what I saw. But we do know that it had to have been someone on campus. I checked the victims' schedule. He had a meeting with the school principle that day, not only an hour before he was killed. My guess is it had something to do with what he was in the principles office for."
We both looked at him waiting for him to spill.
"A Miss Debbie Foley. Apparently the two had been tutoring and there was an argument between the two of them outside of class….I think maybe our victim a Stanley Meldrum must have found something out that Debbie didn't want him to know. Maybe she killed him shortly after for threatening to tell, the students I talked to said she was pretty upset." Giles finished, looking at us to hear our response.
"Wait…Debbie…I know her, Giles I don't think she could do something like this." I filled in.
"Well maybe seeing as you know the girl, you should go talk to her. See what you can find out." Giles persisted.
"Yeah I guess I can do that." I replied.
"I'll stake out outside, keep an eye on the areas around the school, see if anything freaky happens." Faith cut in.
"Yes…that does sound like a good plan."
Faith headed outside and we all planned to follow up later as usual. I figured I would wait til later and talk to Debbie with Will, they are closer then she and I are. I had to fill her in on everything anyway. I knew she would be relieved to know that Oz wasn't on the killer list anymore. I was already late for class but hurried out of the library anyway.