The next morning Buffy woke up to find a pair of strong muscular arms wrapped around her. She blinked a few times to clear the sleep from her eyes and give them a chance to focus.

Beside her was a man of complete and utter beauty. 'Angel' she thought to herself smiling. She felt strangely good this morning even though she had woken up in the night. Maybe it was just the comfort her body got from knowing there was someone there next to her while she slept, or maybe it was because it was Angel next to her. She looked at him for a moment and then the events of the day before came back to her and she couldn't believe she was selfish enough to be thinking of Angel when her Uncle needed her right now.

'Angel quick get up, we have to go to the hospital!' Buffy said shoving him out of bed.

'Morning to you too,' Said Angel groggily.

'Sorry I'm just desperate to find out about Billy,' she replied. 'I'm going to jump in the shower, won't be long!'

Buffy enjoyed the heat of the water on her aching muscles. Although it was a quick shower she had definitely needed it. She chucked some jogging bottoms and a tank top and headed out of the bathroom.

As she walked into the kitchen the smell of food and coffee was overwhelming. Buffy couldn't believe how hungry she was. Angel was stood cooking bacon sandwiches and he had made a fresh cup of coffee.

'Hey, thought you might be hungry? I know you didn't eat yesterday and you need to keep your strength up. And coffee to wake you so you're not so grouchy in the morning.' He greeted her with a smirk.

'I'm not grouchy,' she replied pouting.

Angel just looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

'Okay so maybe I'm a tad grouchy in the morning although I think I'm allowed to be grouchy at the moment.'

'You're forgiven. I'm sorry if that was out of line.' He replied.

'It was fine Angel honestly. And next time I'll try not to be so grouchy.'

'Oh so there's going to be another time is there?' He said winking.

'Only when they make bacon sandwiches and coffee this good,' she smiled.

'I'll bear that in mind!'

It didn't take them long to get to the hospital in Angels car and soon they were in the waiting room.

After one of the longest waits of Buffy's life the doctor came over to talk to them.

'Is he okay?' She immediately asked.

'He's stable at the moment but his cancer is further along than we hoped. We are going to put him on the heart lung transplant list but I highly doubt we will get a match in time. He has about 1 month maybe 2 tops to live. I'm sorry.' He said and left them in a consultation room to deal with their feelings.

Buffy didn't even cry. She was shocked. How could this happen? Her family was just constantly being stolen from her. I was as if fate wanted her to be alone. Buffy's head hurt and she was feeling dizzy. She was about to sit down when everything just went black and the darkness of the world left her.