Disclaimer- I do not own Buffy, Joss does. Some lines in this chapter are taken from the show, season 2.

Spoilers- up to season 2- Surprise

Rating- T

AN- I was not going to update this fic because I did not get 1review for the last chapter. I decided it was a new year and I would forgive you all. Was the chapter that bad? Just please say something! So lets all make a new year's revolution to review more!

AN 2- In this chapter I work with some other characters, so please tell me how you like it.

AN3- Drusilla is strong again, but they found another way that did not involve Angel, so Spike is not in a wheelchair.

AN4- I am in need of a beta reader, but I would prefer one with practice with evil Buffy

AN5- I will not be updating for a while because I have exams

7. Conversations

I walk into my mom's house and walk into the kitchen to grab a snack. I open the fridge and take out the milk; I pour myself a glass and put it back in the fridge. I smell chocolate and notice that there are fresh chocolate chip cookies that just finished cooling.

I pick one up and dip it in the milk. Mom may annoy me, but she does make some mean cookies. I wonder if Angel can make cookies that taste as good as mom's. I finish my cookie in silence.

After my cookie mom walks in, and sees me. She frowns at me, and shakes her

head. I feel a tingling sensation in my hand, I am about to point it towards mom, but quickly put it down, causing the floor to shake.

Mom breaks the silence first, "What are you doing here Buffy?" She sounds very disappointed in me.

"Um, I decided to, um, bid you farewell before you go away."

"How come I do not believe that?"

"I guess because it is not true," I admit.

"You can tell me the truth honey," Mom says.

No I can not. "Okay, well, I got in trouble at school and I ditched."

"What did you do this time?" Mom sighs.

I growl, and I mean literally animal growl. Mom takes a step back. "How come I didn't get the call from school?"

"I don't know," I reply. Even though I have a feeling Angel talked to school and somehow changed the number the school has to his number. I smile at the thought.

"So," Mom says awkwardly.

"Mom, just come out and say what you have to say," I demand.

"Are you coming home, or do you have someplace to stay?"

"I am doing both of those things. Last night I moved. Didn't you see my stuff was missing?"

"No, I never went into your room."

"Well, it's all gone. I moved in with Angel."

"You what!" Mom shouts.

"Calm down Mom. You do not want to make me mad. I can seriously hurt you. I could kill you if I wanted to," I threaten.

"I doubt it," Mom guffaws.

Just to show her how strong I am, I take a glass and break it. I also use my powers to shake the whole room. Mom stares at me.

"Told you so."

"Okay," Mom shivers, "continue your story."

"We live in the Crawford Mansion. But he is getting some construction done, so I have to come back here for a few weeks."

"How long?"

"Two weeks, starting tonight. I will be gone by the time you get back," I answer.

"Will Angel be here," Mom pries.

"Um, yes," I admit.

Mom looks at me, disappointed once again. "This is my house, and he is not allowed," Mom yells.

"Yes, he can," I say, getting very angry, "I say so, so he will." I ball my hands in a fist and Mom nods. Phew, I don't have to hurt her, even though I really want to.

"Have you slept together?" Mom quickly shouts out.

"No," I firmly state, even though it is a lie. "And we will not."

Mom looks relieved. She walks upstairs and grabs her suitcase. She walks out of the house to the car without saying goodbye. If I was the old me, I would be mad, but the new me is not. The old me being Mom's me. The new me being Angel's me.

I go to the basement to work out.


Same time at the library

Willow picks up a book and sighs with thoughts of Buffy filling her mind. "I seem to be doing that a lot," she thinks.

Xander sits there eating doughnut thinking about how maybe if Buffy is upset he could dump Cordelia and comfort Buffy.

Oz sat there thinking, "Poor Buffy."

Cordelia looks over at Xander and sighs, then smiles, "Wow, I may hang with losers, but Xander is actually hot. I should punch Buffy for hurting his feelings. Or not, she would kill me, but she is being punished enough by going to school dressed like her! I wonder why Angel likes her and not me?" she silently wonders.

Jenny Calendar glances around the room and thinks, "I hate lying to these people. If only they knew the real me. Everyone would hate me. But I feel I am too late, that Buffy's strange attitude has to do with my family."

Kendra is sharpening a stake and wondering, "Why everyone does love Buffy so much? She is obviously evil and a dreadfully bad slayer."

Lastly, Giles goes through prophecies. He has no thoughts except that he wants his slayer back.

They do not know it, but everyone has Buffy on their minds. And she is doing that a lot lately too, invading her friend's thoughts. Some thoughts good, some bad, and some horribly rude.

"Guys," Oz breaks the silence, "something is wrong with Buffy." The room nods.

"I fear we are too far away, mentally, from her to do anything about it," Giles says. Everyone agrees.

"Whatever, she is a bad slayer," Kendra tried to convince the jury.

"Amen," Cordelia mumbles. Xander gives her a look.

"Maybe aliens invaded her mind," Xander suggests.

"Aliens do not exist. But maybe a demon is possessing her," Ms. Calendar adds and looks at Giles.

Willow answers for him, "It's possible. But Buffy is my friend no matter what. We are going to help her." She begins to cry. Oz comes over to comfort her.

Giles looks sympathetic, "Its okay Willow, we understand. All of us want her back."

"Excuse me," Cordelia buts in, "but what is even wrong with Buffy?"

"We don't know," Willow says truthfully.

"Yeah, but she is definitely not her usual Buffster self," Xander says.

Ms. Calendar sighs, "When I met Buffy last year, I looked in her eyes and thought, that girl is a hero. Her intents are so pure. Now I look in her eyes and feel as if her duty and helping the world mean nothing to her anymore."

"I am going to help her," Giles vows. "She is my slayer and I will not let anything wrong happen to her."

To everyone's surprise Kendra says what is on her mind, "When I first met Buffy I thought that she was a vampire who stole me duty. I have never trusted her. I hear what all of you say about her and even I know something is wrong. I have observed her and it seems everything revolves around her boyfriend."

The scoobies all stared at the slayer, for she noticed what none of them did, and they were ashamed of themselves for not noticing it. Perhaps it was because they were so used to Buffy's love towards Angel, or the fact that Buffy is such a good liar and secret keeper. They all knew it wasn't true though, they were just blind.

"Well obviously it's Deadboy's fault," Xander says. Cordelia looks at him and sees vengeance in his eyes. Nobody hates Angel more than Xander.

"Guys, I don't think anything is wrong with her guys," says Willow. "I think that maybe she is jealous of us."

"What do you mean Willow?"

"I mean that you, me, Xander, and Cordelia double date at lunch. We kiss in front of her," Xander opens his mouth, "in the sun Xand. Not all of our parents know, but at least they could. Mrs. Summers would not allow her daughter to date an older man. I think Buffy is feeling like the third string."

It's quiet. Everyone still had their doubts, but what Willow said made perfect sense. If only they acknowledged that sooner.

*************

Same time at the factory

Spike had just woken up. Next to him Drusilla was missing. He walks out of their room and sees Drusilla dancing.

As she is dancing she sings, "Daddy is back. The stars tell me that nasty soul is gone. I want my Daddy." Spike went up and kisses her. He was used to this kind of attitude and usually listened to her prophecies. But not this time, because Drusilla never lost hope that Angelus would return to them.

"Pet, I wish my sire could come back as much as the next bloke, but he's not. Angel is there to stay."

"No, the stars, they tell me Daddy is truly back my love.

Spike sighs. He may love Drusilla's weirdness, but he was sick of Angelus filling her thoughts.

There was a knock at the door and Spike smiled. It's the middle of the afternoon, a human must be there, and he was hungry.

Drusilla opens the door, careful to hide from the sun and starts to jump up and down as their guest enters the house. Spike sniffs and halts. He growls.

The guest takes the blanket off his head, fans the smoke away and laughs, "That's no way to treat your sire Spike." To assert his dominance the visitor punches Spike in the face.

"What are you sodding doing here Angel? You aren't in to foul play by attacking us during the day."

"You don't know anything about Angel. But you do know me my boy."

"Daddy?" Dru asks.

"Yes it is me puppet. My soul is gone!" Drusilla jumps up and down smiling.

But Spike was still unsure, I mean how could this happen? "Good to have you back Angelus. But how did this happen?"

"Don't be cross with me Spike; I can smell your indecision all over you. Turns out the curse had a happiness clause. One minute of perfect happiness and BAM, I am back in action and ready to turn this town inside and out."

Spike sniffs Angelus, and he cannot smell a soul on him. He smiles, "Great! You can help us with our newest plan to take over this town."

"Oh, you mean the Judge?"

"Of course I do!" Spike shouts.

"Well, do you have all the parts?" Angelus inquires.

"Um, no," Spike admits. "But we need one more piece. Then we will burn all of humanity!" Spike vows.

Angelus laughs, "William," Spike growls, "you realize that even vampires have humanity on them. Sire love, lust, they are all aspects of humanity.

"So, all we need to do is to tell him to not burn vampires to a crisp," Spike decides. He nods.

Drusilla stops dancing and goes up to Angelus and kisses him. Angelus pulls off and hits her as a punishment. "Why did you do that Daddy? The stars are telling me that you do not want me anymore," she whines.

"Well Dru, that is true. I have decided I am a one slayer woman vamp," Angelus declares.

"Have you gone bonkers?" Spike accuses.

"No. How did you think I lost my soul? Buffy and Soulboy got it on."

"But why aren't you killing her?"

"The stars tell me Daddy loves her," Drusilla cries before running away.

Angelus sighs, "It is true. I tried doing the usual, but I could not. So we did it, and I realized I loved her."

"We are vampires, Angelus. We do not love," Spike attempts to reason with him.

"I thought so too. But Buffy taught me differently."

"What will you do? Will you turn her?" Spike sadly asks. The only slayer who was ever turned was staked by her watcher before she rose. Nobody will try again.

"Well Spike. I heard of a prophecy I am looking for, it will help me decide what to do. But she will not be a problem. Trust me; Buff is losing her soul and humanity."

"What the hell can that mean?"

"Well, yesterday she ditched school to come talk to me. She fought with her mom, and moved in with me. She is experiencing new feelings of anger, where she wants to seriously kill or hurt people. She has new found psychic powers, kind of like telekinesis. She picked me over her friends. Last night she could not stake a fledging, just because she felt bad for it. And I was pretending to be Soulboy, but acted kind of like The Scourge of Europe, and Buffy said this new attitude turned her on and she loved it," Angelus explains.

Spike is dumbstruck, "Wow," is all he can say.

"I actually have to go to meet her. We are staying at her mom's house for a few days while the Crawford mansion gets renovated, and she is supposed to meet me at our house."

Angelus grabs the blanket and turns to leave. Spike stops him, "Wait, are you telling the slayer the truth?"

Angelus thinks about this, "Maybe tonight. You can not act like I am me, pretend I am Angel until Buff and I come to you, tell Dru I say bye." And with that he leaves.

Spike walks to Dru and thinks, "Great Angelus is back." Only he doesn't know if that is good or bad.