Chapter 10: Soul Mates pt. 2

"Edward, are you still depressed?" I asked, hoping it wasn't true.

"No, not since I found out that you are my soul mate." He smiled gently at me.

"You have a beautiful smile, did you know that?"

"No, but I could say the same thing for you."

I blushed and smiled shyly. "So, since we are being honest here, can I ask you something?"

He looked wary but nodded. "Sure."

"How do you feel about me?"

"Honestly? I have strong feelings for you. I know that whenever I am away from you it makes me very unhappy. I am tired of staying away."

"Wow."

"What?"

"It's just that I haven't felt this way with anyone. Not even Angel."

"You and Angel dated?"

"Yes, I have dated a vampire before. It didn't work out because he was depressed all the time. I guess now I know why. I wasn't his mate." I smiled. "But I am happy for him."

We talked, laughed and I cried some as we shared our stories together. At some point I ended up in his lap as he softly sang me to sleep.

Willow excused herself to make a call to Faith. The talk was short, but both Bella and Faith agreed to meet them at the library before school started.

After the Cullen's left, except for Edward of course, Angel and Deirdre went to their room, everyone decided that it was time for bed.

In the morning it was pretty quiet. I woke up to my stomach grumbling. Last night seemed like a dream, I thought as I got out of bed, gathered some clothes, and got into the shower.

There just couldn't be a person or vampire out there that was so perfectly made for me.

After getting out of the shower I dried my hair and got dressed in a red tank top with a black leather jacket, and my favorite worn hip-hugger jeans. After I dressed I put on foundation with black mascara and just a little tan-silver eye shadow. Walking back into my room I noticed that Edward was sitting on my bed. I gasped stopping in my tracks.

"Jeez, give a girl a heart attack, why don't you?" She gave him a glare.

"I am sorry. I didn't mean to startle you." He apologized, his mouth twitching as if he was trying not to smile.

"I am serious Edward. Not only can your good looks give any girl a heart attack, but you being silent and sitting there like a statue is just plain scary. Give a girl some warning please?" She continued to glare at him.

He laughed; the sound was music to my ears. Never had I heard Edward laugh and it was a relief to hear him do so. He smiled when he stopped laughing and held his arms open to me.

I smiled and nearly ran into his arms. Climbing into his lap I gave him a kiss on the cheek. That was the first time I noticed what he was wearing, plain jeans and a tan long sleeved shirt with a tan leather jacket. "Are you going to school today?"

His smile grew into my favorite crooked smile that I adored. "Of course, what am I going to do? Sit here waiting for you to return? I think not."

"Well, if you haven't changed yet, you might want to. If Giles sees you in the same clothes that you were in yesterday he'll rip into both of us."

"Giles? As in Rupert Giles? I thought he changed his name?"

I smiled and nodded. "He did, but he still refuses to allow us to call him Evans. Old habits die hard I guess." My smile became a sad one.

"Why are you sad?"

I looked at my hands trying to avoid looking at him. "Just old memories. Things I just wish I could forget."

"Buffy look at me."

When I looked up I still wouldn't meet his eyes.

"I mean really look at me, please?"

When I did his expression was grim as well. "We can make new memories. I know that you are still in pain from your loss of your parents, but you will get past it."

"You promise?"

"I promise." Edward smiled gently and kissed my forehead, and right then my stomach grumbled again. He laughed, "Sometimes I forget when I am around you, that you still have to eat."

I laughed, got up from his lap and gently grabbed his hand pulling him up with me. "Come on Mr. Cullen, it's time to feed the human." They walked out of the room and down the stairs, hand in hand.

Walking into the kitchen I noticed that my new family was already there. Giles was making eggs and toast with his coffee mug in hand. It still seemed funny to me that Giles seemed to take a liking to coffee, given the fact that he came from the land of tea and cakes. Willow and Xander were making pancakes. I decided to make my presence known.

"Hey guys, something smells good in here." I smiled at them as they turned to look at me; they were smiling too, although Giles' looked more like a grimace. "Giles, what is wrong?"

"I see that Edward stayed the night." He turned back to his task.

"Actually, I wasn't here the whole night. I went home to eat and change clothes."

"I see. I also noticed that you slept better last night, Buffy."

Great now is the time that he starts to notice things, I thought with a grimace. "Yes, no nightmares for me."

"That's good; just tell me when you are going to have a guy over for the night. It makes me nervous."

"Will do. So what are we going to do about Faith?"

"I called her last night and both Faith and Bella decided to meet with us before school." Willow replied.

Edward grabbed my hands so that he could look at me. "Well, I better be off. I have to get ready for school, too. Do you want me to pick you up?"

"Sure, but we have to be there early because we have another slayer on our hands. If you like, you could be there for the meeting as spokesperson for your family?"

"I would love that, but let me talk to Carlisle first." He leaned down to kiss me on the cheek then whispered in my ear, "I will see you here when I get back." then he was gone.

When breakfast was ready we all sat down at the table to eat. Mostly the subject revolved around yesterday, about the conversation with the Cullen's and about Faith.

By the time we were done eating it was time for school. I walked outside to find that it was still cloudy and smelled like rain. Edward was there in the driveway, leaning against his silver Volvo looking more like a Greek God than anyone had a right to.

Running up to him, I hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. He smiled at me with the look of love in his eyes. "How was your breakfast?" He asked.

"It was great! I didn't know that Giles could cook until he took me in."

"Do you cook?"

"I make too much of a mess, so I am not allowed to. I do want to learn though." I added eagerly.

"Esme is a wonderful cook from what I hear; I bet she would love to teach you." He smiled fondly as he spoke of his mother, for all intense of purposes.

"That would be great; I would love to get to know your mother." I smiled up at him.

As Willow, Xander and Giles stepped out of the house they smiled at us, as we once again got into our respective cars.

Edward gently grabbed my hand, walked me around to the passenger side, and opened the door for me.

I got in and in less than two seconds he was on the other side of the car and getting in.

"So, I was wondering, is there more of your kind?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know the kind of vampire that doesn't feed on humans?"

"Oh," While he backed out of the drive way he took his time to answer my question, by thinking over his answer. "Well, yes, there is a clan in a small town in Alaska that is like my family. But I must warn you that there is my kind of vampire that does feed on humans."

"Thank you for warning me. It's not unusual for vampires to feed on humans. All the vampires that I have come up against are what you call a demonic vampire. Where the demon has taken over both the mind and body of the human it resides in. When they feed they transform into what they really are, showing their true form. Giles is still in "research mode" right now trying to figure out how there is two different kinds of vampire, because I have only seen one kind."

"That's interesting that he would do that, and when he finds the answer I would like to know myself."

I looked up through the window and noticed that we were at school already. Bella's truck was already in the parking lot, awaiting our arrival patiently. After everyone parked and got out we greeted them and walked to the library in silence, wracked with anticipation. Once inside the library everyone took a seat at the large oak table in the middle of the room.

"So, Faith can you tell me what has been happening to you in the last month?"