HEY GUYS! HERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER. I PROMISED THIS ONE WOULD BE LONG SO I'M GOING TO DELIEVER!

Chapter 11

Angelica's POV

When I got to school the next morning Toby was standing by the front doors. I lowered my head when I saw him and tried to be invisible.

It didn't work.

"Angelica!" I heard Toby call and looked up to see him waving me over.

As I reluctantly walked over to him his smile grew wider.

"Sorry I wasn't here yesterday." He reached over to take my books but I tugged them away from him. "But, I was sick." He said, his smile faltering a bit.

"It's ok." I mumbled and walked pass him into school.

"Wait, Ange!" he yelled after me.

A shiver rippled down my spine as this gorgeous person hollered my nick name at me.

"What's wrong? I said I was sorry." He was confused.

"I don't think your girlfriend wants us to hang out." I told him.

He stopped suddenly and looked completely lost.

I sighed and helped him. "Miranda? Your girlfriend?"

A slow, oddly sexy, smile crept over Toby's features. "Miranda? Oh god, Ange." He put his hand on my shoulder and heat erupted through my arm. "Miranda and I dated in sophomore year." he chuckled. "We don't go out with anymore."

A wave of relief flew over me. Oh thank god! I thought and smiled up at him.

"So." he said, with newly found confidence. "How about that tour?' he took my books from my arms and led me down the hall.

Toby led me all over the school, showing all the interesting points. He showed me the library, gym, pool (Yes, we had a pool!) and the court yard. This school was oddly rich for a public school.

Just as we were heading toward my first period the bell rang.

"Just on time." I smiled.

Toby smiled back and handed me my books. Then we stood there looking at our feet for a while.

"Well, I have to get to first." I told him.

"Of course." He said and we parted ways.

Angel's POV

I was out, helping the helpless…as I occasionally like to do, and endlessly thinking about Buffy.

Seeing her again had made my heart…or what ever there was of it…ache.

She always did this to me. The way her hair swayed behind her as she walked. The way her hips swung side to side when she ran. Then way she was precise when she fought. The way she would wrap her arms around me when…

I had to stop thinking about her. I was a father now; and I was going to be a dam good one if I had anything to say about it.

Angelica needed to look up to me. I doubted her mother was ever a good roll model. I mean, I didn't even know about Ange until last week when she sowed up!

A scream pierced my thoughts and I was suddenly alert.

My vampire hearing – or Spidy senses, as Cordy loved calling them – heard feet scraping across cement as someone tried to run.

I jump from the building I was currently on to the one next to it and hit the ground running. I was getting closer.

There, in an alley surrounded by shadows, a young woman was being perused by one of my family members. I could see his fangs glint in the light.

I jumped silently from the roof and landed like a cat on the ground.

"Hey!" I said coming into the light in front of the vampire. "Stop that."

He lunged at my throat completely forgetting the girl now. I sidestepped him and landed a blow to the back of his head. "Run." I yelled back to the girl. Foot falls sounded behind me as the girl ran toward wherever she was headed; but I was too focused on the vamp in front of me.

"You think you can come to my town and pull this crap?" I asked.

The vamp tried to punch me in the face but I grabbed his wrist and buried my own in his stomach. A strange gurgling sound came from the vamp and he keeled over.

I kicked him in his ribs and he doubled over onto the cement. But, just like that, he was back on his feet trying to fight.

Once again he lunged at me, but this time he caught my left arm and flung me into a wall. I was winded for a moment but ducked when I saw the metal pipe swinging through the air at my head.

The pipe hit the wall and made the sound of reverberating metal. The vamp swung again and hit my lower back.

I fell to the floor and rolled away as the pipe came down again. My feet snapped out and knocked my assailant off his own two feet.

When I stood up he came with me. I grabbed his shirt and slammed him in the wall.

I pulled a stake from my jacket and was just about to shove it through his chest when he spoke.

"Angelus?" he whispered.

I looked at his intently and my stomach dropped as I noticed his hair.

"'Elllo mate!" he said and gave me a fangy smile.

BUM BUM BAAAAHHHH! Who's the mystery person? And why would Angel know him from his hair?

Hmmmmmmmm?

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