Author's Note: Hey guys I'm sorry its been soo long since my last update but I've been swamped w/ skool and to be honest I didn't think anyone was reading my stories so I just stopped however thanks to many WONDERFUL reviewers I have decided to continue on with this story as well as my others! THANKS GUYS! On with the show! P.S- Oh and more naughty language in this chapter, as you can probably imagine.
'Oh my god what happened I'm gone for two hours and all hell breaks lose, how could he find out, did Spike tell him? Oh Spike is SO going to wake up without any fangs tomorrow!' Buffy thought a misted the wreck that once was her apartment.
"What the hell happened here!" Buffy yelled, trying to divert Angel's attention from the little sex with Spike detail.
"YOU SLEPT WITH SPIKE!" Angel roared back, his eyes settling into deep red slits, making Spike step back a little. "DON'T MOVE BOY!"
Buffy looked at Spike trying to judge what had happened in her and Pike's absence, unfortunately all she got was a shrug of the shoulders with a set of yellow eyes.
"Angel, calm down it was a long, long time ago and now isn't the time to…" Buffy started.
"IT'S TRUE THEN!" Angel roared, spinning around and nailing Spike with a left hook sending him across the room, straight into the side of Buffy's mahogany bureau.
"Fuckin' ell'" came Spike's painful voice as Angel started to again stock towards him.
"That's enough!" The seemingly echo of Buffy's voice boomed out, as a invisible force field separated the two now fully pissed off vampires. "Angel I know you're mad but I will NOT have my home ruined over a vampire pissing CONTEST!"
" He bloody started it!" Spike pouted pushing himself up onto sit on the bureau.
"Somehow I doubt that WILLIAM!" Buffy spat, getting more furious and worried as Angel's face continued to look as angry as minutes before, "Pike why don't you and Spike go back to Moe's and me and Angel can talk a bit."
"Right then, come on Peroxide." Pike said, patting Buffy on the shoulder aand getting burnt in the process. "Damn it!"
"Sorry," Buffy mumbled, her eyes still glued on Angel who was following Spike's every move with his eyes as he left the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Angel," Buffy started, taking down the force field and slowly walking forward.
"Don't even try to excuse it!" Angel spat his anger still boiling over the top. "I left you so you could have a life, not so you could fuck that shit head!"
"OH shut the FUCK UP already Angel!" Buffy yelled her eyes turning silver as her temper flared. "I am sick of the whole 'I left you for a better life speech'! You left me and I didn't end up with a better life, I ended up with a dead mother, a fake sister, death as my gift, a hell god, rumors of the Cordelia and Angel romance saga, being ripped out of heaven and having Riley Cardboard as my boyfriend who even GOT MARRIED BEFORE I DID!" As she said the last part Buffy's voice got angry.
'Ok so maybe that was a little catty but COME ON! Fish boy getting married before me what the hell is the world coming to!? I don't want to be this harsh but Jesus enough is enough!'
"What does that have to do with Spike!?" Angel yelled, his anger diminishing slightly.
"EVERYTHING!" She yelled, sighing as she did so. "Spike was there for all of that, he was there when I fought what I thought to be my final battle, he stood beside me and fought the people he was supposed to be siding with! He was the one who helped me through coming back from heaven and….he never left."
"That was for your own good!" Angel sighed, running his hands through his hair and sitting of Buffy's bed.
"How was having my heart ripped out for my own good?" Buffy mumbled, taking a seat next to him on the bed. "I know you meant well and were trying to do what was right but how can something so incredibly painful and lingering be right? When you left I shut down. I once told Giles that I didn't think I could love anymore, that I was becoming to calloused to even say the words I love you and to this day I still think that's true. I loved people, gave them places in my heart. But I loved you with my soul."
"It seemed like the right thing at the time." Angel mumbled, his hand closing around Buffy's as a single tear rolled down her cheek. "I wanted you to be able to be normal, to have the husband and family that could live in the sun, away from the life you have to face every night."
"But don't you see? The slayer IS the night, after seeing what I've seen and going through what I have I could never bring children into this world, I could never have them face what I have. A slayer is not meant to have a family or even a life for that matter, and that would have been ok with me if as damned hot creature of the night didn't rob my cradle." Buffy grinned a little, trying to lighten the mood, her grin spread into a full blown smile as Angel smiled back at her. "Angel I love you with my heart AND soul, being apart has been so much more horrible than when we were together. I don't need the picket fence and 2.5 kids, all I need is you."
"Riley didn't get married before you did you know," Angel said randomly with a secretive smile.
"What? Is your age starting to catch up with you or something." Buffy said, looking completely confused.
"You see this?" Angel said, snatching the necklace around Buffy's neck and fingering the Claddah (I don't know how to spell it) ring.
"Yeah," Buffy said slowly, smiling slightly.
"That's you wedding ring," Angel said, smiling at the awed expression on Buffy's face. "In my country we are wed, it was sealed with the umm…consummation afterwards.
"So I did beat fish boy?" Buffy said smiling brightly.
"Yes Mrs. O'Connor you beat fish boy." Angel said, his eyes twinkling as he took the ring of her chain and placed it on her finger. " Much better."
"Mrs. O'Connor. I like the sound of it, its less….seasonish." Buffy whispered, looking at her finger.
"So you're not mad?" Angel said, moving closer to her.
"No. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me." Buffy said, her smile faltering a little bit. "You should know though that your going to be stuck with me for a long time."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, Spike informed me a little while ago that I am ohhhhh how do I say it? Oh! I'm immortal!" Buffy said, moving her head close to Angel's as if she had a big secret she wanted to share.
"Hmm…I think I could live, : cough, cough:: with that." Angel smiled, leaning in and giving her a deep kiss.
"Oh me too, definitely." Buffy smiled leaning in for another kiss.