Title: Walking The Past Part Four.

Author: Louise Mills

Email address: dumblou@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: I do not own any of characters from the Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel. They belong to Joss Whedon.

Author Notes: Please excuse my grammar; I was never good at English. This part is in the timeline of the scobbie's gang senior year in high school, and in Ireland 1745.

Rating: PG

Classification: A/C

Spoilers: None

Status: Incomplete

Part Four,

After Angel dropped Xander, Xander wandered over to the others and dropped down into a chair. Xander looked at Angel and noticed he was still standing where he left him, crutching his fists. It looked like from Xander's point of view that Angel was trying to calm down.

Xander looked back at the others and noticed Buffy looked angry and hurt, Giles looked calm and normal maybe a little tense, and Willow just looked confused. He was guessing they were looking this way because of the way Angel had just lost control.

"So what's the deal with Angel?" Xander whisper as quiet as he could so Angel couldn't hear, but it wasn't quiet enough Angel had heard, and turned his head towards them so he could hear them better.

Giles looked at Buffy after Xander asked his question, he could tell Buffy was hanging by a thread to stay cool headed. And he knew sometime tonight her and Angel were going to have a growl, and he was guessing it was probably going to be soon.

Buffy leaned against the table towards Xander and Whisper, "He loves her!" The spite and hurt in her voice was clear as day. Xander leaned further back in the chair, and processed the information he was just told. He really wasn't sure if he heard her right, but the expression on her face made him believe he head heard right.

Angel walked towards them, he needed to know why they thought Cordelia was no good, and because that was the vibe he was getting from them. He could understand why Buffy was acting the way she was he head her to believe she was the only one he loved and would ever love, and he knew that he was wrong in doing so.

"Guys, I like to know why you don't like Cordelia?" Buffy was now mad, she stood up and glared at Angel.

"You like to know our problem with Cordelia? Then let me tell you, ever since I known her here, she has been bitchy, mean, and a pain in the ass. Granted she has improved a little over the last year, but she's still a bitch, and only cares about herself, and never others. Oh and since she set her eyes on you she has tried to take you away from me, and it finally looks like she has, that's what I hate most about her." Buffy shouted at Angel.

"She never took me away from you, she already had me, Buffy." Angel shouted not realising what he had said until after he spoke, realising they were now confused he knew he would have to explain about Cordelia being in the past.

"What? … Okay I'm confused, care to explain please?" Buffy retorted back.

Angel closed his eyes, dreading what he was about to tell them, he slowly made his way to a spare chair and dropped down into the chair. He placed his hands over his face and slowly moved them down his face, finally dropping them down by his side. Angel looked upon the others and could see them with expectance on their faces.

"Well are you going to explain or not?" Buffy said harshly.

"It's kind of difficult, no not difficult, but hard for me to say."

"Good god man, just say it, because if I'm not mistaken we are cutting into precious time to find out where Cordelia is." Giles added Calmly.

"Right, you want me to explain why she didn't take me away from you. That's because I was in love with her before I came to Sunnydale."

"Okay I'm confused, how can you love someone you never meet before?" Xander pointed out, as he knew the same question was on the other's minds as well.

"I said before I came to Sunnydale that doesn't mean I hadn't met Cordelia before. I met Cordelia in Ireland, a long time ago!"

"How long ago?" Giles asked, interested and dreading the answer.

"About 254 years ago, and I know you are now more confused, but please let me finish, it will only take longer to explain if you interrupt. Okay I start by telling you Cordelia's fine and she will be back, as I have read it in a book. The portal you saw Buffy was a time portal, which is activated by a spell, someone has cast a spell on Cordelia to go back in time. And I just read that there is no way to break a time portal spell, you just have to let the spell ran it's course. And I fell in love with Cordelia while I was still human, and I never once in the time I have existed have not loved her, even when I was Angelus. So you see Buffy technically she didn't take me away from because I was already in love with her." Buffy, Giles Willow and Xander just stared at Angel stunned at what he just said.

"Okay… so did you ever love me?" Buffy asked you could hear she was almost crying.

"Buffy I do, but I also love Cordelia."

"Okay so why chose her over me now? Why not when you first met Cordelia?"

"Because I hadn't met her here until after I fell in love with you, and back then I thought you were my destiny."

"But I'm not am I?" Angel shook his head. "And exactly how do you know that?"

"Because I have had dreams from 'the powers that be', they told me I had chosen the wrong path. And the right path was with my past love, I suppose they told me now because they knew Cordelia was going back in time, that this point in time."

"Right, so if you knew where Cordelia was all this time, why didn't you tell us earlier?" Giles asked, quite agony with Angel.

"Because I thought you would find a way to take her away from my past self prematurely, and I didn't want that, I wanted the most time I had with her." Angel knew he sounded selfish, but couldn't help himself.

"And how long was she in your past for?"

"Let me just say quite a long time!"

Galway August 4th 1745,

Liam was walking Gaynor home, they had just spent a day in each other's company. They had for the first few hours were just walking over the hills around Galway, and just talking. After the walk they always ended up at the stables, to go for a ride, and had late lunch, which was a picnic, and they just talk and watch the sunset. It had become a ritual they performed once a week.

"I really enjoyed my time today Liam, I'm really getting sick of staying in and helping Mrs McKay, which seems to be all the time. I know it's disrespectable to talk ill of your elders, but doesn't that women ever stop." Gaynor said in a slight Irish accent, she thought she would never loss her American accent, but always being around Irish people all the time, you do seem to catch onto the accent very quickly.

"I wouldn't worry about her, because if I remember rightly your families affairs are nearly finished by your lawyers. And then you can buy her your own place, and get servants to wait upon you, to your hearts content."

"Yes you're right, and thanks again for today." Gaynor and Liam locked eyes, and leaned towards each other to kiss, when the front door of Mrs McKay's house flew open. Gaynor closed her eyes and cursed the day Mrs McKay was ever born in her mind.

"Now you two, none of that not until you are courting." Mrs McKay said in a harsh tone. Liam turned to look at Mrs McKay a put on his charming smile, the smile that he used to get his own way.

"Mrs McKay, you see me and Gaynor are courting, we have been for four months. I thought we had told you, but obviously we hadn't, so do you think I could kiss my love good night?"

"Oh if what you say is true, then of course please do. And I'm sorry for my interference." Mrs McKay said, and then disappeared back into the house.

Liam turned back to Gaynor and smiled, "Now where were we?" Liam captured Gaynor mouth into a long and passionate kiss.

"You are going to come to the summer festival with me on Saturday?" Liam asked.

"Um… let me think I will have to cancel with Richard and James, but yes I will come with you." Liam looked at Gaynor, he knew she was playing with him, but he still couldn't help but feel jealous.

Gaynor noticed the glare of jealously in his eyes and she took his face in her hands and stared straight into his eyes. "Liam I was joking, there would be no one but you in my life."

"I know you were, but I couldn't help but feel jealous. I know how those two feel about you, I just didn't like hearing…" Gaynor cut Liam off by kissing him; she knew she should have never teased him, as he got jealous easily.

"Um…right… um…okay… so I pick you up on Saturday at 10am."

"10am, night my love." Gaynor said and she lightly kissed him on the lips again.

"Night, my beauty." And Liam watched Gaynor slowly ascend into the house.