Title: Tears of Joy
Author: Lady Mercury
Disclaimer: If I owned Angel. I wouldn't
be here right now, would you??
Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Xander and
Willow belongs to Joss Whedon.
Summary: Takes place two weeks after The
Body. Buffy is having strange
dreams. About Angel, a table and ice
cream?
Spoilers: IWRY, The body.
Rating: PG 13 (No sex, but mentions of
it)
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Author's notes: As I have said before,
English isn't my native language so
have mercy!!! The Lyric's: Made in
Heaven by QUEEN!!!!
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I'm taking my right in destiny, willing
to play my part
Living with painful memories, loving
with all my heart
Made in heaven made in heaven it was all
meant to be yeah
Made in heaven made in heaven
That's what they say can't you see
That's what everybody says to me can't
you see, oh
I know I know I know that it's true
Yes it's really meant to be deep in my
heart
I'm having to learn to pay the price,
they're turning me upside down
Waiting for possibilities, don't see too
many around
Made in heaven made in heaven it's for
all to see
Made in heaven made in heaven
That's what everybody says everybody
says to me
It was really meant to be oh can't you
see
Yeah everybody everybody says yes it was
meant to be
Yeah yeah
When stormy weather comes around it was
made in heaven
When sunny skies break through behind
the clouds
I wish it could last forever yeah
Wish it could last forever for ever
Made in heaven
I'm playing my role in history, looking
to find my goal
Taking in all this misery but giving it
all my soul
Made in heaven made in heaven it was all
meant to be
Made in heaven made in heaven
That's what everybody says wait and see
It was really meant to be so plain to
see, yeah
Everybody everybody everybody tells me
so
Yes it was plain to see yes it was meant
to be
Written in the stars
Written in the stars
Written in the stars
************
Buffy bolted up from her bed. Even
after she had woken up the words "I will
never forget" rang in her
head. Pictures of Angel flashed before her eyes,
Angel in the sun, Angel and her in bed
eating ice cream, Angel and her
making love on a kitchen table.
"God." Buffy
thought. "I'm going mad, all that has happened lately has
finally made me crazy. Spike's
feelings for me, mother's death has finally
pushed me over the edge. And now
all these strange dreams of me and Angel,
together in LA. But why on earth
would I dream about making love on a
kitchen table? Some secret
fantasy?" Buffy blushed when she remembered
more vivid pictures of the kitchen table
scene.
"I must get a life." She
said aloud to herself. "But what kind of life can
I offer, part time student, part time
slayer? Sorry can't go out tonight
darling, must slay some vamps.
Yeah, no guy will believe that, and if
someone did, he would leave me because
he couldn't handle it, like Riley. .
.God, don't think about Riley.
Riley is gone, I will go on just like I went
on after Angel. . .Angel spilling ice
cream on his chest, Angel walking
toward me in the sun. Before Buffy
could drift away into fantasyland her
phone rang.
"Buffy Summers here."
Buffy answered absently still thinking of Angel.
". . ."
"Xander, if it's you, I swear to
God I will kill y. . ."Buffy was cut of by
the voice of an angel.
Her Angel.
"Buffy, it's me"
"Angel? What, why, how. .
.God has something happened?" She asked, going
through every possibly candidate in line
for a disaster.
"No, no, I just wanted. . ."
"Wanted what?" Buffy
asked a bit hard. Too hard she thought too late as
she practically heard Angel withdraw
from the phone and her.
"I sorry," He murmured.
"No Angel, it's my fault, I
shouldn't had been so hard to you." Buffy said
trying to make Angel not hang up.
"What did you want Angel?"
"I wanted to see you." He said
hesitantly.
"God." Buffy
thought. "He acts like I don't want to see him. Just because
every time we see each other we fight. .
.right now I see why he acts like
that."
"Buffy." Angel asked
again.
She snapped out of her thoughts.
"Sure Angel, you are welcome to
come." She said feeling better for the
first time in two weeks since her mother
died. "When are you coming?
"Tomorrow." Angel
answered.
"Ok, see you then. . .Angel."
"Yes. . . bye."
She could almost her him suppress an
"I love you" before hanging up the
phone.
********************
Evening, Sunnydale next day.
Angel stood nervously before Buffy's
door to the college room she shared
with Willow. He had had at least
ten panic attacks even before calling her,
but now it felt like he was about to
faint.
"For God's sake Angel, just knock
on the door." Cordelia said impatiently.
"What if she is seeing
someone? She could have met someone she attracts
guys like honey attracts bees. I
should go." Angel said turning to walk
away when the door burst open. A
blond, small thing jumped him, made him
lose balance and they fell together in a
tangle of arms and legs. Angel was
about to say something when she started
kiss him all around his face.
"Ehh, guys." Cordelia
said. Looking down at the two of them kissing on the
floor. "People are
starring."
Angel managed to pull way, panting hard.
"Buffy, we should get. . ." He
was cut of by a punch in the face by his true
love. Buffy glared at him.
He just stared at her confused. "Why did you
hit me?"
"Because, you took away a day for
me." She said looking hurt, angry and
happy.
"A day. . . you
remember." He whispered.
"Ehhh, you know guys, I will leave
you two to discuss this alone." Cordelia
said and left.
Buffy and Angel rose from the floor and
went into her and Willow's room.
"Well, Angel. Were you ever
going to tell me?" Buffy said staring into his
nut-brown eyes.
"Buffy, I had to do it, you know
why, what I don't know is how you possibly
could remember."
"I went to Giles after you called
me and told him about the dreams that I
had had lately about you and me. He
performed a spell to see if it was some
kind of demon trying to take control of
my mind. Instead he found out that
they were real memories. Believe me when
I say that I was really pissed when
I found out." She said.
"I know." Angel said, "My
jaw feels broken.
"Serves you right," She said
defiantly. Angel looked hurt at her voice.
Buffy stared at him, feeling the anger
melt away, and instead being replaced
by love. She felt the tears press behind
her eyes, tears she had tried to
suppress since the death of her mother.
Angel saw how Buffy fought with her
emotions, to keep the tears from
falling. She lost the fight and big
tears started to fall from her eyes.
With a sob she threw herself into his
arms, hugging and crying, whispering
over and over again that she loved him,
that she couldn't stand to be
without him.
Suddenly she went still in his arms. She
reached to touch his heart the same
way she had done before her memory was
taken from her. She whispered. "I
felt your heart beat."
Buffy held her hand over his heart. Not
daring to believe what she for a
second had felt.
"Your heart Angel. It's
beating." She looked up and Angel laid his hand over
hers.
"Yes Buffy, your love has made me
human."
"I. . . how?" She whispered.
"I saved a young woman from a demon
a couple of days ago. Next day I woke
up, with a heartbeat, and a craving for
food. The oracles must finally have
found me worthy to be a human again. But
I really don't care how or why I
became human again. My only thought was
to find you. And I almost gave poor
Wesley a heart attack when I walked into
the office in broad daylight."
"So when you called me. . .that was
to tell me that you were human?
"Yes. . . you don't know how
frightened I was that you would have moved
on...that you would have stopped loving
me." Angel said looking down on the
floor.
Buffy caressed his face with her small
hand, then she whispered into his
ear. "I would never love
anyone as I love you my love, my Angel."
Angel smiled at her and carefully kissed
her.
********
When Cordelia with the company of
Xander, Willow and Anya later returned the
door was locked and a sign hung on the
door telling not to disturb.
"Well it looks like I will sleep at
home tonight." Willow sighed.
"Stop it, you're giving me mental
pictures." Xander yelled.
"Xander they are just having
sex." Anya said. "Which reminds me, we haven't
had sex in 1 hour, how about your car?
Xander just stared at her.
"Do they always act like
this?" Cordelia whispered to Willow, who only
nodded.
"Ehh. . . Anya..." Xander
started to say, then he stopped. He thought he
heard something. It was coming from
inside Buffy and Willow's room. Xander
felt his cheek flush red.
"What do you say about
leaving?" He asked the girls.
"Good idea." Cordelia said
looking slightly red herself.
"I'm with you." Willow said
blushing like a tomato.
"No, wait" Anya said. I want
to here them having se. . ." Anya didn't finish
the sentence as Xander clasped his hand
over her mouth and dragged her from
the hall with Willow and Cordelia right
behind.
Epilogue
Angel and Buffy married and had 4
children. Willow rejoined with Oz and they
also married. Anya and Xander are still
together having sex. Tara moved on.
Giles met a lovely woman and got
married, too. Riley disappeared in South
America. Cordelia became an actress and
married a rich man. Spike got the
chip out of his head and rejoined
Drusilla.
THE END
