Note from Rain: My cousin Sunny wrote this fanfic, I'm just posting it for her because she cannot. Well, Here's the last chapter, I'll post the epilogue later this week. Please read and review, it'll keep my cousin partly sane.:) She's driving me crazy looking for new reviews!!

Disclaimer: Joss Whedon is the god of the Buffiverse. I just borrowed his children for some fun. All the characters in this story belong to him, except the evil ones who belong to Rain. Thanks Rain for letting me play with them.

Note2:
Well here it is...what we've all been waiting for....



Epilogue

Buffy snuggled down next to Angel laying her head on his chest, simply amazed by the sound of his heart beating. Her hand began a lazy caressing journey over his heated skin as she heaved a gigantic sigh of contentment.

"Are you happy?" Angel asked while his hand stroked her fair hair away from her face.

"Deliriously so," Buffy answered. She tipped her head back and gave him a glorious smile. "You?"

"I have never been happier," Angel answered. He tilted his own head down and brushed her forehead with his lips. He was still finding it hard to believe that Buffy was his, now and forever. They had been married for almost a week now, but he still had the urge to pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

"Good," Buffy said her voice husky with her desire for the man lying next to her. She snuggled even closer to him bringing her naked body into closer contact with his.

Angel, very aware of what she was doing, gave a sexy moan of pleasure as his hand started to wander over her soft flesh. "Are you enjoying our honeymoon? I know it's not the Bahamas."

"It doesn't matter where I am as long as I am with you," Buffy told him a little breathlessly. His wandering hands were starting to do their magic.

"Even if we were searching the sewers of Sunnydale looking for the elusive, yet deadly demon that is intent upon ending the world?" Angel asked.

"The sewers of Sunnydale can be very romantic," Buffy replied moving her hand slowly down his chest until it disappeared under the covers. She smiled a smile of pure satisfaction as the muscles of his abdomen quivered under her touch.

"True, but not a very good place to do this," Angel stated lowering his head to take her lips in a passionate, yet tender kiss.

"We could kiss in the sewer," Buffy pointed out when she was finally allowed to come up for air.

Angel lifted his head from where his lips had been nuzzling the sensitive skin of her shoulder and looked at her. A wolfish grin spread across his face and a devilish glint appeared in his eyes. "But we couldn't do this," Angel told her as he again dipped his head to kiss another sensitive part of her body. His lips were just about to close over her heated flesh when a shrill beeping noise stilled his movement.

"Ignore it," Buffy instructed wrapping both of her arms around him in an attempt to keep him from leaving her side.

"Since they haven't contacted us before now it must be important," Angel said reluctantly rolling away from Buffy. He switched on the bedside lamp and then reached for his beeper.

"Wesley?" Buffy asked swallowing her disappointment at the interruption in their honeymoon. Deep down she knew Angel was right. Both Wesley and Giles had promised them that they would only contact them if it were an emergency.

"No, Cordelia," Angel said as he got up to search for his cell phone. He finally found it in the bottom of his suitcase where he had thrown it on their first night in the honeymoon suite. He flipped it open and quickly dialed Cordelia's number in LA.

Buffy watched him intently while he was talking to Cordelia. Her eyes devoured his muscular form, as he stood highlighted by the lamp on the bedside table. She still couldn't believe that he was human. Every time she heard his heart beat her own heart filled with love and happiness. She had dreamed about this so often, but had never thought it would actually come true. But it had, and because of his humanity they could now live together as man and wife.

Angel flipped the phone closed and turned to Buffy rubbing the bridge of his nose. He caught her staring at his naked body and cursed the PTB for their untimely interruption.

"You have to go," Buffy stated knowing and accepting that their duty to protect the innocents of the world came before everything else.

Angel nodded and gave her an apologetic smile. He certainly hadn't wanted duty to put a stop to their retreat from the real world. He had been perfectly willing to wallow in this separate time and place, pretending that they were two normal humans on their honeymoon. "Cordelia had a vision about…"Angel started to explain but was interrupted by another shrill beeping noise. He turned and started to get dressed while Buffy answered her page.

"It was Giles," Buffy said getting out of bed to pull some clothes out of the closet. It was the first time she would be wearing anything other than a robe since they had arrived at this beautiful hotel by the beach.

"I know," Angel said his words slightly muffled as he pulled his shirt over his head.

Buffy turned to look at him. "What?" she questioned as she pulled on a pair of gray drawstring pants.

"I said I know," Angel repeated. "And I know why. Cordelia had a vision about the elusive, yet deadly demon that is in Sunnydale to bring about the end of the world."

"Great!" Buffy said enthusiastically. Then she caught Angel's frown and hurried to qualify her statement. "I meant because we will be working together."

Angel gave her an intimate smile before he turned away to look for his boots. He knew that they should be in the room somewhere, but for the life of him he could not remember where they had ended up. "So what did Giles have to say about this demon?"

"Didn't Cordelia fill you in?" Buffy asked as she began a search for her own shoes.

"Not really. She didn't see much in her vision. Just a demon in Sunnydale with an apocalyptic plan," Angel told her. He finally spotted his boots protruding from underneath the bedspread and bent over to retrieve them.

"Giles didn't have a lot of information either but I thought I heard him mumble something about the Hellmouth," Buffy said sitting on the bed to put her tennis shoes on. Then she crossed the suite heading for the bathroom. She flipped on the light, searched for her hairbrush, and then put her hair up into a functional ponytail.

Angel groaned. He still had nightmares about the last time they had battled to keep the Hellmouth creature from escaping its otherworldly home. "Sounds like fun," Angel said sarcasm plainly evident in his voice.

"Definitely more fun than spending the rest of our honeymoon in bed," Buffy agreed emerging from the bathroom. "You ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be," Angel said holding out his hand.

Buffy took his outstretched hand and they walked together towards the door. "Well, it was nice while it lasted," Buffy said closing the door of their hotel room behind her.

"What was?" Angel asked as they made their way down the hallway to the elevator.

"Pretending to be two normal people on their honeymoon," Buffy replied. The elevator doors slid open and they entered the empty car still holding hands.

"It was nice," Angel agreed. "But we will never be normal. And I am fine with that."

"You are?"

"Of course. I have you and that is all I need," Angel said taking her into his arms to give her a tender kiss. "Besides normal is boring."

Buffy smiled up at Angel glad that he had come back into her life. He was right. They were not normal. They had a sacred duty and that was more important than being normal.
"God forbid that we should ever be boring," Buffy said sarcastically as they stepped out into the sunshine of a beautiful California afternoon.

"Exactly," Angel agreed. "If we got bored that would mean we had defeated all the evil in the world and then where would we be?"

"Unemployed," Buffy answered.

"And who would hire two slightly used superheros?" Angel asked. Then noticing Buffy's raised eyebrows he amended his statement. "Sorry make that one slightly used superhero and one antique superhero."

Buffy rolled her eyes, but otherwise she ignored his comment. "You're right we will never be normal. But as long as we have each other and the chance to grow old and boring than I am fine with it too. Now lets go show that demon that he is messing with the wrong town."

The valet pulled up in Angel's car and got out so that Angel could take his place behind the wheel. Buffy got in the passenger side and buckled her seat belt. "So it's off to work we go, right?" Angel asked as he shifted gears and pulled away from the hotel.

"Heigh ho," Buffy said and then laughed. It felt so wonderful to be laughing with the man who sat beside her. It felt so right. Life was finally good. She had a job that while she didn't exactly love it, she at least felt useful and fulfilled by it. She had a husband that she loved and who loved her in return. And someday, if she lived long enough, she wanted to have a family with Angel. Buffy looked over at Angel and gave him a wide smile. Maybe, just maybe her life was normal after all.


THE END