DISCLAIMERS ETC IN PART 1.

TIMELINE: AFTER "ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN" AND BEFORE "FIRST IMPRESSIONS"


ONCE UPON A TIME... NOT SO LONG AGO - PART 12


//I would die for you
I would die for you
I've been dying just to feel you by my side
To know that you're mine

I would cry for you
I would cry for you
I will wash away your pain with all my tears
I'm drowning on fear

I will pray for you
I will pray for you
I will sell my soul for something pure and true
Someone like you

See your face every place that I walk in
Hear your voice every time that I'm talking
You will believe in me
And I'll never be ignored

I will burn for you
Feel pain for you
I will twist the knife and bleed my aching heart
And tear it apart

I will lie for you
Beg and steal for you
I will crawl on my hands and knees until you see
You're just like me

Violate all the love that I'm missing
Throw away all the pain that I'm living
You will believe in me
And I can never be ignored

I would die for you
I would kill for you
I would steal for you
I'd do time for you
I will wait for you
I'd make room for you
I'd sink ships for you
Take the cross for you
To be a part of you
Cause I believe in you
I believe in you
I would die for you//

(#1 Crush - By Garbage)


Angel laid Buffy gently on the altar. He stroked her hair, taking one more
glimpse of her face before turning to Lindsey and Holland. "Let's get it
done."
Lindsey looked down at his watch. "He should be here right about-"
The lights went out and wind started blowing strongly in the hotel.
"Now." Lindsey finished with a smirk.
Angel looked at the dark clouds forming in the lobby. The clouds faded to
reveal a figure wearing a black hood. It reminded Angel the Thesulac demon,
only this sorcerer had no tentacles.
"You again." The sorcerer's voice thundered.
Angel suddenly knew why he was familiar, he was the same sorcerer the mayor
of Sunnydale summoned to steal his soul. He had a bad feeling it will not
end like the other time when it turned out The Sorcerer owed Giles a favor.
"You know him?" Lindsey asked.
"I was hired to rob him of his soul." The Sorcerer told him.
"Ahha, by Mr. Wilkins, one of our favored clients." Holland appeared to know
the story.
Angel stepped forward. "Cure her." He demanded.
"Let's start." Holland agreed.

Angel felt pain when the Sorcerer started his chanting. Like hundreds of
needles pricking his body. He clasped his hands glancing over at Buffy. The
mystic lights that drew from his body, the Sorcerer and somewhere in the
ceiling all scrambled together to surround Buffy. Her body was glowing
bright like she was in full sunshine. It reminded him of his dream.
His mind got foggy and he felt the pain growing stronger.

"Wesley!" Cordelia screamed as a vision hit her. Wesley got up from the
chair clumsily and stumbled. An unseen force stopped Cordelia from falling
to the floor. Wesley watched Cordelia, still shaking from the hard vision,
being carried by the air to the nearby armchair.
"Thanks, Phantom Dennis..." Cordelia whispered when the pain subsided.
"Are you all right? What did you see?" Wesley walked over to her, a
concerned look on his face.
"Angel... and Buffy..." Cordy whispered, getting up. "And a nasty demon...
we should go there!"

Buffy felt the force hit her body with power. It started to burn her from the
inside, the heat becoming unbearable. "If you can hear me... kill me..."
She heard Angel's voice in her head. "Kill me... kill me... No matter what,
I'll always love you... kill me... kill me..." Everything came back to her
at once. The burn turned into pain, like her body was electrified. "I love
you, my sleeping beauty... kill me... kill me..."
She opened her eyes, expecting to see darkness, but she was in Angel's
lobby. She looked ahead and saw him crouching on the floor, nearly falling.
The lawyers behind him. She spotted a green demon... an ugly and nasty demon...
approaching Angel.
"Angel!" She yelped, when suddenly she felt something hit her. Someone
lassoed her. She struggled to break free. She felt powerful again. Her
slayer strength was back. She managed to free herself, grabbed a candle, and
ran over to Angel. She burned the demon with the candle. It screeched and
she kicked it away from Angel.
Buffy helped Angel get up.
"Angel, are you okay?" She asked. He looked down at her, his eyes narrowing.

Buffy looked at him, worried. "What's wrong, Angel?"
"Nothing wrong. Quite the opposite, Buff." He smirked down at her, his eyes
twinkled in that old too familiar evil gleam.
"No..." She whispered, horrified. "I love you... kill me..." She heard
Angel's voice.
Buffy was frozen. She looked at Angelus morphing into his game face in front
of her eyes.
"I've waited a long time for this, lover." He grabbed her, bringing his
fangs to her neck.



TBC....