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Insomnia

Disclaimer: Characters and Premise are borrowed from the show "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel".

Restlessly Angel tossed and turned. He glanced at the clock beside his bed and groaned. Five in the morning was definitely well into what should be his sleep cycle, but he just couldn't relax.

The room echoed with stillness and emptiness. It was cold, silent and dead in here and he hated it. The locked door silently accused him, he hated shutting Fred out, but it was the only way he knew to tell her no that would work when he didn't actually want her to do what he said.

Without ever meaning to he'd done it again. He'd let someone get too close and now she was paying the price for his unworthiness. Hadn't he learned his lesson with Buffy?

With a sigh Angel gave up on sleep. He decided that as long as he wasn't going to be sleeping he might as well try to get something done. If he remembered correctly there were several weapons in the armory that could use a little attention.

As he walked toward the stairs Angel noticed an excess of light and automatically switched to a more stealthy approach. He glanced at Fred's door to be sure nothing was threatening her then began his decent.

Angel relaxed halfway down the stairs once he saw Fred sitting curled up on the couch, the light from the laptop's screen softly illuminating her face as she studied it intently.

"You too?" she asked, not looking up from what she was doing.

Angel felt himself smiling; Fred always knew when he was near her, and, for no rational reason, he loved that she did. "Hmmm?" Angel asked.

"You can't sleep either," Fred clarified.

Angel sighed, not wanting to go for another round of why them sleeping together was wrong. Somehow Fred always won the arguments but he still couldn't concede his position. "What are you doing?" he asked instead.

"FreeCell," Fred replied. "It's a computer game, I'll teach you."

Happy to be off the hook, Angel sat down beside Fred.

"The point is to move all the cards to those four spots. Watch me," Fred instructed.

After she finished her game Fred handed the computer to Angel and curled up half in his lap to watch him play.

"You want to go for the aces first," she advised after a few minutes.

"I don't think this is even possible," Angel complained after the sixth time the computer informed him that there weren't any legal moves left.

"Only fill up the spaces up to if there aren't any other options," Fred yawned.

Angel twisted sideways on the couch so she could lie down more while still using him as a cushion. Contentedly Fred rearranged his arm so it was draped over her shoulders.

"I won!" Angel exclaimed about fifteen minutes later.

Fred's only reply was a soft exhalation of air.

Angel tenderly brushed a tendril of dark hair off her face, then set the computer aside and leaned his head back against the couch.

He'd take Fred up to her room in just a minute, Angel decided, but he didn't want to move just now. Everything felt so peaceful. He'd put her to bed in just a few…

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