Title: Love in Darkness
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I own not Buffy, so no sue por favor, I'm just your regular fanfiction writer trying to …not be sued! LoL. No really, I'm like…not even old enough to drink, so come on now, why would I have money?
Author's Notes: AU! LoL, like severely. This is in response to a challenge that I cannot remember, but I do know that the requirements were, it takes please in season 2, Angel is human, and a senior at Sunnydale High, and there's a whole mystery about him. But that's all I'm going to tell you, the rest, you read. ^_^
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"Love in Darkness"
He whom love touches not walks in darkness.
Love will make men dare to die for
Their beloved love alone
And women will as well.
~ Unknown to me…
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"Hey guys," Buffy said as she pushed through the big oak doors of the Sunnydale High Library, with a glow emanating from her delicate emerald green eyes. Willow looked up from the computer to give her friend her famous Willow smile and eagerly said, "Hey. How was the date?"
"Bestest ever. I really do love the boyfriend factors these days." She gave her friend a wicked smile and turned to watch as Xander stared at the paper on the desk with the familiar 'huh?' face. She smirked, "Hey Xan." He looked up from said paper, "Oh Buffy, hey! What did you and Matt do after all?" He looked back down at the paper quickly adding, "And please leave out any such unsavory details that are not for a British Librarian's ears." Giles walked into the room from his office and said, "Yes, please refrain from any comments that resemble anything that come from the horse's ass."
Xander looked up giving Giles a strange expression of confusion. "He means you," whispered Willow with a maniacal grin. Xander nodded, "Oh." Quickly adding a swift offended, "Hey!" Giles gave himself a polite, yes one for me smile, "Yes, how was your date last night Buffy, a touch of normality achieved I hope."
She nodded, "Yes, I actually felt like a girl on a date." She sighed, "Of course, it would have helped if I could have stopped worrying about dark corners, blackened spots, and people with pale faces, or waiting for Spike or some other undead bastard to come out and attack me. Most of those pale faces turned out to be girls with a foundation no where near their skin tone." Giles gave her his ever-famous furrowed brow and she said, "Had to end the date early for Slay gal had to take action." Giles slowly nodded, "Do tell."
"Vamps, slayed. Dust. But, they were big on some ritual. I don't know the name, but I'm thinking apocalypse-y." She shrugged, "Anything otherworldly I should know about that will be rising soon in those big bad watcher books of yours?"
Giles slid off his glasses, pulled out his handkerchief, and began cleaning them, just as he did when he was in deep thought, or was about to lie about something. He cleared his throat, "None that I can think of." She wasn't sure which one she believed, so she stood up and replied, "Find out. Better safe then sorry, isn't that what you always tell me anyway?" Giles nodded, "Touché, I'll do some research today." Xander stood up, "Yeah, cause the library never gets any action, at least now G-man has something to do then sit on his ass all day complaining about teenagers and how odd we are." Xander grinned, *That ought to shut him up for the horse's ass comment. *
Giles waved them good bye, and pulled out another old musty book mumbling under his breath, "Stupid jit…"
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Buffy gave him a big smile and jumped into his arms, "Oh God, I forget how beautiful you are!" He picked her up and spun her around as she kissed him while he brought her down slowly. "You know Matt, I think I like you this way," Buffy replied as she pressed her lips against his once more. "This is not a whore house, gross shows of affections are not permitted," Snyder said snidely as he passed by giving Buffy and friends a dirty look. "He really needs to get some…" Xander said under his breath.
Willow gave a slight nod in agreement and suddenly brightened as Oz came from down the hall, "Hi!" He brightened, "Hey beautiful." She gave him a slight kiss on the lips as he hugged her. Xander watched as the two couples stood there, ogling each other and he felt like a fifth wheel. He was the only one without a partner, or at least a partner in the open. He snuck a look at the broom closet, and shook his head. He was a sick, sick man.
"Move out of the way losers." The booming voice came crashing through as Cordelia and her little clique of Cordettes pushed through the group, "So I told Aurora, who was wearing these hideously ugly strap-ons, I mean her ankles are too fat! And I was like, 'Oh my God, she is so not wearing that dress…"
Cordelia's voice disappeared quickly with the Scoobies staring at her; were they actually part-time friends with her? Xander on the other hand felt ill as he thought, *I am a really, really sick man. *
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He wandered through the halls of Sunnydale High, he stood in the main hall for a long while wondering whether or not he should just skip school; he hated being the new kid, that never boded well with anyone. He wisped his hand through his auburn hair, he felt as if he was in over his head here in California; everything was different from where he came from.
At least the kids were.
He stared at a particular girl and her group of cronies, all these people obsessed with…shoes and the mall.
He turned to see two football players as they ganged up on a seemingly weaker student, "C-come on Larry, it's me, Xander. Come on, just…I said I was sorry, I did not mean to…"
"Harris, what did I tell you, next time you got in the way, I was going to thrash you." He raised his fist in the air and moved to bring it back down when someone stopped him, "You know, didn't your mother ever teach you play nice?"
Larry watched the new arrival carefully, "Who the hell are you? Just stay out of it, and you won't get your ass beat."
Larry shook his arm away from the new guy and slugged Xander in the stomach, and Xander buckled down. Larry moved to punch him again when the boy stopped him once more, "Ok, he's had enough…"
"What the hell did I just say?"
Finally, the new boy slugged him, "My name's Angel, and it's not nice to meet you." Snyder moved in, "Ok boys break it up, or do I have to suspend all three of you?" Larry cowered, and his football buddies helped him away as he cupped his jaw. Snyder looked Xander and Angel over, gave them his usual stare of contempt, and moved away. Angel turned to Xander and helped him up, "You ok?" Xander nodded, "Thanks."
"No problem."
"You're new around here aren't you?" Xander said as the pair started walking further into the hall.
Angel smirked, "Is it that obvious?" Xander chuckled, "Yeah, nothing big really happens in this one Starbucks town, so new kids are a big deal around these parts." Angel nodded his head slowly, "Well at least you guys have a Starbucks, my home town didn't have one." Xander gave him a look of shock, "For real?"
Angel grinned, "Yup, no Starbucks."
"Wow, and suddenly Sunnydale comes in second for the suckiest town ever." *At least, it would if this town wasn't on a hellmouth, * he thought. Angel laughed, "You're alright, um," he stared at Xander and chuckled, "we should really have exchanged names. Angel," he held out his hand. Xander glanced at the hand and quickly announced, "You're retarded or something right?"
"Beg your pardon?" Angel stared at him with a cocked eyebrow.
"I'm sorry, it's just…no one ever befriends the guy being picked on." Xander quickly took notice that Angel still held out his hand and Xander shook it as he said, "Xander. Harris." Angel smirked, "It's been…interesting…meeting you Xander."
"Funny, that's what everyone says when they first meet me. Then they run and hide…"
Angel chuckled, "Well, I'm not much of a hider so…"
"You must have sucked at hide-and-seek then…"
"Oh the horrors." Angel smiled, *And thus the start of my first day at Sunnydale High.*
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