Chapter 16
Couplet
"It's strange." Angel said.
"Hmm?" Buffy asked.
"I remember him being taller."
They were still lying in bed an hour later. Angel had explained Gru to Buffy and why he had called Cordy 'Princess.'
"A trick of the light. They don't actually get smaller until they're very, very old." Buffy said.
"Did he seem, uh, I don't know short?"
"Oh, absolutely. He's nothing but a muscley midget. I'm sure once Cordelia gets him home, she'll just pop him into a smallish drawer, and that will be that."
"Well.. well, that's good. At least we won't have to put him up here. The place was starting to turn into a hotel."
"So you don't have a problem with that then?"
"Of course not. Why would I?"
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because you love her and you don't want to see her hurt?"
"I'm fine. I've been a solo-act most of my two hundred forty plus years. And now that I'm not.."
"What?"
"What if this doesn't work out between us?"
"What?"
"Well, the first time we were this happy together, it didn't end well. And I left to give you a normal life.. And now, here we are, back together and happier than we've ever been. It's not going to end well."
"Angel, it is going to end well. You know how I know?"
"How?"
"Because we love each other. A lot of married couples my age don't have that. Now we've got the exact thing we've always wanted."
"That's what I mean though. Buffy, the odds have always been against us. Every time we get what we want together, it ends badly."
"That was only that one time. Now your soul is bound to you. Nothing can take you away from me now. I love you. I have always loved you. And I'll never stop loving you. You've always doubted our love together. You've always tried to make decisions for me. Well, it's going to stop. Let it go Angel. Just let it go. Be happy for once in your entire life. Live the moment that is now and savor the days that have gone by. If there is one thing I've learned since that awful day that I clawed out of my grave, it's that life doesn't wait for you to jump on and be happy. Once your chance is gone, it's gone. Your chance is now Angel. Are you going to jump and be happy? Or are you going to lose this opportunity and lose me and Conner doing it?" Buffy said the last part with such sadness that it broke Angel's heart to have made her say it.
He was about to answer her, but there was a knock on the door. "Come in!"
Lorne stepped over the threshold and shut the door. "Can I see you out in the hall Angel?"
Angel got up and followed Angel out in the hall, shutting the door behind him. "What?"
"I didn't mean to interrupt your little moment, but as I was passing by I heard what Blondie said. Is everything all right between you two?"
"It's fine. I was just.."
"Being a party poop? That girl in there, that woman in there that is carrying your child loves you more than anything you have ever known. And she's right; you do need to just let it go. I read her as you guys came in and she was humming. She's happy, but you're holding her back."
"Me?"
"Yes, you. She won't ever be truly happy unless you let go and allow her to be. And allow yourself. Don't let this one go Angel cakes; she's your only shot at redemption. She always has been and I'll be a purple people eater if I let you dim your ray of sunshine. Stick with this beauty, she loves you and she's got plenty of love to give if you'll allow yourself to give her all of yours." With that, Lorne walked off to his room down the hallway.
Angel stood there for a few minutes staring at the door to his room. Was he really prepared to finally let everything go and love this woman with every fiber of his being? Was he prepared to lose all of his guilt for his past sins in this tiny woman's arms? The very same woman that he had found pure happiness with four years ago for the first time in his 249 years, even if it was only for a moment. Was he really ready? There was only one way for him to be sure.
Opening the door, Angel walked in and shut it softly. Buffy lay curled on the bed, one arm stretched to lay where Angel should be laying. He walked over to his side of the bed and quietly slipped in. He laid there and looked at her. After a few minutes, Buffy opened her eyes and looked at him.
"Buffy, I want to tell you something." Angel said.
"Hmm?"
"I love you."
Buffy's eyes gleamed with tears. A smile spread over her already gorgeous face to make her even more beautiful. She reached her hand over and laid it on Angel's cheek. It gently took it and kissed her palm.
"I want you to know that I am ready to love you. I am ready to love this child. I want you and only you. Screw the Powers if this wasn't meant for us. We mean it for us and that's all that matters. If you're ready, we can face anything that comes our way. If you're ready, I want to show you how much I love you."
"I love you Angel. And I am ready. I've been ready from the moment I first looked into your eyes."
Angel pulled her to him and kissed her with more passion than they had ever created together.
That night, they made love over and over again until the sun came up. It had been as loving as the first time they had come together. When the sun rose, they were out on the balcony watching the sheer beauty of it. Buffy kissed Angel's two most precious rings, his Claddagh and the Gem of Amara, as he kissed her Claddagh and their most cherished, unborn possession.
Angel and Buffy came down the stairs into the lobby. Wesley was moving about behind the reception counter.
"Hey." Angel said happily.
"Morning you two. You both are just glowing today!" Wes said.
Buffy and Angel looked at each other and smiled.
"You're the only one here?" Buffy asked.
"So far. How's young Conner today?"
"He's good. Perfectly content like his mother. Actually, I think he's sleeping."
"Cordelia, she's usually in by now, isn't she?" Angel asked.
"It's early. I imagine she and Groosalug where up late. They have a lot of catching up to do."
"Right."
"Actually, I was hoping you and I could talk before the others got here."
"Sure. What is it?" Angel and Wes went into the office while Buffy went to get breakfast.
"Well it's the fact of him. I know his sudden arrival was something we all needed a moment to digest. Still, there are questions."
"You're suspicious."
"'Cautious' might be a better word."
"You think he's evil."
"Evil?"
"Okay, maybe not evil, but he's definitely hiding something. Does he seem shorter to you?"
"We are both talking about Conner, aren't we?"
"What about Conner?" Buffy asked, coming into the office with a thing of yogurt.
"He shouldn't exist."
"His birth was foretold. How many people can say that?"
"He has a role to play, that's true, but we still don't know what that role is. We can't be afraid to ask the questions, because your guy's enemies, his enemies, certainly won't be."
"You're right. We should be prepared." Angel said
"I'm glad you agree. However, with the loss of the Nyazian Prophecies, we'll probably have to look elsewhere for our answers."
"Well, we both know where those prophecies went. Maybe it's time to make another assault on Wolfram and Hart."
"That might not be necessary. Not yet, anyway. There should be other sources. Ancient works accumulate scholarship, commentary over the years."
"Huh. You think somebody else has already done the work for us."
"That's my hope. I've been looking into it. I just.. I felt you should know."
"I wanna be involved, completely."
"Involved with who?" Cordy asked, coming in to the lobby.
They all spun to see Cordy set some stuff on the counter. Buffy and Angel walked out to see her.
"You're here. And.. so is he." Angel said, noticing Gru messing with Angel's weapons.
"Angel. Your weapons are most impressive." Gru said.
"Thanks. Thank you. Can you, uh, ask him not to handle my weapons?" Angel asked Cordy.
"Oh, relax. If there's one thing Gru knows, it's how to handle a weapon. Poor guy. Looks like that's about all he's gonna be handling." Cordy said.
"You mean, ah, you two didn't.."
"I got him home last night and we started.. you know. But then I couldn't go through with it."
"You couldn't?" Buffy asked.
"No. Not after seeing that disgusting, spiny thing!"
"Spiny?"
"Right up in my face! That's what the visions are like now. No pain, less artsy, sometimes floaty, though not lately, and very often stinky."
"You had a vision?" Wes asked.
"Yeah. Big as life last night, while Gru and I were getting reacquainted. Kind of a mood killer, I got to say."
"You should have called one of us."
"Oh, please! Like I'm gonna bother you guys in the middle of the night because I want sex and can't have it."
Buffy and Angel looked a little guilty.
"And you two obviously did." Cordy said.
"Well, uh.." Angel said.
"Actually, I meant the vision." Wes said, giving the couple a gracious save.
"Oh. That. Well, it's not rising up until sometime later today." Cordy said.
"Oh. Why can't you have sex?"
"I could lose my 'visionity.'"
"If you wanna play it that way."
"Vision-ity! The visions. When that one hit my last night, it hit me. In Pylea the visions were supposed to pass to Gru if we ever did the royal com- shuck. How do I know that won't happen here?"
"Good point. You really don't." Angel said.
"But your recent transformation could have changed all that. It might be possible to.." Wes said.
"Still, you know, better safe than sorry. You're doing the right thing."
"I know. I know. I can't risk it. It's just.. I'm so.. And he's such a.. Rrrr.. Don't you think?" Cordy said.
"Yeah, sure." Angel said.
"Certainly." Wes said.
"Oh yeah." Buffy said.
"I mean, there's gotta be other things we can do to relieve the tension!" Cordy said.
"Jogging could be the thing." Angel suggested.
"Perhaps some form of paranormal prophylactic.." Wes said.
"Because, you know, jogging.."
"I guess we could probably 'com' without actually 'shucking.'" Cordy said, looking at Gru.
"Well, I don't know. That could be a slippery slope that once you're on, that you could slide."
"At least I won't be upsetting the average around here. Nobody in this office is ever gonna get any." Cordy said. Buffy and Angel coughed. "Oh, 'cept Romeo and Juliet here"
"Uh, Cordy?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah?"
"Aren't you going to introduce us?"
"Oh! God! That's right, you've never met Gru, have you? Come on." Cordy grabbed Buffy and the hand and led her up to Gru. "Gru, sweetie?"
"Yes Princess?" Gru turned with a sword, nearly hacking off Cordy's ear.
"This is my friend Buffy. She's married to Angel."
"Hi." Buffy said.
"Hello Buffy. I am the Groosalug from Pylea. It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." Gru said giving Buffy a little bow.
"Buffy's a slayer. She kills demons and stuff because these stuffy old people in England said she has to." Cordy said.
"That's not true!" Wesley said.
"Oh give it up!"
"They're not all old and stuffy."
"Ok, they're all stuffy."
Angel walked up and slipped his arm around Buffy's waist possessively. "She's having my baby."
"You are a vampire. How is this possible?" Gru asked.
"That's a funny story actually." Wes said.
"There was a prophecy, with the warriors of light, us, coming together and making one." Angel said, the testosterone and ego poisoning obvious.
"It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance too, little light warrior." Gru said to Buffy's stomach. "I take it this was made com-shucking?"
"Many times."
"Congratulations." Gru looked at Buffy. "Please, will you tell me more about being the.."
"Slayer." Buffy said. "Sure."
She and Gru went over to the settee and sat down. They started to talk about Buffy being the slayer and what it was like.
"Isn't that adorable? Gru is making nice with Buffy." Cordy said.
"Hey, no body is making nice with my wife except me." Angel said.
"I meant that he was making friends with her. Geez Angel, possessive much?" Cordy walked off.
"I'm not possessive. Just in love." Angel said to himself.
"We've identified the demon from Cordelia's vision as a Senih'd. We believe it will rise in the mid-city area sometime before nightfall." Wesley said, handing Gunn an open book.
Gunn and Fred had gotten to the Hyperion about two hours ago. Buffy and Gru had finished talking about an hour ago and Angel had immediately whisked Buffy away from him and taken her to their room. Dawn had woken up three hours before and introduced herself to Gru. Dawn had joined in Buffy and Gru's conversation and instantly taken with his stories that he told when Buffy would finish one of hers. Now they were all convened in Wes's office and talking about the latest baddy.
"The Senih'd manifests in its physical form for one purpose only to feed." Wes continued.
"Seen it." Cordy said as Fred handed her the book after she had taken it from Gunn.
Cordy gave the book to Gru who looked at it. Angel looked over Gru's shoulder while Gru showed it to Buffy. Angel stood on tiptoe and then dropped back down. He did it a couple times more before Buffy looked at him funny and smacked him on the arm.
"Angel and Buffy will take the sewer tunnels. The rest of us will go by car to Sorensen Park. We'll enter the underground from the water treatment plant there, double back. Hopefully by the time we meet up again.." Wes said.
"I know this creature. It resembles the Bleaucha, which nest in the scum pits of Ur. I've slain many." Gru said.
"Really?"
"Tracking it will be simple. Killing it, more difficult."
"Well, yeah." Angel said.
"Alright then. Gru, you go with Buffy and Angel. Lets move out."
They all started to leave and Angel pulled Buffy and Wes aside. "I don't think that's such a good idea, me and Buffy and him. You know, we're more loners. Plus, he's so bulky. He could really slow us down!"
"He's an experienced warrior. He should be a great asset to you two." Wes said.
"Angel, we'll be fine. Gru is cool." Buffy said. "And besides, I'm more bulky than he is."
"Well.." Angel looked over at Gru and Cordy at the weapons cabinet. "That's my favorite broadsword!"
"You'll be fine, Angel." Wes said.
"Are you sure you're gonna be warm enough? The sewers are pretty damp." Cordy said to Gru.
"I shall be fine." Gru said.
Cordy handed a weapon to Angel without even looking away from Gru. "Okay."
Angel looked at the axe with the small head on it and showed it to Buffy who had chosen a crossbow. She rolled her eyes at him.
"Let's go." Angel said.
Couplet
"It's strange." Angel said.
"Hmm?" Buffy asked.
"I remember him being taller."
They were still lying in bed an hour later. Angel had explained Gru to Buffy and why he had called Cordy 'Princess.'
"A trick of the light. They don't actually get smaller until they're very, very old." Buffy said.
"Did he seem, uh, I don't know short?"
"Oh, absolutely. He's nothing but a muscley midget. I'm sure once Cordelia gets him home, she'll just pop him into a smallish drawer, and that will be that."
"Well.. well, that's good. At least we won't have to put him up here. The place was starting to turn into a hotel."
"So you don't have a problem with that then?"
"Of course not. Why would I?"
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because you love her and you don't want to see her hurt?"
"I'm fine. I've been a solo-act most of my two hundred forty plus years. And now that I'm not.."
"What?"
"What if this doesn't work out between us?"
"What?"
"Well, the first time we were this happy together, it didn't end well. And I left to give you a normal life.. And now, here we are, back together and happier than we've ever been. It's not going to end well."
"Angel, it is going to end well. You know how I know?"
"How?"
"Because we love each other. A lot of married couples my age don't have that. Now we've got the exact thing we've always wanted."
"That's what I mean though. Buffy, the odds have always been against us. Every time we get what we want together, it ends badly."
"That was only that one time. Now your soul is bound to you. Nothing can take you away from me now. I love you. I have always loved you. And I'll never stop loving you. You've always doubted our love together. You've always tried to make decisions for me. Well, it's going to stop. Let it go Angel. Just let it go. Be happy for once in your entire life. Live the moment that is now and savor the days that have gone by. If there is one thing I've learned since that awful day that I clawed out of my grave, it's that life doesn't wait for you to jump on and be happy. Once your chance is gone, it's gone. Your chance is now Angel. Are you going to jump and be happy? Or are you going to lose this opportunity and lose me and Conner doing it?" Buffy said the last part with such sadness that it broke Angel's heart to have made her say it.
He was about to answer her, but there was a knock on the door. "Come in!"
Lorne stepped over the threshold and shut the door. "Can I see you out in the hall Angel?"
Angel got up and followed Angel out in the hall, shutting the door behind him. "What?"
"I didn't mean to interrupt your little moment, but as I was passing by I heard what Blondie said. Is everything all right between you two?"
"It's fine. I was just.."
"Being a party poop? That girl in there, that woman in there that is carrying your child loves you more than anything you have ever known. And she's right; you do need to just let it go. I read her as you guys came in and she was humming. She's happy, but you're holding her back."
"Me?"
"Yes, you. She won't ever be truly happy unless you let go and allow her to be. And allow yourself. Don't let this one go Angel cakes; she's your only shot at redemption. She always has been and I'll be a purple people eater if I let you dim your ray of sunshine. Stick with this beauty, she loves you and she's got plenty of love to give if you'll allow yourself to give her all of yours." With that, Lorne walked off to his room down the hallway.
Angel stood there for a few minutes staring at the door to his room. Was he really prepared to finally let everything go and love this woman with every fiber of his being? Was he prepared to lose all of his guilt for his past sins in this tiny woman's arms? The very same woman that he had found pure happiness with four years ago for the first time in his 249 years, even if it was only for a moment. Was he really ready? There was only one way for him to be sure.
Opening the door, Angel walked in and shut it softly. Buffy lay curled on the bed, one arm stretched to lay where Angel should be laying. He walked over to his side of the bed and quietly slipped in. He laid there and looked at her. After a few minutes, Buffy opened her eyes and looked at him.
"Buffy, I want to tell you something." Angel said.
"Hmm?"
"I love you."
Buffy's eyes gleamed with tears. A smile spread over her already gorgeous face to make her even more beautiful. She reached her hand over and laid it on Angel's cheek. It gently took it and kissed her palm.
"I want you to know that I am ready to love you. I am ready to love this child. I want you and only you. Screw the Powers if this wasn't meant for us. We mean it for us and that's all that matters. If you're ready, we can face anything that comes our way. If you're ready, I want to show you how much I love you."
"I love you Angel. And I am ready. I've been ready from the moment I first looked into your eyes."
Angel pulled her to him and kissed her with more passion than they had ever created together.
That night, they made love over and over again until the sun came up. It had been as loving as the first time they had come together. When the sun rose, they were out on the balcony watching the sheer beauty of it. Buffy kissed Angel's two most precious rings, his Claddagh and the Gem of Amara, as he kissed her Claddagh and their most cherished, unborn possession.
Angel and Buffy came down the stairs into the lobby. Wesley was moving about behind the reception counter.
"Hey." Angel said happily.
"Morning you two. You both are just glowing today!" Wes said.
Buffy and Angel looked at each other and smiled.
"You're the only one here?" Buffy asked.
"So far. How's young Conner today?"
"He's good. Perfectly content like his mother. Actually, I think he's sleeping."
"Cordelia, she's usually in by now, isn't she?" Angel asked.
"It's early. I imagine she and Groosalug where up late. They have a lot of catching up to do."
"Right."
"Actually, I was hoping you and I could talk before the others got here."
"Sure. What is it?" Angel and Wes went into the office while Buffy went to get breakfast.
"Well it's the fact of him. I know his sudden arrival was something we all needed a moment to digest. Still, there are questions."
"You're suspicious."
"'Cautious' might be a better word."
"You think he's evil."
"Evil?"
"Okay, maybe not evil, but he's definitely hiding something. Does he seem shorter to you?"
"We are both talking about Conner, aren't we?"
"What about Conner?" Buffy asked, coming into the office with a thing of yogurt.
"He shouldn't exist."
"His birth was foretold. How many people can say that?"
"He has a role to play, that's true, but we still don't know what that role is. We can't be afraid to ask the questions, because your guy's enemies, his enemies, certainly won't be."
"You're right. We should be prepared." Angel said
"I'm glad you agree. However, with the loss of the Nyazian Prophecies, we'll probably have to look elsewhere for our answers."
"Well, we both know where those prophecies went. Maybe it's time to make another assault on Wolfram and Hart."
"That might not be necessary. Not yet, anyway. There should be other sources. Ancient works accumulate scholarship, commentary over the years."
"Huh. You think somebody else has already done the work for us."
"That's my hope. I've been looking into it. I just.. I felt you should know."
"I wanna be involved, completely."
"Involved with who?" Cordy asked, coming in to the lobby.
They all spun to see Cordy set some stuff on the counter. Buffy and Angel walked out to see her.
"You're here. And.. so is he." Angel said, noticing Gru messing with Angel's weapons.
"Angel. Your weapons are most impressive." Gru said.
"Thanks. Thank you. Can you, uh, ask him not to handle my weapons?" Angel asked Cordy.
"Oh, relax. If there's one thing Gru knows, it's how to handle a weapon. Poor guy. Looks like that's about all he's gonna be handling." Cordy said.
"You mean, ah, you two didn't.."
"I got him home last night and we started.. you know. But then I couldn't go through with it."
"You couldn't?" Buffy asked.
"No. Not after seeing that disgusting, spiny thing!"
"Spiny?"
"Right up in my face! That's what the visions are like now. No pain, less artsy, sometimes floaty, though not lately, and very often stinky."
"You had a vision?" Wes asked.
"Yeah. Big as life last night, while Gru and I were getting reacquainted. Kind of a mood killer, I got to say."
"You should have called one of us."
"Oh, please! Like I'm gonna bother you guys in the middle of the night because I want sex and can't have it."
Buffy and Angel looked a little guilty.
"And you two obviously did." Cordy said.
"Well, uh.." Angel said.
"Actually, I meant the vision." Wes said, giving the couple a gracious save.
"Oh. That. Well, it's not rising up until sometime later today." Cordy said.
"Oh. Why can't you have sex?"
"I could lose my 'visionity.'"
"If you wanna play it that way."
"Vision-ity! The visions. When that one hit my last night, it hit me. In Pylea the visions were supposed to pass to Gru if we ever did the royal com- shuck. How do I know that won't happen here?"
"Good point. You really don't." Angel said.
"But your recent transformation could have changed all that. It might be possible to.." Wes said.
"Still, you know, better safe than sorry. You're doing the right thing."
"I know. I know. I can't risk it. It's just.. I'm so.. And he's such a.. Rrrr.. Don't you think?" Cordy said.
"Yeah, sure." Angel said.
"Certainly." Wes said.
"Oh yeah." Buffy said.
"I mean, there's gotta be other things we can do to relieve the tension!" Cordy said.
"Jogging could be the thing." Angel suggested.
"Perhaps some form of paranormal prophylactic.." Wes said.
"Because, you know, jogging.."
"I guess we could probably 'com' without actually 'shucking.'" Cordy said, looking at Gru.
"Well, I don't know. That could be a slippery slope that once you're on, that you could slide."
"At least I won't be upsetting the average around here. Nobody in this office is ever gonna get any." Cordy said. Buffy and Angel coughed. "Oh, 'cept Romeo and Juliet here"
"Uh, Cordy?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah?"
"Aren't you going to introduce us?"
"Oh! God! That's right, you've never met Gru, have you? Come on." Cordy grabbed Buffy and the hand and led her up to Gru. "Gru, sweetie?"
"Yes Princess?" Gru turned with a sword, nearly hacking off Cordy's ear.
"This is my friend Buffy. She's married to Angel."
"Hi." Buffy said.
"Hello Buffy. I am the Groosalug from Pylea. It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." Gru said giving Buffy a little bow.
"Buffy's a slayer. She kills demons and stuff because these stuffy old people in England said she has to." Cordy said.
"That's not true!" Wesley said.
"Oh give it up!"
"They're not all old and stuffy."
"Ok, they're all stuffy."
Angel walked up and slipped his arm around Buffy's waist possessively. "She's having my baby."
"You are a vampire. How is this possible?" Gru asked.
"That's a funny story actually." Wes said.
"There was a prophecy, with the warriors of light, us, coming together and making one." Angel said, the testosterone and ego poisoning obvious.
"It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance too, little light warrior." Gru said to Buffy's stomach. "I take it this was made com-shucking?"
"Many times."
"Congratulations." Gru looked at Buffy. "Please, will you tell me more about being the.."
"Slayer." Buffy said. "Sure."
She and Gru went over to the settee and sat down. They started to talk about Buffy being the slayer and what it was like.
"Isn't that adorable? Gru is making nice with Buffy." Cordy said.
"Hey, no body is making nice with my wife except me." Angel said.
"I meant that he was making friends with her. Geez Angel, possessive much?" Cordy walked off.
"I'm not possessive. Just in love." Angel said to himself.
"We've identified the demon from Cordelia's vision as a Senih'd. We believe it will rise in the mid-city area sometime before nightfall." Wesley said, handing Gunn an open book.
Gunn and Fred had gotten to the Hyperion about two hours ago. Buffy and Gru had finished talking about an hour ago and Angel had immediately whisked Buffy away from him and taken her to their room. Dawn had woken up three hours before and introduced herself to Gru. Dawn had joined in Buffy and Gru's conversation and instantly taken with his stories that he told when Buffy would finish one of hers. Now they were all convened in Wes's office and talking about the latest baddy.
"The Senih'd manifests in its physical form for one purpose only to feed." Wes continued.
"Seen it." Cordy said as Fred handed her the book after she had taken it from Gunn.
Cordy gave the book to Gru who looked at it. Angel looked over Gru's shoulder while Gru showed it to Buffy. Angel stood on tiptoe and then dropped back down. He did it a couple times more before Buffy looked at him funny and smacked him on the arm.
"Angel and Buffy will take the sewer tunnels. The rest of us will go by car to Sorensen Park. We'll enter the underground from the water treatment plant there, double back. Hopefully by the time we meet up again.." Wes said.
"I know this creature. It resembles the Bleaucha, which nest in the scum pits of Ur. I've slain many." Gru said.
"Really?"
"Tracking it will be simple. Killing it, more difficult."
"Well, yeah." Angel said.
"Alright then. Gru, you go with Buffy and Angel. Lets move out."
They all started to leave and Angel pulled Buffy and Wes aside. "I don't think that's such a good idea, me and Buffy and him. You know, we're more loners. Plus, he's so bulky. He could really slow us down!"
"He's an experienced warrior. He should be a great asset to you two." Wes said.
"Angel, we'll be fine. Gru is cool." Buffy said. "And besides, I'm more bulky than he is."
"Well.." Angel looked over at Gru and Cordy at the weapons cabinet. "That's my favorite broadsword!"
"You'll be fine, Angel." Wes said.
"Are you sure you're gonna be warm enough? The sewers are pretty damp." Cordy said to Gru.
"I shall be fine." Gru said.
Cordy handed a weapon to Angel without even looking away from Gru. "Okay."
Angel looked at the axe with the small head on it and showed it to Buffy who had chosen a crossbow. She rolled her eyes at him.
"Let's go." Angel said.
