TITLE: "Reprise"
AUTHOR: Doctor Strangelove (strangelove317@hotmail.com)
RATING: PG-13
PAIRINGS: None.
SPOILERS: Up to the end of Season 6 for Buffy and Season 3 for Angel.
Takes place about a month after that.
FEEDBACK: I'd love it.
DISCLAIMER: Joss owns all the Buffy and Angel characters. I own
the songs they sing.
A/N: Okay, I'm still not sure about doing Angel/Cordelia, it's starting to grow
on me, compared to Cordelia/Connor. So, I guess we'll just see what happens.
"Reprise"
Written by: Doctor Strangelove
INT. - HYPERION LOBBY - NIGHT
[The Scoobies and Angel Investigations' members are scattered around the lobby each in their own conversation. We pan across the room and see Cordelia is giving Dawn fashion tips, Fred is explaining something to an intrigued Willow and a confused Giles, Gunn is teaching Xander some fighting moves while an amused Spike watches. And then Angel. Feeling uncomfortable he slowly and silently gets up and leaves out to the garden. We switch and see Buffy get up to follow him.]
CUT TO:
EXT. - GARDEN - NIGHT
[A melancholy Angel is sitting, deep in thought.]
BUFFY (O/S)
Angel?
[He looks up as Buffy comes to sit next to him.]
BUFFY [cont'd]
Hey. What's up?
ANGEL
It's all... I was trapped in a box for a month. That really put things into perspective. Sure, it was a twisted M. C. Esher perspective but... It made sense. Everything was clear. Now, you're here and everything's strange and confusing again. I wish I was still in the box.
BUFFY
The box that your son trapped you in?
ANGEL
Right. That.
BUFFY
That.
["Close Your Eyes", the Buffy/Angel theme, starts to play as the two sit in silence.]
BUFFY
Angel?
ANGEL
Buffy.
BUFFY
Do you... hear music?
ANGEL
Yeah. What is that?
BUFFY
I have no idea. I don't feel a song coming on. Do you?
ANGEL
No.
BUFFY
Great. Now we get theme music too.
ANGEL
About, Connor...
BUFFY
Angel, don't. I already know most of the story anyway.
ANGEL
You do?
BUFFY
Yeah, the whole thing with Darla coming back and... God. So much has changed since you left.
ANGEL
It has.
BUFFY
I'm a different person.
ANGEL
You are. Buffy, is there something going on with you and Spike?
BUFFY
[Caught off guard.]
Why do you ask?
ANGEL
I could sense. Plus, the entire fact that he's here kinda clued me in.
BUFFY
Oh, I sorta promised Xander I'd let him tell you about it.
ANGEL
I'll still act surprised when he does. Do you love him?
BUFFY
Xander? No, he's just a friend.
ANGEL
Spike.
BUFFY
I know. I do.
ANGEL
Oh.
BUFFY
He has a soul.
ANGEL
It doesn't matter. As long as your happy. I've moved on and so should you.
BUFFY
You've moved on.
ANGEL
In spirit.
BUFFY
Cordelia.
ANGEL
What?
BUFFY
You and Cordelia. There's something going on between you too.
ANGEL
How did you know?
BUFFY
I'm surprisingly insightful. Do you love her?
ANGEL
Yes.
BUFFY
Does she love you?
ANGEL
I don't know.
[The two sit together in an awkward silence.]
BUFFY
It's a good song.
ANGEL
It is. Kind of sad.
BUFFY
A little. Sounds familiar.
ANGEL
Yeah.
[Another awkward silence.]
BUFFY
I can't think of anything else to say.
ANGEL
Me neither.
BUFFY
Wanna go back inside?
ANGEL
Okay.
[The two get up and walk back into the hotel.]