"Cheese right?"
"Yes, Dawnie" Xander sat down next to her on the couch. He had just ordered them pizza.
"Are you going to finish the story. Buffy never gave with the details freely." Xander put his feet up on the coffee table and started off where he left the story.
"It's almost over anyway. After Angel turned evil Buffy was heart broken. She thought he had to have some semblance of Angel and the love he had for her. She was wrong. He stalked her, attacked her mom, killed Jenny Calendar. And-"
"Jenny Calendar, was she the gypsy who had the spell to change Angel back?"
"Ya, he knew about it so he offed her. It was sad. There was this one time that Buffy barely told us about. Angelus and her were taken over by the spirits of these unrestful ghosts that were in love. They had this whole forbidden star-crossed love thing going on. After the ghost finished their fun he ran off. She was heartbroken once again. Things went on like that for awhile and then-"
"I know the rest of it. I have been told many different ways the story of Acathla. I never thought anything could sound so unbelievable. You'd expect that from a book, but not from real life. Vampires and demons, how weird do those sound, but things keep getting bizarre." She leaned back in the couch and glanced over at Xander. Her affection for him had become a friend thing recently. Thoughts she had earlier about him in a thong were easily forgotten.
"So that's the story" He sat back next to her.
"Xander? Would you mind telling me about Buffy and Angel again, but skip the sad parts. I'm young I still believe in happily ever afters."
"Really Dawn? That's the 5th time tonight! You want a sixth? The pizza will be here soon"
"We've got a half an hour. I want to hear it again. You tell it so well!" She gave the puppy dog face.
"Just so you promise not to cry this time!"
"I only cried the 1st and 2nd times" Xander's gaze grew harder. "and maybe a little the 3rd time, but-"
"Dawn?"
"Okay. I cried every time, but it's so sad. Just think what they are doing now. They are probably catching up on all the sad things in their lives. I swear, as long as I'll live I'll never forget this story. It's something that needs to be in a book. Ill write one sometime. I will! You'll see. I wish-"
Suddenly a knock at the door stirred them all from their thoughts.
"Pizza. We'll finish this later" Xander shot up like an arrow. He loved food. Swinging the door open he was greeted by Anya's presence.
"Hi" Anya smiled. She loved Xander with all her heart and here he was. This trip was business. Someone wanted a wish.
"Anya?" She's here Maybe she wants to make up?
"I'm here to talk to Dawn. She has a wish to make." She was overly assertive.
Dawn hopped up from the couch and ran to the door.
"No more wishes for Dawn!" The last one had been horrible.
"Come on. I'll make it a good one!" Dawn really wanted this wish to be completed. This time she wouldn't wish for anything bad.
"No Dawn! Buffy'll be mad"
"I wish that there was a book that told the story of Buffy and Angel, and that-"
"Dawn no!" Xander tried to push Anya out of the house in an attempt from stopping her from finishing the wish. He slammed the door in her face. Anya wasn't trying to harm anyone. She wanted to use the last few days of her vengeance trip on something worthwhile. Dawn needed some happiness.
"Done." She whispered as she walked back home for some major mopage.
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"So any luck?" Willow searched through her books in order to find the ones that pertained to Angel. There wasn't that much material on anything about coming back from hell. Poor Buffy. Angel can't understand a word she says.
"I think I have something. There is a story here about someone coming back from hell." He adjusted his glasses. They were alone in a the library. The council owned the books and they decided to let Rupert in.
He sat down and started to read out loud..."Before the first slayer was documented there is a myth about a slayer and a vampire. Very little exacts are known, but they are believed to have fallen in love. The vampire, for some reason was not evil. One day he snapped and went on a murderous rampage ending in his descent into hell by the demon Acathla" Willow's mouth opened in horror. This was sounding a lot like Buffy and Angel.
"Before he left they pledged their undying love to one another and performed a ritual binding their souls for eternity. They vowed to meet again. Staying on earth, the slayer fought against the evils and vampires. One mysterious day 300 years later the vampire came back from hell as a henchman. No one knows how he managed to survive but some way their love was too strong to be bound by hell. He came back but was entirely evil. Upon finding her dead for 250 years he was saddened. Having reached his 999,999 kill he only had one more left until he reached the level only achieved before by the devil himself. He would have become the owner of hell. Instead he killed himself out of heartbreak. This death marked 1 million and trapped him in the pits of hell for all eternity as the devils' angel. He had extreme values of power unmatched by any but was useless to use it. Still, some say by his dying breath he vowed to come back one day for her. She was in heaven, but he never came home to earth. He was trapped." Giles was shocked by this revelation.
'That was spooky"
"It used more complicated words, but I tried to simplify them for better understanding by us." Giles turned a page.
"That is reminding me a lot of Buffy and Angel"
"It is bloody scary. Oh look! There is a belief held by the council members about a prophecy. 'When the tides turn back and he roams free, the earth will succumb to the same fate as with thee.'
"What does that mean?" Willow was clueless. Usually prophecies didn't tell you the whole story. Something was here that they were missing out on.
"I think Buffy and Angel are the reincarnated versions of these two people. The same souls in different bodies, or the same bodies I don't know! But if-"
"The story is to repeat itself!"
"with Buffy and Angel!" Giles slammed the book.
"but, if this guy is still trapped in hell than how can he be reincarnated?"
"Maybe it is like the deal with the class of 55 or what not. How they possessed bodies at the school! Maybe that is what the first slayer did to Buffy and the vampire did to Angel. He was down in hell with whoever the guy is..." Sometimes people get close to the truth by guessing, but never fully understand because the scope is beyond their grasp.
"So it is repeating itself?" Willow leaned back and started to talk quieter as a gray haired council member walked wearily in. He was dressed in the usual tweed.
"I get the feeling that this story will end differently. Buffy was brought back. She didn't stay in heaven as was expected."
"So, happy ending like in the high school?"
"Or horribly sad, gut wrenching ending! We have to call Buffy and warn her about Angel. He is evil if we are right about this. She must kill him before he can ascend."
"Ascend like the mayor?"
"No, worse but with no worm turning stuff"
"Yes, Dawnie" Xander sat down next to her on the couch. He had just ordered them pizza.
"Are you going to finish the story. Buffy never gave with the details freely." Xander put his feet up on the coffee table and started off where he left the story.
"It's almost over anyway. After Angel turned evil Buffy was heart broken. She thought he had to have some semblance of Angel and the love he had for her. She was wrong. He stalked her, attacked her mom, killed Jenny Calendar. And-"
"Jenny Calendar, was she the gypsy who had the spell to change Angel back?"
"Ya, he knew about it so he offed her. It was sad. There was this one time that Buffy barely told us about. Angelus and her were taken over by the spirits of these unrestful ghosts that were in love. They had this whole forbidden star-crossed love thing going on. After the ghost finished their fun he ran off. She was heartbroken once again. Things went on like that for awhile and then-"
"I know the rest of it. I have been told many different ways the story of Acathla. I never thought anything could sound so unbelievable. You'd expect that from a book, but not from real life. Vampires and demons, how weird do those sound, but things keep getting bizarre." She leaned back in the couch and glanced over at Xander. Her affection for him had become a friend thing recently. Thoughts she had earlier about him in a thong were easily forgotten.
"So that's the story" He sat back next to her.
"Xander? Would you mind telling me about Buffy and Angel again, but skip the sad parts. I'm young I still believe in happily ever afters."
"Really Dawn? That's the 5th time tonight! You want a sixth? The pizza will be here soon"
"We've got a half an hour. I want to hear it again. You tell it so well!" She gave the puppy dog face.
"Just so you promise not to cry this time!"
"I only cried the 1st and 2nd times" Xander's gaze grew harder. "and maybe a little the 3rd time, but-"
"Dawn?"
"Okay. I cried every time, but it's so sad. Just think what they are doing now. They are probably catching up on all the sad things in their lives. I swear, as long as I'll live I'll never forget this story. It's something that needs to be in a book. Ill write one sometime. I will! You'll see. I wish-"
Suddenly a knock at the door stirred them all from their thoughts.
"Pizza. We'll finish this later" Xander shot up like an arrow. He loved food. Swinging the door open he was greeted by Anya's presence.
"Hi" Anya smiled. She loved Xander with all her heart and here he was. This trip was business. Someone wanted a wish.
"Anya?" She's here Maybe she wants to make up?
"I'm here to talk to Dawn. She has a wish to make." She was overly assertive.
Dawn hopped up from the couch and ran to the door.
"No more wishes for Dawn!" The last one had been horrible.
"Come on. I'll make it a good one!" Dawn really wanted this wish to be completed. This time she wouldn't wish for anything bad.
"No Dawn! Buffy'll be mad"
"I wish that there was a book that told the story of Buffy and Angel, and that-"
"Dawn no!" Xander tried to push Anya out of the house in an attempt from stopping her from finishing the wish. He slammed the door in her face. Anya wasn't trying to harm anyone. She wanted to use the last few days of her vengeance trip on something worthwhile. Dawn needed some happiness.
"Done." She whispered as she walked back home for some major mopage.
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"So any luck?" Willow searched through her books in order to find the ones that pertained to Angel. There wasn't that much material on anything about coming back from hell. Poor Buffy. Angel can't understand a word she says.
"I think I have something. There is a story here about someone coming back from hell." He adjusted his glasses. They were alone in a the library. The council owned the books and they decided to let Rupert in.
He sat down and started to read out loud..."Before the first slayer was documented there is a myth about a slayer and a vampire. Very little exacts are known, but they are believed to have fallen in love. The vampire, for some reason was not evil. One day he snapped and went on a murderous rampage ending in his descent into hell by the demon Acathla" Willow's mouth opened in horror. This was sounding a lot like Buffy and Angel.
"Before he left they pledged their undying love to one another and performed a ritual binding their souls for eternity. They vowed to meet again. Staying on earth, the slayer fought against the evils and vampires. One mysterious day 300 years later the vampire came back from hell as a henchman. No one knows how he managed to survive but some way their love was too strong to be bound by hell. He came back but was entirely evil. Upon finding her dead for 250 years he was saddened. Having reached his 999,999 kill he only had one more left until he reached the level only achieved before by the devil himself. He would have become the owner of hell. Instead he killed himself out of heartbreak. This death marked 1 million and trapped him in the pits of hell for all eternity as the devils' angel. He had extreme values of power unmatched by any but was useless to use it. Still, some say by his dying breath he vowed to come back one day for her. She was in heaven, but he never came home to earth. He was trapped." Giles was shocked by this revelation.
'That was spooky"
"It used more complicated words, but I tried to simplify them for better understanding by us." Giles turned a page.
"That is reminding me a lot of Buffy and Angel"
"It is bloody scary. Oh look! There is a belief held by the council members about a prophecy. 'When the tides turn back and he roams free, the earth will succumb to the same fate as with thee.'
"What does that mean?" Willow was clueless. Usually prophecies didn't tell you the whole story. Something was here that they were missing out on.
"I think Buffy and Angel are the reincarnated versions of these two people. The same souls in different bodies, or the same bodies I don't know! But if-"
"The story is to repeat itself!"
"with Buffy and Angel!" Giles slammed the book.
"but, if this guy is still trapped in hell than how can he be reincarnated?"
"Maybe it is like the deal with the class of 55 or what not. How they possessed bodies at the school! Maybe that is what the first slayer did to Buffy and the vampire did to Angel. He was down in hell with whoever the guy is..." Sometimes people get close to the truth by guessing, but never fully understand because the scope is beyond their grasp.
"So it is repeating itself?" Willow leaned back and started to talk quieter as a gray haired council member walked wearily in. He was dressed in the usual tweed.
"I get the feeling that this story will end differently. Buffy was brought back. She didn't stay in heaven as was expected."
"So, happy ending like in the high school?"
"Or horribly sad, gut wrenching ending! We have to call Buffy and warn her about Angel. He is evil if we are right about this. She must kill him before he can ascend."
"Ascend like the mayor?"
"No, worse but with no worm turning stuff"