Title: Devastating Past
Author: Valerie
E-mail: funbreath@msn.com
Disclaimer: they don't belong to me
Summary: AU Angel is new at Sunnydale High. He meets Buffy and the gang. They think he's just a regular kid. Not likely.
Timeline: during season 2 of BTVS...sorta. Let's just say that Buffy and the gang are in their Junior year in Sunnydale High.
Spoilers: as far as alternate universe goes...almost nothing. References on demons from BTVS and Angel from time to time, but that's about it
Rating: R
Distribution: You can take it but ask me first please.
Feedback: That's a big big big yes!!!!! It's my first fic, so please?
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21.
"Sit. Quietly. I am going to inform your teachers that you won't be present for a little while, and I will be back to have a little talk with the two of you." With that, Snyder left Buffy and Angel in his office, closing the door behind him. Buffy looked extremely nervous, as if she was going to explode from stress. On the other hand, Angel looked...bored. He crossed his legs on Snyder's desk and shifted on his chair, trying to be a little more comfortable.
"God, we're screwed!" Buffy murmured for the third time since Snyder left.
"Come on baby, relax." Angel told her with a teasing smile. She looked offended.
"How can you be so cool about it? If Snyder tells my mother..." She stopped in mid-sentence as she saw Angel's expression when she mentioned her mother. "Sorry" she sighed, closing her eyes to try and think straight.
"It's ok. I'm just used to this situation. I always spent hours in the principal's office, and I never cared if anyone told whoever was in charge of me about whatever I had done." He explained briefly as he sat closer to her and took her hand in his, making her smile. "So, what do you think is gonna happen?"
"Well, my guess is that there's gonna be a lot of threatening, a bit of humiliation and a big fat punishment." Buffy answered with a sigh.
"Sounds like fun." Angel whispered sarcastically under his breath and let go of his girlfriend's hand as Snyder entered the room. The principal crossed the room and sat behind his desk, going through some papers, without looking at the young couple. Eventually, he broke the silence.
"I never expected much of the two of you." He started bluntly, receiving a blank stare from Angel, while Buffy was chewing nervously her bottom lip. "I can't say that I'm disappointed, because I'm not the kind of school principal who believes in the good nature of teenagers. Now, I have a dilemma...not a bad one of course, dealing with punishment for troublemakers has always been a part of what I consider self- gratification." Angel made a face at that and pushed his chair away from Snyder's desk a little. "Should I warn your parents that their children prefer spending their time giving free expression to the lust they accumulated during early teenage years instead of going to their classes?" He questioned innocently, then chuckled coldly. "Of course, it would help if you had parents." Hearing that, Angel couldn't shut his mouth any longer.
"Or maybe you should call the social services and warn them that your hatred for the children you must take care of as principal of this school has become so important that you are not qualified to work in an environment of students anymore and should be relieved of the burden of such a job." Angel replied with a deep seriousness in his voice that Snyder winced nervously. Buffy stared at her boyfriend with disbelief as Snyder took a deep breath.
"Are you threatening me, Mr. Connelly?" He asked angrily.
"Are you threatening us, Mr. Snyder?" Angel replied evenly.
A few minutes of silence later, Snyder, apparently defeated, decided to get straight to his initial point. "As you know, a week from today is the parents-teacher night. To make up for the previous incident, you will take care of the event. I want you to organize the night, which includes food and banners. I recommend you to act as best as you can. It should ease my comments to your mother, miss Summers, and it should keep you out of troubles with any kind of institution. Whether it is a governmental one or a more...medical one. You know what I mean." As the bell indicating the end of the last period of the morning rang, Buffy and Angel stood up and left the principal's office silently.
*****
"It's gonna be ok, we have time until we have to do anything. The parents teacher night is on Friday evening, so I'm thinking we do the banners on Wednesday and Thursday and we can do the food stuff Friday afternoon. I think Willow and Xander won't mind helping us out, so finally it's not such a bad punishment. What do you say?" Buffy and Angel were sitting at a table at lunch, discussing their task...or rather, Buffy was planning and Angel was staring at her with a half smile that would have made his girlfriend shut up if she hadn't been so concentrated. Eventually, when Angel didn't reply, she noticed how intently he was looking at her and blushed slightly. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?"
Angel softly reached over and placed his right hand on the side of her face, caressing her cheek with his thumb. "I love watching you when you're concentrated on planning something." He stated simply, making her smile brightly.
"Does it inspire you?" She meant planning something.
He smiled at her and placed his lips against hers. "Definitely". He meant sex. But she didn't have to know about that, did she?
"How much longer do ya think they're gonna hold it?" Xander's mocking voice came from the other side of the table. Buffy jumped a little, surprised that the rest of the gang was sitting at their table. They had arrived a few minutes earlier, as the two demon fighters were busy exchanging saliva. Although Angel had sensed them close, he had refused to end their kiss and acted like he didn't know they were here.
"Hi guys." Buffy murmured sheepishly. Angel didn't bother acknowledging the others, already fully focused on one and only person. As the slayer started telling her friends about their meeting with Snyder, Angel let his fingers trail down from the back of her head along her spine to the top of her butt. He gently grabbed her side with one hand and pulled her onto his lap. Far from being reluctant, Buffy wrapped her arms around his neck and he did so around her waist.
"Buffy? Buffy! Hey!" Xander called her friend while making signs in the air in front of her face to get her attention. They realized they had lost her when she started moaning softly, as Angel was peppering kisses along her collar bone and reached the sensitive spot behind her ear. Eventually his lips found their way to hers and they were sharing a tender kiss. "Wow guys! That's enough!" Xander half shouted out of annoyance.
"What did you say?" Buffy asked Xander, pulling away from Angel.
"Could you quit the groping for a second?" Cordelia told them, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"We have to talk Buffy." Willow added with a shy smile.
"Ok, we'll be good. What did you wanna talk about?" Willow, Oz, Cordy and Xander looked at each other, looking for an answer.
"Well...we saw Giles before coming over there." Xander started, trying to make her friend understand without saying anything.
"Oh" The slayer murmured, embarrassed. If Giles was involved, it could only mean slaying and if slaying was involved...it means having secrets she couldn't tell Angel. *Damn it! I have to tell him! I can't hold it any longer...it's horrible to hide something that big from him. If I want this relationship to go further...and boy do I want it, I have to be honest...but then he'll hate me. Damn it!!*
The deep frown on his girlfriend's face made Angel wonder as to what was going on. "Something wrong?" He asked her kindly, lightly stroking her hair.
"No don't worry, everything's fine" She whispered back, kissing his temple.
"So, what did good ol' Geeves had to say?" Angel asked the others, curious. He and Buffy had grown a lot closer the last few days, and they had spent almost all of their evenings together...just the evening, cos Buffy always had "some family thing with her mom" and he always had to "check some thing on some stuff"...and they both knew their own excuses were lame and they both knew they had to tell the truth some day. Some day being in a very very long time. Anyway, with their relationship going on, Angel didn't find a lot of time to check on the school librarian.
"Well...h-he...wanted...t-to, er" stuttered Willow, shifting uncomfortably on her seat. But before anyone could help her out and find some good lie that would take Angel out of the discussion, Kristin arrived at the table, out of breath.
"What happened?" Angel asked as soon as Kristin reached the group.
"Gunn called." She took a few seconds to catch her breath. "And Spike called. Troubles." She answered cryptically.
"Are they ok?" Her brother asked worryingly.
"Them, yeah. Us? It's up to you, Bro." She raised her eyebrows, trying not to forget that she couldn't say too much in front of the others.
"Fuck." Angel mumbled with a deep sigh.
"Angel?" Buffy asked timidly. He raised his head and looked at her, a hint of...determination, force and anger in his eyes that surprised her. She wasn't scared, though. It wasn't frightening...it was strangely comforting. As if she knew that she'd be safe if he was there.
"I gotta go." He answered shortly as he stood up, Buffy doing the same since she was sitting on his lap.
"Where? What happened?" She frowned at his sudden urge to go. He turned around and faced her, obviously worried about something.
"I'll...explain later. I'm sorry baby, I can't stay." He told her while stroking her hair with his right hand.
"When are you coming back?"
"I don't know. I'll call you, ok?" She nodded and they shared a brief goodbye kiss before Angel and Kristin hurried out of the room.
*****
"What did you call it again?"
"Saint Vigious. The night of saint Vigious." Kristin repeated what Gunn and Spike had told her.
"But...how do they know it's gonna be next Saturday night? Why do they know and I don't? And...what's the big deal with that night again?" Angel asked quickly, confused by everything his sister had told him.
"Drusilla and Tara found out the same thing without telling the other...I'd say it's quite a coincidence if you hadn't taught me for the past 4 years that there are no coincidence." Kristin replied, not leaving Angel a choice. Something was going to happen on Saturday night. Drusilla was Spike's younger sister, one of the best friends of Faith and Kristin's. She was living in Manhattan with Angel's old pals, helping them nicely with the visions she'd get from time to time.
Angel looked at her, frowning. "Wait...who's Tara?"
"Tara. Remember the girl with the homicidal parents that you saved from a fire about 2 years ago in LA?" Nope, he didn't. But Kristy knew her big brother saved too many persons to remember them all. On the other hand, he did remember most of the girls he had saved...if he had ended up between their thighs afterwards. No wonder he didn't remember Tara. "She must be the only girl living in the gang's neighborhood in LA you didn't sleep with."
"...Why?"
"Lesbian."
Now he remembered. "Oh yeah! She was into witchcraft, right?"
"Yep. She's helping out Gunn full time now. She discovered books and spells about saint Vigious night. And my guess is, it's gonna be-"
*****
"-rough." Willow finished Cordelia's sentence.
"We're dealing with...how much stronger vamps?" Buffy asked her friends as they walked back together to the library to meet up with Giles and Jenny.
"A lot stronger than the usual kind. When they perform the ritual, they'll double their strength." Willow repeated what Giles had told them.
"Giles! What's the plan?" The slayer asked her watcher when they entered the library.
"Erm...we're...looking into it." Giles replied uneasily. He didn't like feeling helpless.
"We could hide." Cordy suggested.
"Or run away." Willow added, exchanging a nod with Cordy.
"How about fighting? Isn't it my job?" Buffy exclaimed with determination.
"Well...Buffy, if the vampires get together to attack us...we won't be a match against 20 vamps." Jenny told her friend calmly.
"We need other Buffys to fight lots of vamps. One is not enough." Xander pointed out with a goofy grin.
"We have two. Is that enough?" Oz replied.
"What do you mean two? I'm only one!" Buffy protested.
"Oh! Oh yes!" Willow yelled happily, making them jump and making her boyfriend smile. "There's the other one! The...guy...girl, who knows...who's been killing vamps and demons for weeks!"
"Right, but I've been looking for him during patrol...I never met him!" Buffy reminded her.
"Still...it'd be useful, huh?"
*****
"Yeah?"
"Hey Spikey, what's up man?" Angel greeted his old friend on the phone.
"Not much, how 'bout you?"
"Need help."
"Lemme guess, for Saturday." Spike chuckled, indicating at Faith to come over so that she could listen too. "Faith's here"
"Hey babe" She greeted Angel as she sat on Spike's lap.
"From what you guys and Gunn said...Kristin believes firmly I'll never gonna make it on my own. How about a trip to California?" Angel told them, already knowing their answer.
"We're going to Boston to help out a guy next week, but we'll be there on Saturday morning." Spike assured him.
"Thanks. I'll ask Gunn to do the same. Just like old times."
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Author: Valerie
E-mail: funbreath@msn.com
Disclaimer: they don't belong to me
Summary: AU Angel is new at Sunnydale High. He meets Buffy and the gang. They think he's just a regular kid. Not likely.
Timeline: during season 2 of BTVS...sorta. Let's just say that Buffy and the gang are in their Junior year in Sunnydale High.
Spoilers: as far as alternate universe goes...almost nothing. References on demons from BTVS and Angel from time to time, but that's about it
Rating: R
Distribution: You can take it but ask me first please.
Feedback: That's a big big big yes!!!!! It's my first fic, so please?
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21.
"Sit. Quietly. I am going to inform your teachers that you won't be present for a little while, and I will be back to have a little talk with the two of you." With that, Snyder left Buffy and Angel in his office, closing the door behind him. Buffy looked extremely nervous, as if she was going to explode from stress. On the other hand, Angel looked...bored. He crossed his legs on Snyder's desk and shifted on his chair, trying to be a little more comfortable.
"God, we're screwed!" Buffy murmured for the third time since Snyder left.
"Come on baby, relax." Angel told her with a teasing smile. She looked offended.
"How can you be so cool about it? If Snyder tells my mother..." She stopped in mid-sentence as she saw Angel's expression when she mentioned her mother. "Sorry" she sighed, closing her eyes to try and think straight.
"It's ok. I'm just used to this situation. I always spent hours in the principal's office, and I never cared if anyone told whoever was in charge of me about whatever I had done." He explained briefly as he sat closer to her and took her hand in his, making her smile. "So, what do you think is gonna happen?"
"Well, my guess is that there's gonna be a lot of threatening, a bit of humiliation and a big fat punishment." Buffy answered with a sigh.
"Sounds like fun." Angel whispered sarcastically under his breath and let go of his girlfriend's hand as Snyder entered the room. The principal crossed the room and sat behind his desk, going through some papers, without looking at the young couple. Eventually, he broke the silence.
"I never expected much of the two of you." He started bluntly, receiving a blank stare from Angel, while Buffy was chewing nervously her bottom lip. "I can't say that I'm disappointed, because I'm not the kind of school principal who believes in the good nature of teenagers. Now, I have a dilemma...not a bad one of course, dealing with punishment for troublemakers has always been a part of what I consider self- gratification." Angel made a face at that and pushed his chair away from Snyder's desk a little. "Should I warn your parents that their children prefer spending their time giving free expression to the lust they accumulated during early teenage years instead of going to their classes?" He questioned innocently, then chuckled coldly. "Of course, it would help if you had parents." Hearing that, Angel couldn't shut his mouth any longer.
"Or maybe you should call the social services and warn them that your hatred for the children you must take care of as principal of this school has become so important that you are not qualified to work in an environment of students anymore and should be relieved of the burden of such a job." Angel replied with a deep seriousness in his voice that Snyder winced nervously. Buffy stared at her boyfriend with disbelief as Snyder took a deep breath.
"Are you threatening me, Mr. Connelly?" He asked angrily.
"Are you threatening us, Mr. Snyder?" Angel replied evenly.
A few minutes of silence later, Snyder, apparently defeated, decided to get straight to his initial point. "As you know, a week from today is the parents-teacher night. To make up for the previous incident, you will take care of the event. I want you to organize the night, which includes food and banners. I recommend you to act as best as you can. It should ease my comments to your mother, miss Summers, and it should keep you out of troubles with any kind of institution. Whether it is a governmental one or a more...medical one. You know what I mean." As the bell indicating the end of the last period of the morning rang, Buffy and Angel stood up and left the principal's office silently.
*****
"It's gonna be ok, we have time until we have to do anything. The parents teacher night is on Friday evening, so I'm thinking we do the banners on Wednesday and Thursday and we can do the food stuff Friday afternoon. I think Willow and Xander won't mind helping us out, so finally it's not such a bad punishment. What do you say?" Buffy and Angel were sitting at a table at lunch, discussing their task...or rather, Buffy was planning and Angel was staring at her with a half smile that would have made his girlfriend shut up if she hadn't been so concentrated. Eventually, when Angel didn't reply, she noticed how intently he was looking at her and blushed slightly. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?"
Angel softly reached over and placed his right hand on the side of her face, caressing her cheek with his thumb. "I love watching you when you're concentrated on planning something." He stated simply, making her smile brightly.
"Does it inspire you?" She meant planning something.
He smiled at her and placed his lips against hers. "Definitely". He meant sex. But she didn't have to know about that, did she?
"How much longer do ya think they're gonna hold it?" Xander's mocking voice came from the other side of the table. Buffy jumped a little, surprised that the rest of the gang was sitting at their table. They had arrived a few minutes earlier, as the two demon fighters were busy exchanging saliva. Although Angel had sensed them close, he had refused to end their kiss and acted like he didn't know they were here.
"Hi guys." Buffy murmured sheepishly. Angel didn't bother acknowledging the others, already fully focused on one and only person. As the slayer started telling her friends about their meeting with Snyder, Angel let his fingers trail down from the back of her head along her spine to the top of her butt. He gently grabbed her side with one hand and pulled her onto his lap. Far from being reluctant, Buffy wrapped her arms around his neck and he did so around her waist.
"Buffy? Buffy! Hey!" Xander called her friend while making signs in the air in front of her face to get her attention. They realized they had lost her when she started moaning softly, as Angel was peppering kisses along her collar bone and reached the sensitive spot behind her ear. Eventually his lips found their way to hers and they were sharing a tender kiss. "Wow guys! That's enough!" Xander half shouted out of annoyance.
"What did you say?" Buffy asked Xander, pulling away from Angel.
"Could you quit the groping for a second?" Cordelia told them, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"We have to talk Buffy." Willow added with a shy smile.
"Ok, we'll be good. What did you wanna talk about?" Willow, Oz, Cordy and Xander looked at each other, looking for an answer.
"Well...we saw Giles before coming over there." Xander started, trying to make her friend understand without saying anything.
"Oh" The slayer murmured, embarrassed. If Giles was involved, it could only mean slaying and if slaying was involved...it means having secrets she couldn't tell Angel. *Damn it! I have to tell him! I can't hold it any longer...it's horrible to hide something that big from him. If I want this relationship to go further...and boy do I want it, I have to be honest...but then he'll hate me. Damn it!!*
The deep frown on his girlfriend's face made Angel wonder as to what was going on. "Something wrong?" He asked her kindly, lightly stroking her hair.
"No don't worry, everything's fine" She whispered back, kissing his temple.
"So, what did good ol' Geeves had to say?" Angel asked the others, curious. He and Buffy had grown a lot closer the last few days, and they had spent almost all of their evenings together...just the evening, cos Buffy always had "some family thing with her mom" and he always had to "check some thing on some stuff"...and they both knew their own excuses were lame and they both knew they had to tell the truth some day. Some day being in a very very long time. Anyway, with their relationship going on, Angel didn't find a lot of time to check on the school librarian.
"Well...h-he...wanted...t-to, er" stuttered Willow, shifting uncomfortably on her seat. But before anyone could help her out and find some good lie that would take Angel out of the discussion, Kristin arrived at the table, out of breath.
"What happened?" Angel asked as soon as Kristin reached the group.
"Gunn called." She took a few seconds to catch her breath. "And Spike called. Troubles." She answered cryptically.
"Are they ok?" Her brother asked worryingly.
"Them, yeah. Us? It's up to you, Bro." She raised her eyebrows, trying not to forget that she couldn't say too much in front of the others.
"Fuck." Angel mumbled with a deep sigh.
"Angel?" Buffy asked timidly. He raised his head and looked at her, a hint of...determination, force and anger in his eyes that surprised her. She wasn't scared, though. It wasn't frightening...it was strangely comforting. As if she knew that she'd be safe if he was there.
"I gotta go." He answered shortly as he stood up, Buffy doing the same since she was sitting on his lap.
"Where? What happened?" She frowned at his sudden urge to go. He turned around and faced her, obviously worried about something.
"I'll...explain later. I'm sorry baby, I can't stay." He told her while stroking her hair with his right hand.
"When are you coming back?"
"I don't know. I'll call you, ok?" She nodded and they shared a brief goodbye kiss before Angel and Kristin hurried out of the room.
*****
"What did you call it again?"
"Saint Vigious. The night of saint Vigious." Kristin repeated what Gunn and Spike had told her.
"But...how do they know it's gonna be next Saturday night? Why do they know and I don't? And...what's the big deal with that night again?" Angel asked quickly, confused by everything his sister had told him.
"Drusilla and Tara found out the same thing without telling the other...I'd say it's quite a coincidence if you hadn't taught me for the past 4 years that there are no coincidence." Kristin replied, not leaving Angel a choice. Something was going to happen on Saturday night. Drusilla was Spike's younger sister, one of the best friends of Faith and Kristin's. She was living in Manhattan with Angel's old pals, helping them nicely with the visions she'd get from time to time.
Angel looked at her, frowning. "Wait...who's Tara?"
"Tara. Remember the girl with the homicidal parents that you saved from a fire about 2 years ago in LA?" Nope, he didn't. But Kristy knew her big brother saved too many persons to remember them all. On the other hand, he did remember most of the girls he had saved...if he had ended up between their thighs afterwards. No wonder he didn't remember Tara. "She must be the only girl living in the gang's neighborhood in LA you didn't sleep with."
"...Why?"
"Lesbian."
Now he remembered. "Oh yeah! She was into witchcraft, right?"
"Yep. She's helping out Gunn full time now. She discovered books and spells about saint Vigious night. And my guess is, it's gonna be-"
*****
"-rough." Willow finished Cordelia's sentence.
"We're dealing with...how much stronger vamps?" Buffy asked her friends as they walked back together to the library to meet up with Giles and Jenny.
"A lot stronger than the usual kind. When they perform the ritual, they'll double their strength." Willow repeated what Giles had told them.
"Giles! What's the plan?" The slayer asked her watcher when they entered the library.
"Erm...we're...looking into it." Giles replied uneasily. He didn't like feeling helpless.
"We could hide." Cordy suggested.
"Or run away." Willow added, exchanging a nod with Cordy.
"How about fighting? Isn't it my job?" Buffy exclaimed with determination.
"Well...Buffy, if the vampires get together to attack us...we won't be a match against 20 vamps." Jenny told her friend calmly.
"We need other Buffys to fight lots of vamps. One is not enough." Xander pointed out with a goofy grin.
"We have two. Is that enough?" Oz replied.
"What do you mean two? I'm only one!" Buffy protested.
"Oh! Oh yes!" Willow yelled happily, making them jump and making her boyfriend smile. "There's the other one! The...guy...girl, who knows...who's been killing vamps and demons for weeks!"
"Right, but I've been looking for him during patrol...I never met him!" Buffy reminded her.
"Still...it'd be useful, huh?"
*****
"Yeah?"
"Hey Spikey, what's up man?" Angel greeted his old friend on the phone.
"Not much, how 'bout you?"
"Need help."
"Lemme guess, for Saturday." Spike chuckled, indicating at Faith to come over so that she could listen too. "Faith's here"
"Hey babe" She greeted Angel as she sat on Spike's lap.
"From what you guys and Gunn said...Kristin believes firmly I'll never gonna make it on my own. How about a trip to California?" Angel told them, already knowing their answer.
"We're going to Boston to help out a guy next week, but we'll be there on Saturday morning." Spike assured him.
"Thanks. I'll ask Gunn to do the same. Just like old times."
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