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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30.
After calling Kristin and telling her to do some research and try to contact their friends, Angel had been watching silently for the past minute his girlfriend's discussion with her friend. She was setting up a plan to get her mom and the other persons out of the school...why? Shouldn't she be running around screaming in panic? Well...maybe not, but still, she didn't seem too scared. Which made him wonder. Maybe...maybe she knew. Maybe she knew that her good friend Jeeves was picking up stakes in the dead body of demons, she knew that those creeps wandering in school were bloodsucking demons...but if she knew...why was she alive? He knew from experience that when you get too close to the scene of action, you either get sucked in this world and never find the way out...or you get yourself killed.
"Buffy..." Willow murmured, getting her friend's attention. "Maybe you should...say something..." She mouthed, nodding towards Angel's confused expression. He was staring at the floor, obviously deep in thoughts, a sexy frown on his face...or so Buffy thought.
With a sigh, Buffy turned to Angel and opened her mouth to say something, only to shut it suddenly as a vampire entered the library.
"Good evening everyone." The vamp stated with a smirk, his human face on.
"What the fuck?" Angel murmured absently, eyeing the demon, who was standing not far from everyone.
"Who the hell are you?" The slayer demanded firmly with a glare at the vamp, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I think you know who I am. Who we are." The vamp answered, his face slowly morphing into its demonic features.
"Holy SHIT!" Angel gaped, backing away suddenly. The scooby gang looked at each other...now the truth was out.
"Get out of this school. Get out of town. Or you'll regret it." Buffy threatened the vampire.
"I think my boss has some issues to deal with before we can leave this place."
"Why did he send YOU then? To afraid to do it himself?" Xander exclaimed, catching the vamp's attention as Buffy was picking up a crossbow from the bag on the table.
"I'm just the messenger. The boss kills little angels, I kill humans." He replied, his gaze on Angel...who got the hint.
"Hey, message boy. This way." Buffy warned him, and by the time he turned his head, an arrow had pierced his heart, and he dissolved into dust with a gasp. There was a moment of silence, each member of the scoobies staring at Angel, who was staring at the pile of dust, his mouth open in shock. "We need to go kill the others. We'll...deal later." Buffy instructed her friends, feeling a pang at her heart thinking that maybe Angel wouldn't be able to deal.
As Buffy was picking up several weapons...stakes, daggers, crossbows, and handing them to her friends, Angel wasn't even looking up at them. *I killed him. I killed him. There's no way he could survive...I saw his ashes...he's not alive...he can't be...* When he finally looked up, the library was empty, safe from Xander who was looking at him expectantly.
"Don't worry man, I'll sum it up for ya"
"Where..."
"They left the library. They had to go first so that we wouldn't get into any troubles. We're supposed to find other people who might have been on their own." Xander informed Angel as they walked out of the library.
"Lemme get this straight...you guys are used to those situations?" *I was right, she knew. She knew and I didn't tell anything. I lied for weeks for NOTHING! Fucking shit, Kristin's gonna laugh her ass out.*
"You'll find out Sunnydale is a pretty weird town. I can't give you the specifics, 'cos Buffy should do it...I'll just tell you something: Don't act like a jerk with Buffy when we're done tonight. I know it's a big deal...finding out the truth like that...but if you truly care for Buffy, you won't let her down." Xander stated seriously, and Angel could see how protective of Buffy the boy was. But right now, nothing mattered except kicking vampire ass. This time, he didn't have to keep from fighting in front of the gang. And boy was he fucking mad at the moment. He always hated having to kill a vampire twice.
"I won't let anyone hurt Buffy." Angel admitted, staring deep in Xander's eyes to show him how serious he was.
"Good. Now, don't panic if you ever come to face a vampire. You don't need much to know. From what I saw of your first encounter with the vamps, you can fight, which is good, but against supernatural strength...there's not much you can do. To kill them, you'll wanna use a stake. You need to hit the heart, like Buffy did, and the vamp turns to dust. You can also"
"Xander." Angel interrupted him, looking down at the boy in disbelief. "You know that I lived in Manhattan and in LA, right?"
"yeah..."
"Buff told you I had been living around the streets, right?"
"yeah...what's your point?"
"You really think that in 6 years living in the streets at night, I never met a single vampire or demon?"
Xander's eyes widened. "You mean you"
"already knew? Yeah." The vampire hunter chuckled a little at Xander's face. "Look, people don't react the same way in front of demons. Most of them live in denial, they come face to face with a vamp and forget it the day after. Some just don't care, and an extreme minority...try not to get killed." He sighed.
"I guess you and me aren't that different after all, huh?" Angel smiled at Xander's remark.
"Whatever man, let's just find people to rescue."
"So, have you ever killed a vampire?" Xander asked after a beat. Angel smirked, and just as Xander was about to speak, a couple of vampires appeared in front of them. They were young vamps, completely inexperienced, and Angel realized that Morfran didn't manage to convince master vampires to join him. Well, after a hundreds year old master vampire is defeated by a 16 year old...it's frequent no one wants to team up with him. The poor bastard had to actually make his minions...The vamps ran to them, growling. Angel instantly grabbed his stake from the waistband of his pants and drove the stake in the first vamp's heart, kicking the second in the jaw with a kick to the side that he had learnt from one of his many karate lessons with Whistler when he first became a warrior. He staked the disoriented vampire as the other one turned to dust. Then he turned back to Xander with an innocent expression on his face.
"What was your question again?" Angel smirked at Xander's surprise. He patted him on the shoulder and took off, heading towards the hall.
*****
Only five minutes later, Xander and Angel (mostly Angel) had killed a few vampires and had found a bunch of frightened parents. They managed to get outside, and Angel had convinced Xander to bring them back home then go meet Kristin at her house. Buffy, Giles, Cordy and Willow had ran into a lot of vampires but they had managed to dust them all. But there was someone missing. And they heard her screaming.
"JENNY!!" Giles yelled, running with the others in the direction of the main hall. They stopped dead in their tracks when they saw a tall impressive vampire holding her by the neck. The vampires had cut down the power, so the whole building was dark, but they could still see clearly the features of the vampire. It was the ugliest vamp the Scoobs had ever seen. Buffy recognized him from earlier, when she was in the ventilation duct with Angel. The right side of his face seemed to have melted, you couldn't make out where his right eye was, the corner of his lips glued together, the deep burns on his skull probably running down to his neck and his back. He was the most horrible vampire...and he wasn't even in game face. The worst part being that if you concentrated on his non-burnt half of his face, you could figure out that he must have been very handsome before he was disfigured. The master vampire was surrounded by five vamps, in game face, eyeing the four humans hungrily. "Let her go" Giles exclaimed, not thinking at how cheesy it sounded. Someone always said 'let her go' whenever there was an hostage...and said hostage would never be let gone. But seeing your girlfriend ready to be killed did that to some people.
"Now, now, what do we have here?" The vampire said, his voice deep and dangerous.
"Who are you?" Buffy asked, stepping in front of her friends, a step closer to the vamp.
"I'm pretty sure I asked the question first my lady." The vamp taunted her, his grip on Jenny's neck making her whimper slightly.
Clenching her fingers around her stake, Buffy glared at the vampire. "Name's Buffy."
"The vampire slayer." Willow added, feeling like the right thing to say...maybe he didn't know and now...he'd run away in fear?
No...he laughed. "That's a lot more fun. You're a lot cuter than the last one I killed." He commented, then sniffed in the air, smelling her scent even though she was a few meters away from him. He laughed again. A vicious laugh that made Willow and Cordelia shiver. "This is a LOT more interesting."
"Do I even bother to ask why?" Buffy replied, acting cool, even though the 'last slayer I killed' made her less confident.
"My good friend's scent is all over you, love. You're one precious little girl...for now."
"How 'bout I show you just HOW precious I can be? Say..." She made a face, acting as if she was deep in thoughts. "by fighting?"
The vamp just smiled, his mouth getting closer to Jenny's neck, and Buffy's body tensed, feeling she hadn't said the right thing.
"Who are you? And what do you want from me?" The slayer eventually asked.
"My name is Morfran. And I'm not interested in you. However, I do have something to say to our favorite boy" Morfran replied cryptically.
"Who are you t" Giles begun, but they were interrupted by a scream by a vampire who had been guarding a doorway not far from where they were standing. One of the vampires who had been standing beside Morfran crossed the room, only to stop in front of Buffy. His eyes widened in surprise as he looked down and noticed the stake that was piercing his heart. The next second, he dissolved into dust and the stake fell on the floor, the metallic handle making a loud noise. Everyone except Buffy and Morfran looked at where the stake had been thrown from, but there wasn't anyone. Morfran was grinning, obviously proud of himself, and Buffy was picking up the stake and inspecting it. It was the stake she and Xander had found in the cemetery, that belonged to the other person killing vampires and demons in town. He was here. Or well...she. Who knew?
"Oh good, my boy is here." Morfran stated with a pleased smile. "How about you come over here sweetheart?" He told Buffy, licking his lips. She was about the reply, but was interrupted by the click of a gun being loaded.
"Don't move, you motherfucker" Angel almost growled, holding his 'Smith and Wesson 5906' in his right hand, aiming at Morfran's head, his other hand clenched into a fist to his side.
"Oh god!" Cordelia breathed out, exchanging worried looks with Willow and Buffy. Guns wouldn't kill vampires...
"Baby, it won't kill them. Don't do something stupid." Buffy told Angel softly, a little scared by the obvious anger radiating from his body.
"She's so cute, isn't she? A hot little piece of ass if you ask me!" Morfran commented, eyeing appreciably Buffy's body.
"Too bad she's mine." Angel retorted, with a dangerous smirk on his lips. "Not yours. Because...you don't have anyone, do you?"
"FUCK YOU!" Morfran shouted, slipping into game face as soon as the words left Angel's mouth, making everyone except Angel jump in surprise. "You FUCKING little PIECE OF SHIT!!"
"Wow, how rude! Do you kiss you girlfriend with that mouth?" Angel then acted as if the answer just hit him. "Oh...right. I guess not." Morfran pushed Jenny away violently, making her crash into Giles. He growled, a deep animalistic growl and glared furiously at Angel through golden eyes. Angel only adjusted his gun so that it was aimed at Morfran's chest.
"You truly think you'll kill me with that thing?" Morfran asked with a mocking smile.
"He's a vampire, you won't hurt him with a bullet!" Buffy added, looking at Angel with pleading eyes. But he wasn't looking at her. He wasn't looking at Willow or Cordelia, or Giles who was holding Jenny in his arms. He was looking straight into Morfran's eyes.
"Try me." After a beat of hesitation, Morfran nodded to his 4 remaining minions. They started to walk towards Angel, as Buffy placed herself in a fighting position. Ready to kick their ass. As they got closer, Angel moved slightly, and shot. One bullet for each vampire. Right in the heart.
One of the vamps looked down at himself and chuckled. "Bullets don't kill vampires you moro-" He didn't get enough time to finish his sentence, as he turned to dust in shock, with the others.
"My, my, Angel, THAT's impressive. Wooden bullets, never saw that before." Morfran commented.
"Oh god..." Buffy whispered in shock. They knew each other. Angel hadn't just found out about vampires.
"I'm full of surprises" Angel winked at him.
"And I'm full of resources." Morfran stepped back, letting a bunch of vampires who had just arrived attack the gang. Buffy quickly told Giles and the others to go rescue her mom and the others while she fought them. They left, leaving Buffy and Angel alone against a dozen vampires. Stake in hand, they started fighting back.
After staking easily her first vamp, Buffy was surrounded by 2 others. As they made a move to punch her in the face, She crouched and swept her legs, knocking both vampires to the floor. She punched a third in the nose, making his nose bleed. She drove her stake in his heart as she knocked unconscious one of the 2 vamps remaining on the floor with a kick. However, the second one grabbed her foot and pulled, making the slayer fall on her butt. A new vamp jumped on her to pin her to the floor, but she rolled and kicked him in the chin, then the chest. She took advantage of his dizziness and rebounded to her feet. Grabbing her stake, she plunged it in a vamp's heart, withdrew as he turned to dust, only to drive it in the next vamp's.
Angel was aware of the battle his girlfriend was engaged in...and obviously winning, but he couldn't pay attention to it. He had staked the three vampires who had attacked him, and he was now standing in front of Morfran. "You should have stayed away from me. I took you once, I can do it again." Angel exclaimed through clenched teeth.
"I'm stronger now. With Saint Vigious night coming tomorrow, my power increased. By tomorrow night my strength will be three times more important than right now. I'll make you pay Angel. You'll pay for the death of my lover, you'll pay for THIS!" Morfran pointed at his face, but Angel didn't show any guilt. Why should he? He was one of the good guys, Morfran one of the evil very bad guys. End of story.
"You won't make it to the ritual." They launched at each other, exchanging powerful punches and kicks, blocking some attacks, crashing into walls or furniture. At one point, Morfran got a hold of Angel's head and smashed it against a wall, making him bleed on the forehead. He made a move to punch him hard in the jaw but Angel quickly dodged, and the vampire's fist connected with the wall. Angel grabbed his arm and twisted it, forcing him to his knees. Morfran managed to grab Angel's ankle and pulled as he rebounded to his feet, so that Angel crashed on the floor on his back. Morfran took a hold on his neck and slammed his dizzy face hard on floor. As he couldn't help but get punched repetitively in the temple and the jaw, Angel bent his leg and managed to get his dagger out, instantly plunging it in his enemy's stomach. Morfran growled in pain, stepping back, and Angel was once more in front of him. However, the young warrior underestimated his opponent's recovering abilities. In one fast move, Morfran pulled out the dagger from his body, connected his fist with Angel's head, cutting him on the chest and arm with the blade of the dagger as he did. But Angel had learnt to forget pain while fighting, so he only stepped back and executed a high roundhouse, touching Morfran's chest with his boot and knocking him on his ass a few meters away. As he was about to finish him off, the vampire started chuckling.
"You're gonna let your girl die to be able to kill me?" Angel turned around in panic and saw that Buffy was surrounded by a bunch of vampires, who were repetitively punching her, shoving her against a wall. The vampire hunter gasped and everything in his head was forgotten except the danger his girlfriend was in at the moment. He crossed the hall with vampire speed, and as soon as he reached the group, he grabbed the head of the vamp that was holding Buffy by the neck and crashed his skull against the floor, throwing a couple of punch to his face before grabbing a piece of broken furniture and dusting him. Buffy took advantage of the vampires' surprise and struggled out of their hold. She kneed the vampire on her right in the stomach and kicked the one on her left in the nose with her elbow. The slayer bent down and picked up Angel's stake. Before she could use it, the vamps recovered and both grabbed her by an arm. However, she startled them by performing a sudden somersault, kicking the floor with both feet, turning around in the air, leaning on their arms and landing behind them. She drove the stake in the first vamp's back, piercing his heart, and kicked the last one in his back, making him stumble forward onto Angel's piece of wood. A second later, all that was left of the demons was dust.
Buffy and Angel were both panting heavily, exhausted by their long and hard fights of that evening. Buffy was looking at the stake - Angel's stake of all people - in her hand, slowly allowing all the information to reach her mind. Angel too was staring at the stake, but he wasn't thinking about his stake, he was thinking about the hand that was holding the stake. Eventually, at the same time, the two warriors raised their heads, and their eyes locked, silently.
Fear of rejection coursed through Buffy's body, making her shiver as she stared in Angel's amazing brown eyes. Months of lies, false excuses, and frustration overwhelmed Buffy's heart and soul. She didn't even realize tears were falling down her cheeks as she waited for Angel to make a move.
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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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30.
After calling Kristin and telling her to do some research and try to contact their friends, Angel had been watching silently for the past minute his girlfriend's discussion with her friend. She was setting up a plan to get her mom and the other persons out of the school...why? Shouldn't she be running around screaming in panic? Well...maybe not, but still, she didn't seem too scared. Which made him wonder. Maybe...maybe she knew. Maybe she knew that her good friend Jeeves was picking up stakes in the dead body of demons, she knew that those creeps wandering in school were bloodsucking demons...but if she knew...why was she alive? He knew from experience that when you get too close to the scene of action, you either get sucked in this world and never find the way out...or you get yourself killed.
"Buffy..." Willow murmured, getting her friend's attention. "Maybe you should...say something..." She mouthed, nodding towards Angel's confused expression. He was staring at the floor, obviously deep in thoughts, a sexy frown on his face...or so Buffy thought.
With a sigh, Buffy turned to Angel and opened her mouth to say something, only to shut it suddenly as a vampire entered the library.
"Good evening everyone." The vamp stated with a smirk, his human face on.
"What the fuck?" Angel murmured absently, eyeing the demon, who was standing not far from everyone.
"Who the hell are you?" The slayer demanded firmly with a glare at the vamp, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I think you know who I am. Who we are." The vamp answered, his face slowly morphing into its demonic features.
"Holy SHIT!" Angel gaped, backing away suddenly. The scooby gang looked at each other...now the truth was out.
"Get out of this school. Get out of town. Or you'll regret it." Buffy threatened the vampire.
"I think my boss has some issues to deal with before we can leave this place."
"Why did he send YOU then? To afraid to do it himself?" Xander exclaimed, catching the vamp's attention as Buffy was picking up a crossbow from the bag on the table.
"I'm just the messenger. The boss kills little angels, I kill humans." He replied, his gaze on Angel...who got the hint.
"Hey, message boy. This way." Buffy warned him, and by the time he turned his head, an arrow had pierced his heart, and he dissolved into dust with a gasp. There was a moment of silence, each member of the scoobies staring at Angel, who was staring at the pile of dust, his mouth open in shock. "We need to go kill the others. We'll...deal later." Buffy instructed her friends, feeling a pang at her heart thinking that maybe Angel wouldn't be able to deal.
As Buffy was picking up several weapons...stakes, daggers, crossbows, and handing them to her friends, Angel wasn't even looking up at them. *I killed him. I killed him. There's no way he could survive...I saw his ashes...he's not alive...he can't be...* When he finally looked up, the library was empty, safe from Xander who was looking at him expectantly.
"Don't worry man, I'll sum it up for ya"
"Where..."
"They left the library. They had to go first so that we wouldn't get into any troubles. We're supposed to find other people who might have been on their own." Xander informed Angel as they walked out of the library.
"Lemme get this straight...you guys are used to those situations?" *I was right, she knew. She knew and I didn't tell anything. I lied for weeks for NOTHING! Fucking shit, Kristin's gonna laugh her ass out.*
"You'll find out Sunnydale is a pretty weird town. I can't give you the specifics, 'cos Buffy should do it...I'll just tell you something: Don't act like a jerk with Buffy when we're done tonight. I know it's a big deal...finding out the truth like that...but if you truly care for Buffy, you won't let her down." Xander stated seriously, and Angel could see how protective of Buffy the boy was. But right now, nothing mattered except kicking vampire ass. This time, he didn't have to keep from fighting in front of the gang. And boy was he fucking mad at the moment. He always hated having to kill a vampire twice.
"I won't let anyone hurt Buffy." Angel admitted, staring deep in Xander's eyes to show him how serious he was.
"Good. Now, don't panic if you ever come to face a vampire. You don't need much to know. From what I saw of your first encounter with the vamps, you can fight, which is good, but against supernatural strength...there's not much you can do. To kill them, you'll wanna use a stake. You need to hit the heart, like Buffy did, and the vamp turns to dust. You can also"
"Xander." Angel interrupted him, looking down at the boy in disbelief. "You know that I lived in Manhattan and in LA, right?"
"yeah..."
"Buff told you I had been living around the streets, right?"
"yeah...what's your point?"
"You really think that in 6 years living in the streets at night, I never met a single vampire or demon?"
Xander's eyes widened. "You mean you"
"already knew? Yeah." The vampire hunter chuckled a little at Xander's face. "Look, people don't react the same way in front of demons. Most of them live in denial, they come face to face with a vamp and forget it the day after. Some just don't care, and an extreme minority...try not to get killed." He sighed.
"I guess you and me aren't that different after all, huh?" Angel smiled at Xander's remark.
"Whatever man, let's just find people to rescue."
"So, have you ever killed a vampire?" Xander asked after a beat. Angel smirked, and just as Xander was about to speak, a couple of vampires appeared in front of them. They were young vamps, completely inexperienced, and Angel realized that Morfran didn't manage to convince master vampires to join him. Well, after a hundreds year old master vampire is defeated by a 16 year old...it's frequent no one wants to team up with him. The poor bastard had to actually make his minions...The vamps ran to them, growling. Angel instantly grabbed his stake from the waistband of his pants and drove the stake in the first vamp's heart, kicking the second in the jaw with a kick to the side that he had learnt from one of his many karate lessons with Whistler when he first became a warrior. He staked the disoriented vampire as the other one turned to dust. Then he turned back to Xander with an innocent expression on his face.
"What was your question again?" Angel smirked at Xander's surprise. He patted him on the shoulder and took off, heading towards the hall.
*****
Only five minutes later, Xander and Angel (mostly Angel) had killed a few vampires and had found a bunch of frightened parents. They managed to get outside, and Angel had convinced Xander to bring them back home then go meet Kristin at her house. Buffy, Giles, Cordy and Willow had ran into a lot of vampires but they had managed to dust them all. But there was someone missing. And they heard her screaming.
"JENNY!!" Giles yelled, running with the others in the direction of the main hall. They stopped dead in their tracks when they saw a tall impressive vampire holding her by the neck. The vampires had cut down the power, so the whole building was dark, but they could still see clearly the features of the vampire. It was the ugliest vamp the Scoobs had ever seen. Buffy recognized him from earlier, when she was in the ventilation duct with Angel. The right side of his face seemed to have melted, you couldn't make out where his right eye was, the corner of his lips glued together, the deep burns on his skull probably running down to his neck and his back. He was the most horrible vampire...and he wasn't even in game face. The worst part being that if you concentrated on his non-burnt half of his face, you could figure out that he must have been very handsome before he was disfigured. The master vampire was surrounded by five vamps, in game face, eyeing the four humans hungrily. "Let her go" Giles exclaimed, not thinking at how cheesy it sounded. Someone always said 'let her go' whenever there was an hostage...and said hostage would never be let gone. But seeing your girlfriend ready to be killed did that to some people.
"Now, now, what do we have here?" The vampire said, his voice deep and dangerous.
"Who are you?" Buffy asked, stepping in front of her friends, a step closer to the vamp.
"I'm pretty sure I asked the question first my lady." The vamp taunted her, his grip on Jenny's neck making her whimper slightly.
Clenching her fingers around her stake, Buffy glared at the vampire. "Name's Buffy."
"The vampire slayer." Willow added, feeling like the right thing to say...maybe he didn't know and now...he'd run away in fear?
No...he laughed. "That's a lot more fun. You're a lot cuter than the last one I killed." He commented, then sniffed in the air, smelling her scent even though she was a few meters away from him. He laughed again. A vicious laugh that made Willow and Cordelia shiver. "This is a LOT more interesting."
"Do I even bother to ask why?" Buffy replied, acting cool, even though the 'last slayer I killed' made her less confident.
"My good friend's scent is all over you, love. You're one precious little girl...for now."
"How 'bout I show you just HOW precious I can be? Say..." She made a face, acting as if she was deep in thoughts. "by fighting?"
The vamp just smiled, his mouth getting closer to Jenny's neck, and Buffy's body tensed, feeling she hadn't said the right thing.
"Who are you? And what do you want from me?" The slayer eventually asked.
"My name is Morfran. And I'm not interested in you. However, I do have something to say to our favorite boy" Morfran replied cryptically.
"Who are you t" Giles begun, but they were interrupted by a scream by a vampire who had been guarding a doorway not far from where they were standing. One of the vampires who had been standing beside Morfran crossed the room, only to stop in front of Buffy. His eyes widened in surprise as he looked down and noticed the stake that was piercing his heart. The next second, he dissolved into dust and the stake fell on the floor, the metallic handle making a loud noise. Everyone except Buffy and Morfran looked at where the stake had been thrown from, but there wasn't anyone. Morfran was grinning, obviously proud of himself, and Buffy was picking up the stake and inspecting it. It was the stake she and Xander had found in the cemetery, that belonged to the other person killing vampires and demons in town. He was here. Or well...she. Who knew?
"Oh good, my boy is here." Morfran stated with a pleased smile. "How about you come over here sweetheart?" He told Buffy, licking his lips. She was about the reply, but was interrupted by the click of a gun being loaded.
"Don't move, you motherfucker" Angel almost growled, holding his 'Smith and Wesson 5906' in his right hand, aiming at Morfran's head, his other hand clenched into a fist to his side.
"Oh god!" Cordelia breathed out, exchanging worried looks with Willow and Buffy. Guns wouldn't kill vampires...
"Baby, it won't kill them. Don't do something stupid." Buffy told Angel softly, a little scared by the obvious anger radiating from his body.
"She's so cute, isn't she? A hot little piece of ass if you ask me!" Morfran commented, eyeing appreciably Buffy's body.
"Too bad she's mine." Angel retorted, with a dangerous smirk on his lips. "Not yours. Because...you don't have anyone, do you?"
"FUCK YOU!" Morfran shouted, slipping into game face as soon as the words left Angel's mouth, making everyone except Angel jump in surprise. "You FUCKING little PIECE OF SHIT!!"
"Wow, how rude! Do you kiss you girlfriend with that mouth?" Angel then acted as if the answer just hit him. "Oh...right. I guess not." Morfran pushed Jenny away violently, making her crash into Giles. He growled, a deep animalistic growl and glared furiously at Angel through golden eyes. Angel only adjusted his gun so that it was aimed at Morfran's chest.
"You truly think you'll kill me with that thing?" Morfran asked with a mocking smile.
"He's a vampire, you won't hurt him with a bullet!" Buffy added, looking at Angel with pleading eyes. But he wasn't looking at her. He wasn't looking at Willow or Cordelia, or Giles who was holding Jenny in his arms. He was looking straight into Morfran's eyes.
"Try me." After a beat of hesitation, Morfran nodded to his 4 remaining minions. They started to walk towards Angel, as Buffy placed herself in a fighting position. Ready to kick their ass. As they got closer, Angel moved slightly, and shot. One bullet for each vampire. Right in the heart.
One of the vamps looked down at himself and chuckled. "Bullets don't kill vampires you moro-" He didn't get enough time to finish his sentence, as he turned to dust in shock, with the others.
"My, my, Angel, THAT's impressive. Wooden bullets, never saw that before." Morfran commented.
"Oh god..." Buffy whispered in shock. They knew each other. Angel hadn't just found out about vampires.
"I'm full of surprises" Angel winked at him.
"And I'm full of resources." Morfran stepped back, letting a bunch of vampires who had just arrived attack the gang. Buffy quickly told Giles and the others to go rescue her mom and the others while she fought them. They left, leaving Buffy and Angel alone against a dozen vampires. Stake in hand, they started fighting back.
After staking easily her first vamp, Buffy was surrounded by 2 others. As they made a move to punch her in the face, She crouched and swept her legs, knocking both vampires to the floor. She punched a third in the nose, making his nose bleed. She drove her stake in his heart as she knocked unconscious one of the 2 vamps remaining on the floor with a kick. However, the second one grabbed her foot and pulled, making the slayer fall on her butt. A new vamp jumped on her to pin her to the floor, but she rolled and kicked him in the chin, then the chest. She took advantage of his dizziness and rebounded to her feet. Grabbing her stake, she plunged it in a vamp's heart, withdrew as he turned to dust, only to drive it in the next vamp's.
Angel was aware of the battle his girlfriend was engaged in...and obviously winning, but he couldn't pay attention to it. He had staked the three vampires who had attacked him, and he was now standing in front of Morfran. "You should have stayed away from me. I took you once, I can do it again." Angel exclaimed through clenched teeth.
"I'm stronger now. With Saint Vigious night coming tomorrow, my power increased. By tomorrow night my strength will be three times more important than right now. I'll make you pay Angel. You'll pay for the death of my lover, you'll pay for THIS!" Morfran pointed at his face, but Angel didn't show any guilt. Why should he? He was one of the good guys, Morfran one of the evil very bad guys. End of story.
"You won't make it to the ritual." They launched at each other, exchanging powerful punches and kicks, blocking some attacks, crashing into walls or furniture. At one point, Morfran got a hold of Angel's head and smashed it against a wall, making him bleed on the forehead. He made a move to punch him hard in the jaw but Angel quickly dodged, and the vampire's fist connected with the wall. Angel grabbed his arm and twisted it, forcing him to his knees. Morfran managed to grab Angel's ankle and pulled as he rebounded to his feet, so that Angel crashed on the floor on his back. Morfran took a hold on his neck and slammed his dizzy face hard on floor. As he couldn't help but get punched repetitively in the temple and the jaw, Angel bent his leg and managed to get his dagger out, instantly plunging it in his enemy's stomach. Morfran growled in pain, stepping back, and Angel was once more in front of him. However, the young warrior underestimated his opponent's recovering abilities. In one fast move, Morfran pulled out the dagger from his body, connected his fist with Angel's head, cutting him on the chest and arm with the blade of the dagger as he did. But Angel had learnt to forget pain while fighting, so he only stepped back and executed a high roundhouse, touching Morfran's chest with his boot and knocking him on his ass a few meters away. As he was about to finish him off, the vampire started chuckling.
"You're gonna let your girl die to be able to kill me?" Angel turned around in panic and saw that Buffy was surrounded by a bunch of vampires, who were repetitively punching her, shoving her against a wall. The vampire hunter gasped and everything in his head was forgotten except the danger his girlfriend was in at the moment. He crossed the hall with vampire speed, and as soon as he reached the group, he grabbed the head of the vamp that was holding Buffy by the neck and crashed his skull against the floor, throwing a couple of punch to his face before grabbing a piece of broken furniture and dusting him. Buffy took advantage of the vampires' surprise and struggled out of their hold. She kneed the vampire on her right in the stomach and kicked the one on her left in the nose with her elbow. The slayer bent down and picked up Angel's stake. Before she could use it, the vamps recovered and both grabbed her by an arm. However, she startled them by performing a sudden somersault, kicking the floor with both feet, turning around in the air, leaning on their arms and landing behind them. She drove the stake in the first vamp's back, piercing his heart, and kicked the last one in his back, making him stumble forward onto Angel's piece of wood. A second later, all that was left of the demons was dust.
Buffy and Angel were both panting heavily, exhausted by their long and hard fights of that evening. Buffy was looking at the stake - Angel's stake of all people - in her hand, slowly allowing all the information to reach her mind. Angel too was staring at the stake, but he wasn't thinking about his stake, he was thinking about the hand that was holding the stake. Eventually, at the same time, the two warriors raised their heads, and their eyes locked, silently.
Fear of rejection coursed through Buffy's body, making her shiver as she stared in Angel's amazing brown eyes. Months of lies, false excuses, and frustration overwhelmed Buffy's heart and soul. She didn't even realize tears were falling down her cheeks as she waited for Angel to make a move.
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