Rating: PG. (Includes some swearing and violence). If you're allowed to watch the show, you can read this.

Summary: Set a few years after Rain of Fire. Connor has a chat with mystery blonde in the park. The blonde turns out to be Darla. Gunn tries to kill Darla. Darla is taken to hospital after fainting. They find out she is human. I don't know what happens in the series 'cause I'm not going to read the spoilers! OK, I've read up to Rain of Fire but no more. Some things may be wrong.

Disclaimer: Anything you recognise in this story belongs to Joss Whedon and co. Please don't sue!

A/N: Thanks for reviewing guys! I'll try to do some of the things you suggest! Preferably no flames but do point out my flaws. Be gentle!

Also, feel free to suggest possible pairings!

Chapter 6- Jealousy

Darla laid on her back and stretched. She looked at the sleeping figure next to her and smiled.

Lindsey opened his eyes. He looked into Darla's eyes and gave her a kiss on the lips.

"How'd you sleep?"

Darla sighed. "Great. I had a very nice dream..."

"Oh yeah? What was it about?"

Darla grinned.

"Bad bad girl." Lindsey wagged his finger at her.

Darla squealed as he pulled her to him.

"You started it."

"Me?" Lindsey pretended to look shocked.

"Yeah. You." Darla poked him in the chest.

"Aw, hey!"

Darla giggled.

"Hang on a sec, didn't you have..." Lindsey frowned.

"Yeah..." Darla looked down. "It's gone."

"Gone?"

"Yeah, when I came back I noticed that well you know and I dunno."

"Something must have happened when you were between dimensions."

"Mmmm..." Darla closed her eyes.

"Don't want to think about huh?"

"Yeah."

"I swear, if you've given me that- "

"Then we'll die a slow painful death together." Darla smiled.

Lindsey returned her smile and dropped a kiss on her nose.

"Get some more sleep yeah?"

"Yeah."

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"Where do you think you're going?"

"To the mall." Dawn picked up her purse.

"Dawn, we need help here."

"Yeah, when you start treating me like an adult, I'll help."

"Ready Dawn?"

Buffy's jaw dropped open.

"Yeah, let's go."

"You're not going alone with her."

"Why not? Buffy, you said you're not going to take me to that mall so I asked Darla to."

"Dawn, she's an ex vamp." Buffy hissed.

"So? She not a vampire any more."

"That doesn't change anything."

"Oh, so if I want to go shopping with a friend." Dawn made sure to stress the word. "It's wrong. But if you want to date a vampire it's OK?"

"That is different."

"No it's not. Anyway, if something happened and he lost-"

"Nothing like that is going to happen."

"How can you be sure? Something nearly did."

"Um... I'd hate to interrupt, but Lindsey's waiting in the car."

Buffy stared at Darla icily. "It's none of your business."

"Hey, are you girls coming or what?"

"Yeah, we're coming." Dawn threw on last look at Buffy.

Buffy watched as Dawn left the hotel with Darla and Lindsey.

"Don't blame her, pet."

Buffy spun round.

"She just wants some freedom." Spike cocked his head.

"Shut up Spike."

"Aw, c'mon pet. Don't be so cold."

"One more word from you and I'll throw you into the sun."

"Hey, hey. We'll have none of that in here thanks." Cordy rushed up to them.

"Since when did you become a peace maker?" Buffy asked, turning her icy stare to Cordy.

Cordy looked surprised and was about to say something when Buffy turned on her heels and stormed off.

"Must be that time of the month." Cordy shook her head and went back to work.

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"So how come you're not upset anymore?" Dawn took a pink top off its hanger.

"Well, I realised that there was a way to live without some things and anyway, I've got Lindsey now."

"He's kinda cute."

"Really cute and very good to me too." Darla raised her eyebrows.

Both girls giggled.

"You wanna to grab a coffee or something?" Darla snatched the pink top out of Dawn's hands.

"Yeah, sure." Dawn pouted. "What's wrong with that top?"

"Well let's see. It's skimpy, revealing and you are not wearing this out in public."

Dawn rolled her eyes.

"What?"

"You are so old fashioned."

"It's not my fault I'm over 400 years old."

"400?"

"Yeah. In those days, if you wore anything that was a tiny bit revealing, you'd get a lot of stick for it. And

most men would probably keep away from skinny, skimpily clad women."

"Oh my God." Dawn looked astonished. "Maybe I should have listened in my history lessons more.

"Ha! Well you had to be there to know what it was like."

"Cool, so what were you when you were human?"

Darla looked down. "I... was a prostitute."

"Ah. OK."

"I'm not proud about the things I did. But I had to. Do you think I liked being used? If I had been offered a rich husband and a nice house I would have taken it, but no one back then wanted a wife who was impure."

Dawn looked down. "So will you tell me about life back then? I mean if you want to."

"Sure, but I wouldn't eat anything while I tell you though." Darla pulled a face. "It's not very nice."

A few hours later, Lindsey's car pulled up in front of the mall.

"So did you girls have fun?"

"Yeah." Dawn looked at Darla and grinned. "Loads of fun."

"I hope you didn't talk about me." Lindsey flashed them a smile.

"Don't worry, it was all good." Darla leaned over and kissed him.

"Oh hurry up! We're going to miss passions." Dawn was jumping up and down her seat at the back.

"OK OK"

"Step on it!"

Dawn sprinted out of the car closely followed by Darla, then Lindsey.

"Race you!" Dawn turned round and called out.

Dawn crashed through the doors. She narrowly missed bumping into Angel.

"Woah, hey. Slow down." Angel quickly stepped back to avoid being squashed by Dawn.

Angel was just about to walk again when Darla came running through the doors with Lindsey in tow. Angel looked at the happy couple. He watched as Lindsey pulled Darla down to sit on the couch. Darla giggled. Angel turned away. That was Darla, his Darla with Lindsey of all people. And as much as he hated to admit it, he was a little jealous. OK fine, really jealous.

"Hey, you coming?" Buffy walked up to him.

"What? Oh yea, yea, I'm coming." Angel took one last look at Darla and followed Buffy out.

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Angel sat on his bed. It was eight in the morning and he would usually be asleep by now. But lately he was finding it harder and harder to sleep. Darla was still constantly on his mind. He really wanted to strangle Lindsey, that worthless excuse for a man. Angel sighed and rubbed his face. OK so he was completely jealous of Lindsey. So what? Yeah and there was still that little Buffy issue. As much as he tried to avoid it, it always seemed to crop up in conversations. Especially in conversations with Lindsey. See, there he was again. First he steals his girl, then he-. Argh! Angel shook his head and decided to try and get some sleep.

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"OK, is everybody ready?" Gunn called out. "Hello?"

"What? Yeah we're ready... Well most of us are." Wesley leaned against the wall and looked at the other men.

"It's good to have you back man." Gunn walked over and stood next to Wesley.

"Yeah. It's good to be back."

"Did you have fun in England?"

"Yeah. Nice to see my parents and well there is the council but I won't go into what they said."

Gunn laughed. "So there wasn't a welcome home party from them then?"

"No. But Lilah did like England."

"Oh did she?" Gunn raised his eyebrows. "I didn't think you were the type of guy to go for that kind of girl."

"What type of guy? And what kind of girl?"

"I didn't know you liked the bad girls."

Wesley opened his mouth to say something when he stopped. Gunn looked around at the other men. They were all staring at the stairs too. Gunn looked towards the stairs.

Angel's eyes nearly popped out when he saw Darla walk down the stairs. She was wearing a long silky red dress that flowed down her body. It looked as if it was made for her. She had her hair loose around her shoulders. Unfortunately for Angel, Lindsey noticed too. He walked to the bottom of the stairs to meet her. Angel forced himself to looked away. He turned his attention to the other girls who were coming down.

After Darla came Lilah, she was wearing a long velvety dress. Her hair was twirled up into a knot at the back of her head. Then came Cordy. She was wearing a long blue dress. She was followed by Anya, Dawn, Willow and Fred. Last of all came Buffy. She was wearing a short white dress with a thick belt. Her hair was also twisted up. When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she pouted and walked over to Angel and kissed him on the lips.

Connor walked over to his mum.

"Hey. You really clean up well." Darla smiled looking at her son.

"Clean up well?" Connor growled.

Darla covered her mouth with her hand.

"What's so funny?" Connor frowned.

Darla tried to say something but found that it was no use since she couldn't even string a sentence together. So she just pointed. Both Connor and Lindsey laughed.

"OK people, let's get this leaving dinner on the road." Gunn led everyone out.

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"Wow. This is one very posh place." Fred peered around the large circular room.

"Right, we're at table 9." Angel led everyone towards a table.

"Oooh, thank you." Darla smiled as Lindsey pulled out a chair for her.

Angel frowned. Darla obviously liked him very much. OK, here he goes again, thinking about things you shouldn't be thinking about.

"OK, let's order." Lindsey rubbed his hands and opened his menu.

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Three hours later, everyone sat back from their huge feast.

"I am not eating again." Dawn moaned patting her stomach.

"Then you shouldn't have had all that ice cream." Buffy looked up at Angel.

"Well I'm glad I don't get full on food." Angel sat back. "I'm still hungry."

"Aw, poor Angel." Darla smiled and patted his arm.

"It's not funny."

"Yeah, stop teasing him." Buffy frowned.

Lindsey laughed and made no sign of covering it. Buffy glared at him.

"Ahem." Lindsey covered his mouth.

Darla smiled and nudged him with her elbow and whispered something in his ear.

"Hey, stop it." Lindsey smiled. "Plenty of time for that later."

"You two! Please, not here." Connor looked away.

Angel also looked away. He couldn't bear seeing them together. OK, so that may be a little selfish. He wanted Darla to be happy but...

"Hello?" Buffy waved her hand in front of Angel's face.

"Yeah?" Angel shook his head.

"Should we go?"

"Yeah."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Oh, it's just that you seem kinda down."

"I'm OK. Really."

Darla frowned. She had suddenly remembered that Connor was upset about something. She looked across the table. Tonight, he seems pretty happy. She watched as he whispered something in Cordelia's ear.

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"Connor!"

Connor turned around.

"Yeah?"

Darla ran up to him. "Honey, tell me what's wrong."

"Nothing really."

"Connor." Darla gave him a knowing look. "I've been alive for over 400 years. I know when people have things bothering them. Now what's wrong."

Connor looked down and walked to the couch. Darla followed him.

"Its Cordy." Connor looked at his feet.

"What?"

"She's just been really strange lately. OK, she seems normal when she's around everyone else but when we're alone, she won't even touch me."

"Why?"

"I don't know." Connor put his face in his hands.

"Come here." Darla gave her son a hug. "Look, I know I haven't been around for very long but I'm sure it's nothing. Just talk to her."

Connor nodded. "'M gonna go to bed."

"Sleep tight."

Connor got up and dragged himself upstairs.

"'Bout time too."

Darla looked over to the counter.

"Now then. Why don't you pay me some attention?" Lindsey walked to stand in front of her.

"Oh I don't know. Do you deserve it?" Darla tapped her chin with a finger.

Lindsey smirked and offered her a hand. Darla took it and stood up.

"Right then... Your room or mine?" Lindsey smiled.

Darla giggled and hit him in the chest.

In the shadows, Angel cast his eyes down. He sighed and shook his head. Why does he keep spying on her? Angel tried to shut out the happy giggles coming from the landing. He kicked the wall in anger.

To Be Continued...

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