Authors note: I've decided to do the Spike chaps after this one, figured I had to sort of tie things up with Buff and Angel before I could carry anything on. Might decide to bring some more characters in later chaps too e.g Gunn. Who knows what my imagination will come up with next.

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Here goes.

Chap 15

Angelus had lain awake all night planning his next move. Here lay the slayer so easily at hand. With one swift movement he could be on top of her, sucking at her neck until she lay dead, another century another slayer dead.

But for some reason Angelus felt oddly attached to the slayer, her small fragile body slept soundlessly next to him and he didn't want it to go, he didn't want to be the one who killed the slayer and never be able to see her again.

So it was decided to make her like him. To make her a creature of the night, eternally to be linked to him, she was to be his mate. But before he preformed the ritual, he decided to play with his knew fascination; tease her till she begged him to take her. These thoughts excited him in a way like no other.

The blonde began to stir next to him, so he rolled on his side and put his best Angel face on as she awoke next to him.

"Hey" she smiled instantly noticing the dark brooding look of her love. There was something not right though, there was something missing from his dark chocolate eyes.

"You ok?" Angelus forced the worry to enter his voice, instantly he looked downwards, the innocence flowed over his body.

"Yeah I'm good." Buffy move her body closer to his and placed a hand in the centre of his chest before kissing him lightly.

"Good." Angelus kissed back, careful not to let the beast rise.

Buffy rested her head on his arm as she traced a line down his chest. "What time is it?" She asked, knowing that she would have to leave the safety of his arms soon.

"7 AM." Angelus wrapped an arm loosely around her waist.

Buffy wriggled from under the sea of covers and made her way across the room to the bathroom. "Shit, where are my clothes Angel." She called from the bathroom.

Angelus in his duty to be Angel leapt up from the bed and ran to the lounge where they had previously been.

Buffy hurried out of the bathroom and continued to get dressed; unaware of the stare she was receiving from Angelus.

For some reason he couldn't take his eyes of her body that was so golden and gleaming. There was no way he was going to let that body go.

"What?" Buffy looked up at him, feeling his penetrating stare as she did up her boots.

"You." Angelus stood in awe. Who would have thought that he would also be in love with one of Angel's girls? For some reason he thought he would have wanted to be rid of everything to do with Angel, but it appeared, he did not want to be rid of her.

Buffy smiled and walked towards him, holding his hand in hers. "I love you." She whispered, kissing his again.

"I love you" Angelus couldn't believe what he was just saying. He felt a sudden burn of hatred appear in the pit of his stomach that shocked him, the mixed signals he was receiving was driving him nuts. He hated her so much that he loved her. Spike was right. They could never have been just friends.

Buffy left the house and ran for home. Her mother was going to go nuts. She had stayed out all night without telling her where she was; she was going to be grounded for weeks.

Buffy closed the door of Revello Drive slowly and creeped into the kitchen hoping she had gotten away with it. There sat at the table were her mother and Giles.

"Where have you been?!?" Joyce exclaimed her worry quickly turning to anger. "I was up all night waiting for you, until Mr Giles called this morning at 6." Joyce grabbed hold of Buffy and hugged her tight.

"Sorry mom." Buffy answered sheepishly looking over at Giles, who had removed his glasses and looked panic stricken.

"Joyce, do you mind if I had a word with Buffy about some homework please?" Giles looked over a Joyce and willed the women to leave the room so he could tell his slayer what he had just discovered.

"Yeah ok." Joyce nodded and took one last look at her daughter before leaving the room.

Buffy looked at her watcher and instant worry began to well up inside her, she hated to see him worried, the glasses showed a sure sign of his current state. "What is it?" Buffy took a seat next to him.

"Last night after you left I consulted the books about Angel." Giles looked up at Buffy. "He used to be Angelus a well known vampire that could have easily have taken over the world if it had not been for his curse."

"Curse?" Buffy looked confused.

"His soul Buffy. One night he took a gypsy girl and killed her, fortunately the other gypsies managed to curse him with a soul forever, damning him to remember his crimes. Unfortunately for us, there's a loop hole." Giles' worry became more frantic.

"He needs one moment of pure and total happiness and his soul will once again disappear and the beast shall arise." Giles continued to stare at Buffy.

"Pure happiness. What does that include?" Buffy asked cautiously.

"It could be anything - Anything that could provide total happiness."

"How would I know it's this Angelus?" Buffy asked her watcher.

"Oh you'd know. Angelus was famous for his vicious personality."

Buffy breathed a sigh of relief. Sex couldn't have been included, that was Angel she had left that morning, his innocence was clear, he even said he had loved her. What kind of an evil vampire would declare love on a slayer?

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