Title: Goodbye

Genre: Drama

Rating: PG

Point of View: Angel

Teaser: It takes place after the episode iThere's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb/i. Exactly what did happen when Angel saw Willow?

Note: I wrote this awhile ago. I was just intrested to see how I would think the episode would continue.

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We walked into the hotel, the doors had been flung open in rejoice. We had gotten back home and everyone with us in one piece. Everything seemed wonderful in that moment before I saw Willow. She stood and I knew that something was wrong. The first thing that came into my head was her, "It's Buffy..."

Everyone around me froze. No one said a word. I ran up to Willow and without thinking I grabbed her and shook her, "Buffy, Buffy, what's wrong with Buffy?"

She looked and me and a read it in her eyes. My eyes began to hurt, everything hurt. I heard her whisper my name, but it was useless as I ran though everyone and out the hotel doors. I ran and ran, then somehow climbed unto a building, just jumping from one building to the next.

The pain in my body didn't stop and somehow, when I didn't think it could, it got worse. Finally, I collapsed. Not because I wasn't out of air, but because I couldn't move anymore. That's when I realized that I wasn't out of air. I wasn't breathing. Neither was Buffy. Buffy.

How could I not known? I always thought a part of me inside would die when she left, yet I didn't know. I was swimming in ignorant bliss as her dead body laid somewhere. God, I don't even know how she died. I wanted to die. I knew in that instant that anything would feel better then this. Anything. Just thinking about not being able to look at her again made me ache inside. Her smell, her touch, her taste... it all plagued me. She was the one thing that kept me living and now she was gone.

I could sense the sun would soon rise and I began to welcome it. I just laid there on top of that building, thankful that all of this would be over soon. That's when I saw her. The sun was trickling over the horizon and there in the light was Buffy, shadowing the sun from touching me.

She leaned down and touched my cheek, "Remember what I said to you all those years ago? You're weak, everybody is. Angel, you have the power to do real good and help more people then you could ever imagine. But if you die now, my death will have been in vain."

That's when she pushed me off the building and into a dumpster, it closed on top of me, blocking the sun's rays. All I could do was lay there, ignoring the urge to jump out and chase the dream of her. Then instead of thinking about all the bad times me and Buffy had, I thought about all the good we had and how I would never take it back for anything in the world. She was my soulmate... and I realized that in some way we had just said goodbye.