Author Notes: I decided to put the author notes at the beginning this time so that you wouldn't have to read it at the end of the story, cause I know when I am just done reading a story I like to reflect on it a bit. Oh yea sorry for taking so long to get this chapter out. I really have a motivation problem. So enough blabber and on with chapter two!

Oh Yea (again)! I would never in a million years be able to own Buffy's show. (If I did personally I would have Angel and Buffy together forever.)

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Recap: Getting up cautiously she looked over the couch. What she saw was not what she was expecting. On the ground laid a man in tattered clothes. Buffy cautiously walked around the couch and pointed the crossbow at the man's heart. All of the sudden the man looked up.

It was Angel.

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Buffy jerked back as if she had been hit. With her eyes wide she laid the crossbow down, but keep the sword in her hands just in case. During all of this Angel kept his eyes on her, and followed her every move tensely.

" Angel." Whispered Buffy.

" How do you know that name?!" Angel asked sharply.

"Why wouldn't I remember that name? It's the only name I have ever called you." Buffy said shocked.

" I don't know who you are, and I don't know how you know that name, but you aren't going to get anymore of a reaction out of me than any of the others." He said determinedly.

" Reaction? What are you talking about?" A confused Buffy asked.

Instead of answering her, he just got up and started walking away.

" Angel! Wait! Come back! It's me Buffy." She said running after him.

Angel tensed up, stopped and said, " And so are a million others." Then started to walk away again.

" But."

" Don't." He stopped and then said in a voice that was soft but deadly sounding.

" Don't start pretending to be her and then become another demon again. I may have fell for it before, but I know better now so you might as well get to the torture part."

That was when Buffy finally noticed all of the scars that laced his back.

" Oh my god." She whispered bringing her right hand to her mouth.

Immediately she rushed to his side. She was just about to pull him to her for a hug when he swung a punch at her. On pure instinct she was able to block it.

Then he sent a kick to her knees that dropped her to the ground like a bag of bricks. She jumped right back up and delivered a spinning kick to his head that he blocked.

Buffy backed up and stood on guard.

" You don't think I would be that easy to get to do you." He said snidely. " I may not be able hold out forever but I will never give up without a fight."

" Angel listen to me!" She pleaded with him. " I don't know what or who you are talking about, but I am me or I mean Buffy. Believe me! Please." She said the last word in a soft whisper.

She saw him hesitate and then continue walking up the stairs and out of sight. Buffy walked back to the couch and dropped her sword with a clang next to her weapons bag. Then she sank into the dip in the couch once again, and shed tears there for the second time that day.

After awhile she wiped away her tears and got her cell phone out. Dialing Giles number she waited as it rang. Then she heard someone pick up the phone.

" Hello?"

" Giles. It's me Buffy."

" Buffy what's wrong?"

" You know that portal you said was going to open?"

" Yes."

"Well it opened."

" Oh."

" Is that all you are going to say?" She asked a little surprised.

" I am trying to recollect myself." He said.

" If that's enough to get you put out I better not tell you the rest then."

" There's more?"

" Yea. Angel came out of the portal. And when I told him that I was me he told me that so were a million others and walked away."

" Buffy I want you to get out of there. Do you hear me? Angel is probably in a dangerous state of mind right now. I will not have you risk yourself."

" Yea he did take a punch and kick at me. And me knees are still telling me about it." She said as she rubbed the back of her left knee.

" I want you to wait outside for me. I am coming to get you. I don't want to risk you driving right now. Especially with the speed demon of a thing you call a car."

" Giles if a didn't know any better I would say you cracked a funny."

" Yes well I must be on a roll. I will talk to you as soon as I get there. Be careful ok?"

" Always."

Then she hung up the phone and sat there for a moment contemplating what she was going to do until Giles came to pick her up. But before she could make a decision she heard Angel's voice talking to her.

" Why haven't you come after me yet?"

" Because I don't want to attack you. That's why." She said turning away from him so that she didn't see his face.

" Why don't you just turn into the demon I know you are and start the torture?"

" You know with the way you are carrying on one would think you enjoyed being tortured."

" It's a suitable enough punishment." He said shrugging his shoulders.

" Punishment?"

" For what I did to her."

" Who is she? This woman that you care so much about." Buffy said a little hesitantly.

" She was my life. But now she surly must be dead for it's been hundreds of years since I was sent to hell."

" What was her name?" Buffy persisted. Ignoring the fact that he said that he had been in hell for hundreds of years.

"Buffy was her name. You should know that. It has been your favorite torture for centuries, always pretending to be her but turning into a demon as soon as I give in."

Buffy who had been standing was so sick with relief that she sank into the couch in gratefulness.

" Thank god." She whispered not knowing that he heard her.

" I never thought I would live, or should I say die to see the day a demon in hell would pray to the god almighty in heaven." He said sarcastically.

" You know I am really getting sick of the fact that you keep calling me a demon."

" Why it's the truth you know."

" I'm leaving."

" That's a relief."

" You know Angel. I know hell must be a horrible place to live, but I never thought I would live to see the day that you would lose your soul to the things you hate most."

" Well you know you guys haven't exactly made my life a picnic down here."

" Down where Angel! Where exactly is down here?!"

" In hell of course. You would think after so many years you guys would learn to find a different torture."

Each time they said something to each other they got closer and closer together.

" You want torture? I will tell you about torture! I spent two months of my life having my head messed with by a demon in disguise of the man that I love. Then as if to prove that it wasn't enough, fate decided that I had to send him to hell. And it wasn't the demon I sent to hell either. It had two be him, the one man in the world that deserved to go to heaven the most. And to top it all off my watcher, the man I regard as a father, is happy that I sent him to hell, doesn't even care that it kills me every time someone mentions his name. Or Xander calls him deadboy. Or when I walk into my room at night, and remember the happiest night of my life is what caused me the most grief I have ever experienced. I know torture. I hold it dear to my heart because after loosing him I lost everything else."

While she said all this tears fell down her face, and finished in silence.

He just stood and looked at her. Then he silently walked over to her and wiped away her tears. Keeping his right hand on her face he looked her in the eye and said.

"I don't know what I am getting myself into. But you feel different from all the others. It's funny." He said laughingly. "But for all the times I fell for the demon tricks that have been pulled on me, never once did they make me feel what I felt with her. and what I am feeling right now." After he said this he rubbed his thumb over her cheek.

"What are you feeling?" She asked in a whisper.

"Unconditional love. Love that lasts no matter what happens."

When she heard this she pulled away from his hand and turned her back on him.

"I don't deserve that kind of love. Not anymore." She finished in a whisper. And then started to walk away to the door.

Angel looked shocked for a moment and then saw that she had left her weapons bag and cell phone on the couch. He picked them up and called out.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" while holding up her weapons bag, and cell phone.

Buffy turned and looked. Walking back she stopped right in front of him.

"What do you want from me?" She asked bluntly.

"I want to know if what I am feeling is real or if it is another demon trick."

"Angel I wouldn't be able to convince you even if I wanted to."

"So this is a demon trick. I should have known." He said turning away.

"I not a demon Angel! I'm a human with a broken heart."

"Why are you heart broken?" He said turning to her once again.

"Because I have to push you away."

"Why do you have to push me away?"

" Because think about it. Every time I would be around you I would have the urge to kiss the daylights out of you and eventually. it would lead to more than just kissing. I wouldn't be able to stand having you lose your soul to me again, because of my wants and needs."

While she said all this, her eyes wondered all around the room, resting on anything but Angel, in till he grab her hands softly and gently brought them to his lips and kissed them. Then looking in her eyes he said.

"I don't care."

"Angel you may not care but I do. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you again. I wouldn't be able to deal with that kind of agony."

She said slowly as she brought her hands away from his lips. And then she picked up her cell phone and weapons bag, and started to walk away again.

"I called Giles before you came back down. He told me that I should go outside and wait for him. He says that you're probably in a dangerous state of mind right now. I think he was right. You had better get behind something it's still daylight out."

"No" He said determinedly. " I'm not letting you leave in till we talk. But if you're so determined to leave all you have to do is open the door and shine a little light on the situation."

"Angel get behind something. I have to go outside so I can meet Giles."

" Not in till we talk." He said stubbornly.

"We have already talked Angel. There's nothing left to talk about."

Slowly Angel started to stalk towards her. Making Buffy back up against the door.

"You see that's where you're wrong. The way I see it we have plenty to talk about. And I am not letting you out of this mansion in till we do."

"Ok. So talk already."

"First sit down on the couch."

"How can I? You have me backed up against the door."

"Well how else was I to make sure you didn't leave?" He said giving her a look.

"Asking would have been suitable enough."

"Like you would have stayed if I had asked."

"No. Not likely, but it would have been proper manners." She said as Angel backed up and let her walk to the couch.

"And since when was you worried about proper etiquette?"

"What do you think we need to talk about Angel?" She said getting straight to the point.

"About us."

"We already went over this. There is no us. And if that is all you have to say then I've got to be going." And then she started to get up, but was pulled down by Angel.

"You say that there is no us. That there can be nothing between you and me. Then prove it. Kiss me. And then tell me after you kiss me that you felt nothing. If what you say is true then tell me you didn't fell anything, and I will leave you alone, and let you leave."

"Angel you know I can't do that."

"Why? Are you afraid?"

"Yes." She said in a whisper.

" I won't hurt you."

" I know that!" She said in an outburst of emotion. "But if I kiss you now I know I won't be able to leave."

"Is that so bad? Do you that desperately want to leave?"

"I have to. Giles is meeting me outside and." She trailed off as Angel's lips started to get closer to hers.

" Do you have any other excuses you want to get out?" He asked, as he was only inches away.

" No" She said as she looked into his chocolate colored eyes.

" Good" He said as he descended upon her lips.

Buffy closed her eyes in bliss. Angel kissed her with a warm teasing pressure at first in till he heard a moan escape from her. At once it was like a flood gate opened and Angel poured all of his emotions in to the kiss. A gasp came from her and Angel used that opportunity to deepen the kiss. Tired of keeping her hands at her sides she brought them up and tangled them in his hair. Moaning Angel brought his hands to the sides of her face so that he could get better situated. Kissing for a little while longer they broke apart.

Buffy was desperate for breath, and red as a beet.

"It's nice to know that hell hasn't effected my kissing techniques." Angel said with a smile.

" You know if that hadn't been such a good kiss I would punch you right now."

" Lucky for me." He said laughing.

All of a sudden they heard a knock on the door.

" Buffy I know you're in there. Open the door. It's locked."

"It's Giles." She said to him in a sad whisper.

"Go."

"I don't want to."

"You have to you have no idea what he will do if you don't."

"Alright. But I'm coming back tonight to see you."

" You better. Hurry."

"Buffy are you ok in there? I'm coming in."

Buffy picked up her weapons bag right before she called out to Giles.

"That's ok Giles I'll be right out."

Just as she started walking to the door a bright light exploded in the room throwing Buffy to the floor. Suddenly she started feeling a pulling on her body. She turned and saw Angel pulling her to him from his position of hanging on the couch. Putting the weapons bag over her shoulder she grabbed on to anything she could as she made her way to Angel.

"What's happening Angel?" Buffy Screamed.

" I don't know. Hold on to me."

Over all the noise they heard Giles yelling for Buffy outside the door. Buffy's eyes widened as she heard Giles say he was coming in.

"No don't come in." She yelled. Though not loud enough cause all of the sudden the door opened and in came Giles. The sudden opening of the door caused the couch to shift making Angel and Buffy loose there holds on the couch. Hanging on to each other they flew back towards the hole in the bright light, and went in to it. All at once the bright light stopped. Giles stood staring at the spot where the portal was. Getting his cell phone out he called Willow.

"Willow its Giles. Buffy's gone."

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