Thanks again for the reviews!

Angel's curse? Nah, I won't put that in, even I'm not that evil, even if I am making you all wait ages for secrets to get found out and for B/A smoochies!

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Her bed was strange this morning Buffy decided sleepily as she squirmed, trying to get more comfortable. There was a sharp cornered rectangular lump digging into her thigh that simply shouldn't be there. She stretched down a hand and grabbed whatever it was and dumped it out of the way without opening her eyes. That was better; she gave a grunt of satisfaction. A pillow had never been so comfortable. She buried her face in it and was startled when the pillow twitched.

She lifted her head and found herself looking straight into Angel's eyes.

She sat up with a squeak, hastily checking for drool with one hand and franticly trying to tame her probably now insane hairdo with the other. There was no drool, which was very much a good thing. Messy hair was forgivable; drool was not.

Apart from the wrinkles in his once pristine grey shirt where she had slept on him, using his chest as a truly wonderful pillow Angel looked as perfect as ever. He smiled up at her and reached out a tentative hand to tuck a loose wisp of hair back into place.

"Hey." She said lamely.

He smiled at her, "Hey," he returned softly.

"Guess we fell asleep."

"Guess we did."

Buffy gazed into Angel's gorgeous brown eyes, she had never been so close to him before and she wanted to make the most of it before she had to wake up properly and crawl off him. He gazed back at her with a tiny smile playing around his suddenly incredibly, irresistibly kissable mouth.

Buffy's heartbeat sped up and blood whooshed in her ears. Her mind raced over the possibilities in a few seconds.

Did she dare? Could she kiss him and live with either possible set of consequences?

Door number one where he kissed her back and became her adoring boyfriend looked really good, but door number two where he backed away spitting with disgust was a horrifying prospect.

But hadn't she boasted to Gunn only last night she did what she wanted now? Hadn't she said to Willow when they first met 'Carpe diem' so why was she not following her own rules? Angel was definitely worth the risk.

She'd make it a slow movie type kiss, the one where she would lowered her head towards his at a rate of half an inch a second. Thus giving him ample time to either close the distance or pull away screaming. She slowly moved towards him.

Angel lay sleepily watching as Buffy fussed with her hair, but what woman didn't in the morning? She looked kinda cute with her hair sticking off at all angles. But from Doyle's experiences with Cordelia in the mornings he knew better than to voice such a sentiment.

Then he watched as she gazed at him before slowly lowering her upper body back down beside him, leaving her legs tangled with his. As her face got closer to his he stared, this couldn't really be happening, could it? She looked as if she was actually going to kiss him. He wasn't going to argue, or get his hopes up but he angled his face so if she moved forwards another few inches on her current trajectory her lips would exactly meet his.

With an inch to go a throat was loudly cleared in the doorway and they jerked apart looking up to see a short, mostly human looking demon framed in the doorway.

Angel looked at Buffy who had slithered off him flushed with embarrassment and leapt to his feet to hustle the demon into his office before Buffy recovered sufficiently to realize that it was more than just an ugly human she had seen.

Over his shoulder he asked, "See you at lunch?"

Buffy nodded at him with a sweet smile.

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My friend who is reading and correcting this over my shoulder as I write said that was all too predictable and totally evil, it was rather wasn't it?

I'll make up for it I promise!