Buffy was still sulking, new shoes had helped a little bit so she was out
on patrol looking for something to beat up, that would help too.
Unfortunately she had clearly been spoilt by the amount of demons to be
killed on the Hellmouth, so far she had only managed to scare a cat and was
beginning to despair of finding anything to mangle with her new weapons.
Normally she complained about having to patrol, though secretly she didn't really mind; particularly if there was nothing better to do, but now she was out entirely of her own accord looking for evil demons to slaughter for the good of mankind and nothing had the decency to show up to be killed. It just wasn't right.
She decided to climb up a fire escape onto a roof to see if she could find anything to take pot shots at in the alleyways below, also it would take her away from curious eyes and give her feet a rest.
She had almost decided that lying in wait for demons wasn't working either and was about to go back to the Hyperion in disgust when the sound of overturning trash cans drifted up to her. Ever hopeful Buffy raced across the roof to see three large lumpy demons clutching axes and surrounding whatever had knocked the trash cans around.
Then the floored prey turned the tables leaping up with an axe of it's own. Buffy gasped in shock, it was Angel. Well that pretty much settled the do they know about demons question she mused, as she got ready with her crossbow, just in case. Angel seemed to be having difficulties she realized a few seconds later after watching his graceful moves and evasions with admiration, the thick body plating of the demons didn't seem to be breaking and he was unlikely to have much luck going through the small vulnerable cracks with his big old fighting axe.
Carefully taking aim she loosed a bolt on the demon that seemed to be standing back for a moment, and bingo! One bolt fired neatly under the head armour and into the neck and 'crump', demon down. Pleased with herself Buffy got ready to repeat the performance chuckling as she heard Angel yell at the others "You're taking up valuable time in my schedule, if you don't mind can you speed this up and just die already?"
Just then Angel managed to land a solid blow on one of the demons breaking the breastplate. Buffy restrained the urge to whistle or clap, damn he was strong.
The third and last demon stood for a moment as if puzzled by it's sudden aloneness and Buffy took the opportunity to finish it off as she had the first before it made up it's mind to charge Angel again. Smiling smugly she took a half step back from the edge of the roof, debating whether or not to let Angel see her on the roof or to climb down and chat when she heard the commotion of falling trash cans begin again from the other side of the building, Angel heard it too judging by the way his head jerked up and he stopped looking curiously at the two demons she had shot and ran round the building holding his axe ready.
Buffy ran across the top of the building to see a four vampires closing in on a young couple who clutched each other as they tried to sit up between the trash cans they had been flung into. She hastily got her crossbow sights on the leader before a maddened axe man obscured her shot. The fight moved in a blur as Angel roared at the two youngsters to run for it and swung his axe cleanly through the neck of the largest vampire. His dust had barely fallen before the other three vampires jumped on Angel who incredibly shook them off with a growl through his fangs.
Wait a minute! Fangs! Buffy stared as the gorgeous Angel's face shifted into the visage of a vampire. "How?" She muttered clutching her crossbow tightly. Should she shoot and not care who she hit? But vampires weren't made in a matter of hours so, Angel had to have been a vampire earlier and he hadn't set off her ultra reliable creep-o-meter then. What was going on? She was only just getting into the idea of not all demons being evil; now having to expand to accommodate un-evil vampires was just too much.
She swallowed hard, she was specially designed to kill vampires not to help them out in a fight but Angel really didn't seem to be an average vampire and he'd got into the fight for the sake of rescuing two kids, not for himself. With a sigh and that in mind she raised the crossbow again to neatly pick off one of the two remaining vampires as it was about to plunge a piece of broken wood into Angel's chest as Angel dusted the other remaining vampire.
Then she turned, sprinted across the roof, shimmied down half the fire escape before dropping to the ground and hurrying to lose herself in a crowd a few streets away.
There was no way she could face Angel now, not yet anyway.
Normally she complained about having to patrol, though secretly she didn't really mind; particularly if there was nothing better to do, but now she was out entirely of her own accord looking for evil demons to slaughter for the good of mankind and nothing had the decency to show up to be killed. It just wasn't right.
She decided to climb up a fire escape onto a roof to see if she could find anything to take pot shots at in the alleyways below, also it would take her away from curious eyes and give her feet a rest.
She had almost decided that lying in wait for demons wasn't working either and was about to go back to the Hyperion in disgust when the sound of overturning trash cans drifted up to her. Ever hopeful Buffy raced across the roof to see three large lumpy demons clutching axes and surrounding whatever had knocked the trash cans around.
Then the floored prey turned the tables leaping up with an axe of it's own. Buffy gasped in shock, it was Angel. Well that pretty much settled the do they know about demons question she mused, as she got ready with her crossbow, just in case. Angel seemed to be having difficulties she realized a few seconds later after watching his graceful moves and evasions with admiration, the thick body plating of the demons didn't seem to be breaking and he was unlikely to have much luck going through the small vulnerable cracks with his big old fighting axe.
Carefully taking aim she loosed a bolt on the demon that seemed to be standing back for a moment, and bingo! One bolt fired neatly under the head armour and into the neck and 'crump', demon down. Pleased with herself Buffy got ready to repeat the performance chuckling as she heard Angel yell at the others "You're taking up valuable time in my schedule, if you don't mind can you speed this up and just die already?"
Just then Angel managed to land a solid blow on one of the demons breaking the breastplate. Buffy restrained the urge to whistle or clap, damn he was strong.
The third and last demon stood for a moment as if puzzled by it's sudden aloneness and Buffy took the opportunity to finish it off as she had the first before it made up it's mind to charge Angel again. Smiling smugly she took a half step back from the edge of the roof, debating whether or not to let Angel see her on the roof or to climb down and chat when she heard the commotion of falling trash cans begin again from the other side of the building, Angel heard it too judging by the way his head jerked up and he stopped looking curiously at the two demons she had shot and ran round the building holding his axe ready.
Buffy ran across the top of the building to see a four vampires closing in on a young couple who clutched each other as they tried to sit up between the trash cans they had been flung into. She hastily got her crossbow sights on the leader before a maddened axe man obscured her shot. The fight moved in a blur as Angel roared at the two youngsters to run for it and swung his axe cleanly through the neck of the largest vampire. His dust had barely fallen before the other three vampires jumped on Angel who incredibly shook them off with a growl through his fangs.
Wait a minute! Fangs! Buffy stared as the gorgeous Angel's face shifted into the visage of a vampire. "How?" She muttered clutching her crossbow tightly. Should she shoot and not care who she hit? But vampires weren't made in a matter of hours so, Angel had to have been a vampire earlier and he hadn't set off her ultra reliable creep-o-meter then. What was going on? She was only just getting into the idea of not all demons being evil; now having to expand to accommodate un-evil vampires was just too much.
She swallowed hard, she was specially designed to kill vampires not to help them out in a fight but Angel really didn't seem to be an average vampire and he'd got into the fight for the sake of rescuing two kids, not for himself. With a sigh and that in mind she raised the crossbow again to neatly pick off one of the two remaining vampires as it was about to plunge a piece of broken wood into Angel's chest as Angel dusted the other remaining vampire.
Then she turned, sprinted across the roof, shimmied down half the fire escape before dropping to the ground and hurrying to lose herself in a crowd a few streets away.
There was no way she could face Angel now, not yet anyway.
