Sorry guys, I did try to post yesterday but couldn't even get onto the
site, grr. I really lived up to my pen name when I kept getting 'The
gateway timed out, the server is as dead as a damn dodo' messages! Why does
this always happen when I'm desperate to post?!
Anyway, I'm nearing the end with this fic now, thank you all for being a great audience and not making with the flames, and an extra huge thank you for all the encouraging and helpful reviews I've had.
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"Buffy!" yelled Doyle in dismay as he watched Angel and his tiny sister body-slammed by several enormous lizards, "What the hell is she doing here?"
"Long story." Said Cordelia as she tossed him a sword and struck out with her own. "She can hold her own though."
Doyle clutched the sword and looked disbelievingly from his girlfriend to the pile of demons clambering over his kid sister. "No way, I know she gets into fights at school but demons are entirely different."
Before Cordelia had a chance to stop him he plowed across the room and sank his sword into the rump of one of the demons flattening Buffy. The demon yowled, leapt up and staggered away. Doyle was about ready to repeat the performance when a dainty hand appeared through a gap the demon had left with a stake clutched tight in it's fingers. A spilt second later the stake was buried deep in a demon's flank. Doyle blinked in surprise as the demon jolted a little and then didn't move again. Doyle gave another demon some serious encouragement with his blade and it finally shifted off the heap. He employed the same technique on a few more of the demons and moments later Buffy and Angel crawled from under the now much smaller pile of seemingly dead demons looking somewhat the worse for wear.
"Why did I wear this coat?" grumbled Buffy, "I like this coat, stupid demons." She looked up in surprise, "Doyle!" she squealed joyfully. "You're all rescued and not dead, this is such good thing!"
Doyle smiled in relief and amazement; Angel crawling out from under that pile more or less unscathed wasn't exactly a shocker but Buffy-
Then she sidestepped him and launched a spinning roundhouse kick that connected with a sharp cracking sound, her target's neck snapped and the demon thudded to the ground dead.
Doyle's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He'd known Buffy to have violent tendencies on occasion but to see her break a demon's neck with a single kick was a little too much to handle.
"Try to kill my brother huh?" Buffy sneered at the dead demon as she retrieved her sword, "That's what you get!"
Then she sprang towards one of the few remaining demons and brought her sword crashing down on its head, Doyle winced and watched with sickened fascination as the skull split and a tiny blob of stuff flopped out and lay wobbling on the floor.
Buffy peered at it, "Eew! Teensy weensy Jell-O brains!" she sang triumphantly before skipping back to where Angel and Doyle stood. She flung her arms round Doyle and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Welcome back!" she cheered before releasing him and bounding towards Angel and leaping into his arms.
Angel staggered slightly as Buffy clambered on him, flinging her arms around his neck and hooking her legs around his hips like a monkey. "Are we the team or what?" she chirped happily.
Angel grinned back at her recalling how smoothly and comfortably they had fought together, "We were great."
Buffy beamed at him with pleasure and pressed a quick kiss to his lips before they became aware that they were the focus of attention in the room.
"What?" they said defensively as Buffy self consciously slithered back onto the ground.
Willow shot Buffy a cheeky grin and a subtle little thumbs up before trying to drag Oz and Xander out of the door. She was having trouble with Xander until she said the magic words, "C'mon guys, lets go get some Pizza."
"Ice cream too?" checked Xander hopefully before he grabbed a protesting Anya and followed.
"But I wanted to watch." Grumbled Anya allowing herself to be pulled along.
"Watch what?!" Xander asked as they left the room.
Giles and Wesley strolled off companionably together mumbling something about a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits.
Gunn held out a hand to Fred and they dashed after the others. "Think we can get Tacos?" Asked Fred as they hurried out of the door.
Only Buffy, Angel, Doyle and Cordelia remained.
Buffy drew a deep breath and rushed into speech, "Its okay Doyle, I'm cool with the whole Angel's a vampire thing and I know you're a demon too, which is also cool cos I've been doing loads of reading lately about how some demons are harmless and I know you're like a harmless human/Brakken demon hybrid. You also don't need to worry about me slaying you because I'm a cool, new-agey, forward thinking type of slayer and my watcher isn't all 'It's a demon, you must slay it!' so you really don't need to panic, I can tell the difference between evil and non-evil." She paused thoughtfully, "Well usually anyway. There were a few teachers at high-school I wasn't really sure of."
Doyle remained speechless.
Angel stumbled into speech too when it became clear Doyle wasn't about to speak, "Yeah, Buffy's really not a typical slayer or I wouldn't have fallen in love with her-" Angel winced at his slip of the tongue.
Buffy's face lit up, "You love me?" she said wonderingly.
Angel gazed down at her and nodded slowly, unsure of her reaction.
Buffy screeched and flung herself into his arms again, smothering his face with kisses.
Cordelia stared wide-eyed and Doyle finally found his voice, "Not to put a damper on this happy moment but didn't you guys only meet a few days ago?"
"Uh, yeah." Admitted Buffy, still clinging to Angel.
"And you're the slayer, and he's a vampire?"
"Uh, yeah." Buffy said in a tiny voice.
Doyle shook his head bemusedly and turned to his girlfriend, "What else did I miss? Alien landings perhaps?"
Cordelia smiled, "Nope, this is pretty much it."
Doyle nodded thankfully and turned back to his friend and sister, "I don't get it, but if you're both happy, I guess that's the main thing."
Buffy beamed at him, finally letting go of Angel to exchange a hug with Doyle again.
Then Doyle hugged a still worried looking Angel, "Don't look so worried man, I'm not about to stake you. If you make my little slayer sis this happy I don't think I'll chance it!"
Angel flashed him a wary but grateful smile.
Doyle turned, slung an arm round Cordelia's shoulders and they began to walk away.
Then Doyle stopped and looked back, "But if you ever hurt her-"
Angel nodded, "You will stake me, I get it."
Doyle grinned to show he was kidding, "Nah, I'll spit in your dust though, she'll have probably beaten me to the actual staking."
"Doyle!" whined Buffy, clutching Angel's arm.
"Okay, okay! Seriously, I really hope this works out for you both. You're both big enough and ugly enough to decide what it is you want." Doyle grinned and began walking again.
"Thanks Doyle." Angel called after him.
Doyle nodded amiably in response.
Buffy watched as her brother and Cordelia left before turning to Angel, "Well that went well."
"Yeah, I think."
"You really love me?"
"As crazy and sudden as it may seem I really do."
"Guess we're both crazy people."
"Huh?"
Buffy stepped closer to Angel and wrapped her arms around him, "I love you too."
Angel smiled down at her in relief, an intense feeling of happiness swept over him and he scooped her up in his arms twirling her round and round pressing light kisses to her face and hair.
Buffy laughed delightedly and kissed him back, dizzy with the spinning, even dizzier with happiness.
When he finally set her down still holding her close she grinned up at him, "And to think only last week I was disgusted at having to come and stay with Doyle instead of having a cool summer with my friends."
Angel grinned back, "You could have your friends too if you like. We could sort them all out rooms at the Hyperion and they could stay for a while."
Buffy smiled up at her perfect new boyfriend in delight, "That is so sweet. That would be really great, thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"No problem, anything that will make you smile."
Buffy obliged with a beaming smile and Angel couldn't resist kissing her again.
A few minutes later Angel drew back slightly, provoking a mew of displeasure from Buffy. "What are you stopping for?" she pouted.
He dropped a kiss on her forehead and smiled, "Because I can think of better places to kiss you than a smelly deserted building full of demon corpses."
Buffy looked around her, "I think a bomb could have gone off just now and I wouldn't have noticed, but now you mention it, a shower, clean clothes and some serious snuggling on a comfy sofa sounds very much more appealing than this.
Angel grinned as they began to walk towards the door hand in hand, "Were you gonna kiss me that morning on the sofa?"
Buffy blushed, "Maybe."
"Only maybe?"
She kissed him before she broke away and into a run, "I'm not saying a word about that!"
Angel chased her laughing, "Where are you going?"
"To have the fastest shower ever so we can have more snuggle time before we have to sleep!"
"Sounds good, see you on the couch in thirty minutes?"
Buffy paused on the steps of the Hyperion, listening to her friends and Angel's mingling harmoniously. She stretched up to give him a quick kiss, "Make it twenty."
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I nearly ended this here but something told me I'd be unpopular if I did! I think I tied up most of the loose ends quite well but somehow this ending doesn't finish things off quite satisfactorily. An epilogue will be coming very soon, hopefully tomorrow but more probably the day after. (Server permitting!)
Anyway, I'm nearing the end with this fic now, thank you all for being a great audience and not making with the flames, and an extra huge thank you for all the encouraging and helpful reviews I've had.
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"Buffy!" yelled Doyle in dismay as he watched Angel and his tiny sister body-slammed by several enormous lizards, "What the hell is she doing here?"
"Long story." Said Cordelia as she tossed him a sword and struck out with her own. "She can hold her own though."
Doyle clutched the sword and looked disbelievingly from his girlfriend to the pile of demons clambering over his kid sister. "No way, I know she gets into fights at school but demons are entirely different."
Before Cordelia had a chance to stop him he plowed across the room and sank his sword into the rump of one of the demons flattening Buffy. The demon yowled, leapt up and staggered away. Doyle was about ready to repeat the performance when a dainty hand appeared through a gap the demon had left with a stake clutched tight in it's fingers. A spilt second later the stake was buried deep in a demon's flank. Doyle blinked in surprise as the demon jolted a little and then didn't move again. Doyle gave another demon some serious encouragement with his blade and it finally shifted off the heap. He employed the same technique on a few more of the demons and moments later Buffy and Angel crawled from under the now much smaller pile of seemingly dead demons looking somewhat the worse for wear.
"Why did I wear this coat?" grumbled Buffy, "I like this coat, stupid demons." She looked up in surprise, "Doyle!" she squealed joyfully. "You're all rescued and not dead, this is such good thing!"
Doyle smiled in relief and amazement; Angel crawling out from under that pile more or less unscathed wasn't exactly a shocker but Buffy-
Then she sidestepped him and launched a spinning roundhouse kick that connected with a sharp cracking sound, her target's neck snapped and the demon thudded to the ground dead.
Doyle's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He'd known Buffy to have violent tendencies on occasion but to see her break a demon's neck with a single kick was a little too much to handle.
"Try to kill my brother huh?" Buffy sneered at the dead demon as she retrieved her sword, "That's what you get!"
Then she sprang towards one of the few remaining demons and brought her sword crashing down on its head, Doyle winced and watched with sickened fascination as the skull split and a tiny blob of stuff flopped out and lay wobbling on the floor.
Buffy peered at it, "Eew! Teensy weensy Jell-O brains!" she sang triumphantly before skipping back to where Angel and Doyle stood. She flung her arms round Doyle and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Welcome back!" she cheered before releasing him and bounding towards Angel and leaping into his arms.
Angel staggered slightly as Buffy clambered on him, flinging her arms around his neck and hooking her legs around his hips like a monkey. "Are we the team or what?" she chirped happily.
Angel grinned back at her recalling how smoothly and comfortably they had fought together, "We were great."
Buffy beamed at him with pleasure and pressed a quick kiss to his lips before they became aware that they were the focus of attention in the room.
"What?" they said defensively as Buffy self consciously slithered back onto the ground.
Willow shot Buffy a cheeky grin and a subtle little thumbs up before trying to drag Oz and Xander out of the door. She was having trouble with Xander until she said the magic words, "C'mon guys, lets go get some Pizza."
"Ice cream too?" checked Xander hopefully before he grabbed a protesting Anya and followed.
"But I wanted to watch." Grumbled Anya allowing herself to be pulled along.
"Watch what?!" Xander asked as they left the room.
Giles and Wesley strolled off companionably together mumbling something about a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits.
Gunn held out a hand to Fred and they dashed after the others. "Think we can get Tacos?" Asked Fred as they hurried out of the door.
Only Buffy, Angel, Doyle and Cordelia remained.
Buffy drew a deep breath and rushed into speech, "Its okay Doyle, I'm cool with the whole Angel's a vampire thing and I know you're a demon too, which is also cool cos I've been doing loads of reading lately about how some demons are harmless and I know you're like a harmless human/Brakken demon hybrid. You also don't need to worry about me slaying you because I'm a cool, new-agey, forward thinking type of slayer and my watcher isn't all 'It's a demon, you must slay it!' so you really don't need to panic, I can tell the difference between evil and non-evil." She paused thoughtfully, "Well usually anyway. There were a few teachers at high-school I wasn't really sure of."
Doyle remained speechless.
Angel stumbled into speech too when it became clear Doyle wasn't about to speak, "Yeah, Buffy's really not a typical slayer or I wouldn't have fallen in love with her-" Angel winced at his slip of the tongue.
Buffy's face lit up, "You love me?" she said wonderingly.
Angel gazed down at her and nodded slowly, unsure of her reaction.
Buffy screeched and flung herself into his arms again, smothering his face with kisses.
Cordelia stared wide-eyed and Doyle finally found his voice, "Not to put a damper on this happy moment but didn't you guys only meet a few days ago?"
"Uh, yeah." Admitted Buffy, still clinging to Angel.
"And you're the slayer, and he's a vampire?"
"Uh, yeah." Buffy said in a tiny voice.
Doyle shook his head bemusedly and turned to his girlfriend, "What else did I miss? Alien landings perhaps?"
Cordelia smiled, "Nope, this is pretty much it."
Doyle nodded thankfully and turned back to his friend and sister, "I don't get it, but if you're both happy, I guess that's the main thing."
Buffy beamed at him, finally letting go of Angel to exchange a hug with Doyle again.
Then Doyle hugged a still worried looking Angel, "Don't look so worried man, I'm not about to stake you. If you make my little slayer sis this happy I don't think I'll chance it!"
Angel flashed him a wary but grateful smile.
Doyle turned, slung an arm round Cordelia's shoulders and they began to walk away.
Then Doyle stopped and looked back, "But if you ever hurt her-"
Angel nodded, "You will stake me, I get it."
Doyle grinned to show he was kidding, "Nah, I'll spit in your dust though, she'll have probably beaten me to the actual staking."
"Doyle!" whined Buffy, clutching Angel's arm.
"Okay, okay! Seriously, I really hope this works out for you both. You're both big enough and ugly enough to decide what it is you want." Doyle grinned and began walking again.
"Thanks Doyle." Angel called after him.
Doyle nodded amiably in response.
Buffy watched as her brother and Cordelia left before turning to Angel, "Well that went well."
"Yeah, I think."
"You really love me?"
"As crazy and sudden as it may seem I really do."
"Guess we're both crazy people."
"Huh?"
Buffy stepped closer to Angel and wrapped her arms around him, "I love you too."
Angel smiled down at her in relief, an intense feeling of happiness swept over him and he scooped her up in his arms twirling her round and round pressing light kisses to her face and hair.
Buffy laughed delightedly and kissed him back, dizzy with the spinning, even dizzier with happiness.
When he finally set her down still holding her close she grinned up at him, "And to think only last week I was disgusted at having to come and stay with Doyle instead of having a cool summer with my friends."
Angel grinned back, "You could have your friends too if you like. We could sort them all out rooms at the Hyperion and they could stay for a while."
Buffy smiled up at her perfect new boyfriend in delight, "That is so sweet. That would be really great, thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"No problem, anything that will make you smile."
Buffy obliged with a beaming smile and Angel couldn't resist kissing her again.
A few minutes later Angel drew back slightly, provoking a mew of displeasure from Buffy. "What are you stopping for?" she pouted.
He dropped a kiss on her forehead and smiled, "Because I can think of better places to kiss you than a smelly deserted building full of demon corpses."
Buffy looked around her, "I think a bomb could have gone off just now and I wouldn't have noticed, but now you mention it, a shower, clean clothes and some serious snuggling on a comfy sofa sounds very much more appealing than this.
Angel grinned as they began to walk towards the door hand in hand, "Were you gonna kiss me that morning on the sofa?"
Buffy blushed, "Maybe."
"Only maybe?"
She kissed him before she broke away and into a run, "I'm not saying a word about that!"
Angel chased her laughing, "Where are you going?"
"To have the fastest shower ever so we can have more snuggle time before we have to sleep!"
"Sounds good, see you on the couch in thirty minutes?"
Buffy paused on the steps of the Hyperion, listening to her friends and Angel's mingling harmoniously. She stretched up to give him a quick kiss, "Make it twenty."
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I nearly ended this here but something told me I'd be unpopular if I did! I think I tied up most of the loose ends quite well but somehow this ending doesn't finish things off quite satisfactorily. An epilogue will be coming very soon, hopefully tomorrow but more probably the day after. (Server permitting!)
