Part 9


Buffy raised her stake, but stopped in mid-swing when Angel whispered, "Please. I'm sorry. I don't wanna hurt anyone, please."


Buffy dropped her arm that held the stake to her side, but kept it gripped in her fist. She sat up; still straddling his waist while Angel propped himself up on his elbows, his game face still in place.


"You don't want to hurt anybody?" she asked incredulously, "What about the number you did to the guys out there?" then she added sadly, "the number you did to me?" He looked down disgracefully and she continued in her tougher tone, "You're a VAMPIRE. Check the lumpies. How could you not possibly want to hurt someone?"


"I-I don't know. I just know that I don't. M-maybe I'm a… I don't know, a vampire with a soul," Angel supplied hopefully.


Buffy gave him an unbelieving look with an eyebrow raised, "A vampire with a soul?" she paused thinking it over for a moment, "Oh my God how lame is that?"


She finally got off of him and they both stood up.


"It was just a thought. I mean, I have no desire to bite you," he paused and then added with a wince, "anymore."


"Anymore?" Buffy questioned, shocked, "You were thinking of biting me?"


Before he could answer, Connor barged in and hit his father. Angel crashed into the wall on the other side of the room. Wesley followed Connor, but he tripped on the stairs and fell on the floor.


"Yes that one," he cried pitifully, not getting up, "Kill that one please!"


Angel charged for Connor, but was then thrown out the boarded up window by his son, and landed below on the kitchen floor.


"Liam!" Buffy yelled and went to attack Connor, but stopped in her tracks when the teenager whipped around and landed his blue eyes on her now hazel ones.


They stared at each other in awed silence, both looking familiar to each other.


The silence was broken when Buffy inquired, "Are-are we related? Because you look like relative material or something."


The brown-haired teenager didn't answer, he just jumped out of the broken window, remembering his father was down there.


Buffy jumped in after him to find Connor and Angel circling each other, ready to attack. Angel spotted Buffy and paused in his circling. Connor followed his line of vision.


"You stay away from her," Connor growled at Angel.


"Oh the girl's yours then?" Angel spat back out.


Connor paused before answering, stealing a glance towards Buffy, "That's right," he told Angel, feeling the need to protect this woman.


"She never mentioned you when we were alone togeth-" Angel was cut off when Connor threw a cast iron skillet at him and hit him square on the head.


Before Angel could attack after he recovered, Buffy yelled and got in between the two.


She opened her mouth to say something, but Willow popped her head through the window they jumped/fell through, ceasing Buffy from saying anything.


"Hold it!" Willow yelled, "No one kill anybody," then she added sweetly, "Please?"