Part 4
"Angel, why don't I fry the bacon and you can cook the toast."
"No, that's fine. I got a handle on things." Angel said standing by the oven staring absently looked at the wall, spatula in hand.
"Angel man, I don't thing people want burnt bacon." Gunn grinned
"Huh, what?" Angel said popping back to reality. "Oh! Sorry." He handed the spatula over to Cordelia and headed to the toaster. "I was just thinking about. things."
Cordelia gave him a side-glance. "This thing doesn't have any thing to do with a certain slayer we both know and her new friend, would they."
"Cordelia, please. I'm over Buffy. I'm also very happy for her. She's moved on and she has the normal life I always wanted her to have. Why would I be upset? Just because she's upstairs now, with some guy drooling all over her, and touching her knee, and."
"Angel you're babbling."
Angel sat down in a chair and put his head in his hands. "I don't like him Cordy. There's something about him."
"Angel, are you sure that you not liking him doesn't have to do with the fact that him and Buffy are dating?" Gunn said
"Yeah, maybe your right." He sighed. "I'll just help get all this straightened out and then everyone will go back home to Sunnydale and everything will be back to normal." Angel stood up and went upstairs
Gunn started setting the table. "I've never seen Angel talk that much."
"We rarely do."
Once everyone had gone downstairs and ate their share of food, Xander maybe more, they got to work. Willow and Tara were looking for a spell to protect Buffy, Giles, Angel, Xander and Anya were looking in books for anything useful, and Buffy and Riley were training. Trying to see if any of Buffy's strength was left. It went on like this for hours. Buffy and Riley occasionally stopping to kiss and making Angel almost destroy the book he was reading while turning the pages.
"OOOOOOOOO!" Anya yelled. "I think I found something." Xander started to read over his girlfriend's shoulder.
"Honey, how do you know you found something? This is in a different language."
"Well, I just thought I would bring some hope to people. I mean everyone looks so gloomy." She set down the book on the table. "I say we quite for now and go have sex Xander. I'm bored."
"Anya, honey, not now. Buffy's in danger and so therefor until we find something there will be no. you know."
Angel's eyes then widened. He snatched the book off the table and started to read it. "Anya, I think you found something." He said in disbelief
"Oh goody, now we can have sex."
Giles, ignoring Anya, stepped over to Angel and Buffy and Riley stooped their training and went over there too.
"Oh God," Angel handed the book to Giles. "I can't read all of it but from what I can get, it's not good."
"What does it say Giles?" Buffy asked, clutching Riley's arm
"Um, well, hold on, I have to decipher this. It looks like it may be a prophecy." Giles chewed on the end of his glasses "Ok, I got it. Light and Dark will meat again. Light hurt, Dark at his prime. Dark will cure Light and they will become one. Light will then die of jealousy"
Buffy looked at everyone all in turn; they were all as confused as she was except for Angel and Cordelia.
"Well, let me be the first to say, HUH?" Xander said, "I mean who is Light and Dark and why would this be any help to us?"
Angel then stood. "Excuse me." Then he ran downstairs Cordelia trailing behind.
"What's wrong with Queen C and Deadboy?"
"I'll be right back." Before anyone could protest Buffy shot downstairs.
The scene before her when she arrived at Angel's room shocked her. Angel was rushing around the room throwing clothes and weapons into a bag and Cordelia trying to stop him.
"Angel you don't know if that's you that they are talking about."
"Yes I do!"
"Angel, please, you can't do this."
"I'm not going to hurt her again."
"You're not going to hurt her!"
"If I stick around I will!"
"How Angel huh? If you're this hell bent on making sure she's safe do you really think that when the time comes you'll hurt her?"
"Cordelia, you heard what the book stated. Light and Dark will meat again. Light hurt, Dark at his prime. Dark will cure Light and they will become one. Then Light will die from jealousy"
"Ok, what the hell does that mean in the first place?"
Angel slumped down on the bed. "You want the footnotes?" Cordelia nodded. "Light is Buffy and Dark is Riley. Riley will find a cure for whatever is going on with Buffy and then they will be together. Then I'll get jealous, loose control and."
"And what?"
"The demon will come out and kill Buffy." He whispered
"That's a very good theory but why would Riley be considered Dark and the key problem, Buffy and Riley have already met and are together." Cordelia sat down by him on the bed and put a hand on his shoulder. "What's really going on Angel?" Angel sat there with his head in his hands not speaking. "Fine," Cordelia jumped off the bed. "You can leave and keep everything to yourself instead of telling everyone what's going on and solving it!"
"Leave me alone Cordelia." Cordelia then stormed out of the room not even noticing Buffy standing by the door. That was Buffy's cue to come in. She walked over to where Angel was sitting, head still barried in his hands, and gently touched his back.
"I said leave me ALONE!" Angel yelled
"Not to me you didn't." Angel's head popped up to be greeted by Buffy's face. He wanted so badly to pull her into his arms and kiss her passionately. "What's going on Angel. I heard everything you told Cordy, but I agree with her that Riley can't be whoever this Dark is and, that you're making a lot of this up."
Angel got up and started packing more things into his bag.
"What's going on Angel? Please tell me, I don't care how bad it is. If it leads to my cure then I want to know." Angel was silent. "Angel." She stood up and got right in his face. "Tell me. You know you can trust me."
"I can't trust you and you shouldn't trust me."
"Don't you dare try to tell me what I should and shouldn't do." Angel then suddenly pushed Buffy out of the way with such force that she hit the wall with a smack. Buffy looked at him with shock. He just continued to pack. Buffy stood up and stalked over to Angel and punched him right across the jaw. "I may have lost my slayer abilities but that doesn't mean I can't kick your ass."
"FINE! YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG? Well, I'll tell you. Light is you, Dark is me, and Riley is jealousy. Your cure is me giving you some of my power. After I do that we have a bond that can not be broken by anything. So like the book says 'we become one' and then Riley gets mad, will try to separate us but what he doesn't know is that if we were separated, one of us would die. That one is you." He looked her straight in the eye. "Do you believe me? Do you believe that your precious Riley could do that to you?"
Buffy stood there not knowing what to say. She wanted to believe Angel but it was to hard to thing of Riley as evil.
"That's what I thought." Angel turned and picked up his bag to go.
"Wh-what would you leaving solve?" Buffy barley managed to get the words out.
Without even looking at her Angel said, "If I leave, you can't be cured and therefor you won't die."
He started to leave but Buffy ran and caught his arm. "NO. I won't die the way the book says. I will die though. Angel, demon after demon is after me. They all want revenge for what I've done to them. They won't stop until I'm dead and in the meantime demons are starting to take over because no one is out there fighting them."
Angel was still silent. He didn't know what to do.
"Why don't we go upstairs. You can say what you said to me and we'll figure out what to do."
"Buffy."
"Angel please. The longer we take the more people die."
He looked down at the ground. "I don't want to hurt you again." He whispered "If I stay."
"If you stay I might have a chance to live." Buffy said finding his eyes.
"Angel, why don't I fry the bacon and you can cook the toast."
"No, that's fine. I got a handle on things." Angel said standing by the oven staring absently looked at the wall, spatula in hand.
"Angel man, I don't thing people want burnt bacon." Gunn grinned
"Huh, what?" Angel said popping back to reality. "Oh! Sorry." He handed the spatula over to Cordelia and headed to the toaster. "I was just thinking about. things."
Cordelia gave him a side-glance. "This thing doesn't have any thing to do with a certain slayer we both know and her new friend, would they."
"Cordelia, please. I'm over Buffy. I'm also very happy for her. She's moved on and she has the normal life I always wanted her to have. Why would I be upset? Just because she's upstairs now, with some guy drooling all over her, and touching her knee, and."
"Angel you're babbling."
Angel sat down in a chair and put his head in his hands. "I don't like him Cordy. There's something about him."
"Angel, are you sure that you not liking him doesn't have to do with the fact that him and Buffy are dating?" Gunn said
"Yeah, maybe your right." He sighed. "I'll just help get all this straightened out and then everyone will go back home to Sunnydale and everything will be back to normal." Angel stood up and went upstairs
Gunn started setting the table. "I've never seen Angel talk that much."
"We rarely do."
Once everyone had gone downstairs and ate their share of food, Xander maybe more, they got to work. Willow and Tara were looking for a spell to protect Buffy, Giles, Angel, Xander and Anya were looking in books for anything useful, and Buffy and Riley were training. Trying to see if any of Buffy's strength was left. It went on like this for hours. Buffy and Riley occasionally stopping to kiss and making Angel almost destroy the book he was reading while turning the pages.
"OOOOOOOOO!" Anya yelled. "I think I found something." Xander started to read over his girlfriend's shoulder.
"Honey, how do you know you found something? This is in a different language."
"Well, I just thought I would bring some hope to people. I mean everyone looks so gloomy." She set down the book on the table. "I say we quite for now and go have sex Xander. I'm bored."
"Anya, honey, not now. Buffy's in danger and so therefor until we find something there will be no. you know."
Angel's eyes then widened. He snatched the book off the table and started to read it. "Anya, I think you found something." He said in disbelief
"Oh goody, now we can have sex."
Giles, ignoring Anya, stepped over to Angel and Buffy and Riley stooped their training and went over there too.
"Oh God," Angel handed the book to Giles. "I can't read all of it but from what I can get, it's not good."
"What does it say Giles?" Buffy asked, clutching Riley's arm
"Um, well, hold on, I have to decipher this. It looks like it may be a prophecy." Giles chewed on the end of his glasses "Ok, I got it. Light and Dark will meat again. Light hurt, Dark at his prime. Dark will cure Light and they will become one. Light will then die of jealousy"
Buffy looked at everyone all in turn; they were all as confused as she was except for Angel and Cordelia.
"Well, let me be the first to say, HUH?" Xander said, "I mean who is Light and Dark and why would this be any help to us?"
Angel then stood. "Excuse me." Then he ran downstairs Cordelia trailing behind.
"What's wrong with Queen C and Deadboy?"
"I'll be right back." Before anyone could protest Buffy shot downstairs.
The scene before her when she arrived at Angel's room shocked her. Angel was rushing around the room throwing clothes and weapons into a bag and Cordelia trying to stop him.
"Angel you don't know if that's you that they are talking about."
"Yes I do!"
"Angel, please, you can't do this."
"I'm not going to hurt her again."
"You're not going to hurt her!"
"If I stick around I will!"
"How Angel huh? If you're this hell bent on making sure she's safe do you really think that when the time comes you'll hurt her?"
"Cordelia, you heard what the book stated. Light and Dark will meat again. Light hurt, Dark at his prime. Dark will cure Light and they will become one. Then Light will die from jealousy"
"Ok, what the hell does that mean in the first place?"
Angel slumped down on the bed. "You want the footnotes?" Cordelia nodded. "Light is Buffy and Dark is Riley. Riley will find a cure for whatever is going on with Buffy and then they will be together. Then I'll get jealous, loose control and."
"And what?"
"The demon will come out and kill Buffy." He whispered
"That's a very good theory but why would Riley be considered Dark and the key problem, Buffy and Riley have already met and are together." Cordelia sat down by him on the bed and put a hand on his shoulder. "What's really going on Angel?" Angel sat there with his head in his hands not speaking. "Fine," Cordelia jumped off the bed. "You can leave and keep everything to yourself instead of telling everyone what's going on and solving it!"
"Leave me alone Cordelia." Cordelia then stormed out of the room not even noticing Buffy standing by the door. That was Buffy's cue to come in. She walked over to where Angel was sitting, head still barried in his hands, and gently touched his back.
"I said leave me ALONE!" Angel yelled
"Not to me you didn't." Angel's head popped up to be greeted by Buffy's face. He wanted so badly to pull her into his arms and kiss her passionately. "What's going on Angel. I heard everything you told Cordy, but I agree with her that Riley can't be whoever this Dark is and, that you're making a lot of this up."
Angel got up and started packing more things into his bag.
"What's going on Angel? Please tell me, I don't care how bad it is. If it leads to my cure then I want to know." Angel was silent. "Angel." She stood up and got right in his face. "Tell me. You know you can trust me."
"I can't trust you and you shouldn't trust me."
"Don't you dare try to tell me what I should and shouldn't do." Angel then suddenly pushed Buffy out of the way with such force that she hit the wall with a smack. Buffy looked at him with shock. He just continued to pack. Buffy stood up and stalked over to Angel and punched him right across the jaw. "I may have lost my slayer abilities but that doesn't mean I can't kick your ass."
"FINE! YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG? Well, I'll tell you. Light is you, Dark is me, and Riley is jealousy. Your cure is me giving you some of my power. After I do that we have a bond that can not be broken by anything. So like the book says 'we become one' and then Riley gets mad, will try to separate us but what he doesn't know is that if we were separated, one of us would die. That one is you." He looked her straight in the eye. "Do you believe me? Do you believe that your precious Riley could do that to you?"
Buffy stood there not knowing what to say. She wanted to believe Angel but it was to hard to thing of Riley as evil.
"That's what I thought." Angel turned and picked up his bag to go.
"Wh-what would you leaving solve?" Buffy barley managed to get the words out.
Without even looking at her Angel said, "If I leave, you can't be cured and therefor you won't die."
He started to leave but Buffy ran and caught his arm. "NO. I won't die the way the book says. I will die though. Angel, demon after demon is after me. They all want revenge for what I've done to them. They won't stop until I'm dead and in the meantime demons are starting to take over because no one is out there fighting them."
Angel was still silent. He didn't know what to do.
"Why don't we go upstairs. You can say what you said to me and we'll figure out what to do."
"Buffy."
"Angel please. The longer we take the more people die."
He looked down at the ground. "I don't want to hurt you again." He whispered "If I stay."
"If you stay I might have a chance to live." Buffy said finding his eyes.