Title: Send Me An Angel
Author: Kandice
Rating: PG-13 for mild language
Dedication: I suppose this is to many people for many different reasons. Mainly this is dedicated to Sara, who I will never stop loving, and Caitlin, who to this day hasn't given up on changing my stubborn ways. Thanks guys.
Inspired by: Paul Oakenfold's Angel and Delirium's Silence.
Summary: Somewhere between Season Four and Season Five, Buffy thinks about Angel and her life now. And the Cheese Man comes into play. Buffy contemplates: little old man, or the next big bad?
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When darkness covers the sun,
There is still a light to save my soul.
Send me an Angel.
As the vampire's dust settled, Buffy Summers relaxed a bit. This particular bumper of the night was a toughie. He knew how to fight and had been around for quite a while. Thankfully, he also ran into a tree, which made it perhaps easier for the Slayer to bring him down.
The blonde had just finished her first year at the University of California in Sunnydale. College had turned out to be pretty much the same deal as high school. She had had to be secret identity gal all over again, and it had all gone smoothly.
"Buffy! Are you okay?" asked a guy with the tiniest hint of a farm accent.
"Riley, I'm fine. Really." Buffy replied with a smile. "Vampire. No biggie. Remember the part with Buffy equals Slayer?"
"I know. Sorry."
Then there was Riley, her boyfriend. He obviously cared for her, and Buffy did love the farm boy. It was all just so different. Other than the fact that the Initiative had gone evil, she had been the target of a diabolical robot constructed from at least half a dozen different people named Adam. To top off that, the spirit of the First Slayer had come into all of her friend's dreams and had decided to kill them all. The one thing the Slayer couldn't make any sense of was the Cheese man.
The Cheese Man was something altogether. He had appeared out of literally nowhere, waves some slices of what appeared to be American or cheddar cheese, then disappeared again. Maybe she should have staked him when she got the chance. Knowing her luck, the Cheese Man would probably end up being the next big bad that she and the scoobies would have to face. Then again, he was a guy with cheese. What would he do? Throw evil swiss cheese bricks them?
But forgetting The Cheese Man, her friends, Giles, college, even Riley. There was one thing missing. Angel wasn't there. He had left the year before to Los Angeles and visits hadn't gone over too smoothly. The fact of the matter was that Buffy still missed him. They had been soul mates, how could that be possibly just stop?
It hadn't. There was no way that Buffy would ever believe that.
Did she love Riley? Maybe. Does she love Angel? Always.
Everywhere Buffy looked, she saw Angel. Would it ever truly stop? Who knew. She only understood that she missed her Angel.
Always. Who else?
Buffy picked up her stake from the dusty ground and put it in her jacket pocket, then headed back to her place. As she walked, she suddenly shivered a bit from the chilly wind that was sweeping through the town, which had had an amazingly sunny day. How could something so beautiful day turn into such an ugly situation?
Heaven holds a sense of wonder,
And I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up...
When the rage in me subsides.
In this white wave,
I am sinking,
In this silence.
In this white wave,
In this silence,
I believe.
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Originally This was supposed to be Buffy's thoiught's on Willow's lil' evilness in Season Six, because that refers more to best friends, but that storyline didn't workout quite as well as I had planned.
Caitee & Sara- I love you guys!