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Willow.
Both Angelus and Buffy bolted towards the entrance of the mansion. The vampire reached the threshold first and ran inside with lighting speed. Frantically he began to look around for the witch. His eyes fell upon a group of about three vampires gathered over someone.
"Get. Away. From. Her." he growled angrily. The vampires looked up as they saw Angelus coming towards them. One of the masters, stood and greeted the older vampire warmly.
"Ah, Angelus," he greeted. "We were wondering when you would come. And look what we found wandering around the mansion. It's delivery! Fan-"
The vampires speech was cut off as a hard fist slammed into his face. Angelus, already in game face, grabbed his neck and snapped it like a twig. The others watched in horror as one of the most powerful masters on the Hell mouth faded to dust.
The slayer nearly fainted with confusion at the sight. She was definitely going crazy. She had just seen Angelus, her most hated enemy, kill a vampire with his bare hands. By the looks of him, he was a master too. Buffy decided to not waste time thinking. Quickly she ran into the living room and pulled out a stake.
"Is this a private party," she began as she easily dusted one of the younger vamps, "Or can I come too?" Angelus was to enraged to even notice that there was another person in the room. The other members of the dead, who were less willing to fight, tried to sneak out of the room. The dark vampire ran towards them, lunging for anyone who was unfortunate enough to be in his way. The slayer continued to fight and within minutes all of the vampires had been killed. Most of them by a very angry Angelus.
As soon as the last pile of dust was settled, Angelus ran towards the body of his witch. She was leaning against one of the mansions stone walls, trying her best to stand up.
"Willow," he said his features softening back to human as he saw her. He went to her and put his hands around her waist, helping her to stand. The young redhead tried her best to stand, but Angelus only smiled and pulled her against him for support. Before anything else could be said by anyone, the vampire pulled Willow into a nearly crushing embrace. Which, surprising the slayer more than anything, was equally returned by her friend.
The vampire could feel the young girl trembling in his embrace and was reluctant to pull away even a little bit. But as he did so, he could see blood trickling down her neck. An angry growl filled empty rooms of the mansion as Angelus saw puncture marks wounding her pale skin.
"What the hell do you think your doing!" he screamed at her. Both Buffy and Willow were surprised by the concern and fear that coated his voice. "You could have been killed! What were you doing here anyway! Did you even have a stake? Don't you know it's dangerous? They could have killed you Willow! You should never have come here!"
The young hacker looked up at the yelling vampire with tears glazing her eyes. Angelus immediately regretted the harsh tone he had used with her. "I...I c-came to see you," she choked out. Angelus gazed upon her as she began to sob. Placing a light hand on the back of her head he pulled her closer to him and she cried into his chest. He stroked her hair, trying to clam her as he thought about what she had said.
"You came to see me?" he whispered still holding her protectively.
"Y-yea. I c-couldn't leave thins the way they w-w-were. I th-though that you were a-angry with me and I..."
"No precious. I wasn't angry with you," he told her softly, mentally cursing himself for making her worry.
Buffy watched in amazement as the vampire held her best friend protectively. He seemed to be soothing her, comforting her until she was ready to speak to him. What is going on here she asked herself. But, the slayer was almost to stunned to move. So she stood there in the corner, listening to the couple as Willow continued to sob.
"Your, your not?" the redhead asked as she pulled back to looked at him. Dark eye bore into glistening emerald ones, with only fondness filling them. "Never precious," he told her placing a soft kiss on the top of her head. "Is that why you came here? To see if I was angry?" the vampire asked with a soft smile. The witch returned his small grin and shook her heed.
"N-not exactly. I uh...well...did you mean it?"
"Mean what sweet ling?" he asked cocking his head to the side.
"That you loved me?"
The slayer nearly fell over as she heard the words. Love her? Whoa whoa hold on just a minute! Ignoring her better instincts to go over there and kill the vampire, Buffy found herself listening intently on what he was going to say.
"Of course," he answered without hesitation. Smiling, the redhead pulled him closer to her in a hug.
"Angelus," she said softly placing a kiss on his lips. "I love you too."
He smiled at her. Not a smirk or a mischievous devil grin she had grown to know, but a genuine smile. He scooped her up into his arms and kissed her. Angelus began to carry his red head out of the mansion. When he was at the door, he stopped momentarily.
"Well slayer?" he asked turning around glancing into the shadows where he knew the blonde had been watching them. "Are you coming or not? I mean, I can't really fight off any vampires while I'm holding precious here now can I?"
Buffy's mouth nearly dropped to the ground as she stepped out into the light. She saw a tired, yet happy Willow snuggling closer into Angelus and a smirking vampire.
"Come on," he smirked as he turned around and began heading towards the hacker's home. Unable to form actual sentences or thoughts, the slayer quickly followed behind them.
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The walk to Willow's was filled with a comfortable silence for the redhead and the vampire, and a period of mind boggling questions for the slayer. She had decided to let Angelus take her home, then she would drill him and/or stake him later.
"Could you get the door?" Angelus asked casually. Buffy nodded and opened the door to Willow's house. Angelus carried her in with ease and the slayer followed them into the living room.
"I'm taking her upstairs," the vampire said. The blondes eyes widened. Angelus laughed softly so he would not wake the sleeping hacker. "To sleep," he told her laughing again. Angelus walked steadily up the stairs to the witches room.
Buffy walked over to the phone which hung on the wall. Picking it up, she dialed the only person she could think of.
"Giles? It's Buffy. No I'm fine. Listen I need you now. I'm at Willow's."
"What are you doing?" Willow giggled as she saw Angelus taking off her shoes and socks.
"Getting you comfortable for bed." Seeing the red head's blush he chuckled. "So you can sleep. Jeez, does everyone think that I'm just going to take advantage of a nearly unconscious Willow?" he asked himself. "Like you wouldn't," she laughed again. The vampire frowned at her, then joined her in her laughter.
"Good night precious," he said placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
"I love you Angelus," she told him. He put his hand on her head and stroked her check.
"I love you too. Now get some rest. I have a feeling we'll both need it."
"Okay. Oh and Angelus," she called as he walked to her door. "Try not to kill any of my friends. Or, be dusted by any of them either." He smiled and nodded before heading back downstairs.
"What the hell is going on here!" Buffy screamed as he came down the steps.
"Shh!" he told her irritably. "She's sleeping," he explained.
"Since when do you care? What was all that about? Why was she at the mansion?"
"Calm down," he told her rolling his eyes. "One question at a time please. I'm tired."
"What was Willow doing at your mansion?"
"You were there. You heard her. She came to talk."
"About what?!"
"We had a fight earlier," Angelus explained moving to sit in one of the large chairs. "She came to apologize."
"In the middle of the night?"
"Yes well...you know Willow. Gets one idea in that pretty little head of hers and you just can't get her to change her mind. I think she gets that stubbornness from you," he muttered.
"Give me one good reason I should stake you right now!"
"Actually," Angelus said smirking as he propped his feet onto the coffee table. "I can give you a few. One, you'll get dust all over the Rosenberg's new chairs. Two, it would hurt Willow. And three, you couldn't do it anyway."
"What do you mean? I'm over you. I can kill you."
"Sure you could. Listen, I've been around for two-hundred and forty plus years."
"You think you would kill me?" Buffy asked. Angelus sighed.
"I could kill you, if I wanted. But I can't."
"And why's that?"
"You know why. It would hurt her. She'd stake me herself if she found out that I killed you. And I am *not* about to lose her because I gave in to killing some annoying slayer," he explained.
"And you care whether or not you hurt her?" the slayer asked him moving closer.
"Of course I care," he said softly. "I love her. Damn soul," he muttered.
"S-soul? You don't' have a...."
"Yea I *know* that. But, having one for so long. It let me be able to feel again. Happiness, sadness, fear, love. Everything. And if I had never had one then well I wouldn't be here. You'd be dead, Willow's be dead, and I would be happily painting the town red," he said almost wishfully looking up the stairs. "But I did have a soul. It should have been the worst thing that ever happened to me. But, I'm with her now. And I do love her. I won't let anything, least of all me, ever hurt her."
Buffy could not believe what she had just heard. He admitted that he loved Willow. And she believed him. It was not just some plot to get to the slayer through her friend, he honestly cared for the young red head. She realized that she should be upset about this, but she was actually feeling happy for her friend. She couldn't understand it. The sound of someone knocking furiously at the door brought her out of her thoughts.
"Watcher's here," Angelus said casually settling back into the chair. Buffy glared at him before crossing the room to let Giles inside.
"Buffy I cam as quickly as I could," the British man said hastily as he walked inside. He quickly noticed a smirking Angelus sitting the living room. "Angelus?"
"Hi'ya Rupert. Say, is that a new suit?" the vampire smirked. The older man stared at him in disbelief.
"I demand to know what is going on right now!"
"Shh," both Angelus and Buffy scolded. He looked confused at both of them.
"Willow's sleeping," replied the slayer.
"Ah I see. Buffy what is going on?"
The blonde slayer took a deep breath. Gee, this is going to be fun she thought sarcastically to herself. How was she going to explain this to Giles.
"You were right," she told him softly.
"What? I was right?" Now Giles knew something was going on. His slayer had just told him that he had been right about something.
"Yea," she said almost laughing as she remembered his earlier words. "You were right when you said that I was right. So all in all I guess I'm right." Angelus was deeply confused. He had no idea what they were talking about.
"You mean..."
"Yup. Angelus and Wills. The Hell mouth's most happy human and vampire couple," Buffy said.
"I see. Angelus and Willow are..." he said letting his sentence trail off. "Why is he here?" Giles asked gesturing to the vampire.
"Why is everyone talking about me like I'm not in the room?" he asked.
"Willow was attacked," Buffy explained.
"She was?! Oh dear lord where is she is she all right?"
"Relax Rupert old boy," Angelus said standing up from his chair. "She's fine. She's upstairs trying to sleep so could you keep it down?" he asked irritably.
"What happened?" the librarian asked ignoring the vampire. Buffy glanced at Angelus, giving him a look telling him that he was to explain.
"She was at the mansion. She came, to see me. We had fought earlier and she was coming to apologize. I wasn't there. But by the time I did get there, some vampires were attacking her. Buffy and I killed them, and then we brought Willow home. At which time the slayer felt that it was imperative to bring *you* here and bring even more chaos into my night." The slayer glared stakes at the dark vampire.
"Your dreams were right then," Giles concluded.
"Dreams?"
"Yes. Prophetic ones of you....and Willow."
"She knew about this?" Angelus asked. Buffy nodded. "Why didn't you tell me?" the vampire seemed to ask no one in particular.
"I didn't want you to be angry," came a small voice from the stairs. They all turned to see Willow limping down her staircase with a small smile. "Hi Giles," she said warmly. Angelus rushed up the stairs and allowed the hacker to lean on him for support.
The watcher looked at Buffy, then back at the couple. His slayer had been right. The demon known as Angelus was indeed in love with the hacker.
"Oh as usual, dear."
"You should be resting," Angelus told the redhead. Buffy and Giles seemed to pick up on how the vampire softened and became much more calm when Willow was around.
"I hear shouting," she said. The vampire helped the young witch to the couch while glaring at the watcher.
"You were bitten," the British man observed.
"Ladies and gentlemen may I present Sherlock Holmes."
"Be nice," Willow said playfully hitting the vampire on the shoulder.
"Sorry," he apologized to the redhead.
"How long?" Buffy asked quietly. "Please Will, just how long?"
"I don't know," she answered honestly. "Ever since...that night at school."
"So you guy's were....when he attacked Harmony?"
"I said I was sorry about that," Angelus defended.
"Buffy," pleaded the hacker. "Don't be angry please. I didn't want you to find out like this. And I'm sorry..."
"Wills. I can't say that I'm not hurt or angry, because I am."
"I didn't want to hurt you. Please don't hate me..."
"Willow," Buffy said with glistening eyes. She rushed over to her friends side and took her hand in his. "I could never ever ever hate you. You are my best friend."
"Here we go," Angelus sighed rolling his eyes.
"It may take me a while to accept it, but he does love you. Doesn't he?"
"Yea. I think we already establish that bit?" Angelus was hit again in the stomach. "Ow," he said in a monotone voice and glared at the slayer.
"And I love you. I want you to be happy."
"I want you to be happy. I love you too Buffy."
The men in the room groaned slightly as the two hugged. Women the vampire thought shaking his head.
"X-xander's gonna kill me," Willow whispered.
"Xander won't lay a finger on you," Angelus growled.
"He's more likely to stake Angelus," Giles pointed out. Willow turned to the vampire with pleading eyes.
"I can handle him without killing him. If I really have to."
"You really have to."
"Speaking of Xander," Buffy said. "And Cordelia, and Mrs. Calendar. How are we going to tell them?"
"I'll do it," the redhead said. "I have to."
"I'll be with you precious. Every step of the way."
Willow smiled at him. This was strange. She had just admitted to her best friend that she was in love with her demon ex, and she couldn't be happier. Giles also seemed to accept it. Willow hoped that Xander would too. As long as Angelus wasn't killing anyone, everyone would be able to accept it.
~A few months later.~
"Willow," Angelus said pulling away slightly from the redhead beneath him.
"Yea?" "I love you." "I love you too silly." "Would you have stayed with me? If you know, they had all tried to stake me?" "Xander *did* try to stake you." "Yea but would you have?" "Of course I would have. Now shut up and kiss me."
Angelus smiled and pressed his lips to Willows. She had moved into the mansion a few weeks before and they were, ahem, breaking in the new bed. After the few months they had been together, everyone, well except for Xander, was almost able to fully accept their relationship. They all new, again except for Xander, that Angelus was definitely not evil. He didn't kill humans either. He only fed off the willing ones. Everyone was, including Xander this time, happy for once. Of course, they did have to save the world every now and then but they did live on a Hell mouth.
"Oh guess who's coming to dinner tomorrow," Angelus said as he pulled back to let his redhead breath. "Who?" "Dru and Spike." "Eel!!" "It's okay baby," he told her. "They won't eat you. Promise."
"But what about Buffy?" "She doesn't have to know. They'll just slip in and slip out. No killing or maiming or torturing. Hopefully." Willow giggled.
"You are a very bad influence you know." "Yea. I know."
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And everybody lives happily ever after. Even Xander.
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Did you like it? I hope you liked it. It was fluffy! You know, I was thinking. A thing I do from time to time. If people like this…I might even write like a sequel thingie. Not like. Like one chapter just saying stuff. But I don't know. Thank you again for being so awesome. You rock!!!!!!!!
P.S.
Angel.
There.
I did it.
Ha!
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Willow.
Both Angelus and Buffy bolted towards the entrance of the mansion. The vampire reached the threshold first and ran inside with lighting speed. Frantically he began to look around for the witch. His eyes fell upon a group of about three vampires gathered over someone.
"Get. Away. From. Her." he growled angrily. The vampires looked up as they saw Angelus coming towards them. One of the masters, stood and greeted the older vampire warmly.
"Ah, Angelus," he greeted. "We were wondering when you would come. And look what we found wandering around the mansion. It's delivery! Fan-"
The vampires speech was cut off as a hard fist slammed into his face. Angelus, already in game face, grabbed his neck and snapped it like a twig. The others watched in horror as one of the most powerful masters on the Hell mouth faded to dust.
The slayer nearly fainted with confusion at the sight. She was definitely going crazy. She had just seen Angelus, her most hated enemy, kill a vampire with his bare hands. By the looks of him, he was a master too. Buffy decided to not waste time thinking. Quickly she ran into the living room and pulled out a stake.
"Is this a private party," she began as she easily dusted one of the younger vamps, "Or can I come too?" Angelus was to enraged to even notice that there was another person in the room. The other members of the dead, who were less willing to fight, tried to sneak out of the room. The dark vampire ran towards them, lunging for anyone who was unfortunate enough to be in his way. The slayer continued to fight and within minutes all of the vampires had been killed. Most of them by a very angry Angelus.
As soon as the last pile of dust was settled, Angelus ran towards the body of his witch. She was leaning against one of the mansions stone walls, trying her best to stand up.
"Willow," he said his features softening back to human as he saw her. He went to her and put his hands around her waist, helping her to stand. The young redhead tried her best to stand, but Angelus only smiled and pulled her against him for support. Before anything else could be said by anyone, the vampire pulled Willow into a nearly crushing embrace. Which, surprising the slayer more than anything, was equally returned by her friend.
The vampire could feel the young girl trembling in his embrace and was reluctant to pull away even a little bit. But as he did so, he could see blood trickling down her neck. An angry growl filled empty rooms of the mansion as Angelus saw puncture marks wounding her pale skin.
"What the hell do you think your doing!" he screamed at her. Both Buffy and Willow were surprised by the concern and fear that coated his voice. "You could have been killed! What were you doing here anyway! Did you even have a stake? Don't you know it's dangerous? They could have killed you Willow! You should never have come here!"
The young hacker looked up at the yelling vampire with tears glazing her eyes. Angelus immediately regretted the harsh tone he had used with her. "I...I c-came to see you," she choked out. Angelus gazed upon her as she began to sob. Placing a light hand on the back of her head he pulled her closer to him and she cried into his chest. He stroked her hair, trying to clam her as he thought about what she had said.
"You came to see me?" he whispered still holding her protectively.
"Y-yea. I c-couldn't leave thins the way they w-w-were. I th-though that you were a-angry with me and I..."
"No precious. I wasn't angry with you," he told her softly, mentally cursing himself for making her worry.
Buffy watched in amazement as the vampire held her best friend protectively. He seemed to be soothing her, comforting her until she was ready to speak to him. What is going on here she asked herself. But, the slayer was almost to stunned to move. So she stood there in the corner, listening to the couple as Willow continued to sob.
"Your, your not?" the redhead asked as she pulled back to looked at him. Dark eye bore into glistening emerald ones, with only fondness filling them. "Never precious," he told her placing a soft kiss on the top of her head. "Is that why you came here? To see if I was angry?" the vampire asked with a soft smile. The witch returned his small grin and shook her heed.
"N-not exactly. I uh...well...did you mean it?"
"Mean what sweet ling?" he asked cocking his head to the side.
"That you loved me?"
The slayer nearly fell over as she heard the words. Love her? Whoa whoa hold on just a minute! Ignoring her better instincts to go over there and kill the vampire, Buffy found herself listening intently on what he was going to say.
"Of course," he answered without hesitation. Smiling, the redhead pulled him closer to her in a hug.
"Angelus," she said softly placing a kiss on his lips. "I love you too."
He smiled at her. Not a smirk or a mischievous devil grin she had grown to know, but a genuine smile. He scooped her up into his arms and kissed her. Angelus began to carry his red head out of the mansion. When he was at the door, he stopped momentarily.
"Well slayer?" he asked turning around glancing into the shadows where he knew the blonde had been watching them. "Are you coming or not? I mean, I can't really fight off any vampires while I'm holding precious here now can I?"
Buffy's mouth nearly dropped to the ground as she stepped out into the light. She saw a tired, yet happy Willow snuggling closer into Angelus and a smirking vampire.
"Come on," he smirked as he turned around and began heading towards the hacker's home. Unable to form actual sentences or thoughts, the slayer quickly followed behind them.
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The walk to Willow's was filled with a comfortable silence for the redhead and the vampire, and a period of mind boggling questions for the slayer. She had decided to let Angelus take her home, then she would drill him and/or stake him later.
"Could you get the door?" Angelus asked casually. Buffy nodded and opened the door to Willow's house. Angelus carried her in with ease and the slayer followed them into the living room.
"I'm taking her upstairs," the vampire said. The blondes eyes widened. Angelus laughed softly so he would not wake the sleeping hacker. "To sleep," he told her laughing again. Angelus walked steadily up the stairs to the witches room.
Buffy walked over to the phone which hung on the wall. Picking it up, she dialed the only person she could think of.
"Giles? It's Buffy. No I'm fine. Listen I need you now. I'm at Willow's."
"What are you doing?" Willow giggled as she saw Angelus taking off her shoes and socks.
"Getting you comfortable for bed." Seeing the red head's blush he chuckled. "So you can sleep. Jeez, does everyone think that I'm just going to take advantage of a nearly unconscious Willow?" he asked himself. "Like you wouldn't," she laughed again. The vampire frowned at her, then joined her in her laughter.
"Good night precious," he said placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
"I love you Angelus," she told him. He put his hand on her head and stroked her check.
"I love you too. Now get some rest. I have a feeling we'll both need it."
"Okay. Oh and Angelus," she called as he walked to her door. "Try not to kill any of my friends. Or, be dusted by any of them either." He smiled and nodded before heading back downstairs.
"What the hell is going on here!" Buffy screamed as he came down the steps.
"Shh!" he told her irritably. "She's sleeping," he explained.
"Since when do you care? What was all that about? Why was she at the mansion?"
"Calm down," he told her rolling his eyes. "One question at a time please. I'm tired."
"What was Willow doing at your mansion?"
"You were there. You heard her. She came to talk."
"About what?!"
"We had a fight earlier," Angelus explained moving to sit in one of the large chairs. "She came to apologize."
"In the middle of the night?"
"Yes well...you know Willow. Gets one idea in that pretty little head of hers and you just can't get her to change her mind. I think she gets that stubbornness from you," he muttered.
"Give me one good reason I should stake you right now!"
"Actually," Angelus said smirking as he propped his feet onto the coffee table. "I can give you a few. One, you'll get dust all over the Rosenberg's new chairs. Two, it would hurt Willow. And three, you couldn't do it anyway."
"What do you mean? I'm over you. I can kill you."
"Sure you could. Listen, I've been around for two-hundred and forty plus years."
"You think you would kill me?" Buffy asked. Angelus sighed.
"I could kill you, if I wanted. But I can't."
"And why's that?"
"You know why. It would hurt her. She'd stake me herself if she found out that I killed you. And I am *not* about to lose her because I gave in to killing some annoying slayer," he explained.
"And you care whether or not you hurt her?" the slayer asked him moving closer.
"Of course I care," he said softly. "I love her. Damn soul," he muttered.
"S-soul? You don't' have a...."
"Yea I *know* that. But, having one for so long. It let me be able to feel again. Happiness, sadness, fear, love. Everything. And if I had never had one then well I wouldn't be here. You'd be dead, Willow's be dead, and I would be happily painting the town red," he said almost wishfully looking up the stairs. "But I did have a soul. It should have been the worst thing that ever happened to me. But, I'm with her now. And I do love her. I won't let anything, least of all me, ever hurt her."
Buffy could not believe what she had just heard. He admitted that he loved Willow. And she believed him. It was not just some plot to get to the slayer through her friend, he honestly cared for the young red head. She realized that she should be upset about this, but she was actually feeling happy for her friend. She couldn't understand it. The sound of someone knocking furiously at the door brought her out of her thoughts.
"Watcher's here," Angelus said casually settling back into the chair. Buffy glared at him before crossing the room to let Giles inside.
"Buffy I cam as quickly as I could," the British man said hastily as he walked inside. He quickly noticed a smirking Angelus sitting the living room. "Angelus?"
"Hi'ya Rupert. Say, is that a new suit?" the vampire smirked. The older man stared at him in disbelief.
"I demand to know what is going on right now!"
"Shh," both Angelus and Buffy scolded. He looked confused at both of them.
"Willow's sleeping," replied the slayer.
"Ah I see. Buffy what is going on?"
The blonde slayer took a deep breath. Gee, this is going to be fun she thought sarcastically to herself. How was she going to explain this to Giles.
"You were right," she told him softly.
"What? I was right?" Now Giles knew something was going on. His slayer had just told him that he had been right about something.
"Yea," she said almost laughing as she remembered his earlier words. "You were right when you said that I was right. So all in all I guess I'm right." Angelus was deeply confused. He had no idea what they were talking about.
"You mean..."
"Yup. Angelus and Wills. The Hell mouth's most happy human and vampire couple," Buffy said.
"I see. Angelus and Willow are..." he said letting his sentence trail off. "Why is he here?" Giles asked gesturing to the vampire.
"Why is everyone talking about me like I'm not in the room?" he asked.
"Willow was attacked," Buffy explained.
"She was?! Oh dear lord where is she is she all right?"
"Relax Rupert old boy," Angelus said standing up from his chair. "She's fine. She's upstairs trying to sleep so could you keep it down?" he asked irritably.
"What happened?" the librarian asked ignoring the vampire. Buffy glanced at Angelus, giving him a look telling him that he was to explain.
"She was at the mansion. She came, to see me. We had fought earlier and she was coming to apologize. I wasn't there. But by the time I did get there, some vampires were attacking her. Buffy and I killed them, and then we brought Willow home. At which time the slayer felt that it was imperative to bring *you* here and bring even more chaos into my night." The slayer glared stakes at the dark vampire.
"Your dreams were right then," Giles concluded.
"Dreams?"
"Yes. Prophetic ones of you....and Willow."
"She knew about this?" Angelus asked. Buffy nodded. "Why didn't you tell me?" the vampire seemed to ask no one in particular.
"I didn't want you to be angry," came a small voice from the stairs. They all turned to see Willow limping down her staircase with a small smile. "Hi Giles," she said warmly. Angelus rushed up the stairs and allowed the hacker to lean on him for support.
The watcher looked at Buffy, then back at the couple. His slayer had been right. The demon known as Angelus was indeed in love with the hacker.
"Oh as usual, dear."
"You should be resting," Angelus told the redhead. Buffy and Giles seemed to pick up on how the vampire softened and became much more calm when Willow was around.
"I hear shouting," she said. The vampire helped the young witch to the couch while glaring at the watcher.
"You were bitten," the British man observed.
"Ladies and gentlemen may I present Sherlock Holmes."
"Be nice," Willow said playfully hitting the vampire on the shoulder.
"Sorry," he apologized to the redhead.
"How long?" Buffy asked quietly. "Please Will, just how long?"
"I don't know," she answered honestly. "Ever since...that night at school."
"So you guy's were....when he attacked Harmony?"
"I said I was sorry about that," Angelus defended.
"Buffy," pleaded the hacker. "Don't be angry please. I didn't want you to find out like this. And I'm sorry..."
"Wills. I can't say that I'm not hurt or angry, because I am."
"I didn't want to hurt you. Please don't hate me..."
"Willow," Buffy said with glistening eyes. She rushed over to her friends side and took her hand in his. "I could never ever ever hate you. You are my best friend."
"Here we go," Angelus sighed rolling his eyes.
"It may take me a while to accept it, but he does love you. Doesn't he?"
"Yea. I think we already establish that bit?" Angelus was hit again in the stomach. "Ow," he said in a monotone voice and glared at the slayer.
"And I love you. I want you to be happy."
"I want you to be happy. I love you too Buffy."
The men in the room groaned slightly as the two hugged. Women the vampire thought shaking his head.
"X-xander's gonna kill me," Willow whispered.
"Xander won't lay a finger on you," Angelus growled.
"He's more likely to stake Angelus," Giles pointed out. Willow turned to the vampire with pleading eyes.
"I can handle him without killing him. If I really have to."
"You really have to."
"Speaking of Xander," Buffy said. "And Cordelia, and Mrs. Calendar. How are we going to tell them?"
"I'll do it," the redhead said. "I have to."
"I'll be with you precious. Every step of the way."
Willow smiled at him. This was strange. She had just admitted to her best friend that she was in love with her demon ex, and she couldn't be happier. Giles also seemed to accept it. Willow hoped that Xander would too. As long as Angelus wasn't killing anyone, everyone would be able to accept it.
~A few months later.~
"Willow," Angelus said pulling away slightly from the redhead beneath him.
"Yea?" "I love you." "I love you too silly." "Would you have stayed with me? If you know, they had all tried to stake me?" "Xander *did* try to stake you." "Yea but would you have?" "Of course I would have. Now shut up and kiss me."
Angelus smiled and pressed his lips to Willows. She had moved into the mansion a few weeks before and they were, ahem, breaking in the new bed. After the few months they had been together, everyone, well except for Xander, was almost able to fully accept their relationship. They all new, again except for Xander, that Angelus was definitely not evil. He didn't kill humans either. He only fed off the willing ones. Everyone was, including Xander this time, happy for once. Of course, they did have to save the world every now and then but they did live on a Hell mouth.
"Oh guess who's coming to dinner tomorrow," Angelus said as he pulled back to let his redhead breath. "Who?" "Dru and Spike." "Eel!!" "It's okay baby," he told her. "They won't eat you. Promise."
"But what about Buffy?" "She doesn't have to know. They'll just slip in and slip out. No killing or maiming or torturing. Hopefully." Willow giggled.
"You are a very bad influence you know." "Yea. I know."
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And everybody lives happily ever after. Even Xander.
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Did you like it? I hope you liked it. It was fluffy! You know, I was thinking. A thing I do from time to time. If people like this…I might even write like a sequel thingie. Not like. Like one chapter just saying stuff. But I don't know. Thank you again for being so awesome. You rock!!!!!!!!
P.S.
Angel.
There.
I did it.
Ha!