Love that prevail over death – Chapter Seven: You're all that I want.
After giving Peaches' tip a very long hour of thought, Spike jumped from his spot and ran until Cordelia's desk. She was distractedly checking on her well-polished nails, and jumped, startled, when Angel's annoying grandchild stopped in front of her.
"What?" She barked, looking at the vampire "Oh, it's only you. What do you want?"
"Let's party tonight, pet".
Cordelia lifted one eyebrow:
"Why?"
"Let's see", Spike patted his chin with his index finger "Peaches is alive, human, and shaggin' Blondie. And we're bloody locked in this hotel since the slayer's mother and Captain Cardboard arrived"
Cordelia thought a little, then got up and smiled to Spike.
"You're right, for once, William", she said as she walked to the stairs. "I'll rescue Buffy from her love-cage and take her, Willow, Faith and" the former may queen wrinkled her nose in disgust "Anya to the mall. We'll need new outfits".
The brunette ran to Angel and Buffy's apartment.
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"Hello!" Cordelia called as she peeked inside the flat "Is everyone decent here? I'm coming in!"
"Yes, Cordy", Angel's voice came from the kitchen "I'm not very fond of a ménage-a-trois".
Faith laughed as Angel kissed apologetically Buffy's skull. Cordelia sat down beside the brunette slayer and smiled amusedly to a beet-red-faced Buffy. Faith shoved her spoon at the ice-cream carton.
"So, what do you want?" Faith asked after licking the ice-cream from the spoon.
"Let's go party tonight!" Cordelia said excitedly as she stole Faith's spoon and shoved it inside the ice-cream's carton. Faith screamed happily and punched the air. Buffy smiled.
"Go party?" Angel said as Buffy got up from her chair beside him and sat down on his lap, putting his arms around her waist.
"Yeah" Cordelia grinned "You know, talk, drink, dance, drink something, make out in public. Not that you need to go out to do all of this, I mean…"
"No way!" Angel interrupted Cordelia abruptly "Joyce and Riley are around and…"
"Oh, puh-leeze!" Cordelia rolled her eyes "It's not like she's going out all by herself. We all go, and maybe I can convince Wesley to come with us friendly, no need to drag him".
"I don't dance", Angel stated and smirked to his employee.
Faith sighed, Cordelia slammed the table in defeat and glared at Buffy. The slayer said to the two brunettes.
"You two, please, go ahead, I'll convince him".
Faith giggled and Cordelia wrinkled her nose in disgust.
"Gross! Please make it as a quickie, we'll leave at 10 tonight and we still need to go shop. I have some outfits, but none is new and you girls have no outfits to wear tonight".
With that, the former may queen shoved Faith out, she herself left and closed the door behind the two of them. When they heard the clicking of the door closing, Buffy wriggled changing her spot on Angel's lap.
The former vampire moaned in desire. Facing her lover, the slayer supported her hands at his well-built chest and started licking his jaw line.
"Buffy, please"
"What will it take to convince you to go out tonight and dance with me?"
"Wanna do it on the table?" He said, his voice hoarse with desire, and he was licking the sensitive skin of his mark on her neck. The answer Angel got was Buffy jumping on the table and tearing his shirt apart.
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Minutes later, Cordelia groaned as she heard the loud crack and the laughter coming from Angel's apartment.
"We'll need a new table", she mumbled, and Faith smiled as Spike smirked. Anya and Willow, who were sitting at the sofa waiting Buffy to show up so they could go shopping, exchanged looks, confused.
"Peaches and Blondie broke the table downstairs while shaggin' each other", Spike explained to their benefit. Anya widened her eyes as Willow blushed.
A little later, Buffy, with a victorious smile on her lips, showed up, and Angel's walled and keys of the car on her hands.
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When the girls arrived from shopping, it was eight-thirty in the night, and the guys were ready, impatiently waiting for them to arrive. Buffy shoved a shirtless Angel from their bedroom – she slapped Anya's forearm as the former demon drooled over Angel – and locked them inside.
Angel, Xander, Oz, Doyle and Spike heard the shower being started five times and closed five times. They heard the female laughter and Spike heard the soft murmur of the silks and satins of the dresses.
When the door cracked and shut open, the guys held their breaths – unnecessarily on Spike's case – and waited. The first one to show was a sex-babbly Anya, wearing a tight dark-green dress. Cordelia had applied some mascara in her eyelashes and a green eye shadow.
"I'm having sex tonight!" She squealed happily as Xander gasped.
The next one to make a glamorous appearance was Willow, with her face purple of embarrassment, and a tight red dress which ended in her mid-thigh. Oz' eyes nearly bulged out of his skull as he stared at his wife.
"You're gorgeous, Willow", he said and kissed her hand.
"Yeah. Great job, Cordy", Xander said to the former may queen who showed up wearing a knee-long light blue dress.
"Thanks", she said simply as she stood beside Doyle and her husband slipped his arms around her waist "But now my master piece comes, the slayers".
Angel and Spike held their breaths – actually Angel did – and waited for the two slayers appear.
Faith was wearing a white satiny dress tight on the upper body but loose on her hips. It had a generous opening on the front revealing a good part of her breasts and her hair was put on a loose pony-tail with strands framing her face.
"Now, that's a wonderful change", Xander said, earning a menacing growl from Spike. "No offense", he said to Faith, who smiled at him:
"None taken".
The next one to show up was of course the blond slayer. Buffy wore a short tight black leather dress, with the black leather jacket Angel had given her so many years ago, and combat boots. Her honey-blond locks were falling freely down her back, and it made Angel remember one night in Bronze years before, when she danced sexily with Xander only to entice him.
"Are we all ready?" Spike asked as he offered his arm politely to Faith – who surprisingly accepted. The friends walked out, happily chatting about their future.
Riley and Joyce quickly followed the group
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They arrived on a crowded nightclub, called Caritas. A demon with a green face and two horns on his forehead came closer to Cordelia, Doyle and Angel, a huge smile on his face:
"Angel-cakes! Cordy! Doyle! It's great to see you!"
"Hey, Lorne", Cordelia said, smiling friendly. "Lorne is a half-demon like Doyle, and he reads the mind of people while they are singing".
"The pet there", Lorne pointed a girl singing on the stage "Is obviously in love, she chose a song from Bryan Adams".
The melody flowed through the huge speakers and Angel politely asked his lady:
"Wanna dance?"
Oh, thinkin' about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free
Now, nothin' can take you away from me
We've been down that road before
But that's over now
You keep me comin' back for more
Buffy gasped as she listened to the lyrics. It fell so right about Angel and her, so perfect to each other. She clung to him like he was her lifeline, and whispered:
"Jesus, the time we stayed apart… It hurt so much, and I needed to forget, because I thought you were over me".
"Sunshine, I never was over you" Angel corrected "God knows how hard these years far from you were for me. But I was coping because I knew you was still a single, I had a feeling you still loved me. But, when I received your wedding's invitation… It drove me over the edge. You were, finally, unreachable, untouchable. God, when Cordelia told me you were getting married, my soul died. I was a zombie; I saw no light in the end of the tunnel. Then, on the day you got married, I staked myself".
Buffy smiled between the tears and kissed him passionately.
"You know", she said as they broke the kiss "I saw a very dark place right then", she pointed at a point near the bar "Why don't we try to make it on a public place?"
"You're insatiable, Mrs. O'Connor", Angel said, but didn't complain when she pulled him through the crowd to the dark place.
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Riley looked at the cute couple dancing and kissing on the dance floor. Jealousy clenched his heart on his iron grip as he saw Buffy pulling Angel to a dark spot. She never made that with him.
"She's a bitch", he said to Joyce, who was staring in surprise and shock to the girl she had risen to be a mother and a wife.
"No, the vampire is controlling her mind", Joyce said fiercely.
"Poof is no longer a vampire", Spike's voice came from behind them. Riley jumped in startle and Joyce narrowed her eyes. Faith was beside Spike, her arms around his waist "And Buffy is a strong-minded woman, no one can control her".
"Riley, you better leave now. Or I'll punch you" Faith said. Knowing she would do exactly what she had said, Riley pulled Joyce towards the nightclub's door.
"You looked extremely dangerous, pet", Spike purred into Faith's ear "Now let's dance".
Baby you're all that I want
When you're layin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven
Cordelia and Doyle were dancing close to each other, and she happily thought about that day, so many years ago, when Doyle was willing to sacrifice him in order to save a demon family. Thankfully Angel managed to rescue the family without Doyle's sacrifice. The only damage they had was a blown building and no office for some weeks.
"Delia, darlin'", Doyle whispered in her ear "What are you thinking about?"
"Oh, about the day a certain half-demon was willing to suicide himself to save a demon family", she replied grinning. Finally they could talk about that day with a smile on their face.
"Oh" Doyle said "I remember a certain brunette was pretty desperate when I showed up"
"Doyle".
"What, princess?"
"I love you"
"Oh, you said it to me that day!" Doyle smiled brightly. She slapped playfully the back of his neck "That hurts, Delia luv, but I love you anyways".
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Angel's hands were on her buttocks and his lips on hers, trying to silence her moans of pleasure. Buffy was sure she was going to be sore on the back next day, she would have a hickey on her neck from Angel's sucks on it, but she loved it: the feeling of adrenaline rushing through her veins. It was something that came with Angel, a feeling of danger.
A wave engulfed her, and she dug her nails on the firm flesh of his back. Angel bit the soft flesh of her neck as he climaxed inside her.
As the climax calmed down in them both, Angel looked at the satisfied female in front of him and smiled. On his eyes, Buffy was always beautiful, but more beautiful after the love-making-session.
"You're beautiful", he whispered in her ear, as she helped him to close his zipper and straightened her dress.
"Let's get outta here", she answered, dragging him towards the door.
"Your very humble servant, Mrs. O'Connor", he replied, following her.
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When Cordelia arrived on the Hyperion the next morning, she was greeted with the view of Spike and Faith's clothes everywhere, and the said couple sleepily peacefully on a sofa on the dark living room.
"Gross", she whispered, and slipped to the kitchen. When Faith woke up and showed on the kitchen with a sheet around her body, she was received with a cup of Starbucks' coffee.
"Morning, Cordelia".
"Don't talk to me, I have many mental pictures given by our sweet boss and your sister slayer".
"Oh!" Faith blushed and giggled "Well, I guess it's on a slayer's fate to fall for a vampire".
"Good morning", Buffy said as she winked to Faith "So, you tasted a vampire's stamina".
"What do ya mean?" Cordelia asked the blonde slayer. Buffy sat down and explained:
"You see, Angel and I were sleeping peacefully after a busy party last night…"
"You mean having sex on the club" Cordelia remarked. Buffy made a move with her hand, dismissing it:
"Call whatever you want it. Well, we were sleeping, and Angel woke up to have some water. Since I was sleeping on his chest, I woke up too. Then we went to the kitchen and we heard stifled cries coming from the living room. I was about to peek" The blond slayer looked at her sister slayer with an amused gleam in her eyes "When Angel stopped me and told me it was his former grandchild and her" She nodded towards Faith, who was red as a tomato.
"Please don't break any table around" Cordelia stated and left.
"Having a vampire as a lover is wonderful" Faith giggled and Buffy laughed.
"I actually have a vampire as a lover only once. Then Angelus showed up, and then I had to kill Angel, and after he showed up from Hell we never made it again. You know it, once you congratulated me for being around him and not having sex with him".
Faith winked and laughed.
Author's notes: On the next chapters, the action will begin. Joyce and Riley will attack. Please, don't be too hard on me if the action sucks. I'm really bad in writing action scenes. BtVS and AtS characters belong to the Master Evil a.k.a Joss Whedon.