Here I am again - finally! I didn't fall off the world after all. I just unexpectedly had to work ten extra hours last week so there has been very little time to write until now. Plus, my mother has been a total computer hog lately, drat the woman, how dare she use her own computer, huh?! In addition to that I don't find full on love scenes very easy to write, so I hope it's okay! Gah, enough excuses for my tardiness and general uselessness. There will be more as soon as I find the time.

Big thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter. You guys are great and give me the confidence to keep on writing.

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Now, I think this is still only a PG-13 *evil grin* but if not all I can say is 'oops' and 'sorry!' Also, be warned that unless you like 100% slush and mush and horny B/A this may not be for you! ;-)

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Angel slanted his mouth, deepened the kiss, swept his tongue across her slightly parted lips and reluctantly fought the immediate rise of passion that made him unable to think beyond keeping her in bed all morning, just making love to her.

As he kissed her and ran his fingers up her bare legs he was silently listing the probably numerous reasons why he shouldn't be doing this right now. Firstly he'd only met her two days ago, secondly she was still technically engaged to his brother, thirdly the aforesaid brother might burst in on them, -

His mind was trying to come up with a fourth point when she lifted her mouth from his and tantalisingly nibbled and licked her way down the side of his throat before she gently sank her small perfect teeth into a fleshy part between his neck and shoulder. With a small shudder of pleasure he abruptly decided that being reasonable and logical wasn't working at all well.

Buffy murmured in surprise as Angel eased himself upright in bed, bringing her closer against his chest, before he caught her face between his large hands and kissed her until they were both dizzy and gasping for breath. Buffy stroked her hands over his muscular shoulders revelling in the beauty and strength of his body as his lips teased hers with small biting kisses and flicks of his tongue. Then he shifted beneath her and she could feel his arousal jutting into her upper thigh.

Automatically she rotated her hips and ground against him. When he tore his mouth away from hers and groaned loudly against her shoulder she cringed, fearing for a second that in her eagerness she'd just mortally wounded that tender bit of his anatomy or something, but when he grabbed her butt in both hands and firmly eased her hips in the same motion against him she relaxed again. No damage done. Thank God, if she'd managed to almost cripple the first guy to get this far she'd probably just have to admit defeat and go into a nunnery.

Angel held Buffy clutched against him, his lips pressing gentle kisses to her neck and ear as he struggled with the slight embarrassment caused by his rather extreme reaction to her little wriggle against him, but he comforted himself with the notion that he wasn't being compared to anyone else and that if Buffy really liked him as much as she seemed to then he would probably have some potentially more embarrassing reactions to consider in the near future. But initiating anything was beyond him at the moment, his idiotic doubts were back. Did she really want this?

Buffy leaned into Angel's gentle caresses with a groan of pleasure and gently raked her fingers through his hair, he really was the perfect yum and so gentlemanly about the whole thing, perhaps just a touch too gentlemanly. But the very idea of trying to drag him out of his sweatpants before he put the moves on her made her blush red hot, she could think of several things that could go wrong in that scenario. In her overactive imagination the only way that things could possibly go worse was if Spike was to come running in to bounce on the bed in full pirate costume as he had the day before.

Buffy moaned against his lips as he returned to her mouth, pressing deep, burning kisses upon her. She was more used to saying no to the many guys over the years that had tried to get her into bed, this was a new area for Buffy, and she had never expected to have to consider ways of getting a guy to make love to her when she'd already got him as far as a bed!

In the end she opted for direct, there was greater potential for embarrassment but then Angel had a tendency to scramble her brain cells and remove all capacity for thought - rational or otherwise. "Angel?"

She was going to tell him to stop now he thought, reluctantly raising his lips from deliciously soft skin just beneath her collarbone, "Yeah?"

"Will you, um." Buffy ducked her head slightly to avoid eye contact, "Make love with me?"

Angel floundered for an answer; his brain didn't seem to be doing a very good job of making his mouth say the magic word. Instead he settled for a soul-searing kiss that gave his answer just as eloquently as any words could have done.

When he finally released her Buffy blinked dazedly at him and smiled, "I'll take that as a yes." She gasped.

Angel grinned a touch goofily and kissed her again. "That was a big definite Hell, Yes."

Buffy giggled and wrapped her arms around him, nestling herself closer "And to think that I thought you didn't want to know earlier on when I threw myself at you like a big ho!"

Angel blinked and then groaned, "You mean I didn't need to be nice and polite and give you a shirt earlier? Damn I'm stupid."

Buffy giggled, "Nah, just a bit slow maybe!"

Angel mock glared and Buffy shook with laughter again until she abruptly found their positions reversed with Angel sprawled between her legs still playfully menacing her. Despite how much she loved his silly teasing side; right now she wanted the serious passionate side. She stretched lean toned legs and wrapped them tightly around his waist and clutched him close, enjoying the momentary look of shock speedily replaced by a look of lust, and something else she couldn't quite identify.

Angel smiled and dipped his head to kiss her again, to hell with interfering little brothers and the problems of two-day courtships, he was going to ignore the nasty little voices in his head whispering that he couldn't possibly be this lucky, and just enjoy making love to the woman he was so in love with.

Besides, she had him in a death grip, even if he'd wanted to be elsewhere he wouldn't have had a chance.

Reverently he dipped his mouth back to her throat and the collarbone he had been kissing before she had interrupted. His pressed a trail of kisses to her silken skin as far as he could reach before he started needing to unbutton the shirt. His fingers fumbled and he cursed himself, honestly, it was his own shirt, surely he should be able to unfasten it, it wasn't a bra or anything awkward like that. To his relief Buffy came to his rescue, her tiny fingers joining his in tugging at the uncooperative buttons, it was also a relief to see it wasn't just his hands shaking.

At last Angel managed the last button and unwrapped the shirt from around Buffy's dainty form, it wasn't as if he'd never seen her naked before, he had earlier that morning but the ten seconds of sheer shock at having her nude in his arms had rendered him unable to fully appreciate the experience.

And she was breathtaking.

Particularly as she climbed astride him and let her masses of golden hair cascade around her shoulders and tickle her naked breasts when she leaned forward for a kiss. Angel kissed her mouth as his fingers slowly traced the lines of her breasts before he was unable to restrain himself for another moment and let his mouth nibble and lick it's way down her throat to her breasts, when his tongue flicked round one tight rosy bud she gasped and arched up to his teasing mouth, trying to demand more. Her fingers clutched convulsively in his hair and she found herself softly chanting his name like a litany.

The pleasure his lips were giving was almost torturous, his mouth was moving with a lazy sensuality that had her squirming, which she finally noticed had him squirming too. Thrilled by the power she had over him she wriggled and rubbed again, eliciting a groan from Angel and almost moaning herself. His lips, teeth and tongue left her breasts and he raised his head and kissed her urgently but made no move to do any more than that, much to Buffy's disappointment, but then she wondered if he was still waiting for her to make the final move despite her very blatant invitation of earlier.

Gathering her courage she let her fingers drift down his smooth, well- muscled chest to his sweatpants, once she had made that decision to curl her fingers into the waistband his fingers eagerly followed hers, swiftly helping her to tug them off and toss them to the floor. Then she lay with a totally naked Angel. Her eyes widened slightly, okay, so she wasn't exactly a naïve teenager but was it really normal for that part of a guy's anatomy to be that big? And the tiny scrap of rubber he had just retrieved from that handy box surely wouldn't hold him? Okay so it would, just.

Then he kissed her again and allowed his hands and mouth to run freely over her body until she whimpered with pleasure and writhed against him, half trying to join their bodies. Buffy thought she would die if she didn't feel him inside her soon despite how scary his size was, so much pleasure; yet a feeling of emptiness. Then he rubbed against her as she had rubbed against him earlier that night, the sensation of his velvet hardness rubbing firmly and rhythmically against her slick folds was too much and her body convulsed against his, his name on her lips.

As the sharp pleasure faded to pleasant, tingly warmth she realized Angel was beginning to push inside her. Instinctively she parted her thighs wider and rolled her hips upwards to accommodate him. His tentative thrusts sent shocks of pleasure up and down her spine until she began to tear, his shoulders tensed and he kissed her tenderly before giving one final thrust to break through. Buffy whimpered at the momentary pain before the sensation of Angel filling her body so completely overwhelmed the pain and she began to rock her pelvis against his.

They fitted so well together Angel couldn't believe it, he'd been afraid he'd hurt her too much or that she wouldn't really enjoy it but those fears already looked unnecessary and the feelings were so overwhelming as they strained together in their passion, pushing each other to ever more dizzying heights of pleasure that Angel lost all sense of everything except the woman beneath him matching him kiss for kiss, thrust for thrust.

Soon she arched against him panting with pleasure; her hands tracing the taut, sleek muscles of his back and felt them bunch and knot as he struggled for control.

"Damn it, Angel," she muttered unsteadily, "Don't hold back-"

With strength she barely knew she had she urged him deeper and harder using muscles honed by her work, at this he swiftly relinquished the gentle grinding rhythm he had set and drove into her with a sweet savagery that made Buffy scream his name with pleasure almost immediately as her scarlet fingernails scraped down his back in her efforts to drag him even closer. Moments later he was groaning her name as he collapsed over her body joining her in perfection as they lost themselves entirely in each other.

Afterwards he locked her in his arms and sighed contentedly, for a few precious minutes they rested together in blissful silence before Buffy let out a muffled snort of laughter.

"What?" Angel questioned with lazy interest.

"Do you think anyone heard?" She giggled at him.

"I sincerely hope not! Though I suppose I could spread a rumor that it was me accidentally taking a cold shower while still in my morning stupor!"

Buffy grinned and gently smacked his head, "I wasn't that loud! Besides I meant the headboard banging, hmm, whose room is that anyway?"

Angel was racing his mind to attempt to discover who might have been unfortunate enough to receive that unwelcome wake up when he realized the room was Buffy's own and she was giggling at him.

"Minx."

She just grinned and fluttered her eyelashes.

His heart contracted, this was where he belonged, this was where he wanted to be on his Sunday mornings now and forever, "I love you." He blurted suddenly, he checked himself, "I'm sorry, that probably sounds crazy."

Buffy smiled and blinked furiously at the film of tears that were fast forming, "No-o." she managed to quaver, "I think it's lovely."

"Buffy?" Angel gently traced the line of her jaw and caressed her cheek.

"I love you too." She burst out before giving in to floods of tears. "I don't care if people think I'm crazy or that we're crazy." She gulped out. "But I waited and waited for the right guy to turn up and now he has so I don't want to waste another minute not telling him that I love him when he's already had the courage to tell me how he feels."

Angel smiled happily as he received the best news imaginable and wiped up a few of the fat tears now rolling freely down her cheeks, "I don't know about courage, more probably the trouble I have with remembering to put my brain in gear when I'm around you. I love you so much I guess I can't not tell you or show you."

Buffy managed a smile and swiped at her tears, "Show me eh?" She said with a grin and a shimmy against him.

Angel smiled broadly, "I have a feeling that you will be the very early death of me."

"You're too young and strong for that, I chose carefully don't you know! Now what were you saying about showing me how much you love me?"

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Phew! I hope that was convincing - both in realism and passion! I can honestly say that was the hardest thing I have ever written - including a 2500 word essay two hours before it was due, on a book I hadn't bothered to read! Gee I hope my old history professor isn't a closet fan of Buffy fic or he'll be after me with a hatchet because I actually got a decent mark for that essay and was praised for noting some very valid points. Points that I happened upon by flipping the 400-page book open at random a few times and stabbing it with my pen! Mwahahhahahaa! Ahem, anyways. Reviews would be even more appreciated than usual, as I'm not sure about how successful this chapter was despite the actual effort I put into it!