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Chapter 21
Buffy finished
her dinner and pushed back from the table, full up, and still apparently
oblivious to the murmurs about her. All day people had been asking her whether
the rumours were true, but Buffy had always merely smiled and carried on with
what she was doing. Wild stories had been circulating, that Buffy was dating a
werewolf, a troll and a hippogriff, but none so far about vampires.
Later that evening, Buffy told Angel about this, as they lay spooned on his
bed.
"You're famous in the Hogwarts halls,"
she teased him, playing with his fingers and fiddling with his claddagh ring. "They
haven't figured out what you are yet though."
"I suppose its better that people know I
exist," Nagel said distractedly. "Better than them running into me randomly."
Buffy snuggled into him, and laid her head on his chest. Angel tipped her chin
up with his finger and kissed her. With a groan, Buffy rolled until she was lying
on top of him, and they kissed passionately, months apart making it all the
more important. Angel placed his hands in the small of Buffy's back and she
entwined hers in his hair, all the while kissing him and being kissed by him. They
rolled over, and Buffy lay underneath Angel, trapped by his arms. She slid her
hands under his shirt and ran her warm hands over his cold torso. She reached
where his heartbeat would've been, then stopped, and pulled her head away,
while he kept kissing her neck.
"Angel," she said softly. "Angel, we have to
stop, we have to be in control." Reluctantly he pulled back, and his brown eyes
met hers.
"You're right," he murmured, "But it's
so difficult." He rolled of off Buffy, and she got up, smoothing her clothes
and messy hair.
"How are we going to do this?" she said
suddenly. "How can we be together and still be in control? The moment I see
you, I want to be with you, I feel like I have to touch you and then I'll be
complete." Nagel crossed the room to her, and took her hand.
"I know," he assured her. "I know. Maybe
we shouldn't, maybe we should stop, before we get in too deep…."
"No," Buffy said, barely controlling her
emotions. "You can't not be there. I lost you once, and I had no choice. But we
do this time. How can anyone in the world be like us, how can anyone love someone
more than I love you?" She kissed him and her tears fell onto his face.
