Disclaimer: I am not Joss or WWE or anything of the sort.. Sighs.. I am
just borrowing the characters.
Author's Note: Sorry it's taken so long to update.
Chapter 8
"What the hell do you want?" Buffy asked, nodding to the guy that had shown her to where her "guest" was and he ran for it when he had seen the look in Buffy's eyes, he couldn't get out of the room fast enough, slamming the door behind them. Buffy eyed the man in front of her, sighing as she realized that he was probably here to give the duties speech once again, before leaving when he figured out that she wasn't going back.
"Buffy, you can't keep.." the man began and Buffy shot him a glare that could have withered any other person or demon for that matter, that had in fact done so on many occasions. "I realize that we have gone our separate ways and that you haven't forgiven me for what I've done, but.."
"Yes, please tell me how I can help the cause, Angel." Buffy spat out, glaring at him with the anger she had felt ever since she had found out. "Tell me how I can forget how you murdered my sister and no one remembers her, but me and you. Tell me how to forgive you for sleeping with that bitch knowing what could happen! Why don't you just go ahead and tell me?" she waited impatiently for him to say something and Angel seemed to wince at the accusations that had been thrown at him unable to deny any of them.
"No one was supposed to remember." He said weakly and Buffy began to advance on him, Angel had enough sense not to stand in her way, moving back away from her. He could hear Angelus raging inside of his head, calling him every type of fool for thinking that a recently returned slayer, wouldn't have known his dirty secrets. Angelus taunted him with the knowledge that Angel had repressed when he had moved to LA about Buffy, how she moved, how she acted, how she smelled. Angelus told Angel that the witch would help Buffy restore her memories and safeguard them from magic, when Buffy had returned from Heaven.
"I remember allot of things that I'm not supposed to." Buffy spat back out, fire blazing in her eyes, Angel reached out a hand to comfort her, but she shook it off, not willing to be comforted by Angel at that moment. "Don't fucking touch me, Angel. You gave up any right to touch me a long time ago."
"Buffy, if you would just give me the chance to explain what happened." Angel said, trying another tactic, dropping his hand to his side, sighing in defeat, Angelus taunting him.
"Yes," Buffy said and Angel looked hopeful for all of three seconds, "like you let me try and explain about Faith? Or Spike? Or how about where I had gone? Go ahead, I'll give you the same shot that you gave me." Buffy threw open the door and left, leaving Angel standing there looking confused.
"Buffy!" he called out, rushing after her once the initial shock of her leaving had gone through him, grabbing her by the arm and spinning her around, barely missing the fist that was about to hit him.
"What did I tell you about touching me?" she said dangerously and Angel backed up hands held up in the air, showing that he was no threat, but Buffy did not back down, not believing him.
"I can't just leave.."
"Why not?" she asked, "You're good at it." Again she began to leave, only to be spun around by Angel, this time her fist did make the connection, sending him stumbling back a couple of feet.
"You would think that he would have gotten the hint." Shawn Michaels said, stepping into the light, along with RVD and Nash, who had been on their way to find Buffy to tell her that Bischoff had made a match for next week's RAW and no one was quite sure what was going on, only that everyone had to be present.
"I know I would have." RVD said and the other two nodded in agreement, all of them beginning to walk towards Angel. Each of the men felt as though they owed the tiny blonde something, not out of actually owing her, but rather out of friendship and the trust that she would be there when they needed it.
"Guys," Buffy said uneasily, while she was pissed at him for what he had done, she was more concerned at what could be revealed if they chose to fight Angel, "I can handle this." She looked at Angel and he was looking at the three guys, but most especially Nash, before turning his attention to her and raising his eyebrow. "It's none of your concern." She said and everyone looked slightly confused at this.
"That's what I said.." Angel replied and shut up with a quick glare from Buffy.
"But you and I were involved, lover." Buffy hissed out, "Or did you forget?" Angel had the decency to look somewhat ashamed, before lifting his head and looking at her defiantly, while Angelus called him every type of fool.
"It wasn't my fault." he tried again to explain the magical interference that had occurred right before she had arrived. "Lorne was.."
"I know what happened." she hissed, "It doesn't excuse you for sleeping with that bitch!" the guys winced as Buffy decked Angel again, obviously not having worked out her aggravation for him yet.
"It was two years ago!" he exclaimed, unable to believe that she was still holding a grudge. The guys looked at Buffy, who was still not backing down, looking like she wanted to deck him once again.
"Alright," Buffy said, "you're innocent?" Angel nodded empathically, "Does that forgive you for killing my sister?" Nash whirled around and faced Angel, anger blazing in his eyes, he had, like the others, just assumed that this was an ex-lover's spat. "Because according to you time should mend all wounds. Or how about Dru? Darla? Cordelia?" With each name thrown the group watching eyebrows raised.
"We weren't involved." Angel pointed out and Buffy glared at him.
"Yet you throw Riley, Parker, and Spike in my face every single chance you get." Buffy said, "And you're the one that left me. You turned and walked away as I watched through the smoke. My heart broke that night."
"I can tell." Angel said sarcastically, "it took all of three days before you dated Parker." No one saw Buffy move, but they watched Angel go flying into the wall.
"You weren't there. You left me, so that I could fuck!" she hissed out, advancing on the vampire, whose every cell was screaming for him to run. "My friends decided that I needed to date, that I needed to move. They pushed me at everyone and I was tried, tried of everything. It was easier to pretend, then to deal with the pain that you left, so I did what they wanted." Buffy brushed the tears that were falling down her face, angrily. "I did what you wanted me to do. So don't you go and get all high and mighty on me, when I did it. And sure I wasn't around for Darla, but Cordelia, Dru, the three sisters? I won't even bother going there, because we both know that I was there and that we had decided to try the long distance relationship thing. Guess we found out that we couldn't do it." Buffy said bitterly and Nash resisted the urge to pound Angel, since Angel already looked pretty beat up, by what Buffy had done and what she was saying.
"Do I need to go on?" she said finally, sighing. She hadn't wanted to rehash everything, especially in front of Nash, RVD and Shawn Michaels. Angel shook his head, knowing that she had won and she knew it too, because she turned around and left, "Go home." she called out, before slamming the door behind her, unsure of which dressing room she had just entered.
"Hey, Jericho." Buffy said when she had finally stopped muttering about Angel and his stupidness. "Sorry 'bout that."
"Can you hold on a second?" Jericho asked, as Buffy went to leave the room and Buffy nodded her head, hanging back and waiting for what was upcoming.
Ring
"I would just like to say that I do this with great pleasure." Bischoff said, a smirk written on his face, "This is match is scheduled for a one fall and as you know I've kept the people participating a secret." the crowd booed, "up 'til now. Trish Stratus," the crowd cheered, catcalls resounding through the arena, "will be facing," he stopped for a moment letting the tension go up in the ring, "Kane. Trish has one week to prepare for the match." the arena was still for all of two seconds, before someone began the chant of asshole, which followed Bischoff until he left the ring.
Dressing room
"I have to what!" Trish exclaimed, shocked beyond belief that Bischoff was that messed up in the head. She glared as Molly Holly and Victoria began to laugh hysterically, pointing at her, before stumbling out of the room. Shaking her head, she went off to find Buffy to figure how much of a slayer power she possessed and whether she could kick Kane's ass or not. "Nash!"
"Trish." Nash replied, still in search of Buffy, Angel having disappeared almost right after Buffy.
"Have you seen Buffy?" she asked anxiously and Nash shook his head. Giving a huge sigh, Trish turned to make her way to the ring, when Jericho's door opened.
"Thanks, Buffy." Jericho said, as the tiny blonde stepped out into the hallway, kissing her on the cheek before turning to go out to find Christian, almost walking into Trish. "Trish?" confusion marred his voice, Trish went to slap him, but her hand was caught by Buffy.
"Let us explain." Buffy said, "I don't know exactly what you saw, but it definitely isn't what you are thinking."
"Then you aren't sleeping with Jericho?" Trish said sarcastically, Buffy and Jericho nodding vigorously, "I'm so relieved."
"No! Eww!" Buffy said and then looked apologetically towards Jericho, who was only concern was the beautiful woman that had already caught his heart. "He needed a professional favor." Buffy said and Trish raised an eyebrow.
"Is that what it's called?" Nash asked, he knew that he had no reason to feel any type of jealously, but he was damned if his brain was listening to him. Buffy whirled towards the sound of Nash's voice, flustered to have been caught in this type of situation, even though there had been nothing going on.
"What Buffy was trying to say," Jericho said, moving towards Trish, who looked about ready to take him on in the ring.. and win, "is that I asked her to watch my match next week, so that no one would interfere with it." Trish looked to Buffy who was nodding her head empathically.
"Oh." Trish and Nash said at the same time, both of them feeling like ass's for having jumped to that conclusion.
"Not that either of you have made any statement or asked us out." Buffy pointed out, a teasing glint in her eye as she winked at Jericho, while Trish tried to stutter her way out of it and Nash just looked from Jericho to Buffy, trying to figure out if they were lying or if he would be apologizing to her. "We need to talk." Trish stated, grabbing the blonde by the arm and dragging her off, leaving a very confused Jericho behind.
"She was jealous, right?" he asked, turning to look at Nash, who was trying to figure out what the real deal had been.
"We both were." Nash replied and Jericho nodded his head, glad that it hadn't gone unnoticed and that Trish was affected by him. They looked to where the two women had gone and shook their heads, they didn't understand how Trish could be pissed one second and asking for advice in the other.
Dressing Room
"What's up?" Buffy asked looking at the other blonde as she paced the length of the room.
"I have to fight Kane next week." Trish stated and Buffy looked about ready to explode, "Bischoff set up the match." Buffy took a step towards the door, "How much slayer power do I possess?" Buffy stopped and looked at Trish thoughtfully, "Enough to win against Kane?"
"Yea." Buffy said, thinking back to all of the potentials who had fought against the uber vamps. "You should." Trish looked at Buffy thoughtfully, "What are you thinking?"
"That you are going to escort me to the ring and everyone is going to think that you are going to save me.." Trish began and Buffy grinned wildly.
"And you're going to kick ass, while making it look like I was the distraction." Buffy finished, "Great thinking." Buffy started walking towards the door again, when Trish stopped her.
"So," Trish said as inconspicuously as possible, "it was business?"
"Yes." Buffy replied and grinned at her friend. "He's not my type of guy." Buffy said saucily, winking at Trish, who grinned at her.
"And Angel is?" Trish asked and Buffy looked at her sharply, unaware that Angel and her had been caught on tape. "What kind of name is Angel anyways?" Buffy laughed and Trish grinned, "Although, I gotta say he is cute."
"If you're into the whole tall, dark, and glowery." Buffy replied and they both laughed as they walked towards the exit and the waiting car.
"I hope they are talking about us." Jericho said as Nash and him walked towards the girls.
"Nah." Nash replied and grinned at Jericho, "you're too short."
Author's Note: Sorry it's taken so long to update.
Chapter 8
"What the hell do you want?" Buffy asked, nodding to the guy that had shown her to where her "guest" was and he ran for it when he had seen the look in Buffy's eyes, he couldn't get out of the room fast enough, slamming the door behind them. Buffy eyed the man in front of her, sighing as she realized that he was probably here to give the duties speech once again, before leaving when he figured out that she wasn't going back.
"Buffy, you can't keep.." the man began and Buffy shot him a glare that could have withered any other person or demon for that matter, that had in fact done so on many occasions. "I realize that we have gone our separate ways and that you haven't forgiven me for what I've done, but.."
"Yes, please tell me how I can help the cause, Angel." Buffy spat out, glaring at him with the anger she had felt ever since she had found out. "Tell me how I can forget how you murdered my sister and no one remembers her, but me and you. Tell me how to forgive you for sleeping with that bitch knowing what could happen! Why don't you just go ahead and tell me?" she waited impatiently for him to say something and Angel seemed to wince at the accusations that had been thrown at him unable to deny any of them.
"No one was supposed to remember." He said weakly and Buffy began to advance on him, Angel had enough sense not to stand in her way, moving back away from her. He could hear Angelus raging inside of his head, calling him every type of fool for thinking that a recently returned slayer, wouldn't have known his dirty secrets. Angelus taunted him with the knowledge that Angel had repressed when he had moved to LA about Buffy, how she moved, how she acted, how she smelled. Angelus told Angel that the witch would help Buffy restore her memories and safeguard them from magic, when Buffy had returned from Heaven.
"I remember allot of things that I'm not supposed to." Buffy spat back out, fire blazing in her eyes, Angel reached out a hand to comfort her, but she shook it off, not willing to be comforted by Angel at that moment. "Don't fucking touch me, Angel. You gave up any right to touch me a long time ago."
"Buffy, if you would just give me the chance to explain what happened." Angel said, trying another tactic, dropping his hand to his side, sighing in defeat, Angelus taunting him.
"Yes," Buffy said and Angel looked hopeful for all of three seconds, "like you let me try and explain about Faith? Or Spike? Or how about where I had gone? Go ahead, I'll give you the same shot that you gave me." Buffy threw open the door and left, leaving Angel standing there looking confused.
"Buffy!" he called out, rushing after her once the initial shock of her leaving had gone through him, grabbing her by the arm and spinning her around, barely missing the fist that was about to hit him.
"What did I tell you about touching me?" she said dangerously and Angel backed up hands held up in the air, showing that he was no threat, but Buffy did not back down, not believing him.
"I can't just leave.."
"Why not?" she asked, "You're good at it." Again she began to leave, only to be spun around by Angel, this time her fist did make the connection, sending him stumbling back a couple of feet.
"You would think that he would have gotten the hint." Shawn Michaels said, stepping into the light, along with RVD and Nash, who had been on their way to find Buffy to tell her that Bischoff had made a match for next week's RAW and no one was quite sure what was going on, only that everyone had to be present.
"I know I would have." RVD said and the other two nodded in agreement, all of them beginning to walk towards Angel. Each of the men felt as though they owed the tiny blonde something, not out of actually owing her, but rather out of friendship and the trust that she would be there when they needed it.
"Guys," Buffy said uneasily, while she was pissed at him for what he had done, she was more concerned at what could be revealed if they chose to fight Angel, "I can handle this." She looked at Angel and he was looking at the three guys, but most especially Nash, before turning his attention to her and raising his eyebrow. "It's none of your concern." She said and everyone looked slightly confused at this.
"That's what I said.." Angel replied and shut up with a quick glare from Buffy.
"But you and I were involved, lover." Buffy hissed out, "Or did you forget?" Angel had the decency to look somewhat ashamed, before lifting his head and looking at her defiantly, while Angelus called him every type of fool.
"It wasn't my fault." he tried again to explain the magical interference that had occurred right before she had arrived. "Lorne was.."
"I know what happened." she hissed, "It doesn't excuse you for sleeping with that bitch!" the guys winced as Buffy decked Angel again, obviously not having worked out her aggravation for him yet.
"It was two years ago!" he exclaimed, unable to believe that she was still holding a grudge. The guys looked at Buffy, who was still not backing down, looking like she wanted to deck him once again.
"Alright," Buffy said, "you're innocent?" Angel nodded empathically, "Does that forgive you for killing my sister?" Nash whirled around and faced Angel, anger blazing in his eyes, he had, like the others, just assumed that this was an ex-lover's spat. "Because according to you time should mend all wounds. Or how about Dru? Darla? Cordelia?" With each name thrown the group watching eyebrows raised.
"We weren't involved." Angel pointed out and Buffy glared at him.
"Yet you throw Riley, Parker, and Spike in my face every single chance you get." Buffy said, "And you're the one that left me. You turned and walked away as I watched through the smoke. My heart broke that night."
"I can tell." Angel said sarcastically, "it took all of three days before you dated Parker." No one saw Buffy move, but they watched Angel go flying into the wall.
"You weren't there. You left me, so that I could fuck!" she hissed out, advancing on the vampire, whose every cell was screaming for him to run. "My friends decided that I needed to date, that I needed to move. They pushed me at everyone and I was tried, tried of everything. It was easier to pretend, then to deal with the pain that you left, so I did what they wanted." Buffy brushed the tears that were falling down her face, angrily. "I did what you wanted me to do. So don't you go and get all high and mighty on me, when I did it. And sure I wasn't around for Darla, but Cordelia, Dru, the three sisters? I won't even bother going there, because we both know that I was there and that we had decided to try the long distance relationship thing. Guess we found out that we couldn't do it." Buffy said bitterly and Nash resisted the urge to pound Angel, since Angel already looked pretty beat up, by what Buffy had done and what she was saying.
"Do I need to go on?" she said finally, sighing. She hadn't wanted to rehash everything, especially in front of Nash, RVD and Shawn Michaels. Angel shook his head, knowing that she had won and she knew it too, because she turned around and left, "Go home." she called out, before slamming the door behind her, unsure of which dressing room she had just entered.
"Hey, Jericho." Buffy said when she had finally stopped muttering about Angel and his stupidness. "Sorry 'bout that."
"Can you hold on a second?" Jericho asked, as Buffy went to leave the room and Buffy nodded her head, hanging back and waiting for what was upcoming.
Ring
"I would just like to say that I do this with great pleasure." Bischoff said, a smirk written on his face, "This is match is scheduled for a one fall and as you know I've kept the people participating a secret." the crowd booed, "up 'til now. Trish Stratus," the crowd cheered, catcalls resounding through the arena, "will be facing," he stopped for a moment letting the tension go up in the ring, "Kane. Trish has one week to prepare for the match." the arena was still for all of two seconds, before someone began the chant of asshole, which followed Bischoff until he left the ring.
Dressing room
"I have to what!" Trish exclaimed, shocked beyond belief that Bischoff was that messed up in the head. She glared as Molly Holly and Victoria began to laugh hysterically, pointing at her, before stumbling out of the room. Shaking her head, she went off to find Buffy to figure how much of a slayer power she possessed and whether she could kick Kane's ass or not. "Nash!"
"Trish." Nash replied, still in search of Buffy, Angel having disappeared almost right after Buffy.
"Have you seen Buffy?" she asked anxiously and Nash shook his head. Giving a huge sigh, Trish turned to make her way to the ring, when Jericho's door opened.
"Thanks, Buffy." Jericho said, as the tiny blonde stepped out into the hallway, kissing her on the cheek before turning to go out to find Christian, almost walking into Trish. "Trish?" confusion marred his voice, Trish went to slap him, but her hand was caught by Buffy.
"Let us explain." Buffy said, "I don't know exactly what you saw, but it definitely isn't what you are thinking."
"Then you aren't sleeping with Jericho?" Trish said sarcastically, Buffy and Jericho nodding vigorously, "I'm so relieved."
"No! Eww!" Buffy said and then looked apologetically towards Jericho, who was only concern was the beautiful woman that had already caught his heart. "He needed a professional favor." Buffy said and Trish raised an eyebrow.
"Is that what it's called?" Nash asked, he knew that he had no reason to feel any type of jealously, but he was damned if his brain was listening to him. Buffy whirled towards the sound of Nash's voice, flustered to have been caught in this type of situation, even though there had been nothing going on.
"What Buffy was trying to say," Jericho said, moving towards Trish, who looked about ready to take him on in the ring.. and win, "is that I asked her to watch my match next week, so that no one would interfere with it." Trish looked to Buffy who was nodding her head empathically.
"Oh." Trish and Nash said at the same time, both of them feeling like ass's for having jumped to that conclusion.
"Not that either of you have made any statement or asked us out." Buffy pointed out, a teasing glint in her eye as she winked at Jericho, while Trish tried to stutter her way out of it and Nash just looked from Jericho to Buffy, trying to figure out if they were lying or if he would be apologizing to her. "We need to talk." Trish stated, grabbing the blonde by the arm and dragging her off, leaving a very confused Jericho behind.
"She was jealous, right?" he asked, turning to look at Nash, who was trying to figure out what the real deal had been.
"We both were." Nash replied and Jericho nodded his head, glad that it hadn't gone unnoticed and that Trish was affected by him. They looked to where the two women had gone and shook their heads, they didn't understand how Trish could be pissed one second and asking for advice in the other.
Dressing Room
"What's up?" Buffy asked looking at the other blonde as she paced the length of the room.
"I have to fight Kane next week." Trish stated and Buffy looked about ready to explode, "Bischoff set up the match." Buffy took a step towards the door, "How much slayer power do I possess?" Buffy stopped and looked at Trish thoughtfully, "Enough to win against Kane?"
"Yea." Buffy said, thinking back to all of the potentials who had fought against the uber vamps. "You should." Trish looked at Buffy thoughtfully, "What are you thinking?"
"That you are going to escort me to the ring and everyone is going to think that you are going to save me.." Trish began and Buffy grinned wildly.
"And you're going to kick ass, while making it look like I was the distraction." Buffy finished, "Great thinking." Buffy started walking towards the door again, when Trish stopped her.
"So," Trish said as inconspicuously as possible, "it was business?"
"Yes." Buffy replied and grinned at her friend. "He's not my type of guy." Buffy said saucily, winking at Trish, who grinned at her.
"And Angel is?" Trish asked and Buffy looked at her sharply, unaware that Angel and her had been caught on tape. "What kind of name is Angel anyways?" Buffy laughed and Trish grinned, "Although, I gotta say he is cute."
"If you're into the whole tall, dark, and glowery." Buffy replied and they both laughed as they walked towards the exit and the waiting car.
"I hope they are talking about us." Jericho said as Nash and him walked towards the girls.
"Nah." Nash replied and grinned at Jericho, "you're too short."