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AN: I forgot you asked this, but you know who you are. I made Gunn and Wes Angel's friends for you. I also added Fred, cause I like her.

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"Hey," a voice called as Buffy entered The Bronze.

She looked over to the stairs and saw Angel leaning against them. She smiled slightly, gazing at his casual, yet oddly attractive attire.

"I just met him," Buffy thought. "But damn it, he looks so good."

Angel smiled as she approached him and silently studied her. She was a great person, a great friend. And to think he had only met her today.

"Hey stranger," Buffy said.

"Hey," Angel said. "Kinda glad you're finaly here." "Only kinda?" Buffy asked. "Kidding, I know what you meant."

"Heh," Angel laughed. "Wasn't sure for a minute there."

"BUFFY!" Willow yelled when she saw her friend over at the stairs. "Thank God you're here. Cordelia's being a bitch. And Faith's about to lose it."

"Oh, no," Buffy sighed. "Sorry, Angel. Gotta take care of this."

"No problem."

Buffy, Willow, and Angel moved through the crowd to get to Faith and Cordelia. Faith never had a good handle on her anger and when Cordelia started on her, there was always trouble. For some reason, Buffy was the only one who could actually keep them form killing each other. Well, for awhile anyway.

When she could finally see them, Cordelia and her posse was standing in a semi-circle around Faith, Tara, Oz, and Xander. Tara was holding Faith back from Cordelia, with Faith struggling to get at her. Xander and Oz, stood with their backs to Cordelia, between the Faith and Cordelia, trying to get Faith to calm down.

Not working.

"Ah," Buffy stated as she entered the circle. "So nice of you to drop by, Cordelia, to spread your disgusting vileness everywhere. Now leave."

"And who made you queen of the world?" Cordelia snapped.

"The same person who made you 'Queen C', that's who," Buffy said, mocking Cordelia's license plate.

Buffy's friends laughed around her, even Faith stopped struggling long enough to laugh.

"Then I guess that's who made your friend," Cordelia said, gesturing towards Tara, "a whore too."

With that, Faith twisted out of Tara's grip, which was stronger than you would think, and dodged between Xander and Oz to Cordelia. She balled her fists and rammed them straight into Cordelia's stomach, causing Cordelia to fall down. Faith climbed on top of her, and grabbed Cordelia's hair and pulled it back so that Cordelia had to look straight into Faith's face.

"No one," Faith yelled venomously, "And I mean NO ONE talks about Tara that way! Not to me, to her, not to their friends, not to themselves! You don't even THINK it! You are such friggen' BITCH!"

Buffy let Faith finish her tirade before she pulled Faith off of Cordelia. Cordelia looked like a scared rabbit, as well she should. Not many people got a taste of Faith's real temper, but that was sit. Faith was very protective of her friends. Especially Tara, since Tara was practically a pacifist.

"She had her time," Buffy whispered to Cordelia. "Now it's my turn."

With that she punched Cordelia in the face, knowing there would be a bruise tomorrow. Cordelia went from scared to furious in a second. No one touched her face.

"NOW GET OUT!" Buffy yelled.

"You'll be hearing from me," Cordelia said.

"Yeah, whatever," Buffy countered. "Go get your daddy to sue me."

Cordelia glared at Buffy and the people around her. She saw she was a little outnumbered, especially in muscle. She never knew that Faith or Buffy had that kind of strength. She knew Xander and Oz would fight, but only if really needed. Tara and Willow wouldn't, she knew that, but there were new people in the group.

The boy from earlier that day in the hall. He had been so cocky. There was a tall, black boy standing beside him and a shorter guy in glasses, but that didn't do anything to undermine his obvious strength, There was also a girl, small and mousy looking, but there was a dangerous glint in her eyes.

She turned to her posse, and said, "Let's go."

The Cordette's left, leaving the group of ten enraged people around to watch her leave.

Angel glanced over at Buffy, who was fuming.

"Hey, you gonna be ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, I just need to cool down," Buffy muttered. This was not the way she wanted Angel to get to know her friends, or herself, for that matter.

"Then dance with me," Angel said.

Buffy looked up, a little surprised. "Ok."

"I mean, "Angel started. "Would that help you cool off?"

"Yeah," she smiled. "It would.

"Good," Angel stated. He turned back to the black boy, the boy in the glasses and the mousy girl. "By the way, Buffy this is Gunn, Wes, and Fred. Friends."

"There seniors?" she asked.

"Yeah," Angel nodded. "In all my classes, but our computer one."

"Well, that explains why you weren't in any of my others," she said. "You're a senior."

"Only one year above you," Angel said, a little confused. "It that illegal here or something?"

"It's unusual," she said.

Before he lead her out to the dance floor he said:

"I'm unusual."

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