I'll Never Forget
Writer: Me... Libbie!
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine they all belong to the all powerful Joss Whedon! Thought the idea does belong to me ...hihi! Also the quotes from "IWRY" belong to whoever made this gorgeous website:
Plot: The deal was that Angel would be the only one able to remember what happened in "I Will Remember You", nowhere was it written in the prophecies that Buffy would too...
E-Mail: If you have any comments or some ideas...please feel free to e-mail me at ptitesavoyarde73@yahoo.fr
Note: When it's POV it will say so... if not it's just 2nd person and when the writing is in bold and italics its Buffy's remembering on "IWRY"
Oh and I almost forgot... Angel season 5!
Now on with the fic...
Buffy's POV
I'm the one. I'm the one for many things to think about it. I was the only one slayer until I died...twice. I was the one with the burden that no one else had to share-the one to save the world. But this time it's different. I'm the one. Angel has never been the one to overcompensate with words of his emotions, but that long run on sentence he just gave me, wow, wow, and wow. I feel like jumping up and down and staking something, errrr...habit. I'm Angel-bound, and I will be forever. But...
Angel looked at Buffy and tried to read what she was thinking. She moved back from him and he was afraid that he had said something wrong. As if an automatic reaction Angel uttered those all so familiar words, "I'm sorry..."
Buffy put a hand up and looked at Angel sweetly. "No Angel, that's the thing, you're not sorry you said that."
Angel sighed and recaptured his thoughts for a moment. "Your right Buffy, I'm not sorry. This is how I feel; this is how I've always felt about you. And as far as I know, those feelings are never going to go away." Angel took a deep breath before continuing what he was about to say. "But I know you're not finished baking, or whatever that cookie analogy was."
Buffy thought for a minute before responding to Angel. She personally kicked herself for ever thinking up that stupid cookie analogy. "But what if those cookies are done? I mean how would you know, you don't eat cookies, and those cookies will be burnt if you don't take them out of the oven. And I know you can't eat cookies, but when their burned their all yucky and no good and I guess what I'm trying to say is, well...I'm speaking for the cookies, they want to be saved and eaten...or ummm...enjoyed." Buffy looked at the ground as her cheeks were turning fuchsia. If there is one person in this world that is really good at making a fool of herself, that would be Buffy.
Angel grinned and walked to open the door as Buffy turned around. "Where are you going?" She asked, thinking it was because of her idiotic speech he was leaving.
"Don't you hear it? The timer's beeping. Time to go take those cookies out of the oven!"
Buffy's eyes lit up as she smiled that special smile that Angel only made her express. She followed out the door and stopped dead in her tracks as she saw Willow, Xander, and Dawn, standing there. Angel looked from Buffy to the rest of the Scooby Gang and wondered what was going on. Buffy, as clueless as Angel, decided that it was the right time to ask them what was going on.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here? Did anything happen?" Buffy sounded worried, and furrowed her eyebrows as the Scoobies laughed.
"Nothing's wrong Buffy. We were just getting a little tired of Europe and we thought 'hey why not go back to the land of fattening foods and reality TV'?" Xander said in his usual chirpy sarcastic voice.
Buffy was still not satisfied with that answer and looked to Willow and Dawn to answer her. "Kennedy died Buffy. We were out slaying and she got bit by a vampire. She then turned and I had to kill her." Willow looked at the ground and waited for a reaction from Buffy. Buffy walked over to her best friend and hugged her tightly whispering words of comfort. Angel stood there uncomfortably until Xander, once again, broke the awkward silence, with yet another quirk.
"So dead guy, we hear you're the head chief at an evil law firm now. I knew that all those afternoons you spent up at the mansion you were watching 'Law and Order' and 'The Practice'. It was just a matter of time you know. But an evil law firm? And I who thought you were over the whole 'I'm evil-cuckoocuchoo' stuff. Oh well, our lives are not complicated."
"Good to see you too, Xander." Angel said smiling. He walked over to where Willow was standing and looked at her sweetly. "I'm sorry Will." Willow looked at Angel and reached up to hug him. "It's been too long, Angel. The last time I saw you, was when Buffy died...for the second time, and well it wasn't really such a cheerful visit! And notice, I'm announcing a second death now so just call me the bearer of bad news. "Angel gave Willow another tight hug and gave her a sympathetic smile. "It has been too long Willow. But I do have good news. Who's hungry? I'll ask Lorne to bake cookies!"
Xander looked at Angel in awe. "Nope our lives aren't too complicated."
"Are you going all Martha Stewart on us now?" Dawn asked Angel, chuckling. Angel smiled and gave Dawn a hug. "Ask me that question again when I put on an apron and teach you how to make swans out of napkins."
Buffy and Angel looked at each other and then back at the three Scoobies. "We have some news..." Buffy started looking down at her feet and then back up at her best friends and sister.
"We know you two are back together." Dawn said winking at her sister. Angel wrinkled his eye brows when he noticed Xander give Willow 20 dollars.
"Wait, what is this?" Buffy asked the two. "Well Willow bet me that by the time we arrived you'd all ready be back together and I bet that it would take about two weeks for you two to hook up again. Once again, I lose."
"This isn't about us. It's about Spike. He's back, well he's been for a while now, but we thought that you all should know." Angel said looking at Dawn for some sort of expression.
"I know this is going to sound ironic and all, since I've said this twice all ready, but...it must be said. Our lives really aren't too complicated." Xander said sarcastically once again.
"Yep, I'm back lil' bit." Spike's British accent surrounded the room. Dawn ran up to Spike and hugged him as tight as she possible could.
Willow and Xander both said hello to Spike, and after the emotional fest from Willow and Dawn, the Scooby's were all talking business again.
Xander received a spell from a witch in Africa that gave him his eye back and was telling Buffy all about it.
"Oh a little love fest, how 'Little House on the Prairie'. Angel cakes, here are your cookies. And also if you wouldn't mind introducing me to all your lovely little 'amies'...." Angel nodded and asked Lorne to go get the rest of the group. Shortly after Fred, Wesley, Harmony, and Gunn walked in.
Once everyone was settled in around the long business table, Angel stood up and walked around the room, eager to show off his 'manager' like abilities.
"Wes, where are we on finding those two vamps who've gone all 'Beverly Hills Cop' on us?" Angel asked, continuing his tour around the table to Wesley.
"We've identified 6 possible suspects, which you and Spike will have to go see."
"Great. Gunn, have you found any new information on the Minotaur's plans?"
"Yeah, boss. It seems that the Minotaur is getting impatient and is getting ready to seize your lil' Buffy. But don't you worry, talk around the office is, the vamps are too afraid to take Buffy, cuz' since she's slayer extraordinaire....they're afraid of a severe ass whopin'."
Angel chuckled and walked up to Fred. "Anything on why Buffy remembers?" Willow, Xander, and Dawn all looked at Buffy as if she had some important explaining to do.
"All I know for sure is that The Powers That Be have something to do with this. What I need to figure is how we can get in contact with them or at least some sort of alternative."
"You can't get into contact with TPTB's, trust me I've tried. What I want you
to find is some sort of alternative." Angel stated as he walked to Spike.
"What did I give you to do again?"
Spike shrugged, "you sent me off to where the Minotaur is hiding, so I could bloody beat up some weak vamp to give me info."
"And how did that go?"
"He gave me that 'you're all going to die' crap. The new generation is such drama queens!"
Angel finally walked to Harmony who was looking at him expectantly.
"Any calls, Harm?" Angel asked her as she filed her nails.
"Umm...well there was one from Nina, confirming a date with you that I told her will never happen so she should stop dreaming, but that was about a week ago. Then I mean a bunch of telemarketers, which I flirted with and then hung up on and umm...Faith! Yeah she called and she's coming in next week with her beau. She's just popping by for a good fight and then I don't know, we got off subject."
"That's a nice surprise." Angel walked to Lorne and looked up in the air, "I didn't give you anything to do this week, did I?"
Lorne shrugged. "That's all right Angel Cakes. The slayer is here, the hills are alive with the sound of music! You know me when there's nothing to do! I just pop in Julie Andrews into my DVD, grab a martini and I'm good to go!"
A couple of days had past and Fred was still working on working on an alternative. The resolution lay in a spell that she and Willow conjured up. "Are you sure this is going to work?" Fred asked Willow. Willow nodded and the two sat across from each other in an oval office.
Powers That Be
Here our call
Bring forth your child
Here our call
Let he or she answer our questions
Here our call
Give us a guide
Here our call
Powers That Be
Here our call
Willow and Fred watched as a bright light formed in the middle of the room. They watched in amazement as their alternative was coming through.
Willow and Fred looked at each other in awe and looked at the figure that was before them. They could not believe their eyes and wondered if this was meant to be.
"CORDELIA?!"
End of chapter 5! Sorry I took so much time! I am so busy with school and projects...blahh! Well I hope that the next chapter will be up soon! Thanks for all your supportive reviews! Keep them coming please!
Ox Libbie