"Angel?"
Hearing his name, the vampire with a soul turned. Angel almost dropped the glass of wine that he was holding, when he saw who had said his name. "Buffy?" But before he could say anything else, she turned on her heel and walked away in the other direction. Angel placed his glass down and hurried to catch up with the petite figure. He finally caught up with her as she was boarding the elevator. Just as the doors were closing, Angel thrust his hands in between the doors and jumped in, falling to the floor as the doors closed. When he looked up, his eyes came upon Buffy's pretty face, marred by confusion and a bit of horror. Angel smiled a wry grin. "Hey Buffy! How's your summer going?"
"Oh, I can not deal with this right now!" Buffy started pacing back and forth in the small space of the elevator, breathing rapidly and heavily.
Quickly realizing that she was hyperventilating, Angel jumped up, pushed the emergency stop button and went to help her, but Buffy just pushed him away. "Don't, I'm fine!" Buffy's breathing returned to normal, but she wouldn't look at Angel." What the hell are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same question!" Said Angel. He was leaning on one side of the elevator, Buffy the opposite.
"Yeah, because a 21 year old, young woman on a summer cruise is so suspicious!" Buffy's voice was laced with sarcasm.
"OK, but it's not everyday the slayer leaves her town to spend a summer away from friends, family and demons."
"Why do you even care? I don't have to justify myself to you!"
"Yeah, but then I don't have to either." Buffy sighed, and Angel noticed she looked very tired.
"Okay, but I am not telling you here!" Buffy reached over and pushed the emergency stop button, then as the elevator came to her floor, pulled Angel out and down the hall. When they came to her room, she opened the door and went in, leaving Angel outside.
"Uh, Buffy!" As Angel called to her, Buffy turned around and looked annoyed.
"Uhg, come in Angel!" Buffy then went into her kitchen and got a bottle of water, and came back out into the main room, finding Angel examining her suite.
"It's nice!"
"I know! So I don't have any blood, but I wasn't expecting any vampires, especially on a Caribbean cruise!"
"Yeah, you're probably wondering why, or how, I was out in the sunlight..."
"No!" Buffy sat down on one of the lounges.
"Oh!" Angel began to sit down on one of the couches, but jumped back up when he realized what she had said. "What?"
"Sit down! Wasn't I the one who sent you the gem of Amara? And I figured that when you said you had destroyed it, you were lying."
"Oh, yeah!"
"So are Cordy and Wes here too?"
"Yes!"
"Figures. I try and get just a little bit of peace and quiet after being through Hell and back, but..."
"What?"
"Spaz much?"
"Buffy what happened in Sunnydale?"
"God, you know what I hate? I'll tell you! Being brought back from heaven to hell by friends who thought they were saving you. Having to fuck a vampire just to feel, losing a very close friend, and almost losing another one to dark evil magic and surviving yet another apocalypse, when all I want to do is get away from my life."
"Buffy...I..."
"You know what Angel, don't! Just leave! Go and find your friends, have a great three months. Just stay the hell away from me!" Buffy got up, went into the bedroom, slammed the door and left Angel to escort himself out.
