A/N: Well lets see I'm grounded and when I'm grounded I type up a storm so
I'm probably going to write like six chapters at once but I wont update
unless you review so there you go. Review and be rewarded or I'll just drop
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Angel didn't even remember how he got there but here he was in Buffy's tree watching as she beat the hell out of her punching bag while tears streamed down her face. He remembered Faiths warning, something about if he broke Buffy's heart then she wouldn't even need to break his neck because "b" would do it before she could. He came anyway he wrote down her address, went to as many classes he could before he needed to see her again, two to be exact. He had knocked and knocked and almost went home when no one answered but then he heard commotion in the room with the widow by the tree. He didn't know what compelled him to climb the tree but he did and that's where he was know, just watching her and cursing ever having lklet anyone hurt her and he made a silent vow to never have that happen again. A sudden loud bang brought him out of his thoughts.
"Holy shit" He whispered seeing Buffy collapse and the punching bag on the floor, a visible tear in the bag and the chain broken. Buffy was glistening with sweat as she rose, only to fall again in defeat. Angel saw this and nearly jumped into the room and if Buffy hadn't made direct eye contact and showed him her 'dear caught in the head lights' look he would have. He froze and she came to the window. All he could get out was "Buffy"
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She knew he had been there, she knew he was just beyond the window, she knew he was watching and she didn't care, she was tired of hiding her "gift" or truly her curse. So she beat the crap out of her punching bag, she hadn't been so hard on it in a long while and it proved too much for the brand new bag, it fell and so did she. And as she looked up, him crouched as if to come and save her, save HER, she was surprised and the least to say shocked. She went to the window and opened it, he said her name softly and then before she could even respond he came into her room and just wrapped her in his arms, just to hold her. It was heaven compared to this hell, he was the only person in her history to make her tremble, and he was her only weakness. And that strangely made her smile a real smile not one of her Oscar winning fake smiles that she had perfected over the years but just a real smile from her.
Still wrapped in his arms he spoke softly. "I'm so sorry Buffy I should have never.. I should have protected.. I should have done a lot of things I'm sorry"
And here he was apologizing for not being her knight and shinning armor at school, when this is exactly how she wanted him, just her armor and protector for her against herself. So in response she just snuggled closer in his jacket, taking in every sweet scent trying to take in the moment for everything it has before it went away like every other thing good and normal in her life. And then her knees gave out, yeah every bit of her super energy had gave out, a girl can't cry for two hours and kill a punching bag without getting at least a little tired. Angel just held her tight so she wouldn't fall and swept her up in his arms, in response she just laid her head on his strong shoulder. He brought her to her bed and tucked her in then took off his jacket and climb in next to her, wrapping his arms around her middle and holding her close to his body. Hers fitting perfectly against his. There was only one word to describe the amount of happiness Buffy was feeling before she drifted off to sleep. Nirvana.
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He croaked his arm so he was propped up, just so he could study her sleeping form. To him she was gorgeous and so tiny, almost as if he could break her at any moment. She groaned in her sleep and burrowed her brows like she was trying to fight off some enemy in her dreams, he just smiled at her cute-ness and before he could even stop himself he was kissing her lips. She moaned in response.
"Morning" He grumbled between short kisses. She looked at him with a look and crawled half way over him and looked at the clock.
"Midnight" she grumbled and got up. He looked at her puzzled as she went into her closet and came out in a pair of dark khakis and a tight shirt with a duffel bag in her hands. Then she stooped dead in her tracks as Angel coughed a little as she started to climb out the window.
She looked back at him and smiled "Grab you jacket, this is when I prove to you- you should have never moved to Sunnydale and your going to go running from me. Think of this as you initiation." She said with a somber look on her face; she really didn't want to do this but the sooner he knew the sooner she would have to get over him after her ran away from her calling her a lunatic like the rest of them.
He grabbed his coat and just smiled at her, putting his hand on the small of her back as she jumped out her window and swung from her tree into the grass, he did the same mimicking her every movement and making her smile. * if she only knew * he thought.
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* What the fuck am I thinking? * She screamed to herself in her mind. But I have to do this right? If we are going to have a relationship we have to be honest, right? So she kept her pace through the streets pointing out a few things here and there, the town square, the pizza place, the mall.
"Buffy, are midnight tours your thing? Do you give these to every new guy?" He asked acting puzzled.
"Angel you will come to understand that strange things happen in Sunnydale, stuff people don't like to talk about, and the only answers for these things are at night." She said looking at him, silently pleading for him to understand.
They arrived at the cemetery and she set her bag down. "You are probably puzzled as to why we are here and why I can beat the crap and brake a punching bag and why you couldn't exactly follow my movements when I really get angry. Well there are things called..."
"Vampires." Angel calmly pointed out as a tall dark figure came from the shadows. Buffy spun around and gave it a high kick to the throat. And then started punching it.
"Can't..(punch)...you see...(punch)..I'm talking." And with that Angel opened her bag and tossed a stake to her and within a split second the vampire was dust.
Buffy got up and dusted herself off then looked at Angel with surprise as she realized what had just happened. "How? I mean..umm you knew?" She said, not able to find the exact words she was looking for.
He gave her one of his infamous half smirks. "Yeah I knew, I have battled with these things and the other demons of the world for some time now."
Buffy huffed and nearly laughed "Not as long as I have" he looked at her puzzled. "Now, what I was about to say before my visual aid came out before I needed it to is, that, okay, don't stake me until I get it all out. I'm what you might like to call a hybrid. Half vampire half human, my mother was bitten and turned while in the first stages of labor and killed herself giving birth to me. So I ended up like this, I'm a small gal with super human powers and finesse. I wont age after I hit my eighteenth birthday, according to a prophecy. So take me as you will, love me, hate me, stake me but at least give me a running start first." She said rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet.
"Why would I kill my own kind?" He said wincing at her surprised expression. " Now its my turn to ask for your acceptance. I am a vampire with a permanent soul, no loopholes (a/n for my own fun the curse has been changed to my liking), with a ring that ensures my safety in the sunlight. I have been traveling around for about a centuaury know, 143 years after I was turned I was cursed, looking for big hell mouths; that's how I ended here. That's at least what I keep telling myself, my decision was a little bias after I met you." He said looking down not wanting to see the hate in her eyes.
She slowly walked over and pulled his chin up to meet her eyes and she kissed him. He was so surprised that his eyes shot open until he relaxed and enjoyed her taste. "I'm glad you came." she said.
"But what about me being a vampire, I don't thing you will be able to accept that no matter what you tell yourself" he said with shame in his eyes.
She back away and turned from him and his heart sank. Then with one fluid motion she spun and punched him, he stepped back but still took the full force of the blow. He looked at her with hurt. She punched him again, harder, and again. Until he let loose his inner demon and with a snarl and a flash of gold in his eyes he morphed into his vampiric self. She let her eyes flash gold and kissed his lips fiercely, savoring the blood on his lip guiltily.
"Don't make my decisions for me." She said simply, letting her eyes flash again and a smile spread on her lips and she licked the corners savoring his blood. The surprise on his face was enough to send her into fits of laughter but she managed to restrain herself and just smiled reassuring him that she had made up her mind. He looked at her with love and understanding that no one else could really understand.
"Come on let's go, will you go home with me, hold me agan?" she asked seeming so small and innocent.
"Always" he said wrapping a protective and territorial arm around her middle as they set out to her house. *
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* A/n: So did you like it, hate it, thought it was stupid and cheesy? Well tell me about it. See the button? Push it! Remember if you review you get rewarded and more chapters will 'magically' appear. If you don't the story will, like magic, disappear. You are my judge, jury and executioners don't abuse you powers, but please let me know your opinion.
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Angel didn't even remember how he got there but here he was in Buffy's tree watching as she beat the hell out of her punching bag while tears streamed down her face. He remembered Faiths warning, something about if he broke Buffy's heart then she wouldn't even need to break his neck because "b" would do it before she could. He came anyway he wrote down her address, went to as many classes he could before he needed to see her again, two to be exact. He had knocked and knocked and almost went home when no one answered but then he heard commotion in the room with the widow by the tree. He didn't know what compelled him to climb the tree but he did and that's where he was know, just watching her and cursing ever having lklet anyone hurt her and he made a silent vow to never have that happen again. A sudden loud bang brought him out of his thoughts.
"Holy shit" He whispered seeing Buffy collapse and the punching bag on the floor, a visible tear in the bag and the chain broken. Buffy was glistening with sweat as she rose, only to fall again in defeat. Angel saw this and nearly jumped into the room and if Buffy hadn't made direct eye contact and showed him her 'dear caught in the head lights' look he would have. He froze and she came to the window. All he could get out was "Buffy"
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She knew he had been there, she knew he was just beyond the window, she knew he was watching and she didn't care, she was tired of hiding her "gift" or truly her curse. So she beat the crap out of her punching bag, she hadn't been so hard on it in a long while and it proved too much for the brand new bag, it fell and so did she. And as she looked up, him crouched as if to come and save her, save HER, she was surprised and the least to say shocked. She went to the window and opened it, he said her name softly and then before she could even respond he came into her room and just wrapped her in his arms, just to hold her. It was heaven compared to this hell, he was the only person in her history to make her tremble, and he was her only weakness. And that strangely made her smile a real smile not one of her Oscar winning fake smiles that she had perfected over the years but just a real smile from her.
Still wrapped in his arms he spoke softly. "I'm so sorry Buffy I should have never.. I should have protected.. I should have done a lot of things I'm sorry"
And here he was apologizing for not being her knight and shinning armor at school, when this is exactly how she wanted him, just her armor and protector for her against herself. So in response she just snuggled closer in his jacket, taking in every sweet scent trying to take in the moment for everything it has before it went away like every other thing good and normal in her life. And then her knees gave out, yeah every bit of her super energy had gave out, a girl can't cry for two hours and kill a punching bag without getting at least a little tired. Angel just held her tight so she wouldn't fall and swept her up in his arms, in response she just laid her head on his strong shoulder. He brought her to her bed and tucked her in then took off his jacket and climb in next to her, wrapping his arms around her middle and holding her close to his body. Hers fitting perfectly against his. There was only one word to describe the amount of happiness Buffy was feeling before she drifted off to sleep. Nirvana.
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He croaked his arm so he was propped up, just so he could study her sleeping form. To him she was gorgeous and so tiny, almost as if he could break her at any moment. She groaned in her sleep and burrowed her brows like she was trying to fight off some enemy in her dreams, he just smiled at her cute-ness and before he could even stop himself he was kissing her lips. She moaned in response.
"Morning" He grumbled between short kisses. She looked at him with a look and crawled half way over him and looked at the clock.
"Midnight" she grumbled and got up. He looked at her puzzled as she went into her closet and came out in a pair of dark khakis and a tight shirt with a duffel bag in her hands. Then she stooped dead in her tracks as Angel coughed a little as she started to climb out the window.
She looked back at him and smiled "Grab you jacket, this is when I prove to you- you should have never moved to Sunnydale and your going to go running from me. Think of this as you initiation." She said with a somber look on her face; she really didn't want to do this but the sooner he knew the sooner she would have to get over him after her ran away from her calling her a lunatic like the rest of them.
He grabbed his coat and just smiled at her, putting his hand on the small of her back as she jumped out her window and swung from her tree into the grass, he did the same mimicking her every movement and making her smile. * if she only knew * he thought.
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* What the fuck am I thinking? * She screamed to herself in her mind. But I have to do this right? If we are going to have a relationship we have to be honest, right? So she kept her pace through the streets pointing out a few things here and there, the town square, the pizza place, the mall.
"Buffy, are midnight tours your thing? Do you give these to every new guy?" He asked acting puzzled.
"Angel you will come to understand that strange things happen in Sunnydale, stuff people don't like to talk about, and the only answers for these things are at night." She said looking at him, silently pleading for him to understand.
They arrived at the cemetery and she set her bag down. "You are probably puzzled as to why we are here and why I can beat the crap and brake a punching bag and why you couldn't exactly follow my movements when I really get angry. Well there are things called..."
"Vampires." Angel calmly pointed out as a tall dark figure came from the shadows. Buffy spun around and gave it a high kick to the throat. And then started punching it.
"Can't..(punch)...you see...(punch)..I'm talking." And with that Angel opened her bag and tossed a stake to her and within a split second the vampire was dust.
Buffy got up and dusted herself off then looked at Angel with surprise as she realized what had just happened. "How? I mean..umm you knew?" She said, not able to find the exact words she was looking for.
He gave her one of his infamous half smirks. "Yeah I knew, I have battled with these things and the other demons of the world for some time now."
Buffy huffed and nearly laughed "Not as long as I have" he looked at her puzzled. "Now, what I was about to say before my visual aid came out before I needed it to is, that, okay, don't stake me until I get it all out. I'm what you might like to call a hybrid. Half vampire half human, my mother was bitten and turned while in the first stages of labor and killed herself giving birth to me. So I ended up like this, I'm a small gal with super human powers and finesse. I wont age after I hit my eighteenth birthday, according to a prophecy. So take me as you will, love me, hate me, stake me but at least give me a running start first." She said rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet.
"Why would I kill my own kind?" He said wincing at her surprised expression. " Now its my turn to ask for your acceptance. I am a vampire with a permanent soul, no loopholes (a/n for my own fun the curse has been changed to my liking), with a ring that ensures my safety in the sunlight. I have been traveling around for about a centuaury know, 143 years after I was turned I was cursed, looking for big hell mouths; that's how I ended here. That's at least what I keep telling myself, my decision was a little bias after I met you." He said looking down not wanting to see the hate in her eyes.
She slowly walked over and pulled his chin up to meet her eyes and she kissed him. He was so surprised that his eyes shot open until he relaxed and enjoyed her taste. "I'm glad you came." she said.
"But what about me being a vampire, I don't thing you will be able to accept that no matter what you tell yourself" he said with shame in his eyes.
She back away and turned from him and his heart sank. Then with one fluid motion she spun and punched him, he stepped back but still took the full force of the blow. He looked at her with hurt. She punched him again, harder, and again. Until he let loose his inner demon and with a snarl and a flash of gold in his eyes he morphed into his vampiric self. She let her eyes flash gold and kissed his lips fiercely, savoring the blood on his lip guiltily.
"Don't make my decisions for me." She said simply, letting her eyes flash again and a smile spread on her lips and she licked the corners savoring his blood. The surprise on his face was enough to send her into fits of laughter but she managed to restrain herself and just smiled reassuring him that she had made up her mind. He looked at her with love and understanding that no one else could really understand.
"Come on let's go, will you go home with me, hold me agan?" she asked seeming so small and innocent.
"Always" he said wrapping a protective and territorial arm around her middle as they set out to her house. *
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* A/n: So did you like it, hate it, thought it was stupid and cheesy? Well tell me about it. See the button? Push it! Remember if you review you get rewarded and more chapters will 'magically' appear. If you don't the story will, like magic, disappear. You are my judge, jury and executioners don't abuse you powers, but please let me know your opinion.