Disclaimer: I am not Joss, if I were Angel and Buffy would be together and
the sucky season would never had happened.
Chapter 3
"Giles!" Buffy exclaimed, throwing open the door even further and rushing out to give Giles a hug, a little too enthusiastic hug.
"Buffy," Giles said, his arms around her, "needing to breathe."
"Oh." Buffy exclaimed releasing him from her death hold, "Sorry, forget my own strength." She told him and then motioned him inside. "When did you arrive?" she asked, moving closer to Angel so that Angel could wrap his arms around her waist.
"Just got in, actually." He told her and then eyed the vampire cautiously. "Angel, good to see you." He said finally and offered his hand.
"You too, it's been a while."
"Speaking of being a while," Buffy said, realizing that she had forgotten to give Angel the message from Cordy. "Cordy called while you were sleeping and I told her that you would call her back." Angel nodded and moved to go up the stairs, but was stopped by Buffy following him up the stairs.
"Where you going?" he asked.
"Wanted to make sure that you found the phone." She told him, continuing on up the stairs and into her room, where she grabbed his cel phone and came back out. "See." She told him, grabbing his arm and dragging him back down the stairs, sitting him in a chair where she promptly climbed into his lap, she gave him the phone. Giles looked on with interest at the interaction between the two, it was almost like Buffy was afraid that Angel would leave should he leave her sight.
"How long are you staying?" Dawn asked, breaking into his thoughts.
"For as long as she needs me."
"Forever." Buffy told him and gave him a watery smile, which caused everyone to 'ewe.'
"That is so cute." Dawn told them.
"Aren't you supposed to be at school?" Buffy asked, looking at the clock.
"Come on, you're back and Giles is back, isn't that reason enough to stay home?" she asked in a pleading voice.
"You've stayed home for the last couple of days, since they brought me back, it is time for you to go to school." Buffy told her in a firm voice, pointing to the door, "Now, march!"
"Ai, Ai, drill sergeant." Dawn declared, giving Buffy a fake salute, which made Buffy throw a pillow at her.
"Come on Dawnie," Xander said, "I have to get to work, so I will drive you." Dawn and Xander took one last look at Buffy and then headed out the door, both of them calling their goodbyes.
"So," Buffy said, "What have you been doing in the mother country?" Giles was about to answer when Angel shouted.
"What! You can't come here!" he declared.
"Why the hell not?" Cordy asked, "I used to live there. Besides Buffy is back from the dead and stuff, we can come visit until you decide that you are going back to LA." She told them, as she motioned for Wesley, Fred, Lorne, and Gunn to start packing.
"Because there is not enough room for you here." He told her, getting very frustrated with her.
"That's fine, we can live with you at the mansion."
"I'm not living at the mansion."
"What do you mean you are not living at the mansion?" Cordy asked, jealousy leaking into her voice. "Are you living with her?"
"Yes."
"Then so can we."
"You cannot just invite yourself to live in their house. She is already living with Willow, Tara, and Dawn and Giles just arrived." Angel said, trying to make Cordy think a bit rationally.
"It's going to get crowded on the couch with Giles there." She said, trying to get information.
"Cordy, I cannot make you stay in LA, but there is no possible way that you can live here, unless you want to live in the basement. So, if you want to come and visit, you can use the mansion, but I have to warn you it hasn't been lived in, in a couple of years." Angel told her, frustrated that she wouldn't listen to him and unwilling to tell her that he was staying in Buffy's room. Buffy took the phone from him.
"Cordy, can't wait to see you." She told her and Cordy smiled in satisfaction, she always got her way. "You'll be staying at the mansion." Before Cordy could reply Buffy hung up the phone and handed it back to Angel. "All done." She told him and kissed him, Giles cleared his throat.
"Yes," he said, "Where will you be staying, Angel?"
"In my room."
"But what about his soul?" Giles asked, his eyes darkening with pain, at his remembered loss of Jenny.
"Is bound." Angel supplied for him. "My demon can never return."
"I see." Giles said, taking his glasses off and cleaning them.
"C'mon Giles," Willow interrupted, leading him into the kitchen, "We were just having breakfast, if you want some."
"Sounds lovely, what are we having?"
"Pancakes." Buffy supplied, smiling brightly.
"You didn't cook, did you?" Giles asked, looking horrified at the thought of Buffy in the kitchen.
"No," she told him as she hit him playfully, "Angel did."
"At least we won't be dying from food poisoning or something like that." He told her, while Buffy pouted everyone else started to laugh.
"You know it's true Buffy." Willow told her, "Remember the time that you tried to make eggs and you almost burnt down his house?"
"Hey! I have changed since then." She declared, glaring at all of them, "Remember Thanksgiving?"
"Ya," Willow said, "You went all drill sergeant-ny on us." Buffy pouted even more, until she realized that they were right and she started to laugh with them. Giles slightly smiled, happy to see his slayer once more alive, she seemed more alive now then when she jumped. Suddenly the back door crashed open.
"Is it true?" A familiar British voice exclaimed, "She's back?" Spike threw off the blanket and rushed forward to give her a hug, only he was pulled back by his very pissed off sire, who was very much in game face. "Well if it isn't the bloody pounce." He declared and went flying back as Angel threw him across the room.
"You, stay away from my mate." Angel said, each word snarled out.
"I think that you do that enough for the both of us." Spike told him as he got up and wiped the blood from his mouth. The vampires started to circle each other, both in game face and both growling.
"Angel, Spike! This is not needed." Giles said, stepping between the two vampires. Spike placed his hand on Giles' chest and pushed, Giles went flying back into the wall and was knocked unconscious. Buffy rushed to Giles side and checked to make sure that he was okay. She got up and glared at the two vampires, she slowly walked over and stood in the middle.
"What have I said about testosterone poisoning?"
"That they turn all men into morons." Willow muttered.
"No, they were already like that." Tara said and the girls started to laugh, while the vampires simply glared. "And that's why I'm gay."
"Ya, Buff, you should join us, no pissing contests or anything." Willow told her.
"I'm seriously thinking about it." She replied, causing the two vampires to stare at her in shock. "Of course I could always go for the living ones." Both vampires growled and took a step closer to her.
"Remember Captain Corn head?" Spike asked, "The vampire whore."
"Of course there always was Dracula." Willow put in, "He had that whole gypsy tricks and everything, but hey he didn't do the pissing contests."
"You are right," Buffy agreed, "And the plus his bite was more erotic than anything."
"Dracula bite you?" Angel exclaimed, closing the distance between them and pulling her head to the side so that he could see her neck, when he was certain there was no bite mark on that side he checked the other. "Wait until I get my hands on that no good gypsy bastard."
"Of course you would have to go back to Hell to do it." Buffy told him, "I dusted his ass." Smirking she stepped away from Angel and turned back to willow, "Maybe I could get together with that one guy, what's his name."
"Which one?" Willow asked, "The one that turned out to be the host of Glory or the one that you hit with the club?"
"Well, didn't we kill the Glory one?" she asked, while Angel and Spike looked at them in confusion. "How is the other one doing? Still having intimacy problems?"
"Was this before or after he hit on me?" Willow asked and Angel growled once again at the thought of someone hurting his mate. Giles groaned and Buffy rushed to his side, helping him stand up.
"I'm definitely back in Sunnydale." He said, "I've already been knocked unconscious." They all laughed, while Giles looked around, "So who won the fight?"
"Buffy." Tara supplied and laughed when both vampires seemed to pout.
"Well she always did kick my ass." A voice that Buffy never wanted to hear again, said from the doorway, causing both Angel and Spike to growl loudly, while Angel stepped in front of Buffy.
"Like that was hard." Angel muttered under his breath, securing Buffy behind him and between his childe, better him than that.
"What do you want, Riley?" Willow asked, unmasked hostility in her voice.
Chapter 3
"Giles!" Buffy exclaimed, throwing open the door even further and rushing out to give Giles a hug, a little too enthusiastic hug.
"Buffy," Giles said, his arms around her, "needing to breathe."
"Oh." Buffy exclaimed releasing him from her death hold, "Sorry, forget my own strength." She told him and then motioned him inside. "When did you arrive?" she asked, moving closer to Angel so that Angel could wrap his arms around her waist.
"Just got in, actually." He told her and then eyed the vampire cautiously. "Angel, good to see you." He said finally and offered his hand.
"You too, it's been a while."
"Speaking of being a while," Buffy said, realizing that she had forgotten to give Angel the message from Cordy. "Cordy called while you were sleeping and I told her that you would call her back." Angel nodded and moved to go up the stairs, but was stopped by Buffy following him up the stairs.
"Where you going?" he asked.
"Wanted to make sure that you found the phone." She told him, continuing on up the stairs and into her room, where she grabbed his cel phone and came back out. "See." She told him, grabbing his arm and dragging him back down the stairs, sitting him in a chair where she promptly climbed into his lap, she gave him the phone. Giles looked on with interest at the interaction between the two, it was almost like Buffy was afraid that Angel would leave should he leave her sight.
"How long are you staying?" Dawn asked, breaking into his thoughts.
"For as long as she needs me."
"Forever." Buffy told him and gave him a watery smile, which caused everyone to 'ewe.'
"That is so cute." Dawn told them.
"Aren't you supposed to be at school?" Buffy asked, looking at the clock.
"Come on, you're back and Giles is back, isn't that reason enough to stay home?" she asked in a pleading voice.
"You've stayed home for the last couple of days, since they brought me back, it is time for you to go to school." Buffy told her in a firm voice, pointing to the door, "Now, march!"
"Ai, Ai, drill sergeant." Dawn declared, giving Buffy a fake salute, which made Buffy throw a pillow at her.
"Come on Dawnie," Xander said, "I have to get to work, so I will drive you." Dawn and Xander took one last look at Buffy and then headed out the door, both of them calling their goodbyes.
"So," Buffy said, "What have you been doing in the mother country?" Giles was about to answer when Angel shouted.
"What! You can't come here!" he declared.
"Why the hell not?" Cordy asked, "I used to live there. Besides Buffy is back from the dead and stuff, we can come visit until you decide that you are going back to LA." She told them, as she motioned for Wesley, Fred, Lorne, and Gunn to start packing.
"Because there is not enough room for you here." He told her, getting very frustrated with her.
"That's fine, we can live with you at the mansion."
"I'm not living at the mansion."
"What do you mean you are not living at the mansion?" Cordy asked, jealousy leaking into her voice. "Are you living with her?"
"Yes."
"Then so can we."
"You cannot just invite yourself to live in their house. She is already living with Willow, Tara, and Dawn and Giles just arrived." Angel said, trying to make Cordy think a bit rationally.
"It's going to get crowded on the couch with Giles there." She said, trying to get information.
"Cordy, I cannot make you stay in LA, but there is no possible way that you can live here, unless you want to live in the basement. So, if you want to come and visit, you can use the mansion, but I have to warn you it hasn't been lived in, in a couple of years." Angel told her, frustrated that she wouldn't listen to him and unwilling to tell her that he was staying in Buffy's room. Buffy took the phone from him.
"Cordy, can't wait to see you." She told her and Cordy smiled in satisfaction, she always got her way. "You'll be staying at the mansion." Before Cordy could reply Buffy hung up the phone and handed it back to Angel. "All done." She told him and kissed him, Giles cleared his throat.
"Yes," he said, "Where will you be staying, Angel?"
"In my room."
"But what about his soul?" Giles asked, his eyes darkening with pain, at his remembered loss of Jenny.
"Is bound." Angel supplied for him. "My demon can never return."
"I see." Giles said, taking his glasses off and cleaning them.
"C'mon Giles," Willow interrupted, leading him into the kitchen, "We were just having breakfast, if you want some."
"Sounds lovely, what are we having?"
"Pancakes." Buffy supplied, smiling brightly.
"You didn't cook, did you?" Giles asked, looking horrified at the thought of Buffy in the kitchen.
"No," she told him as she hit him playfully, "Angel did."
"At least we won't be dying from food poisoning or something like that." He told her, while Buffy pouted everyone else started to laugh.
"You know it's true Buffy." Willow told her, "Remember the time that you tried to make eggs and you almost burnt down his house?"
"Hey! I have changed since then." She declared, glaring at all of them, "Remember Thanksgiving?"
"Ya," Willow said, "You went all drill sergeant-ny on us." Buffy pouted even more, until she realized that they were right and she started to laugh with them. Giles slightly smiled, happy to see his slayer once more alive, she seemed more alive now then when she jumped. Suddenly the back door crashed open.
"Is it true?" A familiar British voice exclaimed, "She's back?" Spike threw off the blanket and rushed forward to give her a hug, only he was pulled back by his very pissed off sire, who was very much in game face. "Well if it isn't the bloody pounce." He declared and went flying back as Angel threw him across the room.
"You, stay away from my mate." Angel said, each word snarled out.
"I think that you do that enough for the both of us." Spike told him as he got up and wiped the blood from his mouth. The vampires started to circle each other, both in game face and both growling.
"Angel, Spike! This is not needed." Giles said, stepping between the two vampires. Spike placed his hand on Giles' chest and pushed, Giles went flying back into the wall and was knocked unconscious. Buffy rushed to Giles side and checked to make sure that he was okay. She got up and glared at the two vampires, she slowly walked over and stood in the middle.
"What have I said about testosterone poisoning?"
"That they turn all men into morons." Willow muttered.
"No, they were already like that." Tara said and the girls started to laugh, while the vampires simply glared. "And that's why I'm gay."
"Ya, Buff, you should join us, no pissing contests or anything." Willow told her.
"I'm seriously thinking about it." She replied, causing the two vampires to stare at her in shock. "Of course I could always go for the living ones." Both vampires growled and took a step closer to her.
"Remember Captain Corn head?" Spike asked, "The vampire whore."
"Of course there always was Dracula." Willow put in, "He had that whole gypsy tricks and everything, but hey he didn't do the pissing contests."
"You are right," Buffy agreed, "And the plus his bite was more erotic than anything."
"Dracula bite you?" Angel exclaimed, closing the distance between them and pulling her head to the side so that he could see her neck, when he was certain there was no bite mark on that side he checked the other. "Wait until I get my hands on that no good gypsy bastard."
"Of course you would have to go back to Hell to do it." Buffy told him, "I dusted his ass." Smirking she stepped away from Angel and turned back to willow, "Maybe I could get together with that one guy, what's his name."
"Which one?" Willow asked, "The one that turned out to be the host of Glory or the one that you hit with the club?"
"Well, didn't we kill the Glory one?" she asked, while Angel and Spike looked at them in confusion. "How is the other one doing? Still having intimacy problems?"
"Was this before or after he hit on me?" Willow asked and Angel growled once again at the thought of someone hurting his mate. Giles groaned and Buffy rushed to his side, helping him stand up.
"I'm definitely back in Sunnydale." He said, "I've already been knocked unconscious." They all laughed, while Giles looked around, "So who won the fight?"
"Buffy." Tara supplied and laughed when both vampires seemed to pout.
"Well she always did kick my ass." A voice that Buffy never wanted to hear again, said from the doorway, causing both Angel and Spike to growl loudly, while Angel stepped in front of Buffy.
"Like that was hard." Angel muttered under his breath, securing Buffy behind him and between his childe, better him than that.
"What do you want, Riley?" Willow asked, unmasked hostility in her voice.