'Angel there's someone here to see you', Harmony informed Angel.
'Oh for God's sake, tell them I'm working.'
'I think they know that..sir.'
'Fine bring them in', Angel snapped slamming his paperwork on the desk. Harmony bowed and walked out.
Buffy walked in.
'Hope I'm not interrupting anything', Buffy said.
'Nothing important', Angel sighed.
'Anyway straight to the point, I er..I had a vision last night, it was like a flashback of me and Spike's last few moments together before we went into the hellmouth', Buffy said quickly.
'So.'
'So..Spike also had the same vision at the same time but we decided not to say anything but it's been bugging me.'
'What happened in the vision', Angel asked.
'Does that matter', Buffy said blushing slightly.
'Well if I don't know the details, what am I supposed to do about it?' Buffy looked uncomfortable.
'Nothing much, we kissed and then we talked.and then we kissed again and then we...' Buffy's voice trailed of.
'And then what?'
'We...we had sex', Buffy muttered. Angel eyes narrowed.
'Anything else', he said trying to sound like this news didn't mean anything to him.
'Well it was our first time since...since he was evil.' Angel looked like he'd been slapped.
'What.since..you two slept together when he was evil!?' Angel shouted completely forgetting his calm attitude.
'Yeah well things were difficult then and he made them simpler', Buffy said in a rather small embarrassed voice.
'I can't believe I'm hearing this', Angel said to himself. Buffy rolled her eyes. 'Look that's all in the past now, when he got back thing's changed between us our connection got deeper and things started to get serious between us even though we weren't sleeping with each other anymore.'
'By things getting deeper and more serious, do you mean you feel in love with him?', Angel said staring at Buffy, waiting for the answer he had been waiting to hear since he last saw her in Sunnydale.
'Angel please just drop it ok, no one knows everything that happened between me and Spike except me and him and I'd like to keep it that way ok?' Buffy replied coldly.
'What you embarrassed or something?' Angel said in an annoying voice.
'No, I just think it's none of your business.'
'That's what you said before; it's so annoying why can't you just answer the question?' Angel fumed.
'Because..it's private and your not part of my life anymore ,you've been away so long it's like we're from two completely different universes now', Buffy explained.
'So I guess that means I've missed too much for us to get back together?' Angel said sadly.
'What?' Buffy said startled.
'Well you know, I was hoping that maybe..I could enjoy cookie you.'
'Whoa hold up a second, I never said we were getting back together I said sometimes I think what life would have been like if we'd stayed together but that was then..when I thought I was going to die', Buffy said.
'Oh right so you just said it so you weren't completely giving me the brush off, you wanted to keep your options open huh?'
'How dare you my options weren't open when I sent you away were they, I choose Spike as my champion so get over it already', Buffy spat.
'How can I.you choose him over me, Spike, the idiot that I taught how to be really evil, the pathetic fool who thought he would be with Drusilla forever so I shagged her just to show who was boss (Buffy looked disgusted) the guy who was always beneath me in being evil in getting a soul after me, I always beat him ALWAYS and then you go ignore all the things I'd done and pick Spike who had a soul for like.how long a month?!' Angel laughed.
'And you wonder why, Buffy said looking at Angel as though the sight of him made her sick, you did that to Spike you knew he loved her and you slept with her show who was boss.' Angel looked away.
'I'm not proud of what I did, but that wasn't the point, the point was that I always had authority over him and I'd been doing good for about 100 years and when it came down to the end all that was ignored and you picked your lover boy', Angel said with his arms folded as though he was a spoilt child. Buffy opened her mouth but was interrupted by the screams coming from the hallway. Buffy and Angel looked at each other confused and ran out to see what was going on. A demon was holding a worker by the neck so his feet were dangling just above the ground and in one swift movement he snapped his neck and let him drop to the floor.
'Where is Angel', the demon roared. Angel stepped forward
'That would be me.'
'I have a message for you', the demon said slowly. He looked down at Harmony and grabbed her and scratched his message into her. She screamed in agony but this only made him laugh harder, he threw her against the wall where she hit her head and slid down the wall unconscious, a puddle of blood around her. Angel stared, shocked. The message carved onto Harmony's stomach read
'Meet us tonight at the cemetery, Midnight, bring Spike' Angel looked back to the demon but he had vanished. Buffy was kneeling beside Harmony.
'How the hell did he cut her this deep' Buffy muttered.
'Its claws were really sharp, it looks pretty bad, maybe we should get help', Angel suggested.
'Well we don't really have time to wait for her to come round.'
Later that day an hour before midnight they were still debating on what they should do. 'I say we go kick that demon's lousy ass', Gunn said.
'We don't have nearly enough information on him to do that, besides there's probably going to be other demons and who knows what they'll do to Angel', Wesley argued.
'Well we'll never find out if we don't go', Gunn retorted.
'Guys, Angel said over them, we need to keep it together.we're going..if things get really bad we just have to get out of there.'
'I think your forgetting that only you and Spike are allowed to go', Wesley reminded Angel still unconvinced.
'Wesley we don't have a choice here', Angel said. Wesley fell quit, and after a minute he nodded reluctantly.
Angel and Spike waited at the cemetery anxiously. The silence was almost deafening.
Then out of nowhere a hand grabbed Spike around the mouth. Spike twisted the arm around and threw him over his shoulder.
'Bloody hell', Spike said shaken. Angel stared down at the creature that was lying before him, it looked hideous. It had massive red horns and long red claws and a shrivelled looking face. It looked truly evil.
'You're like the guy who almost bled Harmony dry', Angel said staring at its claws.
'No he was just a messenger, I'm much much more than that I.'
'Am more powerful than you can ever imagine, yeah heard it all before, Spike interrupted, so just cut to chase won't you..why did you want to see us.'
Two other demons emerged from behind the gravestones. They formed a line. The one in the middle had an important look about him.
'And you must be the boss'; Angel said walking up to him without a trace of fear or respect.
'We are called Vargners.'
'What?' Angel said looking blank.
'You will call me Lord Vargner.'
'Original', Angel muttered.
'Yeah well Lord Vargner why-did-you-want-to-see-us', Spike said slowly as though he couldn't understand English.
'We are with news, as I'm sure you know there is chaos in the world because of two vampires with a soul, one of you needs to win the prize and soon.'
'Go on', Spike said eagerly.
'We hold the real cup of mortality, the cup that if you drink from will restore you your mortality, there is confusion everywhere with both vampires and humans and it can not continue any longer, if it keeps up all the humanity in the world will fade.'
'What does that mean', Angel asked.
'It means humans will start lose their will to want to be good people and some of them will go and sell their souls to be evil..anyway the point is your both champions but only one of you can be rewarded for it, and it turns out that you don't get to decide who will get that reward.'
'I thought we had to fight for it.'
'I'm not stopping you from fighting but the reason the last time was a fake was because the key to it all was not there.'
'The key?' Spike asked.
'The one who must choose which one of you will shansue...that person must be someone you two share something for', Lord Vargner finished.
'What?', Angel said completely confused but Spike understood.
'Angel, Spike muttered, he means Buffy.'
'Oh for God's sake, tell them I'm working.'
'I think they know that..sir.'
'Fine bring them in', Angel snapped slamming his paperwork on the desk. Harmony bowed and walked out.
Buffy walked in.
'Hope I'm not interrupting anything', Buffy said.
'Nothing important', Angel sighed.
'Anyway straight to the point, I er..I had a vision last night, it was like a flashback of me and Spike's last few moments together before we went into the hellmouth', Buffy said quickly.
'So.'
'So..Spike also had the same vision at the same time but we decided not to say anything but it's been bugging me.'
'What happened in the vision', Angel asked.
'Does that matter', Buffy said blushing slightly.
'Well if I don't know the details, what am I supposed to do about it?' Buffy looked uncomfortable.
'Nothing much, we kissed and then we talked.and then we kissed again and then we...' Buffy's voice trailed of.
'And then what?'
'We...we had sex', Buffy muttered. Angel eyes narrowed.
'Anything else', he said trying to sound like this news didn't mean anything to him.
'Well it was our first time since...since he was evil.' Angel looked like he'd been slapped.
'What.since..you two slept together when he was evil!?' Angel shouted completely forgetting his calm attitude.
'Yeah well things were difficult then and he made them simpler', Buffy said in a rather small embarrassed voice.
'I can't believe I'm hearing this', Angel said to himself. Buffy rolled her eyes. 'Look that's all in the past now, when he got back thing's changed between us our connection got deeper and things started to get serious between us even though we weren't sleeping with each other anymore.'
'By things getting deeper and more serious, do you mean you feel in love with him?', Angel said staring at Buffy, waiting for the answer he had been waiting to hear since he last saw her in Sunnydale.
'Angel please just drop it ok, no one knows everything that happened between me and Spike except me and him and I'd like to keep it that way ok?' Buffy replied coldly.
'What you embarrassed or something?' Angel said in an annoying voice.
'No, I just think it's none of your business.'
'That's what you said before; it's so annoying why can't you just answer the question?' Angel fumed.
'Because..it's private and your not part of my life anymore ,you've been away so long it's like we're from two completely different universes now', Buffy explained.
'So I guess that means I've missed too much for us to get back together?' Angel said sadly.
'What?' Buffy said startled.
'Well you know, I was hoping that maybe..I could enjoy cookie you.'
'Whoa hold up a second, I never said we were getting back together I said sometimes I think what life would have been like if we'd stayed together but that was then..when I thought I was going to die', Buffy said.
'Oh right so you just said it so you weren't completely giving me the brush off, you wanted to keep your options open huh?'
'How dare you my options weren't open when I sent you away were they, I choose Spike as my champion so get over it already', Buffy spat.
'How can I.you choose him over me, Spike, the idiot that I taught how to be really evil, the pathetic fool who thought he would be with Drusilla forever so I shagged her just to show who was boss (Buffy looked disgusted) the guy who was always beneath me in being evil in getting a soul after me, I always beat him ALWAYS and then you go ignore all the things I'd done and pick Spike who had a soul for like.how long a month?!' Angel laughed.
'And you wonder why, Buffy said looking at Angel as though the sight of him made her sick, you did that to Spike you knew he loved her and you slept with her show who was boss.' Angel looked away.
'I'm not proud of what I did, but that wasn't the point, the point was that I always had authority over him and I'd been doing good for about 100 years and when it came down to the end all that was ignored and you picked your lover boy', Angel said with his arms folded as though he was a spoilt child. Buffy opened her mouth but was interrupted by the screams coming from the hallway. Buffy and Angel looked at each other confused and ran out to see what was going on. A demon was holding a worker by the neck so his feet were dangling just above the ground and in one swift movement he snapped his neck and let him drop to the floor.
'Where is Angel', the demon roared. Angel stepped forward
'That would be me.'
'I have a message for you', the demon said slowly. He looked down at Harmony and grabbed her and scratched his message into her. She screamed in agony but this only made him laugh harder, he threw her against the wall where she hit her head and slid down the wall unconscious, a puddle of blood around her. Angel stared, shocked. The message carved onto Harmony's stomach read
'Meet us tonight at the cemetery, Midnight, bring Spike' Angel looked back to the demon but he had vanished. Buffy was kneeling beside Harmony.
'How the hell did he cut her this deep' Buffy muttered.
'Its claws were really sharp, it looks pretty bad, maybe we should get help', Angel suggested.
'Well we don't really have time to wait for her to come round.'
Later that day an hour before midnight they were still debating on what they should do. 'I say we go kick that demon's lousy ass', Gunn said.
'We don't have nearly enough information on him to do that, besides there's probably going to be other demons and who knows what they'll do to Angel', Wesley argued.
'Well we'll never find out if we don't go', Gunn retorted.
'Guys, Angel said over them, we need to keep it together.we're going..if things get really bad we just have to get out of there.'
'I think your forgetting that only you and Spike are allowed to go', Wesley reminded Angel still unconvinced.
'Wesley we don't have a choice here', Angel said. Wesley fell quit, and after a minute he nodded reluctantly.
Angel and Spike waited at the cemetery anxiously. The silence was almost deafening.
Then out of nowhere a hand grabbed Spike around the mouth. Spike twisted the arm around and threw him over his shoulder.
'Bloody hell', Spike said shaken. Angel stared down at the creature that was lying before him, it looked hideous. It had massive red horns and long red claws and a shrivelled looking face. It looked truly evil.
'You're like the guy who almost bled Harmony dry', Angel said staring at its claws.
'No he was just a messenger, I'm much much more than that I.'
'Am more powerful than you can ever imagine, yeah heard it all before, Spike interrupted, so just cut to chase won't you..why did you want to see us.'
Two other demons emerged from behind the gravestones. They formed a line. The one in the middle had an important look about him.
'And you must be the boss'; Angel said walking up to him without a trace of fear or respect.
'We are called Vargners.'
'What?' Angel said looking blank.
'You will call me Lord Vargner.'
'Original', Angel muttered.
'Yeah well Lord Vargner why-did-you-want-to-see-us', Spike said slowly as though he couldn't understand English.
'We are with news, as I'm sure you know there is chaos in the world because of two vampires with a soul, one of you needs to win the prize and soon.'
'Go on', Spike said eagerly.
'We hold the real cup of mortality, the cup that if you drink from will restore you your mortality, there is confusion everywhere with both vampires and humans and it can not continue any longer, if it keeps up all the humanity in the world will fade.'
'What does that mean', Angel asked.
'It means humans will start lose their will to want to be good people and some of them will go and sell their souls to be evil..anyway the point is your both champions but only one of you can be rewarded for it, and it turns out that you don't get to decide who will get that reward.'
'I thought we had to fight for it.'
'I'm not stopping you from fighting but the reason the last time was a fake was because the key to it all was not there.'
'The key?' Spike asked.
'The one who must choose which one of you will shansue...that person must be someone you two share something for', Lord Vargner finished.
'What?', Angel said completely confused but Spike understood.
'Angel, Spike muttered, he means Buffy.'