TITLE: The Fixer- Book One: Binding the Soul

AUTHOR: Danielle
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DISCLAIMER: All Joss Whedon's
SUMMARY: What if the PTB were so fid up with Angel and Buffy that they had to send someone to fix everything that they messed up. This is only the begging it gets better as you go along and more interesting.

PAIRINGS: The pairings I'm going to say is only for this book because they will drastically change expect for B/A so...: B/A, A/Cordelia (Cd), mentions of B/S, C/Aashna (Aa), X/Cd, W/K, I think that's it, but in this book there are no bad pairings so there really is nothing to worry about.

DISTRIBUTION: Anyone who already has my stuff can take it and if you want just ask me I promise not to say no.
TIMELINE: S4 and S7 Buffy and Faith are the only slayers, no Lorne, they beet Jasmine and the First, they don't own Wolfram and Hart and Connor is still Connor the insane but he gets good in this story. And Connor is so over Cordelia because that was just sick and Anya is dead. Spike is also alive.

FEEDBACK: No Feedback, no part 10. That's how I work.

AN: I have my site up and if you want a summary of the next three books and there titles check it out, . Also I'm going South Africa tomorrow so I won't be able to post the next part until the beginning of September, that is I might be able to make it earlier if I get a lot of feedback...Like August 27 or around that.

AN: Thanks so much for the feedback from: Dreamer Child, Cristina, Melanie, Gigi13, Rebecca, KIM2004,

The Fixer- Book One: Binding the Soul

Chapter Nine: It's A Tale of Two Lovers Part 2

Aashna looked up at the ceiling of her room. The stars shone brightly in the darkness that let the empty room. She breathed slowly and looked out the window. It was dark. She always liked the darkness better. She lived in the darkness most of her life. Maybe it was just habit or it was the sun. The sun always did bother her. There was a knock on her door and she looked at it. She was quiet, not answering the knock. Buffy came in slowly with cookies in her hands and looking hopeful at her.

"Hi," she said, standing in the front of her room.

Aashna smiled lightly at her, "Hey."

"I saw the cookies on the counter and thought we could, you know, eat them."

Aashna grinned and got up from her bed and sat, legs crossed on her bed, ruffling the sheets slightly. "That would be nice."

Buffy smiled at her and sat on the edge of the bed placing the cookies in between them, "So you like cookies?"

"I love them!" Aashna said, smiling happily as she took a bight of the chocolate chip cookie. Crumbs fell on her lap and she giggled happily. "Angel would never let me eat in my room."

Buffy looked at her curiously, "Really? Why not?"

"He said if I would eat in my room then there would be crumbs which would equal to bugs and then he said he would have to clean the bugs cause theres no way in hell I'm going to touch one. So really he would always get grouchy when I would eat in my room. And also I don't think he likes bugs very much. He also would have to clean my room because I would never clean it. And when he would get angry and I would just say 'why should I clean my room when I have you to clean it for me' and then he got really upset," Aashna said, scrunching up her noise.

Buffy laughed at her, "Would you really listen to him?" She asked already knowing the answer.

"Hell no. And Angel knew that too but he still said every time I was in hearing distance of food."

"Angel would always look at me funny when I would eat on his bed. He got this funny look but would never say anything. I think he knew I wouldn't listen."

Aashna chuckled before taking another bight, "What was he like?"

"Angel?"

"Yeah."

"Why should I tell you what he's like when you know him," Buffy said with her eyebrows raised.

"I do know him. Better than he knows himself. But I bet he was different when he was with you."

"I don't know. He was Angel. Broody, dark, tall Angel. He probably changed since he left," Buffy said playing with ends of the sheet.

Aashna looked at Buffy, "See what I mean. Was he sweet or annoying? Was he romantic or hopeless? Was he...? I don't know tell me about 'Buffy's Angel?'"

Buffy laughed, "He was defiantly sweet in his own way but it sort of drove me nuts sometimes. Like he was too sweet for his own good. And he was romantic, defiantly better than the others were."

Aashna smiled at her, "How was it after you know, your birthday?"

Buffy was about to answer before she looked at her weirdly for a second, "How do you know about that?"

"I know everything but about that and I know about the curse," Aashna said hoping she wouldn't ask questions.

"Did Angel tell you?"

Aashna looked out the window and into the darkness for a second before laughing lightly, "No, no he didn't tell me. I knew already. I've know for a very long time."

Buffy thought for just a second that Aashna looked like a mad woman before the innocent look came back into her eyes, "Of course he was different after my birthday. He didn't touch me anymore. We barley kissed or did anything. I mean we did spend a lot of time together but it wasn't the same. He always told me he loved me, always reassured me of it but sometimes I felt like he trying to reassure himself more than me," Buffy looked away before looking back at the sixteen-year-old. "I never told anyone that before."

Aashna smiled at her. "I am very easy person to talk to," she said smiling sweetly at Buffy.

Buffy laughed, "Yes you are."

Aashna grinned suddenly, "Do you still love him?"

Buffy snapped her gaze at Aashna. Surprised at her very blunt question, "Excuse me?"

"Do you love him?" Aashna said with a innocently evil look in her eyes.

"I don't think-"

"He still loves you," Aashna said, looking at Buffy pointedly.

Buffy's eyes widened, "He does?"

She nodded her head, "Yup, he has a picture of you like in every book he owns."

"He does?"

"You keep saying that, and yes he still loves you and has pictures of you in every book." Aashna smiled giddily. She had so much fun teasing Buffy. "So... do you?"

"What?" Buffy said, coming out of her thoughts.

"Love him? Angel."

She looked at her for a moment. "Yes, "she whispered, "I don't think I ever stopped."

"What do you mean?"

"When I was with Riley, I liked him but I didn't... I mean I loved him. I did. He was a great person. He was nice and was great to all my friends. He gave up a lot of things to be with me and put up a lot from me. But I was never in love him. And when he left I thought maybe, if I tried harder or if I worked harder or if I wasn't the slayer. But the thing was that the thoughts, all of them, I knew they were just that... thoughts. I knew I wouldn't be able to do any of those things. And with Spike, don't even get me started how messed up that relationship was."

"You dated Spike!" Aashna yelped horrified.

Buffy suddenly felt self conscious, "It wasn't really dating..."

Aashna looked at her like she was nuts, "You do know he is a vampire. A very bad, very evil, very," she came closer to Buffy, "crazy and obsessive vampire."

"I know trust me," Buffy said remembering the time she saw his collection of pictures and clothes he kept of her. She shivered, "But he has a soul now. And anyway Angel was a vampire and you don't have a problem with me dating him."

"Spike has soul?" Aashna asked confused.

"Yeah. It's a long story." Buffy commented dryly.

"Oh but I mean it's Spike. We don't like Spike. He is very annoying."

"Why do you care so much about who I sleep with? And how do you know Spike so well anyway?"

"I don't care who you sleep with but I mean its Spike. I mean, he so... Spike! And me and Spike have an interesting history." I bet it's really in the history books to, she thought to herself. She shook her head, "So what were you going to say before you said you slept with," she took a deep breath, "Spike."

She looked at Aashna for a second then held a smile; "With Angel everything was easy."

"Easy how?"

"He just, he knew when to do things. He knew when I wanted to be loved or when I wanted to be left alone. He didn't push things. He didn't force me to tell him what's wrong. And he loved me with all my faults but then again we had a lot of bad things in are relationship."

"Like what?" Aashna asked quietly.

"Like the part were we could barley touch without getting aroused. Like were he didn't think he deserved me. Small things like that takes a big step in a relationship. I know when I was in high school I would think the curse doesn't matter but know... It would. It's horrible that sex takes so much control over a relationship but it effects it more than people would think. Sometimes I'm glad Angel left because I know but by now we would have let Angelus go but before he left, I would have done anything that would have stopped him from leaving. I was sort of desperate." She was quiet before blushing a little, "And about the whole sex thing, once you have Angel as a partner it's sort of hard to live up to that."

Aashna's eyes went wide. "Let's remember Angel is like my big brother and please..."Aashna smiled, "How good was he?"

Buffy laughed at her; "He was good."

Aashna leaned back against her bed and sighed, "Do you miss him? Because I do."

"Yeah I miss him," Buffy said, "So who was that boy that came with you?"

Aashna smiled, "Oh, that's just Connor."

"And he works for Angel?"

"Oh he sort of has to, no where to go and all."

"Really. What about his parents? I bet they don't like him hunting demons and vampires. I know I wouldn't want Dawn to do that," Buffy commented.

"Oh about that, Angel can tell you. I want to keep my head. But when he does don't hurt him that much, oh and can I be there?" Aashna said cryptically.

"You and Angel the same," Buffy said slouching her shoulders.

"'Bout what?"

"Your both to cryptic."

Aashna once again looked out the window and smiled sadly at the darkness of the sky, "That's how we were raised to be."

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