TITLE: The Fixer- Book One: Binding the Soul

AUTHOR: Danielle

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 12. That's how I work.

AN: Hey, I'm sending this to a lot of new groups, so if you want to read past parts then go to info . Also for those you who want to know I added the layout for Book Four.

AN: Also if anyone is reading the 9th Circle here please send me a or an email cause something happened so this way I can tell you on a one on one basis. It's nothing bad, sort of.

The Fixer- Book One: Binding the Soul

Chapter Eleven: Realization, Full Force

Aashna looked at Angel. And Angel shrank; he really didn't like that stare. "What do you mean you found out about what the prophecy was about?"

"Aashna it's uh lets talk about it somewhere else," he said looking at her, "Please?"

She walked out of the room with her hands crossed. Everyone looked after her as she walked into the kitchen and heard the back door slam shut. Angel shut his eyes and took an unneeded breath. He followed her into the back, feeling everyone's gaze boring into him.

"Why are you so upset?" Angel finally asked.

She looked at him and walked away and through the bushes until she found a path away from the house. Angel followed her, keeping quiet until they reached a park. She walked over to a swing and sat on it. Making it swing a little.

"Do you remember growing up Angel?" Aashna asked her eyes wide as she looked up at him.

"No."

"I don't either," she said quietly, looking at the ground. She looked back at him, "But this, living with Buffy, being with Dawn, having Xander around, Angel, it's the closet family I've had in years. I don't want it taken away from me."

Angel walked over to her and crouched down and pulled hair away from her face. "And how is that going to be taken away from you?"

"I'll leave," she said. At his confused stare she said, "I was brought back for a reason and I don't think they want me longer then that."

"Don't say that. You think I'm going to let anything happen to you? Do you think Buffy would let anything happen to you? Connor?"

She looked away and Angel thought again how much she reminded him of a younger Buffy. "I like it here. Here with her, with everyone, I don't want to go away." She told him, tears welling up in her eyes.

Angel looked at her and pulled her out of the swing and in his arms. He had never seen her cry before. Expect twice. But those didn't really count if he thought about it to long. "I still don't get why you're getting so upset."

"If you know so much tell me what the prophecy is about, cause then you'll figure it out."

"Binding my soul."

"And?"

"My soul being bonded?" Angel asked confused.

"No. You're being bound to Buffy!"

Angel stood up, "What?"

"The prophecy talks about the beginning of start of the Shanshu. And the only way for to get started is if you get bound to Buffy. So really what I'm saying right now is that the only way for you to turn human is if you bound to Buffy. So I guess that means you're stuck to her."

Angel looked at her and was once again amazed how much she was like Buffy. She could cry one second and the next be full of words to say. "I still don't get why you're so upset."

"I don't want the prophecy to start."

Angel raised his eyebrows at her, "Why not?"

She looked at him and looked away like she was upset at him, "Angel you only get your Shanshu if the End of Days starts, and if this prophecy starts then that means that then End of Days are coming. And I really don't want them to start."

Realization hit him like a rock and he looked back at her, "You don't want it to start because of what happened last time."

"Bingo," she whispered.

He looked down at her, "Nothing is going to happen. You just can't assume things."

She turned from him and the looked back, "Lets just go back, I don't want to talk about it now."

Before he could say anything she was gone from his sight.

When Aashna entered the living room everyone was sitting there looking around uncomfortably, but she did see Buffy giving Connor weird looks, "This really looks like a party."

Everyone's head snapped up at her and Angel's when she felt him come behind her, "Where have you been?" Cordelia asked.

"Out! And it's not like it's any of you business where me and Angel go together. And if we do get into trouble it's not like where going to call you because you probably just going to jump and run and you'll be-"But she didn't get to finish before Angel slapped a hand over her mouth.

Angel gave everyone a grim smile and Aashna's eye turned happily evil. Angel yelped as he felt a tongue rolling on his hand. He pulled his hand away and looked at Aashna like she was nuts and looked at everyone's faces. Then to Buffy's who was trying not to laugh.

"That's sick," Angel said looking at Aashna.

"Actually I thought it was pretty funny," Buffy said from her place on sofa.

Angel glared at Buffy as Aashna smiled at him, "Not to ruin the mood but why is Angel here?" Xander said moving his hands in circles and Aashna scratched her head at him. She never did get him.

"And what about that prophecy?" Willow added as she looked at Aashna before turning away.

"Yes uh prophecy, would you like for me to explain, Angel?" Wesley asked.

"Sure."

Wesley looked around the room nervously, "Uh there is a prophecy about uh Angel and uh Buffy, "he said looking at the slayer in question.

"What about?" Buffy said her eyes serious.

"It's for Angel's soul, for the uh process of his humanity."

Buffy's eyes grew deadly serious, "Humanity?"

"Oh uh I see, Angel hasn't explained that part to you yet, so-"But he never got to finish because Buffy was up and looked at Wesley in straight in the eye."

"What does this have to do with me? He and I haven't been in contact for a while now."

"It's so he can Angel's soul to yours," Aashna answered.

Buffy spun and looked at Aashna, "You knew about this, the whole time?"

"Yes."

"You knew this before, even before Angel came in here knowing it. You came here so you would make me fall in love with him again, didn't you."

Aashna stood still not at affect by Buffy's words. She looked Buffy in the eye, "I came here because just like you, I have a job to do. I know you want Angel to be human and I know you loved Angel even before I came here so don't fool yourself." She turned around from the group, "I'm going to patrol."

Everyone watched her go and then Connor looked around the people before getting up and following her out. Buffy got up from her couch and went up the stairs to her bed. Angel following her.

"Go away," Buffy said, as she lay on her bed.

"No," Angel said as he stood in the doorway.

"You obviously have become more self confident in yourself," Buffy snapped at him.

"Why are you mad at me?"

"Something that happened along the lines of humanity," Buffy said angrily.

"Buffy-"

"Why didn't you tell me?" She said sitting up and glaring at him.

"Do we have to talk about this now?"

"Yes."

"You weren't in my life and you had Riley and every other time we saw each other just didn't seem right."

"Nice excuse, so did you just not want to be with me?" Buffy said.

"You know that's not true, I just... I didn't think it was fair for you to wait for me, I mean, I didn't know when I was going to turn human, I just knew that one day, I would but maybe not this year or the next or even in the next century. That didn't mean I didn't want to tell you everyday. That I wanted to be with you."

Buffy looked at him and smiled weakly, "Oh."

"Yeah, oh," Angel smiled at her, "Are tired? I could leave if you wanted..."

"No, I think I would rather have someone watch me," she answered.

Angel sat in the chair opposite the bed, and smiled as he saw Buffy pull the cover over herself, "I think when you sleep your supposed to put your pajamas and not with shoes."

"Yeah, I was always different," she answered sleepily.

Angel got up from the chair and walked over to the end of the bed and grabbed one foot and pulled the shoe off and then the other, "Hands up Buffy."

"Why?" she pouted.

"'Cause I said so," he answered as he looked through her drawer. When he came back he pulled at her shirt and she blushed as pulled her shirt slowly on her. He smiled down at her. He laid her down and pulled down her pants and pulled the blanket once again over her.

"Angel?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

TBC