"Angel stop pacing," Buffy commanded without looking up from her book. Tension filled the library, making the silence seem choking, but nobody wanted to say anything.
Angel had spent an hour looking at the scene, filing everything in his mind, trying to pinpoint the boy, the attackers...anything.
"I'll stop pacing when we find Xander" Angel bit out, his gaze not coming up from the piece of glass with Xander's blood on it.
"Brooding isn't going to help get Xander back" Willow offered tentatively.
Angel mimicked a sigh. He didn't want to be getting at his friends but his desire to find Xander, to make sure he was all right, to look upon his face was quickly overwhelming him.
"Well there's good news and bad," Buffy said finally. "Either Xand was just a snack or it's trap. Some vamp nest that needs to be wiped out and they are using him as bate"
"Pretty much bad news" Willow said softly.
"Giles thinks they're holed up in a mausoleum in the cemetery"Angel was already moving. "I'll find you when you're ready to go"
Without another glance the vampires swept out of the library.
Angel didn't want to think, to brood he had spent many years doing that and he was sick of it. Yet despite his best attempts he found himself victim of his dark thoughts. He wanted to be sure that Xander would be fine, he had no doubt that Buffy and the scoobies would do their best to save him but he also knew that vampires were ruthless and impatient.
He didn't know whether Xander would live through the night.
Things were up in the air between him and Xander they hadn't spoken in almost a week, not that unusual but since the dance Angel felt that they had a lot to talk about.
He understood Xander's hesitancy and shared it but he knew now, where that deep set hatred had come from.
Love.
He was in love with a seventeen year old, mouthy teenager.
Angel was not in the habit of admitting his feelings, after witnessing over a 100 years of humans abusing each other's feelings he felt the need to keep his own locked away tightly. Of course that would never do for Xander, indeed half the reason he had kissed Xander was because the boy would not get off his case.
His ponderings had taken him outside the cemetery and he realized he had been walking for an hour and a half, he could see Cordy, Buffy, Willow and Giles hiking across the ground; it was time.
He was getting Xander back.
Note: I wont be showing how they get Xander back because I am bad at fight scenes. Next update should be on Saturday