"Are you sure you are alright Xander?" Giles asked again, and was rewarded with a glare. Giles just huffed, he felt no reason not to ask, he thought of Xander, Buffy, Willow and Cordelia as his extended family and his job as watcher left him not time for a social life or a love life he felt it was unlikely that he would have children of his own.

"I'm fine" Xander groused as Buffy applied a cooling balm on his forehead, he didn't want people fussing over him, Buffy finally relinquished the balm and looked over her work. Xande's face was covered in bruises the biggest on covered half of his left cheek.

"I have some cover all if you want to get rid of that bruise" Cordelia offered as she sat on the large table Xander rolled his eyes at her.

"I guess you are really alright" Buffy said finally.

"You'd better thank Angel...." She broke off as she saw the library door swish closed silently, before she could react Xander had jumped off the table and handed Buffy the medical equipment and

followed the vampire.

He hit the halls but couldn't see Angel, basing it on guess work he turned left and finally caught up with the vampire.

"Hey wait up" he called.

Angel stopped and Xander skidded to a halt, they faced each other in the hallway for long minutes. Xander felt slightly foolish, he hadn't thought about what he would say when he had caught up with Angel he had simply ran on instinct.

"Uh...Thanks....for coming to get me...I really appreciate it"

"It wasn't a problem" Angel replied softly.

"No Uh it really was cause if you had left me there, then no one would have blamed you"

"Your friends love you" Angel argued and Xander shrugged. He wasn't concerned with his friend's right then, the library seemed millions of years away from what was going on in this hallway. And something was happening yet Xander couldn't define it.

"I just wanted to say thanks" Xander said after a moment.

"All the people I had ever thought would have come get me your name wasn't in the top 100"

"Of all the people I had ever thought would have kissed me your name wasn't in the top 100"

Xander grinned at the vampire's humour....who knew Angel had a sense of humour, Xander hadn't.

"So we both acknowledge what happened to us was definitely in the weird and not normal column?" Xander asked, Angel pondered that for a moment then nodded.

"Not normal" he conceded.

"But not disturbing or wrong or whatever...just different" He didn't realize he was taking steps forward until he was face to face with the vampire.

"Different is good" Angel agreed.

"So all this dumb girl talk about feelings isn't necessary?" Xander breathed.

Angel felt the boy's breath on his skin and was reminded again why he loved him. He took the final step closer, bowing his head slightly.

"Definitely unnecessary"

No one knew who reached first, but it didn't matter in that tiny vacuum of space that they filled. Nothing mattered except them and that they kissed with all the passion they possessed. Angel was aware in all his 250 years he was completely unknowing in this situation. He knew that rationally they needed to talk but he was more then willing to allow hormones to take them on this journey for Angel to taste just a little bit of life.