Chapter 7: History has a tendency to repeat itself.
Title: A new beginning.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that **English is not my native tongue** Although Sarah is reproofing my fic, you still may find some spelling & grammar mistakes. You're more then welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
A special thank you to Sarah for reproofing my story. As of that the upload of the chapters may take longer.
Feedback: I love love love reviews and I'll be sure to mention it at the end of every chapter.
***
"So what now? Are we going to just burst into her office?" Buffy asked as they stood outside Lilah's office.
"No." The door opened. Lilah stood there with a smile. "I simply invite you in." She said as she opened the door wide, letting the three inside her office.
They walked inside to see Gavin Park sitting on of the chairs, with a smile spread across his face.
"We've been expecting you Angel." Gavin said as he got up and offered a seat to the standing group.
"What are you doing here?" Angel said as he took a few steps towards Gavin.
"I should ask you the same question considering I work here, and you... well don't.
"How could I stay away after Lilah's generous offer?" Angel smiled.
" I thought you might like it. I'm proud to say I had a part in formulate the contract." Gavin said with pride.
"I thought you might." Angel took a few steps closer, making Gavin take a step back.
"Boys please, we are here to do business, not quarrel like children." Lilah said, when suddenly she noticed the others two guests. "Uh my, I didn't see you there, miss...?" Lilah looked at Buffy.
"Summers, Buffy Summers."
"Uh... the Slayer." Lilah sat down. I heard, well read so much about you it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Please take a seat, can I offer you a beverage."
Buffy was a bit surprised by her behavior. Her bad guys usually hit first offer drinks later. "No thank you." Buffy declined the offer.
"And you must be... wait let me guess I know that one." Lilah twirled her fingers. "Spike!" She said with a smile. "Am I right? Or am I right? You must be the famous William the bloody."
Spike smiled a bit flattered she heard of him, but then he remembered who she was and why they were here. "Yeah, you're right, so what? Want a bloody trophy?" He pulled out a cigarette.
"I'm sorry there's a no smoking policy in this building." Gavin said.
"Can I kill him?" He turned to Buffy and asked.
"No." She said firmly.
"Come on. I have a soul, he obviously doesn't. I think we even the score." Spike grinned as he stared at Gavin who by now backed away to the wall.
"He has a point." Angel said with a huge smile.
"You have a soul? That's new, since when? If you don't mind me asking." Lilah found that piece of information extremely interesting.
"Since, mind your own business lady. Besides I think Angel-face has some issues to work out first." Spike leaned against the wall smiling.
***
"That's right, almost forgot. What can I do for you Angel?" Lilah turned her chair to face Angel who by now sat down.
"I want you to tell me all you know about this warrior, including who hired him." Angel said.
"I did tell you everything. The deal was about protection not information. That was my own courtesy." She smiled.
"You said you know how to fix the problem, that means you know who hired this guy. I want to know."
"Angel, all I said was; we may be able to solve this problem, and if you and miss chase were to accept our generous offer than we would be more than happy to try and locate the person/demon who hired the Sheryon, but until you do... I just can't afford to spend any resources of Wolfram & Hart on this case. Without a consideration, I simply can't..." Before she knew it Angel jumped over the table and grabbed her throat.
"Do you really want to play this game again Lilah?" Angel whispered in her ear as she struggled to breath.
"Angel let go of her." Buffy yelled at him.
"Lilah?" He asked quietly.
"Angel!" Buffy walked towards him and pulled him away from her. Lilah coughed as she tried breathing normally.
"What are you doing?" Buffy yelled at him. "You can't go around chocking people."
"They're not people." He said in despise.
"We're leaving, right now." She said and she grabbed his arm.
"Not till she answers my questions." Right then security burst in with stakes and guns pointing at Spike, Buffy and Angel.
"Great, now can we leave?" Buffy asked.
"You don't want to do this Lilah." Angel said to her.
"And I didn't. Who called you in here?" Lilah asked one of the security guard.
"We got an urgent phone call saying Miss Morgan... I mean you are in danger. So we checked the video camera and saw him." The guard pointed at Angel. "Trying to chock you, so we..."
"Okay." Lilah stopped him. "I get the picture, now leave."
"Are you sure mam?" The guard asked confused.
"Yes. Leave." Lilah ordered and the guards left.
"Are you crazy, he'll kill you." Buffy said to her.
"No he won't." Lilah sat down and took a zip of water. "Now Angel can we talk about this like two businessman/woman or are you going to try and kill me, again?"
***
Suddenly the door opened and Cordy walked in. "You don't know when to quit do you Lilah? I thought that would be enough, but I guess you're a sucker for pain."
"What?" Angel looked at her confused. "What are you...?"
"Don't even start mister." Cordy pointed at him. "You're in big trouble." Cordy cut him off and looked at Lilah. "I called your security, thinking you had the sense to ask them to throw him out, because despite how secure you think you are, the simple fact is, that your senior partners value him more than they value you." Cordy pointed at Angel then at Lilah. "So if he kills you, this will only make them happier since they'll think they were able to turn Angel to his dark side, and you'd be dead and no one would mind." As she spoke Lilah's expression changed. The smile was gone; she started to realize Cordelia had a point. "And if you think his soul will stop him from killing you... think again. You really pissed him off this time." Cordy smiled when she saw Lilah's expression. "So I suggest you reconsider sending your guards away, cause next time, he will finish the job." Cordy looked at Angel. "Lets go." She ordered.
"Not till she tells me who hired that demon." Angel persisted.
"I told him, I don't know." Lilah was really freaking out, wanting Angel as far away from her as possible.
"How about you, do you know?" Cordy turned to Gavin. "Cause you can always tell us and pin the blame at Lilah, we wouldn't tell." Cordy said with a smile.
"Gavin paused for a few seconds and then..."We don't know for sure but apparently..."
"Shut up, you moron." Lilah yelled at him.
"I'd really advice you to be quite right abut now." Buffy said as she glanced at Angel smiling.
"As I said, we think it's a few branches of demons who combined forces, and collectively hired the assassin. Apparently every major demon cult want this baby dead." Gavin finished off. "And before you ask, we don't know which groups."
"Thank you." Cordy said and headed for the door, followed by Buffy and Spike. She stopped at the entrance waiting for Angel to join her.
"Bye Lilah, see you soon." Angel said as he left.
"It doesn't change a thing, you're still dead without us." Lilah said to Cordy as she closed the door behind her.
***
"Care to explain." She walked up the stairs of the basement and entered the lobby.
"I had to do something." Angel answered.
"You call that something." Cordy said angrily.
"Well we got some new information didn't we?" Angel thought that ought to justify his actions.
"Yeah, because of me, not you." She walked to the kitchen, Angel followed her, leaving a very confused and chocked Buffy and Spike.
"What happened?" Fred asked as she was coming out of the office, followed by Wesley, Dawn and Xander.
"Cordelia found us." Buffy said as she sat on the couch.
"Damn it!" Fred cursed. "I knew that was her." She looked at Wesley.
"There's nothing we could have done, he simply should have told her." Wesley said in their defense.
"You could have called." Spike said all of the sudden.
"Excuse me?" Wesley asked.
"He has a cell-phone, right? You could have called, giving him a head start." Spike explained.
"Well... uh..." Wesley knew he was right. He wanted to hit himself for not thinking of it.
***
"Will you stop yelling at me for five minutes so I can explain." Angel yelled back when Cordy raised her voice. She quitted down, crossed her arms and waited for him to speak.
"Go ahead, explain." She sat on the stool.
"I didn't know what else to do, I needed to do something." He began to explain.
"But going there wasn't the answer." Cordy said quietly this time.
"I know that, but I was so angry..."
"You could have killed her Angel." Cordy cut him off. "You would have, if Buffy wasn't there to stop you."
"I don't know that for sure, but I sure wanted too." He sat on the stool in front of her on the other side of the table.
"I'm not worth you losing you're soul, your humanity..."
"Of curse you are." Angel interrupted her.
"No I'm not, Angel. No one is." She took a big breath. "You've come so far in the past 3 years. You've done more, helped more people. You connected to the world. I couldn't bare the thought that I was responsible for you losing all that." She reached out and took his hand. "You can't keep beating people down thinking it would save me, cause both of us know, it wouldn't."
"Cor I..."
"Angel." She stopped him. "My primary goal is to keep this child alive. I think that after his birth, he'll be safe. Don't ask me how, it's a hunch, call it motherly instinct if you like." She smiled. "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, but I don't agree. You can't ask me to protect him and abandon you, you can't."
"Angel, if it comes down to that, then yes, I want you to make that choice, and I want you to choose him." She looked into his eyes. "This child is special, he has to come into this world, this way or the other. I..."
"Shh..." He placed his finger on her lips. "We have nine months to worry about that. Lets get you through today, okay?"
"Okay." She replied.
"Now, lets go see what the others came up with." He got up and reached out his hand, helping her to her feet.
***
"Hi." She stepped out side to the yard, where Angel sat on the bench staring at the stars.
"Hi." He replied.
"Want some company? She offered as she came down the stairs.
"Always." He said with a smile, as he moved aside to make room.
"I guess that's the part where I say we have to talk." She said with hesitation, not sure she's really ready for this talk. "So should I go first or...?"
"Ladies first." Angel said with a smile.
"What's up with you and Cordelia?"
"Nothing, we're just good friends." He replied.
"It seems more than that to me."
" I should ask the same thing about you and Spike?"
"Angel, don't avoid my question." Buffy wasn't ready to talk about her and Spike.
"I didn't, I gave you an answer. You choose not to believe me." He sighed; the last thing he wanted was to get into an argument with Buffy
"Spike and I had a thing last year. It ended badly. He left town for a few months and came back with a soul. Satisfied?" She couldn't believe she actually said that to him.
"Do you love him?" He asked in hesitation.
"That's a difficult question. All I can say is that he's in my life, and I like it." Buffy explained.
"Does he love you?" Buffy nodded for agreement. "So now you're just... Friends?"
"Just like you and Cordelia." Buffy replied with a smirk on her face.
"That's different." Angel disagreed.
"Really, how come?"
"Cause I didn't sleep with Cordy." Angel replied.
"Details, just details. If you loved her, that's more than Spike and I had, or have."
"I never say I did." Angel felt uncomfortable.
"You didn't have to, I saw you. I know you remember." She smiled when she saw his expression. "I can't say I understand it, or even accept it, but I guess I lost the right to have a say a long time ago."
"Buffy, that's not true. You're still my friend, you always will be." He reached out and took her hand.
"That's bullshit and we both know it. We were never friends. We were anything but friends. Lovers, enemies, strangers..." She paused for a moment as she tightened her grip. "But never friends." She was sure he'd say something sweet and witty, but he didn't. He just stared at her, looked in her eyes. When suddenly he leaned down his head and kissed her. At first she was confused, not sure what to do. But then, it all came back to her, all her old buried feelings. She kissed him back, and a sweet innocent kiss turned into a passionate kiss, as they rapped their arms around each other, clinching to one another. They were so into it they didn't even see Cordelia standing at top of the garden stairs. She looked at them unable to move, she wanted to, but her legs wouldn't go. She could feel warm tears coming down her check, she wanted to stop them as well, but it seemed like her body had will of his own.
"Well did you find them or what...?" Angel and Buffy stopped kissing and looked up to the stairs to see Cordelia and Gunn standing there.
"Yeah... I found them." Cordelia replied and quickly went inside.
"Uh shit." Angel cursed as he got up. "I'm sorry Buffy I have to go." He didn't wait for her to respond he just ran to the stairs passing Gunn not saying anything. Buffy sat there, not sure what to do or feel. Her entire body was vibrating. She wanted to smile, but as she looked to her side to see the empty seat she realized she had nothing to smile about.
***
"Where is she?" Angel asked Fred as he walked into the lobby.
"Who? Cordy?" Angel nodded. "She left, she said she had something to do."
"And you let her." Angel raised his voice.
"I'm sorry I wasn't aware of the fact that I was her guard." Fred said a bit confused.
"Did she say where she was heading?" Angel grabbed his jacket and headed for the front door.
"No, sorry."
"Great." He frowned. "Tell the others I went looking for her." He said as he walked out.
"What was that all about? Fred asked Gunn who just came inside.
"Cordy found Angel and Buffy in the middle of a private moment." Gunn explained.
"How private?" Spike who overheard them asked.
"Private." Gunn said with a rise of and eyebrow.
"Of course." Spike said with a half smile and walked towards the basement. "If any one looks for me." He called out. "Tell them you staked me." He shut the door behind him.
TBC
Hi ppl,
Thank you so much for your patience and support. I know it's been awhile since I updated, but I hope now that I have more free time I'll be able to update a lot sooner. I hope you liked this chapter although the story itself hasn't moved along much, but hang in; I'm getting there. As usual I'd love to know what you think so please review.
Thanks Nikka.
Title: A new beginning.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that **English is not my native tongue** Although Sarah is reproofing my fic, you still may find some spelling & grammar mistakes. You're more then welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
A special thank you to Sarah for reproofing my story. As of that the upload of the chapters may take longer.
Feedback: I love love love reviews and I'll be sure to mention it at the end of every chapter.
***
"So what now? Are we going to just burst into her office?" Buffy asked as they stood outside Lilah's office.
"No." The door opened. Lilah stood there with a smile. "I simply invite you in." She said as she opened the door wide, letting the three inside her office.
They walked inside to see Gavin Park sitting on of the chairs, with a smile spread across his face.
"We've been expecting you Angel." Gavin said as he got up and offered a seat to the standing group.
"What are you doing here?" Angel said as he took a few steps towards Gavin.
"I should ask you the same question considering I work here, and you... well don't.
"How could I stay away after Lilah's generous offer?" Angel smiled.
" I thought you might like it. I'm proud to say I had a part in formulate the contract." Gavin said with pride.
"I thought you might." Angel took a few steps closer, making Gavin take a step back.
"Boys please, we are here to do business, not quarrel like children." Lilah said, when suddenly she noticed the others two guests. "Uh my, I didn't see you there, miss...?" Lilah looked at Buffy.
"Summers, Buffy Summers."
"Uh... the Slayer." Lilah sat down. I heard, well read so much about you it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Please take a seat, can I offer you a beverage."
Buffy was a bit surprised by her behavior. Her bad guys usually hit first offer drinks later. "No thank you." Buffy declined the offer.
"And you must be... wait let me guess I know that one." Lilah twirled her fingers. "Spike!" She said with a smile. "Am I right? Or am I right? You must be the famous William the bloody."
Spike smiled a bit flattered she heard of him, but then he remembered who she was and why they were here. "Yeah, you're right, so what? Want a bloody trophy?" He pulled out a cigarette.
"I'm sorry there's a no smoking policy in this building." Gavin said.
"Can I kill him?" He turned to Buffy and asked.
"No." She said firmly.
"Come on. I have a soul, he obviously doesn't. I think we even the score." Spike grinned as he stared at Gavin who by now backed away to the wall.
"He has a point." Angel said with a huge smile.
"You have a soul? That's new, since when? If you don't mind me asking." Lilah found that piece of information extremely interesting.
"Since, mind your own business lady. Besides I think Angel-face has some issues to work out first." Spike leaned against the wall smiling.
***
"That's right, almost forgot. What can I do for you Angel?" Lilah turned her chair to face Angel who by now sat down.
"I want you to tell me all you know about this warrior, including who hired him." Angel said.
"I did tell you everything. The deal was about protection not information. That was my own courtesy." She smiled.
"You said you know how to fix the problem, that means you know who hired this guy. I want to know."
"Angel, all I said was; we may be able to solve this problem, and if you and miss chase were to accept our generous offer than we would be more than happy to try and locate the person/demon who hired the Sheryon, but until you do... I just can't afford to spend any resources of Wolfram & Hart on this case. Without a consideration, I simply can't..." Before she knew it Angel jumped over the table and grabbed her throat.
"Do you really want to play this game again Lilah?" Angel whispered in her ear as she struggled to breath.
"Angel let go of her." Buffy yelled at him.
"Lilah?" He asked quietly.
"Angel!" Buffy walked towards him and pulled him away from her. Lilah coughed as she tried breathing normally.
"What are you doing?" Buffy yelled at him. "You can't go around chocking people."
"They're not people." He said in despise.
"We're leaving, right now." She said and she grabbed his arm.
"Not till she answers my questions." Right then security burst in with stakes and guns pointing at Spike, Buffy and Angel.
"Great, now can we leave?" Buffy asked.
"You don't want to do this Lilah." Angel said to her.
"And I didn't. Who called you in here?" Lilah asked one of the security guard.
"We got an urgent phone call saying Miss Morgan... I mean you are in danger. So we checked the video camera and saw him." The guard pointed at Angel. "Trying to chock you, so we..."
"Okay." Lilah stopped him. "I get the picture, now leave."
"Are you sure mam?" The guard asked confused.
"Yes. Leave." Lilah ordered and the guards left.
"Are you crazy, he'll kill you." Buffy said to her.
"No he won't." Lilah sat down and took a zip of water. "Now Angel can we talk about this like two businessman/woman or are you going to try and kill me, again?"
***
Suddenly the door opened and Cordy walked in. "You don't know when to quit do you Lilah? I thought that would be enough, but I guess you're a sucker for pain."
"What?" Angel looked at her confused. "What are you...?"
"Don't even start mister." Cordy pointed at him. "You're in big trouble." Cordy cut him off and looked at Lilah. "I called your security, thinking you had the sense to ask them to throw him out, because despite how secure you think you are, the simple fact is, that your senior partners value him more than they value you." Cordy pointed at Angel then at Lilah. "So if he kills you, this will only make them happier since they'll think they were able to turn Angel to his dark side, and you'd be dead and no one would mind." As she spoke Lilah's expression changed. The smile was gone; she started to realize Cordelia had a point. "And if you think his soul will stop him from killing you... think again. You really pissed him off this time." Cordy smiled when she saw Lilah's expression. "So I suggest you reconsider sending your guards away, cause next time, he will finish the job." Cordy looked at Angel. "Lets go." She ordered.
"Not till she tells me who hired that demon." Angel persisted.
"I told him, I don't know." Lilah was really freaking out, wanting Angel as far away from her as possible.
"How about you, do you know?" Cordy turned to Gavin. "Cause you can always tell us and pin the blame at Lilah, we wouldn't tell." Cordy said with a smile.
"Gavin paused for a few seconds and then..."We don't know for sure but apparently..."
"Shut up, you moron." Lilah yelled at him.
"I'd really advice you to be quite right abut now." Buffy said as she glanced at Angel smiling.
"As I said, we think it's a few branches of demons who combined forces, and collectively hired the assassin. Apparently every major demon cult want this baby dead." Gavin finished off. "And before you ask, we don't know which groups."
"Thank you." Cordy said and headed for the door, followed by Buffy and Spike. She stopped at the entrance waiting for Angel to join her.
"Bye Lilah, see you soon." Angel said as he left.
"It doesn't change a thing, you're still dead without us." Lilah said to Cordy as she closed the door behind her.
***
"Care to explain." She walked up the stairs of the basement and entered the lobby.
"I had to do something." Angel answered.
"You call that something." Cordy said angrily.
"Well we got some new information didn't we?" Angel thought that ought to justify his actions.
"Yeah, because of me, not you." She walked to the kitchen, Angel followed her, leaving a very confused and chocked Buffy and Spike.
"What happened?" Fred asked as she was coming out of the office, followed by Wesley, Dawn and Xander.
"Cordelia found us." Buffy said as she sat on the couch.
"Damn it!" Fred cursed. "I knew that was her." She looked at Wesley.
"There's nothing we could have done, he simply should have told her." Wesley said in their defense.
"You could have called." Spike said all of the sudden.
"Excuse me?" Wesley asked.
"He has a cell-phone, right? You could have called, giving him a head start." Spike explained.
"Well... uh..." Wesley knew he was right. He wanted to hit himself for not thinking of it.
***
"Will you stop yelling at me for five minutes so I can explain." Angel yelled back when Cordy raised her voice. She quitted down, crossed her arms and waited for him to speak.
"Go ahead, explain." She sat on the stool.
"I didn't know what else to do, I needed to do something." He began to explain.
"But going there wasn't the answer." Cordy said quietly this time.
"I know that, but I was so angry..."
"You could have killed her Angel." Cordy cut him off. "You would have, if Buffy wasn't there to stop you."
"I don't know that for sure, but I sure wanted too." He sat on the stool in front of her on the other side of the table.
"I'm not worth you losing you're soul, your humanity..."
"Of curse you are." Angel interrupted her.
"No I'm not, Angel. No one is." She took a big breath. "You've come so far in the past 3 years. You've done more, helped more people. You connected to the world. I couldn't bare the thought that I was responsible for you losing all that." She reached out and took his hand. "You can't keep beating people down thinking it would save me, cause both of us know, it wouldn't."
"Cor I..."
"Angel." She stopped him. "My primary goal is to keep this child alive. I think that after his birth, he'll be safe. Don't ask me how, it's a hunch, call it motherly instinct if you like." She smiled. "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, but I don't agree. You can't ask me to protect him and abandon you, you can't."
"Angel, if it comes down to that, then yes, I want you to make that choice, and I want you to choose him." She looked into his eyes. "This child is special, he has to come into this world, this way or the other. I..."
"Shh..." He placed his finger on her lips. "We have nine months to worry about that. Lets get you through today, okay?"
"Okay." She replied.
"Now, lets go see what the others came up with." He got up and reached out his hand, helping her to her feet.
***
"Hi." She stepped out side to the yard, where Angel sat on the bench staring at the stars.
"Hi." He replied.
"Want some company? She offered as she came down the stairs.
"Always." He said with a smile, as he moved aside to make room.
"I guess that's the part where I say we have to talk." She said with hesitation, not sure she's really ready for this talk. "So should I go first or...?"
"Ladies first." Angel said with a smile.
"What's up with you and Cordelia?"
"Nothing, we're just good friends." He replied.
"It seems more than that to me."
" I should ask the same thing about you and Spike?"
"Angel, don't avoid my question." Buffy wasn't ready to talk about her and Spike.
"I didn't, I gave you an answer. You choose not to believe me." He sighed; the last thing he wanted was to get into an argument with Buffy
"Spike and I had a thing last year. It ended badly. He left town for a few months and came back with a soul. Satisfied?" She couldn't believe she actually said that to him.
"Do you love him?" He asked in hesitation.
"That's a difficult question. All I can say is that he's in my life, and I like it." Buffy explained.
"Does he love you?" Buffy nodded for agreement. "So now you're just... Friends?"
"Just like you and Cordelia." Buffy replied with a smirk on her face.
"That's different." Angel disagreed.
"Really, how come?"
"Cause I didn't sleep with Cordy." Angel replied.
"Details, just details. If you loved her, that's more than Spike and I had, or have."
"I never say I did." Angel felt uncomfortable.
"You didn't have to, I saw you. I know you remember." She smiled when she saw his expression. "I can't say I understand it, or even accept it, but I guess I lost the right to have a say a long time ago."
"Buffy, that's not true. You're still my friend, you always will be." He reached out and took her hand.
"That's bullshit and we both know it. We were never friends. We were anything but friends. Lovers, enemies, strangers..." She paused for a moment as she tightened her grip. "But never friends." She was sure he'd say something sweet and witty, but he didn't. He just stared at her, looked in her eyes. When suddenly he leaned down his head and kissed her. At first she was confused, not sure what to do. But then, it all came back to her, all her old buried feelings. She kissed him back, and a sweet innocent kiss turned into a passionate kiss, as they rapped their arms around each other, clinching to one another. They were so into it they didn't even see Cordelia standing at top of the garden stairs. She looked at them unable to move, she wanted to, but her legs wouldn't go. She could feel warm tears coming down her check, she wanted to stop them as well, but it seemed like her body had will of his own.
"Well did you find them or what...?" Angel and Buffy stopped kissing and looked up to the stairs to see Cordelia and Gunn standing there.
"Yeah... I found them." Cordelia replied and quickly went inside.
"Uh shit." Angel cursed as he got up. "I'm sorry Buffy I have to go." He didn't wait for her to respond he just ran to the stairs passing Gunn not saying anything. Buffy sat there, not sure what to do or feel. Her entire body was vibrating. She wanted to smile, but as she looked to her side to see the empty seat she realized she had nothing to smile about.
***
"Where is she?" Angel asked Fred as he walked into the lobby.
"Who? Cordy?" Angel nodded. "She left, she said she had something to do."
"And you let her." Angel raised his voice.
"I'm sorry I wasn't aware of the fact that I was her guard." Fred said a bit confused.
"Did she say where she was heading?" Angel grabbed his jacket and headed for the front door.
"No, sorry."
"Great." He frowned. "Tell the others I went looking for her." He said as he walked out.
"What was that all about? Fred asked Gunn who just came inside.
"Cordy found Angel and Buffy in the middle of a private moment." Gunn explained.
"How private?" Spike who overheard them asked.
"Private." Gunn said with a rise of and eyebrow.
"Of course." Spike said with a half smile and walked towards the basement. "If any one looks for me." He called out. "Tell them you staked me." He shut the door behind him.
TBC
Hi ppl,
Thank you so much for your patience and support. I know it's been awhile since I updated, but I hope now that I have more free time I'll be able to update a lot sooner. I hope you liked this chapter although the story itself hasn't moved along much, but hang in; I'm getting there. As usual I'd love to know what you think so please review.
Thanks Nikka.