The next morning Anna walked into the hotel. Cordelia was sitting at the desk, Anna walked up to her.
"Hey." She smiled at Cordelia.
"Hey, sweetie, you feeling better?" Cordelia was looking at a book.
"Yeah, sorry about all the drama last night." Anna said.
"No problem, I had a ton of drama in my life when I was your age." Anna smiled at Cordelia.
"Where are Angel and Spike?" Anna asled.
"In Angel's office." Anna looked through the window and saw Angel and Spike talking, while violently moving their arms.
"What are they fighting about now?" She asked.
"No idea. They've been in there for thirty-five minutes." Anna sighed, and walked into Angel's office. Cordelia followed.
"Spike, I'm tired of having this fight with you!" Angel yelled.
"But, your wrong!." Spike was following him around.
"No, I'm not." Angel told him.
"Ye-" Anna cut Spike off before he could finish.
"What are you guys fighting about?" Spike turned to Anna.
"If a caveman and an astronaut were to get into a fight, who would win?" Anna just stared at them.
"This is what you've been fighting about for thirty-five minutes?" Angel and Spike nodded. Anna turned to Cordy.
"Haven't you had this discussion before?" Cordelia asked.
"Well…" Angel stared down at the papers he was holding. "Kind of."
"What goes on for the male species" Anna asked. Cordelia laughed.
"So where's Wesley?" Anna asked as she sat down in a chair.
"He's picking up Lorne, Fred, and Gunn from the airport." Angel sat down at his desk.
"They're coming home today?" Anna looked at Cordelia, who nodded. Anna smiled. "When?"
"I'd say about... now." Cordelia pointed at the door, Anna got up and ran to see Lorne, Fred, Gunn, and Wesley walk in. Anna smiled, she hugged Lorne.
"Hey, kitten." Lone said.
"It's so good to see you." Anna said as she hugged Fred. She turned to Gunn and they stared at each other for a minute. After a few moments, he smiled and hugged her. "I missed you guys." She said as they walked further into the hotel.
"We missed you too, all of you." Fred smiled at Cordy, she smiled and hugged her friends as well.
"How was your trip?" Anna asked.
"Long." Gunn walked over to the front desk and hopped up onto it.
"Yeah, we really missed..." Fred stopped when she saw Spike. "Spike."
"You really missed Spike?" Anna was confused. Then, she turned around to see Spike standing behind her. "Oh."
"When did you get here?" Fred hugged him.
"Hey, love." He said. "I got here yesterday." Anna stared at them.
"You two know each other?" Anna asked.
"Yeah, Fred helped me when I was all non-corporal." Spike explained. "She tried to get me back to normal."
"Oh." Anna said, trying not to show her feelings. But, Cordelia could see Anna was a little jealous. Angel walked out.
"Hey guys." He said.
"Hey, Angel-cakes!" Lorne said. After a little while, everyone had fallen into comfortable conversation. Anna was at the desk, reading a book when Fred walked over.
"So, did you move back here?" She asked. "Or are you going back to Sunnydale?"
"Um, I moved back." She said, not really wanting to talk about the subject.
"Oh yeah?" Fred asked. "Did Xander come with you?" Once Fred said 'Xander', Spike looked at Anna, confused. He saw the hurt in her eyes.
"Um, actually, Xander and I broke up about a month ago." Anna told her, trying to keep back tears.
"Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry I-"
"It's okay, you didn't know." Anna cut her off and half-smiled at her. "I'm gonna go up to my room, I'll see you guys later." Anna walked up the stairs and went into her room. She sighed as she lied down on her bed. A few minutes later she heard a knock on her door. She wiped away the tears that had begun to fall and sat up.
"Who is it?" She aked.
"It's me." She got up and opened the door.
"Spike?" She was a little confused as she saw him standing at her door.
"Hey." He said. They stood there for a few seconds, then she shook her head.
"Oh. Uh, come on in." She stepped aside and he walked in. They stood there uncomfortably for a few seconds. Spike started to look around. She had a bunch of posters up on her walls. "So, uh, what are you doing up here?"
"What? Oh, just saying... hi." He was still staring at the posters. "Why the bloody hell do you have so many pictures of blokes on you walls?" Anna chuckled.
"They're posters." She told him.
"I know, but why are there so many?"
"'Cause I like them." She smiled.
"They're all of guys."
"No they're not." Anna got up and pointed to a poster. "See. Girl."
"Who's that?" He asked.
"Hillarie Burton."
"And she is..." Anna chuckled again.
"She plays Peyton Sawyer on One Tree Hill, which is a show I watch."
"Oh." He walked over to a poster of a guy with brown hair and a guitar in his hand. "Who's that?"
"Tyler Hilton, he's a singer, although he has guest starred on One Tree Hill a couple of times."
"Oh." Spike looked at another poster. "Finally, someone I know. That's Harry Potter, right?" Anna laughed.
"Daniel Radcliffe, yeah." He looked at her.
"So you like the movies, then?"
"Yeah, I love the books, too. I really like Malfoy though, he actually reminds me a lot of yo..." She looked at Spike, who was starring at her. She cleared her throat. "Um, anyways, you have to be majorly bored, listening to me talk about the people I obsess over."
"No, I like listening to you talk." Anna looked up at him. He cleared his throat. "And I think it's really interesting how you have you room covered with pictures of people you've never met." Anna smiled.
"Well, I do have some pictures up of people I do know." She walked over to a message board, where she had a couple of notes pinned up, but she had a bunch of pictures up too. Spike looked at the board. He saw a picture of Cordelia and Anna on the beach.
"That was one of the many time me and Cordy went to the beach." Anna told him. "I love it there."
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Yeah." She said again. "We took Angel a few times, after sunset of course."
"Yeah." He pointed to a girl in dressed up in a costume. "Is that..."
"Me. Yeah, it was Halloween a few years back, I dressed up as a vampire" Spike laughed.
"You were a cute Vampire." Anna blushed slightly.
"Thanks."
She said. He continued to look at the pictures, there were pictures
of Anna and Xander,
Angel and Cordelia, Fred and Lorne, everyone
you could possibly imagine.
"You really do have a lot of pictures."
"Oh, that's not all of them." He watched her as she went over to her desk and grabbed an album. She handed it to him. "See. Lots more." He opened the album and started flipping through the pages, he sat down on her couch and started to look. He saw a picture of Anna in a beautiful dress.
"What were you all dressed up for?" She walked over and sat down next to him.
"Oh, that was Angel's 250th birthday." She told him. "We had a big party."
"Oh." He said.
"It was actually really fun, Lorne sang, Wesley got drunk, which is something that you really don't want to see." They both laughed. They continued to look through the pages of her photo album. Cordelia walked up to her room and peeked in, she smiled and walked back downstairs. Gunn, Wesley, and Angel were in Angel's office working. Cordy walked over to Fred and Lorne, who were talking.
"Is Anna okay?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, Spike's with her." Lorne looked at Cordelia and raised his eyebrow. Cordelia smiled at him. "Hey, since Anna's in her room, I need to talk to everyone about her birthday."
"Oh, it's on Friday, isn't it?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, me and Angel are planning a party, and we all need to talk about it, so let's go into his office." They all went into Angel's office. Angel looked up at Cordy.
"Do you need something?" He asked.
"Yeah, Anna's preoccupied right now, so I thought maybe we could finish planning the party." She said.
"Party?" Gunn put the paper he was holding down on the desk.
"Yeah, Anna's birthday is on Friday and we're having a party." She turned and looked at Fred, Lorne and Gunn. "You guys can come, right?" They all nodded. "Great, I already invited the whole 'Scooby Gang'. You know, Dawn, Buffy, Willow, Andrew, and Giles, they're all coming. I called Sarah-"
"Sarah?" Gunn looked confused.
"Remember, Anna's best friend, she moved to Connecticut before Anna left."
"Oh, yeah, I remember." Gunn nodded.
"Anyways, she can't make it, so that's a bummer." Cordy went on. "But it's gonna be Hawaiian theme, so, Lorne, I need you to pick out the music, you know what Anna likes, right?"
"Yeah, sure." Lorne nodded.
"Good, Fred and Gunn, can you guys get decorations and food?"
"No problem." They said.
"Great, Wes, I need you to clean up the hotel, you know, just make sure there aren't any cob webs or anything."
"Wonderful, I used to be Head Boy at the academy, now I'm a maid."
"Well, I could make you wear one of those French maid outfits." Cordelia told him. He sighed, and stepped back. She smirked. "Okay… Angel, you're gonna pick up her present, right?"
"Yeah, I'm picking it up on Friday night." He said.
"What are you getting her that you have to pick it up?" Fred asked.
"Well, don't tell her, 'cause I want it to be a surprise, but…" Cordelia smiled. "We're getting her a car!"
"Wow, really?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, I can't wait for her to see it." Cordy smiled at Angel. "Okay great, so everyone's got their jobs."
"Uh, Cordy, not to be rude or anything, but what are you doing?" Gunn looked at her.
"I'm the planner of the party." She smiled as he rolled his eyes.
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Later that night, Gunn, Fred, and Lorne went home, everyone else was finishing up a case. Anna hung up the phone from the Pizza Place.
"Pizza will be ready in 20." She turned to Angel. "Is it okay if I barrow your car to go pick it up?"
"Yeah." He handed her his keys. "Just be careful."
"I will." She walked out of Angel's office. Cordelia and Spike were at the front desk.
"Hey, I'm gonna go get the pizza, I'll be back." Anna looked at Cordy, Spike stood up.
"Is it okay if I go with?" He asked. Anna looked at Cordy, who was looking down, but smiling.
"Uh, yeah, that's fine." He smiled and they walked out the door and got into the car. She pulled out of the driveway and started to drive, they sat in silence until Anna turned on the radio. She smiled when the Ramones came on.
"I love them." She said. Spike looked at her.
"Yeah?" She nodded. He smiled. "Me too."
"I tried playing them for Angel once, but he didn't really like 'em." Spike smirked.
"Yeah, well that ponce never really had good taste in music." He said. "I mean, Barry Manilow? Come on." Anna laughed.
"Yeah, I'm totally with you on that one." They both smiled.
"So, I hear you're birthday's coming up." He said.
"Yep." She smiled. "Friday. Angel and Cordy usually do something. You know, like dinner or something. Last year, I was in Sunndydale and Buffy threw me a small-ish party. That was, like, a week before me and Xander started dating." She let out a small sigh. Spike looked at her, thinking of something to change the subject.
"So why did you go to Sunnydale in the first place?" He asked.
"Oh, long, long story." She said.
"I've got time." Anna looked at him, and smiled.
"Well, about a year ago I started having these dreams, and Angel thought they were Slayer dreams. You know, like prophecy dreams."
"Really?" He asked.
"Yeah, so they take me to Sunnydale where I meet all the other Slayers-in-training, boy was that fun." Spike laughs. "So Andrew starts training me-"
"Andrew?" He asked.
"Yeah, Andrew Wells, kind of a comic book nerd." Spike starred at her.
"He's a watcher now?" He asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, Giles trained him, I was supposed to be his first Slayer."
"Oh."
"Yeah, so anyways, I trained for about a month, then I started dating Xander. Life was good, you know, I was training to be a Slayer, I had a steady boyfriend, I had a few Slayer friends." She said. "Anyways, Willow did a spell to find out if this girl was a Slayer and she accidentally put the spell on me, and it turns out that I'm not a Slayer. But since I was with Xander, I didn't really want to go, and he didn't want me to go, so Buffy let me move in with her for a year."
"Wow, so what happend to the dreams you were having?" He asked.
"I donno, they just went away." She told him. "I haven't had one like that in almost a year" Anna pulled into the pizza place. She took off her seatbelt. "I'll be right back." She walked in and got the pizza. She walked back out and got into the car, she handed Spike the pizza. "Can you hold it for me?"
"Sure." Anna smiled and started the car and started the drive home. Spike looked at her. "Why did you guys just have it delivered?"
"Because, for some reason, the moron delivery guy can never find the hotel" Spike snickered. They sat in silence for a couple of minutes. Spike wondered what happend between Anna and Xander, she acted like she was in love with him.
"Can I ask you something?" She looked at him.
"Sure." She said.
"What happend between you and Xander?" Anna sighed, he looked at her. "You don't have to. It's okay.
"No, it-it's fine." She said. "I haven't really talked about it. I've only told Cordelia, but I assume she told Angel." Anna took a deep breath. "We had been going out for almost a year, in fact, it was about a week from our one year anniversary." She continued to drive, not looking at Spike. "Anyway, Anya showed up suddenly. She had been away for a while." He nodded. "Anyways, she shows up and they go out for coffee, ya know, as friends. So I figure, that's cool I don't really care if they're friends or not. So they go out for coffee. Then the next night, Xander calls me and tells me that they still have a lot of catching up to do, so they go out for dinner, and I keep telling myself that they're friends, they want to talk. So this goes on for the next few days, and the night before our one year anniversary, he tells me that-" She sighs again, holding back tears. "That him and Anya wanted to get back together. But, I found out a few days later that Anya never even knew about me" Spike saw a tear run down Anna's face, she quickly rubbed it away.
"I'm sorry." He said.
"It's not your fault." She told him. "Besides, when I left Buffy and Willow threw me a going away party." Spike smiled.
"Yeah, they really like to throw parties, even though something always goes wrong." Anna laughed.
"Oh yeah, a Polgara demon attacked, but we killed it." Spike laughed. "But it was actually really fun, in a sad way, ya know? I loved being there, Buffy and Dawn tried to get me to stay longer, but it was just too hard." Spike nodded. "But the party was great, Andrew cried." They both laughed. Spike wated a couple of minutes before he asked his next question.
"So, is there any chance of you and Xander getting back together, then?" Anna shook her head.
"No." She said. "He really hurt me. But that doesn't mean I don't want anything to do with him, I'd like to still be friends. But, the way we left things, I highly doubt that's going to happen." Spike nodded. Anna pulled into the parking lot of the hotel and they both went in. Anna set the pizza down on the counter. Angel and Cordelia were talking.
"Hey, have a nice ride?" Cordy was smiling at Anna.
"Yeah, it was fine." Anna smiled back. Angel saw the tear tracks on Anna's face.
"Were you crying?" Angel asked.
"What?" She wiped her face. "Oh, kind of."
"What happend?" He was talking to Anna, but was looking at Spike.
"Nothing, I was just talking about Xander, and you know, I just can't keep the water works off when a conversation steers towards him, it's pathetic, I know."
"You're not pathetic." Spike touched Anna's shoulder. "You should've seen me after Drusilla and I broke up, I was the definition of pathetic."
"I'll say." Angel muttered under his breath.
"Oh, don't even get me started on you're love life, Peaches." Spike pointed at him. Anna walked over and opened the pizza box.
"Hey look, pizza!" She smiled. Angel and Spike both decided no to get into it right now. Cordelia and Anna both grabbed a slice of pizza, and Anna noticed that Wesley wasn't there.
"He went home." Cordelia told her as she sat down.
"What? It's only..." Anna glanced at the clock. "Eleven fifty-four, geez, where did the time go?" Cordelia smiled. A little while later, there were two slices of pizza left. Angel was in his office, Spike was sitting on a couch reading something, and Cordy and Anna were talking.
"Aren't you tired?" Cordelia asked.
"Nope." Anna yawned. "Okay, I guess I am tired." She laughed. "I'm just gonna crash here, okay?"
"That's fine." Anna got up and walked into Angel's office. Angel looked up.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey, I just wanted to tell you good night." Anna told him.
"Are you staying here?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay." Anna walked over and hugged Angel.
"Night."
"Night Ann." Anna walked to the doorway. "Hey, Angel?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for letting Spike stay here, I know you're not his biggest fan." Angel didn't say anything. "Well, G'night." She walked out of his office. She told Spike and Cordelia goodnight and went up to her room and went to bed.
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Well, there's chapter two. Lol. Please tell me what you think. Later!
