Chapter Ten

Pain stabbed her in her broken heart. "Angel, please, I can't hear this. It hurts," She said, as she stood up. "It feels like someone is stabbing me in the heart, all over again. I can't deal with this pain anymore."

Angel stood up, looking at her. He knew what she felt, because he felt it too. He gently grabbed a hold of her. "I know. I know the pain. I go through it every day. Wondering if I made the right choice. It feels like you can't breathe. You just want to die."

"Please stop," She pleaded.

"Buffy, please listen..." But before he could finish. She pushed him away from her, before she could hear anymore.

"No. I won't. I can't. You have no idea what it's like to be me. Have the one you love, leave you. Your mother dies. Having to grow up before your eyes. Die to save the people you love and the world. Be brought back and now this," She cried. "I just can't handle it anymore."

Angel wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her close to him, as she cried, "Buffy, I'm not here to make you remember the pain that I caused," He told her. She looked up at him, tears rolling down her face. "I'm here to fix my mistake."

"Mistake?" She asked, confused.

"My mistake of letting you go. I want you to be apart of my life again and I want to be apart of yours. I want to be the one that makes love to you at odd hours of the day. Be able to kiss you. Be able to hold you. Be able to wake up in the morning next to you. Fight along side with you. And I want to be the one that loves you like no other has ever loved you."

Buffy looked up at him. "Make love how? I thought you'd lose your soul if you experience one moment of happiness?"

He smiled. "A vampire can't lose his soul, if it's permanent. Long story, maybe later I'll tell you."

"You won't leave me again?" She asked.

"No more."

With this, Buffy through her arms around him. "I've waited forever, for this day."

"So have I." He whispered. "So have I."

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Willow went to the kitchen to get something to drink. She happened to look out the window. She smiled to herself as she saw what was going on out side. Buffy and Angel were kissing. She thought that this had to be a good thing.

"Hey guys. Come here. Hurry," Willow yelled.

Everyone came to see what Willow wanted. She pointed to the window. They looked. Xander smiled. Even though he never really did like Angel, for that he had been jealous of him. He couldn't help it. He was happy. If being with Angel, made her happy, then he was happy for her. For them.

Tara looked at Willow with love. She smiled. Willow smiled back. Tara held Willow's hand as they headed back to the living room to watch TV.

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"You feel like coming in?" Buffy asked him.

"Sure," He said.

"We'd have to go through the famous window to my early sneak outs. I doubt they know you're here. And I'm not ready to answer million questions," She said, as she walked over to the side of the house.

"They know. They were standing in the window before," Angel told her.

While they were hugging, after their kiss, Angel happened to look up and saw them standing there, watching.

"Okay. Then we'll use the door."

Angel grabbed her hand, brought it up to his lips and kissed it.

They headed inside and went straight to her room. Everyone just smiled, said nothing, and continued to watch TV. They'd ask questions later.