Part 4
Buffy arrived at Willow's shortly after, she left her house. Willow had answered the door, her parents were at work.
"Hey, come in," She said, letting Buffy in. "We can go to my room. It'll be more quite."
"Okay," Buffy said, as she followed Willow to her room. She closed the door behind them and Willow walked over to the floor, where some items laid out. Buffy had looked at them. Some she knew what they were, but the others, she was clueless. And Willow saw this.
"This is just some extra stuff that I picked up. Just in case I need it. Come sit, right here," She said, patting the spot in front of her.
Buffy walked over and sat down on the floor. "So, what do we do first?" She asked.
Willow picked up a few candles and placed them in a circle around her and Buffy. She took the lighter and lit them. "First off, you might want to lay back. Don't want you to get hurt or anything. Then you close your eyes and clear your mind. And leave everything else to me."
Buffy leaned back, resting her head on the pillow behind her. She closed her eyes and let everything on her mind, slip away.
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Willow sat there, making sure she put the right amount of things in the small bowl. She lit incense and carefully set it off to the side. She closed her eyes, and quietly chanted the Lost and Found spell she got from her book.
She chanted the spell 5 times. "What was lost, now be found."
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Buffy lay there. Her mind wondered. She could feel a warm energy go through her body.
"You're human for like, a minute, and already there's Cookie-dough-fudge- mint-chip in the fridge." She could hear. A quick flash of her and Angel sitting on a bed, flashed in her mind.
"I'll Never Forget...I'll Never Forget..." Another quick flash of Angel holding her. Holding her like the world was going to end.
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Buffy shot up, her breathing unsteady. She whipped the tears off her cheek, as she looked at Willow, who was sitting there, wide eyed. "Oh god!" She cried.
"What is it?" Willow asked, concerned.
"Oh god! Will, it's...it's true," She cried, as she remembered what had gone through her mind. "Everything. Everything he told me."
"Are you sure?" Willow asked.
"Yeah. The dream, it's real."
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Willow sat there as Buffy told her what she saw. Tears streaming down her face. Pain shot through her heart. Just then, she realized what she had done. The way she punched him, telling him to stay away from her. She didn't want that. She wanted him to be apart of her life again.
"You know what you have to do now right?" Willow asked. Buffy looked at her confused. "You need to go find Angel, and tell him. Tell him everything."
"But, what if he doesn't want to forgive me? What if he doesn't want to see me? I mean, I did tell him to stay away from me. Or, what if he already left? Back to LA?" Buffy asked.
"Then you'll just have to go to LA and talk to him. It's the only way."
Buffy got up from the floor. "Thanks Will. I'll call you and let you know what happens."
"Okay."
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Buffy left her house and ran to where she thought Angel would be. The mansion. Hoping and praying that he would still be there, that he hadn't left and gone back to LA.
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Angel looked at his watch. It was almost time for him to head back home. And yet, there was still no Buffy. He hoped that Buffy would have come, but he was wrong. Maybe they had grown too far apart, to even think about getting back together. They did have separate lives and lived to far away from each other to have any type of a relationship.
He grabbed his bag off the floor and started walking to his car. He threw the bag in the back seat and waited 5 minutes. If she wasn't going to show, he was going to leave.
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Buffy ran through the mansion, calling his name. With no answer, she ran out back, in the alley.
"ANGEL?" She yelled.
Angel looked up when he heard his name. "Buffy?" He quietly asked. He could see her. She did come. A small smile escaped his lips.
"Buffy?" He said, as she walked up to him. "I didn't think you'd come."
"Angel, there's something I need to tell you," She started. "I'm so sorry."
Angel looked at her confused. "Sorry? Sorry for what?"
"For one, for hitting you. I had no right. I should have controlled by anger...and...for not believing you. I remember that day. It's so clear now, like it only happened yesterday, instead of 4 months ago."
"How did you get your memory back?" Angel asked, kind of curious.
"That's not important. What is important is that I am really sorry. And if you can't forgive me, for being such a bitch, I'll understand."
Angel grabbed a hold of Buffy's hand and walked in the mansion. "Sit," He said gently, as he sat down. "There's something I want to tell you."
Buffy sat down next to Angel.
"For the longest time, I was debating on weather or not to come here and tell you. For days, that would be all that I could think about. Trying to find the right way to tell you. I hated being the only one that knew what happened that day. Living with the feeling of what could have been. Having no one to share it with. That day changed everything for the both of us. We were finally going to be happy, like we always wanted it to be. But I knew I couldn't have lived with myself, if anything happened to you because of me. The heart never forgets. Not even my un-beating heart."
Buffy turned to him and placed her hand over his heart. The heart that she once felt, beating. Tears slowly made there way down her face.
"If anyone, that should be forgiven, it should be me," He said. "I love you so much Buffy. And it killed me deeply, that this had to happen. That our only chance at happiness was taken away from us. And if I had to, I'd go through it all over again, just to share another day with you."
"Oh, Angel," She quietly sobbed. "I'd give anything to be with you. I'd give up my slayer abilities, anything, to have it all over again. You make me complete and I hate that the world is so cruel. That we can't be together."
Angel whipped away the fallen tears. Buffy closed her eyes, taking in his touch. Angel leaned forward. Inches away from kissing her.
"Can you forgive me?" He asked her quietly.
"Of course Angel. Forgive me?"
"Yes..." Angel lightly touched her lips with his.
"Please, Angel, don't leave. I don't want to go through the pain anymore. I want you apart of my life," She softly said.
"You know, I can't give you the life you deserve. If things were different..."
"I'll never have the life I want, without you. Please," She cried.
Angel pulled her close to him and held her. "Don't cry. It hurts to see you cry."
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Buffy pulled away from him and kissed him. Their kiss grew intense.
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A bright light shined around them. A soft low voice whispered through the air. "Go be happy. You deserve it." And something happened to Angel.
Angel pulled away from Buffy, and began gasping for air. His heart pounded.
"Angel? What's wrong?" Buffy asked, worriedly.
"I...I don't know."
Buffy noticed his chest would rise when he would talk. With a shaky hand, she placed her hand over his heart. She could feel it.
"Your...your...your...heart. I can feel it," She said.
Angel placed his hand over hers and he too could feel it. They looked in each other's eyes for answers. How did it happen? But soon, the thought was shaken away, when Angel pulled Buffy into his arms and kissed her passionately.
Their prayers were finally answered. At last, they were going to be happy. With each other.
