"Are you ready to go?" Torry asked looking directly at Faith.

"No I still have to pack." She said very uneasily glancing between Angel and Torry with a nervous look.

"I'll help you." He said going up the nearby stairs up to Faith's room. "We should hurry." He said before disappearing around the corner.

Angel wanted to kill him. He hated him and there was no point in hiding it. And how the HELL did he know where Faith's room was? Had Faith ever.....no. He knew she hadn't. Cordelia did have the right idea when she called him Faith's stalker.

"Can I talk to you for a minuet?" he said grabbing Faith's arm and taking her into his office.

"What is it?" Faith asked while Angel closed the door behind her.

"Why are you leaving? Why are you going with HIM?" Angel said now feeling angry and a little betrayed.

"Angel. I'm not going to hurt anyone or anything and I can do fine on my own. I'll stay with him until I can find my own place."

"You don't have to leave Faith. I'd like it if you'd stay." He said trying to think of something that would stop her. "If you really want to leave, and find your own place I'm not going to stop you but don't stay with him. You can stay here while you look, I'll even help you find an apartment if you want. Maybe something nearby.....for when Cordelia gets her visions I mean. Just don't go with him."

"What is your problem with Torry?" She asked. She could interpret everything else he said. He wanted to watch her to know she wasn't dead or doing something wrong. But what was wrong with Torry? If anything that would calm him down it should be that someone else is watching her.

"He...just...he. I can't stand HIM! I hate the way he looks at you! The way he talks about you! It drives me crazy! He might do SOMETHING to you!" he said getting into a frantic state. "What do we even know about him anyway? That he knows a lot about you? That's more disturbing then anything else! And he's creepy and......just, I don't know."

"Angel he is my friend." Faith stated.

"Are you closer to him then you are to me?" he asked sadly.

Faith looked at him unsure about how to answer. He didn't really care about her, right?

"No." she answered. "You're my best friend Angel. Know has ever known me better then you."

"Then why go with him! You could get hurt and care about you! And if anything he'll hurt you!"

"How do you know?" Faith asked not understanding his train of thought.

"I just do....." he said trailing off.

"Angel the only reason you're so close to me is because I always get in trouble. If Torry watching me to that's less work for you." She said trying to get an honest answer out of him.

"That's not true!" he said angry that she would even think that.

"That's not what you told Cordelia the other night." She said with a tone of disgust.

At first he had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. Then it came back to him. The other night trying to convince Cordelia that he didn't have a crush on Faith. How much of that did she hear he wondered? Obviously the middle part but what about the rest?

"I was just trying to convince Cordelia that it wasn't true! I didn't mean it!" he practically screamed the last past trying to show her that it wasn't true.

"What wasn't true?" Faith asked surprised at his outburst. By the look on his face she new that he was telling the truth. She knew him that well.

"You didn't hear the end or the beginning or the end?" He asked not wanting to tell her TOO much. Faith would leave if she knew how he really felt. At the very least things would never be the same again.

"Angel what are you talking about?" Faith confused by his now nervousness.

"Ummmmm Cordelia. She just thought.....that....it sounds stupid....but..."

The door next to them opened and in walked Torry.

"Faith. I just wanted to know what you wanted packed." He said not taking his eyes off Angel who was giving him a death glare.

"Just a second Torry I......" Faith looked over at Angel who was looking at her with a pleading stare. He didn't want her to go. Should she stay? What if he was telling the truth? Did she really mean something to him? Looking back, Angel had told her some very personal things. Things that she knew he had told no one else.

"Torry....... I think that maybe I'll just stay here for a while. I should probably think about my own place thing some more." Faith said. Saying wuickly before she could change her mind.

Angel look relieved and very happy with her decision.

"I thought you didn't want to stay here." Torry stated with a tone of bitterness and annoyance that shocked her.

"Well she changed her mind." Angel said glaring at him, as if he was the reason she wanted to leave in the first place.

"I wasn't talking to you." Torry quickly shot back. Faith looked at the two. They were going to get into a fight if she didn't so something.

"Will the two of you knock it off! Your acting like babies." Faith said pulling there attention away from each other and towards her.

"I'll go. Faith I'll see you later." Torry said walking out.

Angel looked relieved that he was gone. And walked back over to Faith.

"Thanks. For staying." He said.

"Yeah, well some one has to be here to keep you out of trouble." She said walking out.

Angel could tell she was still a little mad at him for what he had said the other night. He wished he could tell the whole story but he was way too nervous to say it.



It had been two days since she had come back. She called Torry and managed to calm him down. He wasn't mad at her anymore. Angel was another story. He was nervous around her like anything he said would make her leave. She wasn't going to but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to do stupid little things for her.

As for now she was in her room. FINALLY alone. Then Cordelia walked in.

"Hey your out of food time to go grocery shopping."

"Go yourself if your that hungry." Faith answered sharply. "Though seeing as you never eat anyway I don't know why you care."

"Cute Faith." She said with a glare. "I'm surprised to see you without your Angel shadow" she said looking around.

"Don't say it. You'll jinx it. Don't send him in here. He's driving me crazy."

"He just likes ya."

"I wish he would go away ."

"Don't say that." Cordelia said sharply.

"What's your problem?" Faith shot back hearing the sharpness in her tone.

"He cares about you Faith. Not to mention the fact that you have a hold on him stronger then anyone else does. He'll do anything you tell him if you try hard enough. "It's got to hurt when you say things like that."

"He knows I don't mean it."

"No I don't think he does. Faith he....... Just show him you at least care about him. He knows it but sometimes that isn't enough." She said then walking away.

So how do you like this chapter? Sorry it's talking so long to update.