ETERNITY

Chapter 2

Remembering

Slowly the small huddled group made their way through the streets of LA everything that looked at them could see the sadness shrouding them, they could feel the pain and taste the loneliness. One figure walked slowly behind them keeping an eye out ready if they were to be attacked because the ones in front of him were not looking for any danger Spike didn't think that they could see anything at the moment especially not Angel. Spike was not sure if the other vampire was going to get over this, move on with his life. His friends would help him, make sure for her sake that he would get his redemption and become human even though Spike still wanting and hoping it that it would be him. Angel had thought so for awhile until that one time Cordy came back to help him, the day she died and put him back on the right path again.

Buffy paced around the lobby she knew that they were coming back. What was she, what where they going to say to them? She hadn't seen the may queen for years the last time Cordy was still well Cordy and before that she was the bitch of Sunnydale High who had made their lives a misery. Had Cordelia changed that much? Willow said she had, that she seemed different, that these people came together as family. Buffy glanced at Willow she knew that her witch friend had wanted to talk to Cordy about what she had gone through it would have been someone Willow could have connected with they had both become evil and tried to take over or destroy the world.

The doors opened and in walked Giles. "Are they here yet?" He asked puffing slightly.

"No we are still waiting for them." She said as Giles walked over to her and put an arm on her shoulder.

Quiet talking was heard from outside the hotel the Sunnydale gang turned and looked as a lost looking band of people came into the lobby. Buffy's eyes fell on Angel and it seemed, as he never saw her, as if he didn't see anyone apart from those who surrounded him.

A lonely figure stood in the shadow of the door, Buffy gasped as she saw Spike and opened her mouth to speak, the slayer felt a hand tap on her shoulder and she looked and saw Giles who shook his head and in his way he told her not now this was not the time or place.

Buffy moved forward and placed a hand on Angel's arm. "Angel I am so …" he shook of her arm and walked upstairs heading to his room, even though he worked and lived at Wolfram and Hart this always felt like home.

Tears fell from her eyes all she wanted to do was comfort him. She wanted to help him.

"I am sorry Buffy but Angel, as we are, are finding it hard to deal with the loss of Cordy. She was.." Wesley stuttered not sure what word would fit her.

"She was Cordy" Fred said quietly. "That is all she ever needed to be."

"She was princess and brown eyes." Lorne said with a sad smile.

"Stick figure Barbie" Gunn said with a laugh.

"The heart of Angel investigations." They whispered together.

Angel stood in the shadows at the top of the stairs when he heard Buffy cry and the others started to talk. He didn't want to hurt her but she didn't know what Cordy meant to him. As he made his way down the stairs again everyone turned to him. "Cordy was my best friend the one who made me laugh when I was down, the one who could get me out of a mood as quickly as she got me into one, the one who heated up my blood and experimented with it, Cordy promised to stake me if ever I became Angelus again, she was the one I went to when I have umm had problems the one I could tell anything too. She is my heart and my soul and the woman I love with everything I have, at least at the end she knew that," he paused, "well I hope she did. She knows that I was lost without her but she left me, she still left me." Angel sunk to his knees Wesley, Gunn, Fred and Lorne rushed to his side.

"She left us all Angelcakes but I don't think Princess had much of a choice." Lorne said.

"Oh god I love her so much." He whispered hoarsely.

Buffy stood gaping open mouthed he loved Cordelia but and she knew that this sounded jealous even in her own mind Angel was supposed to love her forever he wasn't supposed to change he had waited 250 years to fall in love with her and it was she was the only one. Buffy had moved on, well she thought she had, but seeing Angel everytime she did her heart went out and she just wanted to run into his arms and stay that way forever. But now she knew that it was never going to happen he had truly fallen for Cordy and it seemed she had accepted him vampire and all.

TBC