Tour

-Angel's Office-

Buffy sits across from Angel at his desk. Spike had left the main office and gone into the conference room to talk with Dawn, he had been in there for almost an hour now and Buffy had been pacing around the room until recently, she had barely said two worlds to Angel since Spike had left the room, but now as her patients grows thinner the silence is starting to get to her.

"Why are you doing this Angel?"

Angel looks up from his papers to talk to her a little startled from her outburst.

"Doing what?"

"This, Wolfram and Hart… Angel what are you doing here?"

"I had the opportunity to do something really good here and I took it."

"I don't believe you… The Angel I know would be the guy fighting against places like this… This whole corporate suit deal just isn't like you."

Before Angel could respond to what Buffy had said Spike walks out of the conference room. He had just hung up the cell phone and hands it back to Buffy as he walks over to sit next to her. He's silent but his face speaks volumes. Buffy studies him for a moment before asking about the phone call.

"So, how'd it go?"

"It was good… nice talking to the nibblet, it's been a while since her and I have had a long conversation of any kind."

"What'd you guys talk about?"

"Everything… we talked a lot about that summer when you were gone, and about what everyone's been doing since the Hellmouth closed… she brought up Red's spell, said she found a Polaroid of when we were gonna tie the knot."

While Angel had been immersed in the stack of papers that sit on his desk before him he had also been listening to Spike and Buffy's conversation. It had surprised him that Spike had taken care of Dawn when Buffy had been dead, at the time Angel hadn't thought too much about what would happen to Dawn, but apparently Spike had, and had looked after her. What had surprised him the most though was the knowledge that Buffy and Spike had almost gotten married, had they really been that close?

"Wait, you two almost got married?" Angel questions with a look of disbelief across his face.

"Uh, yea, but it was because of a spell," Buffy explains.

"Kinda funny really, remember the look on ol' Rupe's face when you told 'em you wanted him to walk you down the isle?" Spike adds in.

"Yea, If he wasn't blind at the time I bet he would have given me the evil eye."

"God that was what, three years ago?"

"Four."

"Times have really changed haven't they Slayer?"

"Oh, I don't know… I think Giles would still kill you if he had the chance."

They exchange a small smile, which Angel again notices. There is a twinge of jealously that hits the older vampire as he looks over all the small things that Spike and Buffy share together. But Still as much as it hurts to think of the two of them together there is a part of Angel that realizes that he himself has moved on as well.

"So pet, what are you doing for the rest of the day, Watcher have you on any specific mission while you're here?"

"Not really, I'm just supposed to hang around here and see what this place is like."

"Well why don't we go on a tour then, there's a lot more to this place then watching Angel brood and sort through papers in his office."

"Alright… You don't mind if I look around do you Angel?"

-Training Room-

Spike opens the door to the large training room and walks in followed by Buffy, they are the only two there, which Spike is glad to see, he's been wanting to spend some time alone with her since she first showed up in L.A. He watches her as her eyes skim over the weapons on the walls and looks around the room.

"…and this is Angel's fully stocked training room," Spike says as they enter the room.

"Boy this place really does have everything…even green demons with Red horns."

"Trust me Slayer Lorne is one of the good guys, he takes a while to get used to but he's harmless as a kitten."

"He's just very… bright."

Spike chuckles slightly and Buffy smiles at him, they had run into Lorne in the hall on their way to the training room, and while a green demon with red horns was enough to startle anyone, even a slayer; add in a brightly colored suit and sparkling personality and Buffy was overtly surprised. This place had obviously been a shock for Buffy to walk into, there were demons everywhere, and mostly they weren't killing people, which in itself must have been shocking enough, but add in the fact that Buffy's slayer senses must be going crazy and its understanding that she's like a kid in the candy store.

"So, we gonna give this training room a work out or not?"

"Sounds like a plan, though it would take time away from our tour, your watcher might be awfully cross with you if you don't look over this whole place good an' proper."

"I will… I'm just gonna start with the training room, I think that each and every one of these weapons needs to be tested before I move on to looking at stuffy office space."

A smirk crosses Spikes face as he stealthy moved towards her.

-Fred's Lab-

Angel walks into the lab to find Fred already there with Wes doing some kind of test on the Crystal they had protected earlier. Wes has his head in a book and Fred is reading over some papers. It reminds Angel of the days back at the hotel, the only thing that was missing was Cordelia sitting on the computer making some off topic comment about how she'd rather be shopping.

"Well… can it do what we think it can?" Angel asks.

"I've looked over all my tests and I'm not one hundred percent sure, but…" Fred begins to say.

"It could work," Wes finishes.

"Good, so what do we do now, what's next?"

"Nothing," A voice calls from out of sight.

All heads turn to see Gunn enter the room, he has a file folder in his hands, and steadily walks over to where Angel, Fred, and Wes are standing, he has a very sophisticated look about him with all the lawyer-mojo that Wolfram and Hart had given him. He truly is a brand new man, but he's still Gunn and even with all the new information that has been shoved in his head he's still the same.

"The ritual that you are planning on performing will only work when preformed on a full moon; the next one is in three weeks," Gunn explains.

"Are you sure, I don't remember reading anything about that in my books?" Wes asks.

"Because it's not in the books… D'kaykmsuhve crystals are most powerful when the moon is full, it's not a very well known fact since they're so rare, but it's defiantly something to think about considering the size of this Spell."

"Gunn's right, we should wait, we can't afford for anything with this to go wrong," Angel says slightly lost in thought. It's obvious to everyone around him that there are things on his mind. Right at that very moment Lorne walks into the room.

"Whoa, Angel cakes, what's wrong, I can feel your frustration all the way into the hallway."

"It's nothing Lorne, I'm just a little nervous about this Spell."

"The one with the Crystal and the big uglies from your office this morning, no that's not it… You don't think that maybe this whole thing with, Oh say one particular blonde vampire and one special ex-girlfriend vampire slayer who happens to be in town might have something to do with your off color mood?"

"What, no…it's got nothing to do with them."

"You sure about that, you didn't seem so great being around the two of them this morning when we were in your office," Wes adds in.

"Something happened in Angel's office, you know besides the demon attack?" Gunn asks.

"No, not really, It's just Buffy was there and her and Spike have this connection kinda thing," Fred explains.

"They do not have a connection!" Angel says with boldness causing the room is silent for a moment, then Angel takes a deep breath and leans back against the table. "Ok, so maybe I'm a little… confused about the whole Buffy and Spike situation, I mean, what does she see in him, it's Spike."

"Are you sure that you're not over reacting about this, maybe what they had was just a fling kinda thing," Gunn asks.

"She asked him to go back with her."

"Oh, or maybe not then."

"And did you know that they almost got married."

"They almost got married, really? I never thought Spike to be that kind of guy, but then again he is different around her," Fred chirps in forgetting that she's supposed to be supportive of her friend.

"Well, no it had something to do with a spell, and what do you mean he's different around her, you think he's playing her?"

"What, no… just he's more… open, he's more sensitive," Fred explains.

-Training Room-

With a thump Buffy and Spike fall to the ground. As Spike pins Buffy down straddling her and holding her hands above her head, he smirks looking down at her content with winning, watching as she breathes heavily from their fight.

"Well Slayer, looks like I won this round."

A twinge of defiance can be seen in Buffy's eyes just as she wiggles out of Spike's grasp and turns the tables. Flipping them Buffy now straddles Spike and leans forward to hold his hands above his head, her hair falling down around her face and tickling the sides of his face. After the initial shock is over Spike breaks out into a large Cheshire cat smile as he looks up at her, their faces are mere inches apart and Spike's eyes drift back and forth between Buffy's eyes and her lips.

"Come on now Spike I wasn't going to let you win that easily, besides I've always liked it better on top."

If it was possible Spike's smile widens after hearing Buffy's last comment, and Buffy smiles back at him. It's then that their close proximity becomes apparent to Buffy and her eyes lock with Spikes. Smiles fade slightly as they both start taking deeper breaths. Their faces near slowly, and after one final glance into Spike's eyes Buffy kissed him. Spike kisses back and quickly their passion deepens, Spike brings his arms down to rest on her hips as Buffy lets go of her grasp around his wrists and brings her hands down to reach around his neck. There are thoughts are incapable of entering either of their minds. It had been so long since they had been together even in the simplest of ways such as a kiss that all think of is how they feel in that very moment in time. Buffy pulls away to breath and Spike looks up into her eyes and realizes just how much he really does love her, he also realizes how hard it is going to be to see her leave.

"Pet, we should stop."

"What… why, I thought…"

"Luv, it's not that I didn't want to kiss you, I just… we can't do this, you're leaving tonight and I already can't bear to watch you go."

"So come with me."

"Buffy, Luv, you know I can't, least not just yet."

Buffy now slightly upset that Spike is still turning down her invitation to go back with her even though it's blatantly clear that he still really does care about her, stands up from her position above Spike and starts to walk towards the door.

"Right, because you have to stay here, in LA to help Angel with his evil law firm," Buffy says and leaves the room, the bang from the door slamming filles the air as Spike breathes out in frustration and lets his head fall back onto the blue mat where he's laying, after a few seconds he gets up and proceeds to follow her exiting the room.