Angel continued to stare at the man. How did he know Faith? How could he be
sure he wasn't lying? What if he was sent by the same person who sent the
attackers from before. But then what if he was telling the truth? How was
he connected to Faith? Faith never talked about her past, she slipped out a
few hints of her childhood on occasion but that was all.
"How do you know Faith?" he asked not trying to sound too suspicious.
"I'm Faith's ex-boyfriend, or ex-fiancée almost."
Angel couldn't have been more shocked if he shot himself right there. What did he mean ex- fiancée? Faith never got close enough to people, let alone men. He was lying. He HAD to be lying. There was no way that this....guy .....could have been Faith's....lover. Still that thought remained. Was he the type Faith was interested in? He was good looking, he had an elegant classy taste in clothes judging by what he was wearing. IF he was who he said who he was then at one point, Faith would have had to be in love with him. So there was something about him. He didn't see it. He wasn't Faith's type. He wasn't right for her.
Wesley still stood in the corner with that odd look on his Faith. He had now turned his head toward Angel as if asking him what to do.
"Why do you want to see her now?" Angel said getting up, not bothering to hide his suspicious tone.
"I saw here in town night or two ago and wanted to see her. It's been a while since we've talked." He said smiling slightly.
"She's not here right now she went out with a friend of ours but she'll be here tomorrow morning if you really want to see her."
"Okay. I'll be here sometime in the afternoon then." He left with that same smile on his face and shut the door behind him. There was an awkward silence in the air before Wesley finally said
"What are we going to do about this?"
"I...don't know. I guess we should ask Faith about it." He said quietly then finishing with a quick "When she wakes up. We shouldn't bother her now, she's still angry." Angel said starring at the wall.
"Angel even if that young man is who he said he was, Faith left him for a reason. There not together anymore." Wesley said trying to cheer him up.
"I know! That doesn't matter anyway. Why should I care? The question is, is that guy who he says he is. Faith wakes up earlier when she goes to bed around this time. I'll ask her then if she still isn't mad at me."
Wesley continued to stare at his friend. He knew what was really bothering him, even if Angel wouldn't admit it, not even to himself.
Faith was wide awake in bed, or Angel's bed was more like. She had been fast asleep but had suddenly woken up with a feeling of dread. She wanted to go downstairs and get something to eat from the kitchen but Angel would be down there. Why did he yell at her like that? She had done exactly what he told her to do. She had gone out with a guy and yes had sex with him. She left before he woke up. She had felt disgusting. She didn't look in any of the mirrors or windows as she left. Was this the way she was supposed to fell? She couldn't stand the way her own skin felt. She just wanted to go home and go to bed. She couldn't though. She didn't know why she just couldn't go home. She spent the day at the parks and seeing the sights. It was a beautiful city if you saw the right places. She had come home and Angel had completely freaked out. He made her feel like the trash she had felt like her entire life, he didn't mean to, she knew that but it still hurt. She just wanted to stay here. Everything was so soft. The entire bed smelled like him. She loved that smell. She couldn't help it. Have to get up now, she thought to herself. The attachments she felt toward these people, towards this place scared her sometimes but made everything feel so safe. She got up and headed down the stairs. Maybe Angel wasn't mad any more and they could be like they were before. She reached the main floor and saw Angel sitting alone in a chair he looked so distraught. It wasn't because of there fight was it? She walked over and stood next to him.
"Angel about last night I'm not going to say I'm sorry because some of the things you said really-"
"It's okay Faith you don't need to say anything." He said getting up and walking away from her. She starred after him. Even if he was mad he wanted to here what she had to say. Did she really do something that awful?
"Hey, Faith look last night some....guy came and said he knew you. He's going to be here soon. I think he was telling the truth but if he wasn't we should be ready."
"Who knew me? I don't know anyone besides you guys."
"He was someone from your past. You should remember him. Think about people you cared about.....loved." He said starring at her un blinking.
"No there isn't anyone I can think of."
Great you can't even remember someone you probably were completely in love with, so if you left here tomorrow would about would you even remember me in another two months? Angel kicked the thought out of his head. He couldn't believe he had just thought that. Faith was his best friend. She trusted him. How could he think that about her?
"Are you sure?" he asked again.
"Angel there is no one I knew before that I don't regret knowing now." She said turning away. She didn't like this. Why was he acting this way?
Angel still stood with his back to her but her words stayed in his head 'there is no one I knew before that I don't regret knowing now.' What if she was thinking about "Ryan" or whatever the hell his name was. Did he do something to her? Maybe she never really loved him. He turned and walked over to Faith who had a very confused look on her face.
"Look Faith I'm sorry it's just that...." He never got to finish with what he was going to say because the door to their side swung open and in came the man from last night.
"Faith there you are!" he said with a warm smile.
Angel watched Faith's entire body freeze. He didn't like this. He took a step closer to Faith. She gave him a look that almost screamed 'What is he doing breathing?' Faith slowly turned to face him.
"Ryan, what are you doing here?" It was a simple question but her words sounded like ice.
"I came to see you. I thought I'd never see you again then I see you walk away from the movie theatre I was in, I couldn't believe it!."
'Well' Angel thought to himself, 'That explains why she got so up tight right before we left.'
"Why do you want to see me now! You didn't want to see me after I left! When I was waiting for you! You knew where I was!" Faith by this time was practically screaming in rage. Angel starred at a little surprised. If he put a stake in her hand now she wouldn't hesitate to kill this guy.
"Faith please! Can we just talk! I was just..." he stopped and looked at Angel. "Faith can we talk about this? In private?" Angel noticed he stressed the word private. He did not want Faith alone with him. "Look if you don't like what I say I'll leave and I'll be gone for good."
Faith starred at him. The sound of his voice made her want to rip his eyes out, but still the thought of him being gone for good and never coming back sounded VERY appealing. Then maybe this part of her past could stop haunting her and she could finally get on with her life, with getting along with people.
"Fine. We can talk in the park or something." She said walking toward him.
"Faith!" Angel said stunned. She wasn't really going to go with guy was she?
"Angel I'll be back soon. He can't do anything to me." To him what she meant was clear. He wasn't strong enough to hurt a slayer even if he tried and it was already obvious to him that he had no idea what a slayer even was. He watched her walk out. It was clear that if there ever was any love between the two of them it didn't exist anymore. Faith seemed to hate him. Some where inside he hoped she'd stay that way.
Once they were outside the building Ryan turned toward her.
"Ryan why are you here?"
"To see you."
"You keep saying that but why? You were the one who never loved me, you were the one who lied to me, you were the one who let me leave. Why come now? Once everything was perfect for me?" Faith said with a hint of pleading in her voice.
"I miss you. I know I shouldn't say that. Faith...I did love-, I still care for you. And if you remember I never brook up with up you."
"No. But you had planned out to from the very beginning." Faith said bitterly.
"It started out that way but...I was supposed to marry a girl I new from my home named Julia. I didn't really know her that well I was just always expected to be with her, we were to everyone else the all-American couple. Then I went to college and I meet you. You looked so beautiful I couldn't help it. I just wanted to be with you for a little while. Then we started dating and I started to.....like you more and more. Then you found out about Julia and left, which I totally understand. I saw the note but decided that it would be better this way. I didn't want to leave you Faith. I almost dumped Julia and stayed with you, but you left first. I convinced myself that we weren't supposed to be and went on with my life. I went home and couldn't marry Julia though, I didn't know you were by then. I couldn't find you if I tried so I just went on."
"You expect me to believe that?!" Faith said angrily.
"It's the truth! If I didn't want to see you again why would I show up now? I could go on never seeing you."
"Ryan....."
"Faith will you give me another chance?"
"NO! Ryan you can't just come back after what you did!! Why should I trust you!!! Your probably lying right now!" Faith yelled.
"Faith please. I know what I did hurt you, and with all of the things you've been through in your life I regret it the even more."
"First of all you have NO idea how much it hurt, so don't even start with me about that! Second, the one thing I regret is telling you every horrible thing about my life, and all the while you pretended to care! How could you do something like that!?!?!"
"Faith I didn't pretend to care, I did care, I do care! Besides with all of what's happened to you, you need some one to protect you, take care of you! And you don't have that, do you?
"Whatever you think, I don't need anyone to protect or take care of me. I can save myself thank you!"
"Yes you do! You at least need a boyfriend or something and you don't have one. Do you? Who was that guy in the lobby of that hotel? The way he acts when he hears your name, the way he looks at you!" he said with such a tone of utter disgust. "Is he your boyfriend or something !?!?!" he said taking a very angry tone.
"No he's not! He's just a friend. And he is my best friend and if talk about him like that again I'll cut your tongue out!"
"You can't hurt me! And men and women can't be just 'best friends'!"
"You are the most narrow minded man I ever meet! What the hell did I used to see in you!?!?"
"What you still see in me." He said as if correcting her.
"I don't see anything in you!"
"I'm not going away until you give me another chance."
"But you said-"
"But that's just it! I think there is a small part of you that still loves me, you just don't trust me yet. You will again. I'm not leaving until you do." He said leaving quickly leaving a stunned Faith. She just stood there. She wanted him gone, out of her life. Now he was going to be there all the time. She reluctantly walked back inside a look a slight distress on her face.
Angel watched Faith leave and disappear behind the closed door. What were they talking about? How did they know each other? 'Why do you want to see me now! You didn't want to see me after I left! When I was waiting for you! You knew where I was!' those words kept ringing in his ears. From that he guessed that they had been together for at least a little while, and the break up had hurt Faith more then she had let on before. He hated the way he looked at her. Like she belonged to him. She didn't. Faith walked in. She looked so dejected.
"Faith?" He asked.
"Hey Angel."
He continued to stare at her. Not really sure what to say. "So you........"
"He wants me back! That's what he said! Can you believe him! He comes back years later and just expects me to love him all over again! HE didn't even love ME the first time! I don't care what he says. Buying me all those stupid gifts. He thinks he can just buy me well he can't! He couldn't then and I wont let him now. Okay he just can't!
Angel just starred at her for a few seconds.
"Ummmmmmm. Okay."
Faith started to walk up the stairs but Angel stopped her.
"Faith I know you don't like talking to me about........ some things. But if you want to tell me about...this I'm ready to listen." He looked at her hopefully.
Faith let out a sigh. She was going to have to tell him some time. There was no way around this one.
"H-He's an old......boyfriend."
"That's all?" He said giving her a questioning look. "He said he used to be your fiancée. Is.....Is that true?"
"NO! We were never going to be married! I, might have wanted it at one point but that was a really long time ago. He was just a boyfriend Angel."
"D-Did you....did you love him?" he asked so seriously that it surprised her.
"Yes." She said quietly. "But just not anymore."
"Why did you stop seeing him?" he said taking a step closer to her. He was now so close that she could have felt his body heat coming off him if he had any. "Did her treat you bad? Cheat on you? Something like that?"
"God Angel, you sound like you want you want to make him into the worst person you possibly can."
"Faith I'm serious."
"He didn't treat me bad, and he didn't cheat on me. I was the person he was cheating with, I just didn't know it. He had some one he was engaged to and had me sleeping with him at his apartment and I didn't even have any idea what was going on. I found out about it and left." She could already feel the tears starting to form in her eyes. Why did she have to say that part. She went immediately toward Angel and buried her face at the top of his chest and started to cry. Angel put his arms around her and held her tight.
"It's okay, Faith, it's okay...." He said in a soft cooing sound. He wanted to kill Ryan. He made Faith cry, he caused her pain. That was something he could never forgive. He could feel Faith nuzzle deeper into his chest, his grip got tighter. Faith had to be the person he cared for must. He couldn't let him hurt. She said that he used to buy her gifts all the time. Is that why she got so nervous about him buying her that necklace earlier?
"I told him ever thing about me Angel. He knew me completely. I told him how I felt, my childhood, every thing. And he didn't care. He just used it against me. I can't even....."
She was sobbing uncontrollably now. Was this why she never opened up to any one? She was afraid that they would use it against her, that they would think she was stupid and idiotic. He wanted to make it all better for her. He didn't know how though. He wished he could make it better.
Faith woke up with a warm feeling inside her. She looked around to see where she was. She could feel a warm arm encircle her waist. Her entire front was pressed against some thing hard but soft. She opened her eyes. She was in Angel's be WITH Angel next to her. What happened last night? She had been in Angels arms crying her eyes out. He brought her up and put her in bed but she wouldn't let go and he kept his arms around her. They went under the covers and had fallen asleep. She didn't know what to do now. If she got up he would wake up thus starting a VERY uncomfortable conversation. What was she supposed to say to him? What was he going to say to her? She just lay there perfectly still. Well you might as well get up, it's not like he's going to sleep forever. But still it was nice just to be here. Just for a little while anyway. But still........
"Angel...Angel wake up. Angel wake up!" she said with a little push.
Angel opened his eyes to see Faith in front of him. He remembered every thing that happened instantly. He remembered her falling asleep in his arms. He didn't want to admit he liked it as much as he did but he enjoyed it. Some one being there. It was the one thing he had missed that most while he was alone.
"Ummmm good morning Faith?" He said more as a question then anything else.
"Thanks Angel. For giving me some time to just unload. I really needed it." She wanted to say it better. She wanted to say more, but she really couldn't.
"It's okay. I'm glad you talked to me." He looked a little nervous before he said the next part. "You deserve much better then him Faith. I'm glad you wont have to see him again, I hate seeing you sad."
"Angel...........about me not seeing him again........."
"Your not going back him are you! From what I just heard he isn't even good enough to...." He sounded more like he was in a state of panic and disbelief more then anything else.
"ANGEL!! I don't want to be with him. He's just.......convinced that he can win me back. I don't think that he's going to be leaving any time soon."
Angel could feel his blood boil at that. He couldn't honestly believe that he could get Faith back after what he did to her.
"Faith if he isn't leaving you alone. I'll do anything that I can to..."
"No Angel it's okay. I can handle it. But thanks for offering anyway." She said putting her head on his shoulder.
Angel smiled. Glad that after all this time she finally trusted him enough that she began to open up to him. The fight they had yesterday was still fresh in his mind though. Still there how terrified he had been when he had found out that he didn't know where she was and couldn't find her. They were both still angry about it, and there was no doubt in his mind that they would argue about it later but right now they were fine.
Like it? I'm not sure where to go after this I have lots of ideas but I don't know how well they would fit this story. What do you think? Pregnancy, kidnapping, murder, some weird spell or demon, people from the past flash backs. Tell me if you like any of these. I love your reviews, thanks!
"How do you know Faith?" he asked not trying to sound too suspicious.
"I'm Faith's ex-boyfriend, or ex-fiancée almost."
Angel couldn't have been more shocked if he shot himself right there. What did he mean ex- fiancée? Faith never got close enough to people, let alone men. He was lying. He HAD to be lying. There was no way that this....guy .....could have been Faith's....lover. Still that thought remained. Was he the type Faith was interested in? He was good looking, he had an elegant classy taste in clothes judging by what he was wearing. IF he was who he said who he was then at one point, Faith would have had to be in love with him. So there was something about him. He didn't see it. He wasn't Faith's type. He wasn't right for her.
Wesley still stood in the corner with that odd look on his Faith. He had now turned his head toward Angel as if asking him what to do.
"Why do you want to see her now?" Angel said getting up, not bothering to hide his suspicious tone.
"I saw here in town night or two ago and wanted to see her. It's been a while since we've talked." He said smiling slightly.
"She's not here right now she went out with a friend of ours but she'll be here tomorrow morning if you really want to see her."
"Okay. I'll be here sometime in the afternoon then." He left with that same smile on his face and shut the door behind him. There was an awkward silence in the air before Wesley finally said
"What are we going to do about this?"
"I...don't know. I guess we should ask Faith about it." He said quietly then finishing with a quick "When she wakes up. We shouldn't bother her now, she's still angry." Angel said starring at the wall.
"Angel even if that young man is who he said he was, Faith left him for a reason. There not together anymore." Wesley said trying to cheer him up.
"I know! That doesn't matter anyway. Why should I care? The question is, is that guy who he says he is. Faith wakes up earlier when she goes to bed around this time. I'll ask her then if she still isn't mad at me."
Wesley continued to stare at his friend. He knew what was really bothering him, even if Angel wouldn't admit it, not even to himself.
Faith was wide awake in bed, or Angel's bed was more like. She had been fast asleep but had suddenly woken up with a feeling of dread. She wanted to go downstairs and get something to eat from the kitchen but Angel would be down there. Why did he yell at her like that? She had done exactly what he told her to do. She had gone out with a guy and yes had sex with him. She left before he woke up. She had felt disgusting. She didn't look in any of the mirrors or windows as she left. Was this the way she was supposed to fell? She couldn't stand the way her own skin felt. She just wanted to go home and go to bed. She couldn't though. She didn't know why she just couldn't go home. She spent the day at the parks and seeing the sights. It was a beautiful city if you saw the right places. She had come home and Angel had completely freaked out. He made her feel like the trash she had felt like her entire life, he didn't mean to, she knew that but it still hurt. She just wanted to stay here. Everything was so soft. The entire bed smelled like him. She loved that smell. She couldn't help it. Have to get up now, she thought to herself. The attachments she felt toward these people, towards this place scared her sometimes but made everything feel so safe. She got up and headed down the stairs. Maybe Angel wasn't mad any more and they could be like they were before. She reached the main floor and saw Angel sitting alone in a chair he looked so distraught. It wasn't because of there fight was it? She walked over and stood next to him.
"Angel about last night I'm not going to say I'm sorry because some of the things you said really-"
"It's okay Faith you don't need to say anything." He said getting up and walking away from her. She starred after him. Even if he was mad he wanted to here what she had to say. Did she really do something that awful?
"Hey, Faith look last night some....guy came and said he knew you. He's going to be here soon. I think he was telling the truth but if he wasn't we should be ready."
"Who knew me? I don't know anyone besides you guys."
"He was someone from your past. You should remember him. Think about people you cared about.....loved." He said starring at her un blinking.
"No there isn't anyone I can think of."
Great you can't even remember someone you probably were completely in love with, so if you left here tomorrow would about would you even remember me in another two months? Angel kicked the thought out of his head. He couldn't believe he had just thought that. Faith was his best friend. She trusted him. How could he think that about her?
"Are you sure?" he asked again.
"Angel there is no one I knew before that I don't regret knowing now." She said turning away. She didn't like this. Why was he acting this way?
Angel still stood with his back to her but her words stayed in his head 'there is no one I knew before that I don't regret knowing now.' What if she was thinking about "Ryan" or whatever the hell his name was. Did he do something to her? Maybe she never really loved him. He turned and walked over to Faith who had a very confused look on her face.
"Look Faith I'm sorry it's just that...." He never got to finish with what he was going to say because the door to their side swung open and in came the man from last night.
"Faith there you are!" he said with a warm smile.
Angel watched Faith's entire body freeze. He didn't like this. He took a step closer to Faith. She gave him a look that almost screamed 'What is he doing breathing?' Faith slowly turned to face him.
"Ryan, what are you doing here?" It was a simple question but her words sounded like ice.
"I came to see you. I thought I'd never see you again then I see you walk away from the movie theatre I was in, I couldn't believe it!."
'Well' Angel thought to himself, 'That explains why she got so up tight right before we left.'
"Why do you want to see me now! You didn't want to see me after I left! When I was waiting for you! You knew where I was!" Faith by this time was practically screaming in rage. Angel starred at a little surprised. If he put a stake in her hand now she wouldn't hesitate to kill this guy.
"Faith please! Can we just talk! I was just..." he stopped and looked at Angel. "Faith can we talk about this? In private?" Angel noticed he stressed the word private. He did not want Faith alone with him. "Look if you don't like what I say I'll leave and I'll be gone for good."
Faith starred at him. The sound of his voice made her want to rip his eyes out, but still the thought of him being gone for good and never coming back sounded VERY appealing. Then maybe this part of her past could stop haunting her and she could finally get on with her life, with getting along with people.
"Fine. We can talk in the park or something." She said walking toward him.
"Faith!" Angel said stunned. She wasn't really going to go with guy was she?
"Angel I'll be back soon. He can't do anything to me." To him what she meant was clear. He wasn't strong enough to hurt a slayer even if he tried and it was already obvious to him that he had no idea what a slayer even was. He watched her walk out. It was clear that if there ever was any love between the two of them it didn't exist anymore. Faith seemed to hate him. Some where inside he hoped she'd stay that way.
Once they were outside the building Ryan turned toward her.
"Ryan why are you here?"
"To see you."
"You keep saying that but why? You were the one who never loved me, you were the one who lied to me, you were the one who let me leave. Why come now? Once everything was perfect for me?" Faith said with a hint of pleading in her voice.
"I miss you. I know I shouldn't say that. Faith...I did love-, I still care for you. And if you remember I never brook up with up you."
"No. But you had planned out to from the very beginning." Faith said bitterly.
"It started out that way but...I was supposed to marry a girl I new from my home named Julia. I didn't really know her that well I was just always expected to be with her, we were to everyone else the all-American couple. Then I went to college and I meet you. You looked so beautiful I couldn't help it. I just wanted to be with you for a little while. Then we started dating and I started to.....like you more and more. Then you found out about Julia and left, which I totally understand. I saw the note but decided that it would be better this way. I didn't want to leave you Faith. I almost dumped Julia and stayed with you, but you left first. I convinced myself that we weren't supposed to be and went on with my life. I went home and couldn't marry Julia though, I didn't know you were by then. I couldn't find you if I tried so I just went on."
"You expect me to believe that?!" Faith said angrily.
"It's the truth! If I didn't want to see you again why would I show up now? I could go on never seeing you."
"Ryan....."
"Faith will you give me another chance?"
"NO! Ryan you can't just come back after what you did!! Why should I trust you!!! Your probably lying right now!" Faith yelled.
"Faith please. I know what I did hurt you, and with all of the things you've been through in your life I regret it the even more."
"First of all you have NO idea how much it hurt, so don't even start with me about that! Second, the one thing I regret is telling you every horrible thing about my life, and all the while you pretended to care! How could you do something like that!?!?!"
"Faith I didn't pretend to care, I did care, I do care! Besides with all of what's happened to you, you need some one to protect you, take care of you! And you don't have that, do you?
"Whatever you think, I don't need anyone to protect or take care of me. I can save myself thank you!"
"Yes you do! You at least need a boyfriend or something and you don't have one. Do you? Who was that guy in the lobby of that hotel? The way he acts when he hears your name, the way he looks at you!" he said with such a tone of utter disgust. "Is he your boyfriend or something !?!?!" he said taking a very angry tone.
"No he's not! He's just a friend. And he is my best friend and if talk about him like that again I'll cut your tongue out!"
"You can't hurt me! And men and women can't be just 'best friends'!"
"You are the most narrow minded man I ever meet! What the hell did I used to see in you!?!?"
"What you still see in me." He said as if correcting her.
"I don't see anything in you!"
"I'm not going away until you give me another chance."
"But you said-"
"But that's just it! I think there is a small part of you that still loves me, you just don't trust me yet. You will again. I'm not leaving until you do." He said leaving quickly leaving a stunned Faith. She just stood there. She wanted him gone, out of her life. Now he was going to be there all the time. She reluctantly walked back inside a look a slight distress on her face.
Angel watched Faith leave and disappear behind the closed door. What were they talking about? How did they know each other? 'Why do you want to see me now! You didn't want to see me after I left! When I was waiting for you! You knew where I was!' those words kept ringing in his ears. From that he guessed that they had been together for at least a little while, and the break up had hurt Faith more then she had let on before. He hated the way he looked at her. Like she belonged to him. She didn't. Faith walked in. She looked so dejected.
"Faith?" He asked.
"Hey Angel."
He continued to stare at her. Not really sure what to say. "So you........"
"He wants me back! That's what he said! Can you believe him! He comes back years later and just expects me to love him all over again! HE didn't even love ME the first time! I don't care what he says. Buying me all those stupid gifts. He thinks he can just buy me well he can't! He couldn't then and I wont let him now. Okay he just can't!
Angel just starred at her for a few seconds.
"Ummmmmmm. Okay."
Faith started to walk up the stairs but Angel stopped her.
"Faith I know you don't like talking to me about........ some things. But if you want to tell me about...this I'm ready to listen." He looked at her hopefully.
Faith let out a sigh. She was going to have to tell him some time. There was no way around this one.
"H-He's an old......boyfriend."
"That's all?" He said giving her a questioning look. "He said he used to be your fiancée. Is.....Is that true?"
"NO! We were never going to be married! I, might have wanted it at one point but that was a really long time ago. He was just a boyfriend Angel."
"D-Did you....did you love him?" he asked so seriously that it surprised her.
"Yes." She said quietly. "But just not anymore."
"Why did you stop seeing him?" he said taking a step closer to her. He was now so close that she could have felt his body heat coming off him if he had any. "Did her treat you bad? Cheat on you? Something like that?"
"God Angel, you sound like you want you want to make him into the worst person you possibly can."
"Faith I'm serious."
"He didn't treat me bad, and he didn't cheat on me. I was the person he was cheating with, I just didn't know it. He had some one he was engaged to and had me sleeping with him at his apartment and I didn't even have any idea what was going on. I found out about it and left." She could already feel the tears starting to form in her eyes. Why did she have to say that part. She went immediately toward Angel and buried her face at the top of his chest and started to cry. Angel put his arms around her and held her tight.
"It's okay, Faith, it's okay...." He said in a soft cooing sound. He wanted to kill Ryan. He made Faith cry, he caused her pain. That was something he could never forgive. He could feel Faith nuzzle deeper into his chest, his grip got tighter. Faith had to be the person he cared for must. He couldn't let him hurt. She said that he used to buy her gifts all the time. Is that why she got so nervous about him buying her that necklace earlier?
"I told him ever thing about me Angel. He knew me completely. I told him how I felt, my childhood, every thing. And he didn't care. He just used it against me. I can't even....."
She was sobbing uncontrollably now. Was this why she never opened up to any one? She was afraid that they would use it against her, that they would think she was stupid and idiotic. He wanted to make it all better for her. He didn't know how though. He wished he could make it better.
Faith woke up with a warm feeling inside her. She looked around to see where she was. She could feel a warm arm encircle her waist. Her entire front was pressed against some thing hard but soft. She opened her eyes. She was in Angel's be WITH Angel next to her. What happened last night? She had been in Angels arms crying her eyes out. He brought her up and put her in bed but she wouldn't let go and he kept his arms around her. They went under the covers and had fallen asleep. She didn't know what to do now. If she got up he would wake up thus starting a VERY uncomfortable conversation. What was she supposed to say to him? What was he going to say to her? She just lay there perfectly still. Well you might as well get up, it's not like he's going to sleep forever. But still it was nice just to be here. Just for a little while anyway. But still........
"Angel...Angel wake up. Angel wake up!" she said with a little push.
Angel opened his eyes to see Faith in front of him. He remembered every thing that happened instantly. He remembered her falling asleep in his arms. He didn't want to admit he liked it as much as he did but he enjoyed it. Some one being there. It was the one thing he had missed that most while he was alone.
"Ummmm good morning Faith?" He said more as a question then anything else.
"Thanks Angel. For giving me some time to just unload. I really needed it." She wanted to say it better. She wanted to say more, but she really couldn't.
"It's okay. I'm glad you talked to me." He looked a little nervous before he said the next part. "You deserve much better then him Faith. I'm glad you wont have to see him again, I hate seeing you sad."
"Angel...........about me not seeing him again........."
"Your not going back him are you! From what I just heard he isn't even good enough to...." He sounded more like he was in a state of panic and disbelief more then anything else.
"ANGEL!! I don't want to be with him. He's just.......convinced that he can win me back. I don't think that he's going to be leaving any time soon."
Angel could feel his blood boil at that. He couldn't honestly believe that he could get Faith back after what he did to her.
"Faith if he isn't leaving you alone. I'll do anything that I can to..."
"No Angel it's okay. I can handle it. But thanks for offering anyway." She said putting her head on his shoulder.
Angel smiled. Glad that after all this time she finally trusted him enough that she began to open up to him. The fight they had yesterday was still fresh in his mind though. Still there how terrified he had been when he had found out that he didn't know where she was and couldn't find her. They were both still angry about it, and there was no doubt in his mind that they would argue about it later but right now they were fine.
Like it? I'm not sure where to go after this I have lots of ideas but I don't know how well they would fit this story. What do you think? Pregnancy, kidnapping, murder, some weird spell or demon, people from the past flash backs. Tell me if you like any of these. I love your reviews, thanks!