Title: Family 5?
Author: Wereleopard
Rating: PG
Pairing: C/A
Email: Romance
Crossover: Buffy/Angel
Summary: The Scoobies come to LA and find out things have changed a lot
Spoilers: Up to when you find out that the hotel as a pool and it is AU the time line with Buffy doesn't match.
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angel verse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made I am just poor and the song doesn't belong to me either.
Distribution: FSB, ST and AO!
Feedback: Yes please!

A/N Nieves this is for you and I hope you like it

A/N This is AU Angel had his 'dark time' with Darla, No Connor, No Groo coming back and they found the swimming pool earlier, this is just a fun fic no angst between our heroes. Just fun no killer visions, zip, zilch, nada. Kind of boring really oh and Angel has a permanent soul it happened after the Darla 'incident' and the powers knowing his feelings for his seer and that he was a guy, that they had to they didn't want Angelus running around and causing mayhem.

Chapter 5

It didn't take Buffy long to get changed into jeans and a top. Her eyes narrowed as she saw the two lovers together. This was so wrong she should be wrapped in Angel's arms not her high school nemesis.

"So you were going to explain things to me Angel." Her voice hard anger and betrayal seeping through her every pore.

Angel managed to pull his gaze away from Cordy but he kept tight hold of her. This was still so new and he was still afraid that he would wake up and this would be all a dream and he would be in his bed alone.

"Buffy we have both changed, both grown. I do and will always love you. You were my first love, you taught me that I could be loved and to love someone and I will always be grateful for that but you could never accept my fully, you could never accept my vampire side. That's not your fault you are the slayer that's why it would never work between us." Angel explained to her softly he didn't want to upset her but also he didn't want her to be under any delusions that they could ever be together.

"But she can?" Buffy spat out not believing that Cordy could accept him more than she did.

Angel sat there his eyes on Buffy as he vamped out, he saw her flinch and move back a step. His yellow eyes held a little sadness in them the last thing he wanted was Buffy to be afraid of him and maybe that would never change.

Cordy watched as Angel put his vampire face on, she saw Buffy move back and knew how much that must have hurt him, taking hold of his chin she pulled him around so they were looking at each other. Yes she saw the eyes, the ridges and the fangs but she still saw Angel. She traced his face with her fingertips running them over the ridges of his face.

"Is this a face you could ever learn to love?" Angel said to her memories of what Doyle once asked.

Cordy smiled brightly at him. "I already do." With that she pulled him down for a kiss, his mouth opened beneath hers, she ran her tongue up and down his fangs letting him know that she truly was alright with him, the vampire and the man.

Buffy stared at them opened mouth; Cordy was kissing him when he vamped out. The slayer shuddered in horror at that. She'd always try to forget the vampire side of him so they could at least try to be a couple, but look how that had worked out.

Spike watched Buffy and could see her reaction to the vampire side, she would never love him completely and then the blonde vampire's gaze landed on the cheerleader and the poof. Angelus always had it good Darla had always wanted him, Dru well he knew he always came second just like Buffy and it had hurt. But now he really was jealous because Angel fought the good fight, he had this family that would do anything to help him and a woman who completed understood and loved him.

Spike shook his head in amazement when that young girl Fred walked in with a bottle of water for Cordelia and a cup of warm blood for him. They even accepted him drinking blood in front of him. Angel was definitely a lucky son of a bitch. Maybe it was time for him to move away from Sunnydale and try to make his own life somewhere he didn't know how long he could keep living like this with Buffy it was eating away at him Spike no longer knew who he was, it was about time he found out again.

Cordy and Angel pulled away from the slow sensual kiss. "Well that's a good thing then." Angel said with smile as he morphed back to his human face.

"Oh yeah why is that?" Cordy answered slyly.

"Because I love you too." The dark-haired vampire grinned.

"Well everything is as it is supposed to be then." The seer stared into the eyes of her champion. She couldn't believe they were finally together after all this time and that Angel had picked her over Buffy.

"It's not alright." Buffy cried as the last of her teenage dreams had just crashed and burned. "We were supposed to be forever Angel. When I died you were supposed to mourn me and never find anyone else. I was supposed to be the girl you remembered hundreds of years from now."

"Buffy you were only young in way so was I, we never made each other happy. We always hurt each other. I want to be with someone who loves me for me, who loves all of me, who is my friend and understands me. I have that now with Cordy and I know you will find that as well. You will find someone you can talk to, you can laugh with, whom you can just be with and feel comfortable. Take a look around I have a home, a family and someone special in my life but it has taken me over 200 years to get there and I am not giving any of this up without a fight. I've nearly ruined this so many times but I've been lucky enough that they have given me another chance and I am going to do my best to prove to them that it was worth it, that I am worth it." Angel wanted Buffy to understand it wasn't that their love wasn't strong enough it was the fact that there was nothing else with it and in the long run that would never work out.

"You were worth it Angel, we already know that." Fred told him quietly while the others nodded in agreement.

"You know I think I'm going to leave." Xander muttered this was just too much for him and he was going back into the little world of denial that had become his home ever since he had met Buffy Summers, well it worked for him.

Xander walked out of the door soon followed by the others Buffy stopped for a moment and turned to look at him.

"You'll regret leaving me Angel and you'll regret his moment and you will definitely regret picking her over me you just wait and see." She told him quietly and then left.

"Do you think you will Angel?" Cordy asked.

"I what?" Angel asked confused.

"Regret this, us?" She waved her hand around to indicate everything.

"No this I'll never regret, if I never told you I loved you that I would regret but how can I be sorry when I am so happy." He told her with a smile he was home with his family and the woman he loved.

Just then the phone started to ring Gunn walked over and picked it up. "Angel Investigations we help the helpless."

The vampire with a permanent soul laughed this was the way things were supposed to be he got there eventually.

THE END