Chapter 12

Alright chap 12. Thanx everyone for your reviews. I can now promise u I will finish this story. I'm getting pretty close to the ending! Alright we have some quality time between Buffy and Christine now. so plz excuse the girl talk, it just had to be done!

"I'm amazed you found us. Maybe you're not as dim as I at first thought." Erik said moving quickly to his feet and in front of a now awake Christine. Angel and Buffy had gotten up as well.

"I assumed there'd be some hidden places around here. After getting some light down here it wasn't all too hard to find. Besides sir, I'm sure you know that as this place is empty even the slightest sounds echo. Just because you can't be seen doesn't mean you can't be heard. And now I shall be taking Christine back."

He and the men around him were moving forward guns drawn.

"Look's like we don't have much of a choice." Buffy said. "Angel?"

"I'm on it." He said moving forward suddenly and swiftly grabbing hold of the man closest to him holding a gun. He snapped the mans wrist in one quick motion and the gun fell helplessly to the ground. All this happened within a moment and Angel was moving forward again before anyone could react. He kicked at another man sending him back into two others. It wasn't long before he noticed Buffy fighting beside him. She gave a round kick to one man knocking him off his feet and surprising the few around him. None used to such behavior and strength from a girl.

She had three men down. Buffy rammed her shoe into the stomach of one of the attackers she felt something give as she kicked him. 'Just a rib' she knew trying her best not to kill or seriously hurt anyone. She sensed someone behind her and whirled around slamming her fist into yet another mans face. She noticed Angel easily fighting off a few other men and took notice of Christine who was standing frightened in a corner. 'Frightened but safe' Buffy noted. Erik was in front of her fighting with another man. Buffy followed through with a good solid uppercut, with another kick her assailant was set off balance and toppled to the floor. She felt something Sharpe along her arm and a familiar warmth right after. She looked down someone had just cut her arm with a knife.

"Hey" she called out. "I just got this shirt." She soon found the one who had cut her and sent him to the ground screaming in pain, just like the others. They had definitely made progress there was barely any men left standing.

Erik was now moving towards Raoul who was watching in shock as his men were beaten down. This wasn't supposed to happen. They had out numbered them how had two men and one women beaten all of them? He was so shocked at the display that he didn't notice Erik moving towards him.

"It looks as if your plan has failed" Erik told him now facing a defenseless Raoul. His gun had long ago been knocked from his hand. "I'm afraid you're going to have to pay for this little intrusion of yours."

Erik moved closer, how easy would it be to just snap this man's neck right now amongst all this confusion. To end all his problems with one deadly twist of his wrist. It was all so very tempting. Erik knocked Raoul down as he attempted to move forwards and possibly attack him. Though Raoul's movement was sluggish and uncertain. Erik bent down beside Raouls fallen form. He could…. all he had to do was reach down and…

"Erik" Christine's voice cut through Erik's sinful thoughts. "Don't hurt him. Please." She pleaded. How could he ever deny anything to her? He stood and moved back to her.

"It's time to go," he told her grabbing on to her thin form and moving her towards the door. Buffy and Angel soon followed having either knocked out or hurt all of the men who had blocked the exit.

"Was that all of them." Buffy asked.

"Most of them I'm sure." Angel replied as they followed Erik back through the tunnels.

"Wow that was fun we should have just fought them when they first got here." Buffy chirped up. The adrenaline still pumping through her veins.

"Though one of those bastards cut me."

"This way" Erik ordered. Turning into another dark tunnel. They moved through it and arrived at what looked like a mirror. Buffy noticed, as they got closer that she could see through it into Erik's lair. They stood there for a while. Buffy wanted to ask why they were here. When she saw them. The men were moving slowly back through the water and to the gate. Some limping, some bleeding a few being carried because they were clearly unconscious. She watched as Raoul moved slowly along with them. He continually looked around him. They stood there and watched until all of them were gone from sight, and then they stood there a bit longer.

Eventually Erik pulled the mirror aside and went through, the rest of them following him.

"Well at least that's over." Buffy said as they once again fell into silence.

"Let me see your arm" Angel pulled her towards him expecting her arm carefully. The smell of her intoxicating blood arousing a sensation of urges. "It's not to deep you should be fine." He whispered running his hands along her other arm slowly.

"That's-that's good." She said back moving closer to him. "Everything's good"

Angel suddenly grabbed her around the waist and pulled her quickly and roughly to him. Pressing his lips to hers. She responded eagerly to him after a moment of shock. Opening her mouth and allowing his tongue to enter and caress her own. She moaned softly into his mouth as his hands began to stroke her body. So lost in the moment was she that she forgot they had an audience, who were standing awkwardly trying not to look on at the two. Her tongue was rubbing against his as their kiss became more savage. Teeth nipped at lips and tongues with a bruising force. Buffy didn't even feel when her tongue was cut on Angel's teeth. Barely noticed as the blood got mingled into their kiss. But Angel noticed. He tasted Buffy's blood as it entered his mouth. He growled low in his throat pushing her into the nearest wall, pressing himself against her. His arousal digging into her soft stomach. But he pulled away abruptly as he heard a scream.

Angel looked over to where he'd heard the sound. Christine had frightened eyes focused intently on him. It took him a moment to realize why she was screaming. He had vamped out at the taste of Buffy's blood and hadn't noticed.

"Your-your. You're a, your face is…" She rambled on for a moment still staring at the face before her. So much like Erik's in its look yet different for it covered his entire face. And it had not been there a moment before.

Erik was utterly silent as he watched the events. The passionate kisses, the shrieking scream that rang out from Christine. Erik looked on at the face that reminded him of his own. He looked on the man who truly had, had a face of an Angel only moments ago, but now stood before him with the face of the devil himself.

"What are you?" Christine whispered. Angel didn't reply only watched her. Shame filling him. Would he be forever haunted by what he truly was? A demon.

"He's hes" Buffy tried to think of something to say but was at a loss for words.

"He's different." Well that was true he was. "He's…"

"He's a vampire Christine." Erik spoke up, having recognized the same face he had seen on the creature he'd meet earlier.

"A vampire?" she asked backing slowly away from him.

"Yes he's a vampire but he's good, really he is. He has a soul." Buffy tried desperately to explain.

"A vampire? A soul? Good? But-but he has the face to Satan himself." Every word she had spoken was a strike at Erik as well. For was this not what she must think of him as well.

"No." Buffy told her. She saw the sadness in Angel's eyes and moved to take his hand. "Angel is no devil he is good you can't make accusations because of the way he looks."

"Buffy please it's fine." Angel said quietly. "She's afraid."

"Maybe so but Angel your no devil." She told him looking straight into his eyes. She moved forward to kiss him but he pulled away.

"Buffy don't. Not like this." He told her.

"I love you Angel. I love every part of you. I love your dark and your good. I love your beauty and your not. I do." She told him finally admitting to what her heart had known since the day she met him. How could she have ever thought that what she had with Riley could ever compare to this. She moved into him again and this time he didn't pull away. He allowed her to kiss him and soon was kissing her back just as eagerly.

Christine watched as Buffy kissed that face. So much like Erik's she thought again. 'Oh Erik' she turned to look at him and for a moment she read the hurt in his eyes. It was only a moment and then he made his face into a mask as unemotional as the real one that covered his right side. She realized now how her words must have sounded to him and regretted them so very much. She wished she could just stop hurting him for once.

"Buffy" Angel murmured. At some point during the kiss his face had slipped back into place. Once again hiding the demon he truly was from the world.

"Buffy what are we doing?" he asked pulling slightly away from her.

"What do you mean?"

"Riley" he told her as an answer. 'Riley?'

"Right my boyfriend who's waiting for me. And who's worried." Even as she said it she refused to leave his embrace. "But I don't love him like I do you. I never could." She told him truthfully.

"What does it matter, nothing's changed." He told her.

"But it has don't you see. I've tried the normal guy routine and I still love you. And I know what you're going to say and I don't care. I don't care that you can't take me into the light, I don't care about having kids and I don't care that we can't have sex. I don't, please can't you trust me this time to make my own decision. Don't you love me enough to at least try?"

"God Buffy you know I do. That's why I shouldn't let you do this. But I'm weak and I want you so much." She moved to him again and pressed her lips firmly to his own.

"No Angel. Trying makes you strong. Don't give up on me okay?"

"Never." He promised kissing her deeply again. "So…can I be there when you tell Riley the good news?"

"Your horrible."

"Really but you love that about me right?" Buffy laughed

Erik watched as Buffy declared her love for Angel. Angel who had just had the face of a demon. Angel who could make that face disappears. How he wished he could do that. Wished Christine could say those things to him. Say she loved him despite it all. But she wouldn't. 'Because she doesn't'. Erik sighed having enough of this romantic speech giving.

"Where are you going?" Christine asked. As she noticed Erik walking away.

"To my room to sleep." He told her not stopping in his walk or even looking over at her.

"Oh alright." Christine watched as he disappeared into the other room. Leaving her alone with two very weird people, or demons or something. 'Why am I here. My place is beside Raoul.'

"Quite the problem you got huh?"

"Excuse me?"

"Well your getting married but it seems you have feelings for Erik as well, am I right or am I right?"

"Oh this is girl talk stuff. I'm just going to be else where." Angel said moving off to wander once again.

"I'm afraid I'm not sure what it is you mean. I love Raoul were set to be married."

"And yet you came down here, ran from him and hid away with another man. Not exactly the signs of a healthy relationship." What could Christine say? There was no logic to what she had done. No way to defend her actions. So she stayed silent.

"What exactly is so wrong that you can't admit to your self you love him?"

"Nothings wrong I'm marrying him isn't that admittance in it's self?"

"I wasn't talking about Raoul. It's plain to see you have feelings for him, both of them. But I think you need to figure out just which one it is you love the most."

"I can't. I can't be with Erik you don't understand."

"What's to understand?"

"It's just what he is."

"You mean his face?"

"You know?"

"Yeah he showed me. I'll admit it's not great but trust me I've seen a lot worse. And I mean a lot."

"It's not just his face it's his entire…him. He's obsessive the things he's done."

"Trust me I've seen obsessive. Angel was like that for awhile."

"He threatened people, sabotaged others to help my career. That's not healthy."

"Sounds like he just really loves you a lot."

"He killed people you know."

"Been there, done that."

"Angel?"

"He wasn't him self at the time. Look I'm not and I can't justify whatever it is Erik's done. But if you love someone you help them. Look past their faults and see the good I guess."

"I suppose but it's just…how? How could I just leave Raoul?"

"Yeah I'm on that boat to. Riley's waiting for me at home. But he'll get over it. Angel's my soul mate and I guess Riley will find his own. I'm sure Raoul will have no trouble doing the same."

Christine laughed. Yes Raoul would have no trouble with such things, of that she was sure.

"It's weird I used to call Erik my angel of music."

"Ironic huh? Angel and Angel. My Angel's a demon and yours has a demonic face. Hey and were both sort of dating a guy with R as the first letter. Talk about fate."

"Yes that's very strange, so are you going to be with Angel now."

"I'm going to try. I know it wont be easy, it'll be hard and frustrating. But I love him I have to at least try. What about you? What are you going to do?" Christine thought for a moment. Could she do it? Could she just leave Raoul? Could she really be with Erik like that? 'The question you should be asking is, is it worth it?' that little voice that must be her reason asked? "Yes" her heart answered.

"Yes what?"

"Erik I want to be with Erik."

"Good for you!"

"But god he must hate me now, the things I've said, the way I've acted? How can I make it right with him?"

"Well that I can't help you with. I know it sounds sappy but look in your heart I think you'll know what to do." Buffy told her. She then got up and went off to find Angel. Knowing Christine had a lot to think about.

Alright done this chapter it took me awhile I was watching O.C lol. Alright I'll hopefully get another chapter done tomorrow if i have time between going to the movies and my dads house. But don't worry I'll have this story done soon enough I hope. But plz continue to review. Like I said it gives me a happy! lol