Undercurrent

Disclaimer: don't own them blah blah blah bity blah

Distribution: oh go on, but as first.

Reviews: pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssseeeeeeeeeeee I'm dying without them!

The Hellgod vampires trembled in fear, as they watched there brother being destroyed before them. They failed her and one of them got punished for it. It was always like that, if they failed one would die, didn't matter who just one would die. To the Hellgod her vampires were like ants, one by one they would be destroyed if continuously failed her.

"I want my amulet!" she shouted at them "I don't care how you get it, you bring it to me or you'll all perish with him!" she points to the remains of the vampire "You got it, or do I have to spell it out from his ashes?" she snarled "The amulet would keep you safe from my wrath since you boys would all in my good corner, but that can't happen if this failure keeps up. Now if you can't find it then you'll have track it through a spell, okay?"

There was a bloodcurdling cry of hissing and pain in the cemetery as Buffy killed a half snake, half human demon. She wiped away the sweat from her forehead as straightened out her clothing, patting away the dirt in the process.

"Big tick off the slayed list of evil" Angelus said after Buffy killed the demon.

It had been four days since they found anything on the Riley death, and Buffy was getting more fidgety around Angelus. He made her nervous, not because she was scared of him but because she was scared that she might jump his bones. It was getting harder and harder to resist him, especially whenever she woke up she'd wake up in his embrace of warmth and tenderness. When she told him not to hold her, she would have a nightmare, wake up and ask for his comfort, which he provided willingly. In the end she couldn't be bothered to tell him off when he didn't let go of her. He was her comfort blanky she adored, except she would never ever tell him that. They were friends, they were suppose to be friends but she couldn't help but want more.

"Yep one very big fat tick off the checklist of evil" Buffy said brightly as she watched the demon slowly dissolve into the earth then looked at Angelus "I say it's a call for a celebration of ice-cream"

"Okay" Angelus smiled.

That smile. It always made her want to taste, feel the texture of those soft, smooth lips of his. Maybe nip them if she could, that is if he let her. She learnt over those four days that angels could have a relationships with anyone as long as they did not fall along the champions line. After all angels do get lonely at times, and sometimes love of other angels wasn't enough. However they could not have a long term relationship if they were mortal and nor could they have children with those who were not in the same kind, getting pregnant with an angels baby did not happen. Not because they shouldn't but because the couldn't. She learnt that Angelus and his friends never had any children in their eternal life, but she couldn't help but be annoyed at Willow's little statement of the amount girlfriends they could have had. Angelus could have had.

"Great, I'm going with chocolate and vanilla twist" Buffy said proudly as they walked to the exit of the cemetery "You?"

"Cookie dough fudge ice-cream" Angelus shrugged "After your mother introduced it to me, I, well, have a bit of an addiction to it"

She smiled at the memory at the meeting between her mom and Angelus. Joyce kept on asking him questions such as 'Is there a god?' 'Were are your wings?' 'Dose heaven live up to everyone's expectation?' and finally 'Why are you in my daughters room?'. She actually prayed that her mom wouldn't give him the line of 'if you knock her up, I will knock you out' speech, which she was grateful since someone answered her prayer. That evening she cooked them pizza and the desert of ice-cream (cookie dough fudge ice-cream) and asked more questions till she was exhausted.

"Tell me about it" Buffy grinned, softly nudging him on the side "I couldn't find any in the fridge this morning"

"Guilty" Angelus said sheepishly.

"And they said junk food wasn't good for you" Buffy said.

"Yeah but taste good" Angelus grinned.

Buffy couldn't help but notice his child like innocence when it came to trying things he'd never would. The smile he would show when it was good and the face he'd pull when it wasn't, she just loved it.

"Yep" Buffy said, for a while they were quiet, walking a comfortable silence till Buffy asked "Angelus, what's it like to be an angel?"

"Depends" Angelus said.

"Depends on what?" Buffy asked.

"On how you see it" Angelus said "Sometimes it good other times not so good"

"What do you mean by that?" Buffy asked, watching him as he thought of an answer to her question.

"Everyday we walk around, guide people, eat something and watch" Angelus said "Repeat the whole thing till the job is done, then we have some fun then get to work"

"That doesn't sound so bad" Buffy said.

"Try doing that for a decade and you'll get the idea" Angelus said.

"Okay dose sound bad" Buffy said "What about immortality?"

"It's not nice" Angelus said.

"But you get to live forever" Buffy said.

"Yeah but that's the problem" Angelus said "I'll be doing this for the rest of eternity or till end of the world"

"Oh" Buffy said quietly.

"But I'm jealous of you more than you think" Angelus said.

"Yeah, jealous of being the slayer. Where's the envy in that?" Buffy said.

"Your mortal" Angelus said "Everyday could be your last day on earth, making everything you touch, you smell, you taste, you hear and you see so much more beautiful that than it is to an immortal. The people you meet, care, love are treasured because they could die at any moment. But what makes you more precious Buffy is that you risk your life every night to protect those people" he looked seriously at her with kindness in his heart "That is why I'm so jealous"

"I've never thought of it that way" Buffy said meditatively.

"No one really dose when they have short time to live" Angelus said.

"Well it's diffidently short for a slayer" Buffy said.

"Buffy I didn't-" Angelus tried to amend himself only to have her hand over his lips, stopping him talking as they stood still, paralleled to one another as they stood either side.

"It's okay, I dealt with it. Plus I already died" Buffy said while reluctantly removed her hand from his smooth skin.

"You died" Angelus said, looking astonished at her.

"Yeah, but it was short" Buffy said "I kinda drowned but see I'm here"

"I can see that" Angelus smiled.

"I don't remember any of it" Buffy explained herself "Like the whole angel coming to get me or a bright light. Nothing"

"You weren't meant to die" Angelus said all of sudden.

"Huh?"

"You were meant for a long life" Angelus said "I can't explain it, but you'll live longer than any slayer shall"

"Don't say things that won't come true" Buffy said, but spark of hope seemed to ignite herself, was he telling the truth?

"No listened, there is something about you Buffy I just can't put my finger on it" Angelus said, reaching out and touched her cheek bringing comfort in his hand as it came into contact with her cheek "It's ridiculous but every time I look into your aura I see…I see that your beyond a slayer that should be and still so close to your human soul. You were meant to live long, you are going to have a child and she's going to be like you"

Buffy smiled softly at his words, they may never come true but it never hurt to dream of a long life with children, grandchildren and even, maybe, great-grandchildren. She want to believe every word he said as she held his hand that held her cheek gently.

"How would you know if she's a girl?" Buffy said.

"She has your face, your eyes and that beautiful smile" Angelus said, Buffy broke out in a huge grin "That's the one, but what makes it so beautiful is her lips, yours lips"

Cordelia couldn't explain what had happen one moment she was minding her business in her crummy apartment, thinking of what she should wear the next painful images hit her at every corner of her mind. She couldn't explain what happen but they seem to tell her there was a problem.

"Doyle?" Cordelia called for her soon to be boyfriend as she got up from the floor.

"Yes Cordy?" Doyle said as he entered her bedroom.

"Get your Irish angel ass in gear, we're going to Sunnydale" Cordelia said.

Doyle wasn't shocked that she knew he was an angel, he was the one that told her. After all he didn't believe in keeping secrets from his charges until he finished the job and removed himself from their memories.

"What happened?" he asked.

"My friends, their in trouble" Cordelia worriedly said, even though this was the weirdest thing to happen she instinctively knew what they were when they hit her.

"What do you mean" Doyle knew if she told him that she finally had a vision he was relieved of his duty to be her guardian angel, which hurt. It always dose but not like it will with her.

"I think I had a vision" Cordelia said, brushing a shaky hand through her hair.

Doyle smiled, he reached his hand out to erase himself from her memories but immediately stopped when Gunn appeared near him in a blinding flash of light. Gunn knew what Doyle was like and his honesty and so didn't bother hiding himself from Cordelia. Doyle's friend looked like he had a couple rough days the way his clothes were not straight. He knew it was must have been important otherwise he wouldn't interrupt his job.

"Don't worry, I'm just going to borrow my boy of you" Gunn said as he pull Doyle away from a stunned Cordy "Doyle don't"

"What? What do ya mean don't? My job's done" Doyle said, looking bewildered, this was the first time ever in his life were he couldn't finish his job, even more so now that his pal won't let him.

"I'm sorry Doyle but it's not, the slayer boyfriend was killed on a bounty level kind from a devil" Gunn said.

"What?" Both Doyle and Cordelia exclaimed in unison.

Buffy face drop from happy glow to a stun glow dose he like me like me? Or is he playing me? she thought. She swallowed the lump of anxiety in her throat, as he looked at her like she was the most beautiful creature to be cherished in the world. He drew in closer to her, bringing a flood of warmth around the both of them.

"My lips?" Buffy managed to say as he got closer.

"Yeah, those lips" he whispered huskily, barely touching her nose.

"What about them?" Buffy whispered back as they began to wrap their arms closer, they slowly closed in their eyes in the anticipation as the atmosphere began to heat up in lust and want.

"I want to taste them" Angelus said then did as he pulled her closer to him.

All the want and need Buffy held inside for Angelus seemed to exploded into the air and his for Buffy in equal ardour through that kiss. Gentle yet rough at the same time, it was a powerful, mind-blowing experience the pair had felt in their life as they nipped and kissed each other lips. The pain, the sorrow, the anger, the confusions that Buffy felt for the last few days melted always from her heart and was replaced by thoughts of desires and the hunger of him. She was terrified that he would leave her now that he entered her heart like no body could, she knew the pain would be greater than the loss she felt for Riley.

She moaned as his hands wondered to the right places, stroking, massaging his fingers into her shirt to the places were the bruises from fighting the demon. She couldn't help but want him more as he healed and took all the pain away from her, making her burst into full energy. The way he held her in those strong arms made her stay there, she knew she'd always be safe there. Don't leave me she thought as he pushed her against the nearby tree, letting nothing stop them showing each other what they wanted through the kiss.

Suddenly he broke the kiss when oxygen became an issue, resting his forehead against hers while they panted to regain their breaths. They opened theirs eyes slowly, keeping them in full eye contact to one another.

"How do they taste?" Buffy said seductively, eyeing him through under her eyelashes.

"Like cookie dough fudge ice-cream" Angelus said.

Buffy raised an eyebrow at him "I guess you needed your fix" Buffy said.

"That wasn't much of a fix" Angelus said, he looked down at her lips then back at her flushed face, he couldn't help but ache all over for her, particularly down there.

"That wasn't?" she whispered as their lips came closer again.

"Nope" Angelus said then retrieved back his desire of her, his fix, her lips.

"Buffy's boyfriend was killed by a devil!" Cordelia nearly shouted, she was panicking.

"How much did you tell her?" Gunn asked Doyle quickly.

"You know me, everythin'" Doyle said "Don't like lying to my charges"

"Yes, he was" Gunn answered Cordelia's question, pushing her down into a chair to calm her down.

"How much was the bounty?" Doyle asked.

"A power, from the First" Gunn said as he straightened up to tell his friend.

Doyle's eyes widen "I gotta say eek to that!" he said.

"I hear you" Gunn said.

"Why do we need Cordelia?" Doyle asked.

"The visions" Gunn said "We're gonna need them if we're going against the First"

"Whoa, you knew I had visions and you hadn't told me?" Cordelia said angrily as she stood up again then smacked Doyle across the head "That is for not telling me, do you know how painful that vision was?"

"Well I couldn't tell ya because, well, angels don't do that" Doyle said as he rubbed the sore spot on his head.

"God, can you be more of an idiot?" Cordelia shouted.

"Well I'm sorry" Doyle said.

"Are you two lovebirds done? Cause we've got to go" Gunn said, trying to get back on track.

"Wait my friends, we have to go to Sunnydale to save them" Cordelia said.

"Lucky for you, we're heading that way" Gunn said.

Giles looked through every text he could find on the First with Oz, Willow had classes in the morning and so she had to have an early night, Buffy was off with Angelus to patrol and Anya and Xander were no where to be seen leaving the Watcher and the Werewolf to research. Which was okay seeing as the relaxed member of the dingoes ate my baby band was rarely loud and a hard worker. A jingle of the bell on the door sang as the shop door opened.

"Sorry we're closed" Giles said not letting his eyes off the text.

"We're not here to shop" said slippery voice, bringing Giles to look over his book to the vampires that had a dagger and a sword, both equally sharp, shiny and pointy. They all wore black and red matching uniforms that seem to give them an air of fellowship, loyalty and most importantly danger.

"Oh really" Giles said as he got up instantly, taking a few steps back "What is it are you here for?"

The vampires growled and hissed at them, getting them to back away from them, like a predator would do to its prey and boy did the prey knew they were in trouble.

"Err Giles" Oz said very aware of the un-invited guests "Should we run?" knowing all too well they were both weapon less and out numbered.

"Indeed" Giles said with that they ran to the training room to get some weapons to protect themselves with the vampires closely on their tails.

Thanks for the reviews so far! Oh and what do you guys think of this chapter?