Part 8

Most of the group was overjoyed with the news, and decided they should go out and get something to eat, and then go party at the Bronze to celebrate. Angel and Buffy agreed, and they all said they'd meet back at Giles's house around 5:30, to go eat. Giles had informed them all that he would go out to eat, but that he would come back to the house afterward. They would have none of it, and had informed him that he was coming to all of it. They went to their homes, Xander to his basement, Willow and Buffy back to the dorms, Angel went to his Mansion, and Spike and Giles stayed at his house. They had been so happy, they even invited Spike to come with.

About 5:00

At the dorm, Buffy and Willow were getting dressed and putting their make-up on, getting ready for there night out. The four girls, Buffy, Willow, Anya and Cordelia (they'd called her when earlier from Giles') had decided, after Buffy had argued with Will for a while, that they would all wear black leather pants, but different colors and kinds of shirts.

Buffy had on her pair of black leather pants, and a shiny-like, open back shirt, that was light blue, with dark blue and silver flower designs. The shirt was held on by a string around her neck, and two tying in the back. It was new and she'd never worn it before, but she liked it a lot. She'd curled her hair and it hung freely around her face. She slipped on a pair of high heeled boots, and turned around in front of the mirror inspecting herself.

She grinned as she thought of the look on Angel's face, when she walked in the door.

Willow had on her black leather pants, and a red spaghetti strapped shirt, with black high heeled sandals. She was borrowing them from Buffy. Her hair had grown out a little bit and now fell a few inches below her shoulder. She put her hair back behind her ears, and flipped it under slightly.

She then went into the bathroom to get Buffy. "Hey, you--Wow! You look great!" Willow exclaimed as she came in.

Buffy laughed, "You don't look so bad yourself!"

"Ready? We should probably get going," Willow commented giving herself a once over.

"Yeah, I'm ready. Angel's supposed to be coming by soon. He's picking up Cordelia, too," she replied running her fingers through her hair, spinning around one last time.

"Okay, then let's go," Willow said following Buffy back to their room.

"I'm just gonna grab my coat, in case," Buffy told her opening her closet and getting out her black leather jacket. She slipped it on as they went out the door, and down the hall.

They got a few looks from some guys as they exited the school, but neither really paid any attention. Willow was still trying her best to move on from her painful break-up with Oz, and Buffy had Angel now, and she didn't think she'd ever want anyone else.

The two wandered down the sidewalk to where Angel was going to meet them. They sat and talked a few minutes before they saw a black convertible, with the top down for once when the sun was out, pull up next to them. Buffy smiled big when she saw that it was Angel. Angel has a convertible? Wow, my boyfriend has a convertible, Buffy thought as Cordelia moved from the front into the back, and Willow followed her.

Cordelia wore a burgundy tube top, her pair of black leather pants, and black platform sandals, with her brown hair down and very loosely curled.

Angel wore a dark blue, long sleeved shirt, (this is for all you Angel lovers :) with his pair of black leather pants, and black dress shoes. He contemplated for quite a long time whether or not to wear his leather pants like they were, and he decided he wanted to fit in, so he did, much to the excitement of Buffy.

They stared driving over to Giles's and Buffy put her hand on his thigh. He turned and smiled at her, then took one hand off the wheel and held on to hers.

"Angel, I think you'd better concentrate on driving," Cordelia commented, after seeing him take his eyes off the road.

"Oh, Cordelia, you know how I hate back seat drivers!" he reprimanded, jokingly.

"All right, who gave him a sense of humor?" Buffy laughed.

"It just came to me..." he turned and smiled at her.

"Doyle's coming!" Cordelia yelped at them all.

"Huh? He is?" Angel questioned, looking at her in his rearview mirror.

"Yeah, I called him earlier today, and her said he'd get on a train and come meet the gang!" Angel and Buffy smiled at each other, seeing how happy she was.

"Um... Who's Doyle?" Willow asked, feeling left out.

"He works with me, he's my link to the Powers," Angel informed her, and Willow nodded.

"And Cordy here's got a crush on him," Buffy told her snickering, with a big grin on her face. Cordelia glared at her and gave her a swat on the shoulder, but obviously not hard, because it was true.

Before she knew it she was smiling with the rest of them. In a matter of minutes they arrived at Giles's apartment. Angel parked the car and hand in hand he and Buffy, followed closely by Willow and Cordelia went inside.

Spike, and Giles were the only two there, and both were sitting watching television, quietly.

"Giles!" Buffy exclaimed, "Watching the television, I'm ashamed! Do you know what that can do to a mind like yours!"

Giles seemed to be shaken out of a trance, "Oh... Oh! Buffy... I wasn't watching I was... Um... Reading this book see." But the book was on the other end of the couch, and they all knew he was lying and started to crack up.

"I think you really fooled um'," Spike commented. The Ex-Watcher just sighed, took his glasses off, and rubbed his eyes.

Once they'd all settled down they all sat down in the living room to wait for the others.

Spike wore a dark red, long sleeved shirt under his black duster, a pair of leather pants, and black boots. Angel had called him and let him know about the whole leather thing.

The next people to arrive were Xander and Anya. Anya had went for a green halter top, her black leather pants, and platform dress shoes. Xander had also been informed of them all going in leather pants, and Anya had previously been trying to convince him to get a pair of them. So Xander wore a dark green long sleeved shirt,(this is for you Vicky :) leather pants, and black Sketchers.

"Hey guys," Xander greeted them, still feeling slightly uncomfortable in leather.

"Wow, Xander, I've never seen this side of you," Cordelia said mockingly.

"Funny, Cordelia, you seem to be your usual sluty self!" he commented.

"Aye! I think you'd best say you're sorry," Doyle told him as he entered the house.

Xander looked at the guy, then started to laugh, "What you gonna hurt me, little man?"

(Note: Since, Doyle didn't die in Hero, he told Cordy about the whole half-demon thing. And Angel had informed Buffy of it.)

"I might," he said getting closer to him.

"Let's see you try," Xander jeered, opening his arms, egging him on.

"Xander I really don't think you should do that," Buffy told him.

"Yeah, let's just drop this," Angel said agreeing with her, and ready to stand up and interfere.

"No, come on peaches, I wanna see this," Spike disagreed, rubbing his hands together. Angel sighed deeply and sat back down.

"Come on shorty, let's see what you got!"

Cordy was getting worried, her ex and her hopefully future boyfriend were gonna get in a fight, and she knew for a fact Xander was going to get beat, pretty badly. But she guessed he deserved it, and she knew that Doyle wouldn't go full out or he might kill him.

Doyle turned away from him for a split second and when he faced him he was in demon mode. Xander's eyes bugged out and he screamed, then Doyle picked him up and threw him into the corner. Angel and Buffy just shook their heads, Spike was grinning, Giles was just staring at Doyle in wonderment, Anya had went to Xander, and Cordelia had went to Doyle.

Xander wasn't knocked out or anything, just in pain and shock. "Demon!" he screamed at Doyle, attempting to get up, but needing Anya's help. Xander wobbled over to him and shoved him.

Cordelia was getting defensive now, "Get off him!"

Xander laughed, "But I thought I was the demon magnet Cor."

She had something to say, but first she slapped him, "For your information, he's only half demon, and he's helping Angel!"

"Oh yeah! Working with him gives him a lot of gratification!" he yelled back at her.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Buffy screamed, and the room went completely silent.

"This is supposed to be us going out and having fun! Being friends, and being happy for each other! For us! For once in a long, long time I'm really happy! And you are all getting into fights!" she barked at them.

Angel slowly came up behind her and put his hands on her shoulders. She visibly relaxed at this, and turned to him. "It's okay. They just got caught up in the moment and weren't thinking. They didn't mean it," he told her, looking at all that had been involved.

"Yeah, Buffy. We can still go have fun. We'll get all of this resolved. It's just a big misunderstanding," Willow told her coming up to her.

Buffy sighed, closed her eyes and shook her head, "Yeah, you're right. We're gonna work this out."

She walked from Angel and Willow over to Xander, "If you ever make that much of an outburst around me, or say something about Angel like that again... So help me God, I will run your head through a wall!" Xander was startled and flinched at this, but quickly nodded his head in agreement.

Then she went to Doyle, "I don't really know you, but from what I've heard, you're a pretty good guy. But I really don't want to see your demon side again, or you'll see my bad side, kay!"

Doyle shook his head, "Yes, ma'am."

It was Cordelia's turn, even though she hadn't done all that much. "Cordelia, I'd just really like it if you'd try really hard to not get in a fight with him again, for a long time," Buffy said getting calmed down.

"Sure, Buffy. No problem," Cordy smiled at her, hoping to get back on her good side. It must have worked pretty well, because she smiled back.

Buffy cleared her throat, "All right now that I've done that. You three need to apologize to each other... and Xander, I think you owe one to Angel, too."

They did what they were told, Xander was even really nice to Angel. They'd all, even Spike, gotten into a friendly conversation, but it was about time to leave if they wanted to make their reservation.

"All right, car arrangement time! Everybody out!" Buffy commanded, and they all left with their significant others, except for Giles who didn't have one. (Anyone wondering what happened to Willow and Spike?) Willow and Spike had gotten to talking and actually had some fun spending that time together, so they'd decided to be friends.

While they were talking they'd noticed something.

Buffy had on a light blue shirt, and her boyfriend Angel had on a dark blue shirt.

Anya had on a green shirt, and her boyfriend Xander had on a dark green shirt.

Willow had on a red shirt, and her boy that was her friend had on a dark red shirt.

Cordy had on a burgundy shirt, and her friend Doyle had on a dark burgundy shirt.

And everyone had on leather pants.

"Looks like everyone has their match tonight, 'cept for Giles," Willow said as they stood outside waiting for them to get the cars. Spike had his arm around her shoulder and they got some weird looks from they others, but didn't really care.

"Yup," he replied, looking around at all the couples.

"Well we can get 5 people in Angel's car and 4 in mine," Giles told them.

"Well I can drive your car, and you can go with Angel. That way no one's gotten get separated, or anything," Doyle suggested.

"I guess I can trust you with my car. It can't get much worse," Giles reasoned.

Angel decided to organize, "Then, in my car it'll be Buffy, me, Giles, Xander, and Anya. Then with Doyle will be Cordy, Spike, and Willow. Sound good?" Everyone agreed, and went to their car.

They went to eat, and Angel had his first real meal since he became human. He got a sampler thing so he could try a lot of different foods. He liked them all.

Spike sat and watched them eat, although he did try and order a brandy, but they all ignored his request.

After they ate they decided that partying at the Bronze didn't sound too great anymore. They were all stuffed with food, and actually pretty tired. They weren't sure where to go at first, 'cuz they still wanted to do something, just not that much moving around that the Bronze would cause. Spike said they should go back to Angel's Mansion, and they all agreed that that would be a good place to go.

Against the protests of the others, Giles went home after he dropped them off. He'd had fun at dinner, but didn't think that he would have fun doing what they thought was fun.

So they all went inside and got comfortable in the living room by the fireplace. Buffy was sitting on Angel's lap on one end of the couch, and on the other end Doyle sat with Cordy on his. Xander was in the Lazy-Boy-type chair with Anya laying across him. Spike was sitting on the love seat with Willow laying across him, with her feet up, using the arm rest next to him as a pillow.

Once they got settled Cordelia brought up something, "What are we going to do now that we're here?"

They all seemed stumped, but Xander quickly came up with an idea, "Truth or Dare!"

Everyone rolled their eyes, but Spike, "Or I Never!"

Buffy scoffed, "How old are we again?"

Spike looked at her, "Got any better ideas, Slayer?"

Buffy sighed, "Fine, so which one?"

Doyle spoke up, "How 'bout we play Truth or Dare and then I Never? We've got all night, so we might as well play both." They all nodded their heads in agreement.

"So who's going first?" Buffy asked looking at them all, then getting an idea. She stood up, much to the dismay of Angel, and went into the center of the room,

"All right, everyone... Come over here."

They all groaned in protest, "I promise you can sit right back down where you were, it'll only take a sec." They reluctantly got up and came over to her, and she made a hoop with her arms.

"Everyone put a hand in," they all did, "Now someone put one in for me," Angel, being her boyfriend and all, did so, "Angel's first." This time it was just Angel that groaned, as they all went back to their seats.

Buffy turned to look at him, "Truth or Dare?"