Closing Time

By AngelSummers

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Buffy and Co. sadly belong to Joss. Hey, but here's hopin' for me, Right?

Rating: R for mostly sexual innuendoes and kinda sexual situations might be NC-17 later.

Time: AU

Summary: Angel and Buffy are nightly having an affair on their unknowing spouses. The catch is both married couples are close friends. What happens when their just casual sex and friendship turns in to love? Or was it love all a long?

Distribution: Take it... I don't care...just let me know where it goes

Author's Note: Sorry about the summary. I suck at them. There might be two different times but I'm not sure yet. If there is, it's going to be in the 1700s not sure on that one cause I suck at accents or the teenage years of the characters and the present, just to let you know. Anyway this is my first story out, although, I have written more. Long story. There is also not the best character description. Let me know if you don't get something. P.S. got the idea from Sarah McLachlan's 'Stupid' video and the title from Semisonic's song 'Closing Time' so all props. to them. Just don't ask why the title is what it is cause it was either that or 'Zombie' from the Cranberries song.

Author's Note 2: There will be some flashbacks in FLASHBACK. Thoughts will be in and slight change of time will be have ----- straight across. I'll let you now what the date is if we go back in time like I'm planning to. I might just show flashbacks of Angel & Buffy's childhood together.

Author's Note 3: I'll shut up here after a second I just wanted to get out that if some part of the story sounds like another author's fic, I'm sorry. Didn't do it on purpose but I'll give acknowledgement to them or take the scene out if you do. Um, while we're at it I really loved the fic by Bre 'Affair' and this is kind of based on that. If you like this you'll love that.

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Buffy Summers-Finn slowly raised her head from its comfortable position on her lover's chest and looked at the clock on his nightstand. Glowing red numbers read 5:14, signaling Buffy's departure time. Groaning softly she started to with draw from the tight hold around her waist. Only to be pulled closer.

"Angel," Buffy said tracing a path with her fingers across his bare chest. Slowly moving up and down the bare expanse panned out in front of her.

"Mmmm?"

"We have to go." Was her reply slowly prying herself from his fixed grip.

"Not yet." He countered pulling her back down from her work of getting up.

"Angel O'Connor, Cordy and Riley get back soon and we have to go pick them up." Sighing loudly he finally opened his eyes to meet the hazel ones staring up at him.

Angel and Buffy had spent all of yesterday in Angel's spacious apartment together since Riley and Cordy, their spouses, had been out of town for the day. One going to Iowa for family and the other to New York for business. I know, what you are thinking, but no. Riley and Cordy were not having an affair on Buffy and Angel, simply because Riley would never lie about visiting his family. The scary truth was he actually does all the time.

Three Days Ago Wednesday

"I have to go to Iowa on Saturday. Mom needs me to help move Patrick to his apartment plus we're having this house-warming party. It's going to be fun! You know I'm just so glad that Mom didn't stop calling favors after I moved here. Speaking of which have you thought about my offer any? I know I know it would mean leaving Angel and Cordy and the rest of your family behind but Iowa isn't anything like people say it is. Really." Riley rambled on Wednesday night at the dinner table.

"Riley I don't want to leave my friends behind. Your always in Iowa anyway. Not that I'm complaining but isn't that enough? I really don't want to move back there; where everything for miles is plain farm and cows. And people know everything about you. I mean come on the biggest cities population is like 102."Buffy replied dully AN: I was born in Iowa and have a lot of family there and this description isn't far off but sorry to all those Riley ::cringe:: lovers and/or Iowa lovers out there. Every night Riley asked about moving back to Iowa and every night was the same reply.

"Okay, okay! I just wanted to let you know I'll be gone all Saturday."

"When's your flight?"

"Umm 11:00 p.m. Friday night."

"Fine. Listen I have to run. I'm meeting Willow at her office and we're going to go grab some coffee. So don't wait up, kay?" Buffy told her husband, although it was a lie. She was really planning on going to meet up with Angel at the small cabin, not to far from the Los Angeles city limits, that Angel had rented for them, for some late night lovin'. But no worries cause Buffy had confessed to Willow and Tara right after Buffy and Angel's first, but incredible, time. So they could cover if Riley just so happened to call.

"Okay." Buffy gave him a quick kiss of the cheek and proceeded to the door

Buffy, Angel, Willow (Buffy's best friend), Xander, Anya, Cordelia had all gone to high school together. But as graduation came and went they all spilt up, going their different ways across the country or (in Willow's case) across the ocean, to attend college. In college, Buffy met Riley and things progressed from there as they ended up moving and eventually getting married in Los Angeles; as did Angel and Cordy which didn't thrive as a coincidence. Angel now worked for a law firm and Cordelia as a fashion designer. Buffy, however, surprised some and didn't surprise others by taking over a small art gallery that had gone bankrupt the previous months before. Were as Riley worked for the military, not really having a specific job, just kind of helping the special ops teams come up with plans and such.

Xander and Anya had also gotten hitched, albeit together, but still. They currently lived in New York happily married, with Xander as a construction worker and Anya currently as an employee of a pet store; ironic in its own way because she has a horrendous phobia of rabbits. Recently the couple had been thinking of moving back to L.A. with the rest of the gang.

Willow graduated at the top of her class from college and moved back to L.A. a year after. She joined a small computer industry but soon left to start her up her own magic shop, which is currently getting bigger and bigger everyday. Working at her magic shop she met Tara, and the two hit it off immediately. Eventually, they moved in with each other and own The Magic Box together.

Which brings us to the next subject: the on going affair of Buffy and Angel.

They had been seeing each other for a little over a month. At first just as friends, like always, but it soon became more. They started sleeping together, which soon became often. Buffy and Angel had loved their spouses at one time. They might even still love them. But something about being with the other had an addicting way of getting to them both. It wasn't like anything they had ever felt before.

So now here they sat in Angel's spacious (as mentioned before) apartment in his huge bed with the silk sheets surrounding them holding each other close. Although every time was remarkable together, Buffy hated having sex with Angel in his and Cordy's bed. It felt especially wrong; mostly from the constant reminder of what they were doing right before passion took to far over them and they lost the world altogether. When they were together they had this special world that they somehow had created; although they would never admit it to each other it felt like much more then simple sex.

That's why Buffy preferred their cabin so much more then their places in the city while one of their spouses were out of town. The cabin wasn't just a hide way so they didn't get caught it was magic; the bed much bigger then the one's they owned in the city, that seemed to call out to them every time, with its black silk sheets and blood red comforter. The cabin was now much more then it should have been; it was theirs.

"Angel. We really have to get up. We have to take showers and get dressed. Not to mention cleaning the mess we made last night. I can't believe you broke that lamp and vase and everything else in the living room and bathroom and kitchen. Jeez we didn't even find the bed until the sixth time. Or was it the eighth?" Buffy mumbled.

"Okay, fine. I get your point but it's not like Cordy will even notice that their gone so what does it matter?"

"I know but still."

"Baby, It's okay. I promise." He told her kissing her temple and slowly moving down her face peppering kisses along her neck and going up again to find her lips. He softly kissed her gliding his tongue into her mouth and slowly tracing the inside as the kiss grew more passionate. Soon the human need for air became in issue and he let her lips go reluctantly.

"Gods, the things you do to me."

"Okay, we have to get up." He replied smiling at her, while letting her loose from his tight embrace around her waist and throwing his legs over the side of the bed.

"Yeah. We really do." She replied sliding her hands up and down his back and quickly kissing his neck before letting go altogether and hopping out of the bed.

She moved to her overnight bag, which she had brought over the previous morning. She grabbed the bag and walked over to the bathroom door standing ajar in front of her. Stopping just inside a she turned around at shot Angel a wide grin.

"We do have a little bit of time left. You wanna join?"

Hearing his soft growl in reply she giggled as he stepped up to her and started kissing her neck shutting the bathroom door behind him.

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"So what did you do with out me here with you?" Riley asked later that day after Buffy and him had gotten back from the airport.

"Not much. Just, you know, hung out with Willow and messed around at the gallery. Pure boringness here." Buffy lied. It was times like these that she felt the worse for cheating on Riley. Which she would later confess to Angel, in which, he would tell her its okay because what they did together let them have some balance in their relationship and lives. Not to mention, left them sane and content. But they always felt bad for what they did. They were good people; never wanting to hurt anyone but they found something in each other that brought feelings they had never felt before and for now, that was enough.

"Let me make it up to you." Riley said closing the distance between them and starting to kiss her neck.

"Riley, I'm really not in the mood." Buffy told him, softly pushing him off of her, and giving him a sympathetic smile.

"Then let me get you into it." He retorted pushing her back, softly, into the couch they were sitting on.

"Honey, I really don't feel like it." Buffy replied and pushed him a harder off of her.

"Fine, I get it."

"Listen, Ri, I have to meet Willow again. She has a crisis she told me about earlier and I should really try and handle it. I'm sorry. She's gonna be drunk by the end of the night so I should probably take care of her; if I do come home, count on it being really late." Buffy told him a half-lie. She was going to spend the night at Willow's but she was only doing to keep out of Riley's paws for the night. Riley could never make her feel like Angel does. At one time Riley was her life but, now, it seems like maybe that was just a fake.

So Buffy headed towards their room and packed her overnight bag, kissed Riley, and headed out the door with a short goodbye; sometimes wishing it was for good instead of just 'til the morning.

TBC...

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