They orbed outside the small chapel just in time to witness the scene.

The dawn is breaking...
A light shining through...
You're barely waking...
And I'm tangled up in you. (yeah)

"Angel?" Buffy gasped stunned.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Chris demanded.

"And on what grounds do you object." The minister asked.

"I love the bride." Angel replied.

I'm open, you're closed.
Where I'll follow you'll go.
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again.

"Why are you doing this?" Buffy asked confused.

"I love you Buffy, I'm not ready to give up on us yet." Angel replied.

"You know we can't be together, you left me." Buffy began.

"I know." Angel explained. "I didn't have anything to offer you then."

"And now? Why now?' Buffy asked confused.

"Now, I do. I can give you a life, a real life, a normal life." Angel replied walking the isle to her. "Things have changed." He said cryptically taking her hand.

Even the best fall down sometimes.
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme.
Out of the doubt that fills my mind,
I somehow found you and I collide.

"Um, I'll give you few moments to talk this over." the minster said exiting.

"I don't understand. Your hand, it's warm." Buffy said confused as he placed her hand over his heart. The beat shocked her without realizing it the small bouquet of flowers Chris had insisted on buying her fell from her hand. "Your...your alive." She exclaimed as the doors burst open and Chris's family burst in.

"Buffy?" Chris asked unsurely as he watched the flowers scatter at her feet. She spun around to face him pulling her hand from Angel's.

I'm quiet, you know,
You make a first impression.
I've found I'm scared to know,
I'm always on your mind.

"We're meant to be. You know it, you always have, now it can happen." Angel replied.

"You were never meant to be." Chris said glaring as the two men faced off.

"Oh, and I supposed you two are?" Angel asked. "What can you offer her? A life full of demons and pain, she's had that, I can give her what she really wants, a real life, a normal life."

"That's not what she wants." Chris declared hoping he sounded more confident than he was. "You don't know her like I do."

"Well, why don't we just ask her what she wants?" Angel countered as the two men turned to her expectantly. Buffy stood unable to speak silently taking a step away from the two men.

Even the best fall down sometimes.
Even the stars refuse to shine.
Out of the back you fall in time
Somehow find you and I collide...

"Please, don't do this." She begged.

"Tell me you don't love me and I'll go, I'll never bother you again." Angel replied his eyes never leaving hers.

"Tell him Buffy." Chris said causing her to tear her gaze away from Angel to meet his.

Don't stop here...
I lost my place...
I'm close behind...

"I'm sorry." Buffy said quietly taking another step back. She could see the pain in his eyes and it killed her. They stood their waiting for her to make a choice. "I can't do this." She said turning around only to meet the stunned member's of the Halliwell clan. She silently walked down the isle avoiding their gazes. She ignored the calls of the two men behind her as she made her way to the door. They parted letting her pass silently she was almost out when she looked up her eyes meeting Piper's. "I'm sorry." She said quietly a single tear rolling down her cheek as she hurried past the woman and into the night.

Even the best fall down sometimes.
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme.
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find, you and I collide.
You finally find, you and I collide.
You finally find, you and I collide.

"I know." Piper sighed as she looked up to the front of the church to meet the heartbroken gaze of her son.

"Neighbor Dan strikes again." Phoebe sighed.

Collide, Howie Day