I know, I'm evil and I hate me too. Just kidding, personally I think I'm great. I really hadn't planed this little twist, I was going to have Buffy turn down Chris's proposal but then the last chapter came to me out of nowhere and I couldn't help myself. I too am a major Buffy/Angel ship fan but, like I've ranted in previous chapters the show I think messed it up. But they did redeem themselves in the end of BTVS if you watched the final episodes you know what I'm talking about. Buffy and Angel have this tragic Shakespearian star crossed lovers thing going and I felt it would be dishonest to ignore it. So anyways if you haven't decided you now hate this story and me, or can take the time out from plotting my demise to read the next chapter, here it is...

Chris tore his gaze away from his mother glaring furiously at the man that stood beside him.

"You son of a bitch." Chris said knocking him off his feet with a well landed punch.

"You sure you want to do this?" Angel asked wiping the blood trailing from his split lip with the back of his hand as he stood.

"You started it." Chris replied furiously.

"No, you started it, twenty years ago, you started it, and I'm gonna finish it." Angel replied coldly.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Chris demanded.

"She has this allusion of what you two had, and it's always haunted her, you ruined any chance we had of working things out, she couldn't let go of it. But it wasn't real." Angel replied.

"You don't know anything about us." Chris spat furiously. "It was real."

"She told me everything." Angel replied smugly. "You were both hurting, you knew it would never go anywhere, it was safe for her. You see real scares her. She runs from it, and I always let her, because I could never offer her what she deserved. But, now I can and I'm not letting her run away. What Buffy and I had was real, you heard her she couldn't deny her feelings for me. She still loves me, she always will, you, you were just a distraction while she couldn't have what she really wanted."

"Chris." Wyatt called as he orbed away preparing to chase after him.

"Don't." Piper said placing a hand on his shoulder before he could dematerialize.

"Um, who's neighbor Dan?" Mel asked breaking the silence.

"A long story, which has nothing to do with this." Piper sighed. "Let's go home."

She ran, it's what she'd always done best. She ran until she thought her lungs would collapse before stopping. Holding onto the side of a building for support she focused on the burning pain of each breath rather than the scene she'd left behind. Just half an hour ago she'd been so sure, so confident, then he showed up blowing it all away. She didn't know what to do now, what to think, how to feel.

"What's a pretty little thing like you doing out here all alone?" A voice called.

"You really don't want to do this." Buffy sighed turning around.

"Who are you?" The Vampire demanded as Buffy took at his partner.

"Take a wild guess." Buffy replied brushing off her clothes as she advanced.

"I don't know Piper, I mean you gotta see the similarities." Phoebe replied as they materialized in the manor.

"Ok, Who is neighbor Dan?" Paige demanded.

"Piper's ex." Leo sighed.

"I'm guessing there's more to the story?" Paige prompted.

"When Leo and I first started dating." Piper began.

"After you and Phoebe fought over him." Paige added with a smirk.

"Shut it." Phoebe glared.

"Anyways." Piper continued. "I didn't know about him being a white lighter."

"I knew we couldn't be together, so I left." Leo explained.

"But he came back, I found out a lot of drama latter we both agreed to stop seeing each other. Leo was reassigned and I was dating Dan, he had moved in next door with his niece." Piper picked up. "Hence, neighbor Dan."

"Ok and this is like Buffy and Chris how?" Wyatt asked not really wanting to discuss his mother's old boyfriends.

"I had to choose." Piper sighed explaining the whole dramatic love triangle. "As we can all see I choose Leo, even after he became a white lighter again. Not that, that made things easy, but a lot more drama later, we were married and here we are today."

"So it all worked out in the end." Jamie smiled.

"For us." Leo replied.

"Let's just hope history really does repeat itself." Phoebe sighed.

"Why?" Chris asked alerting them all to his presence. "Because, let's be honest in this whole scenario you've worked out, I'm your so called neighbor Dan. Angel and Buffy had this whole tragic romance. They couldn't be together, hell, it's one of the reasons we got together in the first place. She'd just lost him, I'd lost Bianca, we were lonely. Maybe Angel was right, maybe it wasn't real."

"Chris don't say that." Phoebe began.

"Why not, Buffy did, Angel did, maybe I just want it to be. No matter What choice mom made she wasn't going to get her normal life. She was a charmed one. She had a destiny to fulfill. Buffy has a chance to get out of it, away from this world, and maybe I shouldn't try and stop her." Chris replied.

"You don't really believe that." Phoebe replied.

"Yes I do." Chris replied orbing away.

"Leo go after him." Piper sighed as she made her way up the stairs.

"What are you doing?" Paige asked as she and Phoebe followed.

"What you two do best. Meddling." Piper declared storing onto the attic.

"Your going to find her and do what?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm not looking for her." Piper replied. "The elders had something to do with this, we just need to finds out what they're planning."

She hadn't had a fight like that in years. She missed it she thought with a small smile as she continued walking. She hated being the slayer, and she loved it, the certainty, the clarity that she had while in battle. She only wished the rest of her life could be so simple. She didn't know where she was going, she didn't really have anywhere to go. She was twenty years out of place. She had no friends, no family, she was alone. It was what she wanted, wasn't it. She couldn't face Chris, not after what had just happened. And Angel, god what was she supposed to do now. She had to choose, but how. She loved them both, Angel, he was never supposed to be a choice. But then again neither was Chris.