Title: Not Everything's Perfect

Author: Sammy Jay

Summary: AU. Buffy and Angel talk in the rain!

Pairing: B/A

Rating: PG-13

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She ran as fast as she could with tears streaming down her face like and river flowing fast, out of the Bronze but her feet didn't really take her far, she was in the parking lot of the Bronze, then it started to rain. ' My night couldn't get any worse'

Until she heard Angel call her name. She turned around and she saw him chase after her.

"Buffy! What just happened in there?" He pleaded her to tell him.

"Gee Angel I thought it was pretty obvious! You were in there throwing yourself over some girl you'd just met. And you probably would've bedded her if I hadn't made a huge fool of myself!" she screamed at him over the thundering rain.

"So you were jealous!" he confirmed for her.

"Yes! Yes I was. Is that what you wanted to hear! I was jealous of you throwing yourself over that girl in there and you had just met her and I have been in front of you your whole life and you don't do ANYTHING!" she screamed at the end.

"Just say it Buffy! Just say that you love me and all of this, all of this will be over and we can be together!" he screamed back and moved closer to her with their faces just millimeters away, he had a grip of her upper arm. They were now soaking wet in the cold and were drawing attention towards them.

Buffy was crying from all of the shouting that they gave each other. She looked up at him, "I-I-I c-can't!"

"Why not?" he asked her his jaw clenching waiting for her answer.

"Because I'm not sure that you love me as much as you claimed!" she told him tearing her grip away from his arm and turned to walk away, but he grabbed her back again just like he had done the last time and turned her around to have her directly face to face with him.

"I Love You! I love you so much. I always have and I always will. That was a stupid excuse for you not to love me. You know I do! I will do anything to prove that I love you. I will run to the top of the highest building and shout it from the rooftops; I will make sure they will have it as a headline in the local newspapers. You see, I will do anything to prove my love for you!" he told her whilst crying. "So now that you know that I definetly love you, will you please say it back?"

Buffy was shivering, crying and completely thrown back by what he just confessed, she looked up at him. Their eyes connected, she put her hands on the back of his neck and brought her eyes to be directly in front of his, "I love you, I've tried not to but, I can't stop! I've loved you for so long and all of my feelings have built up for so long that I can't even begin to explain it!"

"Me to! I've loved you so much, for so long, even ask the guys!" he told her laughing.

She laughed, "Well you should ask the girls."

He laughed with her. She brought his head down towards hers and leaned in towards him and his lips descended on her hers. Sparks of electricity went through them both. Buffy pushed her tongue into his mouth and he accepted. The kiss had gone on forever, as it seemed. But they do have to breathe so they pulled away from each other, breathing heavily.

"That was um… was um… WOW! Is all I can say" Buffy said breathlessly as she stared again.

"Yeah (deep breathe) me too." Angel said breathlessly as well.

"So what does this mean for us?" Buffy asked him.

"I love you!"

"I love you too!" She said back to him and jumped into his arms and kissed him like there was no tomorrow.

Angel broke the kiss for the second time, "Maybe we should get inside somewhere. It's getting really cold and we're so wet."

Buffy got out of his arms and looked at him and stuttered out, "W-w-well we c-could go to m-my place? My parents are out of town."

"Really?" Angel knew what she was asking him. " Are you sure?"

"I've never been more surer of anything before. I-I want it to be you." She confessed to him.

Angel was embarrassed but he told her and he took her small hands in his large ones, "A-and I want it to be you."

"Really? You're a virgin? I thought you broke your virginity with what's her face oh yeah Darla the dog faced whore!" she asked him.

"I didn't I lied to the guys because they were beating me up about that I wanted to wait for the right person." He told her his explanation.

"That is me right?" she asked him.

"Well it kind of is since I am asking it to be you" he emphasized his words.

"Oh yeah, right, you are, aren't you, and I'm asking it to be you aren't I?" she stuttered.

"Hey you don't have to if you don't want to." He told her.

"No, no, no I want to I'm just a little nervous that's all." She told him.

"Yeah me too. We really should get inside!"

"Ok let's go!"

They took Angel's car and drove to her house.

When they got inside took of their coats and went in the living room Angel asked, "Where's Oz, Dawn and Riley?"

"Well Oz is staying with Willow for the night, Dawn is with my parents out of town and Riley, well he has his own apartment doesn't he." She told Angel.

" Oh yeah so." Angel said.

"So."

He stalked across the living room pulled her to him and kissed her with such a passion that William Shakespeare would never be able to explain. She hoisted her legs up and wrapped them around his waist and Angel took them up the stairs both taking off each other's clothing without breaking contact.

And they finally had made it to her room.