Forever Young
Summary: Buffy decides to pay Angel a visit, but her timing is terrible! The day she arrives in Los Angeles is they day that Angel and his friends launch their "suicide" attack on the Black Thorn. Buffy finds Angel in the alley behind the Hyperion, but finds only Spike with him.
Pairings: Buffy/Angel, Angel/Spike.
I – Buffy's Arrival
Buffy arrived in L.A. and saw right away the damage that had been done. She wasn't sure exactly what had happened, but she had a terrible feeling in her gut that it had something to do with her beloved Angel.
She knew where the Wolfram and Hart offices were, and she knew that Angel would be there. Even thought it was late in the evening and her flight had only just come in, she had no choice but to go right away for she feared that something was terribly wrong. And she was right.
She arrived at the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart an hour later, by taxi. Or rather, she arrived at what was left of the Wolfram and Hart offices. At this stage, half of the building had collapsed and nearly all the windows were shattered. Glass lay scattered on the pavement below, and it crunched under Buffy's feet as she wandered up to the front doors.
She went inside, carefully taking each step and checking behind, above and around herself before she moved again. The place was a mess, with the framework falling to pieces and pylons lying stretched across the stairs. Buffy made the decision that Angel would not have stayed here if this were happening. He would have gone somewhere else safer, but where he could still fight against whatever caused this.
She was surprised that she hadn't had any Slayer dreams or any indication that something had happened in L.A. She wanted answers though, and knew of only one other place she could find Angel: the Hyperion Hotel.
Willow had told her about the visit she'd taken to Angel two years earlier, and about the hotel that Angel owned. She figured that it would be the only other place Angel would go, so that's where she headed off too. She climbed back into the taxi and asked to be taken to the Hyperion Hotel.
II - Dying in the Battle
Angel found himself lying on the ground, again. He watched Spike bravely fighting, as the two of them were the only two left. Spike appeared to be winning before the thing he was fighting against got a punch and a kick in and made Spike double over in pain. Angel got to his feet and resumed his fight for survival, not noticing the taxi pull up at the end of the alley.
Buffy got out, and saw all the demons and hell-beasts flooding into the alley. God, Angel must be down there. Nobody else would have this army sent after them. She dumped her bag behind a dumpster and joined the fight.
She forced her way through the horde of demons, trying to reach the other end of the alley so that she could find Angel. She hoped that he wasn't too badly hurt after the violent fight he was enduring, non-stop.
After kicks, punches and a couple of throw-downs, Buffy managed to make her way to where she thought Angel might be. Then she saw him, fighting off three demons at once as another crowd swarmed around someone else who was fighting with him.
"Angel!" she yelled when she was within his hearing distance. "Angel!" Angel decapitated a hell-beast with horns and horrible scaly skin and turned to face the direction of her voice.
"Buffy?" he replied, shocked. While he wasn't watching, a demon ran up to him and tackled him to the ground.
"Angel, no!" Buffy ran to his side. She had finally found him, and he was in the biggest fight of his life. This was way bigger than anything he'd done before, she could tell. The last fight he was in with her, back at her Sunnydale High Graduation, couldn't compare to this. This was something bigger than a fight for survival; this was a fight for something huge, something global. This was a fight for humanity.
Buffy grabbed a weapon from on the ground where piles of dust from dead demons lay and sliced off its head with one swift movement. She looked down at Angel with a surprised look on her face. Angel looked back at her with an equally surprised expression.
He was covered in blood, with scratches, gashes, cuts and bruises ranging from black to purple numerous on his torso. His clothes were all torn, and the jacket she saw him wearing so often was lost amongst the bodies.
None of whom she recognised. She reached down and offered Angel a hand, which he accepted. Without a moment's conversation, they both began fighting again, with the war raging on for what seemed like hours more until Buffy realised who else she was fighting with.
Spike.
A/N: I am well aware that I have already written 50,000 other NFA fan.fics but there's something about that finale that just left open doors for every possible opportunity for a fresh story. And this possibly will be the start of another story for me, which I love writing. I may not be very good, but that's up to you to tell me. Do you like it so far? There's more to come, WAY more, I promise.
Ez.