Title: I Finally Remembered You. Part 11 – Questions Answered, once more.

Author: Xanfan

Rating: R/

Pairing: Xander/Angel

Summary: AU futurefic. Slash. Xander, not Buffy, had gone to see Angel in "I Will Remember You" Years later, he finally keeps his promise.

Spoilers: All of BtVS & Ats

Warnings: M/M, mild language, more in future chapters

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.

A/N: The next several chapters are going to be one long flashback. I pretty much took the transcript for the entire episode, "I Will Remember You" and changed the dialog to fit Xander. I got the transcript of this episode from Buffyworld

Wordsin Italics indicate thoughts.

FLASHBACK yet again continues.

Xander still had his head rested on Angel's chest, "It's a good sound. Thump-thump. Thump-thump," listening to the heartbeat beneath his ear.

"It feels pretty amazing."

"I'm so glad we didn't logic ourselves out of this. We'll make it work, right?" Xander asked hesitantly.

"We will."

"I love you, Angel." Xander whispers, afraid, but unable to keep the words inside.

"I love you, Xander. I've never loved anyone as much as I love you."

"Not even…" Xander asked, not wanting to say her name, for fear that it would break the mood.

"Not even her. I really did love her, but, it wasn't anything like this. I'm a little scared at the intensity of my feelings for you." Angel admitted.

"Me too."

"At least we can be scared together, right." Angel teased

"Oh, I'm so sleepy, but I still want..."

"What? You couldn't possibly… Not that I wouldn't..."

"No, no. I'm spent. Pleasantly numb even. You?"

"For now."

"No, I want to stay awake, so this day can keep happening."

Angel kissed his boys damp forehead, "Sleep. We'll make another one like it tomorrow."

Xander said sleepily, "Angel? This is the first time I ever really felt this way."

"What way?"

"Just like I've always wanted to. Like somebody really cares. It's perfect."

Angel kisses the top of his head as he falls asleep, smiling sadly, as he recognized the truth of those words. His Boy hadn't had enough people really show that they care bout him. That was going to change, starting now.

Angel watched Xander sleep. He heard the door open and shifted Xander off of him, careful not to wake Xander. He pulled a sheet up to cover the His Boy.

Angel came out of the bedroom, shrugging into a robe, as Doyle came down the stairs.

"Hey, that Mohra demon regenerated more then just you."

"What?"

"I had a vision. It regenerated itself."

"Where?"

"In the tunnel, where you fought it. Then it was in some sort of factory. I thought I tasted salt. Could have been the margarita."

"No, it needs a lot of salt to live."

"Well, it was very much alive in this vision, and angry, if I might mention."

"I'll have to kill it again."

"Yeah, but you're human now. They released you."

Angel pulled on some pants, "You want to let that thing roam free? You saw it in a factory. There is a saline plant in Redondo. We'll start there."

"Yeah, but if it can regenerate itself, how can you kill it?"

"We'll figure it out. Just grab the book of Kelsor. You'll read, I'll drive. Doyle?"

Doyle looked over at Xander, sleeping on Angel's bed, "Angel?"

Angel pulled a sweater over his head and followed Doyle's gaze, to His Boy, resting on the bed.

"Don't you want to wake your boy?"

"Not for the world." My Boy.

At the saline plant.

Doyle read the book, "Okay. This is not good. It doesn't just come back - it comes back bigger and stronger. I think we should go back and get more weapons and help."

"I know what I'm doing."

"This isn't your average demon we're fighting here. It nearly licked you before and now you're mortal."

"If this thing with me and Xander is going to work, I need to be able do this, protect him. I can't keep risking his life every time some minion of hell… Just tell me how to kill it."

Doyle read from book, "Uh, 'It regenerates until the dark future it envisions is upon us.' Oh, 'to kill the beast one must bring darkness to 1000 eyes'."

"Funny, I only saw two."

"Keep up the glib. It makes me feel like we have a chance." Angel saw two corpses and gagged from the smell. "Take it easy, mate."

"The blood." Angel gasped.

"It's never an easy sight. It's part of being human now."

"I'm going to kill that thing."

"Just remember that it's brutal, deadly, and…here!"

The Mohra jumped down on them from above. They're clearly overmatched and Doyle got knocked out pretty early. Angel kept getting back up, but the thing was wiping the floor with him and he finally turned to run.

Cordy put sticky notes on things in the office.

"Angel? Cordelia." Xander called, as he came into the office.

Cordy held up and ornate ax, "Is this antique?"

"Byzantine." Xander replied, slightly surprising himself with the fact that he knew that.

Guess all that time with Giles, cleaning weapons. really has paid off.

"Mmm." Cordelia considered the ax.

"Where is Angel?" Xander asked abruptly.

Cordy shrugged, "I've decided not to feel sorry for myself. I'm taking matters into my own hands, organizing a little 'going out of business' sale to subsidize the severance package Angel never bothered setting up for me."

"Did he leave a message about where he went?"

"You know I'm in real pain here and all you can do is talk about Angel. Has it even occurred to you how this whole turning human thing might affect me?"

"Regrettably, no. Look, if you know where he is, just tell me?"

"He told me not to tell you."

"Is he in trouble?" Cordy made a face at Xander, "Cordelia, what are we, in second grade here? Tell me!"

"He went to fight that thing by himself, without..."

"What thing?"