Title: I Finally Remembered You. Part 12 – Questions Answered, once more, again.

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 continues.

Angel just tried to stay alive, as the Mohra demon kept coming after him. Angel climbed on the lid of a salt silo and when the demon jumped up and hit him, they both crashed through.

The Mohra put a foot on Angel's neck, "The end of days has begun and can't be stopped. For anyone of us that falls, ten shall rise."

The Mohra lifted his sword to stab Angel, at that moment, Xander jumped down on it from above, knocking it off Angel.

Xander grabbed the demon's sword, "You hurt my boyfriend."

Mohra: "A great darkness is coming."

"You got that right."

As they fought, the Mohra managed to wrap it's Morgenstern around Xander's sword and pull it from his hand. Xander kicked at the demon and it made it stumble into the wall.

"Come on, this is the great warriors of darkness?"

Xander managed to step on the chain of it's Morgenstern and kick the demon, so it had to let go of it. It picked him up and threw him into the wall.

Mohra: "Together you were powerful. Alone, you are dead." It picked him up by his throat, "What do you think of the great warrior now?"

Angel picks up a handful of salt, "Little bland." He threw it in the demon's eyes and it dropped Xander, "Needs salt."

Angel tried to help Xander up, but the Mohra grabbed him and threw him across the silo.

Xander kept fighting the demon, barely managing to stay out of its reach.

Angel looked up at the demon, "The light of a thousand eyes… The jewel in its forehead! You have to smash the jewel."

Xander picked up the Morgenstern and brought it down on the jewel.

Mohra: "No!"

The demon vanished in a bright light.

Xander ran over to Angel and took his head in his lap.

"Xander, are you all…"

"Shh, you're all right. That's all that matters. Shh, you're all right." Xander kissed the top of his head. "And it's over. And we're together."

The Oracles.

Man: "You again."

Woman: "What have you brought me?"

"Famille Rose vase." Angel threw her a black vase, "Ching dynasty. Circa 1811."

Woman: "Lovely."

Man: "Why are you here, lower being?"

"The Mohra demon said the end of days had begun. That others were coming, soldiers of darkness. I need to know if he was telling the truth."

Man: "As far as such things can be told."

"What happens to the Slayer and her friends when these soldiers come?"

Woman: "What happens to all mortal beings. Albeit sooner, in their case."

"They'll die? Then I'm here to beg for their lives."

The Oracles turn and walk away: "It is not our place to grant life or death."

"And I ask you to take mine back." The oracles stopped walking and turned back to him.

"Look, I can't protect him, I mean, her or anyone this way, not as a man."

Woman: "You're asking to be what you were, a demon with a soul, because of the Slayer's White Knight?"

Man turns to leave again: "Oh, this is a matter of love. It does not concern us."

"Yes, it does. The Mohra demon came to take a warrior from your cause, and it succeeded. I'm no good to you like this. I know you have it in your power to make this right. Please."

Man: "What is done can not be undone."

Woman: "What is not yet done can be avoided."

Man: "Temporal folds are not to indulge at - the whims of lower beings."

Woman: "You are wrong. This one is willing to sacrifice every drop of human happiness and love he has ever known for another. He is not a lower being."

Man: "There is one way. But it is not to be undertaken lightly."

Woman: "We swallow this day, as though it had never happened. Twenty-four hours from the moment the demon first attacked you, we take it back."

Angel licked his lips, "Then none of this happened and Xander and I…What… what'll stop us from doing the exact same thing again?"

Woman: "You. You alone will carry the memory of this day. Can you carry that burden?"