Title: I Finally Remembered You. Part 13 – Questions Answered, once last time.

Author: Xanfan

Rating: R/NC-17 for other chapters

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.

The clock on Angel's desk reads 8:50.

Xander paced Angel's apartment. Angel wearily came down the steps to his apartment.

"I'm guessing that expression isn't because they were all out of fresh OJ at the deli. What happened?" Xander asked.

"Nothing happened. I just…"

"Where have you been?"

"I went to see the Oracles. I asked them to turn me back."

"What? Why?"

"Because I love you."

Xander backed away from him, "No. No, you didn't."

Angel followed him, "And if I stayed mortal, one of us would wind up dead, maybe both of us. You heard what Mohra said."

"Mohra is dead. We killed him."

"He said others would come."

"They always come. And they always will. But that's Buffy's problem now, not yours, remember?"

"Like YOU just stand by and let her fight?"

"Then we fight together. As regular guys, I do it practically everyday and I'm still alive."

"You saw what happened last night. If anything, I'm a liability to the fight. You take chances to protect me, and that's not just bad for you, it's bad for the people we were meant to help."

"So what? You just took a whole 24 hours to weigh the ups and downs of being a regular Joe and decided it was more fun being a superhero?"

"You know that's not it. How can we be together if the cost is your life, or the lives of others?" Xander just stared at him and after a moment Angel took him into his arms. "I know. I couldn't tell you. I wasn't sure if I could do it if I woke up with you one more morning."

"I understand. So, what happens now?'

"The Oracles are giving us back the day, turning back time, so I can kill Mohra before his blood makes me mortal."

"When?"

Angel looked over at the clock and saw that it was 8:57. "A couple of minutes."

"A couple minutes? No. No, it's not enough time!"

"We don't have a choice. It's done."

"How am I supposed to go on with my life knowing what we had? What we could have had?"

"You won't. No one will know but me."

"Everything we did."

"It never happened."

Xander shook his head, "It did. It did. I know it did!" Xander put his hand on Angel's heart, "I felt your heart beat."

"Xander..."

They kissed. Xander looked over at the clock. The minute was almost up.

"No! Oh God. It's not enough time."

Angel was crying too, now, "Shh, please. Please."

The held each other tightly, both crying.

"Please, please."

"No. I'll never forget. I'll never forget. I'll never forget. I'll never forget."

"Don't do this."

"I have to, I can't risk you."

"Every day is a risk. I won't forget, no matter what you say, what you've done, I won't forget one moment."

"Yes, you will."

"How much time do we have?"

"A few moments."

"Tell me one more time."

"I love you, Xander."

"You're the first person who ever told me that, the first one to really mean it. I love you too…"

White flash dissolved to Angel's office the previous day.

Angel leaned against his desk blinking, looking around. Xander stood next to the door.

"So, then, let's just stick to the plan, for her sake. You keep your distance until a lot of time has passed. Given enough time she should be able to…"

Angel stares at him and swallows hard, "Forget."

"Uh…Right, I was going to say, heal, maybe grow up a little… So message sent and those of us who came into the room not dead are still, you know, not dead. I'll just…"

As Xander turns to go a green skinned Samurai demon with a curved sword and a red jewel in his forehead crashes through the window behind Angel and attacks him.

Damn, I jinxed myself. Xander thought

Angel just turned, grabbed the clock from his desk and coolly smashed the Mohra's jewel with it. The Mohra went up in a flash of light.

Xander was slightly stunned: "That was unreal. How did you know how to kill it?"

"It's a Mohra demon. I - I had a lot of time to catch up on my reading."

Xander nodded slowly: "Yeah. Okay. So I guess we've covered it, right?"

"I guess we did."

"And that's all there really is to say."

Angel took a deep breath and looked down on the smashed clock. It stopped at 9:02. When he turned back, Xander is already leaving the outer office.

"Yeah…That's it." Angel whispered, a tear ran down his cheek, as he silently said goodbye to His Boy.

END FLASHBACK, finally.