Once More with Déjà Vu: Chapter Three

Disclaimer: What? Are you people, like illiterate? I've typed it twice! I don't own it!

Glor: I have a continuous reviewer! I've never had one of those before! Thank you for reviewing the last three chapters and for your review dance, Angel Reid! And remember what I said last chapter about Anya, Andrew, and Drusilla being so easy to write? Well here's my friend's response when I said it, "Anya 'cause you're a bitch, Andrew 'cause you're geek, and Drusilla 'cause you're crazy..." (giggles) I think it's funny... But I'm not a geek... Just a crazy bitch... Who can do Drusilla and Anya's voices pretty well... ;;



"Where is she? Patrol shouldn't take this many hours..." Angel said as he looked at the clock that read 11:01.

"Yeah... Tara, didn't she start patrol around seven?" Willow asked her ex.

"Uh... Y-yeah, she did..." Tara said, 'They've been at it for four hours... I thought she'd be back by now...' Tara thought as she says as little as possible so not to slip and say where Buffy real was.

"Well, she's been gone too long and Connor need to get to sleep," Cordelia said and then turned to Dawn, "Dawn, do you have a key to your house with you?"

"Yeah, I can go with you so you can put baby Connor to sleep," Dawn said as she got up, putting on her book bag, "If anyone else wants to come, I don't think Buffy would mind if you stay for the night..."

"Right... C'mon guys let's go..." Cordy said as she headed towards the door followed by everyone but Angel.

Cordy turned and gave him a questioning look, "I'm gonna wait for Buffy you go ahead..." Angel responded as he waved to his son, "Bye, Connor, Daddy will see you in the morning"

Cordy smiled then followed the rest of the Fang Gang out and into the car. Angel turned to the Scooby Gang, "Where is she? Should I go out and look for her?" he asked worriedly.

"Look for who?" a voice said from the entrance of the Magic Box.

They all turned to see Buffy and Spike standing behind her. Angel smiled when he saw Buffy but his smile faded when he saw his grandchilde, "Spike," Angel growled.

"'Ello, Peaches... Didn't know you were here or I would have brought a gift," Spike said sarcastically as he walked up to Angel.

Angel was about to punch Spike when Buffy stopped, "No punching from anyone in this room unless it's me," Buffy said as she put Angel's arms back to his side, "Now, what are you doing here, Angel?"

Angel was about to answer her when he finally caught onto her scent, which smelled of sex and... Spike! Spike noticed his grandsire's reaction and smirked cockily.

"You!" Angel growled out before he pounced Spike and punched him several times, "What did you do to her!?"

All while Spike was being pummeled he kept the cocky grin. Soon Spike found an open opportunity and sucker punched Angel causing him to roll off Spike, "I didn't do anything she didn't want me to, you ponce," Spike whispered so only Angel could hear.

Buffy grabbed Angel and pulled him up to his feet, "What are you doing!?"

"You and him! You..." Angel stuttered as Buffy's eyes widened.

"Angel, training room. Now!" Buffy said as she dragged him to into the training room leaving Spike with a group of speechless Scoobies.



"Did he rape you?" Angel asked once Buffy had closed the door.

"How can you say that!? Don't you think he'd be dust right now if he did?" Buffy looked at Angel incredulously.

"Then you and him... You did that willingly!?"

Buffy looked down, "Yeah..." she whispered and then she raised her head, "But I don't get how that's any business of yours! We broke up a LONG time ago, Angel. We ended the moment you left for L.A."

"I left so you could have a normal relationship... Not sleep with a soulless thing!" Angel yelled.

"Don't you think I've tried to stop!?" Buffy yelled back, "But I can't... And at least I know he won't leave..."

That stung Angel, "How do you know he won't?"

"Because he loves me..." Buffy said, hardly audible almost not believing it herself.

Angel broke out into a fit of laughs.



Xander, Anya, and Willow had pressed their ears to the door once the door shut. Tara panicked and cast a spell to soundproof the room so Buffy secret tryst wouldn't be revealed to the eavesdropping Scooby Gang.



"And you believe that!?" Angel said as his laughs subsided.

"I didn't until today..."

"And what he do to prove that to you?"

"I was in his crypt and we were singing... I sang it and the words finally sank in... He loves me... Unconditionally... No matter what a bitch I am or how much I beat him or how I keep him my secret affair and not tell my friends..."

"So, the Scoobies don't know..." Angel figured and Buffy nodded, "I won't tell them"

"Really?"

"No, if you wanna screw up your life I can't stop you, but I shouldn't interfere..."

"Thanks..."

"Yeah..." he said as a pause in conversation began.

"So why are you in Sunnydale anyway?" Buffy asked, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

"There's a demon and it's making L.A. and Sunnydale burst into song..."

"L.A. too? So you thought Sunnydale was probably the source. You're probably right, too. So where are you staying tonight?"

"Dawn told Cordelia and the others that we could stay at your house for tonight..."

"Wow, that was responsible of her..." Buffy said as she headed for the door

"Buffy, I have to tell you something before you go home..."

Buffy turned around, "Yeah?"

"I have a son," Angel told her as she burst into a fit of laughter.

"That's a good one..." Buffy breathed as she controlled her laughing, "You know damn well vampires can't have..." she trailed off when she saw the serious look on his face, "Oh God..."

"Buffy..." Angel tried to comfort her but Buffy pushed away and sat down on the mats against the wall.

"Stay away..." she said as she regulated her breathing, "How? Who?"

"It's a prophecy... Connor is the son of two vampires and is destine to be something great... And who... Uh... Darla..." he coughed when he said Darla to cover it up but she heard.

"Darla!? But I watched you kill her! And if you had sex with her why aren't you all Angelus and killing people with Darla?"

"An evil law firm brought Darla back as a human, Dru turned her again but Darla dusted herself during childbirth so Connor could live," then he took in and unneeded breath, "I didn't lose my soul because it wasn't a moment of perfect happiness..."

Buffy let silent tears slip down her face, "Please go," she whispered hoarsely.

Angel tried to touch her, "But Buffy..."

"No, not now... I need to be away from you..." she interrupted backing away, "Would you mind telling my friends I went home?"

Angel tried to suppress a growl "You're going to stay with him aren't you," Angel said not as a question but as a statement.

"I can't go home... You're staying there," Buffy put up a hand before Angel could interrupt, "And you are staying there, tonight because your son is there and he needs you..."

Angel reluctantly agreed, "Alright..."

Buffy smiled sadly at Angel and then left through the back door leaving Angel alone.



"I am very disappointed! We couldn't hear a thing!" Anya whined as the Scoobies were sitting and waiting patiently for Angel and Buffy's talk to end.

Willow looked over to Tara who was hiding a book on her lap, "Tara? What's that book?"

Tara looked up surprised, "N-nothing, Willow... Just a s-spell book..."

"Did you cast a spell so we couldn't eavesdrop?" Willow asked.

"Would serve you lot right. You shouldn't have been eavesdroppin' anyways," Spike said, helping Tara out of her predicament.

Xander scoffed, "Like you wouldn't have listened with your vampire hearing if Tara didn't do a spell!"

Spike just rolled his eyes as his grandsire re-entered the room. Angel was looking down but looked up when he felt all eyes on him, "She went home... Said she didn't want to confront everyone..." Angel covered for Buffy.

"So you told her?" Xander asked.

"Yeah..."

"I'm guessing she didn't take it too well..." Willow said sadly.

"She didn't... She said she needed to be alone..."



Buffy walked into the cemetery, wiping her tears away as she walked to Spike's crypt. Piano began to play as Buffy began to sing to the sad tune, "The winter here's cold, and bitter It's chilled us to the bone..." she sang as her tears ran down her cheeks again and a cold wind blew forcing her to close her jacket around her.

"Haven't seen the sun for weeks Too long too far from home I feel just like I'm sinking And I claw for solid ground..." she shuddered at the last lyric because it reminded her of clawing out of her coffin.

"I'm pulled down by the undertow Never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness, I feel like letting go..." she kept walking as she got closer to Spike's crypt.

"If all of the strength and all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I can love you much better than this..." Buffy opened the crypt door while she sang, "Full of grace Full of grace My love..."

"It's better this way, I say Haven't seen this place before Where everything we say and do..." Buffy walks around the crypt looking at how Spike had made it look cozy, "Hurts us all the more It's just that we stay, too long In the same old sickly skin"

"I'm pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness, I feel like letting go..." Buffy sang as she walked down the steps and into the downstairs bedroom.

"If all of the strength and all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I can love you much better than this..." she walked around the bed running her hand over the bedspread, "Full of grace Full of grace..."

Then the singing paused and Buffy turned in time with the music until it was time for the last lyrics, "I know I can love you much better than this Its better this way..." she sang the last lyric and crawled into the bed and started to drift to sleep to the light sound of instruments playing out the end of the song.



Spike had gotten back to his crypt to find the slayer sleeping in his bed. A smile spread across his face as shed his duster and boots and was about to shed the rest of his clothes but he didn't think she needed to wake up to a naked Spike in the morning so he lied beside her and wrapped his arms around her. Soon he drifted into a peaceful slumber with the sleeping slayer in his arms.



Meanwhile, at the Bronze, music was blasting and a mysterious woman in tight leather pants and red tank top came to the stage to sing karaoke. The song started but it was fast beat with guitars and drums. The red skinned, which seemed to not phase anyone, woman was started to sing a Good Charlotte song.

"It's a new day But it all feels old, It's a good life, That's what I'm told, But everything, it all just feels the same..." she sang as she jumped forward.

"And my high school It felt more to me Like a jail cell, A penitentiary My time spent here, it only made me see..." she kept singing as the people at the Bronze danced fervently to her singing.

"That I don't ever wanna be like you I don't wanna do the things you do" when she sang you she pointed out to the audience, "I'm never gonna hear the words you say And I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be..."

"You! Don't wanna be just like you What I'm sayin' is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up!" she made a motion with one of her hands for the people to raise their hands in the air, "You... Don't wanna be you!"

"'Go to college, A university Get a real job'" the girl mimicked some adult telling a teen what to do as she sang the lines, "That's what they said to me But I could never live the way they want I'm gonna get by And just do my time Out of step while They all get in line I'm just a Minor Threat so pay no mind," at minor threat, the woman tried looking as innocent as possible.

"Do you really wanna be like them? Do you really wanna be another trend? Do you wanna be part of that crowd? Cause I don't ever wanna I don't ever wanna be..." she sang as she moved around on the stage.

"You! Don't wanna be just like you What I'm sayin' is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up You Don't wanna be you!" she sang as a couple of guys that looked like puppet men came from behind her.

"Shake it once, that's fine Shake it twice, that's okay Shake it three times, you're playing with yourself again..." the puppet men sang as the red skinned woman danced to the music until it was her turn to sing again.

"You Don't wanna be just like you What I'm sayin' is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up Y'all got to feel me, sing if you're with me You Don't wanna be just like you

"Just like you..." the singers behind her sang backup.

"This is the anthem Throw all your hands up Y'all got to feel me, sing if you're with me Another loser anthem," by now the crowd is acting like their at a real concert.

"Whoa-oh" the singers sang from behind her.

"Another loser anthem"

"Whoa-oh"

"Another loser anthem"

"Whoa-oh"

"Another loser anthem...!" when she finished so did the music and then there was roar of cheers and clapping. The woman smiled and took a bow, as did the singers behind her.

She jumped off the stage followed by her borrowed minions, "That was good! Mmm... I feel great!" Charm said with a smile as she wandered into the crowd to dance.



Glor: Wow... Those two songs weren't ones I had planned to use but wow! They work! So cool! (smile) I'm getting reviews from these people that I've either read their work or I've seen them review fanfics that I really like! Time to thank people!

Angel Reid - Already thanked you in the top Author Note but thank you again! I make you happy? Well yay for me!

little-lost-one - See? Adding right now! Thanks for the review!

Houshi-Demon - Thanks for that whoop of joy! And the review too... ;;

Hieiko - Thanks for enjoying my fic!

Karmawiccan - You wanted Charm and here she was! Sorry, no nerds this chapter but writing a conflict between Angel and Buffy can take a lot out of a girl! Ooh! Did I mention that I just LOVE you're penname? I think it's really cute... Okay, I'm done now...

N170017 - Thank you! Hope you liked Angel's reaction because he isn't my fave character write 'cause I haven't watched him as much as I did Spike and Buffy... (if that made ANY sense) Well, most of what I wrote for Spike last chapter was from the transcripts so I'm still a lil shaky on writing for him because I really don't wanna mess up his character... Ooh... This thank you is getting really long... Got to go on! ;;

samica - Appreciate spuffy friendly stories? I know I do... It's my favorite couple, the whole point of me writing this... I handled putting Angel and his people in creatively? I think I did okay... But what got me sad was when I noticed Gunn hadn't said one word so that was a problem... I might have a Gunn fan mad at me! And thanks for the review! And yay me!

Nicki-boo - I know what you mean about 'I Hate Everything About You'! It's so a spuffy thing! The first time I had listen to it was because of a spuffy songfic to it! Thanks for the review!

Ivy - Thanks for calling my fic very interesting but how can it be unnerving using scenes from the original? It just means that I'm trying to keep it in time with the canon... (even though that conversation you said was farther along in the canon)

ms trick - Thanks and I hope you like where this chapter went!

Trinity Cloud - Thanks! And I try update fast... The only I don't update sooner is 'cause of school and I wait for my friend to beta and me to go over it a few times.

BunnyKat - Hey, you logged in! Yay for you! And 'bout the lines from 'Dead Things', I just HAD to use it! I hated how that scene ended! They were making progress! Thanks for the review!

theoneandonlygurl - Thanks, I few people have commented about the dialogue from the transcripts. I like using it sorta as a guide so I can keep the character in character.

Glor: Wow, that was a lot of people to thank... I think I'll just e-mail next time and not use up so much space so leave your e-mails! The two song in this chapter were 'Full of Grace' by Sarah McLachlan, one of my favorite singers, and 'The Anthem' by Good Charlotte... Oh! And last chapter I didn't say what the song was! It was 'I Hate Everything About You' by Threes Days Grace. Thank you everyone! Please review! Bye-e!