Chapter 11

Angelus just stood there dumbfounded. He knew that she wasn't like the other girls he'd been with, she was…different, special. He also knew that she was still a virgin and that she wouldn't be easy; but he what he didn't know was why he said what he said. The still very fresh scene replayed in his mind.

Buffy and himself were swaying to the beat of their pounding hearts, kissing like there was no tomorrow. Then Xander came up and interrupted them. "Hey guys, we are all going to that new place…you know the all night coffee place?"

"Oh, ok, we'll be there in a few minutes." Buffy had told the annoying boy and looked back up to see Angelus' face. Finally, she spoke up when all of their friends were out of the club. "Angel what's wrong?" he hadn't even noticed that she called him Angel instead of Angelus, which was what everyone else called him.

His idiotic remark was, "Let's just skip the coffee joint and head back to my place."

She looked up at him with no expression not excitement, not anger, not hurt, nothing. Then she told him, "Okay, first off I'm not just going to skip out on my friends. And for another thing I know you've been out with easy girls, to say the least, but I'm not. If that's all you were wanting from me then I guess you shoulda' stayed with Darla." That's when the hurt appeared on her face. He only saw it for a second, however, because the next thing he knew she was gone…out of his arms, out of the club, and maybe even out of his life.

Once she was a good two blocks away from the cram packed club and the jerk-off she called her boyfriend, who was probably still inside dancing with some whore, she walked. All kinds of thoughts were zooming throughout her head. But the most prominent thought was 'I can't believe Faith was right!' At the time the words were said she was on too much of a high to even realize what Faith was truly saying.

Not desiring to go see her friends and have Faith say, 'I told you so!' and not wanting to go back and see him. She headed home, if only she'd drove instead of gotten a ride.

Angelus burst out of the club, searching frantically for Buffy. Not only did he want to apologize a hundred times over, but the club was on the bad side of town and unless you knew what streets not to go down you could wind up in the hospital or even…dead.

"Buffy where are you? Baby where'd you go?" he asked himself as he jumped into his four-seater, Mustang convertible.

Driving up and down every street for three blocks, until he heard a shrill scream. Faster than lightening he was out of the car and running towards the source of the scream. As he rounded the corner he found a familiar figure leaning over an unconscious blonde. Wait a minute that wasn't just any unconscious blonde that was his blonde!

Using every muscle in his legs he ran straight up to the psycho who was undoing his pants and punched him two and a half feet away from Buffy. Utilizing his time he gently picked up Buffy and took her back to his car. As carefully as possible he set her down in the back seat.

When he finished making sure she hadn't been violated he turned back to the man who was about to get the shit beat out of him only to come face to face with…Pike.

"Angelus…this is a surprise." He said grinning

"Pike, what did you think you were going to do to her?" Angelus asked practically growling

"Hey man, settle down. I didn't know she was yours…if I had I'd have left her alone." Pike said trying to calm Angelus down, he knew good and well what destruction Angelus could cause.

"What…so if she were just some poor girl walking alone you would have raped her?" Angelus asked disgusted

Pike didn't say anything back; there was nothing to say back to that. It was probably true, but he wasn't going to admit it. He had a sinking feeling that anything he said was just going to get him in deeper shit.

"That's what I thought. What the hell happened to you man? We used to be hot shit." Angelus said, truly wondering what happened to the guy he used to consider a brother.

"You left, don't you remember! We used to do everything we could to get into trouble, steal, cheat, lie. And we had the time of our lives and then one day we had something planed and you never showed…and you never came back to our hang." Pike said angrily at the memory of the way Angelus had screwed him over

"Pike that was a long time ago, I had to get out, my parents told me that if I fucked up one more time I'd be out of here. Military camp. Like I was going to go there!" Angelus said back explaining what he never got the chance to explain. "But man that's not what I meant. There was a time when we could get laid left and right, and now you're resorting to rape?"

"Some of us don't have chicks throwing themselves at our feet like you Angelus." Pike said clenching and unclenching his fists

"Oh, bullshit! I remember the first time we went to the city and got into that club, none of the chicks were even giving me glances but you…you had them draped all over you!"

Pike didn't have anything to say, again. Because like always Angelus was right, and that night was amazing. So how did he end up having to knock women unconscious and rape them to get some? He didn't even have time to think about possible answers when a fist collided with the side of his face.

"Damn it! What the fuck was that for Angelus!" Pike yelled

"Just because we have history doesn't mean that I'm going to spare you for nearly raping my girl!" Angelus said angrily, striding over towards a fallen Pike and kicking him in the gut.

Angelus was about half-way through beating Pike up when he felt a small hand on his shoulder. Quickly turning away from the bloody mess to face the woman of his dreams, literally. "Buffy, are you okay?" he asked gently

"Angelus what the hell are you doing?" Buffy asked still angry about what had happened at the Bronze

"Buffy please just go back to the car, I'll be there in a minute." He pleaded blocking Pike's battered body from her view

"Angelus what's behind you're back?" she asked trying so see around his giant frame

"Nothing why?" he asked innocently

"Bullshit! Move!" she said pushing him out of her view. Surprisingly to both of them he fell sideways. Her eyes shifted from the grounded Angelus to the beaten Pike. "Ohmigod!" she fell down beside the blooded man, "Angel why'd you do this?" she whispered

"Buffy he tried to…ra…rape you!" Angelus returned defending his actions

"Pike, are you okay?" Buffy asked as she ripped off a piece of her shirt to wipe the blood from his face

"Wait, you know him?" Angelus asked stunned

"Of course I know him! We used to go together, and you two used to be close too." Buffy said focused on Pike's unconscious form

"But he tried to rape you, Buffy!" Angelus said shocked that she was cleaning up and defending the guy to tried to violate her

"Angelus he didn't know it was me, if he had he wouldn't have touched me. What is wrong with you anyway? What? Where you just going to beat him to a bloody pulp and leave him here?" Buffy asked looking up at him disgusted, "Some friend huh?"

Pike was beginning to regain consciousness, as he felt gentle hands wiping his face. Slowly sound returned to his ears and he heard a fight going on in-between two vaguely familiar voices.

"What do you mean some friend? I'm not going to defend my friend when he tried to rape my girlfriend!" Angelus said back, praying that she would understand.

"Yeah, fine, well you might have just beaten up your friend over your EX-girlfriend." Buffy said exaggerating the ex-.

"Buffy you don't mean that…you can't…" Angelus said worriedly

"I think I do Angelus…all you want from me is a one night stand and another notch on your bedpost. And I'm better than that, so sorry." Buffy said turning her attention back to Pike

The throbbing inside his head only grew as his hearing improved. Groggily he opened his eyes to see the most beautiful, familiar face he'd ever seen. "Buffy?" he whispered

"Yeah Pike it's me." Buffy said gently trying to relieve what pain he might be feeling. "I'm not sure what good 'ole Angelus did to you, but I think it's safe to say you need to see a doctor."

"Oh my God, Buffy!" Pike said his eyes going wide at the realization at what he'd almost done, "I…I didn't mean to…you know that…I didn't know who you were I couldn't tell…oh God Buffy I'm so sorry! Please just let Angelus finish me off, it'd be better than living with knowing what I almost did to you!"

"Key word there Pike almost…you didn't do anything. And I know that if you could tell who I was you wouldn't have touched me." Buffy said smiling down at him. Then she looked over her shoulder at a stunned Angelus, "Well, get your ass over here and help me get him up…he needs to get to a hospital."

"No, Buffy you can't, not after what I did!" Pike argued, Angelus still standing in his original position

"Angelus Wayne Connelly! Get your ass over here!" Buffy shouted. Angelus had no clue as to how she knew his middle name, but had enough sense to go over to her. "Good. Now help me get him over to the car, we'll take him to Mary's Memorial."

The car ride was tensely silent, to the point where you could cut it with a knife. Buffy was just worrying about Pike…as far as her and Angelus were concerned she didn't have anything to say to him. If he wanted to explain himself let him. Pike was miserable, unable to comprehend what he'd nearly done to the only girl he'd ever truly loved. And Angelus was angry, with Pike with Buffy and most of all with himself. Not to mention confused…he never knew that Buffy and Pike went out, and he didn't know his position in Buffy's life.

Once they finally pulled up to the hospital Buffy jumped out and went to open the door to help Pike around. Angelus was less enthusiastic with his movements. "Angelus would you quit draggin' it and get over here." He didn't know why but he did what she said, any other girl he would have told her to shove it up hers'.

No sooner were they inside the hospital than they had a nurse asking questions a mile a minute. "What happened? What's his name? Can he walk on his own? Can he talk?" and on and on

"Look just get something for us to set him down on ok!" Angelus barked annoyed at the woman. Quickly she walked off to get a wheelchair, when she got back they set him down and she rolled him into a room. Before she left, however, she told them to go to the front desk and fill out forms.

"Hello, we need to get some forms…or something. I'm not exactly sure, but that nurse just took our friend and she said we need them so yeah…" Buffy rambled on, Angelus just watched thinking how cute she was.

"Ok whatever." The nurse said handing them a clipboard with what seemed like twenty papers on it. Buffy went over and sat down in the waiting room to fill out the forms.

"Buffy look, I'm sorry for what happened at the Bronze…" Angelus said trying to break the silence. "It's just that…I've never been out with a girl who didn't give it up on the first date. Well at least not in a long time." Angelus said sheepishly

"I understand Angel, it's just that…I'm not one of those girls and I think that's what you're looking for and you're not gonna get it from me." Buffy said looking up at him from the paperwork

"You know you never call me Angel, unless you're caught off-guard or actually having a real conversation with me?" Angelus told her

Buffy thought about it for a minute, then looked up into his eyes and smiled, "Nope, I didn't know that. But then I guess we haven't been going out for long, so you'll just have to get used to it!"

"So you're still my girl?" Angelus asked nervously, something new for him

"Did I ever say I wasn't?" Buffy asked in return

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