The Talk
Faith punched Buffy in the jaw and she fell to the ground. She jumped up landing right on her feet and did a roundhouse kick to Faith's face. The fight was on. "Look Faith, in light of our new friendship of the future I really don't want to do this," Buffy said as she held back a little.
Faith looked at her with a little bit of blood running from her lip and then she tripped Buffy and went on the ground and held her neck to it. "Look B you're actin kinda weird but to be honest…I don't really care. I don't know what you're trying to pull with this future crap but the fact is…I don't care enough to find out." Buffy tried to push Faith off of her but she was too strong. "Looks like the best slayer is finally going to win…now say goodnight B."
Just then Faith was pulled off of Buffy and thrown to the ground. "Goodnight." It was Angel and he was just in time.
Faith looked up at them and both she and Buffy got up off the ground. Faith knew she couldn't take them both so she started to walk away. "This isn't over. You're boy can't always be around to save you B," Faith said as she ran off.
Buffy looked disappointed in herself, "I could have taken her…I…I was just about to make my move." She couldn't understand how she could let Faith get that close to actually killing her. When she was on the ground with Faith's hands around her neck she could feel the life draining from her but she couldn't do anything.
Angel looked at her with worry, "Are you alright?" He studied her body looking for any cuts or indications that she might be hurt in any way. He always did this after Buffy fought. It was almost like instinct. He needed to make sure she was ok.
Buffy smiled at the sight of him. She had missed him so much. "I'll be fine," she said as she stared into those big brown eyes of his that she always got lost in.
When he realized that she was alright he did something he rarely did. He smiled. He loved her smile but she was acting kind of strange and he was getting a weird vibe. His smile slowly faded, "Is everything ok Buffy?"
How does he always know when there's something wrong with me? Buffy thought to herself. Her smile faded as well and she looked to the ground and then back up at him, "Well…not exactly."
A look of worry appeared on Angel's face, "What is it? Is this about Faith because you can't let her get to you and if it's about me and Faith you know that I would never…"
Buffy interrupted him, "No it's nothing like that. Can we go back to your place?"
"Sure," Angel said as they began walking towards the mansion.
They were both pretty quiet while walking. Buffy just kept glancing over at him from time to time. Just being with him seemed to make all of her problems go away. Everything that she was thinking and feeling all went out the door the moment she heard his voice. Every time she saw him she fell all over again, it had always been that way and this time was no different then the others.
When they got to the mansion Angel opened the door for Buffy and they both walked in and sat down. They were quiet for a few minutes and Angel was getting worried. He could tell that something was very wrong with Buffy and he hated to see her upset. He finally spoke, "So…what is it that's upsetting you?"
"Oh…well…wow…I don't even know where to start," Buffy said as she twisted her hands in and out of each other. Now Angel was looking even more worried. "I'm not exactly who you think I am. Some how I got sent into the past. I don't know how it happened but when I went to sleep last night I was 22-years-old living in 2003 and when I woke up I was back in my 18-year-old body in 1999."
Now Angel's face turned from worried to confused. "I don't understand. Why would you get sent to the past?"
Now Buffy was confused. She was expecting a how, what, when, why type of thing but angel acted as if time travel was completely normal. "Well…I," Buffy stumbled her words a bit, "I'm not sure really but I've been also a little worried about the how that you don't seem to be worried about."
Angel smiled a little, "I've heard of it before. Although it's been a long time since I have."
"You've heard of time travel? How…wha…?" Buffy tried to speck.
"Yeah…well only a few occurrences. When I first got my soul back I had a lot of free time to do pretty much nothing. I paid a lot of attention to people. You could almost say I studied them I guess," Angel explained.
Buffy was looking very confused and a little cheeped out, "oook."
Angel tried to explain, "There was a girl once. She was very young and she was just wondering the streets. She looked so helpless and I knew that in the dark ally she was in, it was only a matter of time before something got a hold of her. So, I fallowed her to make sure she would be ok. Sure enough she got attacked by a vampire. I saved her, we talked, and she told me why she was wondering the allies. She said that she was very confused that she didn't know where she was. She said that she went to bed in one time and then woke up in another. At first I didn't really believe it but then I heard a man talking about the same thing once when I was staying at a hotel."
Buffy just looked at him with her mouth wide open, "Wow!" She thought she was the only one. She thought that her traveling back in time was something that had never happened before and that there was some great purpose for her being there. This still could be true that there was a big purpose why she was there but now at least she knew she wasn't the only one.
"I never really found out how it happened though but from what I gathered I think some people get sent back when they feel there's something they need to change…or finish. That would be my best guess," Angel said trying to help Buffy understand.
Buffy smiled lightly, "That's what Giles said. Only he has never heard of such a thing before but then I guess he wouldn't. It sounds like for most people it's a personal thing. I guess they don't really go around telling everyone."
Angel looked down at the ground trying to avoid asking the inevitable question. He finally spoke up, "So…do you have any idea why you were sent back? What you need to do?"
Buffy wasn't really sure how to say what she needed to say but she gave it a shot anyway, "Well…that's kind of why I'm here. I think it might have to do with…us." Angel just looked at her slightly worried about what she was about to say. Buffy looked down at the ground again, "I'm not sure if you've realized that you're going to do it yet or not…but…you're going to break up with me next week. You realize that you can't ever give me the life I should have so you end things and you move to L.A. after the ascension because we both knew it would be too hard to stay in the same town."
Saying this was making Buffy almost get teary. She toke a minute to compose herself as Angel let everything set in as well. Then she started again, "In my time, which is about four years into the future, you're still in L.A. and there's a big battle coming up. I think that maybe I'm supposed to make you stay so that you'll be there to help me fight the battle."
Angel just sat there for a moment taking it all in. He didn't really know what to say. The room was silent for a long time. Nothing but the sound of the crackling fire could be heard.
