Chapter 2: Rat on the Run
Warning: This is a mild version of porn with just a touch of plot.
A/N: Sorry, no BAngel or Willz here, folks.
Disclaimer: BtVS characters belong to Joss Whedon / Mutant Enemy. Dialogue is from .I claim no rights to any copyrighted material. Please do not copy or take this story without my permission.
Buffy Summers, the current Vampire Slayer for her generation, walked along the streets of Sunnydale, trying to make sense of her confused feelings.
Practically since the first time she met him less than a year ago, Buffy'd had a crush on Angel. His tall, dark and mysterious nature was both exciting and irritating. Eventually the crush went from fangirl with posters of the latest teen hunk on her wall to what she thought was the beginning stages of first love.
Then she found out his secret. Angel was a 240+ year old vampire with a soul. Why she couldn't sense him was a mystery. Even after she worked on honing that ability, it never helped with him. Juliet had nothing on her when it came to picking the wrong guy to love. All she had to deal with were families that didn't approve of them. Buffy and Angel were natural enemies on the supernatural food chain. It's a little hard to make with the smoochies when part of you is screaming, 'Kill him!'
It was even more bizarre than Xander and Cordy's semi-secret fling, love affair, whatever they were passing it off as. They started making out in broom closets right after Halloween. Something about him saving her? Their 'relationship' was pretty much fight, make out, fight, make out, etc. Then again, Xander actually bought Queen C a locket, so who knows? Hopefully they'd have a better ending than her and Angel.
Only two days had passed since he left Sunnydale. Two days since her world was turned upside-down.
Part of her hated Jenny Calendar for that. The more pragmatic side reminded her it was a good thing. Better to lose Angel now than to wait for whatever tragedy Jenny's family was expecting to happen.
After Angel defeated Eyghon, and the computer teacher recovered from her ordeal, she came to Giles, Angel and Buffy to confess her true reason for coming to Sunnydale. She said that she couldn't be angry at Giles for his past harming her when she was hiding a secret that might be just as dangerous as Eyghon. Plus, Jenny felt like she owed Angel the truth after he saved her life.
So now Angel was off searching for the reason the gypsies were worried.
Strangely enough, Buffy wasn't as inconsolable as she expected to be. Oh, she still loved him and felt heartbroken that he left. However, something had changed in the last couple months. Something she hadn't admitted to anyone – even Willow. Somebody else had popped up on Buffy's radar, and she felt conflicted as to which guy she belonged with.
Funny thing was, Angel and the new guy were nothing alike. Okay, so they were both quiet and mysterious. On Angel, though, it was more of a tortured-past quiet; with the other guy, it was more…philosophical? Kind of like Owen, but not as cliché. He was in a band, for goodness sakes. Owen would never be in a band. Well, maybe with his new thrill-guy mentality, he'd try out for the drummer of Spinal Tap.
Buffy just wished she knew what it was about Oz from Dingoes Ate My Baby that drew her like a magnet.
The next day, all thoughts of Angel and Oz were far from Buffy's thoughts as she sauntered into the library, intent on seducing Xander. She was dressed in nothing but a very short black jacket. If this didn't get a reaction out of him, he clearly wasn't heterosexual anymore.
But oddly enough, he was turning her down. The Slayer in her raged at the rejection. So she re-doubled her efforts to make him hers.
Then to make matters worse, Amy came in the library to claim Xander was her true love. The witch cheated and used magick to defeat her opponent. Okay, so Buffy was willing to use her Slayerness to beat Amy, but it wasn't the same thing.
The last thing Buffy thought before turning into a rat was, 'Will I be a cute rat? Maybe Xander will keep me as a pet.'
TBC…