Vlad was sitting the cemetery board out of his wits, the mutts had begun hiding from him, meaning he had run out of thing to do without any mutts around to deal with unless the slayer is in the mood for another 'friendly' chat. Which meant vlad with nothing else to do just thought of the past several months, sudden half-brother, getting engaged, her been dusted, turning his girlfriend into a vampire to save her 'life' only for her to throw it back in his face and leave him for his half-brother malik. He had been sitting on a bench in the cemetery listening to these thoughts for hours when his eyes diluted and Vlad sensed a mutt nearby and one with a soul.
"what do you want?" Vlad asked, not turning round, angel stood behind him.
"to talk…I can't figure you out your angle what you wish to gain…why you're here" angel said as walked round the bench and faced Vlad.
"what is there to figure out?" Vlad replied.
"why would the most powerful vampire in existence want peace when he could extinguish the slayers completely" angel replied.
"I've always wanted peace and aside from that the world needs slayers it balances things out…if the slayers were completely destroyed vampires would start draining breathers like it was going out of style and that would eventually lead to the extinction of humans and a surplus on vampires, vampires would then turn on each other and the world would fall into chaos and everyone loses" Vlad replied, remembering the previous chosen one's plan.
"huh never thought of it that way but I guess that's true…but still I would of thought you'd be after world domination" angel replied.
"I don't care for power I was just given it like the slayer was given her power, I just wanted to be human…anyways you knew I didn't want world domination or to destroy the slayer or the slayer's guild" Vlad replied.
"Oh and why's that?" angel asked.
"Because you came looking for me even when you knew I could dust you without breaking a sweat" Vlad replied.
"okay so I knew you weren't a big bad wanting to destroy the world or rule it I just was curious…but still why did you come here, after all I doubt it was just because thee slayer is here" angel replied.
"I needed to get away and my dad has a castle here, no ones bought it yet and I heard about the slayer and thought while I had my time to think and bring things together I could keep the peace" Vlad replied.
"Get away from what?" angel then asked.
"Everything…mainly memories of Erin" Vlad replied.
"Erin?"
"a slayer from the guild she came to slay my family, she pretended to be one of us using stasis spray and I fell for her and she did me, I found out what she was and her intentions but she proved she meant no harm after helping us get rid of a mad vampire with power that rivalled mine, she helped me return from the dark side and helped stop my marriage and saved my life at the cost of her own, I bit her to save her…she never forgave me and left me for my half-brother with power I gave her…she was my first bite and began drinking human blood where ever she went and I swore if I saw her again I'd dust her" Vlad explained, a tear, a single tear falling down his cheek as he remembered her.
"You fell in love with a slayer like me…you bit her like me not wanting too like me and both with dark sides" angel said never before realizing how the two of them were so similar.
"Yeah…I read about your dark side back at Garside the great angelus, worse 'vampire' that ever lived tortured almost all your victims in the cruellest possible ways and to make it worse you made some immortal like Drusilla" Vlad said.
"Yeah…and I lived hell because of it and the minute I actually forget my suffering and become truly happy I become angelus again" angel replied.
"yeah well I could turn evil again if my lose control and the only thing that let's me keep my dark side locked away is because I have something to fight for, however, each day I have less and less to fight for, I lost my love, my friends…'sigh' who knows what's next" Vlad said.
"don't worry you'll always find something to fight for it seems to always happen here when any of us lose faith we gain something else to fight for" angel replied. "I'll tell Buffy what you said, however, I doubt she'll trust you yet…see ya later" angel said before skulking away into the shadows and headed to Buffy's house.