Chapter 3

Daniel led Buffy and Angel to what he remembered to be his office, opening his door he was shocked that everything was exactly where he left it, putting it down to the others not ready to let him go he ushered him inside.

"Ok I'm guessing you want to know about Angelus and Darla." At the two warriors nod he sighed and sat down.

"I had completely forgotten I guess recent events helped jogged my memories." he ignored the confused stares he was getting and launched into his story.

"I was recruited by the watchers council, as soon as I had finished school, they were impressed with my research into ancient Egypt, and my theories on how the pyramids were actually landing sites for ships. I spent my time researching everything I could about the new world of demons and magic they had brought me into, that's when I stumbled onto the Order of Aurlieus, I became enthralled with them. All other research stopped as I spent my time finding and reading every book that the council had on the order, I was puzzled when you seemed to have vanished off the face of the earth yet there was no evidence of your death, so I went to the place of your last sighting. Daniel paused to catch a breath.

"You went to Romania" Angel said darkly.

"Hmm, yes, I of course was too late to talk to any of the original gypsies that cursed you, but a few of their number did survive the attack your sire along with Drusilla and Spike launched on them. There they told me about your curse but had no idea where you were now. I was about to give up when a character by the name of Whistler came up to me." He paused when he heard Buffy gasped at the name.

"You know him?" Angel asked his beloved he held her tighter when a single tear rolled down her cheek.

"After Drusilla's attack on the library, I headed to the hospital to make sure everyone was ok, Willow was still out cold, no one knew where Giles was, so I went to his house he wasn't there obviously but there was a man raiding his fridge, my senses said demon so I attacked. He said he was a balance demon and that he was the one that showed me to you." Buffy stopped to take a deep breath the past couple of days pressing on her making her tired and older beyond her years, how Angel whished he could take away her pain, while at the same time completely saddened that he was the cause of it.

"It wasn't you, the demon hurt me more then I would like to admit, but I never once thought it was you. You and Angelus are completely different beings, I love the man with the soul not the demon that wears his face." Angel was about to protest but the look on Buffy's face was enough to stop him.

"What did Whistler want?" Daniel asked making the two champions remember he was in the room.

The other SG1 members had retreated to the mess hall after briefing Hammond on the mission, he had dismissed them but ordered them to stay on base until Daniel had returned with their new guests.

"Do you buy into this slayer story?" Jack asked Sam and Teal'c while digging into his pie.

"I did not sense a Goa'uld presence inside either of them" Teal'c said

'No I didn't either, and she seemed to be telling the truth, would explain how she woke up so quickly after loosing so much blood, if it had been you or me, we still be in the infirmary. I'm more interested in Angel though." Sam was so emerged in her musings that she failed to see Teal'c raise an eyebrow and Jack to smile.

"I hate to break it to you Carter, but I think he's taken" Sam shook herself back to reality and threw Jack a look.

"Not like that sir, I don't believe he even knows there are other females around except as a possible threat to Buffy. I mean his actual existence is scientifically impossible. You was there when Janet said she couldn't fin a pulse or feel his breath, then you witnessed him move and scream when Buffy pulled the sword out of him. I can't wait to see their full capabilities." Sam looked like someone had given her a new computer to play with.

'I don't think it is wise to trust them just yet" Teal'c said his face stoic as usual.

"I just hope Daniel finishes whatever he is doing soon." The three members of SG1 fell silent contemplating their new guests.

"Whistler told me that Acathla was suppose to be Angel's fight, his big moment but no one counted on us to full in love" Buffy paused when she saw Daniel's confused expression.

"You said you had talked to the gypsies about the curse, did they tell you about the clause they had put in it?" When she saw him shake his head she looked to Angel who continued, knowing that it was too painful for her to say.

"If I experienced one moment of true happiness just for a moment where all the guilt of the crimes the demon did didn't occupy my mind, I would lose my soul."

"I still don't see how that has anything with you guys being in love." Daniel trailed off at the look Buffy was giving him so much of self loathing was in her eye's mixed with a pain he guessed was in in his eyes when he lost his wife.

"On the night of my seventeenth birthday, we were investigating this demon that had the power to eradicate humanity inside of a person with just a touch, we came across the people responsible for bringing him back, we got caught, we managed to escape into the sewers, once it was clear we made it to Angel's apartment getting soaked in the process one thing led to another and I'm quite sure I don't have to spell it out for you"

"I see so having sex makes Angel lose his soul" Daniel said.

"No, I could sleep with Major Carter all night without losing my soul because I don't love her but with Buffy it's different I love her with all my soul, that night when we made love it was the happiest moment of my existence." Buffy looked up at Angel with such love that she couldn't help herself she leant up and gave him a deep passionate kiss.

Back to Whistler he gave me the advice on how to stop Acathla but said I wasn't ready, at that time I was too upset to listen to anyone, I headed home to make sure my mother was ok, she didn't know what I was, what I am, on the way there a police car pulled over and tried to arrest me for a friends death. Another vampire Spike came to my rescue, he said he was sick of angelus and didn't want to see the world to end, that he liked it here, so we went back to moms house where she started to ask a lot of questions I couldn't answer, when we went to go inside a couple of vamps attacked us and I killed them in front of her. Me and Spike made a deal my watchers life for Drusilla's. Then I told my mom the truth and she kicked me out."

"Oh Buffy I'm so sorry" Both of the men said at once, but she just shook her head indicating that she couldn't talk about it right now.

"I went back to the school collected Kendra's sword, the girl that was killed then headed back to talk to Whistler. He told me that the fight wasn't going to be easy and I said I didn't care that I had nothing left to lose, I left but not before I heard him whisper that I did have something left."

'What was it?" Daniel asked completely in awe at the girl in front of him, he wasn't even getting the full story just the end of it, how she had managed to survive for this long was beyond him.

"My heart, I didn't know that Willow was going to retry the curse again, I think she sent our other friend Xander to tell me but he couldn't get over his jealousy of Angel and just told me to kick his ass. The battle was hard and just about I was to kill Angelus he collapsed an a light surrounded him, when he looked back up it was Angel, the rest you know." There was silent before angel looked at Daniel.

"So what did Whistler want with you.?"

"He told me that my path was to guide the powers strongest champions, but to do it I had to leave the council and come with him, he brought me to this dimension, at first I was confused, there is no vampires here or demons then I joined the SGC and the rest is history.

"I'm thinking we are the two champions he was talking about, why cant the powers leave our lives alone." Buffy asked leaning back against Angel.

"I don't know, do you think we should tell the others everything?" Angel asked Daniel

"I don't know if they would believe you especially Jack, but they are trust worthy, the only question is what are you guys meant to do in this dimension." Daniel sat back in thought though the silence was short as alarms started to do off.

Unscheduled incoming wormhole the speakers blurted out.

"Does this happen a lot?' Buffy asked.

"Yes, we should go see what the trouble is?" Daniel stood up and led them towards the gate room, not knowing that it was the beginning of a new future for all.

A.N So what ya think, good bad, just let me know.