AU after Graduation Day part 2.
After draining her, Angel has no choice but to turn Buffy. What will happen to her and how will they, and the rest of the scoobies, cope? B/A.
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Prologue
Once you start something, it's very hard to stop.
This is not, of course, what he was thinking at the time. In that moment, every part of his body screamed at him to drink, that was his purpose then and there. Later though, alone with nothing but guilt for company, that small part of his mind that tried to justify his actions would tell him, quietly, that he couldn't of stopped himself. And even if he did, it was all meant to happen – he'd been told so, and there was no point in denying it.
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Angel rolled off Buffy, who's breath had become shallow and strained. Life buzzed through his veins, and it took hima moment torealise what he had just done. Buffy had sacrificed her blood to save him. She was dying. Her eyes were still open, streaming with tears. The demon in him knew what to do, yearned for it, it was natural t feel his face morph again, sink his teeth into his wrist, let his cursed blood fall into Buffy's gasping mouth.
The final before-death strength filled her, and she grabbed his arm and held it close, sucking greedily from the wound. For a moment, their eyes met. There was no anger in her clear green eyes, but the pain in them was enough to make his own chocolate-brown ones prick with tears of shame.
"I'm sorry." Then she fell to the floor again, lifeless and cold. He collapsed beside her, his hands over his eyes, praying that he wouldn't have to kill her again.
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