Chapter 6: Run Baby Run

Warnings: Slash, Language

Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Garbage.

Love can be so strange
don't it amaze you?
Every time you give yourself away
It comes back to haunt you

Angel hung up the phone. "Shit." He muttered under his breath. No matter how much he pleaded with Giles, they still thought Xander was evil. Angel walked back into the library and grabbed Xander by the arm, dragging him towards the door.

Love's an elusive charm and it can be painful
to understand this crazy world
But you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack

"What are you doing? Wh-what did they say." Xander enquired. Angel held back his tears, and tried to make his face stony and cold, but he couldn't. "They don't believe me. You gotta go." "I can't go alone." "NO!" Angel yelled out quite loudly. "I have to stay here and fake unconscious. We're going through the sewers.

Angel kicked down the basement door and they raced down the stairs. "Why are you doing this Angel? Giving up everything you've worked for here, for me?" Angel rolled his eyes and turned around.

"Damnit Harris. You're seventeen. You still have a chance at a normal life. I think you deserve it and I'm going to see that you get it." Xander smiled, and after a moments' hesitation, kissed Angel on the cheek. Angel smiled, and opened the sewer grate.

"Come on, this leads back to the edge of town... keep going right and you'll reach a grate. It's broken so you can get out. You can hitchhike from there can't 'cha?"

"Yeah," Xander said. "I got some relatives in Los Angeles I can stay with. Thank you Angel. I mean it. If this is goodbye, I want to say this. I love you."

There were tears in Angel's eyes. "I love you too." Angel kissed him, full on the lips, tears streaming down both of their cheeks.

Xander climbed down into the sewer, and smiled up at Angel from the bottom of the ladder rungs. "Goodbye." Xander said. Angel smiled and shut the grate.

"Run." Angel whispered.

Run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
Too late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run