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My first few days as human were relatively exciting. There was so many new and wonderful things that I was finally able to experience. It still amazed me how much had changed since I was last human. Food was wonderful. I think that I was driving Cordy nuts with all of the food that I wanted to try. I discovered that I loved chocolate, peanut butter, especially when they were together. I loved steak, lobster, and pasta. Coffee was good, as was milk. I thoroughly enjoyed a glass of milk with most of my meals but beer was by far my favorite beverages. Beer, over the past two hundred years has definitely improved.
On my third human day we closed our office and spent the day at the ocean, something neither Connor or I had ever experienced before unless you count the one time I was in the ocean fighting that damn torture vamp over the Ring of Amura and my three month vacation I spent at the bottom of the ocean thanks to my son. I was sitting anxiously on my beach towel while Cordy rubbed sun block over my still very pale body.
"Will you sit still Dammit?" She snapped. I had been wiggling around like crazy because number one I was anxious to get into the water and secondly, Cordy rubbing her hands all over my body while wearing a bikini was really turning me own. I swear, I had become hornier since turning human. I hoped the ocean was cold.
"Sorry." I mumbled.
"If you keep this up I'm going to miss a spot and you're going to burn."
"Yea ma'am." But I was unable to comply with her request.
"God Angel. You are as bad as a kid at a candy store." I felt like one too.
"I can't help it. I'm excited."
"Chill out. The ocean isn't going anywhere." As soon as I was sufficiently lathered up to Cordy's liking I jumped up. "Not yet beefcake."
"What now?" I whined.
"You have to let the lotion dry. If you get it right now all the lotion will come off."
"Fine." I said and all of my friends laughed at me. I waited impatiently until Cordy finally gave me permission to go for it.
I linked hands with Cordy and we ran, like two kids into the waves and it was an amazing, indescribable feeling. When I first tasted the salt water in my mouth I thought that I was bleeding but I was told that it was the salt water I was tasting, not the blood. I spent the entire day in the water jumping in the waves and learning to swim which proved to be difficult with the waves but it was fun as hell. When the sun finally began to set, I finally made my out of the ocean.
"Oh no." Cordy said as I was drying off.
"What?"
"You are burnt baby." I looked at my chest and it looked red but I felt fine.
"No I'm not. I'm fine."
"Now you are but give it an hour. You'll feel it." She said knowingly.
"Nah. I'm good."
"Whatever you say."
And she was right. An hour later I was getting out of the shower in a lot of pain. My skin felt like it was stretched too tight. I could hardly move and when I looked in the mirror I looked like a freaking lobster. "Cordy." I called. When she walked in the bathroom she burst out laughing.
"Told you." She managed to get out through her laughter.
"It's not funny." I said with a grimace as I reached for my towel.
"I know. I'm sorry." She reached for my towel. "Here let me help you." She gently began drying me off. I never realized how bad a sunburn could hurt. Once I was dry she led me to our bedroom. "You'll be more comfortable if you sleep naked."
"I always sleep naked." She winked at me.
"I know. Get into bed and I'm going to get something to help you feel better." I nodded and slowly climbed into bed. She returned a few minutes later with a bottle of clear green gel and a bottle of water.
"What the hell is that?" I asked
"It's aloe. It will help." She handed me a couple of aspirin and the bottle of water.
"What's this for?"
"The aspirin will help take the burn away." Like a good child, I swallowed the pills. "Now role over." Again, I did as she asked.
"Oh shit." I said when she placed the aloe on my back. "It's so cold."
"It was in the fridge. Now stop squirming." I know she wasn't trying to be sensual but by the time she was done rubbing the aloe all over my body I was hard as a rock and sunburn or not I wanted to have sex.
"Cordy, I need you." I mumbled.
"I can see that." She said with a grin. "I would love to but we can't."
"My thighs aren't burnt. My trunks covered them. You could give me a ride." I practically begged.
"We can't. It's that time of the month." I looked blankly at her. "I'm on my period Angel."
"Oh." I mumbled.
"But…" My eyes lit up. "Maybe I could help you out." I smiled as she reached out and wrapped her hand around the bottom of my shaft and she took me in her mouth.
"Ummmm…God…" I moaned as she moved her mouth up and down my shaft, gentle scrapping her teeth against me. The things that woman could do with her mouth were amazing and she quickly put my body into orgasmic bliss. "That was amazing. You are amazing Cor." I panted.
"I know." She said smugly, leaning down to kiss me until I broke away yawning.
"My God, I'm exhausted." I complained.
"You were in the ocean all day and in the sun, both which can be exhausting. Try to sleep."
"Okay." I closed my eyes and I felt her settle next to me but not touching. I missed not having her in my arms but I knew it would hurt right now. "Cordy?"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you." I mumbled sleepily.
"For what?"
"For today."
"You are so welcome."
"Love you." She kissed my cheek.
"Me too."
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The next six months flew by. I adjusted to life as a human and vampire slayer fairly easy. Sure, things were not the same; I tended to become injured more than I ever did as a vamp; I didn't heal as quickly; I got tired; I ate when I was hungry, not always convenient when I'm fighting vampires. I also discovered that I was pretty damn strong. Not as strong as when I was vamped out but then again not many people or things were as strong as I was when I was a vampire. The strength that I was given as a slayer was about the same strength that I had when I wasn't vamped out.
Our old friend David Nabbit died suddenly and he left Cordelia, Wesley, the company and I half of his fortune, which was a ton of money; more money then I have ever seen. We made sure that Connor, Fred and Gunn were given enough money so that they would never have to worry about having money. Since David gave the company so much money we could focus on helping people because they needed it not because we had to earn money. It was a very satisfying feeling. We were able to do so much good.
Cordy and I bought a huge house in a really nice neighborhood. I wanted to stay at the hotel but Cordy didn't and I couldn't deny her what she wanted and since money was no longer an issue we could afford it. In fact we paid cash for it. The house has five bedrooms which I thought was way too many but Cordy said it wouldn't be because we were going to fill them with babies. Our new home had a huge backyard and a pool. We or I should say Cordelia ordered new furniture and a king size bed for our new home and we had a wonderful time christening the different rooms and our new furniture.
The month before our wedding Cordelia became what Fred referred to as "Bridezilla". She was irritable, cranky, and short tempered; basically down right bitchy. The caterer didn't have the right food, the flowers were wrong, and so many other things that I just tuned out. Fred told me just to nod and agree with everything that Cordy said and I would hopefully survive. The worst thing about the month prior to the wedding was the fact that Cordelia cut me off with sex. Her reasoning made no sense to me. She said that we needed something to look forward to on our wedding night. I told her that I always look forward to making love to her but she wouldn't budge so to say the least, we were both sexually frustrated but because I loved her I was willing to deal with the frustration and I was really anxious for our wedding night.
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"Cordelia let me come home." I begged her. It was the night before our wedding and we had just finished the rehearsal for the wedding. She wanted to follow all wedding protocol including not seeing her the morning of the wedding. She didn't want to jinx anything so I wasn't allowed to see her until she was walking down the aisle.
"No way. I'm not taking any chances. Most of the time the world is against us so I'm not willing to risk our marriage. We are following every rule down to the letter." She told me with tears in her eyes. I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her to my chest.
"Sweetheart how many times have we beat the world?"
"A lot." She mumbled against my chest.
"Has the world ever beaten us?" She shook her head. "So what makes you think that the world will beat us now?"
"Because I want this so badly. I want to be your wife more then anything and the way our life has been when something good is about to happen something bad happens first to ruin it." I felt her tears hit my shirt. Placing my thumb under her chin I lifted her face to mine and my heart broke when I saw the tears running down her face.
"Cordelia I promise you that I will let nothing ruin our wedding day. I will kill anyone or anything that tries to step up. We will get married tomorrow and spend the rest of our lives together. Do you understand?" She nodded and I slowly leaned forward and kissed her. "I love you." I told her when we broke apart.
"I love you too Angel, so much."
"I'll see you tomorrow sweetheart."
"I can't wait." She whispered.
We stood there holding hands, staring at each other until Connor pulled me away to take me to his house where I was spending the night. When we got to his house I grabbed my bag and tux, headed into the house and collapsed on the couch. After a few minutes Connor joined me.
"A beer to help calm your nerves?" Connor asked handing me a beer.
"I'm not nervous but I'll take the beer." Connor laughed and sat down beside me. We opened our bottles, clinked the necks and took a long swig. "Are you old enough to buy beer?"
"Dad we have no idea how old I am."
"Well technically you're about two."
"But I really don't look two do I?" I shook my head. "According to the birth certificate that Wesley got for me I'm twenty one."
"Great. I have a twenty one year old son." I mumbled and Connor just laughed.
"So are you excited?" He asked me.
"Yeah I am. We already live together so it's not like anything will change but I can't wait to call Cordelia my wife and I can't wait to be a husband."
"Do you think that it will be weird that your ex girlfriend will be at your wedding?" I left the guest list up to Cordelia because my only friends were the people that I worked with who would obviously be at the wedding. Most of the guests attending our wedding will be Cordy's family and her parent's friends. She had also invited some of our clients, friends that she had made while living in L.A. and some of her old friends from Sunnydale, Willow and her girlfriend, Xander and his girlfriend, Giles, Dawn and Buffy. As far as I knew Spike wouldn't attending mainly because he hated me and the wedding is going to be outside, not the best conditions for a vampire.
Cordy asked me if it would bother me if Buffy attended the wedding because she felt like if she invited Willow and Xander then she had to invite Buffy. She was worried that Buffy's presence would make me uncomfortable but I assured her that I would be fine with it; that Buffy and I were just friends.
"Honestly I won't be thinking about anything but Cordelia."
"But you love Buffy."
"Yeah but not in the same way I used to. She was my first love and I think that your first love never leaves you but my heart belongs to Cordelia. The love I feel for her is totally different then what I felt for Buffy. Tomorrow it's all about Cordelia. I'm not going to see anyone but Cordelia."
"I met a girl." Connor whispered and I looked at him in surprise.
"Really?" He nodded with a smile on his face. "Tell me about her."
"I met her in my GED class." Connor was taking a class so he could get his GED and then he wanted to go to college.
"And?"
"And what?"
"Her name for starters. What's she like?"
"Her name is Ashley. She's really nice. She has light brown hair and blue eyes. She has a little boy named Ryan. That's why she's in my GED class. She had to drop out of high school to have the baby."
"Have you been out?"
"Not really. We go to lunch together every day during class and I've gone to the park with her and Ryan a few times."
"Connor that is fantastic. Did you invite her to the wedding?" Another head shake. "You should call her and inviter her and Ryan to the wedding. I would really love to meet her."
"That's just weird. It may freak her out that my dad doesn't look old enough to be my dad."
"People that don't know you and I, mainly Cordy's family, we're telling them that you and I are friends. You could tell Ashley that and if and when things get more serious between you two you can tell her the truth." I told him.
"Cordy would lose it if two extra guests show up." He has also been a witness to the ravings of wedding planning Cordelia.
"I'll take care of Cordy. You call Ashley and I'll call Cordy."
"Are you sure dad?"
"Positive. Now go call her." He jumped from the couch, grabbed his cell and went to his room to make the call while I called my fiancé.
"Hey Angel." She answered.
"I miss you sweetheart." I told her. I thought that it may be a good idea to butter her up.
"I miss you too. I don't think that I'll be able to sleep without your arms around me."
"This was your idea remember?"
"I remember."
"I called to tell you that there will be two last minute guests at the wedding tomorrow." I told her, bracing myself for the repercussions.
"WHAT?" Here is comes. "You just can't go and add a couple of guest to the wedding the night before, hours before my wedding. I don't have enough food or table settings…" I took the phone away from my ear as she yelled. When I heard her quiet down I returned the phone to my ear.
"Cordelia we can squeeze in two more people. One of them is a child."
"Who are they?"
"It's a girl that Connor is interested in."
"Connor is interested in a girl?" She squealed. I quickly passed on what information Connor had given me about Ashley and Ryan. "It's too late to call the caterer tonight but I'll call them first thing in the morning and add two more settings."
"I love you Cor."
"I love you too Angel." She said through a yawn.
"Get some sleep and I'll see you tomorrow afternoon at the hotel. I'll be the extremely handsome guy in the tux waiting for you under the arch."
"And I'll be the most beautiful bride ever walking towards you in a very gorgeous dress."
"Damn right you will be. Goodnight my sweet Cordelia."
"Sleep tight Angel."
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I was standing in the garden, very uncomfortable in my tux with my son standing next to me. The garden looked amazing. Cordelia really outdid herself. There were white chairs and flowers everywhere. It actually looked magical. I know that this was her dream wedding and as long as she was happy with it that's all that mattered to me. Connor sent me a smile as the music began to play. I looked up and saw Fred walking down the aisle. I glanced at Wes who was sitting in the front row staring at Fred and saw I look that I knew well. It was a look of a man in love. I was happy for him.
My attention turned back to the door of the hotel when the music changed. I literally lost my breath when the doors opened and my bride stepped out into the sun with her father on her arm. I have never seen anyone so beautiful before. I'm a guy so I don't know much about wedding dresses. All I know was it was white and beautiful. It was strapless and it looked satin and it was covered with pearls. Her hair was full of curls piled on top of her head encased with a tiara and a veil. I've never seen her more beautiful and I felt tears spring into my eyes as she approached me.
"Who gives this woman to this man?" The man who was marrying us asked. Cordy had decided that a priest might be slightly inappropriate since I used to be a vampire and I had a taste for nuns. Since it we lived in California, L.A. in particular, we found a non- religious man to perform our wedding.
"Her mother and I do." The minute our hands were joined the tears that were threatening fell from my eyes, as did Cordy's.
I wish I could remember what was said during the ceremony but I can't. All I could focus on was my beautiful bride in front of me. Thankfully, the ceremony was being videotaped so I could watch it later. I was so focused on Cordy that Connor had to nudge me when it was time for our vows.
"Sorry." I mumbled and a small laugh went out through the crowd. "Cordelia I have watched you grow from a selfish teenager to a selfless woman. When you came into my life I never expected to fall in love with you let alone have the honor of marrying you but I fell hard and I am so glad that I did. I can't imagine my life without you in it. I can't imagine not loving you. I promise you right now in front of friends and family that I will spend the rest of my life loving you and trying to make you as happy as you have made me. I love you Cordelia."
"Angel you have become my world." She began softly. "As you said you have watched me grow and mature into the woman that I am today, the woman that deserves your love, and it's because of you that I am who I am today. I didn't expect to fall in love with you either but it happened and I am so happy that it did. I never thought that we would be standing out here in the sunlight getting married but here we are. This is the happiest day of my life and I am promising you in front of our family and friends that I'm going to love you forever. I love you Angel." We then, with shaking hands, exchanged rings and said our I do's.
"By the power vested in me by the state of California I now pronounce you man and wife. Angel, you may now kiss your bride." With my thumb I softly wiped her tears away and then I cupped her face and brought my lips to hers. We kissed softly at first but it only took seconds until our mouths were open and we were putting more passion into our kiss. We continued to kiss until we could no longer breathe. "Ladies and gentlemen I am honored to present for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Angel Doyle." Cordy grabbed her flowers, we linked hands, our guests rose to their feet and applauded as we walked down the aisle as husband and wife into the hotel.
As soon as the door shut behind us I wrapped my arms around her waist and lifted her into the air kissing her passionately. "Hello wife." I whispered when we broke apart and she giggled.
"Hello husband. I love that."
"I love being your husband already and I love you."
"I love you my husband." We kissed again and then we went back outside to greet our guests.
The reception went by in a blur. I met so many people and I know that I'll never remember their names. Cordy and I both met Connor's friend Ashley and her son. She was a very sweet girl and Connor was really good with Ryan. I was sure that Cordelia's parents didn't like me. Whenever we spoke I received the cold shoulder from both of them but I really didn't care. I got a lot of sympathetic looks when some of the guests asked me where my parents were and I told them that they had died. I wondered what kind of looks I would have gotten if I told them that I had actually killed my entire family.
The one thing I remember very clearly about our reception was the dance. I really don't know how to dance but Cordy made me dance with her. I just remember our arms wrapped around each other, her head lying on my shoulder, and the two of us just swaying to the music, barely moving but it was a perfect beautiful moment.
Finally, close to midnight Cordy and I called it a night and left our reception, we were partied out. We were leaving for our honeymoon tomorrow afternoon so I had made reservations at a fancy hotel for the night. Check out time would coincide perfectly for us to make our flight to Italy on time.
"Angel this is beautiful." Cordy gushed when we walked into the room. I made sure that we had the honeymoon suite.
"I'm glad you like it."
"Ohh look, they gave us champagne." She rushed over to the bucket and poured us each a glass. "Let's make a toast." I nodded. "To us. To a long, a very long happy marriage full of love and happiness." We clinked our glasses and downed our champagne. "Will you help me get out of this dress?"
"Most definitely." Placing my champagne flute down I walked over to her. "It's going to take me forever to unbutton all of these buttons." The back of her dress probably had a thousand buttons.
"Silly boy. It's a trick. There's a zipper behind the buttons." I easily found the zipper and I slowly unzipped her dress and it fell to the ground. Still wearing her heels she stepped out of the dress and into the bathroom and I followed her. She had on white thigh high stockings, white lace underwear and a white lace bra.
As she began taking all of the pins out of her hair I planted soft kisses on her shoulder and neck while I ran my hands over her body. "Angel." She moaned.
"I want you now." I whispered in her ear smiling as I saw the goose bumps develop over her body. Pulling what I'm assuming to be the last pin out of her hair she turned around wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled herself up, wrapping her legs around my waist.
"I wanted to remind you I stopped taking my birth control. If you want to wait a little while before starting to try and have a baby I brought condoms." I saw a bit of sadness in her eyes when she said that.
"Do you want to start right away?" She nodded. "Good so do I. Let's get started right now." Her response was to press her lips to mine. Never breaking our kiss but keeping my eyes open I carried her over and deposited her on the bed.
I reluctantly pulled myself away from her lips and removed her heels and thigh highs. She had been complaining all night about her aching feet so I began to massage her feet. "Feel good?" She moaned in response. I began to kiss my way up her calf, to her thigh, to her panty line. In one swift movement I had her underwear off, tossed them across the room, placed her legs on my shoulders and my tongue delved into her womanhood enticing a scream of pleasure from her.
I dove my tongue deep inside of her tasting all of her sweet juices loving all of the primal sounds that she was making. At one point I glanced up and saw that she had removed her bra and she was gently caressing her breasts, running a nipple between her forefinger and thumb and I was so jealous of those hands. I wanted my hands to be the ones touching those gorgeous breasts, not hers. My desire to fondle those luscious breasts made me increase the speed of my tongue until she was gushing into my mouth. Placing her legs back on the bed I kissed my way up her naked body until our lips connected.
"Get your clothes off." She demanded. I pulled myself off of her and began to unbutton my shirt. "Hurry it up and get your sexy ass over here so I can give you a ride." Grinning I quickly removed my pants and boxers and joined my wife on the bed. I propped myself up against the pillows and smiling seductively Cordelia wrapped her arms around my neck, placed her body over my erection. "God Cordy." I groaned. She wrapped her legs around my waist, linking her ankles behind me and brought her face to mine to kiss me.
For the next hour Cordy practically sat on top of me, only moving slightly actually rocked against me. From her position on me I had perfect access to her breasts. I was able to place her breasts in my mouth and manipulate her nipples with my teeth. She locked her hands around my neck and moaned while I ran my hands up and down her back until we were both screaming and convulsing in orgasmic euphoric bliss.
"Angel…I…I…thank you." We had settled in bed, her head on my chest and my arm around her. I felt tears hit my bare chest.
"Cordy are you okay?"
"I'm more than okay."
"Then why the tears?"
"I'm happy. Because of you I am so happy. I've had the perfect day and night and it's all because of you. I still can't believe that The Powers gave us a second chance." She lifted her head up to look at me. "I promise you this Angel, I am not going to waste this second chance. I am going to spend every day that we have together loving you with everything I have inside of me." I placed my hand behind her neck and brought her face to mine and kissed her hard.
"I promise you the same thing Cordelia. I love you sweetheart, so much."
"Do you think that we made a baby tonight?" She asked with a sly smile.
"I don't know. Maybe we should try again just to be sure."
"Maybe we should." Cordy agreed. Grinning our lips descended towards each other and we made love again and again until the sun began to rise on our first official day as husband and wife.
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