Buffy spun around to her window and saw the man that had been in her thoughts morning, noon and night . The one man in all her life that she had truly, madly, and deeply loved!
"Angel!", cries Buffy " How...your... I can see your reflection."
"I know it still seems all strange to me" said Angel "The disk Willow found was more than what everyone thought, it gave me my freedom. If only I could have..." Thinking of Jenny Calendar the night she had finished the restoration spell and he had killed her like the cold blooded killer he had been while he had no soul and a demon inside of him.
Buffy winced " Angel don’t think that way, you had no way of controlling what you did when you had no soul. I admit I was confused thinking we could have no future together and not knowing that if you ever achieved true happiness that you could possibly turn again. But" continued Buffy, " you not just have your soul but you are whole again."
‘But Buffy, can you ever really love me knowing all the things I did to you and to everyone you cared about? Can you ever trust me again knowing I wanted to hurt and kill you? I am having a problem dealing with it, how can I expect you to just forget and forgive?"
"YES! I can love you and I do trust you! I’m not saying I can forget but I can forgive."
Just then they heard the doorbell ring. Buffy looked at Angel and pleaded with her eyes that he not leave until they have finished working things out.
Buffy opens the door and there stands two of her dearest friends. Which under normal circumstances she would have been thrilled to see but not at this moment.
" Willow... Xander... hi! Uhh this is not....." starts Buffy
" Come on Buffy... What the sitch? Why haven’t you opened the door more than... Buffy what is he doing here. Hasn’t he done enough to us already or is he here to finish the job?" exclaimed Xander.
Buffy turns and looks in the direction that Xander is staring. There is Angel coming down the stairs....
"Xander" Angel says somewhat is a low tone.
Willow just keeps looking back and forth between Buffy, Angel and Xander. Not really knowing what to think.
"Hi, Angel. How are things?" asked Willow nervously
"Buffy, I shouldn’t have come here" replies Angel " I’m sorry..." looking at all three of them. He glances back at Buffy. All the while trying to tell her in that one look all the feelings he felt about her. Then he walks out the front door, trying not to turn back and say all the things he wanted to tell her when he first came to see her.
"Angel?" whispers Buffy. Pain obviously written on her face.
She barely hears the words the wind carried back to her... " Soon... My love"