Angel walked Buffy to her new town house in silence after they called the police. When they got to Buffy's front door, Buffy turned around to face Angel.
"Angel, listen, I stopped by your apartment to talks about alot of things, which I still wanna talk about, but....."
"I know Buffy, I know. Are you gonna be ok tonight?"
"Yeah I'll be fine, I just don't know how to tell Noah his dad's dead."
"Who's Noah?"
"My son, well mine and Xander's son. See when you lost your soul, I had no where else to run to, but him. I slowly started to fall in love with him...."
"Yeah I get it, you stopped by to tell me about all this, and now you don't have husband anymore."
"No, no, NO Angel. That's not why I went to your apartment. You see me and Xander got a divorce,"
Angel looked up at her to tell if she was lying, and he couldn't tell, he just could feel in his heart that it was the truth.
Buffy started talking again which took Angel from his thoughts,"Angel I came by your apartment tonight to tell you that even after all you did, I still love you. And I was hoping you still loved me too."
Angel couldn't believe what he was hearing. She still loved him even after what he did. What was wrong with her? Why was God being so nice to him after all that he had done to all those people? All these questions filled his head, and before he knew it he was crying.
Buffy was just standing there, watching him, waiting for an answer. She got her answer all right, Angel was crying. She went over to him and held him. She stroked his back and neck, while he cried on her shoulder. "Let's get inside," Buffy whispered in Angel's ear.
Angel followed her inside, after he was invited in of course. He sat down on the couch in the living room, Buffy sat next to him. Buffy couldn't help it. With him being so close to her, her body started to come alive in places she long forgot about since becoming a single mother. Thank God Noah was at his Grandma's.
Angel looked at Buffy, he couldn't resist the urge to kiss her. He leaned over and kissed her lips lightly. Buffy responded immeaditly, pressing her lips hard on his. They both started to explore each other's body's since it had been so long since the two were together.
After a few minutes, Angel looked up at Buffy and asked, "What about Noah?"
"He's at his Grandmother's." Buffy stated simply kissing him hard on the lips. The two continued this for awhile downstairs, till they climbed up the stairs to Buffy's bedroom.
As the two made love that night, nobody heard the scream of Cordelia Chase echoing through the town. And a note written near her: "For Better, For Worse: Only a few more to go."
Buffy's alarm clock went off at 7:00am that morning, pulling Buffy out of a very good dream. The radio was playing the song "Butterfly" by Mariah Carey. Buffy finally opened her eyes, to hit the dumb alarm clock so her and Angel could go back to sleep, when she noticed there was no Angel. Buffy's heart started to race, *Not again, I don't think I could handle Angelus now, not after what happened to Will and Xander, Oh God, please let him......* Buffy's thoughts were interrupted when she saw a note on her table next to her bed. It was sitting underneath her Mr. Gordo pig that she still had after all these years. She smiled knowing it was from Angel, and that he was ok. She picked up the not and read it. It read:
Ahhhhh I shouldn't call you that, I sound like Spike!!! Anyway I'm writing this to tell you that I'm downstairs, so you won't think that well you know what happened last time after we, well, anyways now that you're awake why don't you come downstairs, so I don't have to write anymore, I'm not good with writing letters.
Love, Angel
Buffy got Angel's message and got up, put her bathrobe on, and walked downstairs into the living room, then down to the basement. When she got down there Angel was laying on the couch/bed asleep. He looked so peaceful. She curled up write next to him, and after a few minutes fell asleep herself.
When Buffy woke up this time it was to the sound of her CD player going off playing her Grease soundtrack. Angel was listening to it. When he realized she was awake, he walked over to her and kissed her on the forehead. "Hey, I see you got my letter," Angel spoke first.
"Yeah," was all Buffy could say, she was to busy looking at love in Angel's eyes. All of sudden, the song on the CD player had changed to Olivia Newton-John's song "Hopelessly Devoted to You".
Angel looked up then back at Buffy and asked, "Can I have this dance?" Buffy was shocked at first, but then shook her head yes. Angel pulled her up into his arms, and swayed slowly to the music. They both were enjoying being and feeling so close until the phone rang, breaking the feeling. Buffy went to answer the phone. It was Giles.
"Buffy, I hate to call and tell you this, but Cordelia died last night."
"What?" Buffy asked not believing what she was hearing.
"Cordila died last night, Buffy, I'm sorry."
"What time did she die?"
"Around midnight, why?" Buffy threw the phone down. Immediately Angel was at her side asking what was wrong. When Buffy finally stopped crying, she told Angel what happened. Then she screamed at him, "So you see, while we were making fucking love, Cordelia was dying. I could've, no, I should've been there to save her. Not laying in bed getting fucked by you!!"
Angel knew she wasn't mad at him, she was mad that she couldn't have been there. Angel watched as Buffy curled up into a tight ball on the floor crying. Whoever was doing this to his slayer was going to pay, and they were going to pay dearly.
Buffy laid curled up on the floor for what seemed like hours, till the phone rang. Angel had to get up to answer it, since it looked like Buffy wouldn't.
"Hello," Angel said politely.
"Hello, is Buffy there," It was Buffy's mom on the other end.
"Yes, hold on."
"Buffy," Angel whispered in her ear.
"What?"
"Phone."
"I don't wanna talk to anyone."
"Come on Buff, it's your mom," Angel asked gently, while rubbing her back.
"Ok, fine." Buffy said getting up, "Hello, Mom?"
"Yeah honey, I'm calling to ask if it was ok with you, if I took Noah to the amusement park?"
"Yeah mom, that would be great."
"Ok honey, we better get going then ok?"
"Ok, bye mom, I love you."
"I love you, too, Buffy."
Buffy hung up the phone, looking at Angel sitting next to her on the floor. "Hey, Angel, about what I yelled at you earlier, I didn't......."
"I know Buffy, you were just upset, I understand," Angel interrupted her, then kissed her on the forehead.
Buffy smiled at him, then looked up at the clock, then back at him and smiled again. "You know Angel, you still have about 5 hours until sunset while you’re stuck with me."
Angel smiled at her and asked, "What do you suppose we do until then?"
"I dunno," Buffy answered simply, moving in closer to Angel's face, "what do you think?"
"What I think? Hmmmm....how about.." Angel kissed her hard on the lips and pulled her down on the floor, "this?"
"Sounds like a plan to me," Buffy smiled and kissed Angel back. At least the two had a little while together, with no pain, well no pain from anyone else but each other.
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