Want My Shame Again
Angel has been back now a month and every time he looks at me it's with a look
of shame and disgust as if he knows. Knows that shoving that sword into him,
sending him to Hell months ago was not my only betrayal, or my last. When he was
my Angel again he gently pushed my hair aside from my neck and ran his fingers
over the mark that lies there. My fallen Angel made me shiver as his gentle
touch roamed over my mark of betrayal. The bite mark I tried so hard to hide.
As he looked down into my eyes and asked me that silent question of who marked
me, who tasted me, and all I could do was stutter some stupid lie. His brown
eyes burned into mine, turned his back on me and walked away. I know he knows
my lie, my betrayal. Now everyday I feel the shame that burns thru my very
existence, the shame that I would die to all do it all over again.
Tears fall down my face in a river of sadness, and I run to him, pull him me,
taking his face in my hands reaching out to him to taste him amongst my salty
shame. His lips are warm from my tears, and I kiss him lovingly pouring my
sadness, and shame into him. I want him to know I died everyday after he turned
into Angelus. I want him to feel my pain, my loneliness. I kissed him until I
had to breath, forcing myself to break away from him. His eyes flash yellow,
pierce thru me like daggers, searching for the truth, but I know he knows. I
know because I can still taste Spike on my lips. The whiskey and smoke that
lingers on me for hours after we have kissed, and the leather that clings to my
body after we have made love. He is all over me, and I know Angel can taste him
too. Taste my shame, and betrayal.
Angel grabs my arms, and I know he is furious. The yellow lightning flashing
behind his dark brown eyes show me that. He lifts me, dragging my feet just
barely from the floor pushing me backwards. I try to fight him, try to get out
of his grasp, but a small piece of me doesn't want to leave his arms, even if
they are holding me anger instead of love. He pushes me down onto the couch his
arms throwing me down away from him, away from his touch. I try to stand up and
walk away from him, but he grabs my shoulders and pushes me down to the couch
again, shaking his head at me. I stare up at him; I don't know what he wants,
for all I know I could be sitting here awaiting my death. His voice thunders
thru the mansion, and echoes in me ears.
"Tell me Buffy." Angel snarls.
I stare up at him in silence, wandering what answer he is looking for. I
shuffle my feet, and fidget with my hands. My nerves are shot, and my mind is
only thinking of one man right now, and it is not the man that stands before
me. My eyes fall to the ground, and the shame swarms back thru my body.
"Tell me!" Angel shouts.
"What do you want me to say Angel?" Buffy cries.
"The truth would be a good start." Angel growls.
Buffy closes her eyes, and a tear rolls down her face. Her hand reaches up to
her cheek to wipe it away, and Angel kneels down in front of her grabbing her
wrist before she removes her tear. Angel takes his thumb and glides it gently
over her tear taking it from her face, takes her chin in her hand lifting her
face to look into her closed eyes.
"The truth Buffy." Angel whispers.
"Angel, I love you so much, with all my heart." Buffy cries out.
"So that is why you have betrayed me? Because you love me with all your
heart?" Angel questions.
His hand rips away from her face, and he stands up walking away from her again.
She goes to get up from the couch to follow him, and he shoots his hand out and
pushes her back down, then he moves to stand by the fireplace.
"Come on now Buffy, tell me the truth." Angel demands.
Buffy glares at his coldness, her hands clench into a fist. She tries to calm,
memories of the last few years cover her mind in flashes of happiness and
sadness. Flashes of Angelus stalking her, torturing her and her friends sends
shudders thru her body. Memories of Spike holding her, letting her cry,
caressing her and loving her sends shivers thru her soul. Angel punches the
wall next to the fireplace rushing Buffy out of her thoughts. Her eyes glare up
into his, looking for something, anything. Shame pours from her very being, and
small smirk flashes from the demon within Angel as he feels her torment for what
she has done to him.
"I don't have to tell you anything Angel." Buffy says.
"You don't think you owe me some kinda explanation why MY girl has bite marks on
her neck that are certainly NOT from me!" Angel barks out. "You don't think
after sending me to Hell you don't owe me any reason why my childe is all over
you, why you have let him taste you. Why on earth my childe has been inside
you. You don't owe me any of that?!" Angel yells.
"Angel….How….?" Buffy mumbles.
"You don't think I can smell him all over you? Taste him when you kiss me?"
Angel questions "Did it make you feel better when you sent me to Hell, so you
two could be with each other?" Angel whispers.
Buffy stands up from the couch, moves around to the back of it. She paces
behind the couch, fidgeting with her fingers. Her mind is blank with words,
only the image of Angel standing in front of Acathla with the sword she shoved
into him. His dark eyes stare into her, his hands reaching out to her,
beckoning her to come to him.
"Buffy, please answer me." Angel implores.
"Angel, it wasn't like that honest." Buffy cries.
"How can I believe you Buffy? Tell me." Angel pleaded.
"I only loved you Angel." Buffy cried. "Only you. When you turned into
Angelus I was so lost and alone. I didn't know what to do. I wanted you back,
wanted to feel you again, but you just weren't the same. Nothing was the same.
He came to me for help, he was as lost as I was. Both of us loathing you have
become, and I carried around the guilt, the shame of making you that way. I
needed him, and he needed me. Angelus took Angel from me, and Dru from him.
What did you want me to do, Angel? Live alone, die alone."
"Not with him! It should NOT have been HIM!" Angel yelled.
"Who then Angel? Who should I have turned to? Who would want me anymore then
he does, love…"
"He doesn't love you!" Angel interrupted. "He only gets a thrill out of
FUCKING THE SLAYER!" Angel growled.
"LIAR! He does too love me. You left me, remember. You turned your back on
me." Buffy said.
"You think a demon with no soul actually loves you? You think William the
Bloody is in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer? The killer of two Slayers
falling to his knees to worship one?" Angel asked. "You really are a little
girl, Buffy." Angel laughed.
"It's not like that! You don't know anything about us! You don't know what he
has done for me, and frankly I don't care if you live a thousand years wandering
why, or how Spike does love me!" Buffy shouted.
Buffy started towards the door of the mansion, reached out her arm grabbing the
handle. A cool breeze lingered over her shoulder until his cold hand finally
touched her. Her breath caught, and her heart raced at his touch. No matter
how she felt about him, his touch always sent tingles thru her very being,
lighting her soul.
"Can you feel it, Buffy? The shame?" Angel asked. "Was it worth it? Would
you do it all again?"
"I would do it the same way over a million lifetimes if I had to Angel. It
wasn't worth it, but he is." Buffy whispered.
She opened the door and walked out not taking another look back at her first
love standing in the shadows.
In the Darkness
Buffy sat at the table at the bronze drinking her mixed drink, lost in her
thoughts. It had been a week since she had seen Angel and told him everything
she really wanted to tell him. She had been ignoring Spike as well, not wanting
to deal with any vampire that she can't drive a wooden stake thru their little
un-beating heart and watch them burst into dust. Tonight was her night to just
go out on the town, no slaying, and no school in the morning, no mom in town for
the weekend. Just a nice Friday night to hang out at the Bronze, and no
thoughts of anything except for this guy coming closer to my table. His black
leather pants glistening underneath the black lights of the club, is red silk
shirt unbuttoned flaring with each stride he took, accompanying his leather
duster that cut him right mid-thigh.
Man, leather is so yummy. Buffy thought, a small smile lifting on her face.
He looked around her age, dark short hair, clean cut goatee encircling is red
pouty lips, and his dragon green eyes barreled thru me like thunder ripping thru
the skies. Buffy knew he was coming for her, striding up to the table without a
care in the world, silently reaching out his hand to take her to the dance
floor. Tentatively she put her small hand in his and let him guide her out to
the dance floor. Everything in her body was shouting at her to stop, turn
around, run away, but she just wanted to dance.
DJ came on over the loud speaker dedicating this next song to all the dangerous
women on the dance floor. The women that took men's breathe away, and make
their heart stop. The same exact kind of woman she knew she was. Her black
leather pants tight to her form, her high-heeled shoes making her legs look as
if they go on forever, and her white shirt the draped down across her shoulder,
showing her long neck off. She was a dangerous woman.