Rating: PG
Summary: It's the weekend again and it just happens to be Buffy's birthday...
Note: This is number two in my weekend series...it wasn't actually supposed to be a series. Follows 'Always A Part Of You' .
Note 2: Different timeline...no Riley for Buffy's nineteenth...don't you all want to say 'hooray'!?!?
Spoilers: Don't think so...but then, I don't think, come to think of it!?! (hehehe)
Disclaimer: I so TOTALLY wish I owned them...do you think I could kill him and claim to be his heir? At least that way the storyline wouldn't ubersuck!!!
Dedication: This is for Janice, who wants to visit my Buffy verse on the weekends...

Crawford street, Sunnydale
9:35pm

It was Friday night...time to go visiting. Angel knew that Buffy wouldn't be there for another couple of hours, but he wanted to surprise her. He'd told Cordy and Doyle to take over patrolling a little earlier this weekend because he wanted to get to Sunnydale earlier than usual...he had things to do. Buffy's 19th birthday was tomorrow and the gang was throwing a party tomorrow during the day, but the nights were his...

No one knew that he and Buffy spent their weekends together, except for Doyle and Cordy, but they weren't the ones that would object to our arrangement. But if Joyce ever found out...well, we don't have to go there.

Every weekend was special to them, but this weekend would be even more so. Angel had gone through the grueling task of shopping with Cordelia, a fate worse than stepping outside between the hours of 6am and 6pm to him. But he would gladly do it again just to see the look on Buffy's face when she opened her present...

Angel vowed that nothing would make this birthday as disastrous as her last couple. He could do it, too. His investment portfolio wasn't anything like Cordelia had thought, he probably had ten times the amount that her parents had ever had. He had called in a few favours, hired a few people, just to make sure that if anything did came up this weekend, Buffy wouldn't even have to KNOW about it let alone do something about it.

He pulled up to the mansion and grabbed the boxes from the back of his car and put them inside. He then got back in the car and drove into Sunnydale. He had plans...which meant more shopping. He sighed.

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The Bronze
9:45pm

Buffy sat there watching her friends dancing. She had a hard time trying to keep the grin off her face...she had a hard time doing that every Friday night. For the past six weeks she and Angel had been AWOL for the weekend, no interfering friends, relatives or demons.

Buffy looked at her watch, she still had another two or three hours until she would meet Angel. She sighed, Oh well, I have plenty of time to patrol.

Ever since last weekend when they had been found out by Kate an Riley, they had gotten even closer. Not in the sense of CLOSER, but...argh! Even thinking about THAT particular closer made her crazy, but for now, lazy weekends were enough.

Her friends had finished on the dance floor and were making their way over. "Hey, Buff! So, where's the Fishboy lately? Haven't seen him around." Xander grinned. He really hadn't gotten to like Riley all that much.

Willow added, "Yeah, and when I asked him if he was coming to your party tomorrow, he said no."

Buffy said simply, "We broke up, but I'm going to talk to him this weekend about it." She needed another excuse for this weekend. They all thought that she spent the weekends with Riley or her father and her Mom thought that she spent them with Riley or her friends...but sometimes she went shopping with Cordelia. Everyone was so busy with other things that they never bothered to check. It works for me!

"What, you're not coming to the party?! After all that time we spent on doing...!" Buffy cut Anya off.

"I'll be there for the party, Anya, I'll just be somewhere that is else for the rest of the weekend. Okay?"

Anya grumbled.

Buffy looked at her watch again, pretending that she had to be elsewhere. She didn't want to have to answer any more questions. "Hey guys, I gotta book it. I still have to patrol and then report to Giles. For a Watcherless Slayer I get Watched a lot."

Her friends all said goodbye. Buffy picked up her bag and breathed a sigh of relief as she walked out.

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Main street, Sunnydale
10:17pm

Angel walked out of the store trying to balance four bags of shopping.

Maybe I should have hired someone to do this part? Nah, it's more special doing it myself, Buffy appreciates it more when I do something for her if I dislike it, no I don't mean that...It doesn't matter, I know what I mean...I think.

He put the bags in the car and jogged over to the video shop. Considering what Buffy did at night, it was a wonder that she had such a liking for horror flicks. He rented out 'I Know What You Did Last Summer', it was one of her favourites. When he thought about it, it was one of his favourites, too. That Helen girl was such a hottie! And the fact that she looked just like Buffy had nothing to do with it...yeah right, and vampires promote peace for a living!

He got into the car and drove back to the mansion. He only had just over an hour to get everything ready...

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A Cemetery
10:55pm

She leisurely walked through the cemetery. For the past hour she had walked around Sunnydale. She looked at her watch again, she had been doing that for the past hour. She smiled when she saw the time. She started to walk to the mansion. By the time she arrived, he should be there.

To her left, she heard the sound of fighting. She ran over to check it out.

She saw a vampire and a demon fighting. The vampire lost. The demon saw her and walked over to her just as she pulled out a stake.

He put away his weapons and smiled. "Hey, you must be that Slayer Angelus was talkin' about! I'm Rand. Nice to meechya!" he stuck out his hand.

"Ahhh..." Buffy was at a loss for words.

"Hey, don't worry! Angelus has organised a few of us to take over the Slayin' for the weekend for your birthday, said something about breakin' a tradition." He grinned again when he saw Buffy smile. "Yeah, that boy can be awful sweet when he's a good guy. You may as well head on over to meet 'im, we've got everythin' covered." He flashed his teeth in a smile and walked off.

Buffy just stood there shaking her head. She knew from Whistler that not all demons were bad, but this guy she could really like he was such a character...

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At The Mansion
11:13pm

Buffy walked down the steps following the trail of white rose petals that began upstairs from the entrance. She entered the main room they used and stopped to look around. On the coffee table was an assortment of treats...desserts and other things. Next to the table a thick satin-covered coverlet was spread out. But what really caught her attention was the candles...she was surrounded by a thousand burning black and red candles. It reminded her of 'Romeo and Juliet' when Leo entered the church where Claire Danes was looking dead. I think there are more candles here though.

Angel walked into the room carrying two champagne flutes and a bottle of wine. He smiled when he saw her expression. "You're here. You like?"

"I...like." He just laughed.

He sat on the coverlet and pulled her down with him. A she went willingly. He kissed her gently on the lips, "Happy Birthday, Buffy."

He pulled out a neatly wrapped box from under the table and handed it to her. She gently took off the lid and saw two things. One was an envelope and the other was a small jewelry box, one that they used for rings...

"Open the envelope first." She did as he asked and smiled in delight when she saw the two slips of paper.

"Tickets to the ice show?"

"Well, I knew your Dad had to cancel again this year, so I thought you might like to go with me." He smiled gently.

"How did you know?"

"Your Dad's in hospital from a mugging, right?"she nodded. "Well, he was walking on the streets of L.A at night, it wasn't a normal mugging..."

"You were the guy that he said helped him, weren't you?"

"Yeah. I recognized him from the photo in your room." she kissed him on the cheek.

"Thank you."

"Open the other one." Angel loved the attention she was giving him, but he was getting impatient...or was it anxious?

She quickly picked up the box and peered inside. On a bed of softness lay a 24 karat gold belly-button ring. "Oh my God." She had made an appointment to get the piercing done on Monday. She would make sure this was put in.

Angel laughed, "That's not all." He pulled out another box from under the table. This one was about a two feet long and two feet wide. She took off the lid. Inside was a hand-crafted cross-bow and a foot long jeweled dagger, it was better than the one the Mayor had given Faith. First class slaying material!

The look on her face told Angel that she loved the gifts. He smiled. He could almost hear what she was thinking...

"You can actually use those for Slaying, Buffy, I don't want you to just put them away."

"I will use them, Angel, they're beautiful, but I don't want to lose them. I think the cross-bow is my favourite." She picked it up. It felt like it was made for her.

"I had them both specially crafted for you, Buffy. There's an inscription." She turned it over and found the words 'Buffy, for every vamp you dust, think of me. Love, Angel.

She put her presents aside and crawled into his lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, tugging at him so that they were laying down.

"This is the best birthday ever. Thank you, Angel."

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