Rating: PG
Summary: Angel helps Buffy study for her Psyche exam.
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!!!
Note: This is the third in the Weekend series. Follows Birthday Weekend.

Crawford street Mansion
Saturday 7:00pm

"How would you describe the mentality of a demon?" Angel questioned, waiting for the inevitable quip. He had convinced her to let him help her study for her Psyche exam. He figured that the easiest way for him to get her to disect the human mind would be to do it to something she already did it to.

If only she reached that she does it daily...except with demons.

"Okay, I know this one...hang on a sec, what kind of demon?" she frowned.

He smiled, she was actually thinking about , and analyzing her answer. She was learning.

"Let's try a...vampire."

"A good one? Or a bad one?" she asked immediately.

"A bad one."

"Can I have specifics? You know, maybe Spike, or Dru, or the Master...they're all different!"

She's getting the hang of this, even if she doesn't realize it! thought Angel.

"We'll go with Spike first."

"Oh! That is so easy! He likes things simple. Kill, feed, have fun. That and Dru. He can be independent when he wants to be. He understands, unlike mast vamps, that destroying the world would kill him...no food." she smiled, realizing that the look in Angel's eyes meant that she was getting better at this. And he should know, shouldn't he? He spent countless decades studying his victims.

"How about Dru?"

"She's a nutcase. Her main goal in life is to shag Angelus, as Spike would say, and to destroy the world. Her mind is out of this world...actually, I don't even think it's in this solar system!"

Angel studied Buffy, he really loved this woman. She could do the work, she just needed to be guided, she needed to understand it. Let's try something a little closer to the exam topic.

"How about Giles, Buffy?" Try that one, Buffy.

She looked at him in surprise. "Giles?" he nodded. "Okay, well, he's a Watcher, taught to train the Slayer, they have that whole emotionless thing going for them, but not Giles. He's emotionally tied to the whole gang. I guess that has something to do with his younger self, Ripper.

"Being the rebel, doing those things made him different to other Watchers. He knew what the world was like, but not through text, through living it. In a way, I think I changed him, too. I'm different to other Slayers. I get everyone involved, including him. The whole gang keeps him human. Not like other Brits...not that Brits aren't human...okay, I think I'll stop now."

She looked at Angel as if expecting him to throw up his hands in defeat. But he was smiling. Her gaze became questioning.

"That was good, Buffy. You just used a person as an example. You did what the exam asks for. You analyzed the person and summarized the analysis."

I did it! Huh?

"That's it?!?!"He can't be serious?

"That's it. Well, with more information and things, but basically that's what the exam asks for."

Buffy tossed her things to the floor and jumped into his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and bestowed upon him an enthusiastic kiss.

They were just about to head upstairs for a short nap when Buffy's cell phone rang. Dammit! I thought I'd turned that thing off!

Angel growled, reaching into Buffy's bag to grab the phone. He passed it to Buffy.

Buffy answered. It was Giles.

"Hello?"

"Buffy! Thank goodness! Faith is dead!"

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