Part 18

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Willow sat alone in her dorm room, thinking about a lot of things, but mostly for some reason she was thinking of Oz lately she had been doing that. She had thought she had finally begun to move but maybe she was wrong.

Just then there was a knock on her.

She opened the door, Tara stood outside waiting for her invitation in. Willow let her in feeling a tinge of disappointment that Oz was not the one at her door, but then again he left over a year ago to go `find himself.'

She loved Tara, but she loved Oz, and she was now starting to think, did she love Tara in the way that she loved Oz?

Part 19

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"Oh, Gunn I thought you'd be asleep it's kind of late." Cordelia whispered just in case any one in the house was sleeping.

"Yeah, well I couldn't sleep you know big battle coming up and everything." Gunn replied. "So I was just wondering what is up with this Buffy chick?"

"Oh my that's a long story, with a lot of pain and a lot of heart ache." Cordelia stated as she made her way down the hallway.

"Well why don't you tell me, you know I like being in on all the gossip." Gunn replied as he flashed her a sweet smile making her knees buckle.

"Sure, come in," Cordelia said pointing to her room.

He followed her in, and sat down next to her on the bed as she begun to tell the whole tragic Buffy Angel saga.

"Well okay, see Buffy had just moved to Sunnydale from L.A. She was hanging out with me and mine, I guess you could call us bitches, but as you see I have moved on I'm not the same girl. But well me and Buffy both at first like Angel, well I just thought he was hot, cause well look at him, but well for Buffy it was love." Just like I think I love you, Cordelia thought to herself.

Gunn became a little too jealous when he heard how Cordelia had and still thinks that Angel was hot. What about him?

Part 20

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Buffy and Angel were locked in a passionate kiss arms roaming everywhere, trying to get more skin to skin contact. Buffy's fingers began to slowly unbutton his shirt. She wanted no she needed more. She began unzipping his pants, as her lips trailed down his sleek muscular chest, all sane thoughts leaving her mind with each kiss.

"Angel, make love to me?" Buffy asked her big hazel eyes starring into his eyes, going right to his soul. How could he say no? No curse? Had to stop.

"Buffy, we can't." Angel said as he pulled away from her intoxicating kisses, and her heavenly touch.

"Oh my God!" Buffy exclaimed realizing what she was about to get her, get them into. I'm sorry I'm so sorry Angel, what was I thinking?" Buffy asked.

Angel pulled her close, kissing her head, this was his fault, if he had never came back, or had just never gotten involved with her in the first place none of this would have happened. But could he have lived without knowing Buffy, she had changed him, developed him in so many different ways he would be a completely different person with out her.

"I love you so much Angel, it sometime scares me, because I don't know what I'd do with out you, if you left me again Angel I don't know what I would do, I barely made it the first time. Angel promise me you won't break my heart again." Buffy pleaded.

"I promise, I'll never leave you, you still my girl?" Angel replied showing all his love to this one magnificent creature.

"Always." Buffy replied, and sealed it with a kiss.

Part 21

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"How can you think this is funny?" Anya argued, they had been arguing about this cartoon since it had begun.

"Anya this is a classic the coyote tries so hard to capture the road runner, but every times fails miserably." Xander argued back.

"I guess I quit the human thing in good time, give me another thousand years and I would be laughing at *that*?" Anya replied with a huff of the voice. "I mean-" Anya started but was cut off, by Xander's lips on hers. Thus ending their dramatic argument on children's cartoons. And the beginning of a long morning filled with kinky sex, and kisses.

Part 22

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"Oh, and this was at us graduation. Don't we look cute? Willow asked Tara, they had been looking at pictures of her and Oz practically all night.

"Yeah, you do," Tara replied dully. I mean she liked Willow, she was beginning to think she like Willow more as friend, but she still liked her. Even so looking at pictures of Willow and her ex was not on the top ten things to do before she died. "So, uh is there anything else you would like to do?" Tara asked.

"Well, we could look up some spells, you know to help with the End of Days." Willow replied a little disappointed to have to close her picture book, but anything to help with the End of Days comes around.

"Oh, look!" Willow said pointing to a pez dispenser with a witch head on it. "Oz gave me this." She picked it up and kissed the little witch head before putting it gently back down on her dresser.

"Wills, spells?" Tara said gently.

"Right, " Willow responded.

And the two witches spent the night looking up spells, and talking bout werewolves.

Part 23

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"I give up!" Giles exclaimed exasperated, "I just simply give up. There is nothing of use in my books!"

"Well it seems as I've had better luck, in a cryptic sort of manner." Wesley stated in that British manner that never seemed to leave him.

"Well, what is?" Giles asked impatiently.

"It states, that the full moon will rise, there and then time can stop, but only the pure can stop it, and only after consummating they will be pure. Pure? Pure of what? And consummating?" Wesley asked after reading the text.

Part 24

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Angel was now kissing Buffy with a reverent passion his lips trailing to the sensitive part behind her ear, then going down along the column of her neck only pausing briefly to kiss his mark on her, then making his way to her now bare breast, giving each one the attention they deserve, only to continue on his journey.

Buffy moaning his name pulled his head up to her lips kissed him, and asked in a passionate voice, "Make love to me."

Never one to deny his love of anything, he complied to do just that, make love to her.

Reveling in the after glory, of their pervious sex romp they began kissing, only to stop when they heard something looking up they saw Darla followed by Drusilla enter their bedroom.

"Look at the pretty flames, they are dancing all around, now that we have found daddy," Dru said dancing in small circles around Darla. "Daddy won't you come back to us, we could have so much." She said smiling evilly, "Look daddy the flames, the flames are laughing at us now. Daddy why won't you come back?" Dru moaned.

"He can't." Darla stated, "My, Angel, he isn't one of us." She said in disgust. He mission it's complete."

A brilliant light swirled around them and they disappeared into the early morning. Angel then promptly woke up from his sleep gasping for breath. Breath, since when had he needed breath? And, and he was hungry also?

"Buffy," Angel moaned softly full of confusion. The only other time this had happened was after Thanksgiving, and that day had been erased, so what was going on?

Buffy purred softly in her sleep, nestling herself closer to Angel then she already was.

He didn't want to wake her, hell he wouldn't wake her for the world. But his overwhelming need for oxygen and food were becoming a pressing issue. He gently eased himself out from her grasp, and went to go scrounge the house for any kind of food.

Shortly after he had left, Buffy woke up only to find herself alone in bed. She proceeded to get up and search for vampire lover.

Part 25

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"What part are you not getting?" Cordelia asked for like the hundredth time.

"I think it's the part where she has to send him to hell so the world wouldn't go to hell, she then runs away, comes back later, then Angel comes back only to try and kill himself." Gunn replied, "That's where I'm a little confused.

"Yeah, I could see how that could be surprising." Cordelia said smiling.

God, he loved her smile, it was the cutest thing he had ever seen. He then reached out and brushed back her now short locks from her face. They were a hairs breath away, closing in on the small but all too large gap. Their lips met slowly and unsure at first, but all worries were pushed aside as their tongues began to roam every crevice of each others mouths.

Part 26

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He had done it, he was fully capable of controlling his wolf under any circumstances or conditions. But what did it mean, Willow didn't love him any more, she had moved on like he had expected she would.

"No, Oz." The robbed figure replied, "She's waiting for you she always will wait for you. Sometimes she might not always know, but unconsciously she's waiting."

His mind was made up; he was going to claim the girl he loved. He was going to Sunnydale.

The robed figure looked up and smiled. "Well Jenny, I think you have finally managed to set things right." She said to herself before disappearing.

Part 27

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"We have called you here, because we need strong men to help fight our battle." Darla stated to a group of vampire and demons that had assembled themselves, into the warehouse.

"Yes, we need strong burley men, to fight for us, we then can rule the world again!" Dru exclaimed excited.

"Your addition is tonight, those of you who survive it, we will then pick 15 of the strongest and then you will help us, take over earth, tomorrow night. The full moon." Darla said, then turned on her heels and walked out the door.

"We are going to have a party tomorrow," Drusilla exclaimed joyfully before following Darla out.

Part 28

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Cordelia sat on the couch examining her perfectly manicured nails every now and then touching something up wit her nail filer. Willow and Tara sat on the stools looking through a book. Angel was thinking of a way to tell Buffy about what he thought was his new found mortality. Buffy who noticed something different about Angel but not quite sure what it was sat there looking at Angel. Giles was babbling on about something Wesley had found in a book last night, not noticing that no one in the room was listening to him but Wesley. Gunn sat next to Cordelia just thinking about that magical kiss they had shared last night, when all of a sudden there was a knock on the door.

"Who on bloody earth could that be?" Giles said more to himself. Everyone was here, that they needed.

He walked over to the door pausing only to grab a stake. He slowly opened it aiming the stake right at Oz's chest, screaming, "what do you want!" Not noticing it was Oz till after he said it.

"Uh, hello?" Oz said, unsure about his place here now.

"Oz!!" Willow screamed knocking everyone in her way over as she made a run for the door. Clasping Oz in a hug so hard, he was beginning to feel how important oxygen was to the human body.

"Wills," he said quietly, "I kind of need to breath, but it's really good to see you to."

Embarrassed Willow slowly pulled away.

"Hi." Oz said, to the rest of the room.

"Oh, here," Giles began finally getting over his previous embarrassment and taking the one little duffel bag Oz had in his hand.

"Hi!" Xander began majorly pissed off, "Hi, you left to go find yourself, leaving Wills here crushed in the process and all you can say for yourself is hi?"

"Xander," Buffy said trying to calm him, not working, mostly cause she was still thinking about Angel.

"Xander!" Willow then repeated, when he did not stop his yelling at Oz. "Leave him alone. I-I'm glad he's back." Willow said quietly. Giving Oz a small smile.

"Angel," Buffy whispered in his ear, "Could I talk to you for a couple of minutes?"

"Yeah." He answered obviously distracted by something. "Let's go upstairs."

"Okay, I don't mean to brake up this re-union but has everyone forgotten about the End of Days, and how it will be coming tonight?" Wesley asked, he was fed up disorder was all around him, and they had lots of work to do to be prepared to night.

"What's wrong, Buffy, what did you want to talk to me about?" Angel asked concern showing in his eyes.

"I don't know, never mind forget I said anything, let's just go back." Buffy said and turned to leave but Angel reached out to grab her arm to bring her back to him.

"No, we need to talk," Angel began. He just had to tell her before he lost his nerves again. "Well I really don't know where to start with this, but I think that I am human."

"Human?" Buffy managed to squeak out. Before promptly falling backwards onto the floor in a heap.

Part 29

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"Okay, so the end of days is tonight, and we have no clue how to do this ritual to save all of man kind." Xander repeated in lamest terms, "Well what else is new?"

"Xander, this is no time to be making jokes." Giles replied sternly.

"Um, question," Oz, stated for practically the first time since he had gotten back to Sunnydale. "Does any one now where Buffy and Angel ran off to?"

"Eew! I hope they aren't doing it on my bed!" Cordelia exclaimed completely grossed out to this point.

"Cordelia, they um, well you know..." Willow trailed off, embarrassed.

"Yes, they can I had a vision, last night after I had said goodnight to Gunn" Cordelia babbled on, "Oh, I think I should have told Angel that, shouldn't I have?" Cordelia just realizing she had forgot to say something.

There was an echo of groans, which followed her conclusion.

"Oops." Cordelia said with a shrug. "I mean, I'm sorry but I don't see the big deal, every time Buffy and Angel get pelvic something bad happens, the first time, he became all `grr' I'm evil and want to kill everyone, and then the second time he erased the day. So I don't see the big deal." Cordelia stated in her defense not really thinking about what she was actually saying. "I mean he's human now, so I think if he really wanted to he could figure out what is happening to him..." pausing briefly to take a breath, and look around the room.

"I think I speak for all of us when I say huh?!" Xander replied, deeply confused, and angry.

"Oh, um, nothing." Cordelia said, "So, how `bout that End of World, thing? Anything new?" Cordelia asked trying to revert the attention off of her. The only problem was it didn't work.

Part 30

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"Buffy" Angel repeated for it seemed like the hundredth time, "Buffy, please wake up." "Mom, I just, just give me 10 more minutes." Buffy said.

"Buffy?" Angel asked, "Buffy can you hear me?"

"Ang-Angel?" Buffy asked now very confused. "Where are-" she stopped remembering exactly why she had fainted earlier. "Angel, I think I'm going to faint again."

"Breathe," he said with one of his sexy trademark smiles.

"Oh, yeah," she said smiling, "breathe. So are you, well I mean are you human?"

"Yeah, I am pretty sure I am." Angel replied, not quite sure how she was going to take this new news.

She reached out grabbed him into her arms, and smothered him with kisses. "Oh, Angel this is so great!" Buffy exclaimed truly happy. "We can have a future together."

"But, Buffy-" Angel was cut off before he could finish what he had started.

"Don't but me," she started. "I have wanted this well since I met you, and obviously if you turn human for a second time then it was meant to be, Angel." Buffy reasoned, hoping that he would for once listen to her.

Her reply was a kiss, a kiss representing their future, their past, everything that was made up of Buffy and Angel.

A couple of minutes later he broke off her kiss, " You think we should go down and tell the others, I mean there is this whole End of Days coming soon." He replied with a smile, he couldn't help the world might end and he felt like the happiest man on earth. He turned to look at Buffy but she didn't look happy not in the least.

She turned to look at him, "Angel, you can't fight this, I won't lose you. Not when I finally have you back." Buffy stated.

"Let's just go downstairs," Angel said. He had to fight this was his job. What was he without it?

Part 31

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"Look who has decided to grace us with their presence," Xander said as the couple made their way down stairs, and into Giles living room.

"Xander." Buffy said shooting him a warning glare.

"Xander what?" Xander asked testily, "The End of Days is tonight and your upstairs having sex with him, instead helping out down here where you were needed."

"What, how did you know?" Buffy stammered, "I mean no we weren't having sex, but wait?" Buffy babbled.

”Yeah, besides a good sexually experience takes longer, you should know that Xander." Anya replied, while patting him on his shoulder, and making him blush the color of Willows hair.

"Could we please stay on topic." Wesley said. "Now the End of Days is tonight. Well as Giles and I were researching we had found this, stating that only the pure can stop time, but they are only pure after consummating. What we think this means, from looking into other books having referrals to this is that the pure, meaning pure love can stop this. Which now that I think of it, it makes complete sense because only true/pure love is worth fighting for." Wesley said beginning to babble.

Part 32

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"What, fun will our party be without daddy?" Dru said. She had been sulking ever since she had gotten up almost 30 minutes ago.

"Angel, will be here. My Angel was always the noble one. He'll show." Darla said. Dru was beginning to agitate her. If only Spike or Angelus was around to shut her up.

"Well, well, well" A familiar stranger said. "What do we have here?"

"Spikey!" Dru shouted. "Is it really you?"

"Yes, Ducks. Spike is back." He smirked.

"But the pins and needles are pinching and poking," Dru said in distress. "Spikey doesn't chase the bad little puppies anymore. Get away! You're dirty!" Dru exclaimed. And then fled the room.

"Spike isn't playing in the major leagues anymore?" Darla began. "Who would have thought, William the Bloody." And then followed Dru example and walked out leaving a very confused Spike, all by his lonesome self.

Part 33

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The sun had set, The End of Days was about to begin.

"Angel, if well if I don't make it out alive, I want to tell you that I love you so much. I have never loved some one more then I have loved you." She kissed him softly on the lips, and turned and walked out the door not wanting him to see her cry.

Angel just stood there he felt so useless, he couldn't just sit at home wondering if Buffy and the others would be okay. He had to do something; he grabbed his coat and was about to make his way out to go to the warehouse where Buffy was when he ran into Spike.

"Watch out you big bugger!" This was not Spikes day, he missed passions, and then went to go be all macho and Drusilla at him, and now he was running into the lovesick puppy.

"Spike?!" Angel asked, this was not what he needed now. "Wait how could you come in here?" Angel asked realizing that Spike just walked straight into Giles house.

"Look, I can't bite anymore, and don't you say one word. I've had enough crap for one day." Spike said and then plopped down on the sofa, and ripped open the bag of blood.

Angel shook his head, and was about to walk out the door when Spike stopped him.

"You go there, and you'll die you know." Spike began. "You shouldn't go there, it's not safe for neutered pups like us. Let's just go have a beer, wreck a little havoc."

"Spike I am going to count to ten, if you have not moved out of my way, you will wish you had never came here." Angel said and then walked out the door.

"Well wait!" Spike said running after him. "I want to help fight the big fight too."

Part 33

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"Look what you did!" Cordelia screeched, "Do you see this nail? This nail here cost me 10 dollars." Cordelia told the big green slime monster. "I hope you have 10 dollars on you cause I need to replace this nail!" Just then Gunn came up from behind the monster and chopped his head off. The head rolled right next to Cordy's foot.

"Look what it did to my nail!" Cordelia fumed.

"I'm sorry." Gunn replied half-heartedly, "Duck!" He screamed as the vampire came up from behind Cordelia.

"Ha, never mess with the almighty Xander!" Xander beamed after staking the vamp trying to mess with Anya. "I have had years of practice with these types of situations, all through elementary school I was nagged for my lunch money." Xander boasted.

"Giles!" Buffy exclaimed Darla had just hit him over the head with an ax. "Gile's can you hear me?"

She was so worried about Giles she didn't sense Darla come up from behind her with an ax in her hand. Before she had a chance to do bodily harm, Angel staked her. It was the only thing to do; he had to put away whatever feelings he had for his sire. He had to save Buffy, because without her he didn't think he could live. And he staked her. In that moment time had stopped. Those giving the Scooby gang the chance to finish killing all the evil trying to bring forth the End of Days.

Part 34

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"Well, I don't know about you but I think this whole End of Days thing was a bit over rated." Willow said.

"Agreed." Xander said, moving his arm around Anya.

"That's another I tried to stop the world, when will they learn that they just can't do it?" Buffy asked, as she repositioned herself in Angel's lap.

"Well I think it's time to celebrate," Anya began. "Me and Xander have not had any sex time lately."

Xander groaned, "Ans I thought we talked about this?"

"Oh right, what I meant to say was Xander and I will be heading home now, so that we can have some private time, you know with just the two of us." Anya then stated correcting her earlier mistake.

Xander got up, and walked out the door. Followed by Anya.

"Well, uh I think I will go upstairs, for some alone time too, uh, Gunn would you care to join me you to talk and all?" Cordelia asked trying not to bring to many stares with the comment.

"Oh, yeah sure talk." Gunn replied eagerly, "I'd love to."

They both ran upstairs, to `talk'.

"Um, well I'm just going to head back to the dorm, Tara, Oz, want to join me?" Willow asked.

The three then walked out the door.

"Well me and Angel are just going to head home, you know alone time for us and all." Buffy said getting up and pulling Angel up with her.

And then all left in the room was Wesley and Giles, who had a nice chat about slayers, England, and cross-referencing. As Jenny smiled down, her mission was now complete. Angel was human Oz was in Sunnydale were he belonged, the End of Days had been stopped, all was good in the world.

Part 35

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"Oz will you excuse us?" Willow asked.

He simply nodded his head.

"Um, Tara, I have something to tell you, I don't know how to really say this but well, see me and you."Willow babbled trying to find the easiest way to tell Tara how she truly felt.

"Will, you can tell me." Tara encouraged.

Willow took a deep breath and started over, "Okay, well what you and me have is special and I never want to lose you. You're a great friend."

"But that's all we should be, friends right?" Tara asked finishing Willows previous remark.

"Yeah." She leant forward and hugged Tara.

"Now, go back inside, Oz is waiting for you." Tara said before turning to leave.

Part 36

Buffy and Angel had been kissing ever since they had gotten back at the mansion.

"You know, you could have gotten yourself killed out there." Buffy said following each word with a kiss.

"So, could you." Angel pointed out. Kissing her again on her lips to silence her.

"So, uh, well do you want to take this to the bedroom?" Buffy asked with a seductive smile gracing her face.

As the two ran for the bedroom anxious to make love for the first time in over a year.

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