Disclaimer: Joss is God, Joss is King, Joss our Lord owns everything!
Notes : This is set after `Triangle' but in my happily ever after
Series. I'm German , so sorry if there are many mistakes. Maastricht
is in the Netherland and 1 in hour reachable from my place. So sorry
if it sounds stupid. Just think you can drive with the car ,circa 12
hours or so, to Maastricht! But really, it's a nice city!
Summary: The gang is on a Vacation in the Netherlands.
Dedication: This one's for Sara-Lee and ryan. Thank you for all the
great feedback J
Feedback: Pretty please???
"You know- I'm *so* glad my Mom's okay-HEY! This is your place!"
"No"
"It is! Look."
"Buffy, this is NOT Angel's place. This is some set in Hollywood!" Dawn protested.
The three of them sat on Buffy's bed and watched TV. Buffy had pillowed Angel's lap and Dawn lay on her stomach, her feet on the pillows.
"Yeah, ok, but it COULD be Angel's, I mean, this is LA!"
"It's not my hotel, beloved." He kissed her on the forehead. Buffy made a `pouty-Buffy' face which made Angel grin.
"You two are *so* disgusting!" Dawn commented.
"We're not" Buffy yelped.
"Please, Buffy. All that kissing and stroking and playing footsy under the table and calling each other two times the day when you're not together." Dawn grinned. "Oh, and I forgot the *loud* sex when you *are* together."
Angel *suddenly* looked like a tomato.
"Ok, well..um" Buffy stammered. "I'll go and get the food stuff" With that she jumped out of the bed and ran out of the room. All Angel could do was look after her, he loved watching her body move.
"What are you thinking right now?" Dawn asked smirking.
*Right, I forgot I'm still in one room with the teenage hormone bomb. Why does she have to ask those embarrassing questions?*
*~*~*
Buffy patted into the dark kitchen and shrieked when suddenly a man jumped into her way. Well, not a man.
"Damn it, Spike. What are you doing here?"
"Well, yeah.stopping by?"
"Uh-huh" Buffy commented sarcastically.
"Where's your Mom? She okay?" He said quickly, trying to get out of the `explain-why-you're-here-or-I'll-stake-you' subject.
"She's in New York" She said. "and okay, she's on a wellness spa." She was qute truthfully to Spike in that subject. He'd comforted her when her Mom had to go to the hospital a few weeks before, when Angel had been in LA. He'd earned her trust in that case.
She went to the cupboards and took out a few mugs. "You want cocoa?" She asked Spike.
"With those tiny marshmellows?"
"Yup"
"Cool" He sat down on a stool. "What was that with the book for Giles in Maastricht?"
"Someone has to go and bring it here." She said while handing him a cup. "It's like super-old and the owner don't want to mail it, so we have to go, but we make a small 4-days-vacation out of it! Wait. How do you know?"
"Giles asked me to go with you. He already did the `one-week-in-the- sun' spell! You're not going to go rid off me, cutie!" He grinned.
"WHAT?! He comes with us?" Angel shouted. He'd entered the kitchen a moment before.
"Yep, sorry peaches, but you've got me right on your heels for four days! Wait, no. I'm not sorry!"Spike smirked.
*~*~*
"We're ten people and two cars" Xander commented. "Five are settled so I guess we have to draw lots for the others!"
"Why doesn't Giles and Wesley come with us?" Willow asked.
Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Willow, Angel, Spike, Gunn, Cordy, Anya and Tara sat in the living room of the summers' house. Buffy in her regular place on Angel's lap with Dawn to her feet, Xander & Anya and Willow & Tara on the couch. Spike was seated in the loveseat and Gunn and Cordy sat on the floor. All of them covered in munchies and coke. On the table lay several maps and plans and Xander was drawing lots.
"Giles and Wesley go to a BIG research-party in London!" Buffy explained to the redhead.
"Number one in Angel and Buffy's car is. Dawn!" Xander said which made Dawn lighten up. "Number two.Spike!"
"NO" Angel exclaimed shocked.
"I'm *so* not driving in the poof's car" Spike whined while munching on a box of cookies.
"It's settled. No whining!" Xander stated.
"OK, Number three, and then the car is full.*ME*!" He yelled shocked. Everybody laughed.
"Well, I guess the rest's with me" Cordy said.
"With ME! *I* drive the car!" Gunn said.
"Oh goody" Anya mumbled.
*~*~*
"If you turn left you come onto the bridge again" Spike complained. Angel turned left and drove directly onto a bridge over the Maas river.
"See." Spike exclaimed.
"That's the Maas!" Xander chirped.
"I know that." Buffy said annoyed. "You said it five times, now!"
"Drive off that bridge!" Spike yelled. "We were here four times, it's *wrong*!"
"Then tell me WHERE to, I don't know where to, it's a long time since I was in the Netherlands!" Angel yelped at Spike in the rearview, although Spike wasn't reflected.
"I don't know why we had to drive anyway. We could have go here by plane" Dawn complained from the passenger seat.
Angel was driving the car and Dawn sat on the passenger seat. Buffy was jammed between Spike and Xander on the backseats of his black convertible. Buffy and Angel shared secret smiles in the rearview the whole drive long although Angel was pretty pissed that she sat between those sex-maniacs.
"BLOODY HELL, YOU DRIVE ONTO THAT BRIDGE AGAIN!"
"That's the Maas"
"Xander, SHUT UP!"
"In a plane we would have been here in 3 hours!"
Buffy leaned towards Angel. "You can turn right, perhaps THIS WAY leads towards downtown" She whispered into his ear and although it was a very innocent act, for the others it looked like an intimate promise.
"And when you look to your right you see the Maas!"
"XANDER!"
"Hey, what a miracle, the poof found the way!" Spike remarked impressed.
They parked directly at the Maas (much to Xander's fun) and went over the bridge (much to Spike's fun) into Downtown. The downtown of Maastricht was beautiful. A big place around the town hall with little snack bars and many tiny cafes with outside armchairs made out of basketwork. On every side ot the town hall leaded streets to the main shopping street. Buffy and Cordelia were already in love with the place.
The Gang strolled a bit trough the shops and soon every girl had at least one new outfit. The males just followed them. Really interested in their shopping were only Angel and Spike who checked Buffy out every time she came out of the changing cubicle.
When the girls went into a huge chemist's shop the boys remarked it with `Nooooo's and `Ahaaaaa's and other disgusted noises. Cordy and Buffy both disappeared quickly into the Make up and Body Lotion/Shampoo sides of the shop. They were gone not until one hour later.
After that the girls continued shopping and the males went to one of those cafes and waited. And waited.
"Where are they now?" Gunn asked bored.
"Hunkemöller" Xander replied simply.
"That says *so* much!" Spike commented.
"A Dessous shop" Angel explained.
"What? So, *why* aren't we going with them?" Spike complained. "We had to see them buy the hair-colours, but we're not allowed to see them buy the Dessous?"
"Exactly" Cordelia said while sitting down on one of those basketwork armchairs.
"Where are we going now?" Willow asked.
Buffy sat down next to Angel and kissed him `hello'. Tara took the place next to the now sitting Willow, Anya went directly to Xander and Dawn sat down next to Tara.
"I think we should gradually getting that book!" Buffy said, holding hands with her husband.
"*I* wanna eat something" Xander stated loudly.
"Me, too!" Dawn agreed.
The gang ordered Milkshakes and Burgers and after they'd finished eating, they headed for the book owners house.
They went through an old street with expensive houses and Versage shops. The houses and the street were still in their original states.
"Wow" Willow remarked. "I wonder how old they are."
"Something like 1700 or 900 BC." Buffy said
The others made loud noises.
"Honey, you're a philistine!" Angel said to his wife.
"What? I was right!" She pointed at one of the houses. "read. There it's written: built in 1709! And on that one's written 1652! I wasn't that wrong!" Buffy complained.
Angel grinned at her and kissed her lightly on the lips. With that the loud noises came again.
They went further down the street and came to a beautiful church in which they went in after Willow's pleading. The windows were amazing colored in a conceivable colors and on all sides were white candles and statues and pictures of the virgin Mary. On a platform were a huge golden organ and the place itself was dark. The candles made a very romantic atmosphere.
"That's a Basilica, made for women in 1500" Angel explained. Buffy and Angel sat on one of the benches. He had his arm around her shoulders and she hers around his waist.
"I thought something like that. On the front is written Ave Maria!" She said lazily. "You're a living history book, you know that, sweetheart?" She grinned up at him.
They kissed and fell silent again.
"I wonder where the cemetery is" she mumbled.
He cocked an eyebrow at her.
"What?"
"Nothing" He smirked.
After a while he said. "It's near, there was a sign."
"You speak dutch?" She asked shocked.
"Yes"
"What's cemetery?"
"Vrijthof"
She giggled. "Why can you speak so many languages?"
"I was around for a long time."
"Can you speak Japanese?"
"Yes"
That made her cough. "YOU CAN?"
*~*~*
After they'd gotten Giles' book they bought those famous dutch fries and sat down on the stairs infront of the town hall. Watching the shops close for the day.
"I can't believe dutch shops close at 6 o'clock! That's *so* early!" Cordelia complained.
They sat in one line infront of the black fence of the town hall and enjoyed their fries.
"This house is hollow-y!" Buffy pointed at a *very* narrow house which had four floors and a chinese snack bar in it. It only had one door and that was the one of the restaurant.
"Do the residents of the house have to go trough the restaurant? Anyway, Look. Two narrow-window wide. Where are the stairs? And it's sloping!" Buffy said.
"True" Angel said. "But that's because it's old!"
"And that's one of those coffee-shops!" Xander pointed at one shop a few doors away from the two-narrow-window-wide one.
"Yeah, I remember. We learned about those at Sunnydale High." Buffy said.
"What can you learn about a coffee-shop?" Gunn remarked.
"That, in the Netherlands, they sell Canabis and Hash legal." Willow explained.
"Oh"
"Yes, but only if you're Dutch!" Cordy said. "I mean-not that I would."
The most of them had finished eating and went back to go to the hotel. Buffy was half-finished but couldn't eat anything anymore.
"Remind me to never eat again" She stated while handing them to Xander.
Angel grinned and pulled her to him. "Have you any idea how cute you are?"
"No. Tell me!" Buffy chirped brightly.
Angel chuckled. "Well, you're breathtakingly sexy. When you're angry your nose does the cutest things. The way you squeak when you see a kitten or a puppy. The way you *never* finish your meals. How you look in tight leather pants. The way you go all red when you're embarrassed. How you melt chocolate on you tongue and the look in your eyes when you do so. The way you scream my name when you're in the middle of an--"
"STOP IT! I HOPE YOU'RE STILL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT WE'RE STILL HERE!" Cordelia screamed. "And I NEVER wanna hear you talk about orgasms !" She added disgusted.
"Since we're hearing them when we walk in on you two almost in a regular basis when she's in LA!" Gunn remarked.
*~*~*
After Buffy had locked the book away she bounced into the room she and Angel shared.He was laying on the bed, reading a poetry book. She crawled up beside him and nuzzled his shoulder, trying to get his attention.
"What are you reading?"
"Shakespeare"
"Well, if you stop reading we could have a little fun! I'm sure I could find something of the stuff I bought at that Dessous shop!" She smirked.
Angel throw the book aside and turned to his grinning girlfriend. "Is that so?"
"That's so" She whispered when he began stroking her legs under her skirt.
"Damn clothes" He said while stripping her off the skirt. She giggled and pulled him into a kiss while unbuttoning his black shirt.
"I love you" He breathed against her lips.
"I love you more"
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