Disclaimer: The song belongs to Roxette and the title was taken from it too, it's called Church of Your Heart and BTVS belongs to people that aren't me.
Rating: PG
Distribution: sure just tell my where
Summary: this is my attempt at an easter fic *grin* it's short:-)
Notes: This song screamed at me to write a fic, and when Per sings i have to listen, i mean that voice! and he does wear eyeliner well and play guitar, ok so the mullet was scary, but it's gone now!! (i think!)

Can't we leave the world outside just for a while?
Just for a while? And spend some time,
You and I under this bright glorious sky.

Buffy stood still, so still it almost hurt and her heart was racing so fast that she could hear each beat.

She tried to keep her mind blank, because the anticipation was so great if she let herself get carried away with it she wouldn't be able to stand still, but she refused to believe anything until he got here.

Once she saw him walk through those doors she'd believe, but not until then. After all this was a hellmouth and if anything could piss on her bonfire that was it, in fact it had done on numerous occasions.

She knew though, that today was the day. She'd felt it.

It's been so long since I first saw you
But I still love that smile in your eyes.
Yes it's true, right from the start,
I believed in the church of your heart.
Yes it's you that made me be part of
And believe in the church of your heart.

She could remember the first time she saw him, in a dark alley, on the way to the Bronze, but that couldn't be classed as the first time they'd touched souls. She felt his presence long before she kicked him on his butt.

The air around her had crackled and goose bumps ran up her arms and down the back of her neck. She felt her stomach muscles clench and something so powerful ran through her, it scared her. Souls touching, hers and his. Before they'd even met. She'd known from before she'd set eyes on him that he was her destiny. It may have brought her pain and heartache, and she may have taken many long, twisty, difficult roads to get to where she was now, but every heartache was worth it because if she'd never met him her life would have been truly empty.

She believed in him, always. Even when they parted she believed in him. She'd always be grateful to him for loving her unconditionally and letting her love him back. As strange as it seems he was her light, he warmed her when she was cold, he let her drown in his beautiful eyes and he loved her. Love...

Step inside, lay yourself down
Just for a while, rest for a while
I can hear a thundering sound
Beating inside when you're around

The anticipation was over and he walked through those doors, out of the sunlight, towards her. They'd known without words that the other would be here, waiting. Five years without a word to each other hadn't lessened their bond. When *it* happened, Buffy had known and she had come here.

He was smiling, truly smiling, like she'd never seen before and he looked good in sunlight. He walked straight to her, his eyes were set in one place only, her eyes. He didn't stop until they stood facing each other and then he was pulling her to him, his hands roaming frantically over her and hers on him, wanting to touch and feel, familiarise themselves. Buffy touched his chest, over his heart and heard a magical beat, she felt it beneath her fingertips, she felt it ripple down her arm to her heart and she felt her own heart match its rhythm.

Their lips crashed together violently, teeth smacking teeth, tongues duelling, deeper and deeper and still it wasn't enough. They wanted to lose themselves in each other, consume each other.

Their knees wouldn't, or couldn't hold up and slowly, still kissing and ripping at clothing tying to get to bare flesh they sank to the hard floor.

It's been so long since I first met you,
Since we made love, you know how
Time flies, yes it's true, right from the
Start, I believed in the church of your heart

It seemed as though Buffy had waited eternity for this moment, the moment where she could touch him and he could touch her and they could love and that's all it would be. Love, no big catastrophe just two people in love. Never again would they have to be afraid to touch the other. Now at long last they could just be.

It was a relief, just being was the greatest gift of all and they'd worked hard and stayed away from each other to get it.

It had been a long haul, but just to taste him, to feel his heart beat in time with her own was worth it.

Now it could start, their lives could begin.

They could just *be*.

Buffy and Angel.

Yes it's you that made me be part of
and believe in the church of you heart
In the church of your heart.

The Church Of Your Heart, there is no worthier religion.

what? did you expect me to kill them or something?

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