2. The Repercussions

The following night descended on the pair of exhausted lovers. Willow slowly opened her eyes and groaned as she felt every muscle in her entire body ache. She didn't recall all of what had happened last night. The last thing she remembered was falling asleep with Angel after they made passionate love.  Suddenly an unfamiliar heat flooded her entire body, starting from her head and ending down into her toes.  Willow felt the heat go through her entire being and she knew Angel had experienced the same sensation. After that it had pretty much gone into a sexual overtime for them both.  She remembered them almost attacking each other with this intense need and desire, then everything after that was a big naked blur.

Now twenty-five hours later Willow finally got the strength to move. Her back was to Angel's chest and he had his arm around her waist holding her tight with his head buried in her hair. She tried to move and regretted it the second she did.

"Angel," she called softly.

He didn't move or even stir. <What did you expect girl, going at it eleven times in less than a day would tire out anybody even a vampire> she thought as she tried to move again, only to have his arm tighten around her waist possessively.

"Angel I have to get up. Move and let me go"

"Don't want to," he muffled childlike. "I really don't think I can move."

"Me either but I have to go to the bathroom."

He loosened his grip and she rolled slowly out of the bed and grabbed her robe and very slowly made her way into the bathroom, at one stage almost crawling. Angel was still lying in the same spot when she managed to stumble out a few minutes later. She was about to go down stairs to find something to eat when she heard his cell phone ringing.

"Willow will you pass me my phone out of my coat pocket," he asked sweetly, still not moving.

Willow walked over to his coat, went through it and found the phone handing it to him.

"Hello," he hissed out as he moved to sit up.

"Angel where are you?" Cordelia asked from the other end of the phone.

"I'm in Sunnydale. Why?"

"Why are you there? You need to get back here as soon as possible because there is a telepathic demon that arrived last night and he is really messing things up here."

"Ok. I will be back in two hours."

"Ok. Angel Bye."

"Bye," he told her as he looked at Willow who was standing there staring at him with those big green eyes.

"I have to leave for LA Willow," he told her sadly. He didn't want to leave her, not before they got a chance to talk about her being his mate and about what the hell had happened to them last night. He loved sex with her but that was beyond his control. Eleven times. That was too incredible. Even for them.

"I know but why do you have to leave so soon?" She asked him sitting on the bed beside him.

"A telepathic demon came last night and I have to go back so we can destroy it before it creates total chaos."

"I understand," she told him as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Come with me Willow." he pleaded

"I…I can't do that Angel not now."

"I love you and you love me. Why can't you go?" he asked grabbing her chin and titling it to so that she looked straight at him.

"I want to Angel but I just can't pack up and leave not even for you. Just like you can't pack up and leave L.A. I have responsibilities here, I have to stay"

"I know I was just hoping you would come with me."

"I only have four more months until I graduate and that means I can come up and try to attend a collage in LA."

"Don't try Willow. Do it.  For us," he sighed as he ran his fingers through his hair. "We still have to talk about what happened last night. Between us."

"I know but I don't want you to leave me Angel."

"I promise to come straight back when this demon is destroyed. I will stay until something else comes up and when you graduate you can come
back with me."

"OK. But I won't ask you to come back and stay here. It wouldn't be fair to you or to me. I think that we can manage until I graduate. Hey they have this invention now, its called a phone, I'm sure we can figure out how to use it" she said trying to make light of the situation and the pain it was causing.

"I think we can" he smiled.  "I want to come back to you but if you want me to stay in LA I will. But I don't have to like it." he pouted.

"I don't either but I know that we can last at least until this weekend and after that, we can always make plans to meet up," she told him reassuringly.

"I guess that will have to do for now" he finished, trying desperately to think of a way to tell her about the current changes in their relationship. He knew that since they were now mated to each other, the next few months were going to be unbearable. Being away from each other for that long meant that there was going to be some serious side effects. He wouldn't be surprised if he found himself driving back to Sunnydale in a few days, as his need for her would be totally unbearable. Yet he decided to keep quiet about his fears, at least for this week. He wanted her to adjust to being with him before he sprung this whole mate's for all eternity things on her.

"What are we going to tell the others Angel about us and all?"

"Nothing for now, they will know soon enough. We have to figure it out ourselves first and then we can explain our relationship to them later."

"But what are we Angel?" she asked a tear spilling down her cheek.

"We are friends, lovers and best of all, we are mates," he answered honestly as he brushed away the tear with his thumb.

"Mates. What do you mean by mates?"

"We will talk about that later and about what happened last night. No more tears Willow. I don't like to see them on you." She nodded as he continued. "Before I call you tonight I need for you to find that spell you used and get that book for me. Something happened to us last night. I'm not complaining about it. I just want to make sure that we didn't do anything wrong and that there are no major consequences," he told her as he bent down and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. He deepen the kiss but forced himself to stop before his body could fully respond to her sensual lips  <a couple of days...yeah right who am I kidding....I'll find myself driving back in a couple of hours> he grumbled to himself as he stood and once
locating his clothes, he began to dress.

She watched as he finished getting dressed, her heart breaking as she knew once he was finished, he would leave her. Her fears were realized when he began walking down the staircase, with Willow dragging her feet behind him. He reached the door and turned to her as she brushed past him and  opened the front door. She met his gaze and tried to shield him from her hurt as she raised her head as he bent down to kiss her once again. This time their kiss was quick and brief, both knowing that if they opened their mouths to each other, they would no doubt find themselves back upstairs, both naked and in bed. As Angel left her home he turned back  and said "Remember, I love you Willow. I always have and I always will"

"I love you too," she whispered back as she watched him drive off into the night.

***

An hour later Willow sat at the computer in the library, deeply absorbed in reading the book she had gotten the spell from.

"Shit," she yelled out before she could catch herself.

Xander and Buffy both looked at each other raising their eyebrows and then looked at her, shock clearly evident on both their faces.

"Such a nasty word coming from the mouth of my sweet innocent best bud. Anything the matter Will's?" Xander asked her.

"Oh sorry I…I just got a paper cut," she lied.

"Need me to slay it for you Wil's?" Buffy teased.

"No I think this one is under control."

They all laughed as they continued researching.

<No....no!  I didn't just read what I think I did. Why do they always put the warnings about spells in such fine print? And why are they always at the bottom of the page! I wouldn't  have done this spell if I knew  this could happen> she thought frantically as she continued reading.

<I have to ask Giles about this> she looked nervously at his office door. <Yeah right like I'm going to waltz in there and say Giles I did a love spell, lost my virginity to a vampire, and that vampire fed from me as I fed from him and now we may be cursed> She had to calm down.

Willow shook off the thoughts as she stood and took the book walking up to Giles office and knocked on the door.

He looked up and smiled at the red head. "Come in Willow. Is there something I can help you with?"

Willow took a deep breath and proceeded to lie her butt off. "Yeah Giles I…I have a myth science paper due next week and I was thinking about doing this spell here," she showed him the page. "But I'm a little stuck on the warning part." She handed him the book and stood back and waited for him to read it.

"Ah yes this is a very dangerous love spell."

"Why is it dangerous?" she asked, trying to sound casual.

"Well it's not dangerous to everyone just on people that use it especially if one of them is a virgin."

"What will happen if one of them is a virgin?" She asked nervously.

"I don't think this is an appropriate paper for you to do that assignment on Willow."

"Well if you tell me then I can see for myself," she almost snapped at him.

"Ok then. Well if one is a virgin and is t....taken on that night of the spell," he stuttered. "They would be as you say connected. They would never be able to be with anyone else but each other because no one would be able to satisfy them sexually. They would be able to have a normal life but just like anyone else they would have an intense desire for one another and would have to actually always consummate their....er passion." He sighed and continued, "But if one should die then the other will eventually kill him or herself."

<Damn it. That's what I thought> "But what if.... lets say one is a vampire and the other is a human and he took her virginity and lets say they fed from each other pretty much at the same time. What um would happen?"

Giles looked at Willow strangely as he pondered where this line of questioning was eventually heading.

"Well that has never happened yet but if it does and they both fed from each other then the spell is changed only slightly. They still however will only want each other. They will become mates, the human will become immortal but the most serious part is that there will be a day each month that they would physically have to be together. The first urge will start within hours of them being i..intimate together" he said, shifting uncomfortably in his chair.

"What do you mean by have to?"

"Let just say the sexually urge would be ten-fold and if anything or anybody tried to stand in their way, they would not doubt regret it. It would be an animalistic mating and since the human would be immortal they would be able to handle it. The urge will continue for twenty-four hours, the sexual tension would be great and would have to be satisfied. Like I said before the first urge would be within two to three hours after they had been together for the first time. If they resist this urge to mate the first month after there first time of being together then they can exist and function without actually having to live together. The intense need will be broken. But if they do complete the ritual by consummating their relationship again then this will repeat itself every month for eternity or until one dies."

Willow swallowed hard and told him she had to go and get started on her paper leaving a very relieved Giles, who had no strong wish to continue the conversation.

Willow walked out of the library after saying her goodbye's to Xander and Buffy. She refused Buffy's offer of walking her home by promising that she had indeed brought her holy water and cross and that she would go straight home.

Willow had walked the entire way back to her house with her mind sending panic waves through her entire body.  <I can't believe I did something so stupid. I can't tell Angel about this, he would never forgive me> she berated herself.  As she was entering her house she heard the phone ring.

She walked over and picked up. "Hello."

"Willow it's me."

"Hi Angel," she said trying to sound casual.

"Did you find out about the spell?"

"Yeah it..it was just a love spell," she lied to him.

"Good. Now we can talk about this mating thing."

"I guess we can."

Willow and Angel talked for hours about what they were going to do about being mates and about her moving to LA. Angel explained to her that it was going to be extremely difficult not being together every night and if she needed him she could catch the bus up during the day and he could come down to her anytime during the night. They also made an agreement to meet every weekend at this motel just outside of Sunnydale and they were going to keep their relationship a secret at least until she was ready to move to LA.

They really thought that they had everything under control?

The End

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