My First Buffy Fanfic please read & review

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Author: SweeTea119

A Buffy fanfic taking place after the series “Angel” ended.

The story:
Buffy is at a carnival in Italy with the Immortal. She is laughing and having a good time with no worries about her slaying duties. There is a band of gypsies there. They’re putting on puppet shows for children, dancing, and fortune telling, etc. The eldest gypsy, who is too old to walk, is sitting in a chair next to the fortune telling tent. When she spots Buffy, she is drawn to her. The feeling is almost magnetic. She feels as though there is something she needs to tell the young lady but she doesn’t know what it is. The gypsy forces herself to stand when suddenly, like a slap to the face; something forces Buffy to look at the old woman. She notices the frailty of the gypsy and rushes to help her. When she touches the woman’s arm to help her sit back down, Buffy is thrown into a dream like state along with the gypsy. Unknown to either of them, the gypsy is meant to be her guide through this experience.
“What was that?” Buffy asked accusingly as she looked at the now young vibrant and beautiful gypsy.
“I don't know. I feel like I should, but I don’t.” The woman replied.
Looking around, Buffy noticed that it was nighttime and that they were for some reason in a deeply wooded area. Screams came barreling at them from a distance. Being the slayer that she is, Buffy ran in the direction of the noise to see if she could help. The gypsy followed.
They came to the edge of a clearing where people were running in all directions. “What’s going on here? Who or what’re they trying to escape?” Buffy thought to herself. She readied herself for a battle when she saw Spike, Drew, Darla, and… Angel. They were feeding on and torturing a large group of gypsies. Spike ran after a woman carrying a baby, while Darla fed on a young man. Drew laughed and danced while Angel tortured an old man by making the man watch him drain every last drop of blood from a young woman who appeared to be the man’s daughter.
Not wanting to see this anymore, Buffy tried shaking herself out of this dream, but it didn’t work. So Buffy ran up to Angel to throw him off of the girl but she went right through him like she was merely a ghost. Angry and annoyed, Buffy turned to the gypsy and shouted, “I want to know what’s going on. And I want to know now.”
“I haven’t a clue young lady, but I do know that this is lesson to be learned. This is something of a dream. But whose dream I don’t know. Maybe this is for the both of us, something that could only be told when we were together. “ The woman informed Buffy.
Angel’s laughter caught Buffy’s attention. She hadn’t heard him laugh like that since he lost his soul. She looked to him and then to the young woman in his arms as her lifeless head rolled backwards. It was her face! Her skin was darker, and so was her hair, but it was her! Buffy was looking at herself. But how could this be? Was this girl a slayer or a past life of Buffy’s? And why was she seeing this? Feeling a bit dizzy, Buffy fell backwards. When she opened her eyes she was back at the carnival lying at the feet of the old and feeble woman who just stared at her with large brown eyes. The gypsy’s son ran up her asking, “Ma, you alright? Ma?” The woman didn’t respond her eyes stayed fixed upon Buffy’s face.


Buffy looks at the man but only for a moment. The Immortal helps Buffy to her feet. She looks at him and says “Thanks.” Still confused as to exactly what happened and why she looks back at the old woman who seems to be sleeping. She asks “Is she ok?”
“What did you do to her?” the son asks shooting Buffy an evil look.
“Nothing. I just tried to help her and… and I don’t know. Something weird happened.” Buffy answered. Trying to calm herself as well as the son of the old woman.
“She too old, she can’t handle the likes of you young people. I only bring her out here because she hates being inside. She loves to watch people enjoying themselves. I see now that it was a mistake.” The son snaps at Buffy. He walks around to the back of the wheelchair that the old woman is sitting in and begins to push it.
The old woman’s hand leaves her lap and grabs Buffy’s arm. Buffy and the son are startled by this action. The gypsy woman raises her head and looks at Buffy. “We are the cause my daughter. He killed you, so I cursed him.” The whispers with the last bit of strength she has.
Buffy realizing what the gypsy woman meant, she looks to the Immortal. Completely shocked, but now knowing what the vision meant. She had been, in a former life, the gypsy girl that Angelus killed. And the old gypsy woman had been her father who had cursed Angel with a soul. But why did the vision happen? And was she meant to be the redeemer of Angel? She didn’t know what to think. Then the Immortal, pulled Buffy away from the old woman waking her out of her deep thoughts. Buffy looked at the Immortal and said, “ I have to go. Sorry, but this is important.” She kissed him and walked away. The Immortal followed her.

Buffy goes to her apartment and begins to pack her things. She calls Giles to ask if he’ll keep an eye on Dawn for her. She then tells Giles that she has something important to do in L.A. but she’ll back as soon as she can. Not waiting for an answer she says, “Thanks.” And hangs up.
On the plane, Buffy calls Willow. Telling Willow the whole incident, she asks if Willow can do some research for her while she goes to talk to Angel. “Willow, I need you to find out everything you can about the man who cursed Angel and his daughter. Also, please see if you can find anything out about the old gypsy woman. And why this whole thing happened. Call me W&H tomorrow to tell me what you’ve found out.” Buffy states.
“Ok Buffy, Do want me to come to L.A. you might need my help?” Willow replies desperately worried about her friend.
“No, I’ll be fine. If I need magical -assistance- Wes will be there. I don’t like that they are working at an evil law firm, but I don’t think they’ve all gone evil on us. Something in me tells me that I can still trust Wes and Angel. Look Will, I got to go, the plane would be landing soon. Call me, ok. Bye.” Buffy tries to reassure herself as well as Willow.
“Bye.” Willow whispers after Buffy has already hung up. Willow looks to Kennedy, “I’m worried about her.”

In L.A. now, Buffy shows up at a nearly empty W&H. It seems Angel has done a lot of firing. She sees Illyria and asks her where Angel is. Illyria, sizing her up, says, “In his office.” Illyria then points to a door and walks away.
A very nervous Buffy walks to the door, takes a deep breath, and knocks on the door.

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Angel calls out, “Come in.” not even looking up from his desk full of papers.
Buffy opens the door and enters the room. “Hi Angel.” Buffy says nervously.
Angel stops what he is doing and shockingly looks up to see Buffy. Realizing that she is actually there, Angel stands up and holding back that urge to rush to her and kiss and hold her, he calmly says, “Oh, I didn’t know it was you. If I’d known you were coming I’d have… done something.”
Smiling at Angel, Buffy decides to cut right to the chase, because if she didn’t and just tried the small talk thing she would lose herself and her reason for the whole trip. She wanted to throw her arms around him and never leave his side. She knew this just wasn’t possible so she began to talk. She told him of her meeting with the old gypsy woman. She continued with her story all the way to the part where she ended up at his office. “Why didn’t you tell me? I saw her, um me, and I know that you’ve noticed the resemblance. If nothing else Angel, you could have said something when you told me about the curse.”<br>Angel interrupts with, “I never told you about the curse. Giles told you. He read it one of his many books. We never talked about it. I guess I just never really thought about telling you. It never struck me as important.”<br>Spike walks in saying, “Angel, we’ve got to…” He stops when he looks up from the folder he is holding and sees Buffy standing there.
“Hi Spike.” Buffy says feeling awkward.
“Hey doll.” Spike says trying to act like it’s not a big deal to him that she’s there. His heart breaking, wanting to grab her and hold her tight and tell her he loves her and wanting to kiss her.
“Spike can we do this later?” Angel asks trying to get rid of Spike.
“Yea sure mate.” Spike answers and hating that he’s being thrown out. He turns and leaves the office door open because he can’t take the thought of Buffy being in there with Angel alone. But then he thinks about they can’t make love because true happiness makes Angel lose his soul. He laughed at the thought that Angel could never touch Buffy like that again but could, if she let him.
“Listen Angel, I think we both should go to Italy and see this woman. She was my father in another life and she cursed you. Maybe she could change the curse or lift it, something… anything. Angel, we need to go see her before she dies. Her health isn’t too good right now. So we’ll need to hurry.” Buffy pleas and then realizes the desperation in her voice. But she had to try. Her longing for Angel was too much for her to bear. She loved with him with ever inch of her being, and being apart from him broke her heart more then she could ever admit to.
“Buffy listen, just because you think there is something to learn or accomplish by us going there, to her, I can’t drop everything and leave with you. I have a life here, a business to run, employees to pay.” Angel said all too coldly. He knew it would break her heart as he was saying it and even though it broke his heart to say it, he couldn’t stop himself. He wanted to say, “Sure lets go.” He wanted to take her hand and run away with her and be happy in her presence, but something was stopping him from doing so. Maybe it was that he was afraid to lose his soul again, or maybe it was the thought of her being with Spike, or maybe it was his feelings for Cordy. He just didn’t know.
“Angel, don’t you understand? If she can lift the curse, and we can get Willow to do a spell or something to give you back your soul, we can be together. We can be happy.” Buffy pressed. She couldn’t believe she was saying this. She wanted to be strong and not show her desperation for him to be with her. But she was failing.
“Buffy, I don’t see how my not being cursed would change anything between us. You have a life in Italy with your new boyfriend, who I don’t like by the way, and my life is here. I can really do a lot of good with the resources available here. I can’t and I won’t leave it.” Angel stated. The words felt strange to him. He wanted to beg her to stay with him and be with him forever. But everything that came out of his mouth was cruel and unkind. He didn’t mean anything he said. He felt like crying but he wouldn’t allow himself.
“Why are being so cruel and cold hearted towards me? Angel, I love you. And if we can find a way to be together, shouldn’t we at least try?” Buffy said with tears in her eyes.
As he watched a tear roll down her check, Angel’s heart broke. “Buffy, I’m sorry. I love you too. I love more then you’ll ever know. I’m just afraid of trying to be close to you and love you again and failing. I couldn’t bear losing you again.” Angel said realizing why he had been so mean and hurtful. He felt better, more like himself again. He too felt like crying. He walked to stand by Buffy. He gently put his arms around her. He looked into her eyes as she looked into his. He leaned closer to her and loving kissed her. He then pulled back and looking into her eyes again continued with, “Let’s go. It would more to not even try. I need you Buffy. You make me complete.” He smiled at her hoping for a smile in return.
“Ok Angel.” Buffy said emotionally exhausted. As they turned and walked out, Angel closes his office door and tells Harmony cancel all his appointments for the next few because he’s going to be out of town.

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Angel goes to his room to pack some clothes. Buffy goes to see Spike. She feels she should explain to him what’s going on. She owes him that much. Buffy finds Spike in a large room fighting with Illyria. Not knowing what’s going on, Buffy rushes up to Illyria and punches her hard in the face. Illyria stops, looks at Buffy, and pushes against her chest. Buffy hits the wall and falls to the ground. “STOP!” Spike yells out. “Illyria, this is Buffy. She’s a vampire slayer. She’s on our side.”
“If she slays vampires, does she not pose a threat to your existence?” Illyria asks not understanding why he is protecting this person who attacked her.
“I pose a threat to evil.” Buffy tells her. “And you would be?”
“This is Illyria. When Fred died, she took possession of her body.” Spike explained to Buffy. “We were just sparring.” He looks to Illyria then back to Buffy. “What do you want?”
“Spike can we talk?” Buffy asks but not looking forward to the talk. She doesn’t want to hurt Spike any more but she knows that he deserves to know what her Angel plan to do.
“Yea,” Spike looks to Illyria, “Excuse us love.” He says as he follows Buffy out of the room.
“Yes Spike. And Buffy, you are strong, if you ever wish to… spar, I would be delighted to do so with you.” Illyria says watching them walk out.
Buffy looks to Spike as if to say, “Who is Illyria?” But not wanting to waste any time with things that do concern her immediate goal, she begins to explain what has happened starting at the Carnival and continuing on up to her and Angel’s meeting. She implores Spike to understand that though she cares about him deeply, her heart belongs to Angel.
“I know Love.” Spike responds. “I love you Buffy, I won’t apologize for that. But I know you love Angel and not me. You go and do what you need to do. I’ll be fine.” He says. They hug and he kisses her lightly on her cheek. “ Just be careful.” Spike tells her as goes back to Illyria.
Buffy smiles at him and turns to go back to Angel.

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As Buffy and Angel drive to the airport, they see a woman being dragged into an alley. Since it is daylight, Angel drives to a nicely shaded area and both jump out of the car and run to the back of the alley to save the woman. When they catch up to the woman & demon Buffy yells out, "Hey!" She then runs over to him and punches him making him drop the woman. Angel helps the woman to her feet and asks if she's ok. She nods and he gives her his card and tells her to call his office if she needs anything but now she'd better leave. Buffy continues pummeling the demon as Angel is talking to the woman. The woman runs away terrified. Buffy picks up a wooden crate and smashes it over the demons head. grabs a newly made stake from it, she drives the stake into his heart and he explodes with a scream.
"That was different." Buffy said confused. She looks to Angel as Paige orbs in behind them with Piper and Phoebe on each arm. Buffy and Angel turn around and ready for a fight. Confused, Paige calls for "wood stick" and it orbs out of Buffy's hand into Paige's.
"Neat trick." Angel snarks.
"There's more where that came from." Paige replies readying herself to fight.
Piper raises her hands to blow the two strangers up but Phoebe grabs her quickly and shouts "NO! Stop. They aren't evil."
"Then what are they? We were scrying for that nasty looking demon who took Teresa remember. And the crystal lead us here. We don't find Teresa, but we find them." Piper asks snidely.
"I don't know but, I can sense that they aren't evil." Phoebe replies.
"I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer and you are?" Buffy says still ready for a fight.
"Really? You're the slayer?" Paiges asks excitedly. "Well, We're The Charmed Ones. I'm Paige, this Piper and Phoebe. I'm so happy to meet you."
Piper and Phoebe very confused look to Paige.
"Angel." Angel rings in feeling left out.
Paige looks to her sisters and explains she was reading a book at the magic school that told the story of the Vampire Slayer, The Chosen One, a girl given great strength in order to defeat evil. "She's a lot like us." Paige continues. "Only there is just the one of her. But there will always be a Slayer, when one dies another is Chosen and given the power and the role to fight evil."
"You seem to know a lot about me. I know nothing about you." Buffy rings in.
"I've heard of The Charmed Ones." Angel tells them. "Wolfram and Hart have a lot of files on you three. It seems you are very powerful and feared witches."
Buffy shoots Angel a "What? Why didn't you say something before?" look.
"Listen this is nice and all, but we have an innocent to save." Piper reminds her sisters. "It was meeting you." She says to Buffy and Angel. "Orb us home so we can scry for that demon again. He's probably long gone by now." She finishes as Paige readies to orb them home.
"Oh, him. I killed that demon I think." Buffy informs the sisters.
"And the woman? Where's Teresa?" Phoebe asks.
"I told her to leave." Angel answers.
"Paige, lets go." Piper urges her sister. "Thanks for the help." She tells him sarcastically.
"Hey, I don't know where she went but I gave her my office card. She may go there." Angel rings in one last thing as the sisters begin to orb away but stop mid-orb and come back.
"Where is this office of yours?" Phoebe asks a little annoyed now.
Buffy and Angel look at each other and knowing that innocent people come first, they silently agree to help the sisters and take them to W&H.

The Sisters are sitting in Angel's office at Wolfram & Hart with Buffy. Angel walks in. "I've got some people searching for Teresa. Why was that demon after her?"
"She's a witch. Like us. If he kills her he gets her powers and the more powers a demon collects, the stronger he becomes." Paige informs Angel.
"Ok, I get that she's the Slayer. But just who are you?" Piper asks Angel not trusting him. "A lawyer? How do help fight evil? Aren't lawyers usually evil themselves?"
"I'm not a lawyer, I just run things around here. Actually, I'm a vampire." Angel tells her.
"What?!" Phoebe jumps to her feet ready for a fight.
"Wait! I've got a soul. I'm good. I fight evil everyday just like you do. Not all demons are evil and not all vamps are evil. I am, well was one of a kind. There is one other vampire with a soul. Though what good it does him, I don't know."
Buffy a little annoyed with Angel's statement chimes in with, "Look, if you want a fight with him, you have to go through me first."
Paige pulls on Phoebe's arm to make her sit back down. "Just stay away from us ok. We've had our fair share of demons and vampires. We just want to save Teresa and get home."
The door opens and Gunn walks in. "Angel, we found her. She's at her apartment in San Fran. There were a couple of demons there but our team killed them and they are bringing her here as we speak."
"Thanks Gunn." Angel tells him. Angel looks to the sisters."Why are there so many demons wanting this woman. I understand she's a witch and they want her power, but what aren't you telling us?"
Knowing that he won't give in Piper answers him. "Ok, look she has a very rare gift. She create anything she wants out of nothing. She can pull anything out of the air, living or not. These demons want this gift so they can bring back the Source of all evil. You see we vanquished him, but these demons want him back and we just can't allow that to happen."
"I've fought the Source of all evil and you can't kill him." Buffy informs them thinking back to her fight with the First.
"The Source is a demon Buffy. He is like the king of all demons." Gunn chimes in. "What you fought was the First. The essense of evil. You fought against the thought and feeling of evil, whereas they fought the demon leader of evil. Both are equally as strong because this demon is made of pure evil. The only demons who don't... or didn't answer to him where demons from another dimension like Lorne."
Buffy just nods her head annoyed. Gunn leaves the office to find out if the woman has reached W&H yet.
"Look, we really apprieciate your help and all but when Teresa gets here, we'll take over ok. She's our innocent to help and that's what we intend to do." Phoebe says turning everyone's attention back to the problem at hand.
"You really don't need to be scared of me. If I wanted to hurt you, I would have done so by now." Angel tells Phoebe sensing her fear of him.
"You could try." Piper snips.
The door opens and Illyria walks in with a terrified Teresa. The woman sees the sisters and run to them. "Help me please! These... these people kidnapped me." Teresa pleads with the sisters.
"Look if you were doing your job in protecting and helping this woman, the demons would have never even gotten close to her." Buffy says.
"We were doing our job just fine. She's alive isn't she?" Paige says being offended by Buffy's remark.
"Thanks to Angel and me."
"You are both on the same side. Stop fighting. This woman needs you to destroy the pack of demons after her and fighting with each other will not accomplish that. You need to team up and put a stop to these beings. I am willing to assist if you want me to." Illyria states.
"Who are you?" The Charmed Ones say all at once.
"Illyria."
"It's a long story." Angel tells them. "She used to be a God, her strength could come in handy while fighting these things."
Gunn walks in with a file. "Here's the info we have on the demons your after. Apparently, there is a large number of them." He says as he hands the file to Angel.
"Gunn, you take care of Teresa, make sure she's safe and comfortable. Buffy, Illyria, and I will go with them and take care of these demons." Angel tells Gunn.
"Wait a minute. They're after me! I'm going too. If you all leave, I'll be helpless here alone. And no offense but how are a bunch of lawyers going to protect me?" Teresa says.
"OK, we'll all go." Buffy says. "If you can do what they say you can do. You could come in handy."
Phoebe, Paige, and Piper wanting to protest think maybe Buffy has a point. So Paige speaks up and tells them that she'll orb her sisters Teresa and herself there. Angel says he knows a way to get there as well. W&H has plenty of magic at their disposal.