Divided Loyalties- Story 3 {BtVS/Supernatural}

6. Second Chances

A/N: Hehe I couldn't help it! lol Here's another update! Characters belong to their creators, songs used belong to their respective writers and musicians, I'm just using them for my amusement.

Buffy ran into the mansion, yelling frantically for Angel, she looked around, but he was nowhere to be seen. She walked briskly toward the doorway to the atrium and looked out. She spotted the stairs leading up and ran toward them. Buffy ran through the bushes, frantically looking for Angel, she climbed further up the hill to find him standing at the top looking out over a peaceful area of town. “Angel.”

He heard her say his name and briefly glanced in her direction before looking back out over the rooftops, and Buffy slowly walked over to stand near him. “I bet half the kids down there are already awake. Lying in their beds...sneaking downstairs...waiting for day.” He told her quietly.

“Angel, please. I need for you to get inside. There's only a few minutes left!” Buffy panted, out of breath.

“I know. I can smell the sunrise long before it comes.” He said, gazing up at the sky.

“I don't have time to explain this. You just have to trust me. That thing that was haunting you...” She said hurriedly but he interrupted her.

“It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.”

“Showing you?” Buffy looked at him in confusion.

“What I am.”

“Were,” she argued.

“And ever shall be. I wanted to know why I was back. Now I do.”

“You don't know. Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it? You just give up?” She insisted, trying to make him understand.

“I can't do it again, Buffy. I can't become a killer.” He said harshly.

“Then fight it.”

“It's too hard,” Angel said quietly.

“Angel, please, you have to get inside,” she pleaded desperately.

“It told me to kill you. You were in the dream. You know. It told me to lose my soul in you and become a monster again.” Angel his voice was harsh as they argued and he winced at the memory.

“I know what it told you. What does it matter?”

“Because I wanted to! Because I want you so badly! I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn't care.” He raised his voice, and began to sob. Buffy was at a loss for words as she just stared at him. “Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.”

“You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Maybe this evil did bring you back, but if it did, it's because it needs you. And that means that you can hurt it.” She insisted stubbornly but he kept sobbing, not wanting to believe her. “Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends.” Buffy pleaded with him then raised her voice over his sobs. “But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster.” She looked out at the sky as it began to lighten and turned back to him, begging frantically. “Angel, please, the sun is coming up!”

“Just go.” He tried to give her a shove but she resisted, “I won't!”

“What, do you think this is simple? You think there's an easy answer? You can never understand what I've done! Now go!” He tried again but she refused to listen.

“You are not staying here.” She grabbed his arm, “I won't let you!”

“I said LEAVE!” He jerked his arm free of her grasp and in her anger and desperation Buffy punched him. He reacted by shoving her away from him roughly, making her fall face forward, hard to the ground. “Oh, my God...”He crouched over her, grabbing her by the shoulders and turning her around to face him. Buffy feared his intentions and cried out.