touchable - Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2 (on hold)

lie to me - p3

CAMILA POV

Angel and i stood outside my house. I was frozen, not sure what to do. Slowly Angel places an arm around me and leads me to the back of the house. Inside the blinds, i can see Buffy nursing a cup of coffee. Angel reaches his hand out and slowly pushes the door open. 

"Buffy. May i come in?" he asks and Buffy looks up, raising an eyebrow at me. 

"Sure. I thought once you were invited you could always just walk in." she replies, looking back down at her cup. Slowly i walk into the kitchen and wrap my arms around myself. 

"I can. I was just being polite." he says, closing the door behind him. "We need to talk." 

"Do we?" she asks, picking up her coffee and heading into the dining room. I follow after her quickly. 

"It's about Ford. He's not what he seems." i mutter quietly. 

"Who is these days?" Buffy asks quietly, not looking at us. 

"Willow ran him down on the computer." Angel pipes up and Buffy looks up. 

"Willow?" 

"We found his address, we checked it out with Xander and Cam, and it turned out...." Angel begins but Buffy cuts him off. 

"And Xander? And you, Cam? Wow. Everybody's in. It's like a great big exciting conspiracy." Buffy replies in disbelief looking over at me. I feel tears brim my eyes. 

"What are you talking about?" Angel asks confused. 

"I'm talking about the people i trust. Who's Drusilla?" Buffy continues and i look up at Angel confused. He lowers his eyes, seeing he's been caught in a lie. "And don't lie to me. I'm tired of it."

"Some lies are necessary." he replies quietly. 

"For what?" i mutter and he looks over at me, and then Buffy. 

"Sometimes the truth is worse. You live long enough, you find that out." he explains and Buffy looks up. 

"I can take it. I can take the truth." she replies coldly. 

"Do you love me?" he asks her and she looks at him confused. 

"What?" 

"Do you?" he replies quietly, and Buffy takes a moment to consider her answer. 

"I love you. I don't know if i trust you." she says in response. 

"Maybe you shouldn't do either." he comments before turning away. 

"Maybe i'm the one who should decide!" she snaps back, getting up from her chair. 

"I did a lot of unconscionable things when i became a vampire." Angel begins, turning back to us, but not making eye contact. "Drusilla was the worst. She was...an obsession of mine. She was pure and sweet and chaste..." 

"And you made her a vampire." i mutter and he looks up at me. 

"First i made her insane." he replies, turning to face Buffy. "Killed everybody she loved. Visited every mental torture on her i could devise." Buffy turns away from him. "She eventually fled to a convent, and on the day she took her holy orders, i turned her into a demon." Angel finishes and Buffy shrugs her shoulders. 

"Well. I asked for the truth." she mutters and i take a step towards her. 

"Ford's part of some society that revers vampires." i say quietly and she looks up at me. "Practically worships them." 

"I don't know what he wants from you, but you can't trust him." Angel finishes and Buffy turns to face him before he exits the house. 

"I'm sorry." i mutter before walking past her and up the stairs, closing my bedroom door behind her. Once the door is closed i feel tears spill down my cheeks. I throw my coat onto my bed and begin pulling things out of my wardrobe wildly, throwing things around my room. My mind was in a state of disbelief. I didn't believe what was happening, even though i saw it, we had proof. Without thinking i pull out my beloved jewellery box and dig into the bottom to find a piece of paper, Ford's handwriting written on it. Love always, F x. My heart shatters as i sink to the floor and clutch the piece of paper to my chest.