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Author: GMB loves Angel
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own them never have and never will, only in my dreams. They belong to Joss Whedon.
Spoilers: IWRY
Rating: PG 13
Authors notes: Couldn't help myself. Had one Idea in my head: "What if Riley had been a fan of Angel?"
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- Buffy, come on, you're gonna miss it. I tell you it's the best show I've ever seen and the guy is just so cool...
I was in the bathroom, thinking of LA, and a certain vampire, that I wasn't allowed to see and for what? The nagging sophomore that was sitting in the couch, trying to make me watch this show. It was his favorite show. I didn't know what it was called or what it was about, but he told me everyday about how I should see it.
I don't know, I felt queasy, like I didn't want to at all. But I wasn't sure that was all. Maybe it was something I ate. Five minutes had made me feel like this, I wouldn't even dare how one or two hours would have been, but that didn't matter as I was back in Sunnydale just in time for Rileys nagging. One would think that he was in love with the main character or something. I didn't know why I was thinking like that. I mean, right before I went to LA, I was settled on moving on, and I thought that Riley was the way to go, but now I wasn't sure. Would I really wanna spend the rest of my life with him and listen to him talking about this fantastic show?
I wasn't alone. The whole gang was gathered at my house, because they had gone a little curious with all of Rileys talk. I knew very little about what was so interesting, but it had driven Riley to wear leather pants, OH NO... Leather pants didn't suit him. There was only one man that could ever suit leather pants, but him I wasn't allowed to even think about.
I walked out of the bathroom and went downstairs. I just peeked towards the kitchen and at the table, but something about it made me run up the stairs and back into the bathroom. I felt sick, it was like a deja vu, but why a table? Why did I throw up because of a table. I've had these feelings for certain things, like peanut butter and chocolate. It was like they were telling me something, but I had to cut it all out. I went downstairs, luckily nobody had seen me making a dash for the bathroom, as they would only worry.
Willow was sitting in one end of the couch and Riley on the other side. On the floor were Xander and Anya curled up together. I sat down next to Riley and Willow, more on the Willow side.
- So, now we're gonna see the infamous show we've been hearing about for weeks...
- Yeah, Buffy, it's so cool. You have no idea how close they are to the truth, I mean, it's like they've studied vampires.
- You're making me watch a vampire show? Like I don't have enough vampires in real life?
- Buffy, just watch it, ok? It's so real, I mean, it looks so real.
- All right, but I'm warning you. I won't promise you I'll watch it with you again after today.
- Just wait until you've seen it. Oh, just excuse me for a minute there...
He got up and went towards the bathroom. A few seconds later the intro began. When the title: ANGEL came up I though I was gonna die, GREAT, I try to forget him and my boyfriends favorite show had to have ANGEL as the title.
And even better, I recognized the city to be LA. The song was pretty cool, but the next thing I saw made me think I was gonna die for real. I had to be going insane or something. The main character looked like... ANGEL, first I thought I really was going mad, but then the others started giving surprised outburst and so on.
- Does anyone else see what I see? That he looks just like dead-boy, Xander asked.
I didn't care that he called him dead-boy, I was too shocked and even more when I saw Cordelias face popping up.
- No, no, no way! Cordy and dead-boy in a TV-show called ANGEL!?!
- Well, she wanted to become an actress, Willow mumbled, trying to make sense into what we saw.
- And I thought I was just going insane, I said.
I thought I'd seen it all, but then I saw Doyle there, then I knew it wasn't just a show. It was reality. Someone was filming Angel, and he had no clue that they were.
- It's not a show, I mumbled.
- What do you mean, Willow asked, curiously at me.
- This is reality, I said, a little louder this time. - The room is the investigations, Cordelia is working for Angel like we all know, and when I was in LA, I met Doyle, who's the third one over there.
- This is sick, Xander said. - People is actually filming them and broadcasting real stuff as a show?
- Hush, Riley is coming down any minute. Don't tell him, then I have to explain the whole Angel thing and I rather not, not yet anyway.
And as I predicted, did Riley come down about ten seconds later.
- Hi, did I miss anything?
- Just the intro, I answered.
Riley sat down and we started watching. Riley was trying to beat them to the case, in investigating stuff. I on the other hand, was kinda enjoying being able to watch Angel, noticing his very good looks. And I actually saw a smile leaping over his face, it suited him. I sat back and relaxed and thought that this was a great way to relax, but then it had to happen, I had to be walking into the office.
- Buffy, she looks so much like you, Riley muttered.
Everybody looked at me.
- Buffy, TV-Angel said.
- Buffy, that IS you, Riley said with awe. This is... real? How?
I said nothing.
- Is there someone out there following a vampire and not staking him?
I still didn't say anything, I just watched, I knew it would only be five minutes and I'd be long gone. Those were the five minutes I'd always regret. Why did I say those things. The words were said and I counted down, and then BANG, the demon attacked. I waited for him to smash the jewel, but then suddenly, he didn't. WAIT, this wasn't right!
He didn't smash the jewel, instead he fought it and it escaped, what on EART was going on? This wasn't how I remembered it. This was a hell lot more than five minutes. I watched us searching the sewers, just as old times, and I made a remark about it. Then we split up. He continued in the sewers and I went up into the day. Then we get to watch him kill the demon, but him getting some blood into the wound.
I didn't understand a thing. This wasn't just a TV-show. It was real, but what was with the many scenes that I never remembered happening. I gasped when I saw that Angel was human. He was HUMAN! Everybody stared at me, they never expected me to react this way, since I'd already been there and done that. Then I watched him and me kiss in the sunlight. I then got an angry look from Riley. He moved a little away from me, a little childish, I thought, but my reaction would have been the same.
Then we were down in his apartment, which I've never seen in my entire life. I studied everything. Then we sat down and talked about the future and our possible relationship and how we was going to keep in touch, just not literary. I tried to search my mind on why on earth would I agree with that? I knew that if it had been me I'd carpe diem, like crazy, and as my mind said it, us on the TV, ended up on the kitchen table. When I saw what was happening, I swallowed hard, trying to sink into the ground. Then I felt it, I flew into the bathroom and threw up, again.
When I came out, Angel and I suddenly were in bed, eating ice cream, my favorite type too! He spilled some of it and I watched myself licking ice cream from his chest. Lots of things happened. I fell asleep on his chest, at the sound of his heart beat. Then there was something with Doyle getting a vision and he warned Angel. He didn't wanna wake me and left. STUPID Angel! I predicted it. He got his ass kicked, but I came and saved him, then he made an other bad decision. He turned back time and suddenly the scenes were like I remembered them.
The ending credits started and everybody looked at me, I was standing. Riley looked angry, really angry, and then it came.
- How could you do this to me? You, you cheated on me... You just jumped into bed with him at once and. You even did it on national television...
Soon voices were surrounding me and I didn't separate them, I felt dissy and I fell to the ground...
When I came to myself I was in a hospital. I didn't need to, because in all of this chaos, I knew very well what was wrong. What I needed was to get to LA and confront him. I found my clothes in the little closet near my bed. I knew that hospitals were very restricted surveillance cameras were everywhere. I sneaked out the window after I'd changed. I hurried home and got some money to a bus ticket. I really needed to see him, for more than one reason.
The bus took a few hours, but it felt like years and more. When I came into the office, he was standing there. My clothes were curled, my hair was a mess, but I still walked in. I could have been dragged through the mud and I'd still see him. He was so darn handsome. And he was looking at me...
- We need to talk, I said quickly.
Shortly after we were down at his apartment, looking just like it did on TV. I took a deep breath, this would be a lot, but I was handling it, and so should he...
- Well, first of all, someone's filming you.
- What do you mean?
- Your cases, everything is filmed and aired as a show called ANGEL.
- What do you mean?
- Ok, I have this sort of boy friend that's a big fan of a show called ANGEL, and the main character is you. I watched one episode today.
- Sick, he said. - Making a TV-show, to trick everybody that vampires are even less real. That makes humans easier targets.
- That's not all.
- What do you mean?
- There are 2 more things. The episode I watched revealed things that I don't remember happening, like you being human.
- Oh, God.
- Care to explain your choice?
- You would have died.
- Like I won't someday, I will you know... You could have at least made my last years happy...
Tears welled up in my eyes. I was sad and confused. I felt everything at the same time. I was scared, happy, angry... everything to something so little, but yet so big.
- What's wrong, he asked.
I managed to work up the courage to say it.
- I'm pregnant, I said.
- As in...
- I'm having your baby.
- I, I... oh my God, what did I do then to make them take it back, he said.
Now he was crying. It was a mix between happy and sad. I'd never seen him cry before. He pulled me into a kiss. That was one of the things I've been lounging for. Then suddenly I saw the oracles standing there.
- You have served us well warrior. It was only like this, we could teach you a lesson. You were meant to live your life as a mortal man, not as a warrior.
- But won't it be bad for you to lose a warrior?
- Why cry over one that leaves, when he provides the next?
- What do you mean?
- Your child is a warrior, the next slayer. She'll be strong, very strong. She'll need guiding and love to become that strong and there's where you come in. Live your life with the one you love.
And with that, they left. He and I looked at each other and I noticed that his chest was raising and falling.
- You're breathing, I exclaimed.
We both understood what this meant and we were soon on our way downstairs with each other, knowing that this was forever. Parker and Riley, what big mistakes...
Authors notes: This fic was written in one day, I just had to get the idea out of my head...
