“What are we going to do,” Willow cried.
 
“Yeah, Buffy deserves more dignity than to die from screwing to hard,” Xander mumbled.
 
“It would probably be a first,” Anya offered. 
 
Giles and Willow shot them withering looks. “My only suggestion is to try to pull either Riley’s or Buffy’s attention from…,” Giles paused mid speech “Ah, the task at hand.”
 
“Well, give up on Forest for Riley,” Xander said then due to the quizzical looks “he was trying this morning with nota of luck.”
 
“Well, I hate to sound obvious, actually I don’t care…” Anya started.
 
“Anya do you have a point?” Giles snapped.
 
“Yes. Shouldn’t we be banging on the door or some other similar activity?” 
 
“Always willing to help when it comes to sex, huh, my little horny one,” Xander teased.
 
Anya glared at him “If I had my powers I’d turn you into a toad, except then I couldn’t have sex with you, which-.”
 
“Will you to stop it,” Giles yelled, “we have bigger problems right now.”

**********

 “Buffy, Riley,” Giles yelled as he banged on the door, trying to avoid the growing chaos around them. “You don’t get her attention,” Anya observed.
 
Giles rolled his eyes “Yes, well, I learnt that as my time as her watcher.”
 
“So,” Xander said “what’s gonna distract Buffy from sex.”
 
“It can’t be that hard,” Anya said.
 
“Yeah,” Willow agreed “It’s not like she’s as horny as...others,”
 
“Well, others you speak of aren’t possessed,” Giles explained.
 
“So, again what’s gonna distract her?” Xander asked.
 
“What about the vampire that was here on Thanksgiving?” Anya asked.
 
“Angel?” Willow answered.
 
“Just a thought,” Anya replied.
 
“Of course,” Willow said “that’s so obvious. Ugh, why didn’t we think of it before.” 
 
“Sorry Will, still celebrating him leaving,” Xander snapped.
 
“Don’t snap at me,” Willow yelled “I wasn’t asking you directly you know. Just because you’ve always been jealous of him and Buffy.”
 
“He’s not jealous,” Anya said rushing to Xander’s defence. Then turning on him “are you? ‘Cause you have no reason to be. You have me, your happy with me aren’t you?”
 
“Yes, That was a long time ago, thanks Will,” Xander assured her.
 
“Stop it, I think you may be being affected by the house. I suggest we call, Angel...away from here,” Giles said before ushering Willow, Xander and Anya out of the surrounding chaos.

 “Angel Investigations. We help the helpless,” Cordelia’s voice rang through the phone.
 
“Uh, good. Can I speak to Angel?” Willow asked.
 
“Willow, what are, no, never mind, hold on,” Cordelia replied 

“Thanks Cordy,” Willow replied as Xander made puking actions in the background.
 
“Angel,” Angel answered as Cordelia handed him the phone unaware of who it was.
 
“Hi, it’s Willow.”
 
“Willow, oh hi. Is Buffy okay?”
 
“Well, there’s…”
 
“Willow,”
 
“Okay, there’s a...situation,” Willow stumbled.  “Details?” Willow sighed, why did she have to explain? Nether the less she went through the details of what was happening and why she was calling.

After Angel had heard he was torn between laughing and crying “Oh, well, I, I’ll leave now.”
 
“Angel.”
 
“Yeah.”
 
“I wouldn’t call if I didn’t have to.”
 
“I know,” he assured her, then hung up. He grabbed his coat and said to Cordelia and Wesley “I have to go to Sunnydale, I should be back tomorrow night.”
 
“What’s wrong?” Cordelia asked.
 
“There’s...a situation,” Angel responded and went to collect his car.
 
Cordelia turned to Wesley “Isn’t he big on details.” Wesley could only chuckle in response.

Angel arrived in Sunnydale in record time, to receive a hug from Willow “I’m so glad you’re here.”
 
“Yeah,” he mumbled.
 
“Yes, well. We’ll show you the, were they are,” Giles said.

Angel looked at the destruction that surrounded him “Buffy and, did this just by...god.”
 
“Yeah, you’d think she’d learn,” Xander muttered under his breath. But Angel heard and lost it, he grabbed Xander by the throat and pushed him up against the wall “It wasn’t her fault.”

Inside the bedroom, Buffy’s attention was snapped back to the present., she lifted her head. “What,” Riley panted.
 
“I don’t know,” Buffy replied “I just have to check something.” Buffy got up, leaving a very tired and panting Riley on the bed. She put on a toweling robe and went over to the door.

Angel still had Xander by the throat “You gave her hell about it and it wasn’t her fault,” he yelled. “She didn’t know, nobody knew. The whole time you made her feel like she was to blame. Even when I came back you still harassed her. It shouldn’t be her problem that you have a problem with me. She doesn’t deserve it, you have no right to-”
 
“Angel! What are you doing,” a voice behind him interrupted.  He dropped Xander and turned around at the same time as Anya, Giles and Willow.
 
“Buffy,” he stammered “just, hi.” Buffy looked around, nothing seemed out of place except for some broken furniture and Xander holding his throat. “Xander, are you okay?” she asked. “Peachy,” Xander croaked.
 
“What in the hell happened?” she asked, and then to Angel “Why are you here, doing a favor for Cordy?”
 
“No, Willow called me here,” he objected.
 
“Willow, did you have a fight with Xander?” Buffy asked.  
 
“No, that’s not why I asked him here,” Willow replied.
 
“What then, is it illegal to try to get over someone with your new boyfriend for a few minutes?” Buffy nearly yelled.
 
“Try hours,” Xander snapped.
 
“Hours?” Buffy asked, genuinely confused.
 
“Yes, why don’t you get some clothes on,” Giles said gesturing to her robe “both of you and we’ll explained what happened.”

Both Buffy and Riley fidgeted as they were told what had happened. “I think I might move dorms,” Riley said.
 
“Yeah, maybe not such a bad idea,” Buffy offered. Soon Riley had to return to the Initiative, Giles returned home, Anya had declared that it was her and Xander’s time for sex and Willow had gone to see Tara. Buffy and Angel sat opposite each other in the student lounge, not talking or meeting eye contact. Until finally Buffy broke the silence “So, Willow called you.”
 
“Yeah.”
 
“She’s smart.”
 
Angel didn’t answer, but met her gaze.
 
“I’d hear a crash or a scream and where usually my Slayer senses would jump into action they didn’t, it was like I was being controlled.”
 
“Giles said it was really strong.”
 
“The only thing that broke that control was sensing you,” she finished quietly.
 
Angel shook his head “This wasn’t meant to happen. I left so you could move on, have a normal, safe relationship.”
 
Buffy couldn’t help but laugh, Angel looked at her oddly “But when the normal, safe relationship goes wrong you have to fix it.” Angel laughed too. Buffy got up and sat next to him on the couch, she hesitantly lay her head on his shoulder. He gently stroked her forehead and softly said “I only wanted to do the right thing. I thought by leaving I was giving you a chance to be happy.”
 
Tears began to well in Buffy’s eyes “I know. But what made you think that I wasn’t happy.” Angel gently cupped her face in one hand and wiped her tears away with the other “Shhh, don’t cry.  I left because you deserve more, and because I love you too much too deprive you of that.”
 
Buffy slightly smiled through her tears “deprive me of raising spirits of abused children. Yeah, that was mean to deprive me of that,” she joked. 
 
“Buffy.”
 
“I know why you left. But it doesn’t make me love you any less.”
 
“I know,” he assured her, on the verge of tears himself “but Riley’s nice.”
 
“Yeah, he is. He makes me happy, not as happy as you did, but at least he-,”
 
“Can be happy,” Angel finished for her.
 
“Yeah.”
 
“I better get going,”
 
“I’ll see you around, right?”
 
“Yeah,” he assured her, he softly kissed her on her forehead before leaving the lounge.

Xander didn’t believe he was doing this, but Willow and Angel were right. Buffy shouldn’t suffer because he was jealous. In fact the more he thought about it the more he realized he had no real reason to hate him anymore, everyone else had gotten over him loosing his soul. He ran down the path way and on to the road. The cars brakes squealed.  Xander went round to the side of the car he had just stopped “Hey, dead boy.”
 
“Xander, do you have a death wish,” Angel growled.
 
“Yeah, I think I do. ’Cause after I give you this, you’re gonna break my neck for not giving it to you earlier.”
 
“What do you want Xander, I’d like to get back to LA before sunrise.”  Xander swallowed hard, he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a torn and pretty ancient looking piece of paper and handed it to Angel. “I found it in one of Giles’ books not long before you left. But as you can probably guess my jealous attitude prevented me from giving it too you. After Willow and you yelling at me, I just… pulled my act together I guess.” 
 
Angel slowly unfolded the piece of paper, it was a spell. As Angel looked closer he saw that the spell was to turn a Vampire into a human. He was speechless, in his hands he held the one thing that could bring him and Buffy back together. “Xander, I...I’m torn between smashing your head in and hugging you.” 
 
“How about a ride back instead?” Xander asked.
 
“Get in.”

 
“Good to see you again so soon,” Buffy said as she saw Angel approach from the hall. He walked over and swooped her up into his arms, and held up the spell for her approval. “Oh my god,” was all she could squeal “so you’ll stay, we can be together again?”
 
“and raise all the spirits we want,” he said and they kissed passionately.