Chapter Forty Buffy watched as Angel took Douglass�s hand in his and their words were blocked from her mind. All she could see was the tender way he looked at the blonde witch, clenching her fist to her side it all made perfect sense. Angel was in love with Douglass. The bitch may have said that she and Lindsey were an item but they hadn�t been near each other since, seething in anger Buffy went to find Willow to see what exactly was going on. It took her only a few minutes to locate the redhead who was trying to take a nap. "Why didn�t you tell me?" Willow swore her heart stopped beating. "Tell you what?" "About Angel...and Douglass. I mean it was so obvious last night that she and Lindsey were pretending to be together." Buffy paced back and forth trying to work out her anger. "You�re my best friend Will, why didn�t you tell me about Angel and that bitch!?!" Willow felt her heart start to beat again and as Buffy talked Willow felt her temper rising. "They aren�t together! They�re just friends Buffy. If you were here you�d see how they act like brother and sister, even Spike acts like her brother. But where Spike acts like her younger, maybe twin, when they play and fight angel is her older brother. The arguments they get in is unbelievable, she can out shout him and defies him all the time but no matter how much they may care about each other they are not in love." "You�re protecting her. Willow, you�re supposed to be my friend." "I am." Willow cried. "I�m telling you the truth! Angel is *Not* in love with Douglass." Tears of anxiety and hurt fell from the redhead's eyes making them burn even more after her all night crying fest. "You are no better than she is. If she wants a fight she has it." Buffy stalked from the room and Willow collapsed to her pillows. ******************************* "Spike, why are you so mad?" Aria followed him down into their apartment, a little apprehensive of the anger that was rolling off him. "I swear if I didn�t have this bloody chip, Slutty would be a distant memory." Picking up the nearest object he threw it up against the wall. "She�s messing with Willow�s emotions and I wont have anyone hurting *MY* family." Aria jumped and backed away. "Then there�s everything that Douglass is going through, not to mention what�s going to happen. There�s not a damn thing I can do about it. People are fucking with my family and I have no control." With a roar he cleaned everything off the coffee table with a satisfactory crash. Aria kept backing up from him until she backed herself up against the wall, she had never seen this side to Spike. She knew it existed but it was intimidating. "S-Spike." Aria whimpered as he picked up a near by vase. "Please...stop." Spike dropped the vase as her words washed over him. "Kitten, god I�m so sorry. I totally forgot about what that bastard of a father put you through." Walking slowly to her side so not to frighten her Spike put his arms around her. "You are nothing like my father. I was just caught off guard." Aria snuggled more into his embrace as Spike kissed the top of her head. He just held her for a moment, her aura calming his rage. Leaning over he picked her up and carried her to their bed content for the moment just to hold her.

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