A Story
By Michelle

Disclaimer- I do not own the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel. They belong to 20th Century Fox, Joss Whedon, and Mutant Enemy. I am using them without permission, however I am not making any money off them so please do not sue me.

Author's Notes- This is semi badfic. The closest I'll get to badfic, well at least I think this is the closest I'll get to badfic. It's Buffy and Angel's story. The gang is narrating. It's meant to be funny. This is a semi-ripoff of Doyle's little story telling narration complete with flashbacks in City Of. I couldn't resist. Enjoy.

Feedback- Please! Send feedback but no flames.

Distribution- Buffy's Passion, Daydreams of BtVS, and Slay This! have permission, everyone else just ask me first. I'll almost always say yes.

Rating- PG-13

Classification: Buffy/Angel, humor, narrative, mild angst.

Spoilers- Up to Graduation Day Pt2.

(Fade into a picture of a fairy tale castle.)

Willow: Once upon a time-

Spike: (interrupting) Cut the fairy tales Red.

(Change to a flashback of Buffy and Angel together.)

Willow: (sticks out her tongue) Fine. This is the story of true love.

Xander: Or at least a love that defied god and man.

Cordelia: A tragic story of a love between two people that never should have been.

(Angel as a young man, before he was turned.)

Cordelia: A long time ago, actually about two hundred years, there was a man named Angelus.

Spike: He was a drunken, whoring lay about.

Willow: (scolding) Spike, that's not very nice!

Spike: But it's true.

Cordelia: He's right.

Xander: (Slightly annoyed) Let's get on with it.

(Angel and his friend getting kicked out of the pub.)

Doyle: Anyway one night Angelus got kicked out of the local pub, he walked into an alley and met a pretty girl named Darla.

(Darla turning Angelus.)

Xander: She turned him into a vampire.

(His countless victims.)

Spike: He wrecked havoc for the next hundred years, and even sired a few vamps.

(Spike and Drusilla.)

Giles: William the Bloody and Drusilla.

(Angelus meets Drusilla for the first time, at her church.)

Anya: (helpfully) Whom he drove mad.

Spike: Don't...

Buffy: What, tell the truth?

Spike: (glaring at her) Shut up.

Buffy, Cordelia, and Anya start laughing.

Spike: Shut up!

(The gypsy girl.)

Oz: Then one day he killed a gypsy girl.

Buffy: The favourite of her clan.

(The old woman restoring his soul.)

Joyce: So they restored his soul.

(Angel living on the streets of New York.)

Angel: He wandered for a few years, until his pain was so much that he starts to live on the streets and eat rats.

Cordelia: Ewww!

Buffy: I have to go with her on this one. Gross!

(Whistler approaching Angel for the first time.)

Doyle: Then one day, a funny demon with bad fashion taste approached him.

Cordelia: Very bad fashion taste.

(Angel sees Buffy for the first time.)

Giles: Angelus, now going by just Angel, sees his destiny.

Doyle: Which just happened to be a pretty girl.

Angel: A very pretty girl.

Buffy: (pleased) Thank you.

Cordelia: The slayer in fact. Her name is Buffy Summers, and she was a ditzy cheerleader.

Buffy: Hey!

Cordelia: (ignoring her) One day though she learned she was the slayer. She became a freak, burned down the gym, and moved to Sunnydale.

Xander: The demon capital of the world.

(Buffy and Angel meet for the first time.)

Doyle: Soon after she met Angel, the two eventually got close.

(Buffy and Angel's first kiss.)

Xander: One night they kiss.

(Angel in his game face.)

Willow: Buffy learned his true identity and the truth about the curse.

(Buffy and Angel's "goodbye" kiss.)

Giles: They parted ways for a time.

Oz: Then a prophecy came to light.

(The master kills Buffy.)

Willow: The slayer would die.

(Xander brings Buffy back.)

Xander: She did, but she came back with the help of a friend.

(The gang heads to the dance.)

Cordelia: She and Angel went to a dance.

Willow: But when she came back after summer vacation she was a real bitch.

Buffy: Hey!

All except Buffy: It's true!

Buffy: Anya, Spike, and Mom you weren't even there!

Joyce: Willow told me.

Anya: Xander.

Spike: (shrugging) A lackey.

(Buffy's sexy dance with Xander.)

Giles: She tried to make him jealous.

Buffy: And it works like a charm.

Angel: Did not.

Cordelia: Did too.

Willow: Oh, yeah. Face it Angel.

(Spike and Buffy on Parent-Teacher night.)

Willow: They get over it and begin to date, but soon a friend from his past-

Spike: (interrupting again) The baddest there is.

Anya: Get over yourself.

Buffy: Good one.

Giles: Can we get on with the story?

Buffy: Okay. Well I kicked Spike's ass.

(Joyce hits Spike with the axe.)

Joyce: I thought I did it?

Buffy: (Shrugs) Okay Mom kicked his ass.

(The giant lizard thing.)

Cordelia: Buffy and Angel got stuck in a rut, so she went to a frat party.

Xander: Where she almost got fed to a giant snake.

(Buffy in her noblewoman's costume.)

Willow: He eventually asked her out, but Cordelia got in the way-

Cordelia: (Interrupting) Hey!

Willow: (Continuing) As I was saying, so she dressed like a noblewoman to impress him.

(Ethan doing his chant.)

Spike: But from her watcher's past came a very creative demon.

Giles: Ethan's not a demon, he's just evil.

Buffy: Ethan turned people into their costumes.

(Spike almost kills Buffy.)

Angel: Spike almost killed Buffy, but the spell was reversed in time.

(Buffy and Angel kissing.)

Oz: Buffy and Angel made up and began to date.

(Drusilla)

Willow: Then one day she learned about Drusilla, and got all jealous. Eventually though they work it out.

(The order of Taraka)

Xander: Just when things looked peaceful Spike and Drusilla brought in the order of Taraka.

Cordelia: Which wasn't good.

(Kendra.)

Giles: Another slayer also showed up.

(Buffy and Kendra save Angel.)

Doyle: Buffy saved her man from the clutches of his former comrades, and Spike and Drusilla were presumed dead.

(Dru carries Spike out of the fire.)

Cordelia: But of course they weren't.

Buffy: No that would be too simple.

(Ted, then the bizore.)

Xander: They fought evil as usual.

Cordelia: Psycho robots.

Willow: Don't forget parasites.

Anya: (sarcastically) Sounds like fun.

Willow: You're one to talk, Demon girl.

Anya: (defensively) Ex-Demon Girl. Remember?

(The Judge)

Willow: Until Buffy's 17th Birthday.

Buffy: The day of all-time badness.

Oz: Is that a sentence?

Cordelia: What?

Oz: Did what she just said make sense?

They all think about it.

Giles: No, not really.

(The arm in the box.)

Oz: She celebrated in typical slayer fashion. With an arm in a box and a would-be parting on the docks.

Xander: That almost rhymes.

Cordelia: (snottily) You know, for once he's right.

Doyle: Ouch. You don't like him much do you?

Cordelia: No! Do you know what he put me through?

Xander: I bought you that dress!

Cordelia: I know and thank you, but you also hospitalised me!

Buffy: This is the story of me and Angel, not you two.

Cordelia and Xander: (Insincerely) Sorry.

(Angel gives Buffy the claudagh.)

Anya: Angel though he had to leave, so before he goes he gave her a claudagh ring.

(The claudagh)

Willow: Hands meaning friendship.

Cordelia: Crown representing loyalty.

Buffy: And the heart love.

Spike: It's an Irish wedding band. They were unofficially married.

Xander: Although she didn't know.

Spike: That would mean it wouldn't have been legal even if it had been official. Right?

Giles; I assume so.

Joyce: It better be so.

Buffy: If it's not, does that mean Angel and I are actually married? And that if I date other people I would be cheating on my husband?

Giles: I'll have to look into it.

Joyce: She's 18, she can't be married.

Spike: I was 16 when I got married.

Cordelia: You were married?

Willow: Drusilla?

Spike: No. My childhood sweetheart, Emily. I was 20 when I was turned, I had been married four years and had a little girl.

Buffy: (shocked) What happened to them?

Spike: (sadly) Emily died giving birth to our son, a year before I was turned, and he died a few days later. Then Victoria caught ill with pneumonia. They were already dead when I was turned. I didn't kill them.

Buffy: Wow.

(Buffy and Angel making love)

Spike: They went back to his apartment and had sex.

Doyle: Or one moment of true happiness.

Spike: Same thing.

Angel: Is not. We made were one with each other. Sex makes it seem like I picked up a girl off the street for a one night stand.

Cordelia: True.

Anya: I like Doyle's interpretation better. It's more romantic.

Xander: Since when do you care about romance?

Anya: Since I got stuck in this persona. Remember, I'm an 18 girl with feeling and urges. It's terrible.

Xander: Oh, yeah. Let's continue with the story.

(Angel laying on the ground.)

Anya: He reverted to his previous ways.

Oz: He lost his soul.

Anya: (Irritated) I just said that.

The words "Was It Good For You Too" in blood.)

Xander: Angelus was a cold blooded monster.

Buffy: Understatement.

Cordelia: Oh, yeah.

Spike: Definitely a bastard.

Angel: (raising his eyebrows) And you're the good Samaritan of the month?

Spike: (defensively) I never said that! I'm just not as bad as you.

Buffy: I thought you called yourself the baddest of them all?

Spike: Um... Uh... Well...

(Angelus snapping Jenny's neck.)

Doyle: To get revenge on the woman who taught him how to love, he killed people closest to her.

Xander: Theresa

Giles: Jenny.

Willow: My fish.

Oz: Your fish and Buffy were close?

Willow: Well, no, but he did it as a warning.

Oz: Point taken.

(Angelus watching Buffy sleep.)

Cordelia: And stalked her.

Buffy: Which was incredibly creepy.

(Buffy and Willow find the disk.)

Spike: Until one day the curse was found.

(Buffy sends Angel to Hell.)

Buffy: However, it was too late.

Xander: She had to send him to Hell.

Angel: Because of you.

Xander: Was not!

Willow: It was too, you lied to her and because of that she had to kill him.

Xander: Make me feel like a jerk.

All except Xander: You were one!

Xander: Okay, okay.

Giles: Let's get on with this.

(Angel falls from the sky.)

Cordelia: One day he came back.

Willow: (to Angel) Were you really not wearing any clothes when you came back?

Angel blushes and looks down at the ground.

Xander: There's you answer.

Cordelia: I would have liked to have seen that. (To Buffy) Hey Buffy, what does Angel look like naked.

Buffy: (grinning) Great! Very sexy.

Anya: I bet.

Buffy: Hey that's my boyfriend, ex, whatever. He's mine!

Spike: You sound like Dru.

Buffy: (glaring at Spike) Do you want a piece of wood in the chest.

Giles: (annoyed) Can we finish please?

(Buffy and Angel kiss)

Willow: Only Buffy was happy to see him.

Xander: Could it be the fact that he tormented us for months? Just a guess.

(The gang confronts Buffy)

Giles: The others couldn't forget what he'd done.

Oz: Or forgive.

Xander: As I said, he tormented us for months. It's kind of a duh.

Buffy: I forgave him.

Cordelia: You're also madly in love with him.

(Buffy and Angel kiss in front of the movie theatre.)

Anya: They did the on-again, off-again thing for a while. Her friends even accepted him.

Willow: Sort of, Xander didn't.

Xander: I did kind of, what I had before.

Cordelia: It looked like they'd get happily ever after in the end.

(Angel breaks up with Buffy.)

Buffy: But things interfered.

Giles: They parted ways once and for all.

Anya: That's kind of sad.

Cordelia: Oh, yeah. Buffy and Angel are like Romeo and Juliet. Angel's even hotter than Leo.

Buffy: Way!

Xander: You're biased.

Willow: She's right.

Anya: Oh, yeah.

Everyone looks at Joyce.

Joyce: No opinion. I'm too old for both of them.

Angel: Um, Joyce? I'm 200 years older than you.

Joyce: Oh, yeah. Well, you look young.

Spike: And he might be married to your daughter.

Doyle: That's a catch.

Spike: Not always.

Xander: You watch too much Jerry Springer.

Giles: (extremely irritated) Am I the only one who can stay on topic?

Buffy: Sorr-y.

(They dance at the prom.)

Joyce: First they had one last dance.

Anya: Which is totally sweet.

Willow: Definitely, brings tears to your eyes.

Xander: Gag me.

Spike: I have to agree.

Oz: Possibly, haven't decided.

Angel: Well it's me and Buffy they're talking about so I can't complain.

Angel drinks Buffy's blood.)

Willow: He was seriously injured, and her blood was the only cure.

Xander: She loved him enough to sacrifice her own life to save him.

Giles: She recovered though, and so did he.

(Buffy and Angel share one last look before Angel walks into the smoke.)

Spike: He left her behind as he started his new journey.

Doyle: They parted ways once and for all.

Cordelia: The story doesn't end here.

Willow: No, it's far from over.

Spike: But the rest is for another time, another place.

Oz: Right now, they're doing their own thing.

Anya: But one day they'll reunite.

Buffy: Until that day this is where we leave off.

Angel: With a silent goodbye.

Giles: One day, though, our vampire hero and his beloved will finish their tale.

Willow: Hopefully with a happily ever after.

Cordelia: You can count on it.

Joyce: Until then-

All: Goodbye!

The End