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Title: Once More with Déjà Vu - Chapter 3
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Character(s): Angel, Baby Connor, Fang Gang, Buffy, Spike, Scoobies, Dawn, OC Demon (Charm)
Pairing(s): Spike/Buffy, established Xander/Anya, past Willow/Tara, mentions past-Angel/Darla
Word Count: 2486
Genre: angst/drama/humor
Rating: PG-13/T
Notes: I really made Tara stutter a lot. She had pretty much gotten over that quirk by Season 6, so what is my issue? Fuck if I know. I fixed that up along with some more comma issues. Songs in this chapter are: Full of Grace by Sarah McLachlan & The Anthem by Good Charlotte.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1852717/4/Once_More_with_Deja_Vu
Chapters: Prologue, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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“Where is she? Patrol shouldn’t take this long...” Angel said as he looked at the clock that read 11:01.

“Yeah. Tara, didn’t she start patrol around seven?” Willow asked her ex-girlfriend.

“Uh... Yeah, she did...” Tara said, hiding her nervousness. ‘They’ve been at it for four hours! I thought she would be back by now...’ Tara thought, as she said as little as possible so not to slip and say what Buffy really was doing.

“Well, she’s been gone too long, and Connor needs to get to sleep,” Cordelia said then turned to Dawn. “Dawn, do you have a key to your house with you?”

“Yeah, I can go with you, so you can put baby Connor to sleep,” Dawn said as she got up, putting on her book bag. “If anyone else wants to come, I don’t think Buffy would mind if you stay for the night...”

“Right. C’mon guys let’s go...” Cordy said as she headed towards the door followed by everyone but Angel.

Cordy turned and gave him a questioning look. “I’m gonna wait for Buffy. You go ahead,” Angel responded as he waved to his son. “Bye, Connor. Daddy will see you in the morning.”

Cordy smiled then followed the rest of the Fang Gang out and into the car. Angel turned to the Scooby Gang. “Where is she? Should I go out and look for her?” he asked worriedly.

“Look for who?” a voice said from the back entrance of the Magic Box.

They all turned to see Buffy, and Spike standing behind her. Angel smiled when he saw Buffy, but his smile faded when he saw his grandchilde. “Spike,” Angel growled.

“‘Ello, Peaches. Didn’t know you were here, or I would have brought a gift,” Spike said sarcastically as he walked up to Angel.

Angel was about to punch Spike when Buffy stopped him. “No punching from anyone in this room unless it’s me,” Buffy said as she put Angel’s arm back to his side. “Now, what are you doing here, Angel?”

Angel was about to answer her when he finally caught onto her scent, which smelled of sex and... Spike! Spike noticed his grandsire’s reaction and smirked cockily.

“You!” Angel growled out before he pounced Spike and punched him several times. “What did you do to her!?”

While Angel was pummeling Spike, Spike kept the cocky grin. Soon Spike found an open opportunity and sucker punched Angel causing him to roll off Spike. “I didn’t do anything she didn’t want me to, you ponce,” Spike whispered, so only Angel could hear.

Buffy grabbed Angel and pulled him up to his feet. “What are you doing!?”

“You and him! You...” Angel stuttered as Buffy’s eyes widened as she caught on what he had found out.

“Angel, training room. Now!” Buffy ordered as she dragged him to into the training room leaving Spike with a group of speechless Scoobies.

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“Did he rape you?” Angel asked once Buffy had closed the door.

“How can you say that!? Don’t you think he’d be dust right now if he did?” Buffy looked at Angel incredulously.

“Then you and him... You did that willingly!?”

Buffy looked down. “Yeah...” she whispered and then she raised her head. “But I don’t get how that’s any business of yours! We broke up a LONG time ago, Angel. We ended the moment you left for L.A.”

“I left so you could have a normal relationship. Not sleep with a soulless thing!” Angel yelled.

“Don’t you think I’ve tried to stop!?” Buffy yelled back. “But I can’t... And at least I know he won’t leave,” she answered bitterly

That stung Angel. “How do you know he won’t?” he countered.

“Because he loves me...” Buffy said, hardly audible, almost not believing it herself.

Angel broke out into a fit of laughter.

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Xander, Anya, and Willow had pressed their ears to the door once the door shut. Tara panicked and cast a spell to soundproof the room, so Buffy secret tryst would not be revealed to the eavesdropping Scooby Gang.

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“And you believe that!?” Angel said as his laughs subsided.

“I didn’t until today...”

“And what he do to prove that to you?”

“I was in his crypt, and we were singing. He sang it, and the words finally sank it. He loves me, unconditionally, no matter what a bitch I am or how much I beat him or how I keep him a secret from my friends.”

“So, the Scoobies don’t know...” Angel figured, and Buffy nodded. “I won’t tell them.”

“Really?”

“No, if you wanna screw up your life, I can’t stop you, but I shouldn’t interfere.”

“Thanks.”

“Yeah...” he said as a pause in conversation began.

“So why are you in Sunnydale anyway?” Buffy asked, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

“There’s a demon, and it’s making L.A. and Sunnydale burst into song.”

“L.A. too? So you thought Sunnydale was probably the source. You’re probably right, too. So where are you staying tonight?”

“Dawn told Cordelia, and the others that we could stay at your house for tonight.”

“Wow, that was responsible of her,” Buffy muttered as she headed for the door.

“Buffy, I have to tell you something before you go home.”

Buffy turned around, “Yeah?”

“I have a son,” Angel told her, and it was her turn to laugh.

“That’s a good one,” Buffy breathed as she controlled her laughing. “You know damn well vampires can’t have-” she trailed off when she saw the serious look on his face. “Oh God...”

“Buffy...” Angel tried to comfort her, but Buffy pushed away and sat down on the mats against the wall.

“Stay away,” she said as she regulated her breathing. “How? Who?”

“It’s a prophecy. Connor is the son of two vampires and is destined to be something great. And as for who... Uh... Darla...” he coughed when he said Darla to cover it up, but she heard.

“Darla!? But I watched you kill her! And if you had sex with her why aren’t you all Angelus and killing people with Darla?”

“An evil law firm brought Darla back as a human, Dru turned her again, but Darla dusted herself during childbirth, so Connor could live,” he took in an unneeded breath. “I didn’t lose my soul because it wasn’t a moment of perfect happiness.”

Buffy let silent tears slip down her face. “Please go,” she whispered hoarsely.

Angel tried to touch her. “But Buffy...”

“No, not now. I need to be away from you...” she interrupted backing away. “Would you mind telling my friends I went home?”

Angel tried to suppress a growl. “You’re going to stay with him, aren’t you,” Angel said not as a question but as a statement.

“I can’t go home... You’re staying there,” Buffy put up a hand before Angel could interrupt. “And you are staying there tonight because your son is there, and he needs you.”

Angel reluctantly agreed. “Alright.”

Buffy smiled sadly at Angel then left through the back door leaving Angel alone.

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“I am very disappointed! We couldn’t hear a thing!” Anya whined as the Scoobies were sitting and waiting patiently for Angel and Buffy’s talk to end.

Willow looked over to Tara who was hiding a book on her lap, “Tara? What’s that book?”

Tara looked up surprised, “N-nothing, Willow. Just a spell book...”

“Did you cast a spell, so we couldn’t eavesdrop?” Willow asked cruiously.

“Would serve you lot right. You shouldn’t have been eavesdroppin’ anyways,” Spike said, helping Tara out of her predicament.

Xander scoffed. “Like you wouldn’t have listened with your vampire hearing if Tara didn’t do a spell!”

Spike just rolled his eyes as his grandsire re-entered the room. Angel was looking down but looked up when he felt all eyes on him. “She went home. Said she didn’t want to confront everyone,” Angel covered for Buffy.

“So you told her?” Xander asked.

“Yeah...”

“I’m guessing she didn’t take it too well,” Willow said sadly.

“She didn’t... She said she needed to be alone...” he said as he made eye contact with his grandchilde. Spike decided that this was his cue to leave.

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Buffy walked into the cemetery, wiping her tears away as she walked to Spike’s crypt. Piano began to play as Buffy began to sing to the sad tune. “The winter here’s cold, and bitter It’s chilled us to the bone...” she sang as her tears ran down her cheeks again, and a cold wind blew forcing her to close her jacket around her.

“Haven’t seen the sun for weeks Too long too far from home I feel just like I’m sinking And I claw for solid ground,” she shuddered at the last lyric because it reminded her of clawing out of her coffin.

“I’m pulled down by the undertow Never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness, I feel like letting go...” she kept walking as she got closer to Spike’s crypt.

“If all of the strength and all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I can love you much better than this,” Buffy opened the crypt door while she sang. “Full of grace Full of grace My love...”

“It’s better this way, I say Haven’t seen this place before Where everything we say and do,” Buffy walks around the crypt, noticing at how Spike had made it look cozy. “Hurts us all the more It’s just that we stay, too long In the same old sickly skin.”

“I’m pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness, I feel like letting go...” Buffy sang as she walked down the steps and into the downstairs bedroom.

“If all of the strength and all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I can love you much better than this,” she walked around the bed running her hand over the bedspread. “Full of grace Full of grace...”

Buffy’s singing paused as she turned in time with the music until it was time for the last line. “I know I can love you much better than this Its better this way...” she sang the last lyric and crawled into the bed. She started to drift to sleep to the light sound of instruments playing out the end of the song.

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Spike had returned to his crypt to find the slayer sleeping in his bed. A smile spread across his face as he shed his duster and boots and was about to shed the rest of his clothes, but he did not think she needed to wake up to a naked Spike in the morning with all of the grief she had been through tonight, so he laid beside her and wrapped his arms around her. Soon he drifted into a peaceful slumber with the sleeping slayer in his arms.

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Meanwhile, at the Bronze, music was blasting, and a mysterious woman in tight leather pants and red tank top came to the stage to sing karaoke. The song started, but it was just the fast beat with guitars and drums. The woman with red skin, which did not seem to faze anyone, started to sing a Good Charlotte song.

“It’s a new day But it all feels old, It’s a good life, That’s what I’m told, But everything, it all just feels the same,” she sang as she jumped forward.

“And my high school It felt more to me Like a jail cell, A penitentiary My time spent here, it only made me see...” she kept singing as the people at the Bronze danced fervently to her singing.

“That I don’t ever wanna be like you I don’t wanna do the things you do” When she sang 'you,' she pointed out to the audience. “I’m never gonna hear the words you say And I don’t ever wanna, I don’t ever wanna be...”

“You! Don’t wanna be just like you What I’m sayin’ is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up!” She made a motion with one of her hands for the people to raise their hands in the air. “You... Don’t wanna be you!”

“‘Go to college, A university Get a real job’” the girl mimicked some adult telling a teen what to do as she sang the lines. “That’s what they said to me But I could never live the way they want I’m gonna get by And just do my time Out of step while They all get in line I’m just a Minor Threat so pay no mind,” At minor threat, the woman tried looking as innocent as possible.

“Do you really wanna be like them? Do you really wanna be another trend? Do you wanna be part of that crowd? Cause I don’t ever wanna I don’t ever wanna be...” she sang as she moved around on the stage.

“You! Don’t wanna be just like you What I’m sayin’ is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up You Don’t wanna be you!” she sang as a couple of guys that looked like puppet men came from behind her.

“Shake it once, that’s fine Shake it twice, that’s okay Shake it three times, you’re playing with yourself again...” the puppet men sang as the red skinned woman danced to the music until it was her turn to sing again.

“You Don’t wanna be just like you What I’m sayin’ is This is the anthem Throw all your hands up Y’all got to feel me, sing if you're with me You Don’t wanna be just like you,” she sang.

“Just like you...” the singers behind her sang backup.

“This is the anthem Throw all your hands up Y’all got to feel me, sing if you’re with me Another loser anthem,” By now, the crowd was acting like they were at a real concert.

“Whoa-oh!” the singers sang from behind her.

“Another loser anthem!”

“Whoa-oh!”

“Another loser anthem!”

“Whoa-oh!”

“Another loser anthem...!” When she finished, so did the music then there was roar of cheers and clapping. The woman smiled and took a bow, as did the singers behind her.

She jumped off the stage followed by her borrowed minions. “That was good! Mmm... I feel great!” Charm said with a smile as she wandered into the crowd to dance.

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