Ch.80

Xander got pissed and went to punch me before Faith shoved him back and warned him. "Look at Angel and be sure you want to press that button cause boy, if you hit him I won't pull him off of you until you're comatose. I don't mind that you wanted us to kill vamps, but using us just to get your jollies off isn't our idea of a fun time."

He looked to me then to Angel before leaving. Angel's busted up and bleeding…everything, sort of put a damper on his thoughts for physically hitting me it seems. He left and Willow was long gone having gone after Oz. Only Giles remained and still angry at Buffy for not telling him Angel was back.

Yeah, I stayed out of that, only telling him it wasn't like she'd screw him again knowing it'd release his inner demon which we would kill. Beyond that we left, heading home for the night. I washed up and Faith joined me before we debated the morality of killing a vampire with a soul. That was cut short as we got bouncy and used some handcuffs I'd designed to hold me.

Faith was weary and I told her I needed to get passed it, not just for her, but for myself. I told her it was an irrational fear and fears can be faced and conquered if done right. I cupped her face and told her I trusted her absolutely and loved her more than life itself. We shared a kiss and she cuffed me to the reinforced steel bed.

I took steady shallow breaths and it was a rough night from there. She was gentle though, more so than she'd ever been before with me. It was an aggressive form of therapy and one we'd do over and over again. I was billions of years old mentally and I'd experienced a lot, some things far worse, so I wouldn't let my past control me any longer.

I'd accepted there were things I couldn't change, people I'd never see again and moved on. Now I was only interested in making myself better for the woman in my arms when it was over. It would take time, but time is the one thing I had. Over the next couple weeks or so, besides hunting, Faith and I worked at my issues through boxes of condoms.

She enjoyed this form of therapy and loved seeing me straining to hold myself back while she bobbed, bounced and gyrated. She just loved to be on top it seems, and that's where she stayed for now. Her other favorite position we couldn't do while I was in cuffs because it involved taking her from behind. She said it felt like I was sticking a bat in her and filling her to the gills when we had sex that way.

Personally, I liked her every way I could have her despite my difficulties in being on the bottom. Yes, a few time I'd had to throw up afterwards, but we continued and almost a week after we heard Spike was in town, Faith was able to ride me without cuffs or restraints. I didn't feel nearly as sick because I focused on her face and the love I felt for her. When we climaxed, the condom burst and a whole new sensation was felt.

I sat up and held her while we moaned together. I could feel her body gripping me and milking me while she felt the flood of my essence. We shuddered like that for minutes, sharing a kiss. When she slid off, all she could say was. "Damn that felt different, better even."

I nodded slowly before sighing. "We need more condoms and you need to get that out of you."

She wiggled her eyebrows and told me to do it so I snorted lightly, rolled us over and grabbed a towel before putting it under her. She bit her lip when I pulled pieces of the condom out and used a douche on her, adding extra lube. She groaned and I told her calmly. "It's this or a teen pregnancy."

She rolled her eyes and widened her legs a bit before we cleaned up the mess that came out. A quick shower later and she went to buy condoms while I went to check in with the Scooby gang. I ended up bumping into Cordelia just as she wished Buffy hadn't come to Sunnydale. Yeah, wishverse here I came and I wasn't too happy about it.

I left Cordelia there and searched for things we'd need like the scythe, the gem of Amara and the orbs of Nezzla'Khan, killing vamps along the way. I got the cross of Du Lac and left the graveyard with it and the gem of Amara, barely digging out the scythe before I was sent back. I didn't even have enough time to get the orbs of Nezzla'Khan. Why? Cause I took the seed of wonder into my ring instead which was a bitch to get to.

That and digging out the scythe pretty much took up all the time I had. I told the others and Faith about the wishverse and that I'd found a vamp me there with the second scythe so now I had two. I gave it to Faith and she kissed me before I passed Giles the second cross of Du Lac, a bunch of treasure and a few swords. "I found the gem of Amara as well. The place was overrun with vamps so I was sorta busy, but I figured Angel might make a better ally if he could come out and play in the day, even if he chooses to stay in the shadows."

I flipped the ring to Buffy and told her it basically made the vampire wearer invincible. I grimaced. "There wasn't a lot of time there and considering it wasn't a cuddly place to be, I didn't exactly have the notion to poke around after dark when vamps were out in force in town. There were hundreds of them and no other backup I could find so when I was pulled back I figured Cordelia had wished us back."

I turned to Xander. "You really hurt her to be able to call a vengeance demon to her like that."

Buffy asked. "Why'd she wish me away though?"

I shrugged. "It wasn't just you. She had a lot of wishes afterwards when I returned. Mostly man hating ones, but the vengeance demon or former vengeance demon now, couldn't grant them because she lost her necklace or whatever that gave her the power. You just happened to be the first person she wished away so the demon had granted it temporarily until whatever happened to drag me back here."

Xander asked. "So you thought you'd go grave robbing as the first thing you'd do?"

I shrugged. "I knew where things were from Giles's notes and it seemed like the thing to do, grab supplies and stuff before finding a way back."

I turned to Faith. "I got is a motorcycle as well. I'll have to change the vin numbers and get insurance after I hack into the DMV, but we can go riding again sometime."

She kissed me and I pulled her into my arms before Faith told Buffy. "Don't worry B, I'll share my new toy with you."

Willow asked what it was like to slay someone that looked like me. I shrugged. "It was just a vampire, nothing more. Though it was oddly stronger than any vamp I'd faced before except Kakistos."

Xander called them Slaypires and I shrugged before deciding not to say more because it was a lie. I hadn't run into an alternate me there, though I'd known one existed, likely dead or back in Boston. Buffy thanked me for the ring and I shrugged while telling Giles I'd need his help selling the cross and stuff for cash cause I didn't want to dip into the savings if I didn't have to.

He agreed to help and we went our merry ways for a time. Buffy invited Faith and I over for Christmas so I made a slayer kit, basics and all before Angel showed up needing help. I invited him in, told him to sit and relax before frowning. "Something else is here isn't it?"

He looked over my shoulder and swallowed before nodding. So I sighed. "Whatever it is, it's setting my nerves on edge. Whatever's haunting you isn't your issues Angel, it's something evil and it's messing with your mind."

I growled. "You can come out. I can feel you here, whatever the hell you are. I may not be able to touch you, but if you don't show yourself I will be able to banish you from this apartment, even if it's just temporary."

The social worker woman that I'd nearly killed after seeing her raped and violated by my stepfather and his men appeared. I snorted. "Neat trick, but you aren't her no matter what you think you know."

She told me to leave Angel to his fate told me it was the least I could do after doing g nothing. I glared at the creature. "Fuck you, ya demon cunt."

I cut my hand and drew an enochian symbol in blood before slamming my hand on it, banishing it and all other spirits from the premises and immediate area. I turned to Angel. "Your tormentor is a mind reading ghost playing on the sins of your demon to torment you. Nut up and find out whose summoning the damned thing or go cry in a corner."

He grimaced and thanked me, but I shrugged. "I'd recommend finding Buffy and asking for her help. Tell her I said the demon had followers with their eyes down shut and tongues cut out. That's all I could see before the demonic spirit cut me off."

He nodded and asked what I'd used to banish it. I grunted. "A blood spell using high enochian sigils. It'd banish angels and anything possessing bodies that don't belong or beings like spirits that are even more vulnerable. It doesn't last more than a day though before they can return."

I gestured to the table and the symbol I drew in blood which he looked at before nodding, saying he'd have to remember that. I shrugged. "It ejects them to whatever dimension they belong, heaven, hell, demon dimension, pretty much an all access fuck you to whatever's in the area at the time."

The table sizzled and I grunted. "And apparently doesn't react well to hellmouth energies."

I cleaned the sigil off and Angel left more together than he was before. Faith and I chilled at Buffy's place after I gave Buffy her present and Joyce a stun gun. I told Joyce I modified it to drop even vamps temporarily so it was a decent safety tool. She thanked me and we had eggnog that wasn't half whiskey for once.

Buffy told us she'd stopped the First from trying to kill Angel which was basically by killing it's disciples, the Bringers, that were in town. Weeks passed while Faith and I mostly kept to ourselves, robbing and dusting vamps, killing demons and partying at the Bronze.