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[willowberry]

Something occured to me this morning. I had taken leave of Wolfram and Hart for two months...and yet they had continued to put me up in this apartment building. Maybe they really weren't as evil as everyone said they were. Or maybe Angel had something to do with it. Angel. I took a deep breath, today was the day I was going to go talk to him

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[mr_angel]

Jenny Calendar was alive. She'd been the person I-.. Angelus had killed those years ago. I shifted uncomfortably in my chair and again couldn't look straight at her. I'd killed plenty of people over the years as Angelus, but she was the only one that I'd killed that people who cared about me cared about. That Willow, Buffy, Cordelia.. all of them. There was no way I could come face to face with her, not after what I'd done.

Doyle.. left? I cursed under my breath at that damn Irishman for just leaving. He left and I didn't even know he was back. Had he thought that I'd known then I never went to find him? Did Cordelia know he was back? I had no idea if she did or how she'd feel about it. It had taken us a long time to get over his death, Cordy especially.

And what the hell did he need to fix?

I shook my head. "No,.. it's not your fault." I looked up at her again. "Don't blame yourself. If it wasn't for you.. they'd still be dead." I sighed and ran a hand through my hair.

"Thank you for telling me, Willow. Really." Looking at her again, I did my best to hold her gaze. "And again,.. I'm glad you did the spell," I said with a small smile. It was selfish that I was glad she did it considering what or who I got out of it, but that didn't change anything.

[willowberry]

Well, I had to admit even with that last turn of events this little meeting was still going better than I had imagined. I smiled and stood up. "Thanks for being so good about all this Angel. I've been through some rough stuff lately, and it ... well, thanks." I walked around the desk and gave him a hug.

Okay, so I know that Angel isn't really the "hugging" type. But I couldn't resist. He was just being so gosh darn understanding about everything. Things were definately looking up, and I couldn't wait to come back to work.

"Then I guess I'll see you in the morning boss?" I asked with a smile.

[mr_angel]

Still trying to keep my concentration on Willow and all that we were talking about rather than.. well what I was actually thinking about, I nodded and stood when she got out of her chair. What I wasn't expecting was for her to walk over and give me a hug.

For some reason, it actually made me feel better. I liked a good hug as well as the next person, but I also wasn't one who went around giving them all the time either. Not that everyone around here really wanted a hug from the broody manpire as Cordelia like to refer to me as.

Hugging her in return, I smiled back at her when she pulled away. She called me boss and I couldn't help but smile. It was a title normally only Harmony used. Okay, she usually called me 'bossy'.

"Sure thing," I answered her. "And no problem about the rest. Just glad you're doing alright."

With that she nodded and turned to leave. Sighing, I realized how well that actually went minus a few mental detours along the way and that I didn't have to actually convince her to stay. I sat back down in the chair and shook my head, rubbing my temples with my fingers. Now what I needed to figure out was how to confront the woman I killed those years ago. Not to mention if I should tell Cordelia that Doyle is possibly running around out there somewhere and didn't bother to come by and might not come back.

Oh, and figure out how in the hell Lorne turned human - if it really was Lorne that is. Guess I was going to have to 'smell' him to find that out for sure.