Title: Betrayal by the Heart
Author: Jozzy
Rating: Pg13 cause of language maybe.
Dedication: to everyone who asked for more, sorry it took so long.
Disclaimer: The characters don't belong to me. They belong to Joss Whendon/ Mutant Enemy/ And a whole bunch of people that aren't me.
Summary: It's been a couple of weeks. The W\A friendship has progressed. Oz is out of the picture, no one knows that Willow goes to see Angel.
Author's Note: This is more like an interlude
Notes2: * * are thoughts
Betrayal BY the Heart
Willow was sitting in the den at Angel's doing here homework. She spent a lot of her time there since she and Oz had split. Angel didn't seem to mind; in fact he rather liked it. Now he had someone to talk to, Buffy never came to visit. Willow would just appear at his door and he would let her in. Their relationship had blossomed into a wonderful friendship, and neither one was ready to have it spoiled by the others, so they, Willow actually, didn't inform the rest of the Scooby Gang about it.
Willow and the rest of the gang were not getting along. The news that they had lied to her, as she saw it, had crushed the red head and she avoided them. When she saw one of them walking towards her she would turn around or do anything else to escape. This was hard seeing as they had a lot of the same classes.
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"Hey Angel, do you know who that guy was that the guillotine was named for?"
"Umm, Joseph Guillotine."
"Thanks."
Angel was sitting, watching Willow. *As much as I like her company, it's defiantly not a good sign that she is hanging out here. Now if she would only tell me what happened I could help. Oh yeah that's exactly what she needs, tell her deep dark secrets to a vampire. When did you become so cynical? A while ago, there were gypsies involved. Figures. *
Willow realized that Angel was staring at her again. He did that a lot, at first she had been uncomfortable, but then she realized that he was just worried. She knew that Angel wondered what had happened to her and Oz but she still did not want to talk about that night. The night that she came to stay with him she had eaten then gone to bed. The events that drove to Angel's door were never discussed. Willow was happy here; the mansion was a refuge from the real world. Here there was nothing to remind her of the past, were as past that door she had to see the gang every day and had to hear the whispers when she walked into the room. Will had become Willow again, small, shy, and reclusive, except that now she didn't even have Xander for a friend. It was kind of sad that the only friend Willow had could not visit her till after sunset. Oh well, she was glad still to have that one friend.
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PART 6
After a few days Angel's curiosity had died down again and the two friends had relaxed into a comfortable relationship. It became so comfortable that one day they forgot that it was a secret. It was one of the few times that either of them was called to the library to help save the world. They were usually kept out of that loop, but Willow was needed for some hacking and Angel would probably be needed to help when it came time to slay. The real problem was when the girl dropped off Oz.
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Oz walked into the library, obviously not aware that Willow was there, with the tall red haired senior on his arm. Angel looked over at Willow to make sure that she was okay. Willow did not even feel the stares; all she could feel was anger. For a while Willow had moped, thinking that it was her fault, but she got over that quickly now she was only angry.
"Well aren't we cozy. Hello oz, hello slut." Willow's voice was low and enraged.
"Willow! What are you doing here?" Oz was somewhere between shocked and annoyed.
"Oh don't worry Oz I didn't come here for you, I was invited." This comment was obviously aimed at Oz's company.
Oz rolled his eyes whispered to the girl and she walked out of the library. "Happy now Willow?"
"Not really after all your still here."
Giles walked out of his office, gave the two teens and began his lecture. "Okay you two, we have got work to do this new demon seems very powerful and we need to work together to defeat it. Now Angel and Buffy will go on rounds, Xander and Cordelia have the bronze, Willow, you and Oz will stay here and help me with research."
Willow said nothing but her face showed that Oz was the last person that she wanted to spend the next few hours with. The gang split up and Willow settled down at the computer. Reaching into her book bag Willow retrieved a CD, and put it in. she turned up the speakers and got to work.
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It was three hours later when everyone had assembled once again in the library. Buffy and Angel met Xander and Cordelia in the hallway on the way to the library. Xander and Cordelia were in the middle of yet another fight, when Buffy and Angel happened by them.
"Listen you 70's throw back, I don't care what you say the only decent Star Trek show is a canceled one."
"Cordy how could you say that, think of Voyager!"
" I am thinking of Voyager, you moron!"
Buffy whispered to Angel loud enough for the others to hear, " It is so obvious that they still have the hots for each other. They just don't want to admit it. It's a classic case of denial."
Angel chuckled, surprising them more than Buffy's comment. " Come on let's not Keep the others waiting.
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In the library Oz was trying to read his book but Willow kept distracting him. Not that she was doing anything, she was sitting at her computer hacking into something, but somehow she kept getting his attention. It had started when Giles had disappeared into his office. Willow had turned on her CD, it was a new one, at least one he had never heard. It wasn't the Willow style, which usually was his. This was R&B not something listened to a lot in Sunnydale. Now she was dancing, she said that she needed to loosen her muscles, and not in the Willow fashion. Her hips swayed in a way that Oz had not thought possible from his Ex-honey. Well now she was dipping and rocking back and forth her body moving in suggestive and hypnotic ways.
Oz was on the verge of convulsions when the group walked, unfortunately he could not take his eyes off her hips.
Willow heard the guys enter but did not stop dancing, she didn't care what they thought. All the noise that comes through the door had stopped, *you know they're watching you, but then that's probably why you're dancing. It is not. Yeah right you were just dancing for Oz and now you've got a larger audience. That's not true I just want to dance. Your right Angel's the only man you dance for. Where did that come from? *
Angel was enraptured, Willow looked so beautiful. He turned slightly watching the other teenagers watching his little witch. * His? Where had that come from, Willow was his least of all. Oh come off it man, you are totally gone on the girl. It's just the dancing. Yeah right she's dance for you before and you've never reacted like this. Usually you just run off to…shut up. Oh no she's coming this way. Calm down she's just changing the tracks. I wish she wouldn't bend that way. Yeah right you love it when she bends. Do the words shut up mean anything to you? Not really. *
Finally Giles came out of his office and Willow sat back down. A look of relief crossed everyone's face; the Willow they had just seen was too new for them to handle. Now that Giles was here she would have to go back to the old Willow.
"Okay everyone lets give a rundown of our day we'll start with Buffy and Angel." Giles said, ignoring the silence.
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Buffy automatically began to talk, never dreaming that Angel might want to say something. " Well, we did the usual rounds, but there was little activity. This demon dude scared away all my fun. After the first hour and half, we couldn't find any vamps so we decided to go hit up Willy for some info. He was no help; he refused to say anything. So I'm thinking that this demon has to be really bad for Willy to risk a beating. That was about it, after we hit Willy's we came back here."
Giles gestured towards Cordelia, "What? Oh yeah, well Xander and I hit the Bronze. We split up and began to talk to kids; we wanted to see if any body knew anything. We basically came up dry. The only thing anyone knows is that the series of deaths have had something to do with the Bronze. Well and this one guy that said that he thought that it was all part of the government's evil plan, but we pretty much ignored him. After the first two hours we realized that we weren't getting, decided to just sit down, after a while we gave up and came back."
Giles sighed, "Well this doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere, all of our field agents (this term got him looks) have come up empty. To tell the truth I have not had much success either. This is a very private demon. He obviously took steps to keep his identity. Umm well Willow, Oz have either of you stumbled onto anything."
Willow simply shook her head, " I've hacked into every place I can think of and came up empty handed. No one knows anything about this guy, or if they do they keeping it under heavy guard." Oz shook his head as well, " Nothing, I thought that I had gotten something but it turned out as a bad translation."
Giles sighed, " Well then, I guess that we should all get ready for along night of research."
Willow nodded, " Okay I just needed to pick something up from Angel's." She froze, realizing what she had said. Her eyes went to Angel's (who did not seem that affected.)
"Oops!"
Willow was shocked to say the least. Man I don't believe that I just did that. I don't think they can believe it either. Oh my god, Angel is going to kill me. Don't think that he really cares. Buffy however does not look like a happy little slayer. Oh no what must she think? Must she think what kind of language is that?
Willow was right though, Buffy was clearly upset and it was obvious that she was going to say something. " What is your stuff doing at Angel's house, Will?"
Willow flushed, her mind racing trying to come up with a decent excuse, she failed. Angel cleared his throat, " Well actually, Willow has been spending a lot of time at the mansion with me." Buffy twitched; "Really, and why is my best friend doing spending all her time at my boyfriend's house?" her tone was unmistakable, she did not approve of this relationship.
Surprisingly this only made Willow angry, " First of all I didn't know we were friends again. Second of all I can go where ever I want to go. Third of all I don't think that I saw you there anytime. Thank you very much."
"I don't have to be there, he's mine." Buffy was getting mad and irrational. "I should have figured, you keep your boyfriend so you go after mine. It so figures, man Willow can't you keep your hands off what isn't yours?"
There was a gasp, no one could believe what Buffy had just said. Xander walked over to Willow, to comfort her, but she pushed him away. " Look, you prissy bitch, I was not going after Angel, we are just friends. Don't you dare lecture me, shit you haven't been to the mansion since, he got back. And now you want to act all offended, try your tears on some one else slut." She stormed over to her computer picked up her stuff and left.
The entire library was silent, trying to take in what had just happened. Angel was the first to snap out of it. " Okay that went well. First of all Buffy, Willow is right. You have got not right to get upset about Willow visiting me. Secondly we are just friends, not that is any of you peoples business. Now I am going to find Willow before she gets herself killed." With that he stormed out of the library.
Every one turned glaring at Buffy. "What you guys act like this is my fault. They're the ones that have been sneaking around. Don't look at me like that!"
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Willow was almost to Angel's when the vampire got her. He was big, at least a foot taller than her. Willow looked around hoping to find somewhere to go. Unfortunately every building around her was closed for the day. Willow looked at him for another second then turned around and started to run. It didn't take long for the vamp to catch up. She let out a loud scream in his ear, he in return slapped her. There was a growl behind them, the demon turned, with Willow in his arms, to face a totally vamped out Angel. A look a terror came into his eyes, he dropped Willow and ran. Angel thought about following, but decided that Willow could not be left by herself.
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It was almost an hour later when they finally reached the mansion, hindered by the occasional vampire. Willow said that she just wanted to go to sleep for a while and Angel agreed. So they went upstairs, Angel saw Willow to the room which had become hers and went back downstairs, waiting for Buffy. He knew that she would come when her rounds were done and knew that they would probably get into a fight. He didn't care though, he was mad at Buffy at the moment. How dare she, say those things! What right did she have? She hadn't talked to him in the months that he got back. She had attacked Willow for no reason. Why on earth did Buffy think that Willow would want to be with him in the first place. Where did that come from soul boy. Where did what come from? What does the witch's wanting you have to do with anything? I was just saying that she didn't want anything to do with me. You sound sad about that. I am not, Willow and I are just friends, and I like it that way. Sure you do. Go away. Angel sighed and waited for Buffy to come.
End Part 6
