Buffy and Angel Page

Cursed by Romany gypsies after he’d killed a daughter of their clan,
the evil vampire Angelus had his soul restored in 1898. Tortured by
the memory of his every victim, Angel shunned his own kind and lived
a solitary life avoiding human contact as much as he could. After
spending almost a century wandering the earth, Angel was living in
Manhattan, eating rats to stay alive, when non-evil demon Whistler
found him in 1996.
Whistler took Angel to Los Angeles, where they observed Buffy Summers
as she was confronted, for the first time, with the news that she was
the Slayer.

Angel fell in love with her and wanted  to help her. But he also saw Buffy as the key to finding the redemption he so desired.
Though he did not aid her in Los Angeles after becoming the Slayer, Angel did come into her life once she and her mother came to Sunnydale. At first, he attempted to keep his distance, not trusting himself to stay objective.

Angel became part of Buffy’s circle, the group of friends who aided her in combating the forces of darkness. It was not long before Buffy and her friends learned the truth about Angel. Not only was a vamipire he was the most notorious vampire who had ever lived. Darla, a vampire who was in Sunnydale, had sired him, and he was of the lineage of the Master, an ancient vampire who was trapped beneath the town and ran the vampire operations of Sunnydale from there.
Still, Angel proved his loyalty time and again, and he was accepted by Buffy’s friends. Later Drusilla arrived in Sunnydale with Spike, and the two of them made things more difficult, both in their efforts to kill the Slayer and because they were vivid reminders of the era when Angel was the most feared creature in all of Europe.

Despite Spike and Drusilla’s presence, the Slayer and Angel grew more and more deeply in love.

Finally, on Buffy’s seventeenth birthday, realising they had almost lost each other, they made love for the first time.

Their lovemaking had catastrophic results: the Romany curse upon Angel had a second facet of which Angel was unaware. Should he ever achieve even a single moment of true happiness – such as the rapture of making love to the woman who had captured his heart – his human soul would leave him once again.

And it did. When Buffy awoke the next day, it was to a world completely turned upside down. Angel was truly evil once again, having reverted to the evil vampire Angelus who had terrified and feasted upon Europe for over a hundred and fifty years. Almost immediately, the newly restored Angelus fed upon a human – something he had not done in a century – and then sought out Drusilla and Spike to reassert his dominance over them. At first, preoccupied with the demon war machine they’d resurrected – the Judge – Spike and Dru did not realize what happened:

 Angelus set about establishing himself as the patriarch of the “family” that consisted of Drusilla, Spike, and himself. But toying with his “family” was only a distraction. Angelus’s priority was the emotional torture of the Slayer. He hated Buffy because she had made him feel love, and he feared her for her power. Angel tormented Buffy and her friends for weeks.

He turned a local girl into a vampire just so the newly risen creature could remind Buffy he was around. He sneaked into Buffy’s room at night and left sketches of her sleeping, as though to prove how easy it would be for him to kill her.

He attempted to murder Willow, threatened Buffy’s mother, and then purposely revealed to Joyce Summers that he had slept with her daughter – with the same unrelenting cruelty that he had once used on Drusilla.

This series of brutal perversions culminated in Angel’s most terrible act of this period, the callous murder of Jenny Calendar; but, not content with simply killing her, Angelus added torture to the act by leaving her body to be discovered by Giles.
Not long after, Angelus changed course entirely. He was through wasting his time with the Slayer. Instead, he acquired the remains of the demon Acathla, with the intention of resurrecting it. If he could awaken Acathla, he would open a channel into the demon dimensions.

Though Willow had discovered Jenny’s notes about restoring Angel’s soul and was working feverishly to re-create the original curse, Buffy did not have time to wait. She went to find Angel and faced him in battle.

Willow managed to complete the curse, but not before the gateway to the demon dimensions began to open. Realising at the last moment that Angel’s soul had been restored, Buffy remembered that Whistler had already told her what she must do.

 

Buffy knew the only way to close the portal was to make Angel bleed and then thrust him through the portal, and she did . She told him she loved him, bid him close his eyes, and killed him.

Unable to deal with the death of her lover by her own hand, Buffy ran away to Los Angeles, where she spent the summer incognito until a former Sunnydale resident came to her for help. Then the Slayer realized she could not deny her duty or her destiny, and returned to the Hellmouth.
When Angel was returned to the world – by mysterious intervention - he was like an animal, mindless and savage.
Realizing how her friends would react to Angel’s return, Buffy kept it secret for some time. Their love resumed, but it was forever tainted by the knowledge that it was impossible.

Angel and Buffy could never make love again, or the curse would remove his human soul once more. Simply being together was  torture for them, and their doomed passion began to wear on them both.

Even in alternate realities, however, it seems that Buffy and Angel were destined to be together. When the demon Anyanka granted Cordelia’s wish that the slayer had never come to Sunnydale, they were all transported to a vampire-infested world ruled by the Master. Xander and Willow were his vampire followers, keeping Angel prisoner for torture-related entertainment. When the Slayer finally arrived in Sunnydale, at the desperate request of Giles to her own Watcher, we saw a hardened, battle-weary Buffy Summers who only Angel recognized.

Back in the real world, Angel was being driven insane by images of his many victims urging him to kill Buffy. To escape the hauntings, and his own misery in their star-crossed situation, he tried to kill himself, waiting on a hill-top for the deathly rays of sunrise. Buffy attempted to talk him out of it, not understanding why he thought this was the way out

They almost came to blows, but at the last minute the Powers That Be intervened, bringing dark skies and snow to the California Christmas day and saving Angel’s life.

Just as Angel had returned from Hell, the Slayer Faith had arrived in Sunnydale. Eventually, Faith became a traitor, allied with the demonic Mayor, and the two attempted to sway Angel to their cause. Faith hoped to seduce Angel, and pointed out how hopeless his love for Buffy was. In order to reveal Faith’s duplicity, Angel pretended to have become evil once more.

Seeing him this way only made Buffy feel even more uncertain, an emotional state that others, particularly the Mayor, attempted to use to their advantage.

Finally Buffy’s mother confronted Angel with the hard truth about his relationship with Buffy. It was doomed. Everyone knew it. He could not offer her anything but pain, as she grew old and died he remained the same.

Accepting this common sense approach, which he believed was the right thing to do for Buffy, Angel decided that after the Mayor was destroyed, he would leave Sunnydale.

Before the Mayor’s Ascension to demonhood was scheduled to come about, however, Angel was poisoned by Faith. The poison was powerful, and the only thing that could save Angel was the blood of a Slayer.

Buffy fought Faith, hoping to use her blood to save Angel, but only succeeded in wounding her before Faith jumped off a building onto a passing truck which took her away from Buffy. Realizing it was the only way to save him, Buffy forced Angel to drink from her, to take her blood, and he nearly killed her.

Goading him into a fight, Buffy succeeded in making Angel revert to vampire form, and drink her life-saving blood.

Rejuvenated, he rushed his unconscious Buffy to hospital where he met with the disapproval of the Scoobies, but Buffy recovered, and they all joined forces in the battle against the Mayor. Mayor Wilkins was defeated, and in the aftermath of the battle against him, Angel left Sunnydale. Their eyes met across the smoke-filled road, but they did not say 'Goodbye'.

He went Los Angeles, where he met Doyle, another messenger from the Powers That Be whose visions of people in trouble led Angel to ‘help the hopeless’.

After Doyle’s persuasion, Angel became an unlicensed private detective, running Angel Investigations with the help of Doyle and Cordelia Chase. One of Doyle’s visions led Angel to Sunnydale, to protect Buffy from mortal danger, and with the secret help of Giles and the scoobies, he was able to keep her from getting killed.

When Buffy discovered this duplicity – having sensed his presence but never seeing him while he was there – she went to Los Angeles to confront him. Attacked by a Mohra demon, they were thrown together in battle and conversation, and their old feelings began to surface. The demon’s blood mingled with Angel’s, which miraculously restored Angel to humanity, and he was able to share a ‘normal’ day with the love of his life – walking in the sunshine, eating favourite foods, making love to the point of exhaustion.

Another of Doyle’s visions interrupted this idyll, and Angel left Buffy asleep while he and Doyle went to sort it out. Fortunately, Buffy discovered what was going on, and arrived in time to save her lover – robbed of his vampiric super-strength and agility – from perishing at the hands of the demon.

Realising that as a mortal he was no help to Buffy, and could be a liability in her fight against evil, Angel asked the Powers That Be to undo the miracle that had made him human. Unable to do so, but impressed by Angel’s unselfish reasoning, they compromised – they would turn back time, so that Angel could avoid the affects of the demon’s blood, but only he would remember the day he had shared as Buffy’s human lover.
Angry at first, but then heart-broken, Buffy understood why Angel had made such a decision, and their final minute of that wonderful day was spent in each other’s arms, weeping for what might have been.

Back in Sunnydale some time later, Faith awoke from her coma and began to create havoc in Buffy’s life. Using a device left to her by the Mayor, Faith switched bodies with Buffy and sampled her former friend’s life … including her boyfriend, Riley.
Leaving Sunnydale to pick up the pieces, Faith went to LA and was hired by attorneys at Wolfram & Hart to kill Angel. Angel and Wesley realized that Faith needed help, and took her in. When Buffy arrived, seeking vengeance under the guise of protecting Angel from Faith's violent nature, she was shocked and hurt to discover her former love siding with her nemesis. They came to blows when Angel stepped between the two slayers ,but they ended up fighting together to save Faith from capture. After Faith gave herself up to the police, Buffy told Angel that he should have told her what was happening with Faith, but he explained it wasn't her business, he was trying to save somebody's soul and she was just looking for vengeance. She told him she had a new life and love and someone she can trust. Hurt and upset, Angel told Buffy it's nice she's moved on but he can't.

Angel stands his ground with fighting his own wars and Buffy has changed immensely, no longer the 16 years old in love with the dark, brooding stranger. They have lives now, and its painfully obvious these lives take them in different directions. Wesley walked in a few moments later and Angel confessed he felt bad about the exchange.
Angel followed Buffy back from Los Angeles to apologize, but got into a fight with Riley before he could do so, giving him even more to apologize for. Through several interruptions, he and Buffy eventually came to terms and parted as friends.

Buffy and Angel came to realise that, due to their separate natures and obligations – and the curse on his soul - they were fated never to be together.
When he learned of Joyce’s death, Angel travelled to Sunnydale and spent the night with Buffy at her mother’s grave.

Their love for each other remained unspoken, but Buffy revealed her need for him, even though she accepted their separation.

Angel’s love for Buffy, and hers for him, remained true as they each continued to live out their separate destinies. Fighting her greatest foe, Buffy acknowledged the trials The Powers That Be had set her during her relationship with Angel.

When Buffy died, Angel mourned for her as any human would mourn the loss of their one true love and soul-mate.
When he learned of her resurrection, Angel contacted Buffy immediately and, at his request, she dropped everything and rushed to meet him. It remains evident, as they continue their separate struggles against evil, that their love for each other is intact. Buffy's liaison with Spike is no more than an attempt to feel some emotion;she is subconsciously drawn to him only because of his vampire nature and his link to Angel: it's the closest she can get to him, because of the curse. It remains to be seen what other torments the two lovers will have to endure before they are re-united.

 

It has been revealed that both Angel and Buffy are warriors for the Powers That Be. The Powers That Be brought these two warriors together for a higher reason - to save the world, to help the hopeless. Angel went to Sunnydale to help Buffy to fight
the first(Angel takes an amulet out of his pocket and holds it up for Buffy to see. It's a 2-inch diameter round crystal pendant in a silver starburst setting hung from a coarse silver chain.)ANGEL
I don't know everything. It's very powerful and probably very dangerous. It has a purifying power, a cleansing power, possibly scrubbing bubbles. The translation is, uh—anyway, it bestows strength to the right person who wears it.BUFFY
And the right person is?

ANGEL
Someone ensouled, but stronger than human. A champion. As in me.

BUFFY
Or me.

ANGEL
No. I don't know nearly enough about this to risk you wearing it. Besides, you got that real cool axe-thing going for you.
BUFFY
So you're gonna be with me in this.

ANGEL
Shoulder to shoulder. I'm yours.

BUFFY
No.

ANGEL
No, what?

BUFFY
No. You're not gonna be in this fight. (walks away)

ANGEL
(cuts her off) Why the hell not?

BUFFY
'Cause I can't risk you.

ANGEL
You need me in this.

BUFFY
No, I need you gone.

ANGEL
Why?

BUFFY
If I lose, if this thing gets past Sunnydale, then it's days—maybe hours—before the rest of the world goes. I need a second front, and I need you to run it.

ANGEL
OK... (crosses his arms) that's one reason. What's the other?

BUFFY
(walks out of the tomb) There is no other.

ANGEL
Is it Spike? (Buffy stops walking, turns to face Angel) You're not telling me something. And his scent, I remember it pretty well.

BUFFY
You vampires. Did anybody ever tell you the whole smelling people thing's a little gross? (walks away)

ANGEL
(follows) Is he your boyfriend?

BUFFY
Is that your business?

ANGEL
You in love with him? OK, maybe I'm outta line, but this is kind of a curve ball for me. I mean, we are talking about Spike here.

BUFFY
It's different. He's different. He has a soul now.

ANGEL
(stops) Oh. (looks up) Well.

BUFFY
What?

ANGEL
That's great. (mumbling to himself) Everyone's got a soul now.

BUFFY
He'll make a difference.

ANGEL
(mumbling) You know, I started it. The whole having a soul. Before it was all the cool new thing.

BUFFY
Oh, my God. Are you 12?

ANGEL
I'm getting the brush off for Captain Peroxide. It doesn't necessarily bring out the champion in me.

BUFFY
You're not getting the brush off. Are you just gonna come here and go all Dawson on me every time I have a boyfriend?

ANGEL
Aha! (points) Boyfriend!

BUFFY
He's not. But...he is in my heart.

ANGEL
That'll end well. (walks away, leans on a tombstone)

BUFFY
What was the highlight of our relationship? When you broke up with me or when I killed you? I'm well aware of my stellar history with guys... (sighs, leans beside Angel) And, no, I don't see fat grandchildren in the offing with Spike, but I don't think that really matters right now. (chuckles) You know, in the midst of all this insanity, a couple things are actually starting to make sense. And the guy thing— (sighs) I always feared there was something wrong with me, you know, because I couldn't make it work. But maybe I'm not supposed to.

ANGEL
Because you're the slayer?

BUFFY
(looks at Angel) Because—OK, I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking. I'm not finished becoming whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next thing, and maybe one day I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat— (eyes go wide as she catches herself) or enjoy warm, delicious cookie me, then...that's fine. That'll be then. When I'm done.

ANGEL
Any thoughts on who might enjoy— (sighs, irritated) Do I have to go with the cookie analogy?

BUFFY
I'm not really thinking that far ahead. That's kind of the point.

ANGEL
(hands the amulet to Buffy) I'll go start working on the second front. Make sure I don't have to use it. (walks away)

BUFFY
(calls after him) Angel. (he turns to look at her) I do... sometimes think that far ahead.

ANGEL
Sometimes is something. (smiles, walks away)

BUFFY
Be a long time coming. Years, if ever.

ANGEL
(shrugs) I ain't getting any older. (walks away)
Spike is in the basement punching a punching bag when Buffy walks down the stairs.

SPIKE
So...where's tall, dark and forehead?

BUFFY
(rolls her eyes) Let me guess. You can smell him.

SPIKE
Yeah, that and I also used my enhanced vampire eyeballs to watch you kissing him.

BUFFY
(awkwardly) It was...a hello.

SPIKE
Most people don't use their tongues to say hello. Or I guess they do, but—

BUFFY
There were no tongues. Besides, he's gone.

SPIKE
Oh, just popped by for a quickie, then?

BUFFY
(walks away) Good, good. I haven't had quite enough jealous vampire crap for one night.

SPIKE
He wears lifts, you know.

Buffy looks over at the punching bag that Spike was hitting and sees something has been taped to it: a sketch drawn in black marker on white paper, shows hair that sticks straight up, X's for eyes and fangs on the frowny face. Buffy rolls her eyes at the representation of Angel.

BUFFY
You know, one of these days I'm just gonna put you 2 in a room and let you wrestle it out.

SPIKE
(rifling through an empty cigarette package) No problem at this end. (throws the package away in disgust)

BUFFY
(her eyes widen with excitement) There could be oil of some kind involved.

SPIKE
(walks up to Buffy) Where's the trinket?

BUFFY
The who-ket?

SPIKE
The pretty necklace your sweetie-bear gave you. The one with all the power. I believe it's mine now.

BUFFY
How do you figure?

SPIKE
Someone with a soul, but more than human? Angel meant to wear it, that means I'm the qualified party. (holds out his hands)

BUFFY
It's volatile. We don't know—

SPIKE
You'll be needing someone strong to bear it, then. You planning on giving it to Andrew?

BUFFY
(looks at the amulet, then at Spike) Angel said the amulet was meant to be worn by a champion.

Spike looks down, disappointed, but Buffy walks forward and hands it to him.

but Buffy sent Angel  back too LA .