Title: Solid Evidence

Summary: BA Post NFA Very future.

Author: Bashipforever

Prompt: Commitment for <lj user=stagesoflove>

 

 

 

She lay on her side, hand pillowed under her cheek, her eyes skimming over the vampire lying next to her. Her brain fired with a thousand questions, questions that had been stewing for days…weeks even. Fear bloomed deep inside of her when she considered asking those questions because the answers could be crippling considering how much she’d staked on them.

 

“Just ask,” Angel said with a half smile.

 

“Ask what?” Buffy stalled, naïve innocence coloring her voice.

 

Angel chuckled softly in response. “Buffy, I’ve known you too long to buy the dumb blonde act.” He reached out and tugged playfully on a strand of golden hair before tucking it behind her ear. “You’ve got questions in your eyes. Just ask them.”

 

“I can’t,” she whispered after a moment of silence, her gaze leaving his. “The answers…I know what I want them to be and if they aren’t what I want…I’m-“ she stopped, unwilling to give voice to her fear. “Everything will change if the answers aren’t right and I like everything the way it is.”

 

“But if you don’t ask, you’ll always wonder,” Angel pointed out.

 

She nodded, wrestling with her options silently. She took a deep breath, inhaling courage. “I’ve been counting on nothing…and yet you’re staying. I just need to know if that’s going to be a pattern or if I should expect an upset soon.”

 

Angel’s features softened, filling up with love as he reached out and traced a finger over her cheekbone, ending its journey at her bottom lip that had just begun to tremble and pout. “I think you can count on a pattern for the next several decades.”

 

“Think?” she asked hope lighting her eyes and raising her eyebrows. “Sorta looking for more solid evidence than that.”

 

 

Angel pulled her closer to him, her body flush with his and dipped his head, brushing her lips with a whisper soft kiss. “Consider this solid evidence.”