College AU

[knowsit]

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[peskycurse]

I'm usually pretty good at avoiding. Today was just bad luck.

[freezesme]

I know, you are great at avoiding.

[peskycurse]

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm implying that I'm actually not, or you're mad at me for being good at it, or just agreeing with me.

[freezesme]

Somehow kind of all of the above.

Drusilla seems to have taken things well.

[peskycurse]

Well that's not confusing at all.

As far as I can tell, yes.

[freezesme]

I'm a mystery. It's my appeal.

So she is fine with Spike kissing whoever. Or maybe just with Spike kissing YOU.

[peskycurse]

Hey, that's my line.

She did say she's glad we're getting along.

We're not. For the record.

[freezesme]

It's going to wear off for you one day.

She may just be gunning for a threesome.

[peskycurse]

My appeal? That mean I still have some?

Wait. Don't answer that. And Dru can gun all she likes, she's not getting one. At least not one involving me.

[freezesme]

You are annoying thaf way.

Is he a good kisser?

[peskycurse]

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that.

Do you really want to know?

[freezesme]

I don't know. I mean, I guess I want it to have been bad, but given what happened because of it, it might as well have been worth it.

[peskycurse]

No kiss could be worth it.

[freezesme]

I don't think you were thinking that while doing it.

[peskycurse]

No, I wasn't.

He brings out the worst in me. The man I was. I got goaded into a power game and in the moment it felt good.

[freezesme]

Kissing is about power now?

I must be doing it wrong.

[peskycurse]

It never was with you.

[freezesme]

Was that what was missing?

[peskycurse]

No. God, no.

Buffy, he is not better than you. In any way.

[freezesme]

Then why? It makes no sense.

Maybe you are lying to yourself.

[peskycurse]

Not about how I feel about you.

This is really hard to condense into text messages, you know. Can I call you?

[freezesme]

...sure.

[peskycurse]

[ As soon as he hits the "call" button, Angel regrets pretty much everything down to the moment his parents decided to make a baby in the first place.

Hearing Buffy's voice makes him freeze up completely, and he comes pretty damn close to just hanging up again, but somehow he manages to soldier through. ]

Uh. Hi.

[freezesme]

"Hi."

Great start. She heard Angel, sure that he would be able to hear her heart beating, even through the phone.

"Hi."

Eventually she would manage something else.

[peskycurse]

Just one word, and his throat was closing up and his heart was racing.

She has the loveliest voice in the whole world. He was sure of it.

"So. Where were we?"