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Gentle Whisper of Souls by Chelle
 
Alternate Ending: Trio
 
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Chapter 14: Alternate Ending : Trio

Author's Notes: Okay, here is the Buffy/Angel/Spike happily ever after ending.


Buffy stuck her head in Angel’s office. “Knock knock.”

Spike and Angel, who were in deep conversation, turned to look at her. “Hey,” Angel said. “We were just talking about you. Come in.”

She entered the room and closed the door behind her. “Whatever it is, I didn’t do it.”

“What are your plans now?” Angel asked. “I mean, you no longer have a job in Italy it would seem.”

“No.” Buffy sat down in one of the leather chairs that faced Angel’s desk. “I think I’m fired.”

Spike chuckled. “Or you could take over The Immortal’s evil empire.”

“Don’t give her any ideas.” Angel seated himself behind his desk. “Are you going with Giles, then?”

“I feel like I’m in the principal’s office.” Buffy smiled. “You look odd, you know, sitting in corporate America with a leather duster on.”

“Are you going to answer the question.”

“I don’t know the answer.” Buffy looked back and forth between Angel and Spike. “Giles asked me to come back with him, to actively participate in training the girls, but I have a few things to do first.”

“Such as?” Spike asked.

“I’m going to go see Maria’s family, to tell them what transpired and that the curse is lifted from their lives.”

“That’ll take a day, maybe two. Then what?”

“I don’t know.” Buffy chewed her bottom lip.

“You could come back here.” Spike plopped next to her in a matching leather chair. “We could use another abled body.”

“Especially one that’s very, very abled. Such as yours,” Angel added, giving her the half smile that always made her heart flutter.

“And your dad lives here.” Spike supplied. “So, it’s settled then. You’ll come back here.”

Buffy stared from one to the other. Finally, she said, “I think I’ll pass. I mean, I love you guys, but-”

“We can share,” Spike interrupted. “We talked about it and we decided that we don’t want you to choose between us. We don’t want to know who you’d pick or force you to do that.”

“We both want you,” Angel added. “And you want both of us.”

“So, here we are.” Spike grinned, holding his arms out.

Buffy didn’t know whether to laugh at their joke or attempt to rationalize it. Or believe it and a part of her wanted to believe it. She gathered her fragmented thoughts and said, “What we did was for a purpose. We had to and if you guys didn’t *have* to it would be completely different.”

“No, it wouldn’t.” Angel walked around the desk and pulled her against him, kissing her firmly on the mouth.

“See?” Spike smiled. "I'm okay with it."

“You have a girlfriend, Angel." Buffy took a step back.

“No, I don’t,” he replied. “I told Nina the truth.”

“And I told Harmony the truth,” Spike added hastily.

Buffy felt her nostrils flare. “You and *Harmony*!?”

Spike elbowed Angel in the ribs. “Isn’t she cute when she’s jealous?”

“I am not jealous!” Buffy shouted. “Harmony!? God, why didn’t you just call one nine hundred sluts are us?”

“Green is her best color,” Angel said, smiling.

“I like her in nude.” Spike looked her up and down. “Think your trip overseas can wait, pet?”

“Don’t even think it!” Buffy snapped.

A few seconds later, Fred paused outside the door, listening to the giggling and the sighs that emanated from within Angel’s office. She rolled her eyes and turned, staring up at Wesley. “You think we should interrupt to tell them about the -”

“Nope.” Wesley cleared his throat. “Let’s just handle it ourselves.”

Gunn joined them. “Did you tell Angel?”

“Nope.” Fred shook her head. “Let’s go.”

“What are they -” A look of comprehension passed over Gunn’s face. “You know, there are three of us, too,” he said hopefully.

“Charles!” Fred snapped, turning every shade of red and rushing across the room.

Wesley, who had been cleaning his glasses, put them back on his face. “I must say, I like it when you think that way.”

Gunn watched him join Fred at the elevator and grinned. Then he knocked, hard, on Angel’s door. “FIRE!”

He didn’t wait around to see what happened. But the office buzzed about it for days.

And two vampires and one very happy Slayer took it in stride.
 
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