One morning, as Angel finished having a shower, and Buffy sat in bed awaiting her lover, a strange mist began to form near the centre of Angel's apartment room. Buffy happened to look up to check on Angel's progress, and instead of being greeted with his body form, all she saw was a cloud of fogginess. "Uhh�Angel, do you often have little clouds forming spontaneously in your apartment?" she called, half playful, half slightly concerned. Angel came out of the bathroom, sliding a shirt over his head.
"Buff, what are talking about?" he enquired, chuckling at such an odd question. On seeing the cloud-like 'thing' in front of him, his eyes widened, and he sidled briskly around the edge of the white mass, and dropped himself down on the bed next to Buffy.
"Oh my�!" exclaimed Buffy quietly, and she gripped Angel's hand tightly. Two slightly faded human forms had appeared, and now stood smiling at the speechless couple. One of them stepped forward, put her hands on her hips, and shook her head.
"Finally�.It took us ages to get permission to do this, ya know!" the smiling figure said wryly. The second figure rolled her eyes, and crossed her arms.
"You have no idea�" she muttered, eyes sparkling. Angel and Buffy just sat there staring, mouths open in shock. Both of the visitors laughed, before the first one spoke again.
"We have a limited amount of time�we just wanted to check up on you both, make sure our spell worked and all that - and it would appear that it worked a dream, wouldn't you say?" she asked her partner, who nodded in reply. Angel snapped out of his shocked state, and broke into a smile.
"You�you two did it?!" he asked in disbelief. The figures nodded.
"Proud, much?" chided the second figure, chuckling. Buffy grinned, and wrapped her arms tightly around Angel.
"Very," said Buffy with mock seriousness, "Well deserved proudness! Thank you so much!" she said, still somewhat amazed. The visitors laughed, and the first one spoke again.
"You're very welcome, Buffy! - oh�uhh�sorry to hear about that�uhh�vampire thing�" she said awkwardly, looking down. Buffy shook her head, and shrugged.
"It's not so bad�and besides, I can finally spend all my time with Angel, and not have to worry about school, or homework�" Everyone laughed. Angel took Buffy in his arms and gently kissed her forehead, hugging her protectively.
"Well, we should go. There's one more person I want to see!" the first figure said, smiling, and waved. Buffy and Angel were sad to see them go, but waved in return, repeated their profuse thanks�.and the figures were gone. The couple looked at each other, and burst out laughing, happy that the truth was finally known, as to who was responsible for bringing Angel back from Hell.
"Poor Giles!" exclaimed Buffy, grinning, "He is gonna absolutely wig!" Angel shook his head in amazement.
"I never would have guessed it was those two, especially since I was the one who killed�" he began, but Buffy silenced him with a finger to his lips. She shook her head.
"It wasn't you, remember that," she whispered seriously, before brightening up and smiling again. "And neither would I have thought it possible�..to think!! Jenny Calendar and Kendra�" Buffy's thoughts were cut pleasantly short as Angel's mouth reached her own, and he kissed her passionately - as he would for hundreds of years to come.
THE END