It used to be that, whenever Angel was alone and thinking about Buffy, he’d read Sonnets from the Portuguese. But ever since they’d nearly kissed again he hadn’t dared think those thoughts, let alone read them. He knew full well that reading Sartre instead was a terrible idea, but he was doing it anyway.

My Buffyverse Bingo 2020 submission for the prompt ‘Hot Cocoa’. Angel’s perspective on Lovers Walk.

Sometime post-Gone, a Spike and Buffy tryst. A character study. Originally posted sometime in 2013.