A.N. I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A.N. This is AU and I love to make the characters OOC

A.N. 3 Angel lost control of Angelus when he felt Dracula challenge his mark. He rushes to Sunnydale to defend his mate and to reclaim her. Angelus is here to stay and the soul is gone.

The moment Angel felt his mark be challenged, Angelus broke free. The rage is nothing like he had ever felt before. He marked her and he had no control of soul boy leaving his mate. Leaving your mate is unforgivable in the vampire world yet Angel did it. Even worse, challenging a marked mate is a death sentence. Dracula challenged the mark and now he dies. He drove at light speed to Sunnydale and he found his castle. Could anyone be stupid?

He felt his mate through the bond. She was being held captive and she was being incapacitated. This fueled his anger. He ripped the heads off of his whores and killed his minions in seconds. Buffy is his priority and he found her dazed and confused with her neck looking like it was torn apart. He felt Dracula and he whipped around.

"What made you think you can even have her?"

Dracula ' s face twisted into that of a demon "You left her, you..."

"You know the rules. You never go after a marked mate. You saw the mark and now you die." As much as Angelus wanted a long and drawn out death, his rage took over and he killed Dracula within minutes.

His attention went back to his mate who he pulled into his arms. He was damned if he was going to let the soul come back. He could have lost her due to him leaving her. He carried her back to his car and took her to his old apartment. There he put her on his bed and he cleaned up her neck. It was worse than he thought. Buffy whimpered a little in pain. He began to rub circles around her back.

"Shh..I'm here. You are safe. Go back to sleep."

He could not give a damn what her friends thought, he knew they were pushing her to be with someone who she does not love to appease them. His scent and his scent alone was the dominant one. He felt her cry in misery at what soul boy did to her.

The demon in him was soothed by her presence alone and he placed a kiss on her cheek. Buffy slept all the way through to the next evening. Angelus was with her.

"I know you are Angelus, thank you but why did you rescue me. I thought you wanted me dead?"

He knew this was coming a thousand miles away and he did not blame her at all. "Buffy, when you set my soul free I did not know how to act except my same old behavior that I have been used to for centuries. When soul boy fell in love with you, I did too. I did not take your rejection so well. When you saved me and risked your own life to do so, that was a concept that I have never fully understood. I had yearned to make you my mate for a long time but the soul would not let me. I chose that moment to mark you as my mate. I would have turned you on the spot if my soul did not stop me.

Soul boy made me leave you and I tried to stop it. Abandoning your mate is an unforgivable sin in the vampire world. When we mark our mates, it's for eternity. I know your friends tried to push you Into relationships with normal, human boys but you never put your heart into it. There is only one you want. The ring I gave you when you were seventeen means something more. You and I have been married for 2 years now. I am not letting you go this time. I almost lost you and I don't want that."

Buffy stayed in his arms after his declaration of love. She started to feel right, feel something safe with him. She did not want someone who was going to throw her aside for a normal life. She will never have that as the wants a relationship where she is an equal. She had to listen to her friends putting her down for loving him but they did not come to her rescue in her time of need, it was him.

Things are about to get interesting. ..