When Angel first sees Buffy, he realizes that he wants to be someone and his faith in humanity is inspired. When they sleep together for the first time, Angel loses his soul, becoming Angelus. Buffy is forced to kill him, to save the world, even though Willow has just ensouled him. After he returns from Hell, he and Buffy still love each other, and attempt a relationship. He tells Buffy in "Earshot" when she questions his feelings for her that in 243 years, he's loved exactly one person: Buffy. However, he realizes this relationship is unfair to Buffy and by being with her he is unable to give her a "normal" relationship. He breaks up with her in "The Prom" telling her, "You need someone who can take you into the light. Someone who can make love to you." He needs to begin his path to redemption and leaves Sunnydale. Buffy comes to L.A., and for a brief time, Angel becomes human. He has to rewind the day, because being human will eventually lead to Buffy's death and that the Powers That Be have not released him from his atonement, nor offered him "forgiveness". Their relationship suffers in "Sanctuary", when Buffy comes to Los Angeles for revenge against Faith for her actions in Sunnydale after her coma under the guise of protecting Angel, only to discover that Angel is protecting Faith; in the final scenes of the episode, at the end of the argument, Buffy uses her new relationship with Riley Finn as verbal ammo against Angel, to which he reminds her that he cannot move on from their past relationship and angrily orders her to go back to Sunnydale. The two do reconcile when Angel comes back to Sunnydale to apologize for the way he treated her in L.A.. After Buffy dies in the fifth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel spends months away at a monastery in Asia. He comes to help Buffy in the Buffy finale and provides aid to Buffy in the final fight against Caleb. He gives her an amulet that proves important in the final confrontation with the First. He goes to seek Buffy out in Italy during the last season of Angel, albeit unsuccessfully. Angel and Spike's relationships with Buffy are left on even grounds with Andrew saying Buffy loves them both. Buffy stated in "Selfless", "I loved Angel more than I will ever love anything in this life." She also expresses that she sometimes still thinks about a future with Angel in "Chosen" but it'll be years, if ever. Angel considers Buffy his true love, and in the book "Angel: The Case files Volume One" their relationship is summed up as: "Buffy Summers is, was, and will always be Angel's soul mate. She knows it, and he knows it."
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