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This is a scene with very high emotional impact. Angel is crying and holding a gun at a stone-faced emotionless Eric. Here is the history of that:

At that point in Eric mobster career, he was nothing but a killer, able to slit someone's throat, or cut off their fingers, or stick a skewer in their eyeball and not even flinch. It all ended though when he ended up inadvertently killing an innocent (although it's not like he didn't do that all the time.) But this time it was a personal friend of his, and he ended up killing her completely instinctually (she came home while he was working over her boyfriend [looong story that one xD] and she startled him, and he shot her between the eyes without even consciously realizing it.)

This sends him into a guilt spiral that he can't shake out of, and he realizes that what he does is killing his soul (inasmuch as vampires have souls XD well in my world they do.) Knowing that Frederick will never let him go, he starts packing one night fully intending to split without telling anyone.

Angel comes home unexpectedly (supposed to be out for the weekend) and sees this and tries to stop him. At this point Eric is still so hardened he's not really very emotional about this, so he just keeps telling Angel over and over again that it's over and he's leaving in a very uncaring, cold way. Angel keeps pleading him, breaking down, and it's like talking to a brick wall.

If you remember what I wrote about their relationship (seen within Angel's character history, found here) then their individual reactions make sense.

Angel finally grabs a gun and, sobbing his guts out, points it at him and tells him he'd rather blow his brains out than let him leave. Eric very coolly steps up, til the gun's muzzle is pressed against his chest (or forehead...I can't remember which one) and says, very calmly and coldly, that if Angel had the balls to do that, he'd have done it a long time ago. And then proceeds to rip his self-esteem a new one. He eventually gets his point across that he -is- leaving one way or the other, and he doesn't care about Frederick or the family or Angel.

Eventually Angel relents coz there's no way in hell he wants to shoot Eric, and the other brushes past him and walks out of his life without a backward glance.

This scene, of course, can be interpreted differently (with poses and expression and background and whatnot) but that should explain the backstory and emotional impact it needs to represent.

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