Tru Angel
A 'Tru Calling' and 'Angel' crossover fic
"The decisions we make determine how life proceeds. We don't go through life simply making good choices and bad ones. We go through life making who we are. Choice is the hand that shapes the raw clay of a person."
"Easier said than done." Tru comments on the passage she has just read from a book given to her by Davis. She saves the page with a bookmark and hides the book in the top drawer of her desk. Even though she feels bored being all alone at the morgue at 2:45 AM, she decides she's done enough reading for the night. Yawning, she sits at her computer to check her E-mail. But before she gets a chance to type her password, she hears a man's voice coming from the crypt.
With a racing heart beat, she walks slowly to the cold and empty room where all the bodies are kept. The voice is louder and clearer now. "Help me! Please!" It says.
Tru rushes to check which body is asking for her help. She opens door after door of the stainless steel refrigerators. Finally, she finds it. A cold and pale corpse of a young man lying dead on the steel tray. She nervously waits for him to wake up and ask for her help again; mentally preparing herself for the day to rewind, but nothing happens. She tells him that she's here for him in case he needs her help, but nearly pees in her pants in horror when he suddenly wakes up and growls at her with the biggest set of teeth and the scariest looking face she's ever seen.
Tru's history as a track star comes in handy as she flees out of the crypt and down the hallway in a matter of seconds, desperately screaming and yelling for someone, anyone, to help her. She skips the elevator, knowing that it will take time to operate; time that she does not have. She can feel the undead man chasing after her, and as a thoughtless act of survival, she keeps running down the hallway throwing anything she can find, from stretchers to trash cans, as obstacles in the way to prevent his progression. The emergency exit door is blocked by a huge rolling storage cabinet. She runs into the Standards room and locks the door behind her, then reaches for her cell phone to call 911.
The shakiness in her hands causes the phone to drop and break apart. She picks up the pieces and tries to put them back together in wild haste until startled by the loud sound of the door breaking open and the sight of the awful looking creature attacking her in vicious appetite. She screams and grabs the first thing she could find that would fit to be a weapon - a bone saw. The two large autopsy tables separating Tru from her attacker allows her to manipulate and maneuver her way around the room, forcing him to switch sides. She is now close to the broken door, and has him trapped behind the tables. But her resourcefulness angers him, causing him to make use of his newly granted super power to hop over the tables and catch her just before she makes her escape.
In an instinctive self-defense attempt, she aggressively steps on his foot then turns and hits him so hard on the head with the bone saw that he falls down, and then she attempts to leave the room. But seemingly unaffected, he quickly grabs her leg, causing her to trip over. Before she knows it, there is a terrifying monster over her, holding her tight and closing in on her neck with his big teeth, ignoring her loud shrieks. Suddenly, she feels the heavy weight of him disappear as he goes flying across the room, hitting the cabinet and falling down on the equipment trolley.
"Are you alright?" A concerned looking man asks as he helps her stand up. She looks at him with extreme panic and clinches to his black leather trench coat, struggling to utter a word. Her great anxiety is leaving her paralyzed.
"Who are you?" She breathlessly manages to ask.
"My name's Angel." He replies. "Don't worry, you're safe now." He tries to assure her, but unsuccessfully, as she interrupts him by yelling: "Behind you!" pointing out to the creature stubbornly coming back for revenge.
Angel surprises him with a roundhouse kick, but the vampire quickly steadies himself up and retaliates with a swung back fist. They both fight violently as Tru runs into Davis's office to call 911. Her shaky voice describing the emergency is interrupted by the fierce breaking of the side glass wall of the office, as Angel is thrown vigorously against it. She worries that this strange man who came to her rescue is in serious trouble and will not be able to hold his own, much less help her. She puts the phone down, and courageously decides to do something to help the man who is risking his life helping her. She takes out a pepper spray from her purse that she usually keeps for self-defense. She bravely approaches the vampire who is now busy punching Angel on the face, and she sprays in his eyes, affectively incapacitating him and forcing him to back off. But some of the spray reaches Angel's eyes as well, inevitably turning him into the vampire that he is. Tru is shocked at the revelation.
Angel struggles to open his eyes and what he can see is the clear daunt in Tru's facial expressions. "What are you?" She questions.
He stands up and tries to get closer to her, but she steps backwards in fear.
"Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you." He says with sincerity. "I'm here to help you."
The vampire jumps on Angel from behind and immobilizes him with a stranglehold. "How do you think you're doing so far?" The vampire asks sarcastically, still struggling to see, as the spray has harmed his eyes and affected his vision.
Angel escapes the headlock with a quick strike into the vampire's ribs with his elbow. Then he holds his arm and lifts him overhead where he lands on the desk. Angel grabs a few pencils and stabs the vampire in the heart, causing him to burst into dust.
"A pretty good job I would say!" Angel answers the vampire's question with equal sarcasm. But immediately notices a very frightened and confused Tru, staring at him with disbelief. "I can explain." He says, willingly turning his face back to human.
"What is going on in here?" A voice from across the Standards room asks loudly. "Tru? Is everything OK? What happened?"
Tru turns around and sees Davis walking in looking very concerned after seeing the wrecked office. But Tru has lost all strength and will to speak, and instead turns around to face Angel, in need of that explanation he promised. But he is nowhere in sight. He seems to have disappeared just as mysteriously as he had appeared when she needed him the most.
To be continued in chapter 2