New Beginnings

A New Deal

Prologue

"You have got to be kidding me." The girl looked up from the picture her boss had given her.

"Unfortunately no, we have let them deal with it on their own for awhile, hoping that they could sort it out themselves. Now we see that we have to step in. Michael will explain everything that you need to know."

Seeing that she was dismissed the girl walked into the hallway where Michael was waiting for her.

"Can you believe this?" She handed him the file and the picture. "Out of all the cases they could have given me I this/I is the one they chose. When they beware his wrath they aren't kidding." She muttered.

"Look on the bright side, at least they are finding a use for your special skills." Michael offered.

She glared at him, moving aside so people could past them in the hallway. "Is that what they're calling a total disregard for authority now?"

"Funny," Michael raised his hand indicating that she should precede him. "Come there is a body about to become available, but we have to hurry."

"Yeah, yeah, don't rush me." They walked into a room with a large portal and watched the scene that played in front of them. There was a man and a woman fighting on a bridge. He was yelling at her and she was crying.

"Tell me that isn't it."

"Unfortunate yes, it is young enough to survive the process, and it is in the right location." Michael smiled at her apologetically.

"Goody, lets get this over with." She started to walk threw the portal as the man pushed the woman over the side of the bridge into the water.

Anna felt herself fall, as Mike, her boyfriend, shoved her over the side. Her heart leapt into her throat and she knew that this was it. Everyone had warned her and he had finally killed her. She winced as she felt the shock of the cold water slamming into her body and it stunned her, causing her to slowly sink.

When she finally opened her eyes she expected to see darkness, but instead there was a golden light all around her.

"It's alright," a soft voice whispered to her, "your safe now." Perhaps it was the lack of oxygen but she could have sworn that something reached out and brushed her face. She didn't have much time to think about it however because she started to feel groggy and the light got brighter. Then there was no pain, no water, no struggling for air, she was weightless. There was a man standing above her holding out his hand.

"Welcome," he said smiling. She smiled back and took his hand.

In the water Anna opened her eyes only it wasn't Anna anymore, not really. She knew she needed to get to the surface or the body would die. Kicking out she swam upwards, gasping when she broke the surface. She was on dry land in short order, working the kinks out of her joints before she climbed back up to the road.

She cursed all the way up the raven. The boss did this on purpose, she was sure of it. The man who had pushed her was gone, and from the looks of it the highway was abandoned, so she started walking.

Her cloths were wet and heavy, and her shoes were squishy, not to mention the whole ensemble was unattractive. First thing she was gonna do was to get some cloths and a haircut. If she was gonna be walking around in this body, it was gonna be attractive while she was in control!

She looked up at a highway marker as she came to it, Los Angeles – 30 miles.

This Angelus was gonna catch it in the ass when she found him.