TITLE: ESCAPING FROM THE DARKNESS 1/?
AUTHOR: SARGE
E-MAIL: SARGE2525@HOTMAIL.COM
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER OR ANGEL. THESE ARE OWNED BY JOSS WHEDON, AND DAVID GREENWALT. AS WELL AS FOX AND THE WB.
SUMMARY: CORDELIA, WESLEY, AND GUNN COME UP WITH A PLAN TO SAVE LA
RATING: PG-13
Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn were still in shock as they sat on Cordelia's couch. It had been four hours sense Angel had fired them all, and they still couldn't believe it. They didn't want to believe that Angel had fired them.
"We need to do something." Wesley insisted. "This could become a serious problem, and a rather bloody one."
"What a ten to twelve body count wasn't enough to already count as bloody?" Gunn asked in disgust. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted him."
"I think we'd be more then ankle deep in blood if we didn't have Angel." Cordelia reminded them. "Remember, we want to help Angel."
"I'll just bet that's what Darla and Drusillia want to do." Wesley broke in. "Only they want to help him make contact with Angelus. Again."
"NO!"Cordelia yelled sharply. "We can't let that happen. We need Angel the world needs Angel. We can't let Darla and Drusillia win."
"Sorry to say it, but Angels the only one of us that can stop Drusillia or Darla, and he seems to be thinking that's a bad idea." Gunn reminded them as he stood and started pacing around Cordelia's living room. "We can't do much on our own."
"Hey, I was a rouge demon hunter, and before that I was a Watcher." Wesley broke in clearly somewhat insulted. "I think we can handle one vampire."
"What do you mean you were a Watcher?" Gunn asked. "I thought that you were a law abiding citizen, and now I find out you stalked people? What next was Cordelia a con-artist?"
"Not a stalker!"Wesley protested. "It was a sacred duty! As for Cordelia it depends on your point of view."
"Now I'm thinking that your crazy." Gunn answered. "Watcher of what?"
Cordelia had been half listening to Wesley and Gunn call each other names, and not getting anything done that would help Angel, she had also been thinking. Angel just wasn't going to listen to them at all. He was done either he had his own solution which she doubted would end in Drusillia and Darla being dusted, or he was going to see where being bad took him. She didn't like either option.
"The Slayer." Wesley answered Gunn with a note of pride. "However, unusual circumstances led to life as a rouge demon hunter."
"What happened you get fired?" Gunn taunted before turning to Cordelia. "Do you know how crazy this guy is?"
"Why what did he say now?" Cordelia asked as she watched Gunn pace around her apartment. "Because I've got stories from Sunnydale, that might chance your mind."
"Sunnydale?" Gunn asked. "Where's that? Is it relevant to the conversation?"
"Sunnydale was where I was a Watcher, with the Slayer. Cordelia was a friend of hers." Wesley answered Gunn.
"Scary place." Cordelia added. "Think bad. Think worse then LA. Wesley me friends with the Slayer? Please! I just felt sorry for her taste in clothes."
"So this Slayer," Gunn started, but stopped when he saw an intensely focused look on Cordelia's face. "Cordelia? Are you ok?"
Cordelia chose to ingnor Gunn for the moment as she reflected back on her old life in Sunnydale. Sunnydale was where she had first met Angel, and gotten involved in slaying. Which had been more for the sake of Buffy then anything having to do with Angel. Angel had just happened to be dating Buffy at the time, and well she didn't want to think of how that had ended. Buffy had just happened to be the Slayer, the one who slayed vampires for a living.
Wesley shot Gunn a look of concern before waving his hand in front of Cordelia's face causing her to jump in surprise.. then a smile came to her face, and she jumped to her feet.
"We have a plan." Cordelia announced as she headed toward her room. "Start packing we're going on a road trip."
"Cordelia I hardly think running away from the problem is a plan." Wesley informed her. "It sounds more like a hasty retreat."
"I hate to say it, but I have to agree with the British guy on this one." Gunn said as he watched Cordelia scurry about her apartment. "Where would we go?"
"First of all we aren't running away." Cordelia said as she paused to stand in front of them. "Second we are getting some help. We just have to convince the help to come to LA with us."
"Once more with the lack of information." Gunn observed. "Where are we going, and who in the world would take on two crazy vampire chicks and Angel?"
"The Slayer." Cordelia answered. "She's good. she'll help. We just have to go to Sunnydale and get her."
"The Slayer?" Gunn questioned, but then Wesley broke in with the rest of the commentary.
"Sunnydale?" Wesley asked before going on. "Really Cordelia I don't think that's wise at all."
"Wesley stop thinking about how she told you to get lost, and start thinking about the fact that she's strong. She's a really good fighter, and the fact that her title is Vampire Slayer. Think about it."
Wesley shut up, and started to actively think about what Cordelia was saying to him. He knew that Buffy was the best slayer this century. That most likely included history as well. She knew Angel, she had faced him as Angelus and won. She had watched Angel kill Darla for trying to hurt her, and she had faced Drusillia along with Spike. Yeah, she had the number one what was happening.
"So this Slayer Chick," Gunn asked Cordelia. "I'm guessing she has a name other then Slayer. That name would be?"
"Buffy." Cordelia answered. "She's got all the credentials that we need."
"What's a Vampire slayer anyway?" Gunn asked. "What do you mean she fits the bill? We've all killed vampires. What makes her special?"
"I think we'll let Giles explain that part later today." Cordelia replied. "Or I guess when we get there. It will be morning by the time we get to Sunnydale. On the upside sunlight. Always a good thing when in Sunnydale."
Wesley chose then to stand up, and start pulling Gunn toward the door. They didn't have time for 20 questions now, and he had to pack for the trip.
"Come on, time is of the essence." Wesley told Gunn. "The sooner we get to Sunnydale the sooner we get Buffy here."
"We might even get through this without her committing a very bad fashion mistake." Cordelia added cheerfully. "Now go. We'll leave at 6:00 in the morning. Be here at 5:30 sharp. We can't waste time. Who knows who will be dead by the time we get back."
Gunn allowed Wesley to pull him to his truck thinking that he'd get his questions answered on the car trip to Sunnydale, which he also realized with some despair would be taken in his truck. He'd have to clean out the backseat just so that Buffy could come back with them. that was a lot of essential slaying gear he didn't want to leave behind, at least not from the sound of Sunnydale. Remarkable how many people were out there slaying vampires and yet they still managed to kill so many.
Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn all piled themselves into Gunn's truck and they headed to Sunnydale at five to six in the morning making them all very happy. Mostly because they were about to find the solution to their problem.
"So Buffy this Slayer person can really help us?" Gunn asked Wesley as he drove toward Wesley's apartment on the freeway. "Your sure she's not going to steak Angel? I mean I know if he goes bad we have to, but won't she just she vampire? Being a Slayer is in her blood right, I think she's just going to go dust happy."
"No she won't." Wesley and Cordelia coursed together.
Cordelia paused in thought for a moment thinking about the blonde slayer. She then thought about everything that had gone wrong between her and Angel. There had been a lot.
"Well, I don't know what she'll do if he becomes Angelus." Cordelia answered truthfully." I think it would be a slow and painful death. Then again who would blame her?"
"So Angelus." Wesley mused. "Will he dare go against her again?"
"He's an evil vampire." Gunn reminded them. "She's a 20 year old chick. I think he'd dare."
"Stupid vampire." Cordelia muttered. "So who wants to tell Buffy the good news?"
Wesley turned very pale, and said something about her not liking him and ignoring him on principal instead of listening.
"What principal?" Cordelia asked him when she finished listening to him back out. "The one where she thinks that you're a no good Watcher? I hate to break it to you, but she was right."
"Enough!" Gunn said firmly disrupting their soon to be all out fight. "We can take a trip down memory lane latter. Right now Cordelia can tell her."
"What? Why me?" Cordelia demanded. "Do I get Hazard pay?"
"Cordelia you don't have a job." Wesley reminded her. "Plus you don't really like her, and she doesn't really like you. I think that works out well."
"Makes sense to you." Cordelia muttered. "Well I'm coming to Sunnydale to get her to save my butt, if I wanted to die I'd have gone to Darla and Drusillia."
Gunn looked at the clock thinking of the many different ways he would kill and maim these two for not shutting up, and dealing. How they ever got anything done was beyond him. He hoped that the Slayer could shut them up.
