Title: Before It Ends
Author: SylviaMoon
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Angel, and am making no profit from this fanfic.
Summary: All of Angels friends are dead, but Spike and Illyria are around. What will happen when he finds out Cordelia was brought back to life by the powers that be?
Note: Another one of my fanfictions, but I plan on making this one very long and VERY descriptive, I hope it will end up really good.
Chapter 2 : The Mission
Angel got off of the couch, and opened the door, closing it behind him. He approached the motel number four, and thought about what he was doing. What if Spike had a new girlfriend? That wouldn't really be Angels business. Then again, where would he meet this girl, for the past month they have been working on the battle. He needed to take precautions, so after a few moments of thinking about it, he knocked on the door four times. He used his vampire hearing to try and hear what was going on, he heard faint voices.
"Go find out who's there!" A woman said.
"Okay, okay, I'm sure it's just the guy from the desk." Spike said.
"Why the hell would he be here, captain peroxide!?" The woman said. Angel furrowed his eyebrows, thats something he would call Spike.
"You're annoying, you know that? Woah." He said.
"What!?" The girl asked.
"It's Angel."
"Angel is there? What the hell Spike, I told you not to come to this motel and you still came!" She said. Both of them were whispering so he didn't hear, but he still did.
"Angel wouldn't have it any other way, you of all people should know how stubborn he is." Spike said, with a groan in his voice.
"Get rid of him!" The girl said. He heard footsteps getting closer. The door opened.
"Angel..what are you doing here?" Spike asked.
"Who's in there?" Angel asked, crossing his arms.
"No one, g'night." Spike said, attempting to close the door, but Angel slammed it back open. He stared at Spike with a glare In his eye.
"I mean it." Angel said.
"You're such a punce. It's just me, I got another motel room because I can't stand sharing with a poof like you." Spike said, crossing his arms.
"Theres a woman in there. I heard her."
"What woman? Angel, you're losing it. G'night!" He said, trying to close the door again, Angel caught it, and pushed Spike inside. Angel closed the door.
"Where is she, and who is she?" Angel asked.
"Why does it matter if I'm with a girl in here? Is it so hard to believe that I am a vampire with sexual tendencies?" Spike asked. Angel rolled his eyes at him, and walked further in. He walked around, and looked behind the couch. Then heading to the bathroom.
"Angel-don't" Spike said. He took a whiff of the air to see where they were, and suddenly felt paralyzed when the girl smelt like Cordy. Maybe someone who wore the same perfume, or his scents were off, maybe it had been too long since Cordelia had been around, and he just wanted it to be her.
"I guess you're right.." Angel said, stopping.
"Damn right I am. Bye now." Spike said, pushing Angel out. Spike locked the door groaning. Cordelia came out from the bathroom.
"Well wasn't that just nifty!? You're an idiot Spike." Cordelia said, sitting down on the couch.
"I'm going to bed." Spike glared, walking to the bedroom and laying down on the bed. After watching the t.v for a while, Cordelia fell asleep. It was late in the afternoon when Cordelia woke up, she was freezing cold, but there was a silky red blanket draped over her, that Spike probably put on her during the night. 'It's so weird that Spike has a soul, It's hard to imagine him caring about people.' Cordelia thought to herself, stretching, and yawning tiredly. She got up and walked across the cream colored, but stained carpet and opened the brown wooden door to the bedroom. Spike wasn't there. He must have been across the hall with Angel and Illyria. Cordelia walked back towards the living room, and suddenly felt incredibly hungry.
"Okay stomach, shut up I'll feed you." She said out loud, opening the door to her room. She saw Angel ahead of her, in the hallway walking towards the front desk, he stopped when he sensed someone, and he was about to turn around, but Cordelia slammed the door shut. "Okay, bad plan.." She said. Angel turned all the way around, expecting to see someone, but the door had just slammed shut. It was the room Spike was in last night, but Spike was in a different room right now, so who was in there? He realized that Spike lied, and he was right about a woman being in there the night before. He turned tot he door to find out who it was, and knocked a few times. Back inside, Cordelia, looked over at the door, her eyes widened. She looked through the peep hole and saw Angel waiting there with his arms crossed. "Nu-nu-nu-nu-nu no. Where the hell is a bleach blonde vampire when you need one?" She quickly covered her mouth after saying that, remembering his vampire hearing. Angel raised his eyebrows, someone who knew him, but he didn't know, was there. Angel knocked again. Cordelia sat down on the couch to pretend like she wasn't home. Angel placed his hand on the knob, and used his vampire strength to twist it all the way, breaking the lock, as it unlocked, and he opened it. Cordelia was stunned, and she staggered across the floor, and ran to the bedroom, closing the door and locking it. Angel walked in all the way.
"Okay someones here.." He said, looking left and right. The t.v. was on. "I don't want to hurt you...my name is Angel, I realized that you know my friend Spike?" He said, walking to where the other rooms were located. Cordelia walked away from the door of the bedroom, and ran to the closet, going in it, and closing the closet doors, holding her mouth closed. "I'm not going to hurt you.." He said. Soon his voice grew louder, he was in the bedroom. She could see him through the lines of the closet. Cordelia sunk back deep in the closet, trying to hide behind things, but there was only one thing in there, a bug...She shrieked, and bumped her head on the shelf above her. 'Crap..' She thought. Angel walked over to the closet.
"Don't-open it!" Cordelia screamed, hoping he wouldn't recognize her voice. It had been about two years since they had talked, so he probably wouldn't.
"Why..who's in there?" He asked, confusion in his voice.
"My name is...Kayla. I'm a friend of Spikes."
"Oh..You can come out, I'm Angel, I won't hurt you.."
"No! Don't open it. I-I-I have a face deformation, that I hide with a bag over my head..but I don't have the bag right now..so..I couldn't hide it?" She suggested the excuse, mentally hitting herself after speaking. 'What a stupid excuse.' Cordelia thought, biting her lip hard.
"What?" Angel asked like someone had cracked a rude joke.
"Please, just don't come in. Come back in like..an hour.." She said. Spike walked in.
"I'm back, have any v-Angel." Spike said, entering the bedroom. He looked at the closet, her scent in the air. "What are you uh, doing here?"
"The girl you were with last night, she's in here. Telling me not to open the closet because she has a face deformation. What the hell is going on Spike?" Angel said, crossing his arms. Cordelia's heart was at a fast pumping rate, seeing Angel through the bars, so close to her. Angel could hear the girls heart beat pick up speed.
"Angel you need to get out of here."
"Not until you explain what's going on." Angel said. Suddenly a flash of light went by, and Hellerd appeared in the middle of the room. "You again, what are you doing here?" Angel asked.
"I should be asking you that. Why are you involving yourself in Spikes business?" He asked.
"Theres a girl in that closet who knows who I am and won't reveal who she is, and Spike is apart of it, how can I not!?" Angel said, pissed off.
"Theres a reason why he's hiding it from you. You need to leave so I can talk to them." Hellerd told Angel.
"I'm not going anywhere. How do I even know you work for the powers!?"
"You can sense it with your vampire senses. I'm purely good. No evil vibes right?" He asked Angel, who was uncomfortably shifting in his position.
"You giant poof, just get out of here!" Spike said, standing in front of the closet.
"I'm not going anywhere." Angel said.
"Fine then." Hellerd said, moving Spike out of the way, and quickly opening the closet, walking in, and closing it behind him. He placed a hand on Cordelia's head, and the lights flickered a few times, and a flash of light went by, Angel couldn't take it anymore, and was about to open the closet, when Hellerd came out. Angel looked inside and no one was there. Spike tilted his head.
"Where the hell is she!?" Spike asked, angrily.
"Relax, vampire. She's fine. Just not here."
"Then where?" Spike asked.
"I'll tell you when Angel leaves, he can't find her" Hellerd said, looking down and back up at them.."Not yet."
"This is ridiculous you are both complete idiots. Tell me what is going on." Angel said, grabbing Hellerd by the throat, and shoving him in to the wall.
"Angel!" Spike scolded, grabbing his arm and pulling him back. "What the bloody hell!?"
"I'm getting really pissed off. You're both protecting who ever the hell that girl is, and what does she have to do with me!?" Angel asked.
"We can't tell you!" Hellerd said, losing his patience.
"Why. NOT!?"
"I can't say why not either.." Hellerd said uncomfortably. Angel just looked really pissed. He looked down at the light brown colored carpet, with a stain on it that looked like old coffee. Looking back up, he sent a glare full of hatred at Hellard.
"Fine. But if you don't tell me soon, I'll kill you." Angel threatened, leaving the motel room, slamming the door behind him. They both stared at each other for a while.
"Well, he sure has gone hill since his friends died." Hellerd said, with a freaked out look on his face.
"Yeah, the mans a bloody wanker. Have no idea what Cordelia sees in him." Spike said, raising his eyebrows. "Where is she anyway?"
"Right here!" Cordelia said, walking in. "Hellard sent me right in front of the motel building thing, and I came back when I thought Angel would be gone. I really need those visions back..." She said, biting her lip.
"We would help you with that, but the idea of kissing Angel, no thanks." Spike said, putting his hands up. Cordelia laughed.
"You guys are losers."
"Well, I got to go back to the powers. I'll seeya when you die!" Hellard waved at Cordelia, dissapearing.
"He sure is positive." Cordelia said, then taking an abrupt turn to face Spike. "So, what the hell do I do while I don't have visions..."
"Maybe sneak in his motel room while he's sleeping, kiss him, and run." Spike joked.
"Funny." She said, not at all amused. She fell back on the bed. "I'm bored." Cordelia played with her fingers.
"I'm going to watch t.v, theres no way I'm going across the hall until I know captain forehead has cooled down. Passions is on anyways." Spike said, walking out.
"Strange vampire.." She mumbled, sitting back up, thinking about Angel more. Across the hall, was Angel in his motel room, facing Illyria.
"I can beat it out of him if it would please you." Illyria suggested, attempting to be friendly.
"No.." Angel started, licking his lips. "Maybe I'll beat the shit out of him. Makes me happy to see him in pain." He said, half smiling. "Anyway, it's getting dark, I'm going to get some pigs blood from the butcher." He told her, she tilted her head.
"What's a butcher?"
"..Nevermind. I'm just going to go get some pigs blood. Then I'm going to patrol, so I won't be back for a while."
"May I join you?" Illyria asked.
"If you don't mind..I'd rather be alone." He said, going in to brood mode, and leaving the motel room. Cordelia got up off of the bed, and walked to the livingroom.
"I'm going out."
"Out? It's late, love. You'll get yourself killed." Spike said, turning away from the television screen, where a black and white episode of Passions was playing.
"I'll be fine. Before I was-possesed, when I was alive..the first time, Angel trained me. I'm a pretty good fighter now."
"..Except for that fact that it's been years since you've encountered a vampire."
"Not true! You, are a vampire." She said, nodding.
"Yeah but, I'm not exactly thinking about sucking your blood dry...that much." Spike pointed out.
"You need to re-paint your nails, the polish is coming off..." Cordelia said, staring at Spikes black nails. "Anywho, bye!" She said, opening the door and leaving.
"Wait what?" He said out loud. "Bugger, so good at distracting people." He said, looking back at the television screen. Cordelia left the motel room, and kept walking, huffing at the piece of hair in front of her eyes, blowing it out of the way. The old man was wearing yellow overalls, that had steak sauce stains on the front of him, he was over weight, and itching his beard, Cordelia couldn't help
but make a disgusted face. He glared back at her and Cordelia left. It was getting really dark, and Cordelia wished she would have stolen Spikes coat before leaving. She was shivering from the cold air brushing against her legs and arms. Cordelia was only wearing her small dress, making it quite impossible to be out in such a cold atmosphere. She closed her eyes for a minute, feeling the wind flow against her, but she forgot she was still walking, and bumped right in to someone.
"Oh sorry I-" She stopped, seeing a vampire hiss.
"Supper." The vampire said, vamping out. Cordelia shrieked loudly, and ran in to an alley, of course, a dead end. An old green dumpster was at the end, she ran to it and turned around, seeing it. "What do you think about eternal life?" It asked her. She paused a minute.
"I think it's over rated.." She said. "How are-you this f-fine evening?" She asked, trying to sound casual.
"Great.." He said, moving over to her, and he was about to bite her when Angel jumped down on top of the vampire, punching it repeatidly, he threw his brown bag full of blood to the side, and the vampire punched him back, throwing him next to Cordelia by the dumpster. Angel was so caught up in trying to fight back he didn't see Cordelia, he just knew a girl was next to him. Angel kicked back at the vampire, getting it in the stomach, he pulled out his stake and punched the vampire again, causing it to fall on the floor, Angel bent down and staked it, and looked up, turning to the dumpster, he was going to ask if she was alright, but then turned around because she was gone. When he turned back towards the exit of the alley, he saw the girl just run out of sight.
"You're welcome!" Angel called after her, sarcastically. He bent down and opened up his bag of blood to see that one of the six jars he got, bursted open. "This is what I get for saving some girl. Great." Angel said, groaning, and taking out the broken jar, tossing it on the ground. Spike walked up by Angel.
"Regretting saving an innocent girls life? Thats great." Spike said, grinning.
"Shutup." Angel said, turning and looking at him. "By the way, your nail polish is coming off." He said, trying to piss him off. Spike couldn't stop himself from saying what he did.
"You're just like her you know that? The ex-cheerleader said the same damn thin-" Spike stopped himself at the last second.
"What did you say?" Angel asked. He knew that Spike always referred to Cordelia as the ex-cheerleader.
"I said that you are just like Illyria, you guys said the same thing.." Spike said, hoping he wouldn't catch on.
"No, you said the ex-cheerleader." Angel said, stepping towards Spike. "Are you not telling me something?" Spike was interuppted from his response to Angels question, when the ground started shaking.
"An Earthquake!" Spike said, surprised. They stepped away from the cracks that were forming, wide enough to get someone in it. A voice was heard.
"Spike!" It was a womans voice calling him, and she sounded scared. The woman ran over to where she saw Spike.
"There you are I wa-" She stopped when she saw Angel there too, the ground kept shaking, and Angel turned around, seeing Cordelia.
"C-Cordelia?" He stared at her intensley, when suddenly a big crack formed in front of Cordelia, and the shaking caused her to fall in, it was just small enough to hold her up, so she didn't fall all the way down, but the hole was getting bigger. Angel was still in shock, but ran over with Spike, Angel could barely move. Spike did most of the pulling, but they got her out. Angel looked up from the pavement, directly in to her eyes. He shook his head. "No-No I'm hallucinating.." He said, climbing backwards. Cordelia felt like she was going to cry.
"Angel. I'm here. It's me." She said, attempting to crawl over to where he was, but the ground kept shaking, and soon, large fire balls were pouring down the sky, like rain, except larger, and faster. Cordelia screamed, and Angel grabbed her, Spike following after as he jumped through a window and in to an abandoned shack, that creeked at every step they took. Angel fell to the ground from his large jump, making Cordelia fall too. They were facing each other on the ground, and Angel immediatley sat up, Cordelia sitting up too. Spike was focusing on the fire balls falling from the sky.
"What..what are you?" Angel asked, confused, and not knowing how to ask what was happening.
"It's me..." She sighed, before continuing. "The powers knew that you were falling apart, and that you needed me. That if I didn't come back, you would do terrible things, that Angel wouldn't do. And slowly, start losing your soul.." She said, taking a deep breath. "They asked me if I wanted to come back, and I agreed. I had to, for you. I couldn't face you yet, so Spike only knew, and Hellard covered up for me, they knew I needed time." Cordelia said, all while looking at the wooden floor. The only light, was the single, circular, flickering light from the ceiling, directly above Cordelia and Angel.
"I...I don't know.."
"How to react? I know what you mean. Like, I knew that you were in L.A. So yeah, it's hard to talk to you now, but you didn't even know I was, let alone alive." Cordelia said, looking Angel directly in the eyes. Angel just stared at her hazel eyes, absorbing the words she had just said. The sound of her voice was music in his ears, a melting, voice of pure love and he could tell, that she really cared, and was for sure, back.
"You're really back.." Angel said, beginning to cry. Spike looked over at them, rolling his eyes.
"Oh for craps sake, just kiss so Cordelia can get her visions back, and stop being a bloody pansy. I should probably leave..I really don't want to see you two lip lock, it hurts me to see Angel get what he wants. Bloody wanker." Spike said.
"Spike, then leave." Cordelia said, rolling her eyes.
"It's pouring fire.." He said, staring out the broken window.
"You know how to run." Cordelia said, staring at him.
"Oh bloody hell, fine just stop with the cheerleader glare." Spike said, running across the street, and running in to the building next door. Angel was still staring at Cordelia, wiping at his eyes.
"I have to be imagining this. I've been doing that a lot lately, and I just-really missed you, it made me want to-I missed you." He finished.
"I know." She whispered quietly, leaning on her arms, as, she sat. He put up his hand, it was trembling. Angel started caressing her cheek, as if she was an illusion, but he felt her skin, it was hot and soft. He pulled his hand.
"It really is you.." He said, grabbing her, and hugging her tightly. She hugged him back, and coughed.
"Angel, air please." She said, pushing him, he backed up.
"S-Sorry." He said, blinking a few times.
"First thing, before we get all-back to normal. I mean, as if we could...I just mean, I need my visions back." She said. "Or I would feel kind of..useless.." She said, looking down, and back up at him with hurt eyes.
"Uh yeah." He said, nodding. Cordelia licked her lips, uncomfortably, and she leaned in her face inches away from his. Cordelia leaned in and kissed him, he took her by surprise when she actually used her tongue, which she didn't mean to. He did the same in return, and a blue light passed through them, she backed up.
"Oh. Oops. I went a little..overboard." She said, biting her cheeks in her mouth, nervously.
"It's alright.." He said, staring at her. He looked her up and down, she was still wearing the funeral outfit. "How long have you been back?" Angel asked her.
"Two days." She responded, swallowing hard.
"I understand, that you couldn't see me right away..but Cordy, you knew I needed you, couldn't you just take a day to tell me? Instead of two..?" He asked.
"What's done is done Angel. And I couldn't, it would be too weird, for both of us." It kept showering down fire outside. "What's happening?" She asked, staring out.
"I don't know. I'm guessing an apocalypse is coming up." He said, only looking outside for a minute, his eyes back on her, examining every part of her.
"Why do you keep staring at me?" She asked.
"I just can't believe you're back. It's been two years." He said, shaking his head, at the memories. She placed her hand on his cheek.
"Let's not dwell on the past." She said, rubbing it slightly. He placed his hand on hers.
"It's been hard..everyone I cared about, died." He said.
"Angel. I wasn't supposed to tell you this, but some of them are coming back." She said. He stopped rubbing her hand, and looked at her, horrified. (What did ya think of the chapter? Review =D)