Surprise Alternate Ending – Chapter 3

Hiya, this is chapter 3!

Sorry about the long wait x

I do know that Kathy was a bit older than I have said.

I thought if she was younger it would be a lot easier and you have the little innocent, cute kid thing.

Also if she is younger, I think it would be easier for her to adapt to the modern world.

Hope your enjoying this,

Little Glass Heart x

Angel's hands shook as they held his little sisters face.

Her small form pressed more into his duster for warmth and her tiny hand clutched at the shoulder of his shirt.

Whimpering slightly, she looked up at him, her eyes looking into his own, his filled with disbelief and pain and love, hers full of fear and anguish and what pained him the most, trust.

"Did she touch you?"

He knew if he was alive then he would be having a heart attack right now, he never thought he would ever be able to hold her again, he didn't know how she was here but she was.

She didn't reply, her sobs were growing quieter.

Angel slid his hand slowly down her face and onto her neck where he felt her skin raised slightly. Frowning, he finally looked away from the bright brown orbs and down just between her neck and shoulder. A bite mark on her pale skin made his whole body freeze in pain.

His little sister was dying.

She was going to become a vampire and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

"Liam?"

Her voice seemed to bring him from his trance and looking up at her face again, he saw to his horror that she looked sleepy but if she closed her eyes, he would lose her forever, her innocent, sweet nature would be replaced by a vicious demon.

He had already lost her once, he didn't know if he could do it again.

"Kathy, Look at me, keep your eyes open"

His hand gently ran down her face, he knew in his heart that she would die but a part of him refused to give up hope that maybe she could beat it.

Tears slowly slid down Angel's face, he knew he needed to stay strong for her but he couldn't believe how close he had come, getting her back only to lose her all over again.

Pulling her into his chest, he climbed to his feet and went under the shelter of the church's overhanging roof.

For just over five minutes Angel sat tortured as his little lost sister died in his arms.

As he felt her take her last breath, he knew what she would become but he couldn't stop holding her, he didn't want to ever let her go again.

Looking up at the night sky, a sudden thought struck him.

Was this his punishment for everything he had done?

He knew he had committed a lot of crimes in his past, but he had changed now, he had Buffy now. She was his light, his connection to the human world and the person who kept him alive when he thought hope was lost, her love in him his fuel for living and continuing.

Her body slowly lost its warmth and in his agony, he buried his face in her soft brown hair, the smell bringing back the strong, painful memories of his terrible, murderous past.

He began to sob and once he started, he thought he was never going to stop.

"Stop your upset warrior"

Looking up slowly, he found himself no longer sitting in the graveyard in Sunnydale but in a large white realm with a stone archway in front of him and a long, probably endless corridor.

"Who are you?"

"I am the Sister Oracles; I am a helper of the Powers that Be"

"You brought me here"

She looked down at him and smiled, her smile vanishing as she looked at the form of Kathy still in his arms.

"I have done so much more Warrior, I have watched you and the slayer, and I watched your love. I am fascinated by many things but what fascinated me the most was the lengths that you would go to for each other. You would die for her and her for you. I saw you wish of seeing your sister and I decided to create a portal and suck her into it. I could only bring her back through; it was too late for you parents. But a vampire came through with her."

Angel frowned, laying his sister gently on the floor he knelt.

"It came through with her; I assumed it was a newborn from the graveyard where we were"

Sister Oracle shook her head at him sadly.

"It must have come through the portal from her time, because if you remember, she was wearing clothes from that period"

Angel's thoughts shot back and Sister Oracle was right, the vampire had been wearing a very long, seventeenth century dress. She must have been the daughter of a lord before she was turned; it had been made of the finest silk.

"Now Warrior, enough of remembering this night and the pain. We must look towards the future. I brought your sister back so that you could be happy but obviously my plan failed."

"What are you going to do?"

Angel didn't think he could go on after tonight, knowing what could have been.

"I am going to send you back in time, a few hours before your sister and the vampire appear and when that time comes, you will slay her before she bites your sister"

"You can send me back in time?"

Angel looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"There is nothing that I cannot do"

"What about Buffy, do I tell her?"

"Yes. She will be the one who will slay the vampire, while you protect your sister"

"Alright"

Sister Oracle smiled at him.

"Stand Warrior and prepare to fix what has gone wrong this day"

Angel stood.

"You may wish to close your eyes, the light is very bright and with your heightened vampire senses you could be in agony"

Angel did as she said and with a flash he was gone, as was the young girl who had been lying dead upon the floor.

Sister Oracle turned and walked back through the stone arch, to join her brother who stood watching her.

He offered his arm and she took it.

"Do you think he will succeed, Sister?"

"I think his love for the child will help him succeed"

"And if he fails? Will we leave him to suffer?"

"Of course not, we will help him again, if he fails this time, I fear we may lose one of our greatest warriors"

Together they both closed their eyes.

They would watch every moment and help if needed.