A/N It seems that someone else has chosen the name Angelus for there story. Just remember that I put that name up first and that these are two different stories. That is all.
Chapter 7
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Angel had just left the Bronze. She had been spying on Buffy all day. But at the Bronze she noticed two wierd things. One, Buffy seemed to sense a vampire out of a crowd and two she picked up a scent of someone, she hadn't seen in over one hundred years.
Ignoring that fact, she begins to think about her situation. If Buffy can sense vampires so easily, then I can't get close to her. As she walks down a street away from the bronze, she see's one of the people Buffy was talking to earlier. With a plan forming in her head, she slips up behind him and follows.
Xander is walking down a dark street with a smile on his face. He is going to meet the new girl Buffy at the Bronze and it has him a little giddy. Even though he heard Buffy and the new Librarian talking about vampires, he was still happy to meet up with her. As he continues to walk, someone appears behind him. He senses that he is being followed.
After walking for a ways, when he gets a chance he ducks down an alley and looks around for a place to hide. A cat yowls and kicks some cans as it runs away. Ducking behind a dumpster, he watches as a beautiful black girl walks into the light of an above street lamp and down the alley. Normally he would be happy to meet such a pretty girl, but something about her seemed off. Almost dangerous. As she passes by the dumpster, Xander stands to his feet and makes a run for it.
"Where are you going, stud?" the girl suddenly asked, still with her back turned from him. Xander is frozen in place. Turning slowly he saw that the girl was looking at him, with an emotionless expression on her face.
The girl looked simply amazing. She had long black hair, a beautiful face and body, and some of the most intense liquid brown eyes he had ever seen. Throw that in with a skin tight leather outfit, that accentuated all of her curves, especially her c-cup breasts, this girl was the total package.
"Oh um...just going to meet some friends." Xander says lamely.
"Is one of them, Buffy?" she asked.
"How did you know..."
"What's your name?"
"Alex...but my friends call me Xander."
"Well Xander." the girl said as she stepped closer to him. "I need you to do me a favor." she said as she ran her hand through his hair.
"Anything..." Xander replied as he closed his eyes to enjoy her touch. Even if she felt strangely cold.
"Good." she said as she rubbed at his jawline and dropped her hand to the side. "I need you to deliver a message to Buffy. I need you to tell her that bad things are coming and that she should beware of the Harvest. Oh and give her this." she said as she handed Xander a small black box. As Xander opened it he saw that it was a beautiful all silver cross.
Before Xander could reply, he heard someone calling out Willow's name. After a second he recognized it as Buffy. Turning he saw Buffy sprint past the alley, running frantically.
"That was Buffy, maybe you could..." he stops talking as he turns back around and finds that the mystery girl is gone. With a frown he runs out of the alley and catches up with Buffy.
"Oh, Xander have you seen Willow?" Buffy asked, once Xander ran up to her side.
"No not tonight." Xander said a little out of breath from his slight jog. "But listen Buffy this girl..."
"She left with a guy." Buffy said interrupting him. "I think he's dangerous."
"Why? Oh, hey I hope it's not because he's a vampire, because then you'll have to slay him."
"Was there a... a school bulletin?" Buffy asked taken aback. "Was it i-in the newspaper? Is there anyone in this town who doesn't know I'm the Slayer?"
"No. I only know that you think that you're the Slayer, and the reason why I know that..."
"Well, whatever, it doesn't matter, just tell me, where would Willow go?"
"You're serious?" Xander asked.
"We don't find her and there's gonna be one more dead body in the morning!"
"Okay." Xander said fearing for his best friends life. "Just take this, I'll explain later." Xander said as he handed, Buffy the box that the strange girl had given him.
The cemetery
Willow and Thomas are walking, along a path.
"Oh, okay, th-this is nice... and scary. Are you sure this is faster?" Willow asks as they reach the mausoleum.
"Hey! Ever been in one of these?" Thomas asks.
"No. Thank you." Willow says as she turns away.
"Come on." Thomas says as he comes up behind her and pulls her hair back. "What are
you afraid of?"
He moves in toward her neck. She lets out a yelp as he grabs her and pushes her into the mausoleum. Willow trips down the stairs and stops up against the stone coffin. She turns around angrily.
"That wasn't funny!"
Thomas comes down the steps. She backs away from him, against a wall. She trips over some stones.
"I think I'm gonna go." Willow says as she straighten's herself.
"Is that what you think?" Thomas asks with a sadistic grin.
He comes toward her again. She skirts by him, but only because he lets her. Suddenly a beautiful blonde with a catholic school girl outfit blocks her way out of the mausoleum.
"Is this the best you could do?" Darla asks as she looks over at Thomas.
"She's fresh!" Thomas lamely defends himself.
"Hardly enough to share." Darla says giving Willow a dissapproving look.
"Why didn't you bring your own?"
"I did." Darla says giving him a look.
As if on cue Jesse stumbles into the mausoleum, holding his neck.
"Hey! Wait up!" Jesse said as he stumbled into the room.
"Oh, my God, Jesse!" Willow exclaims as she runs to him. He is weak from blood loss and collapses. Willow tries to catch him and breaks his fall.
"Y'know, you gave me a hickey." Jesse said to Darla on the verge of loosing consciousness.
Thomas gives Darla a look.
"I got hungry on the way." Darla says with a shrug.
"Hey where's Donovan?" Thomas asks.
"That was a smooth move involving, Xander." Whistler said to Angel as they continued their walk to her apartment. "Believe it or not, but he has a destiny to fulfill too."
"You know, I'm getting a little tired of this destiny thing." Angel says as she opens the door to her apartment. As she does so, she immediately senses something wrong. "Who's in here?" she asks as her and Whistler walk into the front room.
"Only me." a voice says from behind them, as he hit's Whistler over the head with a bat. Angel looks back and her eye's go wide at who she see's.
"Daddy?"
"Jesse, let's get outta here!" Willow says frantically as she supports Jesse's weight.
"Oh, you're not going anywhere." Darla says as she get's in front of her.
"Leave us alone!" Willow says trying to sound brave.
"You're not going anywhere until we've..." Darla vamps out. "fed!"
Willow screams and falls back down next to Jesse. Buffy and Xander show
up.
"Well, this is nice. I-it's a little bare, but a dash of paint, a few throw pillows... call it home!" Buffy quips as she moves behind a coffin to draw the vampires away from the others.
"Who the hell are you?" Darla asks sensing power off of the petite blonde.
"You mean there's actually someone in this town who doesn't know already?" Buffy asks sarcasticly. "Whew, that's a relief, I'm telling you! Having a secret identity in this town is a job of work."
"Buffy, we bail now, right?" Xander asks, having a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"Not yet!" Thomas answers for her.
"Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit?" Buffy asks Thomas. "Live in the now, okay? You look like DeBarge."
Darla and Thomas then close in on her. Buffy just turns to Darla.
"Now, we can do this the hard way, or... well, actually there's just the hard way." Buffy informs them.
"That's fine with me." Darla says with a shrug.
"Are you sure?" Buffy asked with a raised eyebrow. "Now, this in not gonna be pretty. We're talking violence, strong language, adult content..."
Thomas roars behind Buffy, cutting off her senseless rambling. She pulls a chair leg out from inside her shirt, that she had got from the Bronze. He attacks from behind, but Buffy neatly jams the makeshift stake into his chest. He falls back and turns to ashes. Darla can't believe her eyes. Neither can anyone else.
"See what happens when you roughhouse?" Buffy quips.
"He was young and stupid." Darla says, shaken up a bit.
"Xander, go!" Buffy yells out.
"Don't go far!" Darla calls out.
Buffy and Darla start to fight. Darla punches high, but Buffy blocks. Xander helps Willow pick up Jesse. Darla throws a backhand punch, but Buffy blocks again and follows up with a front snap kick to Darla's stomach. As she leans forward from the pain, Buffy slams her elbow into Darla's back.
Xander and Willow help Jesse out of the mausoleum and they start to run. Meanwhile back inside the mausoleum Darla hit's the wall and falls to the floor slightly winded.
"You know, I just wanted to start over. Be like everybody else. Have some friends, y'know, maybe a dog... But, no, you had to come here, you couldn't go suck on some other town."
"Who are you?" Darla asks again.
"Don't you know?" Buffy replies as she tilts her head to the side. Suddenly a beefy hand grabs her by the neck from behind.
"I don't care!" the hulking vampire says as he throws her across the room. Buffy bounces of the wall and falls to the floor in a heap. He then grabs Darla and lifts her to her feet.
"You were supposed to be bringing an offering for the Master!" the vampire growls. "We're almost at Harvest, and you dally with this child."
"We had someone, but then she came." Darla says fearfully. "She killed Thomas. Luke, she's strong."
"You go." Luke says as he let's her arm go. "I'll see if I can handle the little girl."
He approaches Buffy as she starts to get up, still a little dazed. Darla quickly climbs the steps, looks back once and runs out of the door. Luke attacks Buffy with a double punch, but she blocks it and delivers a punch to his gut and a hopping front snap kick to his jaw. He steps back, but isn't fazed.
"You're strong." Luke says as he lands a solid backhand fist on her, sending her flying. "I'm stronger!"
outside in the cemetery
Xander and Willow are supporting Jesse as they run.
"We'll get the police, it's just a few blocks up." Willow says, breathing heavily.
They are suddenly stopped by a group of vampires, that emerge out of the darkness.
"You're wasting my time." Luke says as he sneers at Buffy. She backs away up the stairs toward the exit.
"Hey, I had other plans, too, okay."
Luke shoves the heavy lid off of the coffin sending it flying. Buffy does a cartwheel onto and over it to avoid it and kicks Luke in the chest with both feet, knocking him down. She grabs the stake from the floor and lunges at Luke, but he is too quick for her, and grabs her by the wrist.
"You think you can stop me?" Luke asks. "Stop us?" He grabs the stake with his other hand and breaks it. Then he grabs her by the shirt. "You have no idea what you're dealing with."
He throws Buffy onto the rim of the now open coffin. She rolls off onto the floor, dazed. Luke gets up and starts toward her, quoting scripture.
" 'And like a plague of boils, the race of man covered the Earth.But on the third day of the newest light would come the Harvest. And the blood of men will flow as wine.'
Cut to the Master sitting in an intricately carved chair.
" 'When the Master will walk among them once more!' "
Cut to Xander, Willow and Jesse surrounded by vampires, including Darla.
" 'The Earth will belong to the old ones. And Hell itself will come to town.' "
He grabs Buffy and growls. He lifts her by the throat and throws her toward the coffin. Buffy flips over in a front layout and lands in the coffin next to a skeleton, and lets out a quick scream, but then remains silent, only breathing. She can't see or hear Luke. She slowly starts to get up. Suddenly Luke jumps up and into the coffin.
"Amen!" Luke says smiling widely as he moves in to bite Buffy.
"Daddy?" Angel asks as she takes a good look at the figure stepping out of the shadows.
"Yes my sweet." Donovan says as he drops the baseball bat on the floor. "It's me."
"H...how did you find me here?" Angel asked, suddenly nervous.
"I saw you earlier today when I came to town." Donovan says as he approaches her. "So I followed you and saw you come here. When you left again I broke into your place, which is nice by the way." he says taking a look around.
"What are you doing here?" Angel asked feeling a little bit braver.
"To cause trouble, rule the world, to make The Master arise..."
"So that's what you're doing? I thought you hated him?"
"I do." Donovan replied with a low growl. "But if I didn't help, I would never hear the end of it from your mother."
"Mom's here too?" Angel asked. 'No wonder I picked up her scent.' Angel thought to herself.
"Yes, and since you're here too we can be a family again." he said as he tried to touch her cheek.
"No." Angel said with a jerk of her head. "You...you both threw me away when you found out I had a soul."
"No Angelus, that was your mother. She...she was just scared. When I found out that she kicked you out I searched for you for a long time." Donovan smoothly lied. "Ach damnit." he said taking a look at his watch. "I have to bring a sacrifice to The Master, but Angelus... think about my offer." he said as he strode out of her apartment.
"Ow." Whistler said as he comes too, immediately snapping Angel out of her musings.
"Whistler, are you okay?" she asked as she helped him to his feet.
"Just peachy." he replied with a wince. "What the hell hit me?"
"My daddy." Angel replied after a few moments.
"Dono...Donovan is here?" Whistler asked. 'Oh goody things just keep getting better.' he thought to himself. "Well have a nice life kid." Whistler said as he turned to go out of the door. "I'll see ya around."
"Oh no." Angel said as she grabbed him on the shoulder. "You're going with me."
"Where?"
"We're going to stop my daddy and the ritual sacrifice's for the Harvest." Angel explained.
"But I'm a balance demon I'm not supposed to..." at Angel's look he changed what he was going to say. "Alright, I'll help you, but just this once. But I got to know something kid, why do you still call that monster your father?"
"Because..." Angel said as she turned her back to him. "No matter how much of a monster he is, he still taught me everything I know. If it wasn't for that I never would have survived this long. Now isn't that what a father does for his daughter?" she asked as she turned to look at him.
"Yeah...yeah I guess so."
"I'm glad you see it my way." Angel said as she threw him a crossbow. "Now let's move!"
Luke tries to bite Buffy, but burns himself on the cross hanging around her neck and jerks back. Buffy seizes the opportunity and push kicks him out of the coffin. She climbs out of it and races outside. She hears a vampire roar and a girl screaming and runs toward the sounds. She then see's Willow on the ground, about to be bitten.
"No!" Willow screams. "Get off!"
"Hey!" Buffy shouts out.
The vampire looks up, and Buffy snap kicks him off of Willow. He gets up and runs away. Willow is shocked by what she sees. Buffy quickly starts the hunt again. Willow gets up and runs after her. Up ahead of them Xander being dragged away by two vampires. Willow appears between two gravestones.
"Xander!" Willow cries out alarmed.
The vampires are distracted. Buffy takes advantage of the opening and jumps in, high punches one and side kicks the other. She notices a dry branch on a tree and breaks it off. As one of the vampires gets up she plunges the stick into him. Willow rushes over to Xander who's still on the ground.
"Xander, are you okay?" Willow asks.
"Man, something hit me." Xander replied rubbing at his head.
"Where's Jesse?" Buffy asks looking around.
"I don't know!" Willow said alarmed. "They surrounded us."
"That girl grabbed him and took off." Xander said referring to Darla.
"Which way?" Buffy asks.
"I don't know."
With that she stands up straight and slowly scans the cemetery. "Jesse!" she whispers out.
TBC...
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