Full Circle

Chapter Six

Author name: Marie

Rating: PG

Summary: A woman from Spike and Angel's past moves to Sunnydale to begin again. Occurs at the end of this season's Buffy and Angel.


Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine, except Emma

Feedback: I would love to hear any thoughts about this story.

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England 1880's

"Come play with me." Angelus whispers in my ear as he helped me put on a new necklace that he had bought for me. The final touch in his onsomble Angelus likes to dress me up like a doll. Every night he brings me a new present and then insists that I wear it for him. Tonight, it is a new necklace to go with the dress he brought me yesterday.

"William wouldn't like it." I whisper back.

"Spike doesn't have to know." He replies, reaching down for my hand.

"He doesn't like me going out. You know that." The fights that I have heard William and Angelus get into over me are often times too much for me to handle. William, ususally, comes back with his tail between his legs. He then kisses my forehead and whispers that I am not to go out with Angelus again. That it is not safe for me outside.. I am his, he informs me for the millionth time. Perhaps that is why I always defy him, when Angelus calls. Whenever Williams becomes too territorial, I have an itch to disobey him and show him that I am not an object that can be owned. Angelus provides the perfect excuse for my rebellion.

"I want you to play with me." Angel begs, the whole time slowly easing me upstairs. "You can't be cooped up all night."

"Why do you want me to come along anyway? It always just frustrates you." We have been going out like this for months like this. I always resist and Angel always insists. It's the chase that he loves and I ensure that there will be one. I don't condone his killing, especially his style. But perhaps that is why he likes me to be there with him. The manipulation that I allow him to have. The hint of escape for his victims is an aphrodesic to him.

"Because you make it fun." He smiles devishly.

"Fine. But only if you behave yourself."

"I promise." He never does but it doesn't hurt to ask. Years of watching them kill has deadened my senses to the horror. I no longer look at it as murder, but rather survival. With Angelus at least, I have begun to believe that those who do not escape deserve to die. I give them every opportunity I can for their escape, if they can't then it is their fault and not ours. We are simply surviving. Hunt or become the hunted.

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Present day: A week later at Angel investigations

Angel walks into the office. Fred and Wesley are frantically going through old texts.

"What are you doing?" Angel asks.

"Nothing." Wesley looks up trying to act calm. Like nothing was going on.

"I'll repeat, What are you doing?"

"It's nothing. I mean it is probably nothing. Willow called a couple of nights ago with a hypothesis. And well the research isn't turning out too well for the hypothesis."

"Willow called."

"I mean in all likelihood, she was just curious. But on the off chance that she's not, than ... well ... ugh oh!"

"What did she want to know?"

"If there was any prophecy about a vampire and mortal having a child."

"And is there?"

"Actually there is one that we have found. It states that the child before birth will be predestined to be the ultimate good or evil."

"Okay."

"The other thing is, well, we have been hearing some rumblings about the master returning. Being resurrected. And while on the whole the two have nothing to do with each other. The master would need a body to return to if he was to return."

"And what better body than a new baby." Angel continued his thought for him. The whole time Fred looked on curious as to how Angel would react. "So Willow called. Why didn't she just ask Giles?"

"Apparently there is some secrecy to the whole thing and she doesn't want anyone to know."

"Maybe a road trip is in order, to see what's what."

"That would probably be a good idea."