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Chapter 12
"What's going downstairs?" Cordy asked sipping a new batch of tea that Fred had made as she lied in her bed.
"Um-don't know. The last I saw was Wes and Willow doing bookwork." Fred said sitting opposite of her Indian Style on Cordelia's bed
"Sounds fun." Cordelia said.
"So…you're feeling better?" Fred asked.
"Yeah…I mean that vision was bad but at least it didn't kill me like my old ones almost did. It's almost like anyone psychic that picks up on Cruor's apocalyptic vibes gets a major smack down." Cordelia said.
Fred nodded. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Come in." Cordy said.
The door opened and Angel appeared. He wore a black tank top and loose black sweat pants. Angel's mouth curled up into a smile, which caused Cordelia to smile too. "Hey." He said.
"Hi." Cordy said.
"How you doing?" Angel said walking closer to her bed.
"Fine…I'm tired of you people asking me that." Cordelia grinned. "I think I might be able to get up and go downstairs in a couple of hours."
"That's good." Angel said. "I don't know what I would have done if I had loss you."
Cordy looked up at him, "You didn't."
"So…where is everybody?" Fred asked.
"The kids and Kate went out to do some daytime investigating Gunn and Xander went out to do the same thing. I think Gunn's hitting up some of his old connections. And I was about to work out with Buffy in the basement. We both need work our bodies…we need to be ready to fight anytime….anywhere." Angel said.
"Okay." Fred said.
"I think you need to work out with me too…if I'm going to help in this…and I am then I'm going to get even better with my combat." Cordelia said.
"I'll take you up on that offer when you're feeling up to it." Angel grinned. "Okay, get better…"
Angel walked out of the room.
Cordelia looked back at Fred and grinned.
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Kate, Dawn and Connor walked through the pier. It was a sunny day with a lot of people walking around laughing…children playing. Dawn looked at Connor; she realized that he looked different somehow. He was pale and his eyes seemed glassy. Dawn didn't want to say anything to him, since he already looked agitated. "So what exactly are we suppose to be looking for? I mean don't 'creatures of the night' usually hangout at…I don't know…night?" Dawn asked.
"Yea but Angel said he wanted us to do some investigating. I'm not exactly sure why we would come here though. Does anyone have any other ideas?" Kate asked.
Connor stared at Kate. His face seemed emotionless and pale. Suddenly everything stopped. Kate's last words supernaturally slowed down and got deeper until she completely stopped. The people who were walking around stopped. The birds stopped flying and the merry-go-around stopped singing. Connor's senses heightened 10% as he looked around.
Connor slowly turned and saw a familiar face. He jumped back almost yelping. "Calm down!" Julie laughed.
"What are you doing here?" Connor asked still startled.
"You don't seem very happy to see me." Julie said.
"Did you do all of…this?" Connor asked looking around.
"Yes…that's what the power of magic can do." Julie said.
"I don't really trust magic." Connor said.
"I know you don't but maybe you should give it a chance." Julie said.
"So…you stopped time?" Connor said.
"Something like that." Julie grinned. "I came because I needed to talk to you."
"About what?" Connor asked.
"I believe its time to take action." Julie said.
"What do you mean?" Connor asked.
"It's time to make ourselves known." Julie said.
"How?" Connor asked.
"You will get some visitors tonight. Keep up the act…do what you would normally do in that situation only make sure there are some left. When they do leave insist on following them but make sure it's not everyone. And well after you get to where you need to be. I want you to do to Angel what you've been taught to do you're entire life to him." Julie said. "Understand?"
"I think so." Connor said hesitantly.
"Seeya later, baby." Julie grinned.
Connor suddenly felt something in the air change. He blinked and Julie was gone. "Connor do you have any ideas?"
Connor turned around and saw Kate and Dawn staring at him. "Well?" Kate asked.
"Um…" Connor stuttered. "There's this old building near the docks. A lot of vamps stay there and sleep there during the day. Maybe we can get some information out of them."
"Worth a try." Dawn said.
"Okay lets go." Kate said leading them out of the pier.
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"Are you feeding it?" Gunn asked staring at the vampire chained to the wall.
"No…should I?" Rondell asked.
"Well how do you get it to talk?" Gunn asked.
"Torture…why?" Rondell asked.
"Cruor!" the vampire screamed.
"I am getting so tired of that name." Rondell said. "It's the only thing these vampires think about. Cruor this…Cruor that… 'My lord Cruor is going to destroy the world….BLAH BLAH'."
Gunn grinned. "So you know about Cruor?"
"I know that he's some sort of demon. That's promising all evil the world when he gets here. That's about it." Rondell said.
"We actually came here to get some info. But it seems that you don't know much." Xander said.
"All I can tell you is that there's been a lot more vamps then normal." Rondell said. "Either these vamps have been siring everyone human they kill or others heard about what was going on in LA and decided to get in on the action. Whatever this thing is. Its not good."
"Who told you about Cruor?" Gunn asked the vampire.
The vampire glared at him not saying anything. "I don't think you heard me." Gunn said. He walked over to the small table and grabbed a large knife. "I said-." Suddenly Gunn stabbed the vampire in the gut. "who the hell told you about Cruor!"
"Aww!" It screeched.
"Now you got it, Brother." Rondell grinned. "You want to give it a poke?" he asked Xander.
"I'm fine." Xander said.
The vampire closed his eyes trying to ignore the pain. "Okay okay! Take it out and I'll talk."
"How about you talk and then I'll take it out." Gunn said.
"I heard it from my sire! And he heard it from his old clan….they said that a girl came and told them about it." The vampire said.
"A girl?" Gunn asked.
"A human?" Xander asked.
"She was human…sort of. She was a witch…a really powerful witch. She said she worked for Cruor that she could promise us complete protection and bliss. That Cruor is our lord who has come hear to take this world back from good. She did tell them to sire whoever they could. She said that their building up an army and need all the help they could get." The vampire screeched.
"What else do you know?" Gunn said.
"Only what my sire told me!" The vampire said. Gunn began to twist the knife. "I'm telling the truth! I'm not some major player in the apocalypse I'm just guy trying to stay alive or undead…"
Gunn looked at Xander and he gave him a look back. "Rondell, you're not getting anything else out him."
"You sure?" Rondell asked.
Gunn pulled a freshly sharpened stake out of his denim jacket. Suddenly Gunn stabbed the wooden stake into the vampire's heart. "Aww!" The vampire screeched as he slowly disingrated into dust and the chains crashed to the floor. "Positive."
Gunn and Xander walked out of the abandoned warehouse. "So you think that information was useful?" Xander asked.
"It was almost as good as getting it straight from the horse's mouth." Gunn said.
"Really? Because that vamp didn't seem to know that much." Xander said.
"He knew as much as Cruor needed him to know." Gunn said.
"Great." Xander said. "So what do we do know?"
"Go back to the Boss Man and tell him what we found out." Gunn said.
"I prefer Dead Boy…but okay." Xander said.
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Spike laid on the ground of the tunnels. His face was red and he body shaked. "Oh come on Spike. You are such a wuss!" Nikki Woods said.
Spike looked up with his face tear-stained. "Oh Spike… you think just because you leave Sunnydale…you get rid of me?" She said.
"I will always be with you William." His mother said. "My child….remember you used to talk to me for hours…that's before you went all evil…"
A tear dripped from Spike's eye the floor. "You think just because you have a soul you can be a champion?" his mother said with smile on her face.
"You will never be Angel." Darla said wearing a long black dress. "Angel will have always be Buffy's first. Saved the world first…and had a soul first. You're just a copycat…. You can help out in this apocalypse all you want but….the fact of the matter is…you will never me rewarded for it only Angel. He was the vampire first and he will be human first. With the whole Shanshu thing…"
"And when I'm human again….I can Buffy….sweet, sweet Slayer." Angel said. "I've been inside her in ways that made me lose my soul….nothing like your little fling…I drank from her….she LET me drink from her…so that I could live…well unlive anways…and did she let you do that? NO."
"Get out of my bloody head!" Spike screeched.
"Spikey…spikey…You've always been mine." Drusilla said. "We can dance again….the birds sing our name….the flesh burns our love…You have never forgotten over me…I'm in the back of your head…. day and night! Why have slayer when you could have me?"
"I had a lot plans for Sunnydale… but I guess they're going to have to be put on hold….But that doesn't mean I gotta sit and wait…no… LA is evil central. Well other then the Hellmouth. And what's coming…was even greater than I was planning…See this THING that's on its way here has a lot of followers…and as I love to say…If you can't beat…join them…Spike I would love if you could help me…because as you know…I always liked you when you were bad. We were together when you were evil…but now with that little soul of yours…I don't think you really man enough for me. Give it some thought, just because you have a soul….doesn't mean you have to be a punk." Buffy smiled.
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Buffy swung her leg in a roundhouse kick towards Angel. He blocked it and hit her in the chest with his palm. She fell against the wall. "Aww!" she screamed in a battle cry. She doubled kicked in the air and the second kick hit Angel in the face. "Ow."
"Oh my God! Did hurt you?" Buffy asked.
"No way!" Angel said rubbing his jaw. "Vampire…remember?"
He backhanded her and took hold of her shoulders. Angel then picked her up quickly and through her across the room into another wall. Buffy slowly got up and ran at him. Angel quickly raised his fist and attempted to punch her. Buffy grabbed his fist and swiftly swung around performing a spinkick throwing him into the wall. "I know your problem…" Angel said slowly picking himself up.
"My problem? You're the one on the floor." Buffy said.
"You're moves…are predictable." Angel said.
"Excuse me? Predictable? I only LOOK predictable to you because….you've seen me fight a million times…even when I didn't know you were there…." Buffy said.
"I forgot you don't take criticism very well…I thought you just wanted to be your best." Angel said. "You're going to need to be."
"Hey…I do want to be my best and I will. I'm just saying since when were you Yoda?" Buffy said.
Angel looked at him with his smile face minus the actually smile. "So…you have son." Buffy said sitting down on the last step of the stairway
"Yeah…I have a son." Angel said sitting next to her.
"With Darla" Buffy said in a confirming voice.
"Yes."
"Who I saw you dust like 6 years ago."
"Yeah."
"A evil law firm brought her back to life as human."
Angel gave an agreeing grunt.
"She then was desperate to become a vampire again after she found out she was terminally ill."
"Yes."
"She then after you failed to give her another life magically agreed to live out her human life."
"Hmm.."
"Then the evil law firm brings Drusilla to Los Angeles who sires Darla in front of you."
"Yep."
"Darla and Drusilla cause chaos and have a few massacres including one that you allowed involving the evil law firm."
"Yeah."
"You then went semi evil, obsessed with killing Drusilla and Darla…losing all the friends you had in L.A. Then you had sex with her…trying to lose your soul. But it actually had the opposite effect giving you an epiphany. You let Darla leave town without dying."
"Yeah."
"She comes back a few months later. Almost nine months later…pregnant. She then has a soul because the THING she's pregnant with is a human. She then killed herself so that the baby could live also because she wouldn't be able to love it without a soul."
"Yep."
"You then name your baby boy Connor. You have it for a while until Wesley is tricked by a false prophecy that said that you were going to kill Connor. He steals Connor from you but Connor is taken away from Wesley after having his throat slit. Holtz, a man who time travels here and whose family was slaughtered by you and Darla a while ago has the baby and goes off to a Hell dimension with Connor."
"Hmmm."
"They return with Connor being almost 18 years old only in this dimension it's only been like a few weeks. Holtz is an old man and Connor was raised to believe you were the Prince of Evil. Holtz kills himself and makes Connor think that you killed Holtz so Connor puts you in the ocean which your down there for three months until Wesely finds you and saves you. You then kick Connor out of the hotel. But after a while you forgave him and now the traitor stole your son. And the kid who tortured you for three months are all living under the same roof with you and the rest of you friends. But Connor is still a stingy teenager with a bad attitude… and no gratitude."
"Exactly." Angel grinned.
"Well I thought I had the most drama in the world but I guess I only win second place to you." Buffy said.
"Hell yes." Angel said.
"Well…I guess you have about 2 percent of my life down pact." Darla's voice said from behind the two.
They both turned their heads and saw Darla. Angel stood up and looked at her. "Hi lover." She said.
Buffy rolled her eyes. "Darla…" Angel said.
"Didn't mean to interrupt. I just wanted to see how your little training session was going." Darla said.
"Great…" Buffy said in annoyed voice. "We were about to get right back on that."
"Sure…" Darla said.
"Do you want to…um…do you fight? Do higher beings fight?" Buffy asked.
"Well I don't really have my super strength any more or any for that matter that I did when I was a vampire. But I have power…magic power." Darla said.
"Of course." Buffy said.
"We should get back to what we were doing." Angel said.
"You mean talking about me behind my back?" Darla asked.
Angel and Buffy eyed Darla. "Okay…I'll leave." Darla said walking up the stairs. She stopped on the stairway and watched as Angel and Buffy began to spar once again.
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Connor walked into the abandoned building. It was damp and cold but was warm near the entrance wear the sun shined. "Come on." Connor said.
Dawn and Kate followed Connor into the building. "I don't see any vampires." Kate said.
Connor looked around the building. "I do." Connor said emotionally seeing more then a dozen figures on the floor near the wall away from the door.
"Me too." Dawn said.
Kate pulled out her government issued handgun. "Okay."
"That won't work." Connor said. "You can't kill vampires with those things."
"I'm not planning to kill them with this. But when it's time to dust them-." Kate said she pulled out a wooden stake out of her back pocket. "I'll be ready."
Kate put the stake back in her pocket. "Rise and shine vamps!" Kate yelled firing a shot in the air, which hit a skylight in the ceiling forcing a small thin beam of light to shot at the floor.
Suddenly the vampires stood surprised by the noise. The vampires growled as they put on their 'game' faces. "How the hell am I suppose to defend myself?" Dawn asked.
"Stay by the door." Kate yelled.
The vampires suddenly ran at Connor and Kate. Connor leaped at two of the vampires. He was like a beast as he attacked them. Kate raised her gun and shot at the vamps, which threw them down on their backs. Connor kicked on of the vampires in the face. He then quickly pulled out a stake and dusted it. He then backfisted the other vampire and staked him in the heart.
A female vampire jumped at Kate. Kate quickly shot her in the head. The vampire fell to the floor and began to shake around on the ground. Kate pulled out her stake and inserted it into its heart and the vamp turned into dust.
"Connor I thought we weren't going to kill all of them!" Kate said.
Connor threw one of his stakes at a vampire and it directly at its heart. Connor ran and grabbed the stake and pulled it out before the dust came. Connor began to continually stake every vampire that came at him. "Connor stop!" Kate screamed.
But Connor ignored everything that Kate said. Kate shot at one vampire that fell to the floor. Connor finished off the rest of them. Connor then ran at the last vamp that Kate hat shot. "Stop!" Kate said kicking Connor in the chest and Connor fell to the floor.
Connor looked up angrily. "Didn't we come here to get info?" Kate asked.
Connor didn't answer as he stood up. "You have ten seconds to tell us about a demon named Cruor. Or you're dust!" Kate said to the vampire as she pulled out her stake.
The vampire looked shocked. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"8,7,6-." Kate said.
"Okay…okay! A woman came here a few months ago offering us a spot in some demon's army against good." The vampire said. "She said that he was ancient was going to destroy good and peace."
"What was this woman's name?" Kate asked.
"Um…I think it was something starting with a J...I don't remember." The vamp said.
"You better remember in 5 seconds." Kate said
"Um…it was Ju-." The vampire started suddenly Connor jumped on the vampire plunging a stake into its heart. "Aww!" the vampire screeched disappearing in dust.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Kate asked. "He was going to tell us who pulling the strings."
"No he wasn't! He was lying." Connor said. Suddenly he punched Kate in the face. She fell to the ground quickly. "And if you ever hit me again like you just did before…I'm going to kill you."
Connor then began to walk away and towards the door. "Come on, Dawn." He said walking past her.
Dawn looked surprised as she slowly began to follow him. Kate raised herself from the floor and followed Dawn with an angry look on her face.
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"I came here because the time is coming…my Master will be here soon and I just wanted to have all of our plans set." Julie said with a smile on her face
"I understand…I believe it's been a while since you last came here." The woman said.
"Well yes….last century was pretty slow. Nothing really happened but its now here. The End that I have been working on for more then 600 years." Julie said.
"Well…I can assure you that Wolfram and Hart is still behind you 100%. And our contract still stands since a couple of centuries ago when you signed it and your last apocalypse didn't work out. Of course we have an agreement." She said.
"Of course." Julie said.
"With your ending of humans and all good…All Wolfram and Hart employees and connections are still intact." The woman said.
"Yes…" Julie said.
"Now Juliet…as you remember…employees are invulnerable from any evil that rises after your Apocalypse or that has already been here." The female lawyer said.
"Yes. I have put that in my spell along time ago. You will not be capable of being harmed by any evil. Not killed anyways." Julie said.
"Well I think we are pretty much set." The woman said.
"Does he have to live, Ms. Morgan?" Julie asked turning in her seat and looking behind him.
"I really don't care." Lilah Morgan said.
"Dru…let the evil lawyer go now." Julie said as she stood from her seat.
Gavin sat in a chair shaking as Drusilla sat on his lap. She slowly smelled his neck and then looked up as Julie talked to her. "But I'm hungry." Drusilla said in a childish voice.
"You can't possibly be that hungry, Dru! You ate an entire family of four before we came here. And you ate the pool boy." Julie said.
"His neck sings to my teeth. Like the sirens of the ocean." Drusilla said.
"We're not eating the employees Drusilla." Julie said. "Now get off of him. We'll stop at McDonalds on the way home and you can eat any of the customers there."
"The sun shines…will you poof me?" Drusilla asked still sitting on Gavin.
"Of course." Julie grinned.
"Poof?" Lilah asked.
"She means when we teleport. That's how we got here. With Dru's sun problem, we had to. Plus its funnier then driving." Julie said.
"Okay." Lilah said looking back at Drusilla who was getting off of Gavin
"I sorta thought that you and Drusilla would have a problem." Julie said.
"Why?" Lilah asked.
"Well last time she was in town, she almost killed you." Julie said.
"No hard feelings." Lilah grinned.
"It was Grandmother's idea…to leave them alive. I wanted her body!" Drusilla said. "She moisturizes you know."
"So we have a deal?" Julie asked extended her hand.
"Yes." Lilah smiled shaking the hand.
"Let's go Dru." Julie grinned.
Drusilla winked at Gavin as she followed Julie out of Lilah's office. "Oh stop crying." Lilah said.
Gavin looked up at his former competitor. "What?"
"I should have let her bite you. Big baby." Lilah rolled her eyes.
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