Chapter 21: Desire (Part 3)
Here is part 3 of my part 4 Connor story arc. It gets better. This is kinda short than my usual chapters and there is a reason for it. But it's still pretty good. Enjoy.
Wesley rushed into through the hotel doors. He left Liam and Delia to continue the rest of the plan to retrieve Connor and take down his enemies. Wes never liked the plan, but he knew Liam and Liam had a way of making things work when they seem ridiculous and completely dangerous. Wes was wary in it, but he wished Liam luck on his endeavor. Wes looked around at the apparent empty lobby for any sign of the A.I. team. There wasn't any. Wes took a few more steps into the lobby.
"Wesley." Wes heard a familiar voice. He turned to look at Lorne who was in his office. Part of him was concealed behind the door post. Wes surmised that Lorne had a weapon of sorts. "What a surprise to see you here. I thought you would have gone off with Connor and plan our execution with Holtz."
"I'm sorry, Lorne." Wes apologized.
"Oh. You're sorry? You conked me over the head. Kidnapped Connor and you have been meeting Holtz behind our backs. Behind Angel and Buffy's backs. The people who trusted you with their lives. And since you don't have him anymore that means Holtz must have him."
"Yes. But not by me. Everything that I've done has been by Liam's orders." Lorne looked surprised and stepped out further from the office. Wes was right. Lorne was holding a bat as a weapon.
"What are talking about Wes?"
"It's a very long story. I think it best if everyone else was here."
"Well, Angel-cakes and blondie went to get little Connor back from you. Fred and Gunn are out trying to find you."
"I'll call Fred and Gunn." Wes pulled out his cell phone, just as it began to ring. He flipped it open. "Hello?"
"Wesley? It's Fred. Where are you? Where's Connor?"
"Wait. You mean you actually got a hold of him." Wes heard Gunn's voice. He then heard a fumbling for the phone. "Listen up English. Right now you're number one on our wanted list. So you better talk fast on why you kidnapped Connor."
"And I will Gunn. You and Fred meet me back at the hotel. There's much to explain. Oh, and don't call Angel and Buffy."
"Why not?"
"Because Liam doesn't want them here. He wants them out looking for Connor." With that, Wes hung up.
"Wesley?" Lorne said stepping a bit closer. "Are you telling me that Connor's kidnapping and him getting into Holtz' hands was all Liam's idea?" Wes hesitated before answering.
"Every bit of it."
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Buffy and Angel hid in the bushes and watched Lilah and the commandos talked.
"Ma'am." A soldier greeted Lilah as she stepped out of a black suburban. Lilah walked over to the commander of the group.
"What do we know?" she asked.
"No Holtz, no baby." He indicated to two men tied up on the wall. "Two stragglers from the attack at Angel's hotel. They don't know where Holtz went."
"Get them off the street." The commander motioned to his men and they lead the two guys away. "So we're in the right place."
"Yeah." Lilah looks at him.
"Excuse me?"
"Yes, ma'am." The commander said after a beat. "But Holtz didn't come back here after the hotel."
"Where'd he go?"
"Uh, we had him, and we lost him." The lead guy said, then he put a finger up to his earpiece. "Ah, we're picking him up again. Please, just give me a moment, please. Spring Street."
"Downtown?"
"Yes, ma'am. Near the sixth-street bridge."
"Let's go."
"Sixth Street Bridge, let's go!" All the men ran to their vehicles. One of the guys was yelling, "Let's go! Hustle! Hustle!" As one of the commandos got ready to get into his Hum-vee, Angel and Buffy jumped out from behind the bushes. They smashed him into a post, then a tree, knocking him out. The driver of the Hum-vee looked over towards the passenger side when his partner didn't get in. The driver's side door opened and Buffy and Angel threw him out on the street, got in and drove off after the rest of the cavalcade.
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Gunn and Fred entered the lobby. Wes was sitting on the settee as Lorne sat at the reception desk with a sea breeze in hand.
"Alright Wes." Gunn acknowledge him. "We're here. Now what's this about Liam and not talking to Buffy and Angel and kidnapping Connor?"
"Wesley, what's going on?" Fred asked. Wes lifted his head towards them. He got up and gestured for them to sit on the settee.
"You should sit down." He said. "There is a lot to cover." Fred and Gunn did as Wesley asked. Wes took in a breath and exhaled it. "About a week ago, I uncovered a prophecy about Connor. It said that 'the father will kill the son'." Fred gasped at his words Gunn looked stunned. "This however, was a false prophecy. I discovered only after Liam came to me and told me that it was false." Wes begun to pace. "Apparently in his time, before he came here, I would go to all sorts of resources and data looking for a way for this prophecy to be wrong. There wasn't one. In the end, I would go to Holtz in an attempt to talk him out of killing Angel and Connor. Holtz only wanted to take Connor to keep him safe form Angel. I was smitten by that purpose which lead me to kidnap Connor to save him from Angel."
"But Angel would never hurt Connor." Fred said.
"I know. But apparently I didn't then. Connor was taken from by Holtz and Justine and he apparently was sent to a hell dimension for sixteen years. While only a few days past here. Living in a hell dimension for all that time made Connor psychotic and emotional scarred. Connor would come back a full grown teenager and try to kill Angel. But after learning who his real father is, Connor was an ally of us. But he and Angel had a rocky relationship. After a series of unfortunate events that know nothing of, Connor would suffer and emotional break down and attempt to kill himself and several innocents." At this point Fred looked shocked and horrified. Gunn wasn't starring at Wes but in deep space, listening to Wes' story. Lorne listened carefully while drinking a refill of sea breeze. "During that time, Angel would be given an offer where he would be able to alter reality and give Connor a new family, love, and new memories. He would give Connor everything he failed to give him."
"Wait. Go back." Gunn said. "You said that that prophecy you found was false." Wes nodded. Why did someone make a false prophecy?"
"Sahjhan. A demon that is incorporeal and can travel through dimensions and apparently can walk across time. He knew of the original prophecy which stated that the son of the vampire with a soul would kill him. Sahjhan feared this and brought Holtz to us to kill Angel. When that didn't work, he attempted to take matters into his own hands by opening up the portal to the hell dimension. He would later be made corporeal and Connor would kill him once his memories were restored. Connor and Angel had a fairly good relationship after that. He and Liam became good brothers." Wes paused to let the information sink in. "Liam intends to prevent Connors childhood."
"How?" Lorne asked. "I mean, everything seems to be playing out exactly as you just told us."
"That's how Liam wanted it. He needed Holtz to get Connor to get everyone that is after him in one place. Liam and Delia then will kill everyone that is after Connor. Holtz and Sahjhan."
"How come I didn't see all this when you hummed earlier?" Wes put his hand into his pocket and withdrew a vial.
"This vial contained a potion that could block empaths and mind readers from seeing things. Liam gave it to me."
"He knew that I might read you." Lorne said realizing everything.
"Yes. Liam has been planning this whole thing out from the beginning. He wants to kill every one of Connor's enemies so that he could live the childhood he deserves to have." Wes finished his story to the team.
"Wow." Lorne said. "And here I thought Wolfram and Hart had lunatics."
"Lunatics?" Gunn practically yelled and got up. "Try insane. Try Crazy to the tenth power. Try anything that is beyond a lunatic. Liam is actually planning on using his own brother as bait to kill off every last of his enemies?" Wes nodded. "And you helped him all with this?"
"The way Liam explained it, there wasn't any other way to do it." Wes defended himself. "I believe that this plan is something that never should have been thought of. I never wanted to go through with it. But the way Liam explained everything and the possible consequences, I couldn't rally say 'no' now could I?" Gunn just shook his head and looked away from Wesley.
"Where are Liam and Delia now?" Fred asked.
"On their way to where everyone will met up to fight over Connor. Liam plans on something there. I just don't know what. But he intends on making sure Connor isn't sent to Quor'toth. That is the primary objective. The secondary is killing Sahjhan."
"Oh, so it doesn't matter if Buffy and Angel get him back. Yeah, that's real love right there." Gunn said sarcastically.
"If he isn't sent to a hell dimension then we have a better chance of retrieving him before Holtz can poison his mind. I don't like it any better than any of you but what other choice in the matter do we have." No one answered Wes. "I'm sorry. I really am. And I'll take any punishment worth of my actions. But for right now, the only thing we can do…..is pray."
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Buffy and Angel spotted the car with Holtz, Justine, and Connor in it. They were driving off, only to have a Hum-vee overtake them and cut them off. The car turned off the road, but it was quickly blocked in by more Hum-vees. Angel and Buffy jumped out of the one they were in and charged the car. Holtz got Connor out of the back while Justine tackled Angel only to get thrown aside by Buffy. Holtz stopped.
"Come any closer and I'll snap his neck!" Holtz threatened. Angel and Buffy came to a dead stop. All around them commandos were jumping out of their vehicles, cocking their machine guns. "Who are they?" Holtz asked.
"They work for me." Lilah replied.
"Ah. The attorney."
"Yes. You are gonna give us the kid, Captain Holtz."
"Don't!" Buffy and Angel yelled.
"That's cute. You'd rather see the fanatic with the baby than us?" then to Holtz, "Those are automatic weapons pointed at you. They didn't have them in your time. They fire sixteen bullets per second."
"And if they were going to use them they would have already. They want the baby alive." Angel said.
"Something we all have in common." Holtz replied.
"Not all of us." A voice said. Everyone looked to see Sahjhan walking into the area. Two commandos held their rifles up at him. Sahjhan easily knocked them several yards away.
"You're corporeal?" Lilah asked.
"Yeah. Cool hunh? Not sure how. But it'll make things so much easier. You do not want the child alive. You want the child dead. That was our arrangement."
"Yeah. I'm a lawyer. Have you met me? We have a new arrangement. I'm keeping the baby." Lilah retorted.
"I'm not going to let you do that."
"We're leaving." Holtz said.
"No one's going anywhere." Lilah snapped. One of the commandos stepped closer, and Buffy knocked him down, taking the weapon away from him and turning it on Lilah.
"Don't shoot." Lilah said. Buffy handed the gun to Angel. She hated guns and she was shaking badly enough right now as it is.
"Yeah. You really don't want to. Your bullets won't kill me. But mine will kill you and her first." Angel said. Angel looked over at Holtz and Connor then to Buffy and back.
"He'll be dead before I hit the ground." Holtz stated.
"I know."
"So. I'm going to leave now, right? With me, he gets to live, anyone tries to take him, he dies." Angel looked at Buffy, she nodded.
"Take him." Angel said after a beat.
"Whoa! No! What is wrong with you people?" Sahjhan asked.
"I will take good care of him, as though he were my own son." Holtz said to Buffy and Angel "He'll never even know you existed. Don't come after me. You will though, won't you? Maybe I should just..."
"No. Please." Buffy said, a tear moving down her cheek. Justine looked from Holtz' hand moving closer to Connor's neck, to Angel and Buffy, and back.
"Take him." Buffy and Angel said painfully together.
"Oh-no. No-one's taking him." Sahjhan said. "And you can't threaten to kill him because I want him dead." Sahjhan moved towards Holtz and Connor. "And since you don't have that urn with you, you can't really do jack can you."
"You can't touch him." Holt retorted.
"Did you not see my little entrance earlier? I can touch things now." There were gunshots as Lilah gave the order to open fire on Sahjhan. Sahjhan just stood there as the bullets bounced of his skin. The firing stopped. "Wow. That tickled." He turned to Lilah. "Remind me to repay the favor." Then back to Holtz. "Give me the kid." Holtz held Connor away from Sahjhan. Sahjhan took a few steps closer. Buffy and Angel watched with unease. Then they all heard the sound of a motorcycle growing louder. A motorcycle with Delia driving and Liam on back came into the area between two Humvees. Everyone turned to see the new arrivals. Sahjhan looked just as Delia passed him and Liam gave him a good punch flying by. Sahjhan went to the ground. Delia did a few doughnuts before stopping. Liam immediately got off and stood in the middle of group. Delia remained on the bike. Sahjhan got to his feet. "Well, didn't expect this." Liam glared at Sahjhan and Holtz. "So you're this double ganger I keep hearing about. You look like Angel, but you don't seem to have his eyes."
"That's because I have my mothers." Liam said and pointed to Buffy. "Hers." Buffy and Angel stared in shock. They knew what he was planning on doing.
"Liam, don't." Buffy said.
"I have to." Liam turned back to everyone else. "My real name is Liam Rupert Wesley Summers. And Buffy and Angel…are my parents."
"What!?" Sahjhan said. Lilah looked stunned at the new revelation. Holtz and Justin looked at Liam.
"That's right." Liam continued. "I am Buffy and Angel's second son from the future. I came back in time to save my family. Which includes Connor." Sahjhan continued to stare at Liam in shock. "What's the matter Sahjhan? Things not going the way you intended? Didn't expect that another son of the vampire with a soul was amongst you? Don't worry. That happens. But it looks like you have bigger things to worry about then a tiny-weeny-itsy-bitsy-baby."
"You made me corporeal." Sahjhan said getting it. Liam nodded. "That was a big mistake."
"We'll see. But first, I'm gonna offer you a deal."
"A deal?"
"A deal?" Lilah asked.
"Yes. I offer everyone a deal." Liam continued. He looked to Holtz. "Holtz and Justine go free with Connor. No one follows."
"What!?" Buffy and Angel said together.
"If they don't leave, Connor could die." Liam said to them. Buffy and Angel didn't protest, Buffy just had tears in her eyes for what Liam was doing and what could happen to Connor. "They leave." Liam continued. "And you don't go after them." He said to Sahjhan. "And you get me instead."
"Liam!" Buffy said.
"Mom I got this." Liam said not even turning to Buffy. "You get me. I mean, what's more of a threat Sahjhan? A baby, or a full grown ass man?" Sahjhan hesitated. Everything made sense to him. He didn't' really no why. "You beat me, you can go after Connor. I'll be dead. So what would I care?" Sahjhan nodded his head. "Good. Now everyone seems happy."
"Uh…excuse me." Lilah said. Liam turned to Lilah. "You said that everyone's going to win here. How am I?"
"Simple. You wanted Connor because he was born from a vampire and a slayer. I'll offer you something better."
"What?" Lilah asked curiously. Liam pointed to Delia.
"Someone from the future." Lilah looked to Delia who glared at her. "I mean what's better? An impossible baby, or a girl from the future that could tell you about the future?"
"Interesting." Lilah said sounding impressed. Liam smiled. His plan was working perfectly so far. He deliberately left out the part about Delia being a slayer. Lilah will no soon enough.
"You get her, if you leave the rest of my family alone." Liam offered. Lilah looked at Delia before looking at Liam. "Deal?"
"Deal. Everyone move in on the girl." Lilah gave the order. The commandos started to move in.
"Catch me if you can." Delia said before revving up the bike and riding off. Knocking over three commandos as she left.
"After her!" The commandos and Lilah got into the Humvees and rode off to follow Delia. Liam stared as he saw his wife ride off, hoping that she would make it after all this. Liam looked to Holtz as they left.
"Go." He said to him. "Take care of him." Holt nodded to Liam. "But Holtz, if anything happens to him, if he is in anyway not a good person…..I…will…kill you. I will find you. I will scour the far reaches of this earth and this dimension looking for you. If he isn't a noble good person, I will kill you."
"You have my word." Holtz said. Liam nodded. Holtz and Justine went to Wes' car with Connor.
"No." Buffy and Angel cried.
"Mom, dad, stay where you are." Liam demanded.
"But…" Buffy tried to protest.
"But NOTHING!" he yelled. Buffy stopped with tears in her eyes. Her own son that came back to save his brother was telling her not to save him. She didn't know what was going on. Justine started the car and rode off with Holtz and Connor. Once they were gone, Liam turned to his parents. "Go! Get after them. Do whatever you have to. Just get Connor back." The parents didn't question at all. They ran to the remaining Humvee, got in, and rode off. Buffy looked back at her son before turning to where her other one was. Liam saw them off. "Alright Sahjhan. I guess we should just….." Liam was cut off as a powerful fist connected with his face. Liam went back several yards before sliding on the asphalt and stopping. "Duke it out." Sahjhan walked towards him.
"Told you it was a bad idea to make me corporeal. I'm more powerful than any demon you've ever faced."
"Then tell me how…" Liam got to his feet. "How it is that my brother killed you in the future?"
"Don't know. Don't really care at the moment. He's the one to kill me. You aren't. I'll finish you off first. Then I'll take care of him. And me being in this new form, being all touching things now, makes it a whole lot easier."
"Actually it makes it harder." Liam said taking his coat off and throwing it to the side. "Cause you gotta go through me."
"Be glad to." Sahjhan swung at Liam, but Liam bent down to dodge the blow and went behind Sahjhan. He kicked and punched at the demon from behind. Nothing really happened. Liam looked worried as Sahjhan turned to face him.
"Perhaps we could make a new deal?" Liam offered. Sahjhan hit him again and Liam went flying back. He landed with a thud on the ground and supported a slip lip. "I'll take that as a 'no'." He got back up. Sahjhan came over and the two of them exchanged blows. Liam was clearly losing. Every few blows he dealt, he got. But Sahjhan seemed well taught in fighting. He blocked shot after shot and he threw his own punches, scoring most of them on Liam. He hit Liam hard and Liam went stumbling back. He had a bruise on his left temple and he had a cut on his forehead. Liam shook it off and continued with the fight.
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Delia was riding through the streets of LA in the dead of night. The plan seemed to be coming together apparently. She looked in her rearview mirror and saw Wolfram and Harts ops team hot on her tail. Delia revved up her bike and went faster. She didn't need to fight them, just get them as far away from Connor as she could. She would also try to lose them so that she could go and help Liam with Sahjhan. Liam told her his plan for Sahjhan and if she could get there in time, she might be able to prevent him from doing something that could kill him.
Lilah and the Commandos were in hot pursuit of Delia. Lilah sat in the back seat of a Humvee with the commander as the rode along, following Delia.
"Go faster." Lilah ordered.
"We're doing our best." The commander replied.
"Do better. If I don't have that baby, I had better have something worth more to us than it. This girl is that something."
"She won't escape from us ma'am. We'll catch her." They continued the pursuit. But it didn't seem like anyone was progressing in it. Delia turned down a street and went down an alley. The Humvees couldn't follow her. They stopped as Delia rode through the alley.
"Keep driving." Lilah said. "We can cut her off at the next intersection." The Humvee drove off. Delia turned back and noticed the Humvees not following her. She smiled and looked forward. She came out of the alley and went down a street. She was suddenly caught off as the Humvees blocked her way. Delia spun around and went in the other direction. The Humvees followed. "This is getting us nowhere." Lilah said. "Can you shoot her bike? Maybe the tires?"
"Yes ma'am." The commander said and stuck half his body out the Humvee window. He cocked a pistol and took aim. He shot three times and missed each one. Delia moved all over the road trying to avoid the gun fire.
"Shit!" Delia said. The commander aimed and fired again. Three shots. He got Delia's back tire on the third shot. Delia did her best to control the bike but it was useless. "O h Fuck, Fuck, Fuck." She said as she failed to control the bike and it toppled over. She rolled on the ground and bike skidded to a stop. Delia got up from her motorcycle crash. She limped for a few feet before walking it off and running into an alley. She ran only several feet before stopping. She ran into a dead end. She looked up and saw no way for her to scale the wall without being completely exposed. The Humvees of Wolfram and Harts Ops team pulled up to where Delia crashed and got out. Lilah got out too and smiled.
"Secure the area." she gave the orders. "Use non-lethal shots. We want her alive." The team moved into the alley. Delia turned around to face the team and Lilah. The commandos all had tazer rifles, similar the ones Riley and the Initiative had. Lilah was behind the group with her arms crossed looking smug. "Looks like you backed yourself into a corner."
"I've been in tighter situations." Delia shot back. She looked all around the alley for an escape route. She didn't find one.
"Not tight enough it seems. Take her." Lilah ordered. The ops team moved in. Delia looked at everyone in the alley and studied them carefully. She looked back at Lilah with a determined, piercing look.
"It's a brilliant plan really, but you forgot one thing." Lilah raise an eyebrow.
"Oh really? What's that?"
"I…always…win." Delia went for her sword across her back. The commandos all shot their tazer rifles and electricity lit up the alley.
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Across town, Delia wasn't the only one that was in a hot pursuit chase. Angel and Buffy were hot on Holtz and Justine's tail. Justine drove Wesley's car as Holtz held Connor in the driver's seat.
"Faster." He ordered her.
"Doing my best." Justine replied. "But we also don't want to attract the attention with the police."
"Then lose them."
"Trying." Justine tried different maneuvers to lose Angle and Buffy, but nothing worked. It would take more than hellfire to prevent Angel and Buffy from retrieving their son. Angel was driving the Humvee with only one goal in mind. Get Connor back. He wasn't going to let anything stop him. Buffy was the same. She was riding shotgun, focusing all on the car in front and how to retrieve Connor.
"Faster." She said to Angel.
"Foots all the way on the accelerator Buffy." Angel informed her. "Going as fast as I can go."
"Then get me close." She said.
"What?" Angel didn't need an explanation from her. Buffy climbed through the passenger door window and hopped up onto the roof of the Humvee. Angel understood. He put his foot down on the accelerator and went as fast as he could go. The Humvee inched closer to Wes' car. Buffy estimated and jumped off the roof and onto the hood and leapt towards the car in front, barely grabbed onto the back bumper of Wes' car. She skidded on the road as Justine swerved in an attempt to get Buffy off. Buffy clung on tight as she was dragged. It ruined her perfectly nice jeans though. But it would all be worth it if Connor was safe. Justine kept swerving. Buffy thought of an idea. She turned her body so that she could see Angel and Humvee. She waved her hand and singled to Angel to back off. She pointed to herself and held a finger to her lips to signal silence. Then pointed up to indicate that she was going to sneak up on Holtz and Justine. Angel got the message and stopped abruptly to make it look like he was stopping to get Buffy. Buffy's plan worked. Justine looked back and saw Angel stopping. She looked back in front of her and stopped swerving and started to slow down. After a minute, Angel drove the Humvee and followed where Justine and Holtz went. He wasn't going to let his wife fight those two on her own. No matter how powerful she was. Buffy waited for a bit, ignoring the pain of her being dragged on asphalt. She then started to slowly climb up and peered over the edge of the car. She could hear Holtz and Justine talking.
"I think we lost them." Justine said.
"Good. Now we can work on raising our new baby. Steven Franklin Thomas Holtz." That got Buffy mad. Taking her baby was one thing. But naming him and raising him as someone's own without her consent. That got her pissed. Buffy leaped over the edge into the backseat. Justine barely had time to notice the new arrival as Buffy slammed her fist into Justine's face. The car swerved to the side and Justin barely got control as it took out a trash can and they started going down another street. Buffy elbowed Holtz, hard. Angel came around the corner and was getting closer to Wes' car. He saw the fight going on and hoped everything was well.
"Come on Buffy." Angel said. "For Connor." Justine put the car on cruise control and tried to grab Buffy and throw her off, but Buffy fought her off and punched her again. She delivered one more good blow that knocked Justine complete out of the car. She rolled on the ground as Buffy and Holtz sped off with Angel in pursuit. Angel didn't even stop to check on Justine. He looked towards where Buffy and Holtz were. Buffy elbowed Holtz again, knocking him out. Connor was crying in Holtz' arms. Buffy bent down and gathered up Connor in her arms.
"Shh. Shh. It's ok. Mommies here." Buffy cooed to the baby. Buffy looked up and saw that the car was on cruise control and heading towards the edge of a causeway. Buffy wasn't going to be able to stop it. "Oh…" she looked to Connor in her arms and then back up at the causeway. "itshay." The car went over the side and crashed front first in the causeway. It toppled over on to its back. Seconds later, the car blew up, sending a puff of smoke out into the night sky.
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Liam and Sahjhan were still fighting. Sahjhan seemed to have the upper hand. Liam didn't bring any weapons with him to fight with. He didn't really plan on it. He used every ounce of strength he had to fight Sahjhan and defeat him, but Sahjhan was clearly stronger. Liam was supporting a slip lip, bruised temple, cut forehead, another bruise on his cheek, and seemed to be holding his weight on one side of his body. Sahjhan looked unharmed. Well, unharmed from when he first started out. Liam tried delivering a blow, Sahjhan caught his arm and lifted Liam up. He brought Liam down onto his knee. Liam screamed out in pain. Sahjhan gathered Liam's limp body and started slamming him on the ground like a rag toy. He held Liam by the shoulders and looked at him. Liam looked like he was on the verge of passing out.
"Gonna quite yet?" Sahjhan asked. Liam spat blood into Sahjhan's face.
"Never." He said.
"Your choice." Sahjhan took Liam's arm and swung him onto the ground. Liam screamed out again. That move dislocated his shoulder. Liam rolled over and lifted himself up, painfully. He held his shoulder. "Wow. Are you just plain stupid or something? We fight and it's clear that I'll win, but yet you fight. Why?"
"Who else will?"
"You brother apparently. But you don't want him to."
"He can't."
"But you said he would in the future. But seeing as I have the upper hand now, you might just have sealed his fate to die so much sooner."
"Then why talk? End it?" Liam rushed at Sahjhan and slammed into him. It did nothing to Sahjhan, but at least Liam's shoulder was back into place.
"I intend to." Sahjhan picked up Liam by the hair and threw him again. Liam got to his feet. His shoulder was achy but it was back in place and Liam was ready. Sahjhan walked towards him. If Liam was to defeat Sahjhan, he had to do better than punches and kicks. Liam raised his arms and sent bolts of lightning from his hands and shocked Sahjhan. Sahjhan screamed and dropped to his knees. Liam knew it wasn't going to kill him, but it would weaken him to a point. He just hoped that he didn't give way before that point struck. Through the bolts of lightning, Sahjhan managed to get to his feet. He felt the pain of the magic, but was shaking it off. Liam had to do more, even if it would deplete his strength. With all his magic and might, Liam shot more lighting at him. This time the lighting was coming out of his arms. Lightning covered his arms as he shocked Sahjhan, who was now on the ground screaming in pain yet again. Liam gritted his teeth as he gave it everything he had. Unfortunately, everything he had wasn't enough. Not long after shoot Sahjhan with lightning did Liam stop and slump to the ground on his knees, panting as he grew weak. Sahjhan began to laugh. "Wow. That actually hurt." He said rising to his feet. His body was smoking from the lighting blasts sent to him. "Didn't think you would be able to do it." Sahjhan walked towards him. "But now you're weak. You can barely stand." Liam got to his feet. "Ok, you can stand. But not for long. You don't have anything left in you." Liam rushed at Sahjhan again with a battle cry and tried punching him. He didn't land a single blow. He was slower than when he started out. Way slower. He wasn't at full strength. He swung again and Sahjhan caught it. He lifted up Liam's arm and punched him hard in the gut. Liam gasped. They stayed in that position as Liam kept gasping in pain. He looked down and saw half of Sahjhan's fist imbedded in his stomach, blood oozing out of it. Sahjhan took his now bloody fist out and let go of Liam. Liam immediately held his wound, trying to stop the bleeding. But he knew better. There was too much damage to fix. He was now dying. He dropped to his knees and held his wound. Feeling cold wash over him. "So, this is the great Liam." Sahjhan taunted. "The son of the vampire with a soul and the slayer. Impressive. But not that impressive." Liam whimpered as he held his stomach, the blood seeping through his fingers. "The prophecy did say that the son of the vampire with a soul would kill me. But apparently that wasn't you." This was it. Liam felt it. He gave it his all, and it seemed like it was all over. He wasn't going to be able to save Connor. He did everything he could and yet, Connor ended up in Holtz' hands, his wife was off somewhere he didn't know about and didn't know if she was still alive. And his parents were off trying to get Connor back. Maybe they would retrieve him and run away. Maybe hide from Sahjhan. He didn't know. All he knew was that he was going to die and be with his sister again. Liam fell on the ground on his side, still holding his excessively bleeding wound. He laid there on the ground as Sahjhan continued to taunt him. "After everything you did, after all of this, you still failed." Liam knew he was right. He wasn't going to be able to save the future from its horrible fate. He failed in his mission. He didn't even tell anyone about how to save the future. He failed his personal mission and his primary mission.
Ok. I know that this was short and everything, but this really seemed like a cliff hanger moment. Don't worry, next chapter will be longer and better. I promise. This ends part 3. Part 4 is up next and it ends with a bang.