Chapter Two
Anastasia sat in wait for Wesley coming back. She was amazed at his selfishness, he didn't even ask to find out how this was affecting her. She had just found her father after Sixteen years. Her family or what was left of it was complete. What had she expected? Him to welcome her with open arms, for him to be overjoyed? What? She didn't expect this. She felt her demon sides stir as she thought about it, the battle inside her had strengthened the closer she got to LA. She needed to calm down but was scared to leave the office, she might bump into him and the way she was feeling just now she would have ripped him to pieces.
"I know I shouldn't have just showed up here but I thought from what the Slayer had told me he was quite reserved, he just walked away from me. Is there somewhere I could go...just to be on my own?"
"Yeah sure my apartment downstairs is quiet. Don't worry about Wesley, he may not be able to fight good but he's not stupid."
He had been walking for hours now. Thoughts buzzing through his head. Faces, Christinas face. The look on her face as he got in the taxi and left her life. Questions began to form in his head. "Did she know about the baby before or after I left. Is Anastasia my daughter? She had said her mother only found out the day I had left. Did she
know about the baby before I left and didn't tell him because she knew about my destiny? Could have Anastasia not had a father because of my selfishness? God, what am I going to do?" He suddenly realised that he had been talking to himself. He had to talk to her; he needed answers as well.
Anastasia continued to battle with her demon. The quietness hadn't help at all. Noticing the sound system sitting in the corner, she slipped a C.D out of her bag and put it on. Immediately the music filled her head, her mind calmed and the demon struggle lessened but not enough to make her feel secure. She had been in the same position may a time usually after she had seen a human she was trying to protect killed because she played with the demon before killing it. Those were the times where she hit rock bottom. Her foster mother had taught
her that Tai Chi was the best way to calm her demon as well as improve her self-defences. She had come a long way since the days she would give in to her demon urges, luckily she was only a small child then and never did much harm except from breaking her foster fathers arm! Her focus changed from Wesley to the movements her limbs made, the energy need to make one move to another, all thoughts and energies left the dark room and her focus turned to the demon within. The Tai Chi was working, her demon stilled and she became at peace until
she heard a scuffle behind her. She had not smelt anything. The guard up and in a stance to defend she swung around leg kicked high in the air. Her leg stopped short of the intrusive persons head. His dark eyes stared back in surprise. She lowered her leg and blushed red at the embarrasment. She had almost decapitated a soul-full vampire.
Angel stared at her in disbelief. She was only Sixteen and could already kick as high as his 6ft 3" stature.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to...I didn't realised it was you....oh shit" she mumbled under her breath. "Sorry I didn't smell anything, well I wouldn't would I, and I'm pretty jumpy right now. Sorry. Nice place you've got here, a bit dark but then I guess that's perfect for you. The Slayer told me a lot about you. Riley seemed pretty clued up on you as well. You and the Slayer team got a bit of bad blood or something?"
"Sorry, i'm used to Cordelia being able to sense me behind her. Angel shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other "Yeah you could say that. Both me and Cordelia escaped from Sunnydale. Too many demons to face, pardon the pun. I fell in love with the Slayer, her name's Buffy. Anyway I was cursed about 200 years ago and they, conveniently, forgot to tell me that one moment of happiness meant that I would turn all bad again. I turned into Angelus.." when he uttered the words he heard Anastasia drew in a breath. Had he not the vampire hearing,
it would have went unnoticed.
"You? You are Angelus? The name, I thought....I was sent to kill you at one point. Angelus is the name for pure evil. You fell in love with the Slayer yet you are the reason why she was Chosen. How could you have? But Cordelia....You and her are together yet you are willing to sacrifice the world for....., for what?"
"Let me finish. She sent me to hell after I killed her Watchers girlfriend and I was sent back to make amends, help her saved the world again and then fled into the night and came here to LA. That's it really in a nutshell. Except when I came here I was given one last chance to become human, though
redemption. But Cordelia realised that TPB should pay because she has to put up with the visions, that Doyle gave her, and she's human so she asked them to speak to the Gypsy Council and tried to get my soul back for me. It meant I could go back to Buffy. When the crunch came I realised I couldn't leave Cordelia, I fell in love with my best friend, Cordelia. Who's Riley?"
"Wow that is some story. Riley is the Slayers boyfriend. He knows about Buffy, how she is the Slayer. He's really nice. Sounds like you've both moved on?"
Angel didn't get a chance to answer before they heard a thud upstairs. Something had fell to the floor. Angel rushed upstairs with Anastasia hot on his heels. They found Cordelia fitting on the floor in a vision. When she came to she scribbled down the name of a restaurant.
"Find the girl, she'll lead you to the demon. She's got blonde hair, tall and very bad fashion sense. I'll do the research thing...once the thumping stops in my head. Angel be careful. You maybe a vampire, but not unstakable. Just remember that."
"Anastasia you stay here, your too young and I can't be responsible for you. Go and find Wesley. Cordelia get some rest," kissing Cordelia goodbye "I'll be back soon"
"I am coming." Anastasia snapped. "I've battled demons since I was Fourteen I think I could...learn from this, hey I might be able to help."
"I can see I'm not going to win this battle. Right but you stay out of my way."
At the restaurant, Angel and Anastasia find the girl they are looking for but she is sitting with her boyfriend having dinner so they wait outside.
"So how do you know Wesley?" Anastasia asked Angel
"I met him when I was in Sunnydale with Buffy, Wesley was Faiths Watcher then he became Buffys when I killed Miss Callender, Her Watcher Giles girlfriend, Cordelia fancied the pants off him and I, well I humoured him, he was Buffys Watcher after all. But when Faith killed the Majors assistant Buffy rejected him. He stuck around trying to make up for Faith but when the whole 'Major turns into giant snake' happened he left. We ran into him about Five years ago when he was hunting a demon down and well we were hunting the same
demon. This was just after Doyle died. Well he had no where else to go and I thought he could maybe be someone mortal and normal for Cordelia. She realised how much she liked Doyle just as he died and gave her these visions, but she couldn't tell him. She had no one else but me."
An awkward silence descended between them, more been said than ever before. The girl and her boyfriend walked out of restaurant and off toward the centre of the city. Angels cell phone went off.
"Hi Angel, Cord here. Listen the demon in my vision, rather icky but he's a Jounia Demon. He can become as a human but has to go all demony to kill his prey. He kinda reminds me of the guy that tried too used me to spaun demons....ekk sends a shiver down my spine. You can only kill him when he's all demony. Good Luck. Oh yeah if Anastasia still there, tell her Wesley's back. He's better now. Love ya bye."
The soul-man hung up with a smile on his face. His Cora always made him laugh. "Hey Anastasia Wesley's back, his a little better. He wants to talk when we're done. You've to keep out of the trouble."
Angel and Anastasia set off after the demon. They cornered him a disused warehouse. Angel tried the sarcastic humour approach but that only angered the demon more. The Jounia plunged his head into Angels stomach sending them both into a brick wall. Anastasia side kicked him in the head. The demon momentarily weaken his grip on Angel, enough for Angel to stagger away. His vampire face emerge showing the anger he felt. The demon picked up a metal pole lying on the ground and thrashed at Anastasia with it catching her off guard. Angel felt the pain as the pole made contact with her head then to her ribs and finally to her stomach before turning on Angel. Angel watched unable to catch Anastasia as her legs gave way and she fell to the floor. He backed the demon up against a crate, glancing at Anastasia to reassure she was alive. This was enough for the demon to make his get away.
Anastasia sat in wait for Wesley coming back. She was amazed at his selfishness, he didn't even ask to find out how this was affecting her. She had just found her father after Sixteen years. Her family or what was left of it was complete. What had she expected? Him to welcome her with open arms, for him to be overjoyed? What? She didn't expect this. She felt her demon sides stir as she thought about it, the battle inside her had strengthened the closer she got to LA. She needed to calm down but was scared to leave the office, she might bump into him and the way she was feeling just now she would have ripped him to pieces.
"I know I shouldn't have just showed up here but I thought from what the Slayer had told me he was quite reserved, he just walked away from me. Is there somewhere I could go...just to be on my own?"
"Yeah sure my apartment downstairs is quiet. Don't worry about Wesley, he may not be able to fight good but he's not stupid."
He had been walking for hours now. Thoughts buzzing through his head. Faces, Christinas face. The look on her face as he got in the taxi and left her life. Questions began to form in his head. "Did she know about the baby before or after I left. Is Anastasia my daughter? She had said her mother only found out the day I had left. Did she
know about the baby before I left and didn't tell him because she knew about my destiny? Could have Anastasia not had a father because of my selfishness? God, what am I going to do?" He suddenly realised that he had been talking to himself. He had to talk to her; he needed answers as well.
Anastasia continued to battle with her demon. The quietness hadn't help at all. Noticing the sound system sitting in the corner, she slipped a C.D out of her bag and put it on. Immediately the music filled her head, her mind calmed and the demon struggle lessened but not enough to make her feel secure. She had been in the same position may a time usually after she had seen a human she was trying to protect killed because she played with the demon before killing it. Those were the times where she hit rock bottom. Her foster mother had taught
her that Tai Chi was the best way to calm her demon as well as improve her self-defences. She had come a long way since the days she would give in to her demon urges, luckily she was only a small child then and never did much harm except from breaking her foster fathers arm! Her focus changed from Wesley to the movements her limbs made, the energy need to make one move to another, all thoughts and energies left the dark room and her focus turned to the demon within. The Tai Chi was working, her demon stilled and she became at peace until
she heard a scuffle behind her. She had not smelt anything. The guard up and in a stance to defend she swung around leg kicked high in the air. Her leg stopped short of the intrusive persons head. His dark eyes stared back in surprise. She lowered her leg and blushed red at the embarrasment. She had almost decapitated a soul-full vampire.
Angel stared at her in disbelief. She was only Sixteen and could already kick as high as his 6ft 3" stature.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to...I didn't realised it was you....oh shit" she mumbled under her breath. "Sorry I didn't smell anything, well I wouldn't would I, and I'm pretty jumpy right now. Sorry. Nice place you've got here, a bit dark but then I guess that's perfect for you. The Slayer told me a lot about you. Riley seemed pretty clued up on you as well. You and the Slayer team got a bit of bad blood or something?"
"Sorry, i'm used to Cordelia being able to sense me behind her. Angel shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other "Yeah you could say that. Both me and Cordelia escaped from Sunnydale. Too many demons to face, pardon the pun. I fell in love with the Slayer, her name's Buffy. Anyway I was cursed about 200 years ago and they, conveniently, forgot to tell me that one moment of happiness meant that I would turn all bad again. I turned into Angelus.." when he uttered the words he heard Anastasia drew in a breath. Had he not the vampire hearing,
it would have went unnoticed.
"You? You are Angelus? The name, I thought....I was sent to kill you at one point. Angelus is the name for pure evil. You fell in love with the Slayer yet you are the reason why she was Chosen. How could you have? But Cordelia....You and her are together yet you are willing to sacrifice the world for....., for what?"
"Let me finish. She sent me to hell after I killed her Watchers girlfriend and I was sent back to make amends, help her saved the world again and then fled into the night and came here to LA. That's it really in a nutshell. Except when I came here I was given one last chance to become human, though
redemption. But Cordelia realised that TPB should pay because she has to put up with the visions, that Doyle gave her, and she's human so she asked them to speak to the Gypsy Council and tried to get my soul back for me. It meant I could go back to Buffy. When the crunch came I realised I couldn't leave Cordelia, I fell in love with my best friend, Cordelia. Who's Riley?"
"Wow that is some story. Riley is the Slayers boyfriend. He knows about Buffy, how she is the Slayer. He's really nice. Sounds like you've both moved on?"
Angel didn't get a chance to answer before they heard a thud upstairs. Something had fell to the floor. Angel rushed upstairs with Anastasia hot on his heels. They found Cordelia fitting on the floor in a vision. When she came to she scribbled down the name of a restaurant.
"Find the girl, she'll lead you to the demon. She's got blonde hair, tall and very bad fashion sense. I'll do the research thing...once the thumping stops in my head. Angel be careful. You maybe a vampire, but not unstakable. Just remember that."
"Anastasia you stay here, your too young and I can't be responsible for you. Go and find Wesley. Cordelia get some rest," kissing Cordelia goodbye "I'll be back soon"
"I am coming." Anastasia snapped. "I've battled demons since I was Fourteen I think I could...learn from this, hey I might be able to help."
"I can see I'm not going to win this battle. Right but you stay out of my way."
At the restaurant, Angel and Anastasia find the girl they are looking for but she is sitting with her boyfriend having dinner so they wait outside.
"So how do you know Wesley?" Anastasia asked Angel
"I met him when I was in Sunnydale with Buffy, Wesley was Faiths Watcher then he became Buffys when I killed Miss Callender, Her Watcher Giles girlfriend, Cordelia fancied the pants off him and I, well I humoured him, he was Buffys Watcher after all. But when Faith killed the Majors assistant Buffy rejected him. He stuck around trying to make up for Faith but when the whole 'Major turns into giant snake' happened he left. We ran into him about Five years ago when he was hunting a demon down and well we were hunting the same
demon. This was just after Doyle died. Well he had no where else to go and I thought he could maybe be someone mortal and normal for Cordelia. She realised how much she liked Doyle just as he died and gave her these visions, but she couldn't tell him. She had no one else but me."
An awkward silence descended between them, more been said than ever before. The girl and her boyfriend walked out of restaurant and off toward the centre of the city. Angels cell phone went off.
"Hi Angel, Cord here. Listen the demon in my vision, rather icky but he's a Jounia Demon. He can become as a human but has to go all demony to kill his prey. He kinda reminds me of the guy that tried too used me to spaun demons....ekk sends a shiver down my spine. You can only kill him when he's all demony. Good Luck. Oh yeah if Anastasia still there, tell her Wesley's back. He's better now. Love ya bye."
The soul-man hung up with a smile on his face. His Cora always made him laugh. "Hey Anastasia Wesley's back, his a little better. He wants to talk when we're done. You've to keep out of the trouble."
Angel and Anastasia set off after the demon. They cornered him a disused warehouse. Angel tried the sarcastic humour approach but that only angered the demon more. The Jounia plunged his head into Angels stomach sending them both into a brick wall. Anastasia side kicked him in the head. The demon momentarily weaken his grip on Angel, enough for Angel to stagger away. His vampire face emerge showing the anger he felt. The demon picked up a metal pole lying on the ground and thrashed at Anastasia with it catching her off guard. Angel felt the pain as the pole made contact with her head then to her ribs and finally to her stomach before turning on Angel. Angel watched unable to catch Anastasia as her legs gave way and she fell to the floor. He backed the demon up against a crate, glancing at Anastasia to reassure she was alive. This was enough for the demon to make his get away.