Set after 'Reunion.' But sort of following the plot after 'Shansu to LA'
OK I tried to fit this all in one page but Opps.. I didn't! it's in two parts now and there is a plot and proper
ending to this one.
Disclaimer: the characters in 'Angel the TV series' don't belong to me neither does anyone in 'Buffy the
Vampire Slayer' They belong to Joss, David and all those rich MD's at WB, Fox and Mutant (Grr, Arr) Enemy
Inc.
I wrote the last scene while listening to Kissing You by Des'ree and relived some Romeo and Juliet moments
hence the lift part!!!
Summary: Cordelia ends up in hospital because of Angel after he sacked them. Cordelia goes back to the hotel to try and get her job back and ends up getting more into the bargain. Plus Darla and Dru show up to add a spanner in the works!!!
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Wishful Thinking Part 2 - The Final Curtain
Cordelia slowly backed away from Angel as he stared in disbelief at the two women in the doorway.
"I thought Vampires could get into another Vampires property." Cordelia asked, her voice shaking.
"The deeds are in your name now so I could stop this from happening."
Cordelia suddenly found her strength and voice again. "What you mean I own the hotel and you never told me." She huffed.
"Enough!" Darla shouted still unable to get in. "Drucillia you know what you have to do...I want her alive though."
Drucillia stepped forward, closed her eyes and began to chant in Latin. Cordelia felt the wind around her swirl into a funnel, lifting her body off the ground. She cried out in agony when the wind twisted her body, cracking her ribs again. Angel could do nothing but shout at her to let Darla in.
"OK stop." Cordelia yelled through the tears in her eyes. "Darla come in." She looked at Angel then Drucillia. "And Drucillia."
Angel ran to Cordelias aid and picked her off the floor. He slid his arm protectively around her waist as Darla walked seductively cross the floor towards them. Darla ran her finger down the left hand side of Cordelias face while looking at Angel.
"I must say Angel." She spat. "Your taste has certainly changed, but not for the better. So the
Slayer dropped you huh. I think Cordelia would look good as a blonde, that is what you like isn't it Angel, all
those blonde tresses?"
Drucillia giggled behind her. "Oh Angelus doesn't like you playing with his property mummy. He thinks that
Cordelia is his not Angels." Drucillia giggled again.
Angel had felt Angelus shouting but he had always felt that when Cordelia was around. Ever since Rachel had temporally released him, Angelus had found Cordelia a match for his sarcastic humour and like Darla, able to control him.
"What do you want Darla? Not happy with the dream invading you want to play more mind games."
"No I want my Angelus back, for good. You see I have a Slayer to teach a lesson she'll never forget and a world that needs a little more fear and chaos. Get my drift!"
"And, why do you think that I am going to let him lose his soul again?" Cordelia retored.
Darla turned furiously back to Cordelia. "You don't have to give my permission. There are two ways to do this; the red hot poker way, which would be fun, or we can relive those exciting dream. I don't need one moment of happiness for Angelus to come back, I just need to remind him what he's been missing. Dru take her and have some fun but make sure she's more willing when your done with her."
Drucillia pulled Cordelia away as her fingertips held onto Angels cold touch for as long as possible . Angel could do nothing, transfixed on Darlas gaze. Drucillia lead Cordelia through to Angels lounge and pushed her down onto the sofa by her shoulder.
"Now deary, while mummy and daddy play catch up..." She giggled like a sneaky child. "Me and you are going to have a tea party with Miss Edith."
Cordelia stared bewildered at the battered doll in Drucillias arms . She had known that Dru was a classic case of the mental health act gone wrong but she also knew how dangerous Drucillia could be. Cordelia had to find a way to distract her then find Angel and either run like heel or stake Darla.
"So Dru, seen Spike recently."
Dru flashed her eyes angrily but then smiled. "Don't mention that poor excuse of a Vampire to me. He could
never match up to Angelus no matter how much he tried. Now would you like sugar in your tea?"
Cordelia wasn't ready to give in that easily. "Yeah he's been getting really friendly with the world only sane
Slayer. Now Rileys gone she is fair game and we both know about her fascination for Vampire. I guess Spike has one advantage over Angel; He has no curse so she can screw him 'till her hearts content."
Dru reached up to slap Cordelias face but Cordelia caught the Vampiress's hand in mid-slap and plunged the stake, that was behind her back, into her heart with all her strength. Instead of screaming, Drucillia simply sadistically smiled and exploded into dust. Cordelia closed her fist around the ashes that had fallen into her hand. She headed up the staircase where Darla had taken Angel. She searched Angels room but he wasn't there. Cordelia methodically searched each of the 100 rooms until she came to the Penthouse Suite. She could sense Angel behind the door. She stopped for a moment to catch her breath and then slowly opened the heavily decorated door. She stood back as she adjusted to the scene in front of her.
Angel lay sleeping in the king-sized bed with Darla lying next to him barely covered by a single sheet. Darla
woke with the sound of a gasp escaping from Cordelias lips. She slowly smiled at the look of horror on the
brunettes face, licking her lips. Darla nudged Angel awake.
"Sweetie someone came visiting. I think it's room service with a snack."
Angel looked at the horrified woman standing at the bottom of his bed.
"Ah, the heroes seer. I though Drucillia was turning her downstairs."
Cordelia quickly recovered her cool and masked her shaking voice as her heart broke in two again. "Oh you mean this Drucillia?" Cordelia opened her clenched fist and let the ashes fall to the floor. "I'd says she done and dusted. Anyone else up for a staking? I thought not. So I'm looking for the red-hot pokers as an
explanation for why your sleeping with this old hooker, who has slept her way 'round most of Europe, both
when she was dead and alive." Cordelia looked straight into Angels eyes looking for a glimmer that the Angel she knew was still in residence.
"Don't you dare talk about her like that." Angel shouted, morphing into his game face. "You're
nothing but a seer. Not even the PTB will let you into their realm, your not even worthy of them."
Darla affectionately stroked her fingernails up Angels bare arms. "I think you should be the one to turn her,
my love. After all she was in love with Angel and we have destroy everything he cared about."
Angel climbed out of bed pulling on his robe as he walked to the foot of the bed. Cordelia instinctively moved backwards, away from the bulky figure that was moving towards her, game face still on.
"Now don't struggle and it won't hurt as much but do, please, feel free to fear me as much as you like. I makes the blood that much sweeter."
Angel grabbed Cordelia around her waist to stop her backing any futher away. He brushed her hair away from her tender neck, obscuring Darlas view of the kill. She watched gleefully as Cordelia went limp in Angels arms and lay on the floor.
"Come here, see what is the start of Karma." Angel uttered looking at Cordelia on the floor.
Darla leaned over the body, still and unmoving on the floor. She watched unable to react as Cordelias eyes snapped open and a smile appeared on her face. Cordelia pulled out the stake still in her hand and aimed it at Darlas heart. A sicken crunch filled the air as the stake drove through Darlas ribs and straight into her heart. Cordelia whispered a "Just Deserts!' as Darla cried out and exploded into a dust cloud. Cordelia stood up, brushing the ashes off her jumper and staggering back from Angel. She gripped her side as the pain killers and adrenaline lost their effects. Angel walked towards her but she backed away from his grasp.
"Cordelia, what's wrong? It's me, Angel. It was me all the time." Angel walked towards her again, she kept backing away, staring at him.
She lifted her face and allowed Angel to see her tears. "I knew it was you all the time, that's why this is so
much worse than you think. You slept with her. You slept with another woman. Christ not even Xander did that to me." She went to storm out of the room but Angel gently grabbed a hold of her arm. Cordelia whirled around to face him. "What? You wanna break more of my ribs?"
Angel released her arm and watched as she continued to storm down the corridor and down the stairs. He turned away, setting over the ashes and opened a window, letting the cold now night air to clear the smell of deceit and pain from the room. The ashes scattered in the wind leaving no visible reminders of what had happened that day. He walked slowly into the bathroom and turned on the shower to fill the room with steam. He climbed in letting the hot droplets wash away the smell of sex and lies from his body. Angelus cried out in him, mourning over the loss of Darla. Angel leaned against the lavishly tiled wall and sighed in relief that there was no one controlling him and he could now get on with the redemption that he had been working so hard towards. He felt a presence in the steamed room and tried to clear his eyes but couldn't see a thing then he heard it. A small whimper that he wouldn't have heard if it wasn't for his acute hearing. He pushed the glass screen back to find Cordelia sitting on the toilet, tears streaming from her face. Angel leapt out of the shower to her aid as she broke down and slid off the toilet. He scooped her up in his arms, the water soaking into her clothes. He pulled her in close whispering comforting words into her ear.
"God Angel, why, why did you do it?" Cordelia asked hoarsely through her tears.
"I needed her to trust me. I didn't think that you would walk in and find us there like that. I
thought you would try and keep Dru talking as long as possible and then wait for me to come and rescue you like the Dark Avenger is meant to." He heard Cordelia giggle through the pain. "I'm sorry Cordelia. It didn't mean anything to me. I was thinking of you."
"Oh great, while you were getting all hot and sweaty with your ex-sire turned great grandchilde you were thinking of me. Great way to impress your new girlfriend Angel."
Angel pulled her away and held her at arms length. "Do you realise how long I have waited for you to say that. I have so many times wanted to introduce you as my girlfriend not my assistant or my seer but my girlfriend."
He pulled her back in close and drunk in the scent that he had smelt so many times but it never smelt as sweet as it did now.
"We're not going to get all hot and heavy ourselves here are we 'Cos after all the staking and
fighting and playing I have done to night not to mention Dru's little vortex wind back there, I don't think my
ribs could take anymore bouncing about plus we have that pesky curse to work through. I think I just fancy a large mug of cocoa and marshmallow and settling down into bed with MY boyfriend." She looked up at him and smiled.
He slung a towel around himself and picked Cordelia up into his arms, making her scream as he shook his wet hair over her. He carried her down in the elevator into his room and placed her carefully on his bed. Angel exited through the door and came back in carrying a large mug of hot chocolate with three large marshmallows in it. He climbed onto the bed beside her and sighed.
"So does this mean that I have to hire Wesley back and Gunn too?"
"Well Wesley likes being his own boss and given half a chance I think he will do alright, Nah I think he is happy where he is as long as you give him a helping hand 'Cos he'll get his ass kicked other wise. As for Gunn, he's his own person. He didn't take to kindly to being sacked, he kept saying. 'Who the hell does he think he is, Dark Avenger. He sacked me and I don't even work for him.' followed by a few choice swear words. Anyway we coped well without them before right after Doyle died. I mean we are alright on our own right?"
Angel looked fondly and smiled again. "Yeah we're alright. So what's on TV tonight?"
"Jerry Springer. Hey we could go on that. I could just see it. Meet Angel, the worlds only souled
Vampire and the seer he fell for while staking his ex-sire and trying to get over the worlds only sane Slayer,
Buffy. They would need good demons as bouncers to stop all of us trying to kill each other."
He watched as Cordelias eyes danced with laughter, showing her young age, that he almost forgot. He pulled Cordelia into his still wet form while watching to 20 stone women fighting over their cheating boyfriend, chuckling to himself.
Sometimes you do get what you wish for after all.
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Well it's finished! Yes no more Wishful Think Series, which is still a sucky title, but hey. Please, please let me
know what you think. I am busy writing for the Lost Without Hope series and the Holding On series while
trying to study for my theory driving test!
PS Also I have just seen 'Superstar.' and I have renamed Captain Cardboard, Love Handles Boy, Cos in one scene did he had Love Handles, I really think Rileys got Love Handles. Tell me if you agree!
OK I tried to fit this all in one page but Opps.. I didn't! it's in two parts now and there is a plot and proper
ending to this one.
Disclaimer: the characters in 'Angel the TV series' don't belong to me neither does anyone in 'Buffy the
Vampire Slayer' They belong to Joss, David and all those rich MD's at WB, Fox and Mutant (Grr, Arr) Enemy
Inc.
I wrote the last scene while listening to Kissing You by Des'ree and relived some Romeo and Juliet moments
hence the lift part!!!
Summary: Cordelia ends up in hospital because of Angel after he sacked them. Cordelia goes back to the hotel to try and get her job back and ends up getting more into the bargain. Plus Darla and Dru show up to add a spanner in the works!!!
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Wishful Thinking Part 2 - The Final Curtain
Cordelia slowly backed away from Angel as he stared in disbelief at the two women in the doorway.
"I thought Vampires could get into another Vampires property." Cordelia asked, her voice shaking.
"The deeds are in your name now so I could stop this from happening."
Cordelia suddenly found her strength and voice again. "What you mean I own the hotel and you never told me." She huffed.
"Enough!" Darla shouted still unable to get in. "Drucillia you know what you have to do...I want her alive though."
Drucillia stepped forward, closed her eyes and began to chant in Latin. Cordelia felt the wind around her swirl into a funnel, lifting her body off the ground. She cried out in agony when the wind twisted her body, cracking her ribs again. Angel could do nothing but shout at her to let Darla in.
"OK stop." Cordelia yelled through the tears in her eyes. "Darla come in." She looked at Angel then Drucillia. "And Drucillia."
Angel ran to Cordelias aid and picked her off the floor. He slid his arm protectively around her waist as Darla walked seductively cross the floor towards them. Darla ran her finger down the left hand side of Cordelias face while looking at Angel.
"I must say Angel." She spat. "Your taste has certainly changed, but not for the better. So the
Slayer dropped you huh. I think Cordelia would look good as a blonde, that is what you like isn't it Angel, all
those blonde tresses?"
Drucillia giggled behind her. "Oh Angelus doesn't like you playing with his property mummy. He thinks that
Cordelia is his not Angels." Drucillia giggled again.
Angel had felt Angelus shouting but he had always felt that when Cordelia was around. Ever since Rachel had temporally released him, Angelus had found Cordelia a match for his sarcastic humour and like Darla, able to control him.
"What do you want Darla? Not happy with the dream invading you want to play more mind games."
"No I want my Angelus back, for good. You see I have a Slayer to teach a lesson she'll never forget and a world that needs a little more fear and chaos. Get my drift!"
"And, why do you think that I am going to let him lose his soul again?" Cordelia retored.
Darla turned furiously back to Cordelia. "You don't have to give my permission. There are two ways to do this; the red hot poker way, which would be fun, or we can relive those exciting dream. I don't need one moment of happiness for Angelus to come back, I just need to remind him what he's been missing. Dru take her and have some fun but make sure she's more willing when your done with her."
Drucillia pulled Cordelia away as her fingertips held onto Angels cold touch for as long as possible . Angel could do nothing, transfixed on Darlas gaze. Drucillia lead Cordelia through to Angels lounge and pushed her down onto the sofa by her shoulder.
"Now deary, while mummy and daddy play catch up..." She giggled like a sneaky child. "Me and you are going to have a tea party with Miss Edith."
Cordelia stared bewildered at the battered doll in Drucillias arms . She had known that Dru was a classic case of the mental health act gone wrong but she also knew how dangerous Drucillia could be. Cordelia had to find a way to distract her then find Angel and either run like heel or stake Darla.
"So Dru, seen Spike recently."
Dru flashed her eyes angrily but then smiled. "Don't mention that poor excuse of a Vampire to me. He could
never match up to Angelus no matter how much he tried. Now would you like sugar in your tea?"
Cordelia wasn't ready to give in that easily. "Yeah he's been getting really friendly with the world only sane
Slayer. Now Rileys gone she is fair game and we both know about her fascination for Vampire. I guess Spike has one advantage over Angel; He has no curse so she can screw him 'till her hearts content."
Dru reached up to slap Cordelias face but Cordelia caught the Vampiress's hand in mid-slap and plunged the stake, that was behind her back, into her heart with all her strength. Instead of screaming, Drucillia simply sadistically smiled and exploded into dust. Cordelia closed her fist around the ashes that had fallen into her hand. She headed up the staircase where Darla had taken Angel. She searched Angels room but he wasn't there. Cordelia methodically searched each of the 100 rooms until she came to the Penthouse Suite. She could sense Angel behind the door. She stopped for a moment to catch her breath and then slowly opened the heavily decorated door. She stood back as she adjusted to the scene in front of her.
Angel lay sleeping in the king-sized bed with Darla lying next to him barely covered by a single sheet. Darla
woke with the sound of a gasp escaping from Cordelias lips. She slowly smiled at the look of horror on the
brunettes face, licking her lips. Darla nudged Angel awake.
"Sweetie someone came visiting. I think it's room service with a snack."
Angel looked at the horrified woman standing at the bottom of his bed.
"Ah, the heroes seer. I though Drucillia was turning her downstairs."
Cordelia quickly recovered her cool and masked her shaking voice as her heart broke in two again. "Oh you mean this Drucillia?" Cordelia opened her clenched fist and let the ashes fall to the floor. "I'd says she done and dusted. Anyone else up for a staking? I thought not. So I'm looking for the red-hot pokers as an
explanation for why your sleeping with this old hooker, who has slept her way 'round most of Europe, both
when she was dead and alive." Cordelia looked straight into Angels eyes looking for a glimmer that the Angel she knew was still in residence.
"Don't you dare talk about her like that." Angel shouted, morphing into his game face. "You're
nothing but a seer. Not even the PTB will let you into their realm, your not even worthy of them."
Darla affectionately stroked her fingernails up Angels bare arms. "I think you should be the one to turn her,
my love. After all she was in love with Angel and we have destroy everything he cared about."
Angel climbed out of bed pulling on his robe as he walked to the foot of the bed. Cordelia instinctively moved backwards, away from the bulky figure that was moving towards her, game face still on.
"Now don't struggle and it won't hurt as much but do, please, feel free to fear me as much as you like. I makes the blood that much sweeter."
Angel grabbed Cordelia around her waist to stop her backing any futher away. He brushed her hair away from her tender neck, obscuring Darlas view of the kill. She watched gleefully as Cordelia went limp in Angels arms and lay on the floor.
"Come here, see what is the start of Karma." Angel uttered looking at Cordelia on the floor.
Darla leaned over the body, still and unmoving on the floor. She watched unable to react as Cordelias eyes snapped open and a smile appeared on her face. Cordelia pulled out the stake still in her hand and aimed it at Darlas heart. A sicken crunch filled the air as the stake drove through Darlas ribs and straight into her heart. Cordelia whispered a "Just Deserts!' as Darla cried out and exploded into a dust cloud. Cordelia stood up, brushing the ashes off her jumper and staggering back from Angel. She gripped her side as the pain killers and adrenaline lost their effects. Angel walked towards her but she backed away from his grasp.
"Cordelia, what's wrong? It's me, Angel. It was me all the time." Angel walked towards her again, she kept backing away, staring at him.
She lifted her face and allowed Angel to see her tears. "I knew it was you all the time, that's why this is so
much worse than you think. You slept with her. You slept with another woman. Christ not even Xander did that to me." She went to storm out of the room but Angel gently grabbed a hold of her arm. Cordelia whirled around to face him. "What? You wanna break more of my ribs?"
Angel released her arm and watched as she continued to storm down the corridor and down the stairs. He turned away, setting over the ashes and opened a window, letting the cold now night air to clear the smell of deceit and pain from the room. The ashes scattered in the wind leaving no visible reminders of what had happened that day. He walked slowly into the bathroom and turned on the shower to fill the room with steam. He climbed in letting the hot droplets wash away the smell of sex and lies from his body. Angelus cried out in him, mourning over the loss of Darla. Angel leaned against the lavishly tiled wall and sighed in relief that there was no one controlling him and he could now get on with the redemption that he had been working so hard towards. He felt a presence in the steamed room and tried to clear his eyes but couldn't see a thing then he heard it. A small whimper that he wouldn't have heard if it wasn't for his acute hearing. He pushed the glass screen back to find Cordelia sitting on the toilet, tears streaming from her face. Angel leapt out of the shower to her aid as she broke down and slid off the toilet. He scooped her up in his arms, the water soaking into her clothes. He pulled her in close whispering comforting words into her ear.
"God Angel, why, why did you do it?" Cordelia asked hoarsely through her tears.
"I needed her to trust me. I didn't think that you would walk in and find us there like that. I
thought you would try and keep Dru talking as long as possible and then wait for me to come and rescue you like the Dark Avenger is meant to." He heard Cordelia giggle through the pain. "I'm sorry Cordelia. It didn't mean anything to me. I was thinking of you."
"Oh great, while you were getting all hot and sweaty with your ex-sire turned great grandchilde you were thinking of me. Great way to impress your new girlfriend Angel."
Angel pulled her away and held her at arms length. "Do you realise how long I have waited for you to say that. I have so many times wanted to introduce you as my girlfriend not my assistant or my seer but my girlfriend."
He pulled her back in close and drunk in the scent that he had smelt so many times but it never smelt as sweet as it did now.
"We're not going to get all hot and heavy ourselves here are we 'Cos after all the staking and
fighting and playing I have done to night not to mention Dru's little vortex wind back there, I don't think my
ribs could take anymore bouncing about plus we have that pesky curse to work through. I think I just fancy a large mug of cocoa and marshmallow and settling down into bed with MY boyfriend." She looked up at him and smiled.
He slung a towel around himself and picked Cordelia up into his arms, making her scream as he shook his wet hair over her. He carried her down in the elevator into his room and placed her carefully on his bed. Angel exited through the door and came back in carrying a large mug of hot chocolate with three large marshmallows in it. He climbed onto the bed beside her and sighed.
"So does this mean that I have to hire Wesley back and Gunn too?"
"Well Wesley likes being his own boss and given half a chance I think he will do alright, Nah I think he is happy where he is as long as you give him a helping hand 'Cos he'll get his ass kicked other wise. As for Gunn, he's his own person. He didn't take to kindly to being sacked, he kept saying. 'Who the hell does he think he is, Dark Avenger. He sacked me and I don't even work for him.' followed by a few choice swear words. Anyway we coped well without them before right after Doyle died. I mean we are alright on our own right?"
Angel looked fondly and smiled again. "Yeah we're alright. So what's on TV tonight?"
"Jerry Springer. Hey we could go on that. I could just see it. Meet Angel, the worlds only souled
Vampire and the seer he fell for while staking his ex-sire and trying to get over the worlds only sane Slayer,
Buffy. They would need good demons as bouncers to stop all of us trying to kill each other."
He watched as Cordelias eyes danced with laughter, showing her young age, that he almost forgot. He pulled Cordelia into his still wet form while watching to 20 stone women fighting over their cheating boyfriend, chuckling to himself.
Sometimes you do get what you wish for after all.
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Well it's finished! Yes no more Wishful Think Series, which is still a sucky title, but hey. Please, please let me
know what you think. I am busy writing for the Lost Without Hope series and the Holding On series while
trying to study for my theory driving test!
PS Also I have just seen 'Superstar.' and I have renamed Captain Cardboard, Love Handles Boy, Cos in one scene did he had Love Handles, I really think Rileys got Love Handles. Tell me if you agree!