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Alex Drummond had just stepped off the bus and into Los Angeles.
She couldn't believe that she had made it this far without the Council trying to stop her.
As she passed the panes of glass she got a quick look at her reflection, she had managed
to cover up the bruise under her left eye, but could do nothing about the swollen lip.
It was later then she had hoped to arrive, but none the less,
she still might have time to see her "sister," before the trial tomorrow.
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"You're kidding?" Cordy was so shocked she almost fell out of her chair.
"What?" mouthed Wesley.
"OK, I'll be there, tonight." Cordy hung up the phone and shrieked as Angel walked in
"Oww! Thanks for the headache." Angel said.
"I've been called for a second reading on a commercial I auditioned for a few days ago."
"That's great." Wesley said from the other side of the counter.
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"Taxi!" Cordelia tried to wave down the taxi that was barreling down the street.
"Darn it!" She stomped her foot on the sidewalk. Considering this was a usually a very busy area at night,
it seemed a little too quiet for her liking.
She continued walking and as she passed the third alley images flashed into her head. "Not now."
She leaned against the nearest building and tried not to fight it.
She saw female vampire with dark hair, fighting with another female with red hair,
who looked about ten years old. They could be mother and daughter.
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"I'm sorry mother." the second female whispered as a stake was plunged through the vampire's heart.
"Father...." the second female cried looking around the dark room.
"Alex." her father's voice filled the room.
Her eyes darted around the room for any sign of movement.
Finally she saw it, her father, he had been bitten. "NO!"
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The imagines stopped and Cordy dug for her cell phone and dialed Angel.
"Angel I'm at 38th and Jackson, I just had a major....."
The pain and images returned before she passed out.
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Alex turned left from the prison and as she wandered down the street, she wondered when they would do, when they
found out what Giles had done for her.
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"Cordelia." She opened her eyes to see Angel and Wesley's concern.
"What happened?" asked Wesley.
Cordy slowly sat up and began to tell them about the vision.
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She found an all night cafe and walked in. At least it was quiet, so she could gather her thoughts.
Sitting in the corner booth, she began digging through her book bag.
"About time." She mumbled pulling out a small well worn journal and opened it to the middle of the journal and stared at the portrait of a man named Angel.
Her thoughts drifted towards the last few moments of her father's life.
"Promise me." Alex's father said.
"I promise." Alex said as she saw the light in her father's eyes go out.
"Oh, isn't that sweet?"
"Get away from me." Alex threatened the dark corner.
"That's no way to talk to your father is it?" the corner replied.
"This is my father." Alex said letting go of her father.
"True, true, but I made you the way you are."
Alex hissed and beared her vampire teeth.
"That's my girl..." red eyes appeared from the darkness.
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Three voices snapped her out of her thoughts. Two men were badgering another man seated at one of window booths.
One of the voices sounded like Iyia's, a blue haired vampire she had been in more than a few fights with, so she decided to see what was going on.
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David Nabbit tried to ignore his former business partner and his body guard badgering him at the cafe table.
He tried to get up and leave, but Robert and the bodyguard pushed him back down.
"Excuse me," said a voice from behind them, "Do any of you know the way to San Jose?"
Iyia froze, he figured with all the beatings she had taken, that she'd be dead by now.
"Iyia, are you being a bother to this nice young man?" Alex asked.
Iyia slowly turned around, and when he did he saw her turn vampire. "What no hello?" she jeered.
"Hello." Iyia said swinging.
"Hey you guys get out of here!" yelled a waitress.
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Alex watched to make sure Iyia and his boss left for good.
"Excuse me." David Nabbit approached from behind.
"Yes?" She stared at the blood on her thumb.
"I just wanted to thank you."
"Not necessary." Alex responded as she began to walk towards the homeless shelter.
"David Nabbit."
"Alex Drummond."
"You're not staying there are you?" David referred to the shelter.
"I've no other place to go." she pointed out.
"I know you just met me, but I'd feel really horrible, if you stayed in a shelter tonight...."
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