Ten years later, the boy now a man falls out of bed screaming for
his life. A tall dark figure leans over to him and the man screams
"No father! Don't hit me! No not the stairs!" The man takes a deep
breath and looks up at the figure, its his boss. The man lets out
a sigh of relief.
"Another nightmare Wesely?" his boss asks.
"Yeah, I'm sorry I screamed at you Angel." he said as his face
reddened.
"Its okay," he said in a reassuring voice," I'm just glad you stayed
here last night."
"Yeah, me too."
Cordelia came into the room with a glass of water and some aspirin.
She hands them to Wesley and he thanks her. He begins rubbing
his forehead. Cordelia looks at Angel. Wesley begins to count.
"1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10."
He looks up and the phone begins to ring. He knows who it is before
he even answers it. He walks over to the phone on weak knees, he
lets a tear fall from his eye. He knew there would be many more
to come. He picked up the reciver and asked "Hello?"
"Wesley!" the girl on the other end of the phone cried.
"Shh, Kathy I know, its okay, its just a dream. Clam down dear."
"But Wesley! Its gotten vivid during the last week. He's coming
back! He's coming to get us! Oh God we're gonna die!" she begins to
cry.
"No, he's dead!" Wesley says not hearing his own voice.
"We don't know that Wesley! Do you have proof?"
"No. . ."
His voice trailed off and he began to sob. His sister on the other
end did the same. He cried with her on the phone for over an hour.
When he hung it up he walked slowly to the door. By the time he got
there someone had rang the bell. He opened it and ran into the arms
of his sister. He ran his fingers through her hair as she cried in
his chest.
"Come now, dry your eyes. Lets go to the room I'm in and we can talk."
She nodded and he lead her to his room. Angel and Cordelia sat across
from one another at the desk. The room was completely silent. Angel
just stared at the door to Wesley's room. Then came a knock at the
door. Cordelia jumped up and ran to it. When she opened the door
she saw a small fat man with wire rimmed glasses.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Yes, I need help finding my children. Do you do that?" he asked.
"We can do that. How long have they been missing?"
"Oh about. . . ten years."
"Okay, I'll try to look them up for you. What are their names?"
"Wesley and Kathy."
Cordelia stopped in her tracks. She looked at this man and almost
kicked herself in the head for not noticing this earlier. He looked
like Wesley and he had the same kind of accent as him. His hair was
dark brown like Wesley's and his eyes were dark green, like Kathy's.
She lead him over to the waiting chair and walked over to Angel.
"Keep and eye on him." she whispered.
Angel just nodded, he knew not to argue or question her. He sat at the
other end of the room watching this man. Suddenly the man got up
and walked over to him. Angel hated him more than any human ever. He
didn't even know this man, but he hated him. As the man got closer
Angel seemed to hate him more and more. Then he spoke and Angel
knew why he had hated this fat man before.
"Do you have a bathroom in this place?"
Angel pointed to the other end of the room where there was a door
with a sign that said 'restrooms'. The man blushed slightly and it
took every ounce of strength to hold Angel back from ripping this
mans throat out. The man walked off, as he dissapeared into the
bathroom Wesley and Kathy came out off his room.
Angel looked at them and Wesley got a sickening sensation. He walked
over to Angel with his sister's hands holding onto his for dear life.
They knew who was in that bathroom and they didn't want to face him.
Not now, not ever.
Wesley looked around and saw a bat in the corner of the room. He
walked over a picked it up. The door to the bathroom opened and
Kathy gasped. The man walked slowly towards them. He got a cruel
smile across his face. Cordelia came running into the room. He looked
over at her and smiled.
"Guess I don't need your help after all dear." he walked closer to
them.
"You get any closer to them and I'll have you for dinner." Angel
growled.
"Oh I'm scared." the man said as he got closer. He pulled a tazor
from his pocket and hit Angel with it. The hit was strong enough
to knock him off his feet. Cordelia ran to the side of Angel to
help him up.
"See I told you I'd be back, didn't I?" he asked.
Wesley began to back up, he held the bat behind his back. The man
kept getting closer and closer. Kathy began to whine, she knew what
was coming. She knew what he would do to her and Wesley, but Wesley
had different plans. The man was within arms reachand he tried to
grab Kathy but Wesley pushed her to the side. He pulled the bat from
behind his back and swung at his father. It hit the man in the side
of the head.
He didn't fall though, instead he swung back with his fist. He hit
Wesley in the jaw. Bones cracked throughout his face. Kathy cried
out, Angel was getting up off the floor. Wesley put his face down
and it seemed to everyone he was crying.
"Oh poor baby. What are you gonna do, cry? Cry like the wussy you
truly are? Go cry baby. In the end your still dead."
Wesley looked up at him, his eyes full of hate. No tears had been
shed. Angel had begun to walk towards them. Wesley hit the man
with the bat again and again. Finally the man fell. A sea of relief
fell upon Wesley and Kathy. He took a deep breath and threw the bat
down.
They began to walk away from him, and the man got up off the ground.
He had blood running down his eyes and he had lost a tooth. He
spit blood onto the ground and lunged at Wesley. He knocked him down.
The man was sitting on top of Wesley and began beating him. Over
and over. Hit after hit. Angel was fully awake now and began running
towards this man on top of Wesley.
He pulled the man off and stood him to his feet. He began hitting
the man over and over. "How do you like it!?" Angel screamed. When
the man stopped fighting Angel snapped his neck. He dropped the body
to the ground and turned to face his surprised friends staring at him
in horror.
"What?" he asked innocently.
"Come on Wes," Cordy said," lets get you to the hospital and get you
fixed up."
"Yeah." he said through the blood in his mouth.
They began to walk off. Kathy turned and stopped. She stared at the
body of her father. Wesley and the others did the same. A minute of
staring at him she shruged and walked out with the others. Her
and Wesley let out a long sigh. They knew it was over. No more
hurting.
END