Calls
"Angel Investigations, we help the hopeless," Wesley said.
"Wes… could you come get me?" Angel asked. "And bring clothes."
"Angel?" Wesley sounded uncertain. "Where are you?"
"Hospital, north side of LA," Angel replied. "I think the doctors and I would both be happier if I weren't here."
"Why are you in a hospital?" Wesley asked.
"There's a reason why U-turns are illegal," Angel replied. "They're a bad idea, especially if the on coming traffic consists of a semi."
"Oh good lord. Angel are you hurt?" Wesley asked.
"They put a cast on my arm and my leg," Angel answered in outrage. "I'm a vampire, I don't need casts, stupid doctors wouldn't listen to me… They shocked me too. Just because a person doesn't have a pulse is no reason to go around shocking them!"
"Angel, did you, by any change sustain a head wound?" Wesley asked. "Or has anyone given you medication?"
Wesley could hear a shrug in Angel's soft exhalation of air. "I can't remember. Saw the truck. Bam! The next thing I know some guy's putting electricity in me! They wouldn't let me leave and they got all mad when I tried to take their junk off. The doctors said they would have given me some other type of cast, one that I could have taken off, except I was being an uncooperative patient. I am not uncooperative; they just don't listen to me. Like you actually. It's all yak, yak, yak your heart isn't beating, yak, yak, yak you aren't breathing. It's not like I don't have a perfectly good reason for that."
"You didn't tell anyone you were a vampire did you?" Wesley asked.
"No, but it's still a perfectly good reason and I told them there was a reason."
"The police said if I didn't die they were going to take away my drivers license." Angel announced jumping topics. "Except I've been dead a very long time now and I don't even have a drivers license, so there. They said they couldn't imagine what I was thinking when I tried turning around. I think they're very right about that."
"See I can't just abandon Fred," Angel continued. "I love her, plus the vision, but mostly because I love her. We've been living together as a couple for months; we made a home together. But it's not everyday that a person's girlfriend, the love of his life really, comes back from the dead. I'm sure none of theirs have done that."
"This has something to do with Darla again?" Wesley said in disgust.
"Oh yeah, she came back from the dead too, I forgot about her," Angel said. "But you know what? Darla, who is evil and who I don't even like… well maybe while she was human, but I never liked her as a vampire, not even when we were screwing each other… Anyway, she told me she was back from the dead after only five months. It's been sixteen months and Buffy still hasn't told me. Will had to do it for her."
"Angel, Buffy is gone, she isn't coming back," Wesley said, concern replacing the irritation in his voice. "Whatever Spike told you, he was lying, playing with you."
"You wouldn't think that if Xander had told me," Angel declared sulkily. "You have double standards. I don't wanna talk to you anymore."
Wesley's head thudded against his desk as the disconnected line hummed in his ear.
With a sigh he dialed Willow's number.
"Hey LA," Willow answered sounding nervous.
"Caller ID, I'll never get used to it," Wesley said. "Willow, this is truly awkward for me, but Spike told Angel…"
"Buffy's alive," Willow replied without waiting for Wesley to ask. "I take it Angel's on his way?"
"He was delayed," Wesley said with a heavy sigh. "An auto wreck."
"He's not hurt is he?" Willow asked with concern.
"I'm certain he'll be right as rain in no time," Wesley replied. "You know how resilient he is. However, he apparently passed out and someone attempted to have attempted to resuscitate him using a defibulator, it left him a touch off. Still I'm sure after a good night's rest he'll be fine. There may also be some complications with the hospital staff, not to mention the police."
"Well as long as he's okay," Willow said. "We just won't tell Buffy about Will spilling the beans until Angel's feeling better."
In the background Wesley heard Spike shouting, "Buffy, Angel's coming. I told you, you should have told him right away!"
"Shoot me now… Please?" Willow said.
