Change In Destiny: Part III: City Of Angel

TITLE: A CHANGE IN DESTINY: PART III: City Of Angel

AUTHOR: Wicked Angel

RATING: PG nothing to bad just rated it PG anyway

DISCLAIMER: None of this is mine blah, blah

AUTHORS NOTES: This was supposed to be the third chapter REVELATIONS but I'm going to have to make the story a few chapters longer as I can't cram it all into 3 chapters, I hope you are enjoying it so far

SUMMARY: A nervous Buffy and Spike travel to L.A to help Angel and Co. and Angel and Cordy also nervously await their arrival, after a bit of a study session they all decide they are bored and should have some fun as they have a lot of work ahead of them

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"Angel, Cordy can you come in here please?" Wesley's request was drowned out by Cordelia's infectious laughter coming from the kitchen where she and Angel were making breakfast

'God I wish I had told them last night' he thought to himself

"Cordelia will you please be quiet I must talk to you and Angel for a moment" Wesley said in a harsh tone as he stood in the doorway to the kitchen

"Well sorrrrrrrry!" Cordelia said silently annoyed by his tone of voice

"What's up Wesley?" Angel asked as he draped a dishtowel over his shoulder

"Well I have some news for you both, it is of a rather serious nature it concerns some demons who have just left Sunnydale and are believed to be heading to L.A" Wesley looked at them both "They are cursed but the curse looks to be ended, their debt to be paid very soon and when it is, well needless to say they will be ready to cause chaos!"

"And how do we know all this" Cordelia asked as she took her toast from the machine and began to butter it

"Well I spoke to Giles last night and he told me then" he replied

"If he told me last night then why are you just telling us now?" Angel looked confused

"Well you see, we are going to get some visitors today" he looked reluctantly to Cordelia and then to Angel

"Oh yeah, who" Cordelia asked as she picked up her toast to take a bite

"Well... you see... it's...." Wesley stammered not quite knowing what to say

"Get on with it Wes, your eggs are getting cold" Angel looked serious

"Well Buffy is coming down for a visit, to help us with these demons they, have already fought and she has lots of useful information about them" he looked at his bosses eyes as he said her name, they narrowed slightly and Cordelia dropped her toast

"Great so Little Miss Likes To Fight is comin to town – well whoopee doo!" Cordelia exclaimed but was soon silenced by the look she received from Angel

"Emm... that's not all... she's bringing Spike with her" Wesley looked at the ground

"What!" they both said in unison "Why?"

"Well he knows them from his days in Europe and it was him they were after in Sunnydale so he could be a lot of help"

"Yeah great!" Angel muttered, "My ex-girlfriend is coming to town unannounced with my childe from hell in tow!"

"So when is Princess Buffy arriving then?" Cordelia smirked

"Well she and Spike will be leaving after sundown most probably" Wesley answered "But I probably should get cracking on researching these demons I need to know more about them as do you both so we should have breakfast and then come up with some sort of plan before they arrive"

"Sure thing bookworm" Cordelia said as she flicked her hair and headed toward the kitchen, she had never been that big a fan of Buffy but she was going to try and make an effort because they were kind of friends – she decided she would do it for Angel after all Buffy was his destiny

"Okay Wesley, I'll keep my ear to the ground, hunt out the usual lowlifes, see what they have to say " Angel said he followed Cordelia

"Good idea best to find out what we can as soon as we can!" Wesley suggested

"Ha poor Buffy is gonna have to put up with Spike all the way here and back, never mind the fact that he'll be driving, he really isn't good at that I mean when do you think his license actually expired" Cordelia and Angel laughed together in the kitchen

'Yes poor Buffy' Wesley thought to himself 'Poor Buffy indeed'

"Are we there yet?" Buffy looked up at the man sitting next her

"No Slayer we only left half an hour ago, anyway I thought you were gonna go to sleep pet" Spike stared down at the girl with her head resting on his lap and all he could feel was pure love for her

"I couldn't, you were distracting me!" she answered with a petted lip

"What? How?" Spike asked puzzled but kept his eyes on the road

"Well you're just here, and I can't sleep, cos you're right next to me" she smiled at him

Spike managed a muffled laugh before he pulled the car over to the side of the road and grabbed her, he pulled her up onto his lap and started kissing her with all the passion and love his body contained and she responded likewise, he held her tight, neither had felt a love as strong as this ever before not with Angel and not with Drusilla, this was different, this was real.

"Spike why are you holding me so tightly?"

"Slayer I don't ever wanna let you go, I love you"

"Spike I love you too"

And with that he turned her so she sat on top of him on the seat and straddled him and kissed her like the world was going to end

"Spike we have to get to L.A" Buffy mumbled into his lips

"Peaches can wait, but I can't" Spike mumbled back "God I'm glad I painted these windows" as he pulled her silver top over her head and she began to unbutton his black shirt.

Cordelia was frantically running from one room of their offices to the other tidying up and cleaning, dusting and organising not realising that all the time her handsome boss was staring straight at her

"Emm, Cordy what are you doing" he asked looking over the top of the book he was supposed to be reading

"I'm... well I'm... you see... I'm just" she looked disgruntled "I'm just..."

"You're just acting like Martha Stewart, not that I'm that bothered but I hadn't realised I'd let her move in!" Angel grinned at her "You've never been this tidy or cleaned so much in all the time you've been here so what's up"

"Look Angel I'm nervous, I'm the woman around here and if there is something that isn't tidy, or if something isn't perfect or organised or if the decor isn't proper then I'm going to be the one held responsible and Buffy will go back and tell all her little Slayer friends"

"That's a bit of a sexist comment coming from an independent woman like yourself Cordelia, is it not?" Angel looked confused

'He just called me a woman – as in not girl' she thought to herself soon shaking it from her head

"Well you could look it like that, or you could look at it like, I'm sooooo not gonna let Buffy and Co. think Queen C has lost her touch!"

"Ok, but just one thing – you're not Queen C anymore, you're a different person, anyway Queen C never got nervous" Angel gave her one of his 'I'm right and you know it' looks and turned back to his book, he knew Cordelia had changed an incredible amount since she arrived in L.A, she no longer was Queen C, she wasn't as shallow or selfish or any of the things she used to be but she would never let her true side show, especially not to people from her past.

"Right, good, when are they arriving anyway?" Cordelia asked as if she didn't actually care, she was really nervous about seeing Buffy again

"Oh in about twenty minutes" he answered casually

"Right well better put your Mr Broody face on for her arriving" Cordelia chirped

"Shouldn't be too difficult" he grinned

"Yeah I know, but seriously are you alright about all this?" Cordelia felt nothing but pure concern for her boss

"Yup, I think so" Angel avoided looking Cordelia in the eye and returned to being Brood Boy and read his book while she resumed her cleaning.

Buffy and Spike stood outside Angel Investigations hands intertwined staring at the door

"I'm getting a definite feeling of deja vu pet" Spike looked at her

"Yeah I know what you mean" Buffy managed to grin but inside her stomach was churning "We had better go inside they'll be wondering where we are, we're already an hour and half late"

"Well whose fault is that then?" he grinned mischievously

"Eh yours!" Buffy slapped his chest and he leant down and began to kiss her

"Spike" Buffy pulled away "Look it's not that I don't want to, but we really shouldn't, they might see"

"Fine then" Spike said in a huff "Let's go Slayer"

"Spike don't be like that everything will be fine soon enough"

Suddenly there was shouting coming from above them

"Hi! Well are you two gonna come up or stand there bickering all night"

It was Cordelia, she was hanging out the office window her long dark hair flowing behind her, she was wearing a tight orange top and she had a great big grin plastered on her pretty face. Spike couldn't help but stare until he got a swift jab in the ribs courtesy of Buffy's elbow

"Well? I'll buzz you up, just wait a minute" she hollered from the window

"Spike!" she growled at him

"What" he looked at her innocently

The buzzer went and they headed upstairs bickering all the way

"Look shut up Slayer, you're paranoid"

"Spike you are such a freak, no wonder that who left you!"

They walked straight into the office still arguing and then Buffy swung for Spike sending flying half way across the room, he slumped against a wall holding his jaw,

"That's no fair Slayer, you know I can't hit you back and just as well" Spike spat at her

He stood up and walked over to her spitting more insults at her

"Ahem..." Wesley cleared his throat and they both turned round and stared at the three friends all staring at them looking slightly awkward and slightly shocked

"Well nice to see some things never change" Angel said in an attempt to clear the air

"Hey there peaches never seen you there!" Spike walked towards his sire holding his hand out, Angel still couldn't get used to the fact that Spike was well a Scooby now, it was weird but he'd have to adjust and he put his hand out

"Hey Spike" he shook his hand and turned to Buffy

"Hi" he looked her in the eyes

"Hey Angel, how's L.A?" Buffy looked at him, but he still seemed to be his broody self

"Just the usual, and Sunnyadale"

"Well it's just the usual Hellmouth"

"Right well enough with the small talk" Spike interupted, slightly jealous because of the way they were looking at each other but not worried "We have some business to attend to I believe"

"Ah yes I filled Cordy and Angel in on things earlier, did you read the text I gave you" Wesley was glad to swing the attention away from Buffy and Spike, there was to much tension between them

"Ah well you see..." Angel looked at Wesley he had spent the time he was supposed to be reading the text staring at Cordelia cleaning

"Doesn't matter, wasn't that important anyway" Wesley huffed

"Anyone want a coffee or something, because I think we should all sit down and combine what Buffy and Spike know with what we know about these vamps, it'll be quicker that way and we can see if we can come up with a plan because I so wanted a week without never-ending migraines and an apocalypse" Cordelia beamed at everyone and pointed them in the direction of the sitting room

"Sure thing Cordy" Angel answered following her and then everyone started to come through, Buffy was stunned both by her logic and her leading of Angel,

'Queen C so would not have said any of that' Buffy thought to herself

The five of them moved to the lounge area, it was dull but there were a few cushions and throws and a couple of vases of flowers placed randomly throughout the room, Cordelia's attempt to brighten the room up a bit.

They all sat and shared the knowledge that had been found in text, lucky for them there wasn't any specific details about the curse just that they were evil vamps who were cursed but after so many acts of 'good-will to lost souls' would regain their ability to be truly evil again. Then Buffy and Spike named the vampires and described the fight and any relevant information given to them by Giles. However throughout this research session Buffy, Spike and Wesley never mentioned the new blossoming relationship going on between Spike and the Slayer and certainly omitted the part about Cordelia and Angel.

"Right that's all great but what good deed did they carry out in old Sunnydale and how do you know the curse is going to end here in L.A?" Cordelia rubbed her eyes through frustration and exhaustion

"It was all written in some old musty prophecy Giles found and we are still unsure about the good deed bit" Buffy replied yawning

"Well can we read it?" Angel looked to Wesley then to Buffy "It may help"

"No!" Buffy, Spike and Wesley said in unison

"Ok then" Cordelia arched her eyebrows and looked at her boss who looked as confused as her

"Right well I thinks enough research for one night" Cordelia looked around at the tired faces of her 'friends', "Well come on it's Buffy and Spikes first night in L.A and we have spent the best part of it locked up in here reading old books so lets have some fun go grab something to eat and go to a bar or something" Angel grinned and nodded in agreement, it wasn't that he really wanted too but he would never win this argument they had had it too many times

"No thank you I think I will just go home, I am still suffering from that attack the other evening" Wesley looked apologetically as he stood up slowly holding his back

"Yeah that attack by the killer five year old who tripped you up in the park yesterday because you stole his swing" Cordelia and Angel laughed at him

'God Angel is smiling an awful lot' Buffy looked at her old lover 'She is obviously having a good effect on him' Buffy had noticed the chemistry between them but they still hadn't, they were oblivious

"Well as good an idea as that is and as much as I deserve a night off I haven't got anything to wear and the word 'minor' comes to mind" Buffy looked at Spike who seemed to want to go out too

"Don't worry we're in L.A! Anyway you can borrow my clothes and we aren't gonna get an I.D check anyway we're going out with two guy over a hundred!" Cordelia laughed and pulled Buffy to her feet "Lets go to my room and find you something to wear"

"Emm, you stay here?" Buffy looked surprised "With Angel?"

"Well yeah this place has about 8 extra rooms on each of the 3 floors!" Cordelia didn't loosen her grip "I stay on this floor with Angel, he stays about two doors down, but you and Spike will have to stay on the second floor, that's were the guest rooms are"

"Ok" Buffy nodded in agreement excited about the prospect of them having a whole floor to themselves

With that Cordelia pulled Buffy into her room and had in all manner of outfits, meanwhile Angel and Spike fed from the blood supply in Angel's fridge and Wesley went home.

About an hour later

Spike and Angel had been waiting patiently for the girls for slightly over an hour, they fed and Spike changed his shirt from his black one to his red one and had ran a comb through his peroxide hair while Angel simply changed his black shirt and put on another one running his fingers through his hair they were sitting waiting patiently when the two girls emerged from the room looking nothing short of stunning both Vampires took unneeded deep breaths

"You look... well...you look.... fabulous!" Angel looked at Cordelia in awe she always could surprise him, she stood in a long dress, lilac and silver, it had little stringy straps and a slit up the side showing off her well toned tanned long legs seeing just enough but not too much, her long dark hair all pinned up with curly tresels falling down at either side of her face.

"Well I just did her hair and gave her a touch of... Angel why are you looking at ME like that?" Cordelia cocked her head and looked at the strange expression her boss was wearing

"You look beautiful Cordy" Angel suddenly clicked "As does Buffy, you're both... Spike help me out here... Spike"

"What... uh huh... yeah what peaches just said... you look gorgeous ducks!"

Buffy stood next to Cordelia, she was wearing a beautiful pastel green skirt and top her hair was left down and was slightly curled at the bottom, she too looked amazing.

Both women enjoyed the praise but got fed up with the stupid looks on their faces

"Right come on you guys hurry up" Cordelia whined

"Yeah I know move it" Buffy agreed

"Eh... what you two talking about?" Spike looked confused

"Hurry up and get changed so we can get out already!"

"Umm... we did" Angel grinned slightly

"Oh no you don't, you are not going out wearing a black shirt again" Cordelia looked at Angel and then turned to Spike "and Deadboy Jr did anyone ever tell you that red isn't your colour, another thing – no dusters, either of you!"

Buffy couldn't help but laugh, she had forgot how much fun Cordelia could be sometimes and the looks on their faces were classic as she gave them their marching orders and sent them into the bedroom to get changed

"And don't forget to sort your hair" Cordelia hollered after them "Not that there's much hope for you Spike but do your best"

Both Girls collapsed on the couch in hysterics

20 minutes later

Cordelia and Buffy were sitting on the couch and had opened a bottle of wine and were half way through it when the guys finally came out, looking much better, Spike was wearing a midnight blue shirt and a pair of dark trousers and smart black shoes, his hair was, well as good as Spike's hair could be.

"Well that's an improvement" Cordelia looked him up and down nodding her head, and Buffy simply gave him one of her sexiest smiles and an 'I want you look'

"Yes much better" Buffy agreed, he appreciated her approval

Angel stepped out from behind Spike wearing a black/silver shiny metallic shirt and a pair of grey/black trousers with a light pinstripe on them

"Well it's not black but it is still technically black but I can't get my own way ALL the time and you do look good2 Cordelia said taking another swig from her glass and Buffy simply agreed finishing her glass

"So where we going anyway?" Spike asked excited by the prospect of a real night out

"Wherever the night may take us," Cordelia announced mysteriously

"Yeah and wherever YOUR wallets can afford" Buffy laughed looking at the two vamps standing in front of them

"Let's go ducks" Spike grabbed their two hands and pulled the already tipsy girls of the couch

"Yeah it's party time!" Buffy announced winking at Cordelia

Angel offered Cordelia his arm and Spike offered his to Buffy and they headed out the door, when they got downstairs they hailed a cab and jumped in all ready for a night on the town, however they all failed to notice the three shadows skulking suspiciously in an alley way watching them.

"This is gonna be one night out they'll never forget" smirked the large Vampire as he walked out of the shadows and looked at the cab in the distance "Never!"

This was true this would be one night out to remember - ALWAYS