Hey sorry for the delay in the update, I've been busy with school and work and I have less and less time to update. So here it is please R&R

"Hey Cordelia…." Tierney knocks on her bedroom door.

"You're up!" Cordelia says as she opens the door.

"Yea, I need to ask you something….have you ever seen this before?" Tierney asks holding out the knife.

"No, where did you get it?" Cordelia asks taking hold of it.

"I woke up and it was in my - in my room."

"Maybe we should go tell Angel or someone…" Cordelia suggests

"No! I want to figure this out, let me take care of this ok? Please Cordelia?" Tierney pleads.

Cordelia sighs "All right, for now."

"Thank you. Can you hide this for me." Tierney breaths a sigh of relief, "Hey what time is it?"

"Uh 8:45"

"In the morning?! I have to go, I'll talk to you later." Tierney rushes off

"Was that Tierney?" Angel asks walking past Cordelia's room.

"Yea, she had to go somewhere." Cordelia answers putting the knife in her night table.

Angel glances at Cordelia as she leaned over "What are you looking at?" Cordelia snaps turning around

"Huh? Oh I uh-no- I - nothing." Angel stammers

Cordelia smiles knowing how uncomfortable she has made Angel. "Do you like what you see?" She teases him

"No-uh—well yea." Angel admits looking at Cordelia as she walked towards him

"I thought so, come here." She pulls him closer.

"How long can we keep this up?" Angel asks backing off a little.

"Keep what up? Whoo nice look for you Cordy you should display it more often." Gunn whistles

Angel looks pissed but Cordelia interrupts before he does something stupid. "Take your first and last look Gunn cause this is it." Cordelia snaps

"I can take a hint, later." He walks off

"That was close." Angel whispers

"Too close, why can't we just tell them?" Cordelia whines

"In due time." Angel promises "I got to go." He gives her a quick kiss and leaves.

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Tierney walks hurriedly down the bustling streets, trying to get to her destination unnoticed. She finally reaches the bar that was in her dream last night. A crowd of people are formed and cops are walking around busily.

"Hey you!"

Tierney jumps and turns around.

"Yea you, what are you doing back here?" A homeless women asks her.

"What do you mean doing back here?" Tierney stammers.

"Last night, you were here, at least I think you were, you disappeared into thin air, you and that other girl."

"Other girl?" Tierney asks confused "You mean the one who got killed?"

"Murdered is more like it, you should know you did it yourself, while that other one barked orders to you. I called the police, but they came too late, no reliability on them now a days. Now unless you have some unbelievably good reason for this I suggest you leave."

"I didn't do it." Tierney exclaims "I swear."

"Just as I thought" The women turns away "Excuse me, officer! Officer! I need assistance over here!" The women hollers, but when she turns around Tierney is already gone.

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"Cordelia! I'm so glad I found you." Tierney exclaims running into the hotel.

"Yea me too, I want to ask you something." Cordelia says

Tierney takes a seat, "All right, ask away."

"Well you know Angel right?" Tierney nods slowly "OK bad question, OK so you know how he's a vampire and all and I'm just a regular person, well a seer but other then that a regular person…."

"What are you getting at? Ohhhh you and Angel." Tierney says emphasizing the and part. "Oh, I see, well yea I guess that could be a problem but as long as you sure he's not going to take a bite out of you….you should be fine."

Cordelia sits there stunned for a minute.

"Cordelia! I was just kidding, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, it's just like going out with a guy I guess all guys are difficult his difficult-ness will just be a little different from your average man."

"I guess your right…..yea…so what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Um well this is hard to explain and quite unbelievable actually…."

"…but?" Cordelia asks

"I think I know who this killer is." Tierney answers stalling.

"You do? Well who is it? This is great, we have to go and get everyone and-"

"We can't do that."

"Why not?" Cordelia sits back down

"Because I'm the killer. But I'm not really, somehow I am. I'm not sure yet. That knife-the one I asked you to hold, I found it in my room, in my hand this morning covered in blood, this women at the crime scene said she saw me and another women. She said she saw me kill the person. But I didn't do it! I swear." Tierney explains pacing.

"Oh..oh…well I'm sure there's something we can do about this.." Cordelia stammers

"I should get out of here or something, I mean what if someone saw me, it could put you guys out of business."

"No, stay here." Wesley walks into the room they're in. "I believe it's your subconscious mind that's doing this. That whoever it behind it was able to get into your head and use you to kill the victims, using their own power."

"I don't get it" Tierney answers still confused

"Come with me into the office I'll explain it more thoroughly there." Wesley motions for her to follow him

"What's going on?" Angel asks coming downstairs

"We found our killer." Cordelia announces

"So why do I feel like it's almost not a good thing?"

"Cause it's Tierney, but don't worry it's really her subconscious, cause the women behind this is just using Tierney-"

"As a pawn?" Angel supplies

"Basically."

"So let's go help them."

"I have a better idea." Cordelia wraps her arms around Angel "I want to have a relationship the right way."

"Which way is that?" Angel asks softly giving her a kiss

"A public one, so I can get dressed nice and hold you hand and take a walk, and maybe…I don't know maybe kill a demon or two?" Cordelia asks smiling

"You want to go out on a date?" Angel asks

"Yes, I do."

"But what about Tierney? We can't let anyone else get killed."

"We'll have Gunn and Wesley stay with her at all times." Cordelia tells him.

"A date." Angel smiles "Go get dressed I'll take care of everything else."

Cordelia's eyes widened in disbelief "Oh my- I'll be right down." Cordelia hurries up the stairs. She smiles happily to herself and whispers "A date."

TBC"d soon I hope this chapter doesn't suck it's almost 1 in the morning lol so please R&R