Chapter 7: Longest Chapter yet
By: Hope
"Angel!" Cordelia said, hugging her friend as he entered the apartment. "We were worried that something might…." She looked down and saw the baby who was crying. "why hello there cutie." She said in a baby voice. She reached out her arms, hoping that she would be able to hold him and she looked at Angel pleadingly. "please?" She asked.
Angel looked at her then at the baby. He had promised Darla that he wouldn't let anyone touch her son. He wanted to be everything and so much more for him but…but what that cab driver had said to him affected him inside somehow. He handed the baby to Cordelia.
Cordelia smiled happily and continued cooing the new born baby as Angel walked over to Gunn and Westley whom were pacing back and forth in the bedroom of the apartment. Westley looked up and smiled at Angel. "Good to know that we all made it, I presume that Fred is with you?" Westley asked.
Angel's smile dropped immediately as westley asked the question. "You mean she's not here with you?" Without giving him any time to answer, Angel ran into the living room. "Cordelia, have you seen Fred?"
Cordelia looked up at Angel with an emotionless face. "We thought she left with you…"
"WATCH Conner, don't let anything near him, don't let anything else in this whole building. I'll be back as soon as I can, with Fred." A second later Angel was back outside, running towards the hotel, that was where she would go if she was in trouble, he was sure of it.
"Who's Conner?" Cordelia asked, confused. Westley looked at her then at the baby and she followed his gaze. "Oh."
Meanwhile…
"This is the street!" Buffy said, breaking an hour or more of silence in the small car.
Spike made a right onto the street and looked at Buffy whose gaze was locked on a large building to the right of them. "I fancy this is it then, mate?" Spike asked, following her gaze to the 1920's style hotel.
Buffy answered Spike by looking at him, her face blank from all emotion and then staring back at the hotel. "Well it seems that Angel has gotten pretty popular with the vampire and demon community around these parts." Spike said, noticing all of the demons that were gathered around the hotel. "I don't think we'll be able to get a bloody parking space within a block or two at least." He said, looking around for an open piece of curb.
"What do you…?" Buffy asked, snapping out of her trance. She looked around and saw all of them, gathering in front of the house. The demons with the purple robes were working on their spell and the vampires were getting out of their cars, getting ready to rush into the hotel for whatever reason they had. "…mean." Buffy finished.
She leaned over the passenger seat to get her weapons bag. "Why hello there." Spike said to himself, smirking. While Buffy had tried to reach over to get her bag, in the 10 seconds or so that she was locating and lifting it up at least, her butt was placed right in front of Spike.
"Been working out slayer?" Buffy ignored the comment and brought the bag to the front seat, opening it to reveal a very nicely polished and VERY sharp double bladed Axe, four stakes, some holy water, a sword and a crossbow. Buffy quickly grabbed a stake and shoved it up her sleeve, perfectly concealing it and took the sword out, admiring it's shine.
Spike took the Axe, smiling at it. Buffy looked at him and thought that he was reliving some kill or great moment long ago…Spike was thinking about how many pieces he would cut Angelus up into once they met again. He noticed her staring and gave a weak smile before looking out onto the street. "Do you suggest we play nice or just kill as many of them as possible, trying to get to Angelus in there?" Spike asked, already bloodthirsty for a kill.
Ever since he had gotten that damn chip in his head, the only high that he was able to get was off of killing other demons…and of course being with Buffy but that was different.
After Buffy had died by jumping into the portal he had searched for Doc's body, the demon that had thrown him off of the tower. But it was gone. He kept telling himself that maybe he was swallowed up by the earth when that earth quake thing happened during the portal but then again, he knew better. He knew that a demon would survive at the most impossible odds if they were determined. Buffy stepped out of the car and Spike snapped out of vengeance land and followed her lead. A dirty, cheap looking vampire was the first to spot them and instead of calling to the other vamps and demons, he decided to walk over there and make fun of the little human girl with a sword. "What is a little…" He sniffed the air around Buffy and smiled. "…helpless human girl doing here on a night like this?"
Vampires these days, they just had absolutely no taste in who they sired. It was a real shame, Spike had sired some pretty good vamps himself back in the days. It was just too bad that he couldn't contribute anymore to the vampire community, now all he could do was to rid it of lugs like the vamp in front of him.
"Little, yes. Girl, yes." Spike backed up from Buffy, he wanted to make sure that he wouldn't get hit by the sword or a stake when she was kicking the crap out of this guy. Buffy pulled the sword from behind her back and smiled. "Helpless, hell no." She swung the sword like a baseball bat and took the vamp's head off before he even realized what was happening.
The guys in the purple robes stopped their chanting and all of the demons, vampires, humans and other faced Buffy and Spike. "They are here to protect the child…" A vampire in a sort of ninja outfit snickered. "Won't do you any good, no one can protect the child from us. He was born from the darkness and it is there that he shall die."
Buffy and Spike just looked at the vampire like he was crazy. "I'm not here to protect any child but now that you mention it, I think I could do some more good work in this city while I'm here. And another thing, I know someone that can protect this child or whatever it is from you." Buffy said, holding the sword up as though she was ready to strike at any given time.
"And what makes you think that, little girl?" The vampire asked, starting to walk closer to the slayer and her vampire companion.
The rest of the demons had oddly stayed still, watching what was going to happen. "Because she's the bloody slayer you imbeciles." Spike yelled, half laughing.
Spike looked at Buffy and shrugged. "Sorry mate, but you were taking to long to come up with one of those cute puns of you…" The vampires and other demons began to charge at them.
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"Why hello." The green faced demon said as he walked into the lobbey of the hotel…somehow able to make it through the vast mass of demons and vamps which surrounded it. He held two suitcases in his hands which he dropped to the ground as he looked around, expecting to see Angel and the others pacing back and forth there, wondering what to do next. "Angel? Cordy? …Evil vampire hunter?" He said quietly as he walked down the steps and looked around the place.
The two cages that had been brought there by Wolfram and Hart were tossed to the side of the room, with the labels 'mother' and 'baby' still attached and fresh blood dripping down the sides. "He…" He heard something drop behind him and by the time he turned around there was a short blond girl pointing a sword at his face. "…lo.." he said, putting his head down, expecting to be killed right away.
"Where is Angel?!" she asked, hardly able to contain her emotions.
He knew this girl from somewhere…he searched his memories and saw the day when Angel had come to him to sing 'Mandy'…this was Buffy Summers. One thing that almost no one else knew about his powers was that he was able to read as far into their past as he could into their future and this girl was a major part of both Angel's past and future. "I…I don't know." He said, starting to slightly whine. "I came here to spend a few nights." He said pointing to his luggage, buffy didn't budge or even remove her eyes from his. "I even have my bags there to prove but…I'm a friend of Angel's." He stated simply, knowing that the small talk wouldn't help his situation at all. This girl was pulsating so many different emotions that he was beginning to get a headache from it, but he knew that she wouldn't hesitate to kill him if she thought that he was there to harm Angel or… "I own the karaoke bar, maybe he told you about it? He has had it destroyed quite a number of times now…"
"Buffy!" Another voice came from upstairs as a figure emerged from the hallway and began jogging down the stairs, but then smiled as he saw _______ (what's the green demon guy's name??) being held up against the wall with a sword less than an inch away from his face. "There's someone up here, can't get her out of the room though, and she gave me a bloody headache. I thought she was a vampire or demon of some sorts…but no such luck." He shrugged and walked up to Buffy and _______.
"That's probably Fred…." ______ said, hoping that this would help him. "She also works for Angel, remember, he went to go meet you somewhere a few weeks back, you have to believe me, I mean your wrinkling my new shirt and everything." After a few moments Buffy released him, looking down at the ground.
"Sorry…i…" She let the thought hang as the demon looked at her.
This girl had been through so much pain in her life…she didn't even have to sing for him to be able to tell her her own future or what she was feeling. His eyes began tearing as he explored her life. She was just a girl when she found out what she was destined to be, destiny had no mercy on anyone in this world it seemed. She had been expelled and moved to Sunnydale to go to school, hoping that her destiny would stay in L.A. but it didn't and she went through more hardships in Sunnydale than she could have ever encountered in L.A.
The one time she had been truly happy had been ripped away from her, torn out by the person that wore the face of the one that she loved and trusted most. And when her love had finally returned to her she had to send him away again, sentence him to hundreds of years of pain…of torture and only to come back to her again and make her relive all of those moments.
She had been betrayed by those she had trusted most and almost everyone that she had ever loved had been taken away from her in some way shape or form…and when she finally met peace she was once again ripped out of it.
Fate clearly had no sympathy or idea of what it was putting this one girl through. "It's alright…" He said, trying to hold back the wave of emotion that had overcome him when he looked into her soul.
"I'll watch this one here, you can take care of that Fred girl, convince her we're…your not evil." Spike finished as she ran up the stairs. He sat down on one of the benches and lit up a cigarette and pointed to the cages. "Who were those for?"
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A/N: I think it's kinda long but i just couldn't stop writing, lol. Does anyone know the name of that green psychic demon? i cna't find it anywhere!!
