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Rating: PG-13

Summary: Cordelia deals with more (funny) consequences from becoming a demon, while Spike makes a visit to L.A. A/C

A/N: Please review or send any comments or flames to my email above :) Words inside words are what the characters are thinking, and ***( )*** is someone having a vision. Bear with me on the symbols, it doesn't let me do italics :) This takes place after Provider, Season 3 on Angel, and I guess Gone, Season 6 on Buffy.

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Chapter Ten: The New Me

Cordelia felt her head swimming. She didn't know where she was. Why did she keep thinking that she was dead? The pain wasn't there anymore, but she couldn't bring herself to open her eyes. She didn't understand why she could hear voices....and yet the words didn't make sense, what they were saying didn't make sense. She hadn't told them anything about Connor....so how did they know everything she knew?

* * *

Dawn felt behind her, quickly grabbing a book and smashing it into Spike's head. He roared back in pain, shaking his head. He came at her again, and Dawn ran to his fridge.

Blood, he wants blood, Dawn grabbed a jar of pigs blood, turning around to see Spike watching her intently.

"Spike, h-here...This will make you feel better..." Dawn handed him the blood.

Spike didn't respond, instead grabbed Dawn, the blood crashing to the floor.

"Spike! Please," Dawn gasped, as his head came to her neck. "Don't be what Buffy thinks you are...I know you're not a monster," Dawn felt him release her, and she stepped back quickly.

Spike looked confused, and then ran out, leaving an even more confused Dawn behind.

* * *

Spike finished drinking blood from a cat he had caught. His mind was clearer now, less jumbled. Jesus, I attacked Nibblet Spike punched a wall, his fist going through it. He swore, catching another cat, feeding.

I have to go find Angel, and help him get Cordelia back.

Spike found a guy trying to steal a car a block away. He threw the man aside, and hopped in the car, driving towards L.A.

* * *

"So Lilah's dead," Gavin asked.

"Yes sir. She was found with a broken neck in her office. The project is being handed over to you," His secretary reported.

"Good, and Miss Chase?"

"We still have her. She's in a confused state...It's your call what we do with her."

"Excellent," Gavin grinned.

* * *

Angel went through the mail, noticing a small package.

"Hey, it's okay, don't cry," Angel said, singing to Connor, trying to open the mail at the same time.

"Here, let me see the little guy," Lorne held Connor, wandering off.

Angel noticed that the package was from Wolfram and Hart, and quickly tore it open.

Inside was a video, and Angel placed it into the VCR.

A room came into view, Cordelia being led into it. She was strapped into a chair, and a buff woman began questioning her, Lilah grinning the entire time. Cordelia refused to give out information, and Angel felt anger inside him, as over and over the woman created a new source of pain for Cordelia. When the woman was done, Cordelia seemed to have had every bone in her body broken.

They were going to pay, for what they had done to her. For what they've done to my Cordelia Angel swore.

* * *

Spike headed into the hotel, seeing Angel grabbing numerous weapons.

"So you know," Spike stated.

"What do you want Spike?" Angel said coldly.

"To kill the buggars that did that to her."

"Then get a sword."

* * *

The two vampires entered Wolfram and Hart from the front. Angel threw down a glass jar, containing a potion that Fred had bought, and watched as everyone around him and Spike were thrown into slow motion.

Running into the halls, they went to Lilah's office, where they found Gavin sitting in his chair, enjoying his new position.

"Hello," He said, grinning. "Enjoy the movie?"

Angel moved to decapitate him with his sword, but found he couldn't move.

"Oh, I've got a protection shield around me....very helpful. I believe you're looking for Cordelia?"

Angel growled, as he and Spike continued to try and break down the shield.

"You can have her. Although, I might warn you...she's not exactly all there at the moment."

"Whatever you've done to her, I'll do to you a thousand times worse," Angel swore, and Gavin could see the honesty in his eyes.

Taking a step back, Gavin regained his nerve.

"Oh she's not in pain anymore...we healed her. And you could say that we...brought out her true self," Gavin pressed a button, and a wall swung back to reveal Cordelia, only it wasn't Cordelia.

It was something totally different.

* * *

Dawn decided not to tell Buffy about what had happened with Spike.

Buffy however, was worrying once again, about the nerd trio. Willow had found out information on Warren, that he had been expelled from one of his middle schools, for attempting to kill a student.

That meant that Buffy was going on patrol, searching for possible places the nerd trio could be hiding out. Willow was doing research - the old fashioned non-magic way, and Anya and Xander were looking up possible protection spells that Tara could place on the group so that none of them were affected by nerd trio testing.

Dawn sat on her bed, knowing something was extremely wrong.

Spike could hurt her, she had bruises on her neck where he had held her with an extremely strong hand. So his chip was gone, or ineffective, but that didn't matter. What mattered was if he had chosen to have it taken out, or if it had been done by force.

*Why would anyone *want* the chip taken out? Dawn wondered. Unless it's an evil person who did it... She tried to remember what evil people she knew that Buffy hadn't killed.

Drusilla? Dawn wondered. Harmony...but she's not exactly the big plannin type....actually not much of a thinking of any kind type. What about the law firm...Wolfgoat and Deer?

"That's not it," Dawn rolled her eyes. Who would name their lawfirm that?

* * *

Cordelia's entire lower half resembled a cat. A large black cat. She stood on her legs like a person, as if she were a cat walking on her hind legs. Her tail swished furiously, back and forth, back and forth.

Her top half was more human, the torso, but her elbows down had sleek black hair covering them, her hands with short black hair, claws for nails.

The only way they could tell that the demon was Cordelia, was the face. Her hair, her nose, her mouth.....they remained Cordelia. Her eyes were green, catlike, and her ears were now pointed at the ends. She had the two black horns on her forehead, and her sharp canines, as she bared her teeth.

"Cordy," Angel breathed.

"Kill them," Gavin ordered.

Cordelia set her gaze upon Gavin, then Angel and Spike.

"Yesss," She hissed, and leapt at the two.

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