Three very confused men, two of them bruised or bleeding, stared down at the limp form of an unexpected, and rather violent interruption to what was a completely confusing case to begin with.  Gunn swore as sat gingerly on the couch, his softer parts still aching.  "Damn Cordy…. if you are supposed to be the vision-girl, the least you could do is WARN a guy about dangers like that." 

"Hey!"  She protested, "I don't see how getting your soft and danglies a little squished would be important enough for the PTB to give ME a vision…HELLO. Not to mention a blinding head ache."

"At any rate."  Wesley interrupted them before the argument escalated, his words softened because of his split lip.  In fact, He looked more than a little worse for wear.  Blood was still trickling from the cut over his eye, not deep enough to scar, but still it looked horrible.  There were more scratches on his arms and chest wounds that Angel was currently treating with antiseptic and bandages.  And, to his chagrin, the inversed crescents of a bite mark turning a rather violent shade of purple on his shoulder.

  "Despite her…ah…exuberance, we must remember that WE were the ones she found in HER apartment." 

"He's right you know." Angel said over his shoulder.  The only thing we can do until she wakes up is research that sigil we found painted on the wall of the bedroom."

 //Painted in blood, not a good sign.  But if She has no wounds that it could have come from…whose blood is it? //

"Well, I know for a fact, that it was her face I saw in the vision, screaming, and that squiggly thing as well, but what was it all about?"  Cordy scrunched up her face as she reviewed the notes in her notebook, a handy-dandy record she kept of ALL her visions. 

"Yes…the 'squiggly thing'.  It is not of a language that I am familiar with, but surely that photo we took will be of help there.  I shall  give call Sunnydale and fax Giles a copy of it.  Maybe they have book there that could provide us with some information." 

"In the mean time…WHAT are we to do with the hell-cat?"  Gunn asked with a grimace.  "I don't think waking up in a strange place surrounded by people she pummeled is going to have her in the best of moods.  And I for one have had all of THAT I can take" 

Angel pondered that for a moment.  "Well, we can't chain her up.  She's not a demon…we don't even know what she was doing there…if she belonged there in the first place.  There's something very odd about this whole situation.  She was not in the least surprised that I was a vampire.  There's more here than we suspect."  

"Well, I agree with Gunn.  She certainly won't appreciate seeing you three first thing, especially with the headache she's going to wake up with."  Cordy frowned in sympathy.  "Why don't you guys finish patching up and get into research-mode.  I'll stay here with her, and see what I can find out."

"Are you sure?" Wesley asked worriedly "We don't know who she is or what she's capable of.  Anything could happen."

Cordy sighed heavily.   "I can handle myself.  It's not like you will be too far away to hear me shout if I need help, which I really doubt I'll need to do."

The three men left to find out what they could, and Cory went to the kitchen and retrieved some aspirin and a cool damp washcloth, knowing the woman would need it. 

Cat opened her eyes and knew instantly that something was wrong.  She was bound, hand and foot, and leaning against a cold damp wall of stone.

 //Wait a second.// Then she remembered the fight, and the three men in their apartment. 

//Son of a bitch!//

 She tried to open her eyes, but one of them was swollen shut. The wet her dry lips and tasted blood and felt the pain of a split lip.  //Hold on.  None of them was even able to get a punch in edgewise...what's going on?//  Then she knew.  The eyes she peered out of were not her own.  They were her sister's.  Somehow, she was with Kris, wherever that was.

A hand grabbed her…her sister's arm cruelly, fingernails digging into skin made cold by the clammy surroundings. 

"So Bitch…my little birds thought they could fly away from their Master did they?"

            The twins screamed.

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Author's Notes:  Okay….so Chapter 2 is done.  I apologize for the small chapters, but I know how tedious long chapters with little formatting can be, so once I get the hang of this FanFiction formatting, they will probably be kinda short.  Again, please read and review, seriously.