Title: It's Not like I Got to Choose
Chapter: Intro/15 The Newcomer
Author: stonecold_48228
Web Address: http://www.buffymail2002.com
Rating: NC-17 Eventually
Pairings: Connor/Serenity, Cordy/Angel, Angelus/Serenity, Wesley/Lilah, Fred/Gunn/ Faith/Connor, Buffy/Spike, Xander/Anya
Authors Note: I had to change the dialogue. I couldn't stand the fact the whole Cordy/Connor thing. That's just nasty. Anyhow, I gave Cordeila a younger sister named Serenity. She's about 17/18 years of age. I also changed that fact that Cordeila came back from the higher plane back at the Casino to help Angel and she also had her memory back. Angel and Cordy have a good relationship, and they extend their stay in Vegas to catch up.
Summary: Angel and the gang return from their vacation to find Buffy and the Scooby Gang in the lobby. Buffy Presents Cordy's younger sister "Serenity" to notify Cordy that her parents were brutally murdered and Serenity spent the summer with Buffy because she couldn't reach them and that Serenity is in danger
Spoilers: BTVS Season 7 ATS Season 4 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sunnydale
Serenity sat in the passenger side of the seat watching the full moon follow them to Angel's place. She rolled up her window, getting annoyed from Buffy and Dawns complaints about the cold air. "Thank god, you finally closed that damn window." Dawn angrily spoke.
"Hey you! Watch your mouth." Buffy responded while pinching Dawn's arm.
The girls began to bicker and argue once more, for the hundredth time while riding. Serenity looked over to Xander, who was about to fall asleep on the road. She caressed the back of his neck to try and wake him. "Don't fall asleep yet. We're almost there." Serenity said calmly, ignoring the fact that Buffy and Dawn were about the kill each other again.
Xander looked to Serenity and smiled. She reminded him so much of Cordy when she was that age. She had so many of her features. He couldn't believe the nerdy freshman sister of Cordy's would become such a woman. She had her braces removed and she wore contacts instead of glasses. Her hair was straight thick blonde that was mid-back length. Her eyes were hazel green, and they always seemed to glow in the darkest night. She was so quite, and very humble. He felt bad for all the times that he had been rude to her. He wondered if Serenity and Cordy ever had a good relationship. The only relationship he ever saw back in high school was when Cordy would ask Serenity to pretend that she didn't know her.
"Was this a good idea to bring her to the sister that she probably hates?" Xander thought. Xander cleared his troubled mind to keep his concentration on the road.
He glanced over to Serenity. She continued to stare out her window of the car, watching the dark road of the freeway. He hoped that he was doing a good thing, taking her to Cordy. She had no place else to go. He was worried though. He couldn't quite figure out just why they haven't been able to get in touch with her all summer. That wasn't like Cordy to just ignore such important messages like that.
Xander hesitated to ask Serenity how she felt about the whole situation. It was her senior year of high school, and he wanted her to spend her last year living with her sister. Buffy thought it was a good idea to just show up, since we all began to worry about their disappearance.
Xander listened to the bickering girls behind him. "Would you guys shut up? Can't you see I'm trying to drive here?" Xander screamed.
Buffy and Dawn immediately clamed down. "Opps. You did it this time." Dawn said giving her older sister an evil smirk.
Before Buffy could respond, Xander jumped in.
"That is enough girls. We have another hour before we get to Angels. Until that time, I don't want to hear a peep out of either of you understand?" Xander said shouting to the rear view mirror of the car.
"God, I can't believe I have to ride these mongrels back home." Xander said under his breath. He looked over to Serenity once more to notice that she had something on her mind. Xander looked into his rear view mirror to see that the girls had fallen asleep.
"It looks like the girls couldn't handle staying quite for an hour." Xander said smiling at Serenity. Serenity looked to see the girls sleeping peacefully. "Yeah. They're so funny." Serenity said giving Xander a returning smile.
"She was so beautiful." Xander thought.
"Serenity, I don't know if it's right to bring this up right now, but I just want to say that I'm so sorry about your parents. I know it's been hard for you. You're almost 18 and you've been through so much." Xander spoke. "I know Xander. I can't talk about it right now. I just can't I'm sorry." Serenity said leaving Xander's eyes to stare at the moon once more.
Xander turned on the radio and continued to drive.
When they finally arrived to Angels, Xander turned off the ignition and sighed with relief that they finally arrived. He looked over to Serenity to see that she was peacefully sleeping.
Quietly getting out of the car, Xander entered the Hotel. Buffy's Slayer instincts woke her when she heard the door quietly close. She woke Dawn and Serenity.
"He guys. We're here. Come on let's get out of the car." Buffy Said as she exited the vehicle. Serenity opened her eyes. The light pole from outside stung her eyes as she opened the car door. Buffy and Dawn began to stretch as the got out. Serenity gave the tall hotel a look of amazement. Her sister worked here? This huge hotel was Angel Investigations?" Serenity thought. She the cold air of the night began to pierce her skin. She ignored it. She could only think about finding a way to give herself the strength to tell her big sister that her parents were dead, and that she spent the entire summer with Buffy and the Scooby gang, because Cordy suddenly disappeared for the summer.
Serenity pulled her long blond hair into a ponytail irritated by its length. Buffy and Dawn entered the hotel, and Serenity entered slowly behind them. Serenity stuck her hand in her pocket, looking for the letter she spent the entire evening practicing on how to present it to Cordy.
They stood in the lobby of the Hotel, calling out Cordy and Angel. They heard nothing but silence. Serenity looked disappointed yet, relieved. "Well guys. It looks like no one is here and no one is going to be here." Serenity said taking off her black trench coat, exposing her tight black blue jean out-fit that she wore beneath it.
"Guys. It's late. They're probably out patrolling. Besides, we didn't drive all this way to just call their names out in the lobby, and then go home. Xander's tired and we all need rest. Well sleep here tonight, and figure things out tomorrow." Buffy said walking over to the front desk to see if they left any notes.
Xander's relief put him to ease. "I'm going to go get our bags. Serenity and Dawn can go upstairs to see if they can find some rooms for us to sleep." Xander said as he exited the hotel to go to the car.
Dawn excitedly grabbed Serenity's arm and ran her upstairs to the second floor. They both slowly examined the place, still holding hands in fear from all the silence. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? LA
Connor walked through the old abandoned highway, patrolling for Vamps. He hadn't found one all night. He had a full stomach and he was energized and ready to fight. Walking through the cold night, he stumbled across a family stranded out their from car trouble. He quietly watched them for a moment. Longing to find out what family was like. He began to remember how nice Fred treated him. She was the closest thing to a mother he ever had. He felt so bad for the way he betrayed her.
Connor cleared his thoughts, and decided to confront the family to see if they needed any help. Connor walks up to the car and looks to the kid in the back seat. "Are you okay?" Connor Asks.
The kid calls out for his father who comes around to the side of the car. "Can I help you?" The Father Asked." "You're In Trouble." Connor replied. "No. We're Fine." The Father answered. Connor looks at the kid and notices his baseball cap. "I like your hat." Connor tells the kid.
The father nervously tells him they've called for help as a truck comes speeding around the corner and pulls to a stop near their vehicle. The father turns to see the truck, then turns back to tell Connor help has arrived but Connor has disappeared.
The father tells the guy who gets out of the truck they're just in time, he doesn't know if the car needs a "jump or a tow." The truck driver vamps out and says he votes for "jump" as he attacks the man.
Another vamp jumps out of the truck, runs to the car, smashes the driver's side window and tries to pull the mother out. Connor stakes him from behind and asks the woman if she's all right. He doesn't wait for an answer as he pulls the cigarette lighter out of the dash and takes it with him, and then attacks the vamp driver.
During the fight, Connor gets thrown into the bed of the truck. He jumps up with a large gasoline can and beats the vamp with it, spilling some of the contents onto his opponent. He does a back flip out of the truck bed and disappears. The vamp returns to attacking the father. Connor calls to the vamp, getting his attention. He tosses the red hot lighter at the vamp who, with one hand catches it, setting himself on fire.
Connor tries to help the father up. He pulls away from Connor, not sure what to make of him. Connor looks at the car. "Is that your family?" Connor asked trying to start a friendly conversation with the man.
"Dad." The kid in the car calls. The father looks over to Connor, not sure what to say. He then runs to the car to comfort his family and Connor silently watches. He didn't want to admit it, but he missed Angel and the gang. And most of all, he missed his dad, Holtz. Connor decided to leave before they called the police.
Back at the hotel, Buffy checked the answering machine to see if the gang left them any messages. She heard a few messages, then she heard the message she left 2 days ago, notifying them that she was coming in to town.
Buffy began to worry. Where are they? These messages are new messages, meaning they haven't been checked." Buffy said to herself.
Xander re-entered the hotel, carrying the heavy bags with him. "Do you girls carry the entire bathroom with you?" Xander joked, dropping the heavy bags beside him. Buffy ran over to Xander. "Xander, I think something's wrong with the others. I just checked they're messages, and they haven't been checked since I called." Buffy whispered.
Xander returned Buffy with a worried look. "That was 2 days ago. You think they are in trouble?" Xander asked.
"I don't know, but we are not going to worry Serenity with this okay?" Buffy whispered.
"Worry me with what?" Serenity asked overhearing their conversation as she walked downstairs continuing to hold Dawns hand.
"It's nothing Serenity. Did you guys find any rooms?" Buffy asked.
Serenity gave Buffy a confusing look. "I don't know what's going on Buffy, but something isn't right." Serenity spoke.
"What do you mean?" Xander asked.
"Well, when Dawn and I were looking for rooms, I found Cordy's room, and it was filled with boxes of stuff. It was like she was packing to move or something." Serenity said releasing her hand from Dawns.
"Where's my sister? I thought you said you talked to Angel." Serenity said demanding answers.
"I'm sorry Serenity. I wasn't exactly honest with you about this. See, we came here not only to take you to Cordy, but to find out why we haven't heard from them. I never spoke with Angel at all this summer. I just spoke to the answering machine.
"You mean, they've been missing all summer?" Serenity asked.
Buffy walks over to Serenity to comfort her. I don't think they've been missing all summer. Look at this place. It's been very well kept. There's no dust anywhere. Someone's been taking care of this place, and we're not leaving until we find out whom." Buffy spoke.
Meanwhile, Connor leaps up on to the second floor ledge outside of the building. He jimmies the window open and goes inside. He looks around as he walks down the hallway, stopping at the second floor landing, peering around the corner down into the lobby watching the strange group of people standing in the office.
"Buffy this is crazy. They are probably patrolling. I mean, how often do you check your messages?" Dawn said folding her arms.
"Look Dawn. This isn't the time for joking. We've gotta find Angel and Cordy." Buffy said.
"Would everybody just calm down? They're around here somewhere okay? Serenity said walking towards the door to leave.
Suddenly, Angel and Cordelia enter holding hands and kissing passionately. Fred and Gunn enter, smiling at the couple until they notice a young girl approaching them.
"Hi. I'm sorry, we're closed." Fred tells the young woman.
"Cordy?" Serenity asks.
Cordelia pulls herself from Angel in shock. "Serenity? Buffy? Oh My God!" Cordelia excitedly walks over to Serenity and gives her an excited hug.
Serenity was not excited to see that her sister was out having a wonderful time, when she should have been mourning her dead parents did not return the hug, but in return she began to cry. "This is not how I expected this to be." Serenity quietly said. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
TBC.................................
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Chapter: Intro/15 The Newcomer
Author: stonecold_48228
Web Address: http://www.buffymail2002.com
Rating: NC-17 Eventually
Pairings: Connor/Serenity, Cordy/Angel, Angelus/Serenity, Wesley/Lilah, Fred/Gunn/ Faith/Connor, Buffy/Spike, Xander/Anya
Authors Note: I had to change the dialogue. I couldn't stand the fact the whole Cordy/Connor thing. That's just nasty. Anyhow, I gave Cordeila a younger sister named Serenity. She's about 17/18 years of age. I also changed that fact that Cordeila came back from the higher plane back at the Casino to help Angel and she also had her memory back. Angel and Cordy have a good relationship, and they extend their stay in Vegas to catch up.
Summary: Angel and the gang return from their vacation to find Buffy and the Scooby Gang in the lobby. Buffy Presents Cordy's younger sister "Serenity" to notify Cordy that her parents were brutally murdered and Serenity spent the summer with Buffy because she couldn't reach them and that Serenity is in danger
Spoilers: BTVS Season 7 ATS Season 4 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sunnydale
Serenity sat in the passenger side of the seat watching the full moon follow them to Angel's place. She rolled up her window, getting annoyed from Buffy and Dawns complaints about the cold air. "Thank god, you finally closed that damn window." Dawn angrily spoke.
"Hey you! Watch your mouth." Buffy responded while pinching Dawn's arm.
The girls began to bicker and argue once more, for the hundredth time while riding. Serenity looked over to Xander, who was about to fall asleep on the road. She caressed the back of his neck to try and wake him. "Don't fall asleep yet. We're almost there." Serenity said calmly, ignoring the fact that Buffy and Dawn were about the kill each other again.
Xander looked to Serenity and smiled. She reminded him so much of Cordy when she was that age. She had so many of her features. He couldn't believe the nerdy freshman sister of Cordy's would become such a woman. She had her braces removed and she wore contacts instead of glasses. Her hair was straight thick blonde that was mid-back length. Her eyes were hazel green, and they always seemed to glow in the darkest night. She was so quite, and very humble. He felt bad for all the times that he had been rude to her. He wondered if Serenity and Cordy ever had a good relationship. The only relationship he ever saw back in high school was when Cordy would ask Serenity to pretend that she didn't know her.
"Was this a good idea to bring her to the sister that she probably hates?" Xander thought. Xander cleared his troubled mind to keep his concentration on the road.
He glanced over to Serenity. She continued to stare out her window of the car, watching the dark road of the freeway. He hoped that he was doing a good thing, taking her to Cordy. She had no place else to go. He was worried though. He couldn't quite figure out just why they haven't been able to get in touch with her all summer. That wasn't like Cordy to just ignore such important messages like that.
Xander hesitated to ask Serenity how she felt about the whole situation. It was her senior year of high school, and he wanted her to spend her last year living with her sister. Buffy thought it was a good idea to just show up, since we all began to worry about their disappearance.
Xander listened to the bickering girls behind him. "Would you guys shut up? Can't you see I'm trying to drive here?" Xander screamed.
Buffy and Dawn immediately clamed down. "Opps. You did it this time." Dawn said giving her older sister an evil smirk.
Before Buffy could respond, Xander jumped in.
"That is enough girls. We have another hour before we get to Angels. Until that time, I don't want to hear a peep out of either of you understand?" Xander said shouting to the rear view mirror of the car.
"God, I can't believe I have to ride these mongrels back home." Xander said under his breath. He looked over to Serenity once more to notice that she had something on her mind. Xander looked into his rear view mirror to see that the girls had fallen asleep.
"It looks like the girls couldn't handle staying quite for an hour." Xander said smiling at Serenity. Serenity looked to see the girls sleeping peacefully. "Yeah. They're so funny." Serenity said giving Xander a returning smile.
"She was so beautiful." Xander thought.
"Serenity, I don't know if it's right to bring this up right now, but I just want to say that I'm so sorry about your parents. I know it's been hard for you. You're almost 18 and you've been through so much." Xander spoke. "I know Xander. I can't talk about it right now. I just can't I'm sorry." Serenity said leaving Xander's eyes to stare at the moon once more.
Xander turned on the radio and continued to drive.
When they finally arrived to Angels, Xander turned off the ignition and sighed with relief that they finally arrived. He looked over to Serenity to see that she was peacefully sleeping.
Quietly getting out of the car, Xander entered the Hotel. Buffy's Slayer instincts woke her when she heard the door quietly close. She woke Dawn and Serenity.
"He guys. We're here. Come on let's get out of the car." Buffy Said as she exited the vehicle. Serenity opened her eyes. The light pole from outside stung her eyes as she opened the car door. Buffy and Dawn began to stretch as the got out. Serenity gave the tall hotel a look of amazement. Her sister worked here? This huge hotel was Angel Investigations?" Serenity thought. She the cold air of the night began to pierce her skin. She ignored it. She could only think about finding a way to give herself the strength to tell her big sister that her parents were dead, and that she spent the entire summer with Buffy and the Scooby gang, because Cordy suddenly disappeared for the summer.
Serenity pulled her long blond hair into a ponytail irritated by its length. Buffy and Dawn entered the hotel, and Serenity entered slowly behind them. Serenity stuck her hand in her pocket, looking for the letter she spent the entire evening practicing on how to present it to Cordy.
They stood in the lobby of the Hotel, calling out Cordy and Angel. They heard nothing but silence. Serenity looked disappointed yet, relieved. "Well guys. It looks like no one is here and no one is going to be here." Serenity said taking off her black trench coat, exposing her tight black blue jean out-fit that she wore beneath it.
"Guys. It's late. They're probably out patrolling. Besides, we didn't drive all this way to just call their names out in the lobby, and then go home. Xander's tired and we all need rest. Well sleep here tonight, and figure things out tomorrow." Buffy said walking over to the front desk to see if they left any notes.
Xander's relief put him to ease. "I'm going to go get our bags. Serenity and Dawn can go upstairs to see if they can find some rooms for us to sleep." Xander said as he exited the hotel to go to the car.
Dawn excitedly grabbed Serenity's arm and ran her upstairs to the second floor. They both slowly examined the place, still holding hands in fear from all the silence. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? LA
Connor walked through the old abandoned highway, patrolling for Vamps. He hadn't found one all night. He had a full stomach and he was energized and ready to fight. Walking through the cold night, he stumbled across a family stranded out their from car trouble. He quietly watched them for a moment. Longing to find out what family was like. He began to remember how nice Fred treated him. She was the closest thing to a mother he ever had. He felt so bad for the way he betrayed her.
Connor cleared his thoughts, and decided to confront the family to see if they needed any help. Connor walks up to the car and looks to the kid in the back seat. "Are you okay?" Connor Asks.
The kid calls out for his father who comes around to the side of the car. "Can I help you?" The Father Asked." "You're In Trouble." Connor replied. "No. We're Fine." The Father answered. Connor looks at the kid and notices his baseball cap. "I like your hat." Connor tells the kid.
The father nervously tells him they've called for help as a truck comes speeding around the corner and pulls to a stop near their vehicle. The father turns to see the truck, then turns back to tell Connor help has arrived but Connor has disappeared.
The father tells the guy who gets out of the truck they're just in time, he doesn't know if the car needs a "jump or a tow." The truck driver vamps out and says he votes for "jump" as he attacks the man.
Another vamp jumps out of the truck, runs to the car, smashes the driver's side window and tries to pull the mother out. Connor stakes him from behind and asks the woman if she's all right. He doesn't wait for an answer as he pulls the cigarette lighter out of the dash and takes it with him, and then attacks the vamp driver.
During the fight, Connor gets thrown into the bed of the truck. He jumps up with a large gasoline can and beats the vamp with it, spilling some of the contents onto his opponent. He does a back flip out of the truck bed and disappears. The vamp returns to attacking the father. Connor calls to the vamp, getting his attention. He tosses the red hot lighter at the vamp who, with one hand catches it, setting himself on fire.
Connor tries to help the father up. He pulls away from Connor, not sure what to make of him. Connor looks at the car. "Is that your family?" Connor asked trying to start a friendly conversation with the man.
"Dad." The kid in the car calls. The father looks over to Connor, not sure what to say. He then runs to the car to comfort his family and Connor silently watches. He didn't want to admit it, but he missed Angel and the gang. And most of all, he missed his dad, Holtz. Connor decided to leave before they called the police.
Back at the hotel, Buffy checked the answering machine to see if the gang left them any messages. She heard a few messages, then she heard the message she left 2 days ago, notifying them that she was coming in to town.
Buffy began to worry. Where are they? These messages are new messages, meaning they haven't been checked." Buffy said to herself.
Xander re-entered the hotel, carrying the heavy bags with him. "Do you girls carry the entire bathroom with you?" Xander joked, dropping the heavy bags beside him. Buffy ran over to Xander. "Xander, I think something's wrong with the others. I just checked they're messages, and they haven't been checked since I called." Buffy whispered.
Xander returned Buffy with a worried look. "That was 2 days ago. You think they are in trouble?" Xander asked.
"I don't know, but we are not going to worry Serenity with this okay?" Buffy whispered.
"Worry me with what?" Serenity asked overhearing their conversation as she walked downstairs continuing to hold Dawns hand.
"It's nothing Serenity. Did you guys find any rooms?" Buffy asked.
Serenity gave Buffy a confusing look. "I don't know what's going on Buffy, but something isn't right." Serenity spoke.
"What do you mean?" Xander asked.
"Well, when Dawn and I were looking for rooms, I found Cordy's room, and it was filled with boxes of stuff. It was like she was packing to move or something." Serenity said releasing her hand from Dawns.
"Where's my sister? I thought you said you talked to Angel." Serenity said demanding answers.
"I'm sorry Serenity. I wasn't exactly honest with you about this. See, we came here not only to take you to Cordy, but to find out why we haven't heard from them. I never spoke with Angel at all this summer. I just spoke to the answering machine.
"You mean, they've been missing all summer?" Serenity asked.
Buffy walks over to Serenity to comfort her. I don't think they've been missing all summer. Look at this place. It's been very well kept. There's no dust anywhere. Someone's been taking care of this place, and we're not leaving until we find out whom." Buffy spoke.
Meanwhile, Connor leaps up on to the second floor ledge outside of the building. He jimmies the window open and goes inside. He looks around as he walks down the hallway, stopping at the second floor landing, peering around the corner down into the lobby watching the strange group of people standing in the office.
"Buffy this is crazy. They are probably patrolling. I mean, how often do you check your messages?" Dawn said folding her arms.
"Look Dawn. This isn't the time for joking. We've gotta find Angel and Cordy." Buffy said.
"Would everybody just calm down? They're around here somewhere okay? Serenity said walking towards the door to leave.
Suddenly, Angel and Cordelia enter holding hands and kissing passionately. Fred and Gunn enter, smiling at the couple until they notice a young girl approaching them.
"Hi. I'm sorry, we're closed." Fred tells the young woman.
"Cordy?" Serenity asks.
Cordelia pulls herself from Angel in shock. "Serenity? Buffy? Oh My God!" Cordelia excitedly walks over to Serenity and gives her an excited hug.
Serenity was not excited to see that her sister was out having a wonderful time, when she should have been mourning her dead parents did not return the hug, but in return she began to cry. "This is not how I expected this to be." Serenity quietly said. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
TBC.................................
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