I~ To warn everyone, I've been thinking a lot lately. And the more I think about it, the more I'm pissed about how Cordelia never gets a break. It's just one thing after another. She get's nothing out of what happens to her. I mean, to apologize Angel just buys her clothes. She actually forgives him that quickly?! NO WAY! That is NOT the Cordelia Chase I know and love. So ergo, I'm going to be doing some ranting later in the chapter. I think you'll recognize it when you get there! Ok, toddles! ~ /I
Aftermath
By Jules
Chapter 3
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Spike was walking to Giles' when he bumped into Angel, Wesley, and Gunn, literally. Right in front of Giles' place.
"Peaches! You're in Sunnydale!"
"How many times have I told you not to call me that."
Spike shrugged, "Don't know, don't care. So what are you doing here out of bloody LA?" he pretended to not know that it was linked to Cassandra.
"None of your business Spike." Wesley informed him.
"What are you doing here?" Angel asked.
"Same thing Xander does, I'm here to bug them." Spike told Angel smiling, and then went in calling out, "The poof and his disciples are here."
Everyone turned to look at Angel.
"Hello Angel." Buffy stammered, standing up.
"Hi Angel! What brings you to town. Cordy didn't call to tell me you were coming." Willow exclaimed.
"She is the precise reason we are here." Wesley explained.
"Yeah, the boss's ex turned her. She's a vamp now." Gunn clarified, "Oh, I'm Gunn by the way."
"Cordelia's a vampire?" Xander repeated, paling.
Angel finally spoke, everyone could see the anguish in his eyes, "Cordelia's gone, forever. Darla and Drusilla had her for a week before they turned her into a vampire. They spent it torturing her. They cut her, beat her, broke her bones . . . they told her that no one cared about her and that the only reason I'd kept her around was that she was my link to the PTB. And she believed them, because I'd fired all of them the day they took her, so we didn't even realize she was gone . . . . When she started to go crazy, Darla finally turned her. Named her Cassandra. When Cor - Cassandra came to visit me, she told me. She also told me that she liked it better this way, now she had people that loved her. That no one hurts her anymore. That she didn't care that I didn't love her, even though she loved me."
Everyone, including Wesley and Gunn looked at him shocked, the two hadn't heard the story, and everyone was shocked by it, especially the fact that Cordelia loved Angel, and from the sound of things, he loved her too.
Spike took that moment to sneak out. He had to get to Cassandra and warn her Angel was in town.
Buffy noticed he was gone a few moments after he left, "Hey, where'd Spike go?"
Everyone looked around, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Maybe he didn't feel like dealing with Deadboy and left." Xander guessed.
Buffy doubted it, knowing Spike had been hanging around her more, and wouldn't leave just because Angel was there, but didn't say anything.
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Spike ran to the mansion quickly. Running through the door, and up the stairs. He literally ran into David, who was buttoning up his shirt on his way out from a game of Truth or Dare.
Spike didn't even stop to chew David out for being in his way; he had news for Cassandra.
"Pet, guess who's in town."
"Dru?" Cassandra guessed, as she dyed thin chunks of hair dark red.
"She came yesterday Andra. Angel is here. With the Angelettes. Wimp Watcher and some black guy."
"But Angel hates coming back to Sunnydale! Why would he come back?"
Spike sat down and thought for a moment, "I don't know . . . but it can't be good. He came to tell everyone that you'd been turned . . . but he could have bloody well done that over the phone." Spike couldn't think of anything, so he changed the subject slightly, "Oh well, on the upside, he sounds very upset over the fact that you were turned. It sounds like he really cares for you pet. More then a friend at that."
Cassandra's eyes lit up and she turned to look at him, "Really Spike?"
"Yep, looks like we're headed in the right direction."
Cordelia squealed and spun around the room (luckily having just finished putting the streaks in her hair), finally stopping in front of her closet, "I want to look very pretty when I surprise Angel . . . and beat him up."
Spike gaped at her, taken aback by her last sentence, "What was that pet?"
"I've been thinking, a lot. And I realized, he hurt Cordelia's feelings that day. He discarded her like she was nothing. Just threw her away. And that makes me angry. In fact, I'm extremely PISSED! I've been thinking about this a lot. About Cordelia's life. She's NEVER gotten a break. Everyone just pisses all over her. I mean, first, she's born into a family, and though they're rich, they don't care about her. She tried to make up for it by surrounding herself with people who act like they adore her 24/7, but she knew how precarious the balance is between her being their leader, or having them dump her. It was her only piece of security in life. She finds out about demons and things, and eventually fall's for Xander, and falls in love with him. She gather's up her courage, and makes the fact that she loves him publicly known, and her whole world comes crashing down. Everything she knows is gone. But she thinks that he is worth the sacrifice. But do the group understand when she's a bit touchy? NO. THEN she walks in on Xander and Willow cheating on her, and get's a rebar through the stomach, very painful!
Her parent's never even visit her in the hospital. She tries to get back in with her former friends, making a tentative dent, and then her family loses all their money! Now she can't let anyone know about it, because she'll once again lose the things she has such a precarious grip on . At Graduation, her school blows up, and she has to help make sure no one else dies. So basically, she's lost her parents, she's struggling on her own, and there's nothing keeping her in Sunnydale anymore.
So Cordelia ups and moves to LA to try and make it as an actress. She eventually ends up in a dingy apartment, stealing food from parties so she doesn't starve to death. She meets Angel at a party, but figures it's just like a chance meeting. The next day, a guy who she thinks can help her, Russell Winters, calls and asks her to come over. That he'll help her make her break into Hollywood. But it turns out, he's a vampire. Angel saves her just as she's about to become demon food. She goes to work for him, and helps him start up his company, not that she gets any thanks for it. So once again, she's helping fight the badies of the world. Her apartment becomes majorly infested with icky bugs, so she moves in with Angel. Doyle finds her an apartment, but guess what, it comes complete with a ghost who's trying to kill her. They exorcize the evil ghost, but not without her almost dying once again in the process. Next, she begins to fall for Doyle, whom no one has bothered to tell her is half-demon. She finally gets told, and they kiss for the first time, just before he goes and kills himself to save everyone. To make matters worse, she doesn't just have to morn his death, his kiss gave her the damn vision from the PTB that tell Angel where there are people in need. So she's dealing with these visions, but no thanks what so ever. She finally starts dating again, and the first guy she sleeps with, causes her to wake up eight months pregnant with eight demon babies. Angel and Wesley manage to save her again, but man does she never want to date again.
Angel becomes her friend, and they talk a lot. Especially after she gets cursed with never ending visions and ends up in the psych ward at the hospital. Their offices blow up hours later, and so everyone moves into her apartment. She and Angel really bond, and are each other's family. They finally find new offices at this Hotel where Angel lived at during the 50's, and everything seems like it's starting to be ok . . .
Then Angel starts sleeping all the time, and grows distant. Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn have no idea what's going on. And then, out of nowhere, Angel fires them all. Throwing them out. Cordelia's best friend, the only person she's been able to depend on, and truly care's about has abandoned her. She's wandering the streets. Mother sees her, torture's her for a week, then finally turns her. She becomes me."
Cassandra's face was in its demon visage and she was pacing about the room wildly, looking very angry. Spike could tell how dangerous it would be to speak now.
"That BASTARD hurt her! He never cared about her at all! He was just using her because she was his link. The moment he felt he didn't need them anymore, he cast her to the streets. Not caring about her one little bit. Cordelia Chase never got a break in her whole damn life and he fucking knew it! I can't STAND that. I HATE liars." She growled dangerously, "Angel knew how much she depended on him. He deserves pain. I want him to feel the heartbreak she did. He will PAY for what he has done." Then she did a complete 180 and smirked, "And then AFTER he does, I'll forgive him and do him!"
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Aftermath
By Jules
Chapter 3
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Spike was walking to Giles' when he bumped into Angel, Wesley, and Gunn, literally. Right in front of Giles' place.
"Peaches! You're in Sunnydale!"
"How many times have I told you not to call me that."
Spike shrugged, "Don't know, don't care. So what are you doing here out of bloody LA?" he pretended to not know that it was linked to Cassandra.
"None of your business Spike." Wesley informed him.
"What are you doing here?" Angel asked.
"Same thing Xander does, I'm here to bug them." Spike told Angel smiling, and then went in calling out, "The poof and his disciples are here."
Everyone turned to look at Angel.
"Hello Angel." Buffy stammered, standing up.
"Hi Angel! What brings you to town. Cordy didn't call to tell me you were coming." Willow exclaimed.
"She is the precise reason we are here." Wesley explained.
"Yeah, the boss's ex turned her. She's a vamp now." Gunn clarified, "Oh, I'm Gunn by the way."
"Cordelia's a vampire?" Xander repeated, paling.
Angel finally spoke, everyone could see the anguish in his eyes, "Cordelia's gone, forever. Darla and Drusilla had her for a week before they turned her into a vampire. They spent it torturing her. They cut her, beat her, broke her bones . . . they told her that no one cared about her and that the only reason I'd kept her around was that she was my link to the PTB. And she believed them, because I'd fired all of them the day they took her, so we didn't even realize she was gone . . . . When she started to go crazy, Darla finally turned her. Named her Cassandra. When Cor - Cassandra came to visit me, she told me. She also told me that she liked it better this way, now she had people that loved her. That no one hurts her anymore. That she didn't care that I didn't love her, even though she loved me."
Everyone, including Wesley and Gunn looked at him shocked, the two hadn't heard the story, and everyone was shocked by it, especially the fact that Cordelia loved Angel, and from the sound of things, he loved her too.
Spike took that moment to sneak out. He had to get to Cassandra and warn her Angel was in town.
Buffy noticed he was gone a few moments after he left, "Hey, where'd Spike go?"
Everyone looked around, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Maybe he didn't feel like dealing with Deadboy and left." Xander guessed.
Buffy doubted it, knowing Spike had been hanging around her more, and wouldn't leave just because Angel was there, but didn't say anything.
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Spike ran to the mansion quickly. Running through the door, and up the stairs. He literally ran into David, who was buttoning up his shirt on his way out from a game of Truth or Dare.
Spike didn't even stop to chew David out for being in his way; he had news for Cassandra.
"Pet, guess who's in town."
"Dru?" Cassandra guessed, as she dyed thin chunks of hair dark red.
"She came yesterday Andra. Angel is here. With the Angelettes. Wimp Watcher and some black guy."
"But Angel hates coming back to Sunnydale! Why would he come back?"
Spike sat down and thought for a moment, "I don't know . . . but it can't be good. He came to tell everyone that you'd been turned . . . but he could have bloody well done that over the phone." Spike couldn't think of anything, so he changed the subject slightly, "Oh well, on the upside, he sounds very upset over the fact that you were turned. It sounds like he really cares for you pet. More then a friend at that."
Cassandra's eyes lit up and she turned to look at him, "Really Spike?"
"Yep, looks like we're headed in the right direction."
Cordelia squealed and spun around the room (luckily having just finished putting the streaks in her hair), finally stopping in front of her closet, "I want to look very pretty when I surprise Angel . . . and beat him up."
Spike gaped at her, taken aback by her last sentence, "What was that pet?"
"I've been thinking, a lot. And I realized, he hurt Cordelia's feelings that day. He discarded her like she was nothing. Just threw her away. And that makes me angry. In fact, I'm extremely PISSED! I've been thinking about this a lot. About Cordelia's life. She's NEVER gotten a break. Everyone just pisses all over her. I mean, first, she's born into a family, and though they're rich, they don't care about her. She tried to make up for it by surrounding herself with people who act like they adore her 24/7, but she knew how precarious the balance is between her being their leader, or having them dump her. It was her only piece of security in life. She finds out about demons and things, and eventually fall's for Xander, and falls in love with him. She gather's up her courage, and makes the fact that she loves him publicly known, and her whole world comes crashing down. Everything she knows is gone. But she thinks that he is worth the sacrifice. But do the group understand when she's a bit touchy? NO. THEN she walks in on Xander and Willow cheating on her, and get's a rebar through the stomach, very painful!
Her parent's never even visit her in the hospital. She tries to get back in with her former friends, making a tentative dent, and then her family loses all their money! Now she can't let anyone know about it, because she'll once again lose the things she has such a precarious grip on . At Graduation, her school blows up, and she has to help make sure no one else dies. So basically, she's lost her parents, she's struggling on her own, and there's nothing keeping her in Sunnydale anymore.
So Cordelia ups and moves to LA to try and make it as an actress. She eventually ends up in a dingy apartment, stealing food from parties so she doesn't starve to death. She meets Angel at a party, but figures it's just like a chance meeting. The next day, a guy who she thinks can help her, Russell Winters, calls and asks her to come over. That he'll help her make her break into Hollywood. But it turns out, he's a vampire. Angel saves her just as she's about to become demon food. She goes to work for him, and helps him start up his company, not that she gets any thanks for it. So once again, she's helping fight the badies of the world. Her apartment becomes majorly infested with icky bugs, so she moves in with Angel. Doyle finds her an apartment, but guess what, it comes complete with a ghost who's trying to kill her. They exorcize the evil ghost, but not without her almost dying once again in the process. Next, she begins to fall for Doyle, whom no one has bothered to tell her is half-demon. She finally gets told, and they kiss for the first time, just before he goes and kills himself to save everyone. To make matters worse, she doesn't just have to morn his death, his kiss gave her the damn vision from the PTB that tell Angel where there are people in need. So she's dealing with these visions, but no thanks what so ever. She finally starts dating again, and the first guy she sleeps with, causes her to wake up eight months pregnant with eight demon babies. Angel and Wesley manage to save her again, but man does she never want to date again.
Angel becomes her friend, and they talk a lot. Especially after she gets cursed with never ending visions and ends up in the psych ward at the hospital. Their offices blow up hours later, and so everyone moves into her apartment. She and Angel really bond, and are each other's family. They finally find new offices at this Hotel where Angel lived at during the 50's, and everything seems like it's starting to be ok . . .
Then Angel starts sleeping all the time, and grows distant. Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn have no idea what's going on. And then, out of nowhere, Angel fires them all. Throwing them out. Cordelia's best friend, the only person she's been able to depend on, and truly care's about has abandoned her. She's wandering the streets. Mother sees her, torture's her for a week, then finally turns her. She becomes me."
Cassandra's face was in its demon visage and she was pacing about the room wildly, looking very angry. Spike could tell how dangerous it would be to speak now.
"That BASTARD hurt her! He never cared about her at all! He was just using her because she was his link. The moment he felt he didn't need them anymore, he cast her to the streets. Not caring about her one little bit. Cordelia Chase never got a break in her whole damn life and he fucking knew it! I can't STAND that. I HATE liars." She growled dangerously, "Angel knew how much she depended on him. He deserves pain. I want him to feel the heartbreak she did. He will PAY for what he has done." Then she did a complete 180 and smirked, "And then AFTER he does, I'll forgive him and do him!"
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Please, I want replies, I know it sounds pathetic, but I live for feedback, good or bad! I need to know what you think so I know where to go with this.
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