Chapter Four

MADE A LITTLE MISTAKE THAT WAS NICELY POINTED OUT TO ME, HARLEM IS ACTUALLY HOLLAND SORRY PEOPLE. THANKS FOR READING! THIS IS ALL I HAVE SO FAR, BUT I WOULD LOVE SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENEDS NEXT? PLEASE REVIEW!

Angel blocked the first, second and third punch. He saw his chance and took it; he took his right fist and plunged at his component. Stacey blocked it. She got annoyed and decided to change the pace. She kicked his legs from under him and pinned him to the floor.

"No matter how many times I do it you always fall for it" Stacey said "literally"

"What can I say? It's the best action I can get" Angel joked. That was something he did a lot more of, he was like a different person since Stacey had come to live in the Hotel, 6 months ago. He smiled, wore colours instead of black. Cordy, Wes, Gunn and Fred liked that he had changed but were still wary of Stacey.

Stacey laughed as she got off him and offered her hand to him. He took her hand as he got up off the floor. She stood with her back to him dusting her self off. She had on a pair of Kaki combat trousers and a black tank top. She picked up a white towel and began dabbing at the sweat on her neck and back. She threw a towel at Angel he caught it as he walked over to her. She threw him a bottle of water he didn't catch it; it hit his chest and fell to the floor.

"You're really off guard" Stacey said

"Really?" he said. Next thing she knew he had her pinned to the wall behind her. "Now who's off guard?" he asked. She laughed. He looked deep in to her eyes, drowning in the ocean blue colour. Their bodies were close; he could feel her heart beating and feel the heat coming from her. They had been sparing for over two hours, so she had worked up a sweat. He felt her breathe on his cheek. He took an unnecessary breathe taking in her scent, her beauty.

"Angel" she whispered softly. They both moved in to kiss one another. Their lips met and softly but passionately they kissed. After a few minutes of kissing, Stacey pushed him away. "I gotta, I gotta get out of here" she told him rushing out of the basement.

At 2 AM Stacey went in to the kitchen on the third floor and began making herself a sandwich. She had avoided Angel and the Fang Gang for the whole night, Gunn, Wesley and Cordy had gone home and Fred was in bed. Stacey wasn't sure where Angel was.

She had been living there for 6 months now and she had learnt Angel never slept of a night time. He would wonder around the hotel, train in the basement, most nights she would wake around 2 AM and go and keep him company, with whatever he was doing. But tonight was different; Stacey didn't feel like going to keep him company if anything she wanted to stay away from him.

She knew it was a bad idea to live there but she couldn't resist. Where else was she going to go? Plus she wanted to be around Angel, but now things had changed.

"Hey"


"Shit Angel" Stacey jumped

"Sorry" he said "I heard noises thought someone was trying to get in" he explained. Stacey walked around him and out of the kitchen and started walking up the stairs to the next floor. Angel followed "So you just gonna avoid me?" he asked

"Angel it shouldn't have happened, you know it and I know it"

"But it did happen" he told her "and you can't run from that" he said as she got to her room.

"Angel please" she said "just leave me alone" she added before closing her bedroom door in his face.

"Where's Mrs Wolfram and Hart this morning?" Cordy inquired putting some papers back in to the yellow folder where they belonged.

"Cordy could you cut it with the Wolfram and Hart shit?" Angel asked a little aggravated as he went to the fridge to get some blood.

"She's right here" Stacey said walking down the stairs.

"Where you goin?" Fred asked her seeing she was carrying her suitcases.

"I'm leaving" Stacey explained to them walking further in to the lobby and setting down her cases.

"Why?" Wesley asked walking out of his office

"Where?" Angel asked joining her in the lobby.

"I think I've out stayed my welcome and I know some of you don't trust me" Stacey clarified looking over at Cordy "and I understand your reasons not to trust me but I think it would be best for all of us if I left"

"We don't want you to go" Fred said "we like having you here"

"I like being here to Fred but I just think it would be best if I left" Stacey explained picking up her suitcases and walking out of the hotel.

"You better get back down to that hotel and tell him you've changed your mind" Lilah commanded "We had a deal, we need you" Lilah added

"Yeah well the deals off" Stacey said "I quit"


"You don't quit Wolfram and Hart, Wolfram and Hart quits you" Lindsey said joining in with Lilah having ago at Stacey who sat slumped in the chair in front of Lilah's desk.

"If Holland finds out about this" Lilah said getting worried.

"Lilah I quit, find someone else to do you dirty work" Stacey said pissed off.

"When I called you and asked you for this favour six months ago, you were all for it, you couldn't wait to come down here, what's changed?" she asked

"Nothin's changed" Stacey said getting up from the chair and looking out of the window.

"Lindsey can we have 5?" Lilah asked

"If you think you can get through to her then sure" he said before leaving the office.

"Your falling for him aren't you?" Lilah asked once Lindsey had closed her office door.


"no, don't be stupid" Stacey said starring at the people that looked like ants, in the street 15 storeys down "he's a vampire" Stacey said as Lilah's office door swung open and Holland bounded in Lindsey close behind.


"So what's this little obstacle we have come across?" Holland asked

"Stacey wants to quit sir" Lilah explained 


"Now Stacey, what's the problem?" Holland asked walking over to her "whatever it is I'm sure we can work through it"


"Holland I know a hundred ways to snap your neck don't tempt me" Stacey said. "I've told Angel," she told them all


"Told Angel what?" Lindsey asked

"Everything. I left him a note telling him from the moment we meet that I've been spying on him for you, that from the second we spoke that it's been planned. That all along I've been giving you information about him" Stacey said the thought of what she had been doing finally sinking in. "now I'm no use to you am I?" She asked.

"We didn't need to go to extremes now did we?" Holland asked

Stacey walked closer to Holland and spoke directly to him with a 'don't fuck with' tone of voice she said: "if I so much as suspect that your sending someone or something after me, I'll tell Angel everything I know about this place and you know that's a lot, and I'm sure that kind of information would benefit Angel a lot more than the information I've given you about him"

"You wouldn't" Holland said

"Try me" Stacey said before leaving the office. What the hell have I got myself in to? She asked herself walking back to Lilah's apartment, I'm falling for a vampire, that I was supposed to be allied against. I've just made myself a death wish and I have no where else to live, can my life get any worse? She asked herself unlocking the front door to her apartment. She walked in and slumped herself on the couch. She switched on the TV and began flicking. "Are you just gonna lurk in the shadows?" Stacey asked aloud.

"I was planning to" Angel said walking out of the dark corner in the living room "but now you've blown my cover"

"I'm a slayer Angel it's my job to sense your kind" she explained. "So?" she asked standing up "you come to beat me up? Kill me?"

"I've come to ask why?" he said "I read the letter" he added holding up the piece of paper "but you never said why and you never said why you decided to leave."

"Does it matter?" She asked

"IT MATTERS, IT MATTERS TO ME" Angel shouted 

"YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW?" Stacey hollered "YOU WANNA KNOW WHY I DID WHAT I DID. LINDSEY" She bellowed "I did it for Lindsey" she finished

"Cause I took his hand?" Angel asked

"Lindsey helped me Angel, when I came to L.A I had nothing, I didn't have Lilah she was back home. I had 30 dollars to my name, and the clothes I was wearing that was it. Lindsey found me and helped, I felt like I owed him something, he asked me to do this and I agreed"

"But?" Angel asked "why did you leave?"


"cause things change" she told him walking past him and down the hall. She went in to her room and opened her closet doors.

"So what changed?" he asked following her.

"Everything, ok? Everything changed" Stacey explained before reaching for the suitcase that was on a shelf in the closet. "I looked in to your eyes last night before… before we kissed and I saw what your feeling deep down, and it scared me, I was being paid to betray a creature but when I looked in to yours eyes, in to your soul, I saw the man in you, I realized you were just like me and I couldn't do it anymore" she explained as she slowly put the suitcase on her bed and opened it. He watched her pack her things up again, she neatly folded things, and placed them in her suitcase.

"So what am I really feeling?" he asked

"Your afraid, the whole vampire things is something you hide behind, you don't wanna be a creature that people fear, although it can be helpful sometimes, but you don't wanna be remembered as Angelus, you want to be remembered as Angel. You pretend your not afraid of anything, that whatever is going on you can handle, and most of that's true but your worse fear happens to you everyday" she explained placing a few more items in her suitcase

"And what is my worst fear?" he asked

"Living" she told him closing her suitcase. Angel starred at her.

"I need to sit down" he said sitting on her bed. She was right; everything she said was true, he was afraid of living, being in this world was the scariest thing he had ever faced.

"Yeah well when your done, lock up" she said picking up her suitcase and leaving the room.