Like a hell family

Chapter 6: Angst in guest.



His jacket's hood on his head and his hands in his pocket he passed unnoticed in the crowed. Well, if we looked closer we'd see that he was yellowy. He hurried jostling the people. In his pocket he held the hoard in his hand that was not the time to lose it.

He took a little alley going off of the principal street. His mother had always told him "Never give more than you have and take all that you can take"? Yeah, well, he had done the entire contrary.

He had debts that even the Prince of Arabia couldn't pay. He had the gang of the controllers after his butt. If they got nabbed him they would locked up his essence in a bottle letting his body inanimate, he'd be damned, not hell, not heaven, just nothingness.

He had found a solution. Anyway he could never pay his debt so he had to try.

He arrived in front of a wall. He knocked three times then two with his hand's palm. The wall became transparent, he entered in. A demon went outside by the same wall crossing Step. Step walked forward when somebody called him. He approached and arrived in a room where was two guys, a human, about forty years and a demon.

- "Step, we have what you wanted, you're lucky" said the demon.

- "You've got the money?" said the human with disdain.

- "Ye...yes" stammered Step. He took off the wad of his pocket.

The demon held a tinted jar. Step took it:

- "And....how that works?" he said stuttering.

- "You broke it down when they arrive and they going to take it away at the place, it's the law" said the demon.

- "Come on go away" said the human.

Step looked at him. He crossed the corridor running.

- "There will have a problem" said the human serious.

- "Why?"

- "The cops, the humans are stupid, well except me, but they will finish by find even a lode that comes to us"

- "Don't worry I resolved the problem" said the demon smiling.



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Faith arrived at the hotel. She knew that Angel would not refuse that she stays some days, well, she hoped. She hoped too that there gonna not have problem with Connor. He didn't carry her in his heart since she had made him understood that in Angelus' case she was the boss. The kid wasn't the kind who will be dictated to.

She arrived to the door and came in. She didn't go knock to a hotel's door. She walked in the lobby:

- "There's somebody here?"

Gunn went out the office:

- "Hey!" he greeted her:

- "Hey!" she replied back. He went toward her:

- "How're ya doing?"

- "Well, not great, I was burgled all my stuff, Im in the street, and I wanted to ask Angel if....I can stay here, but just some days"

- "He's not here, beside I don't know where there are all, I just came back" she took a disappointed look "But Im sure that he will be okay"

- "Good" they looked at each other didn't knowing what to say when Fred came in.

The both turned back and looked at her. Fred looked Faith panicked.

- "Hi Fred!" said Faith for break the silence.

- "Hello" replied the tiny girl. Gunn looked everywhere except Fred:

- "Come on we gonna find a room for you" said Gunn signalling to Faith to follow him.

- "Do you install yourself here?!" asked Fred still panicked.

- "Do you mind?" said Gunn curtly.

- "No" replied Fred coldly then she entered in the office.

- "I feel a tension here" said Faith embarrassed.

- "After what she did with Wesley, yes" said Gunn sadly.

- "Oh! So you know! I caught them two minutes ago"

- "What do you mean you caught them?" said Gunn frowning.

- "Well, yes, I don't tell you how much I was embarrassed"

- "She sleeps with him!!" said Gunn out of breath.

- "Oh! Don't say me you don't know, you was just talking about!" said Faith desperate to have again put her foot in it. She was good for hurt people not intentionally, well she was good for hurt people intentionally too.

- "I was talking about the guy that she and he tried to kill together"

- "Oh, well, he had changed more than I expected, I wonder if I will go see him finally" sighed Faith.

- "She told me that she just needed time, I was sure that was because of him but as for saying that she sleep with him" he went up and down in the lobby.

- "I go on patrol" said Gunn coldly going outside.

- "Always the same, it's me" said Faith after Gunn's going out.



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He crossed the alley and went in the little street of the poor district where he was sure to find vampires. He needed to band on something and he preferred that was vampires.

He thought that he had changed a lot. At the time a girl never could separate him of one of his buddy and muddled his head like that. He had too much let himself become sentimental and he paid expensive the price of the lesson.

Damn English.

Anyway, that was normal what a girl like Fred could do with him. It's clear that next Wesley Gunn was useless. They two of them had a lot in common, they was intelligent when Gunn had never read a book in his life. Strayed so much of the streets; of his roots had been a big mistake.

He arrived in an alley and heard a noise of a fight so approached. He saw Connor fighting against a vampire. Connor had amply the top of him but didn't kill him preferring used to him like a punching ball. Gunn arrived behind the vampire and dusted him at the most disarray of Connor:

- "What you did? I arrived very well by myself!" said the boy disappointed.

- "That's not a toy, and if you really want to play, I learned that there is a nest in a dock's warehouse" said Gunn.

- "You want we take a nest alone, Angel would not appreciate that" said Connor smiling. He loved do stuff that Angel would not appreciate even if he didn't tell him.

- "What, don't say me you suddenly passed in good son mode"

- "He gonna kill you if he knows"

- "We're not babies, we know what we're doing" said Gunn assured.

- "Well no we don't know" said Connor incredulous.

Gunn rolled his eyes. It's crazy how much this kid seemed childish sometimes. When he looked Connor fighting against vampires that remained him that he had carried him in his arm when his was a baby and he was afraid he can be injured, but it's that kind of thought that he avoided this time. He wanted kill, it was all.

They went toward the dock. Connor stayed beside Gunn. Gunn was taller and sturdier. Connor was happy, Gunn wanted he goes with him; he was one on the only that Connor tolerated. He liked Angel too...loved.....no, he didn't know....he wasn't sure, he had a lot in his head and he didn't arrive to sort that out. He was good when he was fighting, he didn't think to nothing during that, it's actually for that that he did just that (a lot of "that" no?). When he was in the hotel with all the others, he had the impression to be an intruder. That made him anger like if they hit him, injured him.

They arrived at the dock. Look inside a warehouse, it was empty. He went see another. Seven vampires was sat on crates, Gunn lanced a glare to Connor who nodded. They had two stakes in their hands.

- "Yeah, I swear, it's so cool, look, you just have to break it" said a vampire to another showing a kind of tinted jar.

- "That's awesome! Eh! If that's like that I gonna do like you too" said another. When suddenly Gunn entered in the warehouse:

- "Hey guys, sorry to interrupt you during the tea time"

The vampires got up and three of them went toward Gunn. They divided encircling Gunn. Gunn spread his arms on his two sides killing the two vampires who were there. The vampire in front of Gunn was surprised, he threw himself on Gunn. The four others approached during that Gunn was fighting. Gunn's vampire didn't have the surprise anymore so that was more difficult.

When a window smashed into a thousand pieces, Connor entered. Gunn's vampire has been surprised but Gunn had taken a bad punch so he didn't react fast enough for kill him at this time. The vampires looked and swooped toward Connor except one who went help his pal for kill Gunn.

Connor was fighting and received hits but not strength enough for be hurt as blood, well until then a vampire took a knife out and cut his cheek. Connor had a bloody cheek when he felt his blood forms beads that made him like a psychopath with a big smile he rushed up on them. Gunn had killed one of his two vampires but he was severely concussed. Connor was fighting against two vampires when the third knocked in his shoulder his knife, Connor made a grimace with pain. He took the vampire's hand and turned it back, the vampire took it in his heart, that made him staggered and fell on the floor moaning, doing that he dropped the jar that broke. A white light went out of it and directed to the ceiling going through it. The vampires looked it that letting enough time for Gunn and Connor killed them.

There was only the vampire with the knife in his heart remained. He looked Gunn and Connor approaching to him with their eyes burning with angst:

- "This bastard stabbed me!"

- "Well we gonna make him pay"

They continued to advance; the vampire's look was more and more panicked.

Outside of the warehouse we could heard the vampire's screams.



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Wesley walked in the street. He hadn't scotch anymore. He had difficulties to make him smashed. He didn't know what to do anymore, or almost. He just had a fight with Fred. He had difficulties to stay nice with her because he was jealous of the fact that she still lived with Gunn, he had the impression she was not him', she didn't love him. Well it was the first time that he was in love so.........

- "Oh, look at this, who goes at the scotch stock" said a voice in the shadow.

That was Lilah. Wesley turned and looked at her. He put a hand under his jacket ready for take the stake that was in and throws it in her heart at the first suspect move:

- "Oh, calm down. I come in friendĀ» said the living dead girl.

- "We never be friend nor in this life nor in another" replied Wes coldly.

- "You didn't say that when you fucked me there is four month ago" told her smiling.

- "Yes, but at this time you had a heartbeat and a soul, well a soul it's a lot to say"

- "So now you denigrate me because the little smart girl is came back her tail between her legs"

- "She thousand times better than you" returned Wesley.

- "yeah, see you later" she moved back engulfed by the shadows.

Wesley didn't know what to think. Lilah had been his spare wheel during his dark period that continued again. But she was the only who was here so he thanked her for that. It was his fault that she was dead. He brought back Angelus. But what to say..... He didn't wanted think about just buy scotch.



TBC.......