Like a hell family.
Chapter 8: Possibilities.
The town sparkles brilliantly, not like New-York but even so. In his building he saw the entire town center. A cigar in his mouth, the hands behind his back, he was thinking.
- "You know the ideal would be to don't give credit anymore" said an intimidated voice behind him.
He turned back making pleat his made-to-measure two thousand dollars suit on his paunchy gut:
- "It's stupid, the prats crazy of games are our principal revenue" he said "We need to find who practises the extractions"
- "Yes, Mr Mac Feegan, we do our utmost for"
- "Do your utmost faster" yelled the boss.
If the demons passed the word they gonna think that they are invincible. Feegan didn't want call the old method because this one cost him less expensive. Nowadays the hired killers cost a fortune. They need at any price find who took advantage of the cheats market.
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They had seen four narks and all they had was:
_ The possibility that she had gone away for become a star.
_ The possibility that a Russian top secret militia had kidnapped her and
_ The possibility that it's a group of mercenaries.
The only thing that Angel was sure was he had seven hundred dollars in less in his pocket. Angel had excluded the first automatically. Buffy seemed not very convinced by none of them:
- "I gonna go back home" said Buffy.
- "You go at your father?"
- "Yes, I love he's new bitch, Tiffany" mimicking Tiffany "Oh! It's horrible, they took Doris!" grimacing with disgust "I wish putt a stake in her heart for see if she becomes dust, and if it's not the case, well, it can't be helped!" Angel smiled at her:
- "That must be not easy, you want I take you back?"
- "No, I want walk, staying sit down hours listening a guy with three eyes says that Dawn had been kidnapped by a Russian militia who wants take the power on the human race had numbed me."
- "Be careful"
She went out the car, closed the car's door, said goodbye to Angel. She put her hands in her pockets and walked down the streets. She wondered how was Dawn, if she was scared or hungry or.....alive.
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It was hard when it was somebody you know. Angel had investigated on a lot of disappearance but here he was in a great hurry. He had planed with Buffy to go tomorrow night see the demon that Fang says "the fat Fang" had indicated to them. Angel wanted to go now but Buffy was tired and tomorrow first hour she had to go see the cops for bring up to them some pictures and a list of all the Dawn's friends and enemies etc.... so Angel was in the road of the Hyperion. He gonna make researches on the controllers with Cordelia.
It was past midnight; Angel hoped that Connor was kindly at home. He parked the car where he parked the car usually. He entered, nobody. He walked forward and saw Cordelia asleep her head on the counter. He approached to her and caressed softly her arm. She got slowly her head up and yawned her head off. Angel thought that it's not at the time of Sunnydale that the cheerleader would have done that too much worried about seemed glamour and perfect. Now Cordy hadn't any embarrassment front of Angel. Another man would be disappointed that a woman let herself go like that like if his presence doesn't affected her anymore, but for Angel it was all the contrary.
- "Oh, you're come back. You took time!"
- "Yeah, we need time for cross the city, is useless to have all the narks at the same place" he replied "Everybody's home?"
- "Yes, Fred's sleeping, Connor's doing....well what he's doing, there is just Gunn who's not here, he gonna maybe passes the night at the mysterious girl" she said suspiciously "Oh! And Faith is here"
- "Ah?! She's here, why?"
- "I don't know I didn't talk to her" she took a arouse look "It happened a little accident with Connor, but nothing big, he's alright"
- "What?"
- "Well he got stab in his shoulder"
- "What?!"
- "Destructing a vampire's nest" added Cordelia like if that could makes Angel proud and happy.
- "He tried to destruct a nest alone?!"
- "No, with Gunn" said Cordelia knowing that she gonna be the cause of a blood bath.
- "I can't believe that, he had good done to don't come back this one, Connor would be never too stupid for take a nest by himself, that can be come just of Gunn" he approached of the stairs "Gunn, before, loved took nest with his team, he shouldn't take Connor in his little suicidal team"
- "You see, I said you that Gunn was not clear this time"
- "I gonna see him, maybe he's in pain or something"
- "I tried all the day, he forbidden me to come in, but maybe you, he would let you" said Cordelia with a sad look.
She considered Connor like a kid but not because of his age, because she was just five years older than him, but more because of his attitude, well maybe a little because of his age. Besides she always had considered him like that even when she slept with him, but the beast was controlling her since the beginning, since her come back. She had difficulties to look her in the mirror. She had trampled his little heart and now he gave it that back as well to Cordelia.
He went upstairs, and put him in front of his son's door. He wondered if he had to knock on the door or just come in. It's true that Connor was a big boy, but so kid-ish sometimes and he had done a damned stupidity tonight even if the fact to be stabbed was a sufficient punishment. Angel was scared when Connor went outside, he knew that he had passed his childhood in a hell dimension and a long moment in the streets but in the beginning Angel kept an eye on him but now the young man made sure that Angel wasn't following him. And in the beginning Connor was careful; he had the instinct of hunted and survived that he had less nowadays. It was like he didn't care of everything, well not like it was exactly that, he didn't care of everything.
Angel opened the door and saw at his big surprise Connor and Faith, who was just dressed in T-shirt, opposite facing each other on Connor's bed playing cards silently. They turned facing him:
- "Hey Angel!" said Faith, then she looked around and made a summery of the situation thinking about the multiples possibilities that Angel was thinking for explain the actual situation like the fact she was half naked with his son, who liked nobody, and on his bed, so she went down of the bed:
- "We're waiting you"
- "No, not me" grumbled Connor shrugging.
- "Cordelia said me you was here......well not in Connor's room but in the hotel"
Angel looked Connor's room, it was empty, well except the furniture, but he hadn't added anything, with the exception of those horrible curtains. Like if he hadn't foresee to stay.
- "Yes, I had a little accommodations problem, well a big in fact. Gunn and Cordelia said that won't bored you, well Gunn more happily than Cordelia, but I waited for know if that be ok for you and as Connor didn't arrive to sleep with his shoulder we played cards" she got her breath back.
It was the first time that she talked about an innocent stuff with a -I-m- the-guilt-ton.
- "You're hurt? Let me see" said Angel approaching.
- "No, I don't and that doesn't matter" replied Connor pulled him back sign that he didn't want that Angel touches him.
- "Doesn't matter for who? You or me?"
- "Whatever"
Angel put a hand on Connor's chin making pivot his head and looked at Connor's cutaneous stitched cheek.
- "What did you do that?"
- "I gonna go sleep" said Faith going out by the communicating door "Good night" she closed the door.
- "What! I do that all the time!" said Connor pulling away Angel's hand.
- "Not nest; it's Gunn who asked you?"
- "What that matter?" said Connor suddenly upset.
Angel had realized that every time that he talked to Connor worriedly, authority, well paternally that infuriated the boy. He was panicked, sad and very angry. Sometimes Angel felt that the kid wanted burst out sobbing in his father's arms but that he was too much angry for do it.
- "I don't want you destruct nest without the team!"
- "What team?!" spitted Connor.
Angel knew that in pushing a little more the kid could exploded and like that say all that he had in his heart but Angel waited the good time:
- "You won't do it anymore?!"
- "No, if that can makes you leave me alone!"
Angel was sad to see his son like that and that began to be seen on his face so he had to go, show to the boy that Angel was sad to be powerless wasn't a good thing. Angel turned back and went out.
- "You'll help us to find Buffy's sister"
- "We'll see"
- "No, you will!" Angel closed the door.
In two hundred fifty years that was the thing the most difficult he ever did.
Connor was really in pain with his shoulder, Cordy had given him some painkilling, but he was even with that in pain. He felt less the pain because he was very angry after Angel's departure. He didn't know why but he was always all on edge. He had a sore chest because nobody sees.
He opens his drawer and took a CD that he makes in the CD walkman and put the headphones on. He takes another stuff on the drawer. When he was like that he knew what to do.
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- "Oh! There's nothing!" said Cordelia stretching her spinal "They must doesn't like commercial"
- "What kind of mercenaries would not make commercial?"
- "All. You know Angel in our century people don't flaunt their crimes in the paper"
- "There is certainly a track or something"
He didn't understand why there were none tracks of the controllers. Mercenaries need to have a reputation, if not people couldn't know them. When Angel was devastating Europe he spread rumours, just enough for that the villagers be scared of all the strangers, but not enough for they can't recognise him. But Angelus preferred to be a star among demons. He didn't want that the humans be scared at him, that that came after.
- "There must be a proof of their existence, for entice the clients" said Angel out of patience.
- "Maybe they do door-to-door" said Cordelia.
- "They are mercenaries Cordelia, they don't sell Hoovers"
- "Maybe demonic Hoovers that can aspirate essence"
- "We should be search for who and what for they sell essences"
- "Essence it's like the soul for a human....or you?"
- "Yeah, but not the same value" replied Angel looking in a book.
- "Why you don't putt Angelus essence off of you?"
- "I don't know if my body can survive without it" he taped on the couch "Forget the computer, come"
She got up and sat on the couch beside Angel, then took a book on the pile. Angel liked have her beside him. He liked smell her perfume around him. He thought to Buffy, she was here in the city. She wouldn't appreciate to see Angel so close with Cordelia. First because for Buffy Cordelia was the kind of girl who has all they want without makes so many efforts, Buffy never liked this frivolous part of Cordelia. And because Angel and Buffy was in love, Angel remembered how much he was jealous when he saw Buffy with Riley. The former love was always engraved in the memory, like souvenirs we want to be just the unique owner.
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Ethan Rayne was a man about forty years. He was, well, not bad looking. He was really sure of him, yet all the time he tried to "control the world" or something he messed up. But he always went out of the stuff contrarily of the big bad who pulled the strings who died. He was a sorcerer or a kind of. At his age the sorcerers began powerful. He just came in this city that had seen the half of his setbacks. The mouth of hell, everybody was attracted by it and anybody knows why. Him all that interested him was the benefit he didn't care of power though the most of the time the both went together so he didn't spit on. What told him that this time that gonna work, nothing, but I say again that he was really sure of him, maybe too much....
TBC......
Chapter 8: Possibilities.
The town sparkles brilliantly, not like New-York but even so. In his building he saw the entire town center. A cigar in his mouth, the hands behind his back, he was thinking.
- "You know the ideal would be to don't give credit anymore" said an intimidated voice behind him.
He turned back making pleat his made-to-measure two thousand dollars suit on his paunchy gut:
- "It's stupid, the prats crazy of games are our principal revenue" he said "We need to find who practises the extractions"
- "Yes, Mr Mac Feegan, we do our utmost for"
- "Do your utmost faster" yelled the boss.
If the demons passed the word they gonna think that they are invincible. Feegan didn't want call the old method because this one cost him less expensive. Nowadays the hired killers cost a fortune. They need at any price find who took advantage of the cheats market.
______________________________________
They had seen four narks and all they had was:
_ The possibility that she had gone away for become a star.
_ The possibility that a Russian top secret militia had kidnapped her and
_ The possibility that it's a group of mercenaries.
The only thing that Angel was sure was he had seven hundred dollars in less in his pocket. Angel had excluded the first automatically. Buffy seemed not very convinced by none of them:
- "I gonna go back home" said Buffy.
- "You go at your father?"
- "Yes, I love he's new bitch, Tiffany" mimicking Tiffany "Oh! It's horrible, they took Doris!" grimacing with disgust "I wish putt a stake in her heart for see if she becomes dust, and if it's not the case, well, it can't be helped!" Angel smiled at her:
- "That must be not easy, you want I take you back?"
- "No, I want walk, staying sit down hours listening a guy with three eyes says that Dawn had been kidnapped by a Russian militia who wants take the power on the human race had numbed me."
- "Be careful"
She went out the car, closed the car's door, said goodbye to Angel. She put her hands in her pockets and walked down the streets. She wondered how was Dawn, if she was scared or hungry or.....alive.
_____________________________________
It was hard when it was somebody you know. Angel had investigated on a lot of disappearance but here he was in a great hurry. He had planed with Buffy to go tomorrow night see the demon that Fang says "the fat Fang" had indicated to them. Angel wanted to go now but Buffy was tired and tomorrow first hour she had to go see the cops for bring up to them some pictures and a list of all the Dawn's friends and enemies etc.... so Angel was in the road of the Hyperion. He gonna make researches on the controllers with Cordelia.
It was past midnight; Angel hoped that Connor was kindly at home. He parked the car where he parked the car usually. He entered, nobody. He walked forward and saw Cordelia asleep her head on the counter. He approached to her and caressed softly her arm. She got slowly her head up and yawned her head off. Angel thought that it's not at the time of Sunnydale that the cheerleader would have done that too much worried about seemed glamour and perfect. Now Cordy hadn't any embarrassment front of Angel. Another man would be disappointed that a woman let herself go like that like if his presence doesn't affected her anymore, but for Angel it was all the contrary.
- "Oh, you're come back. You took time!"
- "Yeah, we need time for cross the city, is useless to have all the narks at the same place" he replied "Everybody's home?"
- "Yes, Fred's sleeping, Connor's doing....well what he's doing, there is just Gunn who's not here, he gonna maybe passes the night at the mysterious girl" she said suspiciously "Oh! And Faith is here"
- "Ah?! She's here, why?"
- "I don't know I didn't talk to her" she took a arouse look "It happened a little accident with Connor, but nothing big, he's alright"
- "What?"
- "Well he got stab in his shoulder"
- "What?!"
- "Destructing a vampire's nest" added Cordelia like if that could makes Angel proud and happy.
- "He tried to destruct a nest alone?!"
- "No, with Gunn" said Cordelia knowing that she gonna be the cause of a blood bath.
- "I can't believe that, he had good done to don't come back this one, Connor would be never too stupid for take a nest by himself, that can be come just of Gunn" he approached of the stairs "Gunn, before, loved took nest with his team, he shouldn't take Connor in his little suicidal team"
- "You see, I said you that Gunn was not clear this time"
- "I gonna see him, maybe he's in pain or something"
- "I tried all the day, he forbidden me to come in, but maybe you, he would let you" said Cordelia with a sad look.
She considered Connor like a kid but not because of his age, because she was just five years older than him, but more because of his attitude, well maybe a little because of his age. Besides she always had considered him like that even when she slept with him, but the beast was controlling her since the beginning, since her come back. She had difficulties to look her in the mirror. She had trampled his little heart and now he gave it that back as well to Cordelia.
He went upstairs, and put him in front of his son's door. He wondered if he had to knock on the door or just come in. It's true that Connor was a big boy, but so kid-ish sometimes and he had done a damned stupidity tonight even if the fact to be stabbed was a sufficient punishment. Angel was scared when Connor went outside, he knew that he had passed his childhood in a hell dimension and a long moment in the streets but in the beginning Angel kept an eye on him but now the young man made sure that Angel wasn't following him. And in the beginning Connor was careful; he had the instinct of hunted and survived that he had less nowadays. It was like he didn't care of everything, well not like it was exactly that, he didn't care of everything.
Angel opened the door and saw at his big surprise Connor and Faith, who was just dressed in T-shirt, opposite facing each other on Connor's bed playing cards silently. They turned facing him:
- "Hey Angel!" said Faith, then she looked around and made a summery of the situation thinking about the multiples possibilities that Angel was thinking for explain the actual situation like the fact she was half naked with his son, who liked nobody, and on his bed, so she went down of the bed:
- "We're waiting you"
- "No, not me" grumbled Connor shrugging.
- "Cordelia said me you was here......well not in Connor's room but in the hotel"
Angel looked Connor's room, it was empty, well except the furniture, but he hadn't added anything, with the exception of those horrible curtains. Like if he hadn't foresee to stay.
- "Yes, I had a little accommodations problem, well a big in fact. Gunn and Cordelia said that won't bored you, well Gunn more happily than Cordelia, but I waited for know if that be ok for you and as Connor didn't arrive to sleep with his shoulder we played cards" she got her breath back.
It was the first time that she talked about an innocent stuff with a -I-m- the-guilt-ton.
- "You're hurt? Let me see" said Angel approaching.
- "No, I don't and that doesn't matter" replied Connor pulled him back sign that he didn't want that Angel touches him.
- "Doesn't matter for who? You or me?"
- "Whatever"
Angel put a hand on Connor's chin making pivot his head and looked at Connor's cutaneous stitched cheek.
- "What did you do that?"
- "I gonna go sleep" said Faith going out by the communicating door "Good night" she closed the door.
- "What! I do that all the time!" said Connor pulling away Angel's hand.
- "Not nest; it's Gunn who asked you?"
- "What that matter?" said Connor suddenly upset.
Angel had realized that every time that he talked to Connor worriedly, authority, well paternally that infuriated the boy. He was panicked, sad and very angry. Sometimes Angel felt that the kid wanted burst out sobbing in his father's arms but that he was too much angry for do it.
- "I don't want you destruct nest without the team!"
- "What team?!" spitted Connor.
Angel knew that in pushing a little more the kid could exploded and like that say all that he had in his heart but Angel waited the good time:
- "You won't do it anymore?!"
- "No, if that can makes you leave me alone!"
Angel was sad to see his son like that and that began to be seen on his face so he had to go, show to the boy that Angel was sad to be powerless wasn't a good thing. Angel turned back and went out.
- "You'll help us to find Buffy's sister"
- "We'll see"
- "No, you will!" Angel closed the door.
In two hundred fifty years that was the thing the most difficult he ever did.
Connor was really in pain with his shoulder, Cordy had given him some painkilling, but he was even with that in pain. He felt less the pain because he was very angry after Angel's departure. He didn't know why but he was always all on edge. He had a sore chest because nobody sees.
He opens his drawer and took a CD that he makes in the CD walkman and put the headphones on. He takes another stuff on the drawer. When he was like that he knew what to do.
__________________________________
- "Oh! There's nothing!" said Cordelia stretching her spinal "They must doesn't like commercial"
- "What kind of mercenaries would not make commercial?"
- "All. You know Angel in our century people don't flaunt their crimes in the paper"
- "There is certainly a track or something"
He didn't understand why there were none tracks of the controllers. Mercenaries need to have a reputation, if not people couldn't know them. When Angel was devastating Europe he spread rumours, just enough for that the villagers be scared of all the strangers, but not enough for they can't recognise him. But Angelus preferred to be a star among demons. He didn't want that the humans be scared at him, that that came after.
- "There must be a proof of their existence, for entice the clients" said Angel out of patience.
- "Maybe they do door-to-door" said Cordelia.
- "They are mercenaries Cordelia, they don't sell Hoovers"
- "Maybe demonic Hoovers that can aspirate essence"
- "We should be search for who and what for they sell essences"
- "Essence it's like the soul for a human....or you?"
- "Yeah, but not the same value" replied Angel looking in a book.
- "Why you don't putt Angelus essence off of you?"
- "I don't know if my body can survive without it" he taped on the couch "Forget the computer, come"
She got up and sat on the couch beside Angel, then took a book on the pile. Angel liked have her beside him. He liked smell her perfume around him. He thought to Buffy, she was here in the city. She wouldn't appreciate to see Angel so close with Cordelia. First because for Buffy Cordelia was the kind of girl who has all they want without makes so many efforts, Buffy never liked this frivolous part of Cordelia. And because Angel and Buffy was in love, Angel remembered how much he was jealous when he saw Buffy with Riley. The former love was always engraved in the memory, like souvenirs we want to be just the unique owner.
________________________________
Ethan Rayne was a man about forty years. He was, well, not bad looking. He was really sure of him, yet all the time he tried to "control the world" or something he messed up. But he always went out of the stuff contrarily of the big bad who pulled the strings who died. He was a sorcerer or a kind of. At his age the sorcerers began powerful. He just came in this city that had seen the half of his setbacks. The mouth of hell, everybody was attracted by it and anybody knows why. Him all that interested him was the benefit he didn't care of power though the most of the time the both went together so he didn't spit on. What told him that this time that gonna work, nothing, but I say again that he was really sure of him, maybe too much....
TBC......