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Chapter 10: I know.
He woke up, it was five or four in the morning, he had made a nightmare. Anyway all his life was a nightmare and his place too. He got up; he should be getting up at six so that didn't matter. He needed to find money and fast. But it was waste of time, yet it was not that that LA misses. Money, in LA, it was sufficient to bend for pick it up. In fact, it's true somewhere except that it's the ordinary people who pay the rich guys.
He couldn't search a job in the human world because the two horns on his forehead could afraid his co-workers. He sat on a chair, suddenly the building shook softly but enough strong for make fall down the crockery that was overflowing the sink or the dirty calendars that was stuck on the wall. No, not now, please.
Winds crossed the rooms wrapping him.
- "No, please, let me one day, please!"
Ask a controller pity was like ask a politician to never break the law, ridiculous and impossible.
He felt the big pressure of the big gloved hand falling on his chest just under his neck and stayed here, some minutes, hours he thought. All of a sudden it's like if all his organs was going to go through his body, the heart first.
His eyes was wide, then his mouth opened like for puke his stomach and his intestines, a gold light yellowy got free off all his face orifices and went in the jar that the controller was holding in his hand. Their hand big, and gloved with thick black woodcutter gloves. If we could see their faces what could we see?
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He opened his eyes, he didn't sleep a lot. Cordelia's head was on his side. They had fallen asleep in discussing last night. He didn't want wake up her so he got free slowly. Gunn rushed in the hotel.
- "Shhhhh!!" Angel signed to him.
- "What?!" he saw Cordelia asleep "Ho"
Angel signed to him to follow him in the office. Gunn came in and sat on a chair. Angel closed the door.
- "We can know what's wrong with you?!!"
- "You know we have passed in the office not in another dimension, so she can hear you. What are you talking about?" Gunn knew perfectly what Angel was talking about.
- "Don't take me for a fool! Take a nest by yourself it stupid; take Connor with you its worse"
- "Yeah, I know. But they wasn't so many, I thought we would have killed them without a lot of hurt"
- "You were wrong!"
- "I know"
- "Where did you pass the night?"
- "You make too much here" said Gunn "I found the kid of the Brawins"
- "Ah, and he's..."
- "In the coma, nobody knows how"
- "We have a new case, Buffy's little sister had been kidnapped"
- "Yeah, well you'll have to count without me, Ann asked me to investigate on her teens disappearances"
- "You don't gonna send Connor in hospital for find your investigation?"
- "I said sorry, Okay?"
- "I already have hard time to keep an ounce of authority on him so if you corrupt him in my back"
- "Corrupt" repeated Gunn "You don't think you overstate. And you even don't know a quart of what he does so your authority....."
- "Yeah, thanks for your help" said Angel upset by Gunn's attitude.
- "Well I've got to go, I have somebody to see"
Angel looked him leave. He had to wait Buffy but maybe he could call her for see if she was actually in the police station, well anyway he couldn't do a lot in the day and the night gonna fall in three hours. He took the phone but hung up when Faith entered.
- "Do I disturb you?"
- "Not at all" said Angel smiling at her "So why did you come back?"
- "Well, it's a nice city and I.....hum....."
- "Yeah" Angel knew that she didn't know where to go or what to do "So, you had a little chat with Connor last night" he was curious and worried that Connor be close with just streets kids who wasn't necessarily good models.
- "We didn't talk so much, he's not very talkative. But apparently he likes music and eats almost just chocolate without gain a pound that is really unfair"
- "Yeah" said Angel sadly.
- "Don't worry, that gonna be okay between you both"
- "You think?"
- "Well, in fact no, I hate my parents"
Angel looked at her with compassion and smiled.
- "So what you are doing in this time?" she asked.
- "We help Buffy"
- "Buffy's here?!!" she said her eyes wide.
- "Yeah"
- "Why?"
- "Dawn has disappeared in town"
- "Dawn?!! Oh!" she said concerned "I may help you"
- "Maybe you can help ME"
Faith screwed up her eyes, how could she help HIM, SHE.
- "Could you keep an eye on Connor? He's hothead nowadays and he seems to tolerate you in, what he calls, his 'vital perimeter'"
- "Sure. I was talking about something with more action, but babysitting is good too"
- "if you want action you won't be disappointed with Connor"
Cordelia entered in the office keeping a yawn she looked like tired but she was habit to be.
- "We woke up you!?" Angel asked her worried.
Faith looked at him, she thought that Angel was attentive to the women he was in love with. Faith thought that was maybe this kind of guy she needed but she would be quickly bored, she liked them savage.
- "No, Buffy is arrived"
- "Oh"
Angel got up of his leather seat and went toward the principal room followed by Cordelia. Faith stayed behind them when Buffy saw her she threw a hatred look at her and an interrogative at Angel who didn't answer back. Faith was one of his crew and so anybody could say nothing about her presence here. As the Scooby gang members was such boy scoot the Fang gang members was always on the thread, they could fall in the obscure side in every minute, what Angel hoped is that they would not do it all in the same time.
- "You arrive soon" Angel said.
- "The cop in charge of the case has been killed" she said with a serious ton "I don't know if there is a link but the coincidence word is not in my dictionary"
- "In mine neither" added Angel.
- "Maybe you should change your edition" grumbled Cordy. Faith smiled, Angel frowned. "What?!" to Angel, she faced Buffy "You know we are not in Sunnydale, it's LA and all the stuff that pass here don't turn around you" Cordelia didn't know why she was so hostile so suddenly.
- "Ah, cause it's me who thinks that the whole world resolves around me. Tell me, what you did to your hair?" said Buffy petty.
Here we are, Cordy remembered why, she was fed up with slayers turning around the Angels father/son. Slayers equal at heart broken, become evil. Well, Cordy was good for break hearts too. Faith loved to see girls' bust- up, that was her bitchy side that waking up
- "Cordelia, Buffy may have right anyway we can't exclude any tracks" Angel said without crossing Cordelia's eyes or it would have withered him. "I go check at the cop's and you two go see this guy" Angel held the paper up to Buffy but Cordelia took it before Buffy can giving Angel a withering look. It was HER who working in the agency, not Miss 'Im the slayer and the whole world is against me, even the birds and the salmons'.
- "Angel!!" called a voice in the stairs, it was Lorne.
Angel approached of the stairs.
- "Angel!!!" Lorne re-screamed, Angel speeded up, Lorne was in front of Connor's door, Angel went closer to Lorne:
- "He's not good" Lorne said.
Angel came in Connor's room and saw Connor sat on the floor his back against his bed. His T-shirt sweated blood in his shoulder part. He breathed slowly like that was hard.
- "What happened?!" Angel asked.
Angel knew that Connor has certainly went out on QT. He realized Gunn was right he didn't know what Connor doing of his time, probably stealing.
- "That unstitched" Connor said like Angel was stupid because that was obvious.
- "How?" Angel said clarifying his question.
- "The threads tore" replied Connor.
Angel knew that Connor had perfectly understood the question but he was playing the naïve for don't answer, he did that often, and Angel hated it. But what could he say? The kid with his 'other dimension past' could pretend that he didn't understand stuff.
- "Faith will bring you at the hospital"
Connor was okay with that, she won't ask him boring questions. Angel grabbed him under his other shoulder and got him up. He practically was carrying him in the stairs. Cordelia looked at him worriedly when they arrive in the room.
- "Faith can you...." he threw Faith the key of his car.
- "Sure" Faith took the grab at the place of Angel.
- "I can walk alone" grumbled Connor.
Faith smiled the pride surges she knew as well. Cordelia didn't like that but she shouldn't be against Faith if not that could be just worse with Connor. He could be closer to Faith just for make her angrier.
- "The night gonna fall in one and half"
- "How do we do without a car?" Cordy asked.
- "I have my father's car" replied Buffy.
Lorne went downstairs.
- "Oh, look who's here, the pretty slayer"
- "Buffy" Buffy said held up her hand, even if that was weird this demon looked nice.
- "Lorne" Lorne said kissing her hand. Buffy smiled at him throwing glares to Angel. Fred went downstairs too.
- "Oh Fred, meet Buffy"
- "Oh! Buffy! This one was dead! Pleasure!" Fred said enthusiast shacking Buffy's hand.
- "Pleasure for me too" Buffy said back.
She had difficulties to believe that Angel worked with this people they was so different of what he was.
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- "Turn right"
- "I know where is it" sighed Buffy "I lived here, remember, it's even for that you thought I was cool"
- "Yeah, but that was before I discover that you killed vampires and all"
- "Do I need to point you the fact that you do that too?"
- "Yeah, but me Im pay for"
Buffy rolled her eyes. She turned and parked the car front of a building. The building was miserable. Buffy looked around and saw two rats arguing for a piece of bread.
- "It's not like before"
- "yeah, there is a lot of things that are not like before" Cordy said.
- "I hope he knows something"
- "Don't worry Im sure we gonna find her" Cordy said with a comforting ton "Im exiting to see her again, even if technically I never see her"
- "Yeah" Buffy said, in spite of all, she was happy having Cordy beside her, she was a part of the Scooby before after all.
- "What do you know about Connor?" she asked Cordelia.
Cordelia swallowed, she could say a lot on Connor even about his aspect the more intimate.
- "Like what?"
- "I don't know, like what kind of relation he has with Angel"
- "Not very good, you know it's difficult with what Holtz did to him and all"
- "That must had been hard for Angel when the guy took the baby" said Buffy sadly.
- "Yes, a lot. But Connor is quickly came back and with all had passed after he didn't have so much time for think about"
- "Im jealous" Buffy said going on the stairs.
- "Of?" Cordelia looked Buffy who threw her a glance "Of me!! Why?!"
- "You were there, me, anybody takes the time to inform me"
- "You know I wasn't a big help and ......"
- "I know every one in his life"
- "it's not what I was getting to say. It's there"
They placed them front of the door and Cordelia knocked. No answer. She did it again. Buffy pushed Cordelia and then broke the door with a big kick.
- "yeah you right it's simpler like that" Cordelia said sarcastically.
- "Sorry"
- "No it's okay Im used to that with Angel"
Buffy realized that Cordy knew Angel more than her now. That made her jealous. They entered and saw the guy lying on the floor, dead or in a kind of coma.
- "Who did that?" asked Buffy.
- "Maybe his cleaning woman" Cordelia said searching in a pile of stuff. Buffy and Cordelia searched everywhere.
- "HA! HA!" Cordelia said. Buffy approached quickly.
- "What did you find? Hum? A....jar?"
- "There is a light inside. That moves"
- "Open"
- "No, not very careful, it's maybe an evil little light, and I can talk to you about evil little light"
- "I found the card professional of a club or something, he seems to go often in there, I hope Angel has more luck"
- "Well, in Angel case he knows that the guy is already dead"
Buffy was surprised to see Cordelia so blasé. In Sunnydale, the cheerleader screamed all the time she saw a dead body. She went back in the car and leaved the place.
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Angel arrived at the little house. There were the police marks. A mark of the dead body on the floor with a chalk. Angel went beside it and went to the door. He knocked. A woman opened the door. Angel felt suddenly guilty to come for talk to her about a guy who was probably her husband.
- "Yes" The woman said softly.
- "Hum......my name's Angel and I investigate on a case which your husband investigated too" Angel regretted his lack of tact, he was not so good for talk the humans.
- "Hum....."
- "Maybe I disturb you, I can come back another time......."
- "No. But you are...?"
- "Oh" Angel held up his card to her "Im a PI, I investigate on the disappearance of a young girl"
- "Henri let his notes in his desk office" she showed him the direction. Angel wondered if she gonna invite him to come in. Seeing Angel didn't come in she turned back:
- "Come in" Angel come in and followed her to her husband's desk office. She indicated the door, but didn't want to come into it. Angel come in and searched in the paper, none was about Dawn Summers. There were others investigations; Angel was surprised about how many teenagers had disappeared in the last two weeks. He took the pads and saw the photocopier. He made copies of all the pads hoping that the woman didn't hear it. He put all the pages in his coat and leaved the house.
TBC..........
5
Chapter 10: I know.
He woke up, it was five or four in the morning, he had made a nightmare. Anyway all his life was a nightmare and his place too. He got up; he should be getting up at six so that didn't matter. He needed to find money and fast. But it was waste of time, yet it was not that that LA misses. Money, in LA, it was sufficient to bend for pick it up. In fact, it's true somewhere except that it's the ordinary people who pay the rich guys.
He couldn't search a job in the human world because the two horns on his forehead could afraid his co-workers. He sat on a chair, suddenly the building shook softly but enough strong for make fall down the crockery that was overflowing the sink or the dirty calendars that was stuck on the wall. No, not now, please.
Winds crossed the rooms wrapping him.
- "No, please, let me one day, please!"
Ask a controller pity was like ask a politician to never break the law, ridiculous and impossible.
He felt the big pressure of the big gloved hand falling on his chest just under his neck and stayed here, some minutes, hours he thought. All of a sudden it's like if all his organs was going to go through his body, the heart first.
His eyes was wide, then his mouth opened like for puke his stomach and his intestines, a gold light yellowy got free off all his face orifices and went in the jar that the controller was holding in his hand. Their hand big, and gloved with thick black woodcutter gloves. If we could see their faces what could we see?
_____________________________________
He opened his eyes, he didn't sleep a lot. Cordelia's head was on his side. They had fallen asleep in discussing last night. He didn't want wake up her so he got free slowly. Gunn rushed in the hotel.
- "Shhhhh!!" Angel signed to him.
- "What?!" he saw Cordelia asleep "Ho"
Angel signed to him to follow him in the office. Gunn came in and sat on a chair. Angel closed the door.
- "We can know what's wrong with you?!!"
- "You know we have passed in the office not in another dimension, so she can hear you. What are you talking about?" Gunn knew perfectly what Angel was talking about.
- "Don't take me for a fool! Take a nest by yourself it stupid; take Connor with you its worse"
- "Yeah, I know. But they wasn't so many, I thought we would have killed them without a lot of hurt"
- "You were wrong!"
- "I know"
- "Where did you pass the night?"
- "You make too much here" said Gunn "I found the kid of the Brawins"
- "Ah, and he's..."
- "In the coma, nobody knows how"
- "We have a new case, Buffy's little sister had been kidnapped"
- "Yeah, well you'll have to count without me, Ann asked me to investigate on her teens disappearances"
- "You don't gonna send Connor in hospital for find your investigation?"
- "I said sorry, Okay?"
- "I already have hard time to keep an ounce of authority on him so if you corrupt him in my back"
- "Corrupt" repeated Gunn "You don't think you overstate. And you even don't know a quart of what he does so your authority....."
- "Yeah, thanks for your help" said Angel upset by Gunn's attitude.
- "Well I've got to go, I have somebody to see"
Angel looked him leave. He had to wait Buffy but maybe he could call her for see if she was actually in the police station, well anyway he couldn't do a lot in the day and the night gonna fall in three hours. He took the phone but hung up when Faith entered.
- "Do I disturb you?"
- "Not at all" said Angel smiling at her "So why did you come back?"
- "Well, it's a nice city and I.....hum....."
- "Yeah" Angel knew that she didn't know where to go or what to do "So, you had a little chat with Connor last night" he was curious and worried that Connor be close with just streets kids who wasn't necessarily good models.
- "We didn't talk so much, he's not very talkative. But apparently he likes music and eats almost just chocolate without gain a pound that is really unfair"
- "Yeah" said Angel sadly.
- "Don't worry, that gonna be okay between you both"
- "You think?"
- "Well, in fact no, I hate my parents"
Angel looked at her with compassion and smiled.
- "So what you are doing in this time?" she asked.
- "We help Buffy"
- "Buffy's here?!!" she said her eyes wide.
- "Yeah"
- "Why?"
- "Dawn has disappeared in town"
- "Dawn?!! Oh!" she said concerned "I may help you"
- "Maybe you can help ME"
Faith screwed up her eyes, how could she help HIM, SHE.
- "Could you keep an eye on Connor? He's hothead nowadays and he seems to tolerate you in, what he calls, his 'vital perimeter'"
- "Sure. I was talking about something with more action, but babysitting is good too"
- "if you want action you won't be disappointed with Connor"
Cordelia entered in the office keeping a yawn she looked like tired but she was habit to be.
- "We woke up you!?" Angel asked her worried.
Faith looked at him, she thought that Angel was attentive to the women he was in love with. Faith thought that was maybe this kind of guy she needed but she would be quickly bored, she liked them savage.
- "No, Buffy is arrived"
- "Oh"
Angel got up of his leather seat and went toward the principal room followed by Cordelia. Faith stayed behind them when Buffy saw her she threw a hatred look at her and an interrogative at Angel who didn't answer back. Faith was one of his crew and so anybody could say nothing about her presence here. As the Scooby gang members was such boy scoot the Fang gang members was always on the thread, they could fall in the obscure side in every minute, what Angel hoped is that they would not do it all in the same time.
- "You arrive soon" Angel said.
- "The cop in charge of the case has been killed" she said with a serious ton "I don't know if there is a link but the coincidence word is not in my dictionary"
- "In mine neither" added Angel.
- "Maybe you should change your edition" grumbled Cordy. Faith smiled, Angel frowned. "What?!" to Angel, she faced Buffy "You know we are not in Sunnydale, it's LA and all the stuff that pass here don't turn around you" Cordelia didn't know why she was so hostile so suddenly.
- "Ah, cause it's me who thinks that the whole world resolves around me. Tell me, what you did to your hair?" said Buffy petty.
Here we are, Cordy remembered why, she was fed up with slayers turning around the Angels father/son. Slayers equal at heart broken, become evil. Well, Cordy was good for break hearts too. Faith loved to see girls' bust- up, that was her bitchy side that waking up
- "Cordelia, Buffy may have right anyway we can't exclude any tracks" Angel said without crossing Cordelia's eyes or it would have withered him. "I go check at the cop's and you two go see this guy" Angel held the paper up to Buffy but Cordelia took it before Buffy can giving Angel a withering look. It was HER who working in the agency, not Miss 'Im the slayer and the whole world is against me, even the birds and the salmons'.
- "Angel!!" called a voice in the stairs, it was Lorne.
Angel approached of the stairs.
- "Angel!!!" Lorne re-screamed, Angel speeded up, Lorne was in front of Connor's door, Angel went closer to Lorne:
- "He's not good" Lorne said.
Angel came in Connor's room and saw Connor sat on the floor his back against his bed. His T-shirt sweated blood in his shoulder part. He breathed slowly like that was hard.
- "What happened?!" Angel asked.
Angel knew that Connor has certainly went out on QT. He realized Gunn was right he didn't know what Connor doing of his time, probably stealing.
- "That unstitched" Connor said like Angel was stupid because that was obvious.
- "How?" Angel said clarifying his question.
- "The threads tore" replied Connor.
Angel knew that Connor had perfectly understood the question but he was playing the naïve for don't answer, he did that often, and Angel hated it. But what could he say? The kid with his 'other dimension past' could pretend that he didn't understand stuff.
- "Faith will bring you at the hospital"
Connor was okay with that, she won't ask him boring questions. Angel grabbed him under his other shoulder and got him up. He practically was carrying him in the stairs. Cordelia looked at him worriedly when they arrive in the room.
- "Faith can you...." he threw Faith the key of his car.
- "Sure" Faith took the grab at the place of Angel.
- "I can walk alone" grumbled Connor.
Faith smiled the pride surges she knew as well. Cordelia didn't like that but she shouldn't be against Faith if not that could be just worse with Connor. He could be closer to Faith just for make her angrier.
- "The night gonna fall in one and half"
- "How do we do without a car?" Cordy asked.
- "I have my father's car" replied Buffy.
Lorne went downstairs.
- "Oh, look who's here, the pretty slayer"
- "Buffy" Buffy said held up her hand, even if that was weird this demon looked nice.
- "Lorne" Lorne said kissing her hand. Buffy smiled at him throwing glares to Angel. Fred went downstairs too.
- "Oh Fred, meet Buffy"
- "Oh! Buffy! This one was dead! Pleasure!" Fred said enthusiast shacking Buffy's hand.
- "Pleasure for me too" Buffy said back.
She had difficulties to believe that Angel worked with this people they was so different of what he was.
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- "Turn right"
- "I know where is it" sighed Buffy "I lived here, remember, it's even for that you thought I was cool"
- "Yeah, but that was before I discover that you killed vampires and all"
- "Do I need to point you the fact that you do that too?"
- "Yeah, but me Im pay for"
Buffy rolled her eyes. She turned and parked the car front of a building. The building was miserable. Buffy looked around and saw two rats arguing for a piece of bread.
- "It's not like before"
- "yeah, there is a lot of things that are not like before" Cordy said.
- "I hope he knows something"
- "Don't worry Im sure we gonna find her" Cordy said with a comforting ton "Im exiting to see her again, even if technically I never see her"
- "Yeah" Buffy said, in spite of all, she was happy having Cordy beside her, she was a part of the Scooby before after all.
- "What do you know about Connor?" she asked Cordelia.
Cordelia swallowed, she could say a lot on Connor even about his aspect the more intimate.
- "Like what?"
- "I don't know, like what kind of relation he has with Angel"
- "Not very good, you know it's difficult with what Holtz did to him and all"
- "That must had been hard for Angel when the guy took the baby" said Buffy sadly.
- "Yes, a lot. But Connor is quickly came back and with all had passed after he didn't have so much time for think about"
- "Im jealous" Buffy said going on the stairs.
- "Of?" Cordelia looked Buffy who threw her a glance "Of me!! Why?!"
- "You were there, me, anybody takes the time to inform me"
- "You know I wasn't a big help and ......"
- "I know every one in his life"
- "it's not what I was getting to say. It's there"
They placed them front of the door and Cordelia knocked. No answer. She did it again. Buffy pushed Cordelia and then broke the door with a big kick.
- "yeah you right it's simpler like that" Cordelia said sarcastically.
- "Sorry"
- "No it's okay Im used to that with Angel"
Buffy realized that Cordy knew Angel more than her now. That made her jealous. They entered and saw the guy lying on the floor, dead or in a kind of coma.
- "Who did that?" asked Buffy.
- "Maybe his cleaning woman" Cordelia said searching in a pile of stuff. Buffy and Cordelia searched everywhere.
- "HA! HA!" Cordelia said. Buffy approached quickly.
- "What did you find? Hum? A....jar?"
- "There is a light inside. That moves"
- "Open"
- "No, not very careful, it's maybe an evil little light, and I can talk to you about evil little light"
- "I found the card professional of a club or something, he seems to go often in there, I hope Angel has more luck"
- "Well, in Angel case he knows that the guy is already dead"
Buffy was surprised to see Cordelia so blasé. In Sunnydale, the cheerleader screamed all the time she saw a dead body. She went back in the car and leaved the place.
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Angel arrived at the little house. There were the police marks. A mark of the dead body on the floor with a chalk. Angel went beside it and went to the door. He knocked. A woman opened the door. Angel felt suddenly guilty to come for talk to her about a guy who was probably her husband.
- "Yes" The woman said softly.
- "Hum......my name's Angel and I investigate on a case which your husband investigated too" Angel regretted his lack of tact, he was not so good for talk the humans.
- "Hum....."
- "Maybe I disturb you, I can come back another time......."
- "No. But you are...?"
- "Oh" Angel held up his card to her "Im a PI, I investigate on the disappearance of a young girl"
- "Henri let his notes in his desk office" she showed him the direction. Angel wondered if she gonna invite him to come in. Seeing Angel didn't come in she turned back:
- "Come in" Angel come in and followed her to her husband's desk office. She indicated the door, but didn't want to come into it. Angel come in and searched in the paper, none was about Dawn Summers. There were others investigations; Angel was surprised about how many teenagers had disappeared in the last two weeks. He took the pads and saw the photocopier. He made copies of all the pads hoping that the woman didn't hear it. He put all the pages in his coat and leaved the house.
TBC..........
5