Title: Untitled

Author: Lily -- lilyana_vamp@yahoo.com

Rating: R-NC-17...eventually

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Summary: When the unspeakable happens, the unspeakable is brought

about...but not without some complications.

Author's Notes: This is SOOO needing a name.please make suggestions when you leave feedback!!

Author's Notes 2: Sorry for the delay in this part.I've been busy!! So sue me.or not cause you won't get anything *g* Author's Notes 3: Okay, so I didn't like where this part went before, so I kept the beginning but changed the end.completely.and have already started on part 10. Please leave the feedback.I love the feedback.it's what fuels me!! Thanks!!
Part 9

Power
*Things were perfect. They couldn't be better. Unless you consider the undeniable sexual tension. Or the stifling of my fighting career. Constantly hearing 'No, you can't go. It's too dangerous.' It was starting to get incredibly irritating. But otherwise they were perfect. Too perfect.*

"No, you can't go! It's too dangerous! Angel, are you listening to me?!" Cordelia called to him. "Earth to Angel.damn, that sounds like a cheesy fifties song.anyhow, you can't go! I need you."

"Cor, I have to. You know, help the hopeless and all that?"

Cordy pouted at him, her best weapon. "But I'm hopeless. And helpless."

"You are hardly either of the two Cordelia. Now, I'll be back in awhile. If you absolutely need anything, page me. I'll try to figure the damn thing out."

"Yeah right. And I'll be Superwoman," she grumbled under her breath.

"I heard that," he called over his shoulder. "And you're already a Superwoman. You're a Goddess! That's why I know you can handle this." He shut the door before she could come back.

"Oh yeah, kiss ass now buddy, but later, I'm making you scrape the grime out of my fingernails!!" She knelt on the floor and began scrubbing vigorously. "He kills things in the lobby and I'M expected to clean it up. This definitely wasn't in the job description. Of course, I wrote the job description, so maybe I should have included it so I would know what I was getting myself into. This is NEVER going to come out!" she muttered as her pants were stained with bluish demon grime left over from the last fight.

"Cinderelly Cinderelly, good good day Cinderelly, Wash the dishes, scrub the floor," Gunn sang light-heartedly as he came down the stairs.

"Keep it up and I'll turn you into a little mouse with a jacket and a skull cap myself," she glared at him and he held his hands up in defense, a smirk crossing his lips. "And it is oddly disturbing that you know the song to a Disney movie so well."

"Hey, I was a kid once. I rotted my brain with senseless television," he smiled and picked up a scrub brush to help Cordy.

"And this is different now how?" she mocked.

"Hey now! I don't rot my brain with senseless television now.unless you count that day I watched soap operas all day.don't ask, long story, you guys were both on your little hiatuseseses.too many 'es'?"

"Gunn.babble much?"

"Oh, you're one to talk."

"That's it! Prepare to be slimed!!" Cordy screamed and smeared her demon grime covered brush across Gunn's head. She screamed again and ran as he came after her with his own brush. They ran through the lobby, chasing each other, playing a game of tag while covering each other in the slimy substance. They both slipped and fell and landed in a pile of giggles on the floor.

"Gunn, Cordelia, what in Heaven's name is going on out here?" Wesley asked as he opened the office door. "What happened to you two?"

Cordy giggled uncontrollably and Gunn struggled to sit up, slipping time and again in the sludge. "We were, uh, just cleaning," he laughed.

"I believe you are making more of a disaster than you are cleaning it up," the man sighed and walked back into the office. "I swear you two were separated at birth.in another life."

They helped each other off of the floor and looked at the lobby. They had succeeded in covering everything that had previously been untouched by demon fluid and Cordy groaned. "Great, now we have even more cleaning to do!"

"Have fun Barbie!" Gunn yelled and tried to bolt for the door.

"Uh uh! You're staying right here! No way! Freeze!" Cordelia yelled back and pointed her finger at her friend. Upon saying so, Gunn froze in his tracks. "Whoa.how'd you do that Gunn? That is an unbelievably weird position you managed to stop in," she asked, looking at his form frozen in a mid-run stance.

"Um.Cordy, I can't move." Gunn tried to move his head, his arms, his legs, but to no avail.

"Very funny."

"I'm serious. I can't move. I'm stuck. And I'm getting a hell of a Charlie- horse in my right thigh."

Cordy looked at him in astonishment and then looked at her finger. "Whoa," she repeated. "I'm REALLY powerful now. I AM a Superwoman! How shock-worthy is that? Oh I wish I could pull some of this on Harmony and all those little sheep back in Sunnyhell."

"Uh Cordy."

"I'd just point a finger at them and tell them to freeze and them give them all a piece of my mind!"

"Cordy! Stop babbling and do something!" Gunn yelled impatiently.

"Okay, jeez, don't be so impatient. You got somewhere important to go?"

"I ain't going nowhere if you don't unfreeze my ass and soon!!"

Cordelia rolled her eyes and pointed at Gunn. "Uh, unfreeze!" She waited for him to move, but he didn't. "What the hell? I said, unfreeze!" She shook her finger as if trying to shake the power back into it. "Uh oh."

"What do you mean uh oh? I don't like uh oh. Uh oh's are bad. Get me out of this Cordy!"

"Okay, I'll go get Wes. Don't go anywhere!" she told him in a slightly panicked voice.

"Where the hell am I going to go? You froze me!!" Gunn called back.

"Hey Wes, we got a little problem." Cordy stood in the doorway, playing with her hands and Wesley looked at her questioningly. "I kinda sorta froze Gunn."

Wesley rose to his feet and looked through the doorway at the frozen Gunn. "How did you do that Cordelia?"

"I just kinda pointed at him and said 'freeze'. Yeah, I know, it sounds lame, but that's what happened!"

"Well, unfreeze him the same way," Wes said matter-of-factly.

"Tried that. Didn't work," she sighed. "Man, Fred is gonna be pissed at me!"

"I do imagine she will be slightly upset, but I'd concentrate on Gunn for the moment. Let's at least get him on the couch so he's not standing in the doorway like some kind of statue." The two grabbed Gunn's arms and rested him against the couch.

"Hey, have you ever seen that McDonald's commercial where the kids just freeze when they need a Big Kids Meal.I think it's McDonald's anyways."

"Cordelia, I hardly think that is of importance right now," Wes frowned and picked up a book.

"Sorry, it just popped into my mind. Great, you be booky and find a cure for Gunn's freezies and I'll go see what else I can do. I wonder if Willow can do that? Does this make me a witch?"

"I think you're a little more than a witch Cordelia. We have yet to fully assess what the consequences of your sacrificing your humanity to the Powers are, and this may be an adverse affect. I just hope this is not an irreversible action on your part," he said as he leafed through the book.

"Okay, now in normal people terms that would mean.?" she looked at him blankly.

"We don't know what happened to you when you left your humanity with the Powers and hopefully we can unfreeze Gunn."

"Oh, well why didn't you just say that in the first place?" She pointed her finger at Gunn again. "Unfreeze damn you!"

"Hey, it's not my fault! You're the one who froze me!"

"Yeah, sorry 'bout that." She turned and pointed her finger at Wesley. "What else do you think I can do?"

Wes quickly grabbed her finger and pointed it away from himself. "I'm not exactly sure, and until I am, please don't point you finger and say anything.to anyone."

"Oh, you're no fun," she pouted again and heard the lobby door open.

"What.Cordelia! Are you okay?!" Angel ran to her side in a flash.

"I'm fine, but Gunn seems to be having issues," she non-chalantly pointed.

"Hey, watch where you're pointing that thing!" Gunn yelled.

Angel looked at Gunn and poked him in the arm with his own finger. "Gunn, why are you frozen?"

"It seems your little girlfriend here brought back some pretty awesome power. Like the freezing kind."

"You did this?" Angel asked in shock.

"Yeah, but it was an accident, honest! He and I were cleaning.well we were.before we started chasing each other.but that's not the point.and then he started leaving, so I pointed at him and said 'freeze'. That's it. It's not like I planned it or anything," she cried defensively. "And yes, I tried to unfreeze him, but I guess lamer doesn't reverse lame."

Angel shook his head in confusion. "What do we do Wes? I mean, we can't leave Gunn like this."

"Like what?" Fred asked as she walked down the stairs.

"Oh no." Cordy sighed.

"I'm a little on the stiff side Baby," Gunn answered her.

Everyone but Fred groaned; she blushed. "Charles!"

"Way more info than I EVER needed to know!" Cordelia shivered.

"What?.Oh! No! Not like that! Man, you guys are gutter-minded! I meant frozen!!"

"Wes, we need to find a way to fix this. Gunn can't stay frozen forever."

"I'm working on it Angel," Wes sighed from behind his book.

In the conversation, Cordelia slipped out of the room. She sat quietly against the wall, almost in tears. She wished she could tell her friends everything, but she didn't think they'd understand. They had no idea what she did to come back to them and now she was making an even bigger mess of things. She didn't want to hurt any of them, but she was doing it anyways.

Angel followed her and sat beside her silently. He touched her leg in a comforting gesture and then squeezed it. "It's alright Cor. We'll fix Gunn. Wes and Fred are on it as we speak."

"I can't believe I froze my friend! I mean, we were just playing around, having a good time and then boom, he's an Ice Pop! I swear I didn't mean to do it Angel."

"I know Cordy. We'll figure everything out, I promise."

She smiled at him, knowing he would make everything that he possibly could better. Even with the horrible consequences of before, she couldn't help wondering if she could do it again.or what else she might be able to do and she said as much to Angel.

"Well, I'm not sure Cordy, and I'm not ready for you to experiment on me. I'm not crazy on the idea of having to share an icecube tray with Gunn," he joked and she slapped his arm playfully.

"Not helping with the guilt here."

"Sorry," he answered sheepishly.

"I need something to try this on," she spoke determinedly, waving her finger around in the air.

"Umm..how about not waving your finger around until we figure out the specifics of your power." He jumped up and grabbed her hand. "Come on."

"Where are we going?"

"What better way to play with your new found powers than to go fight some evil?" he asked and led a grinning Cordelia out the hotel doors.

"Now Cordy! Freeze him!"

"I'm trying Angel! I'm not exactly an expert at this yet!"

"Cordy! Now!"

"Shut up Angel! You're ruining my concentration!"

"Cordelia!!" Angel struggled with the demon, trying to keep it's back turned to Cordy so she could work her talents on him.

Cordy shook her finger repeatedly and pointed it at the demon. "Freeze!! Freeze now!! It's not working Angel!"

"Come on Cordy! Concentrate!"

"I am!! It's not working!!"

"Then don't concentrate! Just do it and don't think about it! Think about something else!!"

Cordy focused on the first thing that popped into her mind. She wasn't sure if it was a good thing to focus on or not. She thought about what it would be like to be kissing Angel, to feel his arms wrapped around her, his hands roaming of their own accord, his icy skin pressing against her fiery. She felt his lips travel down her neck, nipping gently at the crook of her neck and his fingers hook around the waistband of her pants. They crept down inside of the fabric, and she suddenly didn't want this to happen in a daydream. "Don't you move another inch buddy!" she yelled and unconsciously pointed a finger at the demon.

"You did it Cor!!" Angel applauded and chopped the head off the demon. "Great job!"

"Don't you dare tell me that the severed head is my prize."

"Of course not. What were you thinking about anyways? You seemed to be getting all-"

"Nothing," she interrupted and started walking through the tunnels.

"Nothing huh? It looked like something to me." He grinned. He had a feeling she was thinking about him. Thinking about the same things he thought about when he was alone. "You were breathing heavier, and the sweat-"

"Okay Angel, enough with the play by play! I wasn't thinking about anything in particular. I guess it was just the new power. It must have gotten to me while I was not concentrating on saving your ass!"

"Saving my ass?! I could've taken that demon easily!"

"Oh? And why didn't you? You had to wait until I froze him and saved you before you could lop his head off!"

"I was just trying to give you a chance to try out your new powers! And hey! Don't change the subject! What was getting you all hot and bothered? I could smell the arousal-"

"Eww much?! You so didn't have to share the details of your enhanced sense of smell!" she scolded, keeping her back to him, hiding her flushed face.

"What was it Cordy? What got you going?"

Cordy turned around and pushed him against the tunnel wall forcefully. "You really want to know Angel? Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Cordy, I just-"

She leaned in close so her lips were just brushing his and narrowed her eyes. "I was just thinking about how damn hot Gunn looked today all covered in demon grime, chasing me around the lobby."

Angel looked at her speechless and she let him go. Cordy picked up an axe and slung it over her shoulder as she began walking through the tunnels again. Angel wasn't sure what to say. He was certain she had been thinking about him and the thought of her thinking of Gunn in that way infuriated him. He didn't have any control over her, but he still thought of her as his and his alone. He didn't want to share her, even if he wasn't having anything with her himself.

"Uh.Cordy?" he finally called after her.

"What Angel?" she answered abruptly.

"You're going the wrong.home's that way."

Cordelia turned with a huff and passed him without a word. He followed in silence, the pain and anger growing inside him with each and every step. How could she think of another man that way after the things she said to him when she was convincing him to take the control away from Angelus? 'Did she even mean a word of it?'