Title: The Horror of Amusement
Author: Lily -- lilyana_vamp@yahoo.com
Rating: PG for now. R later.
Disclaimer: I don't own anybody. ME, Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, yadda yadda yadda. I think I should own them. I want them for my own. I want the money ME is making off them.
Distribution: If you want it, take it...just let me know where it
went.
Feedback: well duh.
Summary: Angel Investigations decide to take a few days off after their ordeal with the First to spend somewhere fun, but the fun doesn't last long. Sequel to my last fic, formerly titled "Currently Untitled", now titled "When the Face of Evil is the Face You Love."
Author's Notes: Lyrics to the Mickey Mouse Club theme are property of Walt Disney Company and no infringement is intended.
Author's Notes 2: At the suggestion of my wonderful beta, in the previous fic, the AI gang faced off with Angelus as well as the First coming through Cordy's body. This explains that everything icky that Cordy did wasn't really her (in my reality *g*) and our favorite couple managed to bring things back to more solid ground.
Author's Notes 3: Sorry for the delay. I've been sick with the strep fun and couldn't work on it much. But here ya go and thank you for all of the wonderful feedback!!
Part Two
The Mickey Mouse Club, Splash Mountain and Other Forms of Torture
Angel looked out his office door and grimaced at the sight that awaited him. The gang was all there, minus Lorne, and there was more luggage than he had ever seen before in his ilong life/i. How could four people possibly have so much stuff to take when they were only going to Anaheim?
"Come on Broody! Are you going to stay in here all day?" Cordy asked with a bright smile as she bounced into the office.
"The thought had occurred to me," he muttered, letting out an un-needed breath before she dragged him out by his arm.
"As soon as Lorne gets here, we're hitting the road!" Cordy yelled out, the excitement more than evident in her voice.
iWell, it's almost worth it to see her this happy/i, Angel thought to himself as the front door of the hotel opened. A man walked in dressed in a very colorful Hawaiian shirt, a pair of khaki Dockers and a pair of tennis shoes. On top of his head he wore a floppy straw hat.
Cordy gave Angel a pouty look. "Angel, we can't take a case now! We're leaving! Disney, remember?" she whined, her bottom lip sticking out deliciously.
Angel smiled slightly at the sight, wanting nothing more than to suck that lip into his own mouth and take her up to his room, but he managed to push those images from his mind.for the moment. "Cordy, we still have a job, and it's not exactly the kind of job you take a vacation from." He looked at her lip starting to quiver slightly and he wondered, when exactly it was that she began to have so much control over him without saying a word. "I'll tell you what, you help me get the information and then you guys head out. I'll meet you there when I finish the case. Deal?"
"I suppose," she sighed and then grabbed him by the front of his sweater. "But you'd better not take your sweet ass time and miss the whole trip or else!"
"Or else what?" he asked, calling her bluff.
"Or else you never get to find out what's in the little pink and white striped bag," she threatened and his curiosity heightened. He had never been so determined to get through a case to go to an amusement park in his life. Of course, he'd never needed to be determined to get through a case to get to an amusement park in his life, so that wasn't a hard task.
"Deal." He motioned for Cordy to greet the client and take down his information while he gave the keys to Gunn.
"Welcome to Angel Investigations. What may we do to-" Cordy began with her mega-watt smile and extended hand.
The man took her hand and kissed it as he interrupted her. "Hiya Princess. See Angelcakes, told ya I'd take care of everything."
"Ahh!" Cordy screeched and jumped back, putting her hands up in front of her defensively.
"Lorne?" Fred asked in shock.
"The one and only! So, are we ready to depart to the magical land of mice, ducks and princesses?" He put an arm around Cordelia reassuringly. "You should be right at home Sweetie," he winked at her.
She looked at him warily and poked at his face. "That is just too freaky." She pulled off his hat to reveal his horns. "Ah ha! You still have horns though!"
"Well, there's not exactly much I could do about those. I've got a few people in the make-up business and I put them to work. Think they did a beautiful job myself."
"I should have known that no one else would wear a shirt that tacky.no offence Lorne," the seer grinned.
"None taken Princess," he smiled back. "Now, let's get this party started."
Angel, still slightly in shock and definitely stunned into silence, followed the group to the door. Luckily Cordy had it together enough to throw his blanket over him before he stepped out into the sunshine and burst into flames.although that would get him out of going on this trip.
***************
"M-I-C," Cordy sang from the back of the rented mini-van, linking her arm with Angel's.
"K-E-Y," Fred continued.
"M-O-U-S-E," Gunn added from the driver's seat, his body bouncing back and forth with each letter as he sang.
"Mickey Mouse."
"Donald Duck."
"Mickey Mouse."
"Donald Duck," Lorne and Wesley bantered back and forth respectively. Connor watched on, laughing uncontrollably at the sight of all these grown- ups acting positively foolish.
"Uhh.does anyone remember what comes next?" Cordy asked, her brow furrowed in confusion.
They all stopped in silence and Angel gave a quiet sigh of relief. "Maybe we'll remember if we start over!" Lorne suggested gleefully and they all cheered as Angel groaned in protest. His groan was drowned out.
"Oh wait, I remember!" Gunn yelled from the front seat and they all turned to him in shock. "What? Can't a brother watch the Mickey Mouse Club? Geez." Gunn shook his head. "Forever let hold our banners high!"
"High! High! High!" the others joined in loudly.
"Come along and sing a song," Wesley continued with a grin.
"And join the jamboree." Cordy grabbed Connor's shoulder as she sang, trying to get him to join in on the fun.
"M-I-C-K-E-Y!" He tried to stop laughing long enough to give it a whirl, but it came out as more of a fit of giggles than the letters it was suppose to.
"M-O-U-S-E," Fred finished, laughing along with Connor and smiling at his attempt.
"Now's the time to say goodbye," they all sang softly together. Angel began to wonder if the insanity was ever going to end.
"To all our company
M-I-C-See ya real soon
K-E-Y-Why? Because we like you!
M-O-U-S-E!!" The entire gang burst into a roar of laughter. Angel couldn't help but smile, although he was unsure it was because of their joy or because the song was finally over.
"One more time!" Lorne called from in front of him. Angel groaned as they began the song again and tried to cover his ears, but Cordy had a tight hold on his arm.
"How many times can they sing this before we get to the hotel?" he asked himself. "Please don't let there be traffic."
***************
They had managed to get Angel inside without much trouble, but had received a few looks from guests who thought they were trying to smuggle in a pet underneath the heavy blanket. Gunn shot them a look to tell them to mind their own damn business, they hurried away, and he grinned in triumph.
When they reached their rooms, they silently broke off into pairs. Angel could hear Wesley whining about having to bunk in the same room as Lorne and he grinned. Cordy dropped her bags on the floor of their room with a heavy thud and then began jumping on one of the beds excitedly.
"Okay, if you're going to break all the springs in it, then that's your bed," Angel smiled and heaved himself on the other bed, his sleepiness starting to get the best of him. He opened his eyes to see Cordy staring down at him with a smile.
"Sleepy?"
"Yeah, daytime. Usually sleep time for us vampires," he pointed out needlessly.
"Yeah, I know. I'll let you sleep." She gave him a quick kiss and ran her fingers through his hair. "I'll come back at sunset to get you."
"Sounds like a plan," he agreed, his voice heavy with sleep. "I'll take you to see the fireworks," he promised and drifted away.
"Love you." She kissed him lightly again and covered him up before skipping out of the room.
****************
Angel awoke with a start, getting the unmistakable feeling that his Cordy needed him. He jumped to his feet and hoped that night had fallen so he could get to her. Seeing that the sun had set and she hadn't returned only worsened his fear. He grabbed the door handle and threw open the door to find himself face to face with his seer.
"Ahhh!" she screamed in surprise. "Don't do that Angel!!"
"Cordy! You're.okay?" he asked in confusion.
"Umm.yeah. Don't sound all happy about it or anything," she told him sarcastically and grabbed him by the arm, pulling him out of the hotel room.
"Sorry, it's not that I'm not happy. I just had a feeling."
"Well, you're going to have the feeling of my foot kicking your ass if you don't hurry up. I want to go on Splash Mountain!"
*****************
Angel stood in the line, gripping Cordy's arm tighter and tighter each time he saw one of the logs full of people come careening down the water slide.
"Ow much," she glared at him and rubbed her arm tenderly as he released his grip apologetically.
"Do we have to go on this one?" he asked, trying to swallow the lump in his throat.
"Don't tell me that a 250 year old vampire is afraid of a little roller- coaster," she teased him, one of her perfect eyebrows arched and a grin on her face. "Because we have to go on Space Mountain too, and that one's in the dark!"
Angel looked at her pleadingly and saw that she wasn't giving in. "I knew this was a bad idea."
********************
"And I've never heard Cordy scream so loud in my life!" Angel exclaimed with a laugh as they met up with the rest of the gang.
"Shut up Angel," Cordy growled as she rang the water out of her hair. "I wasn't screaming that loud," she defended herself.
"Hey, the Dumbo ride had me a little freaked Barbie," Gunn supported her with a wink and she looked at him with a disbelieving look.
"He's not kidding Cordy," Fred told her friend. "He was all shaky and with sweaty palms."
"Okay, enough details," Gunn pleaded with his girlfriend causing everyone to laugh lightly.
"What's been your favorite so far Connor?" Cordy asked the boy. A smile had been plastered to his face since they had entered the park earlier that day and everyone was relieved to see a genuine happy reaction on the boy.
"I don't know. There's just so much!! The Matterhorn Bobsled thing was wild.and the Indiana Jones ride was crazy!" he gushed, his excitement overflowing.
"It's even crazier when you've actually seen the movie," Gunn pointed out and Connor looked at him in shock.
"There's a movie?"
"Poor boy is as culturally retarded as his dad," Cordy joked and caught an elbow from both of them. "OW! I'm being tag teamed!!"
"So where to next kiddos?" Lorne asked, taking a drink of his water.
"I'd like to go on 'It's a Small World,'" Fred suggested quietly.
"Then that's what we'll go on," Gunn smiled at his girlfriend and led the group to the ride.
************************
Cordy could hear the achingly repetitive song drifting from inside and shuddered.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked quietly.
"There's something evil about this ride. Those voices, they just sound like evil little children chanting some evil little spell."
"Cordy, it's just a ride. There's nothing evil about it, just very annoying."
They climbed into their seats and floated inside the dark building. Cordy touched her head suddenly as they made the first turn. "No Angel, there really is something evil about this ride. Something very, very evil!"
Author: Lily -- lilyana_vamp@yahoo.com
Rating: PG for now. R later.
Disclaimer: I don't own anybody. ME, Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, yadda yadda yadda. I think I should own them. I want them for my own. I want the money ME is making off them.
Distribution: If you want it, take it...just let me know where it
went.
Feedback: well duh.
Summary: Angel Investigations decide to take a few days off after their ordeal with the First to spend somewhere fun, but the fun doesn't last long. Sequel to my last fic, formerly titled "Currently Untitled", now titled "When the Face of Evil is the Face You Love."
Author's Notes: Lyrics to the Mickey Mouse Club theme are property of Walt Disney Company and no infringement is intended.
Author's Notes 2: At the suggestion of my wonderful beta, in the previous fic, the AI gang faced off with Angelus as well as the First coming through Cordy's body. This explains that everything icky that Cordy did wasn't really her (in my reality *g*) and our favorite couple managed to bring things back to more solid ground.
Author's Notes 3: Sorry for the delay. I've been sick with the strep fun and couldn't work on it much. But here ya go and thank you for all of the wonderful feedback!!
Part Two
The Mickey Mouse Club, Splash Mountain and Other Forms of Torture
Angel looked out his office door and grimaced at the sight that awaited him. The gang was all there, minus Lorne, and there was more luggage than he had ever seen before in his ilong life/i. How could four people possibly have so much stuff to take when they were only going to Anaheim?
"Come on Broody! Are you going to stay in here all day?" Cordy asked with a bright smile as she bounced into the office.
"The thought had occurred to me," he muttered, letting out an un-needed breath before she dragged him out by his arm.
"As soon as Lorne gets here, we're hitting the road!" Cordy yelled out, the excitement more than evident in her voice.
iWell, it's almost worth it to see her this happy/i, Angel thought to himself as the front door of the hotel opened. A man walked in dressed in a very colorful Hawaiian shirt, a pair of khaki Dockers and a pair of tennis shoes. On top of his head he wore a floppy straw hat.
Cordy gave Angel a pouty look. "Angel, we can't take a case now! We're leaving! Disney, remember?" she whined, her bottom lip sticking out deliciously.
Angel smiled slightly at the sight, wanting nothing more than to suck that lip into his own mouth and take her up to his room, but he managed to push those images from his mind.for the moment. "Cordy, we still have a job, and it's not exactly the kind of job you take a vacation from." He looked at her lip starting to quiver slightly and he wondered, when exactly it was that she began to have so much control over him without saying a word. "I'll tell you what, you help me get the information and then you guys head out. I'll meet you there when I finish the case. Deal?"
"I suppose," she sighed and then grabbed him by the front of his sweater. "But you'd better not take your sweet ass time and miss the whole trip or else!"
"Or else what?" he asked, calling her bluff.
"Or else you never get to find out what's in the little pink and white striped bag," she threatened and his curiosity heightened. He had never been so determined to get through a case to go to an amusement park in his life. Of course, he'd never needed to be determined to get through a case to get to an amusement park in his life, so that wasn't a hard task.
"Deal." He motioned for Cordy to greet the client and take down his information while he gave the keys to Gunn.
"Welcome to Angel Investigations. What may we do to-" Cordy began with her mega-watt smile and extended hand.
The man took her hand and kissed it as he interrupted her. "Hiya Princess. See Angelcakes, told ya I'd take care of everything."
"Ahh!" Cordy screeched and jumped back, putting her hands up in front of her defensively.
"Lorne?" Fred asked in shock.
"The one and only! So, are we ready to depart to the magical land of mice, ducks and princesses?" He put an arm around Cordelia reassuringly. "You should be right at home Sweetie," he winked at her.
She looked at him warily and poked at his face. "That is just too freaky." She pulled off his hat to reveal his horns. "Ah ha! You still have horns though!"
"Well, there's not exactly much I could do about those. I've got a few people in the make-up business and I put them to work. Think they did a beautiful job myself."
"I should have known that no one else would wear a shirt that tacky.no offence Lorne," the seer grinned.
"None taken Princess," he smiled back. "Now, let's get this party started."
Angel, still slightly in shock and definitely stunned into silence, followed the group to the door. Luckily Cordy had it together enough to throw his blanket over him before he stepped out into the sunshine and burst into flames.although that would get him out of going on this trip.
***************
"M-I-C," Cordy sang from the back of the rented mini-van, linking her arm with Angel's.
"K-E-Y," Fred continued.
"M-O-U-S-E," Gunn added from the driver's seat, his body bouncing back and forth with each letter as he sang.
"Mickey Mouse."
"Donald Duck."
"Mickey Mouse."
"Donald Duck," Lorne and Wesley bantered back and forth respectively. Connor watched on, laughing uncontrollably at the sight of all these grown- ups acting positively foolish.
"Uhh.does anyone remember what comes next?" Cordy asked, her brow furrowed in confusion.
They all stopped in silence and Angel gave a quiet sigh of relief. "Maybe we'll remember if we start over!" Lorne suggested gleefully and they all cheered as Angel groaned in protest. His groan was drowned out.
"Oh wait, I remember!" Gunn yelled from the front seat and they all turned to him in shock. "What? Can't a brother watch the Mickey Mouse Club? Geez." Gunn shook his head. "Forever let hold our banners high!"
"High! High! High!" the others joined in loudly.
"Come along and sing a song," Wesley continued with a grin.
"And join the jamboree." Cordy grabbed Connor's shoulder as she sang, trying to get him to join in on the fun.
"M-I-C-K-E-Y!" He tried to stop laughing long enough to give it a whirl, but it came out as more of a fit of giggles than the letters it was suppose to.
"M-O-U-S-E," Fred finished, laughing along with Connor and smiling at his attempt.
"Now's the time to say goodbye," they all sang softly together. Angel began to wonder if the insanity was ever going to end.
"To all our company
M-I-C-See ya real soon
K-E-Y-Why? Because we like you!
M-O-U-S-E!!" The entire gang burst into a roar of laughter. Angel couldn't help but smile, although he was unsure it was because of their joy or because the song was finally over.
"One more time!" Lorne called from in front of him. Angel groaned as they began the song again and tried to cover his ears, but Cordy had a tight hold on his arm.
"How many times can they sing this before we get to the hotel?" he asked himself. "Please don't let there be traffic."
***************
They had managed to get Angel inside without much trouble, but had received a few looks from guests who thought they were trying to smuggle in a pet underneath the heavy blanket. Gunn shot them a look to tell them to mind their own damn business, they hurried away, and he grinned in triumph.
When they reached their rooms, they silently broke off into pairs. Angel could hear Wesley whining about having to bunk in the same room as Lorne and he grinned. Cordy dropped her bags on the floor of their room with a heavy thud and then began jumping on one of the beds excitedly.
"Okay, if you're going to break all the springs in it, then that's your bed," Angel smiled and heaved himself on the other bed, his sleepiness starting to get the best of him. He opened his eyes to see Cordy staring down at him with a smile.
"Sleepy?"
"Yeah, daytime. Usually sleep time for us vampires," he pointed out needlessly.
"Yeah, I know. I'll let you sleep." She gave him a quick kiss and ran her fingers through his hair. "I'll come back at sunset to get you."
"Sounds like a plan," he agreed, his voice heavy with sleep. "I'll take you to see the fireworks," he promised and drifted away.
"Love you." She kissed him lightly again and covered him up before skipping out of the room.
****************
Angel awoke with a start, getting the unmistakable feeling that his Cordy needed him. He jumped to his feet and hoped that night had fallen so he could get to her. Seeing that the sun had set and she hadn't returned only worsened his fear. He grabbed the door handle and threw open the door to find himself face to face with his seer.
"Ahhh!" she screamed in surprise. "Don't do that Angel!!"
"Cordy! You're.okay?" he asked in confusion.
"Umm.yeah. Don't sound all happy about it or anything," she told him sarcastically and grabbed him by the arm, pulling him out of the hotel room.
"Sorry, it's not that I'm not happy. I just had a feeling."
"Well, you're going to have the feeling of my foot kicking your ass if you don't hurry up. I want to go on Splash Mountain!"
*****************
Angel stood in the line, gripping Cordy's arm tighter and tighter each time he saw one of the logs full of people come careening down the water slide.
"Ow much," she glared at him and rubbed her arm tenderly as he released his grip apologetically.
"Do we have to go on this one?" he asked, trying to swallow the lump in his throat.
"Don't tell me that a 250 year old vampire is afraid of a little roller- coaster," she teased him, one of her perfect eyebrows arched and a grin on her face. "Because we have to go on Space Mountain too, and that one's in the dark!"
Angel looked at her pleadingly and saw that she wasn't giving in. "I knew this was a bad idea."
********************
"And I've never heard Cordy scream so loud in my life!" Angel exclaimed with a laugh as they met up with the rest of the gang.
"Shut up Angel," Cordy growled as she rang the water out of her hair. "I wasn't screaming that loud," she defended herself.
"Hey, the Dumbo ride had me a little freaked Barbie," Gunn supported her with a wink and she looked at him with a disbelieving look.
"He's not kidding Cordy," Fred told her friend. "He was all shaky and with sweaty palms."
"Okay, enough details," Gunn pleaded with his girlfriend causing everyone to laugh lightly.
"What's been your favorite so far Connor?" Cordy asked the boy. A smile had been plastered to his face since they had entered the park earlier that day and everyone was relieved to see a genuine happy reaction on the boy.
"I don't know. There's just so much!! The Matterhorn Bobsled thing was wild.and the Indiana Jones ride was crazy!" he gushed, his excitement overflowing.
"It's even crazier when you've actually seen the movie," Gunn pointed out and Connor looked at him in shock.
"There's a movie?"
"Poor boy is as culturally retarded as his dad," Cordy joked and caught an elbow from both of them. "OW! I'm being tag teamed!!"
"So where to next kiddos?" Lorne asked, taking a drink of his water.
"I'd like to go on 'It's a Small World,'" Fred suggested quietly.
"Then that's what we'll go on," Gunn smiled at his girlfriend and led the group to the ride.
************************
Cordy could hear the achingly repetitive song drifting from inside and shuddered.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked quietly.
"There's something evil about this ride. Those voices, they just sound like evil little children chanting some evil little spell."
"Cordy, it's just a ride. There's nothing evil about it, just very annoying."
They climbed into their seats and floated inside the dark building. Cordy touched her head suddenly as they made the first turn. "No Angel, there really is something evil about this ride. Something very, very evil!"