Disclaimer: I don't own 'em! At least all the normal characters you recognize, I'm just borrowing the said characters. If I owned them, you could guarantee BtVS and AtS wouldn't be nearly such good shows as they are now! The story, my ego, and my soul belong to me, but if you want to give a kind donation, *ahem* I'll loan 'em out! LOL. Yes, I'm shameless, I know.

Author's Notes: As of yet? None. Do you have any idea how hard it is having author's notes for over one hundred stories? I thought not! Hmmph. Umm, just an idea I had, it was going to be kind of like individual journals or something. I'm not sure. But it's only for (un)alive people.

Story Notes: Hmm, how about when I've written it, then thought about it a lot, I'll put in notes, m'kay? LOL. Okay, so, chapter one takes place sometime after Angel got his soul. Chapter two takes place a little bit after Angelus got back. The third chapter takes place while Darla's human. The fourth takes place when Darla's pregnant with Connor. The fifth takes place right after Connor was born before he got taken to a hell dimension. The sixth takes place while Darla's back for that brief interlude with Connor prior to Jasmine arriving. And the final and seventh chapter happens right after the BtVS series final.

Summary: Angelus has been resouled, twice. Darla's been killed, twice. Spike's been first chipped, then resouled, and now he's dead. And what ever happened to Drusilla? Ever wonder how the rest of the fearsome four felt about all this?

Song: I don't want to talk about this.

Rating: 14-A for language and mentioned violence

Date Started: 03/03/03 Date Finished: 05/28/03





All In The Family
By ~Delenn~




Chapter 1: What A Soul: Angelus




~~~Darla~~~


Sickening! It's just sickening!

The very thought of that soul makes me want to vomit! And to my boy of all vampires… the potential my boy had. The two of us would have led a massacre through the whole world.

My beautiful, precious, boy ruined. By humans, of all creatures, human damn fucking Gypsies! All that talent, ripped away by a idiotic spell cast.

Powerful magic that made him forget who he was, who he was meant to be. That made him run in fear and pain; made him cry in my embrace because I was wrong and evil.

Nothing would have taken him out; I could see it… the Slayers would have started to tremble at the very mention of his name, a legend. My legend.

I trained him, gave him a second life, I broke him, loved him, and ultimately, I destroyed him. Such raw talent for torture; such capacity to torment, destruction was his forte… I never meant to hurt him.

Demons in hell, I never wanted to hurt him, I never would have! But I did, didn't I? This horrible wreck of our life, our eternity; it's all my fault.

And that childe of his, visions she has. Is that right? Well, tell me now, she sees visions and she didn't see this in time to stop it, to save her sire? Guess it's just something that happens, she can't control it.

Well, then, what fucking use is she? Angelus turned her as an advantage, and that's why I let him. Some asset, too busy with her own childe, useless brat he is, to notice a threat like this. Too insane to even care if she'd known, of yes, Angelus, I can just see how helpful she's proved to be.

The Master always said you couldn't trust damned gypsies, but how was I to know you couldn't snack on them?

My fault… and now he's gone.

~~~Drusilla~~~


Daddy went away.

A horrible little girl came in and stole him away from us, leaving the beast in his place.

The rivers are running blue without daddy here, and grandmummy screams inside her head. I can hear it, Ms. Edith knows, the screaming inside her head, so very loud.

I can't here daddy anymore, he's buried down somewhere in the beast, leaving me all alone. He's left me, left the walls bleeding in sorrow!

I wish daddy would come home, grandmummy is so angry with me but it's about daddy. I don't understand; I didn't make daddy go away. Was all grandmummies fault, I saw it, I did.

Brought daddy a present, and then he went away, with that silly little girl, but they went to different places. The little girl went away like all naughty little girls are supposed to, but daddy… he's still here.

Not daddy, the beast. Grandmummy's tried to explain all this, but I make her angry so then she calls for my William to come take me away from her sight. Even if grandmummy can't see me, I see her, see the ugly worms eating away at her heart when she's alone.

My William told me to stop mentioning daddy, but Ms. Edith thinks that's silly, and I agree. I ask when will daddy come home, but nobody will answer, not even the red moon. I'll ask again tomorrow.

~~~William~~~


Would it really be that rude if I applauded?

I mean, the Wanker's finally out of our lives, if that doesn't deserve applause, I don't know what does.

Of course, I really wish he had taken the stuck up bint with him, the two of them could have gone off somewhere; my princess and I would be fine on our own. Never could get that lucky I 'spose, so the Wanker had to go and get himself a soul!

Actually, from what I've picked up of my Black Goddess' ramblings, it's the bint's fault! Must really be serving her right, all this time yelling about how great Angelus was, and she turns him into a great ponce!

I dare you to tell me that's not applause worthy, go on, I might actually let you live a few seconds.

My Princess is right confused though, seeing Angelus, but not seeing him. Don't see what the big deal about a soul is, if he was any kind of demon, he'd have gotten over it. But she misses him, and that drives me up the wall!

Her precious daddy gone away and all she can do is talk to Ms. Edith about it, can't understand that we're so close to being free. All we have to do is get rid of Darla, and we could do whatever we wanted… whatever she wanted.

Not to say getting rid of that wench would be easy, seems she'd just as soon skin us alive then listen to one word since Angelus went and ate that Gypsy. Again. Did I mention that being skinned bloody hurts? Should be the bitch's trademark, the way she's got it timed so that the skin just gets a chance to start to re-grow itself before she takes it off again. Damn uncomfortable.

She never was this mean before, always yelling at my Goddess now, so I suppose the Wanker was good from something other then hurting Dru. Bastard should rot in hell for what he did to her. Hope he is.

I wish Angelus would come back already.