Title: I Saved Yo Evil Ass part 10
Authors: Lilyana_Vamp & Sunscorched
Email: Lilyana_vamp@yahoo.com Aurora_plym_uk@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-15
Summary: Some vampires are just ungrateful
Content: C/Aus
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: We own nothing
Distribution: Just ask
Part 10
Beside Manners
The first thing Cordelia noticed when she woke up was the needles in each of her arms. One had blood and the other had a clear liquid going into her vein. "What..." She looked around the room, trying to get her bearings. She felt the burning in her shoulder and winced. "Oh yeah..."
"Cordelia?" Angelus asked in a low voice from a chair at her bedside.
She looked at Angelus. "Ow..." she groaned.
"Take it easy, you've just been staked" Angelus told her as he got up to sit on her bed. "How do you feel?"
"Like I had a large piece of wood shoved through my shoulder," she grimaced and looked at the IVs. "What are these for?"
"One's giving you blood and the other is a drip" Angelus replied, "What were you thinking?" he asked lowly.
Cordelia refused to look at him as she fiddled with the edge of her blanket, "She was going to kill you" she replied, cutting off the rest of her words.
"You deliberately took what was meant for me, why?"
"Like I said, I need you to be here and that includes you not being deader than you already are" she replied. Cordelia tried to push herself into a sitting position, "Owww. Shit"
Angelus reached behind her back to help her sit up, she put her arms around his neck as much as she could to let him help her. "Take it easy" he told her, "You want water or something?"
"Or something" Cordelia answered as she unwrapped her arms, "You do realise you're paying for my hospital bills" her eyes widened again as she gasped. "Oh God, did the doctors say anything about my bruises or my concussion? What if they accuse you and try to put you in jail?" she groaned. "I'm bound to a jail bird, when my friends find out, I'm going to be the laughing stock. They can never know, I'll just tell them you've gone a world cruise or something, right?"
"Who's going to cheer the team on Friday? Harmony cannot take my place as the apex; I'm the only one who's allowed to be apex. The apex is my rightful place and I'm the only one who can do the back flip leading into a handspring. Why did you do this to me? This is all your fault"
"What?"
"You've got another thing coming if you think I'm repeating that again, injured here" Cordelia snapped. She looked down at her hospital gown, "I'm so going to get hives, and you're paying the cream I'll have to use since it's your fault I'm in here wearing this"
"Is there anything I'm not paying for?"
"Now that I think about it. No"
"Knock, knock" Xander said from the doorway, he had heard the conversation and couldn't help feeling a sense of sympathy for the obviously confused vampire. He entered the room with some flowers, "I brought you some flowers," he told her.
"What are you doing here Harris?" Angelus growled in annoyance, "Why did you bring here flowers? She doesn't belong to you anymore"
"She never belonged to me in the first place," Xander snapped, "Just like she doesn't belong to you"
"I think she does"
"For God's sake SHUT UP," Cordelia yelled as she cracked with everything the last few days had held. "I am sick and tired of being pulled in every direction by every single one of you. You, Buffy and Giles want me to go one way and he wants me to go another. Has anybody even given a thought about which direction I want to go? Because right now, I'm on the verge of killing all of you and if I have to take up Buffy's slayage as a repercussion then I'll gladly do so. So both of you either shut up or go away and leave me in peace"
"Sorry" Xander meekly apologised as he stepped closer to her bed, "I just came to see how you are and uh, these are from Buffy, Willow and I. Buffy wanted to come but she's still in shock, she did tell me to say she's sorry and she didn't mean it"
Angelus shifted round when Xander came closer, making it so he was stretched out next to Cordelia and put his arm possessively round her carefully. "That makes it okay does it?" he asked.
"It was accident" Xander replied coolly as he held the flowers out to Cordelia as a peace offering, "Here"
Cordelia bit her lip as she tried to reach for them but her movements caused her stitches to pull a little and she hissed. She turned her face to look at the vampire scrutinising Xander intensely, "Please can you."
"Why? The Slayer did this to you, I'm not letting you accept this" Angelus denied.
"It was an accident; you know that as well as I do. If anything it was my fault for trying to play hero to save your ass. Again. Please, can you pass me the flowers as a thank you for me doing that for you?"
Angelus grunted his answer as he held his hand out for the flowers and passed them to Cordelia. "Here"
"Thank you Xander, they're beautiful" Cordelia thanked her friend sincerely, "Tell Buffy I'm sorry, it was really my fault that it happened"
"Buffy asked if you would mind her coming to see you later, she wants to apologise" Xander told her quietly as he shuffled on his feet under the vampire's increasingly intense stare.
"I don't mind," she answered quietly.
"I do" Angelus growled, "She's coming anywhere near you Cordelia"
"Angelus, please. She didn't mean to. I know she can be a bitch, but I don't think she'd intentionally try to kill me."
Angelus glared at her, "What about all those things she said to you? She may not have meant to kill you, but she did mean everything she said"
"And I meant everything I said to her. That was a two-way street. Buffy and I have an understanding...we don't like each other very much. Doesn't usually lead to near death experiences though." She let her head fall back on her pillow, getting dizzy from the conversation and blood loss. "Are they investigating?" she asked Xander with her eyes closed.
"Yeah, Giles told them somebody attacked you and got away" Xander replied. "They were asking about your other injuries too"
Cordelia nodded. "What did he say?" She hated putting Xander in that situation in front of Angelus, but she had to know.
Xander took a deep breath, "Giles didn't tell them about him if that's what you mean. I wanted too but he told me it wouldn't be good for you, I'm sure you get my meaning" he said with another glare at Angelus.
Cordelia nodded again. "Giles hates me now, doesn't he? Tell him I'm sorry. I know he was trying to help me."
"He doesn't hate you, he just thinks you're an idiot and I can't say I blame him. I think you're an idiot"
"Well, you know, I'm inclined to agree with you both, but this is bigger than you and Giles and me put together. It's not something that I can explain to you, because I don't even know the explanation myself." Her head began to spin and she sighed. "I need to rest. Thank you for the flowers, and tell Buffy that all is forgiven."
"Sure thing Cordy, I'll see you later okay?" Xander asked with a sigh.
"Kay," she smiled weakly and looked down at her blankets when she was alone with Angelus again. "I suppose you have something to say?"
Angelus shrugged, "What do you want me to say? You've seem to have sworn yourself as my protector, what can I do about it?"
"Explain it to me. Explain to me why I keep saving you. Explain to me why I can't seem to be away from you. And what the hell is this deal about you claiming me as your mate?!"
Ah. "What is there to explain? You're mine" Angelus avoided with a simple reply as he averted his gaze slightly.
"Uh uh buddy. You wouldn't let me use that cop out, neither can you. Explain if you don't want me to jump out of this bed and hunt down the nearest baseball bat," she half threatened, trying to keep the smile off her face.
"That hurt you know" Angelus growled at her, the corners of his own mouth flicking up slightly. "That bite mark just lets everybody know who you belong to they can't, and won't, touch you"
"Oh, so it's a hands off type deal? Does that mean I can go strolling through the graveyard at night? My life is complete," she told him sarcastically.
"No you won't go strolling through ANY graveyard at night. It just means you're mine, mine to keep, mine to play with, mine to touch and mine alone. Nobody else gets to have that with you"
She stuck her tongue out at him. "I was being sarcastic."
"There's more to it than that" Angelus resigned to tell her everything and looked for the nearest exit just in case. "The reason why you went berserk when the Watcher took you, well, it's like a car alarm that goes off when somebody steals it"
"Are you comparing me to a car?"
"Yeah, a Plymouth, it's a classic" Angelus thought of nice, barely used car in the garage at the mansion. "It has a nice, leather back seat..."
"My backseat is not leather!"
"No, your backSIDE is like smooth silk that I like to touch, and you're a much better ride than a car"
She looked at him for a second, not sure whether to take that as a compliment or hit him again. "So basically, you installed me with Lo-Jack?"
"Pretty much, oh and our link kinda works as a homing signal. So if you're somewhere, and I want you I just follow that"
"Greeaat," she groaned. "You suck, you know that?"
"You wouldn't know... Yet" Angelus gave her a wicked wink and grin, "I bet you could suck, something to keep that mouth shut for once" Angelus purred, leaning closer to her. "You're not doing anything now, it won't hurt you, all you have to do is move your mouth..."
Cordelia scrunched her face up. "Hello, mortally wounded here! Keep your vamp hormones in check!"
"Come on Cordelia, I know you'd like it. I'll go down on you if you go down on me" Angelus tried to coax her, all this talk had him a little riled up. "I could close the door and..."
She raised an eyebrow at him. "And how would we explain it to the doctor when he came in to check on me?"
"Simple, I rip his head off for interrupting, I can do that you know. Easy as pie"
"There will be no ripping off the head of my doctor, not if you want me to get better," she told him seriously.
"Someone has to check out you out down there, I was a little rough..." Angelus innocently replied, his eyes darkening telling Cordelia no matter what she said, he was going to do it anyway.
"They have specialists for that."
"I've been around for 230 years, I know my way around a woman Cordelia"
"Ok, ew, I don't want to know about your past sex life." She looked up at him and blushed at the seductive look in his eyes. "You suck," she repeated again in defeat.
"That an offer?"
She looked at him with a pout. "A hospital bed isn't even sacred to you, is it?"
"No soul Cordelia, I'm not a kitten" Angelus told her seriously. "If you're that much of a prude, I can wait until I take you home"
"I'm not a prude!" she cried out in insult. "Prudes are those girls that you see walking around, dressed like they're in third grade because they don't want to be mistaken for sexy! I am NOT a prude!"
"Prove it" Angelus inwardly smirked in triumph, he knew just how to play her to get what he wanted.
"You're serious, aren't you? You really, really are serious!" Cordelia asked in utter disbelief at his shameless way.
"So? Nobody's gonna walk in" Angelus replied with a frown, "Not like I'm gonna be bragging about it to my buddies in half-time"
"Riiight" Cordelia replied with a shake of her head, "There's no chance what so ever that a doctor or nurse could walk right into this very room at all, is there?" Angelus jumped off the bed eagerly, making the bed bounce, causing Cordelia to yelp and clutch her wound. "Will you just quit it?"
Angelus' shoulders slumped in defeat, if she couldn't stand the bed bouncing then it didn't look like much was going to happen.
"Cheer up, it may never happen" Cordelia snapped in response to her pain. "That hurt"
"Yeah, yeah quit whining" Angelus grumbled with a dirty look in Cordelia's direction before sitting back on the bed.
"I am not whining, it really does hurt. How would you like a stake stuck in you?"
"Didn't hurt me that much" Angelus fibbed, "I didn't cry about it as much as you"
"That's because I'm human, you're the Big Bad. See why I'm crying abou... Hey, I am not crying about it, so stop with the accusations and get with the thanking"
"How can I thank you when you can't even stand the bed bouncing?"
Cordelia rolled her eyes sarcastically, is that all he thought about? "Is that all you think about? Sex, sex and more sex? Or does sex come into it?"
Angelus seriously thought about it for a second, "No, I think about sex, oh and there's that other thing I think about. What's it called again? Oh yeah, sex"
"Get out" Cordelia growled, she couldn't take him anymore, she was tired and needed some sleep.
"I think about you" Angelus told her, ignoring her order. "I think about you and sex in the same thought, does that count?"
Cordelia raised an eyebrow, "What do you think of me?"
"Easy" Angelus replied as he leaned towards her neck and his mark. "Crazy, stupid, insane, bitchy, vivacious, hot, a real boner"
Cordelia stuck her tongue out at him. "You're not getting any here, so don't flatter me."
"Aw come on Cordy, don't be shy. I could do things to you and you wouldn't have to move a muscle"
"No," she told him flatly. "If it happens again, I will be running the show."
"Really?" Angelus purred as he started licking her neck seductively, trying to wear her down and coax her into what was on his mind.
She pushed him away with her uninjured arm. "I said if. Now let me rest unless you want me going into shock again."
Angelus grabbed her uninjured arm and twisted it slightly, "Think just because you're hurt that you can order me around?" he asked thickly.
Cordelia cried out sharply. "Let go," she said in a half plea, half order.
Angelus chuckled, "Just remember who's boss Cordy. I think I should have a pet name for you, what about baby?"
Cordelia glared at his smugness. "I'm not even gonna dignify that with an answer," she told him lowly.
"Lover?" he asked as he let her arm go and started running his finger up and down, bringing her skin out in goosebumps.
"Cut it out."
"Sweet pea?" he trailed his finger along her collar bone and the swell of her cleavage.
"Stop!" she finally yelled. The room was spinning around her due to the fact that her heart was racing.
Angelus stopped her from collapsing onto the bed and Cordelia fell directly into his arms. "Kitten?" he purred deliciously as the name warmed to him, "I like that, Kitten"
"Fine, whatever, I don't care," she whispered, resting her head against him.
Angelus smirked as he began to gently scratch under her chin as if she were a kitten. "You do need to sleep, I guess. I'm not going anywhere so you'll be safe"
Cordelia sighed and closed her eyes, drifting into her drugged sleep.
Angelus just watched her like he did the first time he watched her sleep. He stroked her hair back from her face and traced her jaw gently, then he trailed his finger down her nose, making it twitch and her hands came up to bat his hand away.
"I'm keeping you" he whispered, "I'm going to take you home with me, where you'll be safe always and where no one can take you from"
Authors: Lilyana_Vamp & Sunscorched
Email: Lilyana_vamp@yahoo.com Aurora_plym_uk@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-15
Summary: Some vampires are just ungrateful
Content: C/Aus
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: We own nothing
Distribution: Just ask
Part 10
Beside Manners
The first thing Cordelia noticed when she woke up was the needles in each of her arms. One had blood and the other had a clear liquid going into her vein. "What..." She looked around the room, trying to get her bearings. She felt the burning in her shoulder and winced. "Oh yeah..."
"Cordelia?" Angelus asked in a low voice from a chair at her bedside.
She looked at Angelus. "Ow..." she groaned.
"Take it easy, you've just been staked" Angelus told her as he got up to sit on her bed. "How do you feel?"
"Like I had a large piece of wood shoved through my shoulder," she grimaced and looked at the IVs. "What are these for?"
"One's giving you blood and the other is a drip" Angelus replied, "What were you thinking?" he asked lowly.
Cordelia refused to look at him as she fiddled with the edge of her blanket, "She was going to kill you" she replied, cutting off the rest of her words.
"You deliberately took what was meant for me, why?"
"Like I said, I need you to be here and that includes you not being deader than you already are" she replied. Cordelia tried to push herself into a sitting position, "Owww. Shit"
Angelus reached behind her back to help her sit up, she put her arms around his neck as much as she could to let him help her. "Take it easy" he told her, "You want water or something?"
"Or something" Cordelia answered as she unwrapped her arms, "You do realise you're paying for my hospital bills" her eyes widened again as she gasped. "Oh God, did the doctors say anything about my bruises or my concussion? What if they accuse you and try to put you in jail?" she groaned. "I'm bound to a jail bird, when my friends find out, I'm going to be the laughing stock. They can never know, I'll just tell them you've gone a world cruise or something, right?"
"Who's going to cheer the team on Friday? Harmony cannot take my place as the apex; I'm the only one who's allowed to be apex. The apex is my rightful place and I'm the only one who can do the back flip leading into a handspring. Why did you do this to me? This is all your fault"
"What?"
"You've got another thing coming if you think I'm repeating that again, injured here" Cordelia snapped. She looked down at her hospital gown, "I'm so going to get hives, and you're paying the cream I'll have to use since it's your fault I'm in here wearing this"
"Is there anything I'm not paying for?"
"Now that I think about it. No"
"Knock, knock" Xander said from the doorway, he had heard the conversation and couldn't help feeling a sense of sympathy for the obviously confused vampire. He entered the room with some flowers, "I brought you some flowers," he told her.
"What are you doing here Harris?" Angelus growled in annoyance, "Why did you bring here flowers? She doesn't belong to you anymore"
"She never belonged to me in the first place," Xander snapped, "Just like she doesn't belong to you"
"I think she does"
"For God's sake SHUT UP," Cordelia yelled as she cracked with everything the last few days had held. "I am sick and tired of being pulled in every direction by every single one of you. You, Buffy and Giles want me to go one way and he wants me to go another. Has anybody even given a thought about which direction I want to go? Because right now, I'm on the verge of killing all of you and if I have to take up Buffy's slayage as a repercussion then I'll gladly do so. So both of you either shut up or go away and leave me in peace"
"Sorry" Xander meekly apologised as he stepped closer to her bed, "I just came to see how you are and uh, these are from Buffy, Willow and I. Buffy wanted to come but she's still in shock, she did tell me to say she's sorry and she didn't mean it"
Angelus shifted round when Xander came closer, making it so he was stretched out next to Cordelia and put his arm possessively round her carefully. "That makes it okay does it?" he asked.
"It was accident" Xander replied coolly as he held the flowers out to Cordelia as a peace offering, "Here"
Cordelia bit her lip as she tried to reach for them but her movements caused her stitches to pull a little and she hissed. She turned her face to look at the vampire scrutinising Xander intensely, "Please can you."
"Why? The Slayer did this to you, I'm not letting you accept this" Angelus denied.
"It was an accident; you know that as well as I do. If anything it was my fault for trying to play hero to save your ass. Again. Please, can you pass me the flowers as a thank you for me doing that for you?"
Angelus grunted his answer as he held his hand out for the flowers and passed them to Cordelia. "Here"
"Thank you Xander, they're beautiful" Cordelia thanked her friend sincerely, "Tell Buffy I'm sorry, it was really my fault that it happened"
"Buffy asked if you would mind her coming to see you later, she wants to apologise" Xander told her quietly as he shuffled on his feet under the vampire's increasingly intense stare.
"I don't mind," she answered quietly.
"I do" Angelus growled, "She's coming anywhere near you Cordelia"
"Angelus, please. She didn't mean to. I know she can be a bitch, but I don't think she'd intentionally try to kill me."
Angelus glared at her, "What about all those things she said to you? She may not have meant to kill you, but she did mean everything she said"
"And I meant everything I said to her. That was a two-way street. Buffy and I have an understanding...we don't like each other very much. Doesn't usually lead to near death experiences though." She let her head fall back on her pillow, getting dizzy from the conversation and blood loss. "Are they investigating?" she asked Xander with her eyes closed.
"Yeah, Giles told them somebody attacked you and got away" Xander replied. "They were asking about your other injuries too"
Cordelia nodded. "What did he say?" She hated putting Xander in that situation in front of Angelus, but she had to know.
Xander took a deep breath, "Giles didn't tell them about him if that's what you mean. I wanted too but he told me it wouldn't be good for you, I'm sure you get my meaning" he said with another glare at Angelus.
Cordelia nodded again. "Giles hates me now, doesn't he? Tell him I'm sorry. I know he was trying to help me."
"He doesn't hate you, he just thinks you're an idiot and I can't say I blame him. I think you're an idiot"
"Well, you know, I'm inclined to agree with you both, but this is bigger than you and Giles and me put together. It's not something that I can explain to you, because I don't even know the explanation myself." Her head began to spin and she sighed. "I need to rest. Thank you for the flowers, and tell Buffy that all is forgiven."
"Sure thing Cordy, I'll see you later okay?" Xander asked with a sigh.
"Kay," she smiled weakly and looked down at her blankets when she was alone with Angelus again. "I suppose you have something to say?"
Angelus shrugged, "What do you want me to say? You've seem to have sworn yourself as my protector, what can I do about it?"
"Explain it to me. Explain to me why I keep saving you. Explain to me why I can't seem to be away from you. And what the hell is this deal about you claiming me as your mate?!"
Ah. "What is there to explain? You're mine" Angelus avoided with a simple reply as he averted his gaze slightly.
"Uh uh buddy. You wouldn't let me use that cop out, neither can you. Explain if you don't want me to jump out of this bed and hunt down the nearest baseball bat," she half threatened, trying to keep the smile off her face.
"That hurt you know" Angelus growled at her, the corners of his own mouth flicking up slightly. "That bite mark just lets everybody know who you belong to they can't, and won't, touch you"
"Oh, so it's a hands off type deal? Does that mean I can go strolling through the graveyard at night? My life is complete," she told him sarcastically.
"No you won't go strolling through ANY graveyard at night. It just means you're mine, mine to keep, mine to play with, mine to touch and mine alone. Nobody else gets to have that with you"
She stuck her tongue out at him. "I was being sarcastic."
"There's more to it than that" Angelus resigned to tell her everything and looked for the nearest exit just in case. "The reason why you went berserk when the Watcher took you, well, it's like a car alarm that goes off when somebody steals it"
"Are you comparing me to a car?"
"Yeah, a Plymouth, it's a classic" Angelus thought of nice, barely used car in the garage at the mansion. "It has a nice, leather back seat..."
"My backseat is not leather!"
"No, your backSIDE is like smooth silk that I like to touch, and you're a much better ride than a car"
She looked at him for a second, not sure whether to take that as a compliment or hit him again. "So basically, you installed me with Lo-Jack?"
"Pretty much, oh and our link kinda works as a homing signal. So if you're somewhere, and I want you I just follow that"
"Greeaat," she groaned. "You suck, you know that?"
"You wouldn't know... Yet" Angelus gave her a wicked wink and grin, "I bet you could suck, something to keep that mouth shut for once" Angelus purred, leaning closer to her. "You're not doing anything now, it won't hurt you, all you have to do is move your mouth..."
Cordelia scrunched her face up. "Hello, mortally wounded here! Keep your vamp hormones in check!"
"Come on Cordelia, I know you'd like it. I'll go down on you if you go down on me" Angelus tried to coax her, all this talk had him a little riled up. "I could close the door and..."
She raised an eyebrow at him. "And how would we explain it to the doctor when he came in to check on me?"
"Simple, I rip his head off for interrupting, I can do that you know. Easy as pie"
"There will be no ripping off the head of my doctor, not if you want me to get better," she told him seriously.
"Someone has to check out you out down there, I was a little rough..." Angelus innocently replied, his eyes darkening telling Cordelia no matter what she said, he was going to do it anyway.
"They have specialists for that."
"I've been around for 230 years, I know my way around a woman Cordelia"
"Ok, ew, I don't want to know about your past sex life." She looked up at him and blushed at the seductive look in his eyes. "You suck," she repeated again in defeat.
"That an offer?"
She looked at him with a pout. "A hospital bed isn't even sacred to you, is it?"
"No soul Cordelia, I'm not a kitten" Angelus told her seriously. "If you're that much of a prude, I can wait until I take you home"
"I'm not a prude!" she cried out in insult. "Prudes are those girls that you see walking around, dressed like they're in third grade because they don't want to be mistaken for sexy! I am NOT a prude!"
"Prove it" Angelus inwardly smirked in triumph, he knew just how to play her to get what he wanted.
"You're serious, aren't you? You really, really are serious!" Cordelia asked in utter disbelief at his shameless way.
"So? Nobody's gonna walk in" Angelus replied with a frown, "Not like I'm gonna be bragging about it to my buddies in half-time"
"Riiight" Cordelia replied with a shake of her head, "There's no chance what so ever that a doctor or nurse could walk right into this very room at all, is there?" Angelus jumped off the bed eagerly, making the bed bounce, causing Cordelia to yelp and clutch her wound. "Will you just quit it?"
Angelus' shoulders slumped in defeat, if she couldn't stand the bed bouncing then it didn't look like much was going to happen.
"Cheer up, it may never happen" Cordelia snapped in response to her pain. "That hurt"
"Yeah, yeah quit whining" Angelus grumbled with a dirty look in Cordelia's direction before sitting back on the bed.
"I am not whining, it really does hurt. How would you like a stake stuck in you?"
"Didn't hurt me that much" Angelus fibbed, "I didn't cry about it as much as you"
"That's because I'm human, you're the Big Bad. See why I'm crying abou... Hey, I am not crying about it, so stop with the accusations and get with the thanking"
"How can I thank you when you can't even stand the bed bouncing?"
Cordelia rolled her eyes sarcastically, is that all he thought about? "Is that all you think about? Sex, sex and more sex? Or does sex come into it?"
Angelus seriously thought about it for a second, "No, I think about sex, oh and there's that other thing I think about. What's it called again? Oh yeah, sex"
"Get out" Cordelia growled, she couldn't take him anymore, she was tired and needed some sleep.
"I think about you" Angelus told her, ignoring her order. "I think about you and sex in the same thought, does that count?"
Cordelia raised an eyebrow, "What do you think of me?"
"Easy" Angelus replied as he leaned towards her neck and his mark. "Crazy, stupid, insane, bitchy, vivacious, hot, a real boner"
Cordelia stuck her tongue out at him. "You're not getting any here, so don't flatter me."
"Aw come on Cordy, don't be shy. I could do things to you and you wouldn't have to move a muscle"
"No," she told him flatly. "If it happens again, I will be running the show."
"Really?" Angelus purred as he started licking her neck seductively, trying to wear her down and coax her into what was on his mind.
She pushed him away with her uninjured arm. "I said if. Now let me rest unless you want me going into shock again."
Angelus grabbed her uninjured arm and twisted it slightly, "Think just because you're hurt that you can order me around?" he asked thickly.
Cordelia cried out sharply. "Let go," she said in a half plea, half order.
Angelus chuckled, "Just remember who's boss Cordy. I think I should have a pet name for you, what about baby?"
Cordelia glared at his smugness. "I'm not even gonna dignify that with an answer," she told him lowly.
"Lover?" he asked as he let her arm go and started running his finger up and down, bringing her skin out in goosebumps.
"Cut it out."
"Sweet pea?" he trailed his finger along her collar bone and the swell of her cleavage.
"Stop!" she finally yelled. The room was spinning around her due to the fact that her heart was racing.
Angelus stopped her from collapsing onto the bed and Cordelia fell directly into his arms. "Kitten?" he purred deliciously as the name warmed to him, "I like that, Kitten"
"Fine, whatever, I don't care," she whispered, resting her head against him.
Angelus smirked as he began to gently scratch under her chin as if she were a kitten. "You do need to sleep, I guess. I'm not going anywhere so you'll be safe"
Cordelia sighed and closed her eyes, drifting into her drugged sleep.
Angelus just watched her like he did the first time he watched her sleep. He stroked her hair back from her face and traced her jaw gently, then he trailed his finger down her nose, making it twitch and her hands came up to bat his hand away.
"I'm keeping you" he whispered, "I'm going to take you home with me, where you'll be safe always and where no one can take you from"
