Title- It's About the Power
By- Kirstee
Timeline- Set after Buffy "Storyteller", After Angel "Salvage", and the beginning of the DoTM series
Side Note- In my story Angel has a soul again, there is no evil Cordy, and there is no C/C lovechild because you know EW. So let's just say once the Beast was destroyed all of that bad crap went away. Hey it's my story.
Disclaimer- I own none of these characters. They belong to Joss Whedon and his Co also Lynne Ewing.
Summary- Catty runs away to a small town called Sunnydale. The rest of the daughters go to Angel Inc. for help in finding her. Buffy/Angel/DoTM Crossover.
Vanessa woke early. She lazily opened one eyelid and then the other. She expected to see the blue walls that surrounded her every night and that always faced her every morning. Instead she stared straight into a red wall. She sat up fast. She instantly regretted it because she now had a headache from the blood rushing to her head.
"Uhhh" she groaned as she clamped her hand to her head. Then she remembered why she had woken with a start in the first place. She was surrounded by red walls and a white ceiling. She looked over to see Jimena sleeping soundly. She grasped a pillow closely to her body. She remembered where she was. Angel Investigations. With Jimena and Serena. They were looking for Catty.
She let out a small sigh as she mentally scolded herself for scaring herself so badly. She turned and let her legs dangle off the bed as she stared at the floor. She knew, wherever Catty was she was waking up right now. They both had like the same internal alarm clock. They had figured this out the first time Vanessa had slept over Catty's house. She had woken up only to see Catty waking up at the same moment. They had laughed about it later. She sighed again only this time longer and more pained. Well if she was going to get Catty back she had to start looking, so that meant stop wallowing in memories. She stood up and headed for the bathroom. She stepped into the shower and felt the warm water. She heard a rustle of sheets and some footsteps against the floor. Sounded like the other girls were up. She regrettably stepped out of the shower knowing if she hogged it there would be hell to pay.
Fred was an early riser. Usually she was the first one up in the Hyperion, well besides Angel who she really didn't know when he slept. Seemed like he was always up, waiting for the next apocalypse to come so he could defeat it. But somehow that confidence that he would defeat it had left her. She wasn't sure of anything anymore. About love, about life, about people or non-people in Angel's case. She had always been warned about Angel's other half. She always thought it would be like the Odd Couple, only much scarier. But Angelus knew them and had used them to get inside their heads. It was past scary. She took a shower and changed into some clothes. A white long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans. She pulled her hair up and walked towards the Hyperion's kitchen. She brewed up some coffee.
"Hello Fred" a voice said from behind her. She jumped at the sound and almost spilled the coffee pot.
"Angel hi" she exhaled as he walked to the cupboard and grabbed two mugs.
"Thanks" she said as she poured the hot liquid into the two cups. She handed him one and he took it. Ever since he had moved to LA he had become more of a fan of coffee. It was warm like blood and though he couldn't really taste it he still felt the good burning that it left in your throat.
He felt the awkwardness that was between them. Though she had told him that all was forgiven, he felt it wasn't. He wondered how things had gotten so screwed up. Every year things started out normally, well as normally as a vampire with a soul and his gang of evil fighting friends could be. He was distracted from his thoughts by the soft footsteps that were walking down the stairs, only his vampire hearing could hear it. A small girl now stood in the doorway. "Hi" she said timidly.
"Hi" Fred said, a little to enthusiastically. "Can I get you something? Hot chocolate?" she said not even waiting for an answer as she pulled out the Swiss Miss package from the cabinet.
"That's fine" she said and smiled she watched the girl bustle around smiling and humming a little to herself. She knew this girl was all right. She hoped if they were here long enough, they would become friends. The girl, Fred set the cup in front of Vanessa and gave her a warm smile and sat across from her.
Angel watched the two as they chatted girl talk. Angel was leaning against the counter reading the paper. He could sense the magic vibes coming off the teen girl. They were powerful one's. He didn't understand how a girl that young could be so magically advanced. Sure he knew Maggie but he didn't really know her. She had saved his life back when he lived in the New York alleys. Somehow he knew by that small act of kindness they were magically connected. So that must be why she trusted him with these girls lives. He saw his soul. He let out a snort of laughter. That sounded so cheesy. He was vaguely aware that the girls had stopped talking. He slipped his gaze over to them, they were giving him a piercing glare.
"What?" he said.
"Were you laughing at us?" Fred said innocently but with a fake anger in her eyes.
"No, no, no" he said amusement dancing in his eyes. Fred laughed and soon Vanessa joined in. Angel chuckled to himself as he went back to reading 'L.A. Today'. He missed this between them, the way they functioned more as a family than a team. The sun was now above them, he saw it through the shades. He heard feet rushing down the stairs. Two girls with linked arms came through the door.
"Hey Vanes" The girl with the curlier black hair said and the other one smiled.
"Jimena, Serena you guys were finally able to roll yourselves out of the beds?" Vanessa said as she sipped her chocolate.
"Haha" Jimena said sarcastically. She peeked into Vanessa's mug and looked at her.
"Any of that to go around?" Jimena asked. Fred's hostess alarm went off.
"I can get some for you" she said she looked over at the other girl. "Serena would like some?"
She nodded. Jimena was looking through the cabinets she came to the one next to Angel and she still couldn't find mugs. He looked at her. "Mugs?" she asked sweetly. He nodded over to across the room where the glasses were. She grabbed a few and helped Fred at the counter.
Angel needed to get out of the chaos that was the kitchen. He went out into the main area of the hotel. Where he meet a half awake Cordelia staggering down the stairs.
"You ok?" he asked her.
"What is it up with those girls? Must they wake up at the crack of dawn?" she said as she flopped herself down on the crimson couch. He laughed as he sat on the couch beside her.
"You know your talking to me, who is up before the sun is" Angel said as he looked over at her. Cordelia let out a loud groan.
"I can't stand you right now" she said with a laugh and walked into the noisy kitchen. Well Angel thought to himself this promised to be an interesting day.
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As soon as Buffy had asked the question her eyes swept over to the Willow girl who gave her an encouraging nod. Well it was only these three people and obviously she had nothing more to lose to these people. They already knew about her. Nothing to lose. She looked down at her cup.
"I'm a daughter of the moon?" she said and looked up into Buffy's blank face.
"Sorry if it offends, but huh?" Buffy said. Buffy looked over at Willow and so did Catty. She shrugged. Buffy looked back over at Catty who let out a sheepish grin.
"Care to elaborate, pet" the man said from the doorway. 'Huh a Brit' she thought.
"Well I know this is going to seem really crazy so don't go reporting all this to the schitzo house" Buffy let out a smile and nodded.
Catty continued. "Well see there are 4 current daughters of the moon, we each have certain powers"
"This wouldn't happen to be a Charmed thing?" Willow asked as she leaned on the counter next to Buffy. They both gave her questioning glances. "Never mind" she said under her breath.
"Well see umm, I have the power to uh, time travel" Catty stammered out. Buffy's eyes bulged.
"Your kidding right?" she said. Catty shook her head. "Ok so I totally wasn't expecting that little bit of info but continue"
Catty took a deep breath. "Well one has the power to read minds and can also play with it, one has premonitions and the last can become invisible"
"Whoa" Buffy said and sat down on a kitchen stool. Willow leaned against the counter clearly shocked by the news and Spike had been surprised enough to stop smoking, he walked over to where Willow and Buffy now where and leaned against the counter looking at the young girl closer. Buffy turned around to look at him
"You've been around for awhile and you don't have any idea what she's talking about?" she said. He shrugged his shoulders. Buffy sighed and turned back around to Catty.
"So is that what we were feeling, in the Bronze? You turned back time?" Buffy asked Catty.
"Yea, but for some reason it didn't work on you, Willow, him and the girl with the brown hair" she said.
Willow thought about it, she had just described all of them that had extreme abilities. She was a mega-witch, Buffy the Slayer, Dawn the Key, and Spike was a vampire. She looked back at the group and caught them staring at her.
"What's goin on in the Willow mind?" Buffy asked.
"Well I was just thinking, she just said all the people here who have certain, well, abilities"
"Abilities?" Catty asked. Buffy looked over at Willow, they had let something slip out about themselves. Well this girl was bound to find out anyway, and if she worked for the First then she already knew who they were.
Catty was thinking as she watched the three give uncomfortable glances to each other. She had been to frightened to think of it before. Why weren't these people affected by her time travel, she had never met anyone who wasn't. Even the other daughters were affected by it. She really didn't know if she wanted to find out what these people are. They didn't seem evil and she usually had good instincts about these things.
"Will you excuse us for one moment?" Buffy asked Catty. She nodded her head and they went towards another room in the house.
She thought about these three people. The red haired girl, she was powerful but not in the way she was, totally different totally different everything. She couldn't tell what Buffy was, but also very different. And the guy, she didn't even know his name but he was just not right, and when he caught her at the Bronze he was cold, his skin was not as warm as skin should be. And it wasn't because it was cold out or something like that, because it was almost summer. Whoa, she had got herself in deep.
The three came back in again. Catty began once more with the fidgeting. She knew they were going to tell her something big, and for some reason she didn't want to know. Buffy took a deep breath.
"You see.." that was all she got out before their was a loud crash in the foyer. They all were immediately on alert and Catty watched Buffy sprint towards there, with the other 3 following close behind. What they met was a quite a shock. There standing in front of them was about 5 or 6 teenagers, all with eyes of black.
"What the hell?" Buffy said.
"Atrox" Catty said in a frightened whisper.
By- Kirstee
Timeline- Set after Buffy "Storyteller", After Angel "Salvage", and the beginning of the DoTM series
Side Note- In my story Angel has a soul again, there is no evil Cordy, and there is no C/C lovechild because you know EW. So let's just say once the Beast was destroyed all of that bad crap went away. Hey it's my story.
Disclaimer- I own none of these characters. They belong to Joss Whedon and his Co also Lynne Ewing.
Summary- Catty runs away to a small town called Sunnydale. The rest of the daughters go to Angel Inc. for help in finding her. Buffy/Angel/DoTM Crossover.
Vanessa woke early. She lazily opened one eyelid and then the other. She expected to see the blue walls that surrounded her every night and that always faced her every morning. Instead she stared straight into a red wall. She sat up fast. She instantly regretted it because she now had a headache from the blood rushing to her head.
"Uhhh" she groaned as she clamped her hand to her head. Then she remembered why she had woken with a start in the first place. She was surrounded by red walls and a white ceiling. She looked over to see Jimena sleeping soundly. She grasped a pillow closely to her body. She remembered where she was. Angel Investigations. With Jimena and Serena. They were looking for Catty.
She let out a small sigh as she mentally scolded herself for scaring herself so badly. She turned and let her legs dangle off the bed as she stared at the floor. She knew, wherever Catty was she was waking up right now. They both had like the same internal alarm clock. They had figured this out the first time Vanessa had slept over Catty's house. She had woken up only to see Catty waking up at the same moment. They had laughed about it later. She sighed again only this time longer and more pained. Well if she was going to get Catty back she had to start looking, so that meant stop wallowing in memories. She stood up and headed for the bathroom. She stepped into the shower and felt the warm water. She heard a rustle of sheets and some footsteps against the floor. Sounded like the other girls were up. She regrettably stepped out of the shower knowing if she hogged it there would be hell to pay.
Fred was an early riser. Usually she was the first one up in the Hyperion, well besides Angel who she really didn't know when he slept. Seemed like he was always up, waiting for the next apocalypse to come so he could defeat it. But somehow that confidence that he would defeat it had left her. She wasn't sure of anything anymore. About love, about life, about people or non-people in Angel's case. She had always been warned about Angel's other half. She always thought it would be like the Odd Couple, only much scarier. But Angelus knew them and had used them to get inside their heads. It was past scary. She took a shower and changed into some clothes. A white long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans. She pulled her hair up and walked towards the Hyperion's kitchen. She brewed up some coffee.
"Hello Fred" a voice said from behind her. She jumped at the sound and almost spilled the coffee pot.
"Angel hi" she exhaled as he walked to the cupboard and grabbed two mugs.
"Thanks" she said as she poured the hot liquid into the two cups. She handed him one and he took it. Ever since he had moved to LA he had become more of a fan of coffee. It was warm like blood and though he couldn't really taste it he still felt the good burning that it left in your throat.
He felt the awkwardness that was between them. Though she had told him that all was forgiven, he felt it wasn't. He wondered how things had gotten so screwed up. Every year things started out normally, well as normally as a vampire with a soul and his gang of evil fighting friends could be. He was distracted from his thoughts by the soft footsteps that were walking down the stairs, only his vampire hearing could hear it. A small girl now stood in the doorway. "Hi" she said timidly.
"Hi" Fred said, a little to enthusiastically. "Can I get you something? Hot chocolate?" she said not even waiting for an answer as she pulled out the Swiss Miss package from the cabinet.
"That's fine" she said and smiled she watched the girl bustle around smiling and humming a little to herself. She knew this girl was all right. She hoped if they were here long enough, they would become friends. The girl, Fred set the cup in front of Vanessa and gave her a warm smile and sat across from her.
Angel watched the two as they chatted girl talk. Angel was leaning against the counter reading the paper. He could sense the magic vibes coming off the teen girl. They were powerful one's. He didn't understand how a girl that young could be so magically advanced. Sure he knew Maggie but he didn't really know her. She had saved his life back when he lived in the New York alleys. Somehow he knew by that small act of kindness they were magically connected. So that must be why she trusted him with these girls lives. He saw his soul. He let out a snort of laughter. That sounded so cheesy. He was vaguely aware that the girls had stopped talking. He slipped his gaze over to them, they were giving him a piercing glare.
"What?" he said.
"Were you laughing at us?" Fred said innocently but with a fake anger in her eyes.
"No, no, no" he said amusement dancing in his eyes. Fred laughed and soon Vanessa joined in. Angel chuckled to himself as he went back to reading 'L.A. Today'. He missed this between them, the way they functioned more as a family than a team. The sun was now above them, he saw it through the shades. He heard feet rushing down the stairs. Two girls with linked arms came through the door.
"Hey Vanes" The girl with the curlier black hair said and the other one smiled.
"Jimena, Serena you guys were finally able to roll yourselves out of the beds?" Vanessa said as she sipped her chocolate.
"Haha" Jimena said sarcastically. She peeked into Vanessa's mug and looked at her.
"Any of that to go around?" Jimena asked. Fred's hostess alarm went off.
"I can get some for you" she said she looked over at the other girl. "Serena would like some?"
She nodded. Jimena was looking through the cabinets she came to the one next to Angel and she still couldn't find mugs. He looked at her. "Mugs?" she asked sweetly. He nodded over to across the room where the glasses were. She grabbed a few and helped Fred at the counter.
Angel needed to get out of the chaos that was the kitchen. He went out into the main area of the hotel. Where he meet a half awake Cordelia staggering down the stairs.
"You ok?" he asked her.
"What is it up with those girls? Must they wake up at the crack of dawn?" she said as she flopped herself down on the crimson couch. He laughed as he sat on the couch beside her.
"You know your talking to me, who is up before the sun is" Angel said as he looked over at her. Cordelia let out a loud groan.
"I can't stand you right now" she said with a laugh and walked into the noisy kitchen. Well Angel thought to himself this promised to be an interesting day.
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As soon as Buffy had asked the question her eyes swept over to the Willow girl who gave her an encouraging nod. Well it was only these three people and obviously she had nothing more to lose to these people. They already knew about her. Nothing to lose. She looked down at her cup.
"I'm a daughter of the moon?" she said and looked up into Buffy's blank face.
"Sorry if it offends, but huh?" Buffy said. Buffy looked over at Willow and so did Catty. She shrugged. Buffy looked back over at Catty who let out a sheepish grin.
"Care to elaborate, pet" the man said from the doorway. 'Huh a Brit' she thought.
"Well I know this is going to seem really crazy so don't go reporting all this to the schitzo house" Buffy let out a smile and nodded.
Catty continued. "Well see there are 4 current daughters of the moon, we each have certain powers"
"This wouldn't happen to be a Charmed thing?" Willow asked as she leaned on the counter next to Buffy. They both gave her questioning glances. "Never mind" she said under her breath.
"Well see umm, I have the power to uh, time travel" Catty stammered out. Buffy's eyes bulged.
"Your kidding right?" she said. Catty shook her head. "Ok so I totally wasn't expecting that little bit of info but continue"
Catty took a deep breath. "Well one has the power to read minds and can also play with it, one has premonitions and the last can become invisible"
"Whoa" Buffy said and sat down on a kitchen stool. Willow leaned against the counter clearly shocked by the news and Spike had been surprised enough to stop smoking, he walked over to where Willow and Buffy now where and leaned against the counter looking at the young girl closer. Buffy turned around to look at him
"You've been around for awhile and you don't have any idea what she's talking about?" she said. He shrugged his shoulders. Buffy sighed and turned back around to Catty.
"So is that what we were feeling, in the Bronze? You turned back time?" Buffy asked Catty.
"Yea, but for some reason it didn't work on you, Willow, him and the girl with the brown hair" she said.
Willow thought about it, she had just described all of them that had extreme abilities. She was a mega-witch, Buffy the Slayer, Dawn the Key, and Spike was a vampire. She looked back at the group and caught them staring at her.
"What's goin on in the Willow mind?" Buffy asked.
"Well I was just thinking, she just said all the people here who have certain, well, abilities"
"Abilities?" Catty asked. Buffy looked over at Willow, they had let something slip out about themselves. Well this girl was bound to find out anyway, and if she worked for the First then she already knew who they were.
Catty was thinking as she watched the three give uncomfortable glances to each other. She had been to frightened to think of it before. Why weren't these people affected by her time travel, she had never met anyone who wasn't. Even the other daughters were affected by it. She really didn't know if she wanted to find out what these people are. They didn't seem evil and she usually had good instincts about these things.
"Will you excuse us for one moment?" Buffy asked Catty. She nodded her head and they went towards another room in the house.
She thought about these three people. The red haired girl, she was powerful but not in the way she was, totally different totally different everything. She couldn't tell what Buffy was, but also very different. And the guy, she didn't even know his name but he was just not right, and when he caught her at the Bronze he was cold, his skin was not as warm as skin should be. And it wasn't because it was cold out or something like that, because it was almost summer. Whoa, she had got herself in deep.
The three came back in again. Catty began once more with the fidgeting. She knew they were going to tell her something big, and for some reason she didn't want to know. Buffy took a deep breath.
"You see.." that was all she got out before their was a loud crash in the foyer. They all were immediately on alert and Catty watched Buffy sprint towards there, with the other 3 following close behind. What they met was a quite a shock. There standing in front of them was about 5 or 6 teenagers, all with eyes of black.
"What the hell?" Buffy said.
"Atrox" Catty said in a frightened whisper.
