Disclaimer: None of the Angel characters are mine...)

"I know you pretend

While I sit here in the background

Watching... I'm a hellhound

Put I've said it before

Passion will rear it's head

Passion will howl"

Angel was lying tense in his bed...Angelus had been ranting like this for the last few days. He seemed to be getting more and more restless as the days past...In the back of his mind Angel told him to shut up...But that wouldn't help, he knew that much for sure...

"I knew it before

You know it now

You'll have to give in

You'll have to sin

You'll make me proud

She's going to be loud

And I'll be free

There will be only me..."

Angel couldn't take it, without thinking he jumped up out of bed and shouted "Will you shut the hell up in there! What the hell is wrong with you..."

The demon , he knew would not give him a straight answer if he answered at all, he never did...He was like a child, a twisted child. He sat and sulked the majority of the time over his prison...Sometimes taunted and pushed Angel trying to bully him...He was never happy in his little cage...

But recently he had been joy-filled; Angel did not know why...And worried at it. When Angelus wanted to let Angel know something important (or rather pretended to want to let Angel know) he never spoke straight, always using riddles and rhymes... And he had been doing a whole lot of that lately...

Again the demon whispered

"So much to tell

So much to yell

But not a word

From the Lion's den

Not a word to my little hen

But slither forth through a crimson pen"

Angel was about to pull his hair out "You stop that you hear! Sto-"

Cordelia barged into the room, "Angel are you alright? I mean what's wrong..." Angel's eyes were round, he hadn't expected her to be here at the moment... Angel's mind worked fast and he answerd "Oh nothing, just a bad dream that's all."

Cordelia looked at him "Yeah, OOOOKKKKAAAAYYYY... And you were shouting because?..."

Again Angel's mind worked "Uhh...Irish superstition...Scream at the dream and it will probably go away..." Cordelia looked at him "Are you serious? Do you really believe that?" Angel smiled sheepishly "Yeah I'm serious, and no I don't believe that but anything's worth a shot...'

Cordelia nodded "Why haven't I heard of this before?"

Angel shrugged, lying was part of his second nature, part of Angelus, he hated using it but he could if need be "It's really old, like before your great, great, great, great grandmother was born..."

Cordelia looked at him suspiciously then shrugged "Ohh... Anyway, it's morning... Well morning for you anyway... 'breakfast' is ready so you might as well come on down..." Angel nodded "Be right there..." With that Cordy made her way downstairs...

In his mind Angelus had been laughing

"I thought you said you don't need me

Thought you said I was bad

And right know you stole from me...

Doesn't it make you so glad?"

Angel rolled his eyes, Angelus was a serious pain in the ass sometimes... "Would you just shut up? I'm going to go crazy living with you in the back of my head, you know that? But then again you are probably counting on that..." With that Angel pulled on some black jeans and a black shirt that he took out from his closet and headed downstairs... "No chance of that happening, sorry idiot"

For the first time the demon spoke to him directly with only mockery in his voice " But a whole lot of chances for a whole lot else..."