title: "Dangerous Love"

author: Darla Kane

e-mail: DarlaB@gmx.de

website: Angelic Quotes: www.angelicquotes.de.vu

distribution: Angelic Quotes, AI, ff.net - anyone else just ask! :)

rating: PG-13 so far... well, but we all know Darla so I hope it stays that way... LOL!

pairing: Lindsey/Darla

disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters - they all belong to Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, Mutant Enemy, WB, 20th Century Fox etc., the song "All I Wanna Do" belongs to the TV series "Fame L.A." and the lyrics were taken from the website www.fameforever.com

spoilers: "Reprise", "Epiphany", "Dead End" & season 3 partly - the movie "Love Song" doesn't really count as a spoiler, does it? LOL!

summary: 7 months after Lindsey has left L.A. ... anything more would give away the story... :)

feedback: I'll be crying if you don't tell me what you think about it... :)

A/N 1: Escy and Lindsey... I just love you! :) Guess without you I would never have considered writing this piece.

A/N 2: Escy see... I've finally decided on a title... *g* Hope it's okay I borrow it for the story... *g*



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Lindsey turned off his alarm clock. 6.45 AM - old habit of his to get up that early. Though he didn't really know why he still held on to that... It's been 7 months already since he had left Wolfram & Hart and so there was no office waiting for him. But somehow he couldn't get it out of his system, he supposed. Though he wished he could... It reminded him of a time when he hadn't cared about getting blood on his hands - sometimes even literally. His eyes wandered to his right hand - his 'evil' hand... well, not so evil anymore. He silently laughed. It had been fun to walk away from all these attorneys like that - and he hadn't been surprised that they had fallen for it... The expression on Lilah's face had been priceless! But in fact, since he had done the right thing and turned his back on Wolfram & Hart for good, there hadn't been any sign that his hand had once had a life of its own. However, he still felt sorry for that poor guy to whom it had actually belonged to originally...

Another look on his clock - 6.51 AM. Yes, he *was* crazy. He didn't need to be at the gas station before noon when his shift began... So he could as well still stay in bed and get some rest. What a career! From Junior Partner in one of the most reputable law firms with a six-figure salary and a full benefits package to gas station attendant who's striving to make a buck. But he enjoyed it more than anything he had ever done. Okay, not really the gas station part but the freedom he now had. He'd been lucky to get that job pretty early after coming back to the place where he'd grown up, San Francisco. Sure, he still had quite a nice amount of money on his old bank account but as it was from Wolfram & Hart he did not really want to touch it unless it was inevitable. And what he got from his gigs wasn't really enough to pay his rent, either.

His gigs... another thing he'd gotten to love again. Just jamming at local bars like he had done when he was still in high school. Really - he'd never felt better than right now. So it wasn't surprising, he drifted back to sleep with a smile on his face...

Some hours later Lindsey woke up with a start... "Damn it!" The clock showed 11.30. "I'll be late for work!" He jumped out of bed, got dressed and hurried off.

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Darla sat in a bar somewhere in San Francisco. She wondered what the hell had gotten her here... Well, actually she knew... and God, she hated him so much for that - for what he had done to her. Compared to that it had been nice of him to stake her in Sunnydale four years ago. Maybe that was what she should do - go back to L.A. and just stake him! "Angel Investigations - We help the helpless"... yeah right... what a big help he had been! What an angel! She might have laughed if she didn't feel so miserable. And that wasn't the only thing she felt. She also started to feel - jeez, the very thought was disgusting - she started to feel love. Something she had never experienced in her 400 years. She hated Angel for that! But did she really? Sure she did, she always tried to convince herself... but was it the truth? Some hidden part deep inside her thanked him silently. That really made her laugh now... She took another drink. Another thing she hated - that her mind always trailed off to the simple fact she wanted to ignore - the fact that she was beginning to love this little being inside her, Angel's child. She'd been to every seer and shaman in the western hemisphere by now but no one knew how this could be possible. That had been reason enough for her to kill every single one of them. At least it had made her forget about her state for a little while. A vampire carrying a baby... that was just ridiculous! But it really didn't seem funny to her. "I really hate this son of a bitch!", she thought to herself and was about to leave when a guy came on stage and started to play...

When my faith is real / When my hope is true / Some kind of feelin' / That I share with you

Darla thought she recognized that voice but couldn't quite figure out of whom it reminded her. She turned around so that she would be able to see the small stage - and she couldn't believe who she saw... "Lindsey?", she whispered dumbfoundedly.

Now I'll keep on believin' / Anyway that I can / And all I wanna do / Is hold on to the memory of you / And all I wanna do / Is talk to / That someone I knew

She went closer to the stage to get a better look.

Straight from my heart / Tangled in moves / Not tell myself / I'm not missin' you

Yes, it was really him... That stupid lawyer who brought her back - as a human! She felt anger rise inside her but somehow she also remembered that he'd been the only one who cared about her all the time since her return, even when she became a vampire again. "Naive and sweet," she thought to herself while Lindsey finished his song.

When this long night is over / I'll still think of you / I'll think of you

She had to admit - this guy had a great voice and he seemed to put all his heart into the song. That was a new side to the lawyer... "But what the hell brought him here?" She smiled slightly. "This might be fun." With that she finally left the club.

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Lindsey got off stage. Tonight he had been in the mood to play but his band hadn't been on the bill so he had just asked if he could at least perform one song. He had picked his favorite - as always on such occasions. He wrote it not long after Darla had left and in way it was silently dedicated to her. Though she was part of his old life in L.A. she still meant a lot to him... He had never understood why she took off without a goodbye. Sure the girl was a vampire and all but hadn't she realized how much he cared about her? He may have overreacted a bit when he found out that she had slept with Angel but he would never have been able to abandon her... He sighed. "I wonder where she is right now."