Chapter 8
Note: WOW! Great guess Soulwarrior. You're right about almost everything, but Leng isn't a goddess, she's an immortal ( I mentioned earlier that there'd be a few Highlander undertones). Lucifer is.well Lucifer. Michael isn't a god, think about it. in fact, look up the definition of Michael. Yes, there is a reason why Michael is keeping Spike in check and I'll explain it soon enough with a flashback chapter. Enjoy.
Sorry, short chapter, my Cisco class is really time consuming and the next few chapters after this are pretty dark and intense. Don't worry, I'm continuing.
~~~ 2 weeks later
Dear Diary,
William's really cool, he's offered me this great job where all I have to do is help him take care of his Grandpa and run a few errands. I practically do nothing at all and yet I get paid about $2,000 a week and he's nice enough not to make me pay rent. So the money I earn, I can use to buy anything I want. Last week, he took me out to get some clothes, shopping with him is awesome, because I can buy almost anything I want.
Oh and we also got some cat supplies. Koko is like. the world's biggest idiot, I kept tell him how he's not suppose to talk in front of people. and what does he do when finds out that William is helping me? He say's "Thank you." And what's even more weird is that Will (should I call him that? He seems so formal, I almost feel bad for shortening his name. oh well, just for journal purposes.) didn't really react. It's like he knew that Koko could talk. He did say something about how talking animals are rare, but not unheard of. Maybe he has seen other talking animals. I donno
Will's house is like. how do put it?. really sleek and sterile, but it's understandable, he's hardly ever at home. He has a library that's practically separated into 2 parts. One with cool books and one with all this boring philosophy junk. Now cool books are all these classical stuff and I also found this secret stash of random stuff that he likes. It's behind this little trap door under the bottom left of his 3rd bookshelf. There's like, a Memento DVD, a collection of random Monty Python stuff (He's even got the script to Monty Python and the Holy Grail! *Snickers.*), there's also all these random fantasy books, he's got the "On a Pale Horse" collection by Piers Anthony (I've got to read that sometime), and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I laughed for like. ten minutes when I realized that he used a towel for a bookmark.). Oops, he's calling me, he wants to go out to dinner tonight. I'll write some other time.
Aoide
~~~~~~
Aoide looked across at William, apparently, he wasn't paying any attention to her. He was quietly mumbling to himself as he was reading the business section. Ah yes, it was like this every night. He's always be working, he hardly ever stopped, not even to eat. It's like he needed to be reading or doing work or yelling at someone on the telephone during every meal. It was awfully boring to eat with him.
Finally when the food came, Aoide spoke up, "How come. so far, every restaurant we've been to is an Italian restaurant."
Will shrugged, " I like Italian."
"Yeah, but. it's like you go out of your way to eat Italian food."
"So I have an affinity to Italian food, do you have a problem with it?"
"No, it's just weird."
"Why?" William's tone becoming a little hostile
"I donno, I guess I've been eating Cantonese food all my life. and then suddenly I'm eating dish after dish after dish of pasta. I don't know if I can stand this for much longer." Aoide said as she shrank back a little
William cursed himself for being so cold and hostile to everyone he knew.
"Sorry about that. I'll take you to an Asian place."
Aoide nodded, "Thank you."
William didn't even look up as he talked, "I'm going to meet some friends on Wednesday, you're going to come with me. Dress in something semicasual.
Aoide sarcastically replied, "Sure, I don't have anything better to do boss. It's not like I have a life"
William nodded, "Perfect. I guess that means I can give you more errands."
Aoide groaned as she rolled her eyes, 'me and my big mouth.'
~~~ Cordy hummed a little as she worked through the files on the desk, then she noticed the magazine that William had left. 'Oops, I must have forgotten about this.'
Cordy hmmmed a little and then decided to look in the magazine, she was pretty bored right now, anything was better than going through these files.
She flipped through a few pages, 'Let's see. political problems. new diet method. new movie that's out. Luminacorp. Wait a minute, isn't that William's company?'
She intently read the article. 'William Dale, the youngest billionaire in the world, is now sweeping the West coast as he buys out company after company.. Surrogate son to Owen Dale who always dreamed of expand their efforts to the west coast..'
Suddenly the phone rang, causing Cordy to yelp in surprise. She tentatively looked at the phone and picked it up on the fourth ring.
"Angel Investigations." Cordy said.
"Hello Ms. Chase, I promised I'd contact you again."
"O-oh, h-hi William." Cordy stuttered. The situation was immensely awkward now that she realized how powerful he was.
"Are you alright? You sound frightened."
"No, just a little tired. Yeah, I stutter when I'm tired."
"Oh, alright. Look, I'm not busy on Wednesday. Would you and some friends like to accompany me to dinner and the opera?"
"S-sure. but I don't know if my friends are so willing, umm, I'll ask?"
"Oh yes. well, how about this. I'll officially invite you, Wesley, Ms. Rosenberg, the Harris's and Ms. Summer and whomever else would like to come, can."
"Um, which Summer?"
"The younger one, she seems to be more mellow than her sister."
Cordy nodded, "A-alright, we'll see you on Wednesday."
Cordy nervously hung up the phone and then let out a huge sigh. ~~~ (Wednesday)
William had the limo driver go over in front of Angel investigations to pick up his guests instead of seeing to them himself. He wanted to avoid as much conflict as possible.
Even as Dawn happily rushed to the door Buffy still begged her not to go that night. Dawn refused, "Under law, I am old enough to make my decisions. And I want to go out tonight. You might have problems with him, but I don't."
Buffy turned to Willow, "Come on, tell her not to go."
Willow shrugged, "I don't know, actually I'm going too."
"e tu, Willow?!"
Willow winced, "I'm sorry, but he seemed really nice and all. I'll watch Dawn, you don't have to worry about her."
At that moment Anya cooed Tommy as she helped straightened his clothes. Buffy gaped at Anya and Xander.
"You're going too?!"
"Yeah Buff. You know, get the scoop on the guy. See if I can find out if he really is some devious evil undead monster."
Buffy nodded nervously. "Are you sure you're going to be all right?"
Cordy sighed, "Look Buffy. If you're so worried, why don't you come along?"
Buffy glared at the woman who was currently the object of Angel's affections. "No thank you."
Cordy shrugged and then turned to group. "Come on, let's go. We don't want to be late."
Buffy muttered as she unhappily as she watched the group retreat.
~~~ William had invited them to some posh restaurant where you had to have reservations at least half a year before in order to get in. The inside was huge with chandeliers all over the place, with beautiful silverware and feasts fit for a king. The group was a little nervous as the matre'd led them to the back of the restaurant where a set of winding stairs led them to the rooftop.
Dawn's face lit up instantly when she saw that the rooftop of the restaurant was actually a huge garden. There were only 3 very large tables there, which were surrounding the fountain in the center. Small lights, candles and several tiki lamps surrounded the private garden, lighting up the entire place and giving it a mystical glow.The other two tables were occupied with other guests and the at the third table sat William and another girl.
The group headed towards William and they all reintroduced themselves to Aoide. Dawn chose to sit right next to William, the Harris family sat together and Cordy and Wesley seated themselves to the right of Aoide.
Soon the group began to animatedly talk throughout dinner. ~~~
William smiled as he handed the credit card to the attractive waitress. Then he turned back to Xander, "That's very fascinating Mr. Harris. I don't think I've ever met anyone that has built such a good career in carpentry and architecture without receiving an education."
Xander bit into his cheek, finding William's comment a little insulting. Before he could retort, William pulled out a business card.
"Actually, I have a friend who just bought land down in Orange County and wants to build his dream mansion. I know he'll pay handsomely. I mean, after what I heard from you tonight. I'm quite convinced that you're the man for the job, you obviously know what you're doing. And if you do a great job, I'm pretty sure that he can inform a lot of his friends who also want something done. It's so hard to find a good, honest help these days.
Xander gaped as he took the card. "T-thanks. man, I mean. Wow."
"Oh which reminds me," William mumbled as he reached under his chair and tossed a heavy leather bound book to Willow. She caught it and looked at the cover with curiosity.
"What is this?"
"Have a look." William answered simply
The other Scoobies edged closer to Willow, trying to look at the book also.
Willow paled as she flipped through the first few pages, then she closed the book and pushed it away from her.
"I don't do magic anymore." She said, her voice was serious and somewhat angry. "I'm not a witch anymore."
"Once a witch always a witch." William said simply. His eyes were a little menacing. "Keep the book."
Willow looked mortified, "No!"
"Look, you're the one causing the time anomaly. You ever look up power overloading? Discharges? And witch depression? I know that you're causing it, take the book."
Willow whimpered, "I can't, I might become addicted again, and this time I wouldn't be able to stop at all. I might kill everyone! I can't do black spells again. So. so take your evil b-book b-back."
Willow was shaking a little, frightened at her own outburst and also from knowing that she was the cause of her friend's problems.
William started to laugh. "Didn't you even read the book? You just suddenly saw spells and immediately thought they were for black magic?"
"Aren't they?"
"For God's sake, I'm not stupid, why the hell would I give you a black magic book?"
Anya picked up the spell book. "What do you mean? Is there any other kind of magic?"
"Of course. White magic."
Willow rolled her eyes. "William, that's just a myth. All magic is usually black magic."
"You see, that's where you're wrong. A long time ago there were both white and black magic witches, but they were enemies. Eventually, the black magic witches found a way to seduce most of the white magic witches to using black magic. That's because when you do black magic, you get this sort of addicting thrill; like doing crack. Anyways, eventually the black magic witches burned all of the white magic books. well, almost all of them. I've managed to attain one of the last ones, and believe me, they're very difficult to come upon. So take the book, besides, it's not possible to suddenly stop doing magic after using such high doses of it, it causes anomalies and extreme depression in the long run. And I figured, why don't you transfer over to using white magic instead of eventually going insane.
Willow picked up the book and held it to her chest. "But I. well.. umm.Thank you."
William gave her a warm smile. "You're welcome. Do you have any other questions?"
"Well, umm, will I also get all addicted to white magic?"
William shook his head, "No, mainly because it's more difficult to do and it also required a clear mind. Using white magic uhh. doesn't impair your judgment. Look, if you need help with it, I can always help you. White magic is quite difficult."
Willow quietly nodded, but before she could speak, the waiter came back with William's credit card and the group left for the opera house. ~~~
Dawn practically glowed after watching the musical, she giggled as she walked down the stairs. At first, everyone thought that William was taking them to some boring opera where they'd have to sit through rounding renditions of some fat woman singing. Instead, it turned out that instead he had taken them to a musical called "Into the Woods", which was absolutely hilarious. It was like a chaotic mess up of every fairy tale she knew. She also noticed that Zander, Tommy and Wesley's faces lit up when they realized that it was going to be a humorous musical. Sure it was a little raunchy, but Tommy only understood the parts that he wanted to.
Dawn began to walk backwards on the stairs, to face the others as she recapped on the funny parts of the musical. They would laugh and giggle as they nodded their head. Dawn sighed happily, it had been forever since they were able to relax. During this time, she wasn't watching where she stepped and she accidentally missed the last step down, resulting in landing on her behind.
Dawn whimpered a little as she clutched her ankle. William was the first on by her side, "Are you all right?"
Dawn shook her head, "I think I twisted my ankle."
William easily picked Dawn up, "I guess I'll have to carry you home."
Dawn blushed a little and thanked him.
As they walked through the parking lot, heading to William's awaiting limo, a large group of about 40 vampires enclosed around them.
Note: WOW! Great guess Soulwarrior. You're right about almost everything, but Leng isn't a goddess, she's an immortal ( I mentioned earlier that there'd be a few Highlander undertones). Lucifer is.well Lucifer. Michael isn't a god, think about it. in fact, look up the definition of Michael. Yes, there is a reason why Michael is keeping Spike in check and I'll explain it soon enough with a flashback chapter. Enjoy.
Sorry, short chapter, my Cisco class is really time consuming and the next few chapters after this are pretty dark and intense. Don't worry, I'm continuing.
~~~ 2 weeks later
Dear Diary,
William's really cool, he's offered me this great job where all I have to do is help him take care of his Grandpa and run a few errands. I practically do nothing at all and yet I get paid about $2,000 a week and he's nice enough not to make me pay rent. So the money I earn, I can use to buy anything I want. Last week, he took me out to get some clothes, shopping with him is awesome, because I can buy almost anything I want.
Oh and we also got some cat supplies. Koko is like. the world's biggest idiot, I kept tell him how he's not suppose to talk in front of people. and what does he do when finds out that William is helping me? He say's "Thank you." And what's even more weird is that Will (should I call him that? He seems so formal, I almost feel bad for shortening his name. oh well, just for journal purposes.) didn't really react. It's like he knew that Koko could talk. He did say something about how talking animals are rare, but not unheard of. Maybe he has seen other talking animals. I donno
Will's house is like. how do put it?. really sleek and sterile, but it's understandable, he's hardly ever at home. He has a library that's practically separated into 2 parts. One with cool books and one with all this boring philosophy junk. Now cool books are all these classical stuff and I also found this secret stash of random stuff that he likes. It's behind this little trap door under the bottom left of his 3rd bookshelf. There's like, a Memento DVD, a collection of random Monty Python stuff (He's even got the script to Monty Python and the Holy Grail! *Snickers.*), there's also all these random fantasy books, he's got the "On a Pale Horse" collection by Piers Anthony (I've got to read that sometime), and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I laughed for like. ten minutes when I realized that he used a towel for a bookmark.). Oops, he's calling me, he wants to go out to dinner tonight. I'll write some other time.
Aoide
~~~~~~
Aoide looked across at William, apparently, he wasn't paying any attention to her. He was quietly mumbling to himself as he was reading the business section. Ah yes, it was like this every night. He's always be working, he hardly ever stopped, not even to eat. It's like he needed to be reading or doing work or yelling at someone on the telephone during every meal. It was awfully boring to eat with him.
Finally when the food came, Aoide spoke up, "How come. so far, every restaurant we've been to is an Italian restaurant."
Will shrugged, " I like Italian."
"Yeah, but. it's like you go out of your way to eat Italian food."
"So I have an affinity to Italian food, do you have a problem with it?"
"No, it's just weird."
"Why?" William's tone becoming a little hostile
"I donno, I guess I've been eating Cantonese food all my life. and then suddenly I'm eating dish after dish after dish of pasta. I don't know if I can stand this for much longer." Aoide said as she shrank back a little
William cursed himself for being so cold and hostile to everyone he knew.
"Sorry about that. I'll take you to an Asian place."
Aoide nodded, "Thank you."
William didn't even look up as he talked, "I'm going to meet some friends on Wednesday, you're going to come with me. Dress in something semicasual.
Aoide sarcastically replied, "Sure, I don't have anything better to do boss. It's not like I have a life"
William nodded, "Perfect. I guess that means I can give you more errands."
Aoide groaned as she rolled her eyes, 'me and my big mouth.'
~~~ Cordy hummed a little as she worked through the files on the desk, then she noticed the magazine that William had left. 'Oops, I must have forgotten about this.'
Cordy hmmmed a little and then decided to look in the magazine, she was pretty bored right now, anything was better than going through these files.
She flipped through a few pages, 'Let's see. political problems. new diet method. new movie that's out. Luminacorp. Wait a minute, isn't that William's company?'
She intently read the article. 'William Dale, the youngest billionaire in the world, is now sweeping the West coast as he buys out company after company.. Surrogate son to Owen Dale who always dreamed of expand their efforts to the west coast..'
Suddenly the phone rang, causing Cordy to yelp in surprise. She tentatively looked at the phone and picked it up on the fourth ring.
"Angel Investigations." Cordy said.
"Hello Ms. Chase, I promised I'd contact you again."
"O-oh, h-hi William." Cordy stuttered. The situation was immensely awkward now that she realized how powerful he was.
"Are you alright? You sound frightened."
"No, just a little tired. Yeah, I stutter when I'm tired."
"Oh, alright. Look, I'm not busy on Wednesday. Would you and some friends like to accompany me to dinner and the opera?"
"S-sure. but I don't know if my friends are so willing, umm, I'll ask?"
"Oh yes. well, how about this. I'll officially invite you, Wesley, Ms. Rosenberg, the Harris's and Ms. Summer and whomever else would like to come, can."
"Um, which Summer?"
"The younger one, she seems to be more mellow than her sister."
Cordy nodded, "A-alright, we'll see you on Wednesday."
Cordy nervously hung up the phone and then let out a huge sigh. ~~~ (Wednesday)
William had the limo driver go over in front of Angel investigations to pick up his guests instead of seeing to them himself. He wanted to avoid as much conflict as possible.
Even as Dawn happily rushed to the door Buffy still begged her not to go that night. Dawn refused, "Under law, I am old enough to make my decisions. And I want to go out tonight. You might have problems with him, but I don't."
Buffy turned to Willow, "Come on, tell her not to go."
Willow shrugged, "I don't know, actually I'm going too."
"e tu, Willow?!"
Willow winced, "I'm sorry, but he seemed really nice and all. I'll watch Dawn, you don't have to worry about her."
At that moment Anya cooed Tommy as she helped straightened his clothes. Buffy gaped at Anya and Xander.
"You're going too?!"
"Yeah Buff. You know, get the scoop on the guy. See if I can find out if he really is some devious evil undead monster."
Buffy nodded nervously. "Are you sure you're going to be all right?"
Cordy sighed, "Look Buffy. If you're so worried, why don't you come along?"
Buffy glared at the woman who was currently the object of Angel's affections. "No thank you."
Cordy shrugged and then turned to group. "Come on, let's go. We don't want to be late."
Buffy muttered as she unhappily as she watched the group retreat.
~~~ William had invited them to some posh restaurant where you had to have reservations at least half a year before in order to get in. The inside was huge with chandeliers all over the place, with beautiful silverware and feasts fit for a king. The group was a little nervous as the matre'd led them to the back of the restaurant where a set of winding stairs led them to the rooftop.
Dawn's face lit up instantly when she saw that the rooftop of the restaurant was actually a huge garden. There were only 3 very large tables there, which were surrounding the fountain in the center. Small lights, candles and several tiki lamps surrounded the private garden, lighting up the entire place and giving it a mystical glow.The other two tables were occupied with other guests and the at the third table sat William and another girl.
The group headed towards William and they all reintroduced themselves to Aoide. Dawn chose to sit right next to William, the Harris family sat together and Cordy and Wesley seated themselves to the right of Aoide.
Soon the group began to animatedly talk throughout dinner. ~~~
William smiled as he handed the credit card to the attractive waitress. Then he turned back to Xander, "That's very fascinating Mr. Harris. I don't think I've ever met anyone that has built such a good career in carpentry and architecture without receiving an education."
Xander bit into his cheek, finding William's comment a little insulting. Before he could retort, William pulled out a business card.
"Actually, I have a friend who just bought land down in Orange County and wants to build his dream mansion. I know he'll pay handsomely. I mean, after what I heard from you tonight. I'm quite convinced that you're the man for the job, you obviously know what you're doing. And if you do a great job, I'm pretty sure that he can inform a lot of his friends who also want something done. It's so hard to find a good, honest help these days.
Xander gaped as he took the card. "T-thanks. man, I mean. Wow."
"Oh which reminds me," William mumbled as he reached under his chair and tossed a heavy leather bound book to Willow. She caught it and looked at the cover with curiosity.
"What is this?"
"Have a look." William answered simply
The other Scoobies edged closer to Willow, trying to look at the book also.
Willow paled as she flipped through the first few pages, then she closed the book and pushed it away from her.
"I don't do magic anymore." She said, her voice was serious and somewhat angry. "I'm not a witch anymore."
"Once a witch always a witch." William said simply. His eyes were a little menacing. "Keep the book."
Willow looked mortified, "No!"
"Look, you're the one causing the time anomaly. You ever look up power overloading? Discharges? And witch depression? I know that you're causing it, take the book."
Willow whimpered, "I can't, I might become addicted again, and this time I wouldn't be able to stop at all. I might kill everyone! I can't do black spells again. So. so take your evil b-book b-back."
Willow was shaking a little, frightened at her own outburst and also from knowing that she was the cause of her friend's problems.
William started to laugh. "Didn't you even read the book? You just suddenly saw spells and immediately thought they were for black magic?"
"Aren't they?"
"For God's sake, I'm not stupid, why the hell would I give you a black magic book?"
Anya picked up the spell book. "What do you mean? Is there any other kind of magic?"
"Of course. White magic."
Willow rolled her eyes. "William, that's just a myth. All magic is usually black magic."
"You see, that's where you're wrong. A long time ago there were both white and black magic witches, but they were enemies. Eventually, the black magic witches found a way to seduce most of the white magic witches to using black magic. That's because when you do black magic, you get this sort of addicting thrill; like doing crack. Anyways, eventually the black magic witches burned all of the white magic books. well, almost all of them. I've managed to attain one of the last ones, and believe me, they're very difficult to come upon. So take the book, besides, it's not possible to suddenly stop doing magic after using such high doses of it, it causes anomalies and extreme depression in the long run. And I figured, why don't you transfer over to using white magic instead of eventually going insane.
Willow picked up the book and held it to her chest. "But I. well.. umm.Thank you."
William gave her a warm smile. "You're welcome. Do you have any other questions?"
"Well, umm, will I also get all addicted to white magic?"
William shook his head, "No, mainly because it's more difficult to do and it also required a clear mind. Using white magic uhh. doesn't impair your judgment. Look, if you need help with it, I can always help you. White magic is quite difficult."
Willow quietly nodded, but before she could speak, the waiter came back with William's credit card and the group left for the opera house. ~~~
Dawn practically glowed after watching the musical, she giggled as she walked down the stairs. At first, everyone thought that William was taking them to some boring opera where they'd have to sit through rounding renditions of some fat woman singing. Instead, it turned out that instead he had taken them to a musical called "Into the Woods", which was absolutely hilarious. It was like a chaotic mess up of every fairy tale she knew. She also noticed that Zander, Tommy and Wesley's faces lit up when they realized that it was going to be a humorous musical. Sure it was a little raunchy, but Tommy only understood the parts that he wanted to.
Dawn began to walk backwards on the stairs, to face the others as she recapped on the funny parts of the musical. They would laugh and giggle as they nodded their head. Dawn sighed happily, it had been forever since they were able to relax. During this time, she wasn't watching where she stepped and she accidentally missed the last step down, resulting in landing on her behind.
Dawn whimpered a little as she clutched her ankle. William was the first on by her side, "Are you all right?"
Dawn shook her head, "I think I twisted my ankle."
William easily picked Dawn up, "I guess I'll have to carry you home."
Dawn blushed a little and thanked him.
As they walked through the parking lot, heading to William's awaiting limo, a large group of about 40 vampires enclosed around them.