DISCLAIMER: Not mine. Never will be. Not unless Joss decides to adopt me
and give me the copyright. (Hey if you're gonna dream, might as well dream
big.)
SPOILERS: None. At least not really.
SUMMARY: This story is set in a somewhat AU. Cordy explains what her life was like and why it was that way. This is a sequel to 'Angelic Savior'.
DEDICATION: This one is for Drew and Kitka. Friends. My own personal Angel and Cordelia.
DISTRIBUTION: If you ask, I'll probably say yes.
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"I will kill him. I promise." Those words haunted Cordelia's dreams that night as she lay next to Angel with his arms wrapped solidly around her. She knew that her sister meant every word she said. she never wasted words if it could be helped. She would often threaten things that later would come to pass. Formost in Cordelia's mind was the time that a boy in first grade had stolen Taryn's lunchbox.
The teacher had been amazed that the young girl didn't get upset and cry the way other girls did. She had merely looked at the boy and said, "One day, you'll steal someone's lunchbox and get a nasty surprise."
Not more than a week later, he stole her lunchbox again and opened it only to find a mass of earthworms, spiders and maggots. Everyone but Taryn laughed at him when he dropped it and ran behind the teacher. Taryn simply sat back and watched.
Of course, Mom and Dad didn't take the news very well that their youngest daughter had sent a bully crying behind the teacher. At least, not in public. Privately, they congratulated her for her shrewd thinking. She was the apple of their eye. Cordy had always had to work hard for Daddy's approval. He was never appreciative of anything she did.
Cordy had often been jealous of her little sister but never did she hate the younger Chase. She was only jealous of the way Taryn had everyone else wrapped around her little finger. She didn't even try.
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"Taryn, I don't want you to hurt Daddy. Not for me. Please." Cordy was talking to Taryn the next day at the library. "Promise me you won't do anything to him?"
"For the first time in my life, you would ask me to break my promise to you?"
"Yes. Please, Taryn. It means a lot to me that you want to exact vengence for me but don't. Please."
"Ok. Only for you. I only break my promise because it's for you." Taryn saw the tension flow out of her sister's shoulders. She didn't have the heart to tell Cordy that vengence had already begun.
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Just a week later, the IRS knocked on the door of the Chase home. They had apparently been tipped off that Mr. Robert Chase hadn't paid any income taxes in several years if ever.
After a month of investigation, the Chase family lost everything to the IRS. Taryn went back to England under the sponsorship of the Watcher's Council. Cordelia continued to live with Angel.
Robert Chase was sent to prison where somehow it was leaked to several of the rougher inmates of the things he had put his oldest daughter through. He didn't survive the prison term. He committed suicide after one year of a five year sentence.
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"So, Cordy, who do you think told them about your father?" Xander asked one day as they sat researching the Ascension.
"Taryn. She promised me that she wouldn't kill him. She didn't. He killed himself after they started using him the way he had used me."
"You're certain it was Taryn?"
"Of course, Willow. My sister never says anything she doesn't mean. It's a character flaw. Mine is a lack of tact and hers is that she never says anything she doesn't mean." Cordelia smiled at the girl across the table from her. "Now, let's try to figure out how to stop this Ascension thing."
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A/N: That's it. The whole story. I mean someone had to have told the IRS about Mr. Chase not filing taxes. Didn't they?
SPOILERS: None. At least not really.
SUMMARY: This story is set in a somewhat AU. Cordy explains what her life was like and why it was that way. This is a sequel to 'Angelic Savior'.
DEDICATION: This one is for Drew and Kitka. Friends. My own personal Angel and Cordelia.
DISTRIBUTION: If you ask, I'll probably say yes.
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"I will kill him. I promise." Those words haunted Cordelia's dreams that night as she lay next to Angel with his arms wrapped solidly around her. She knew that her sister meant every word she said. she never wasted words if it could be helped. She would often threaten things that later would come to pass. Formost in Cordelia's mind was the time that a boy in first grade had stolen Taryn's lunchbox.
The teacher had been amazed that the young girl didn't get upset and cry the way other girls did. She had merely looked at the boy and said, "One day, you'll steal someone's lunchbox and get a nasty surprise."
Not more than a week later, he stole her lunchbox again and opened it only to find a mass of earthworms, spiders and maggots. Everyone but Taryn laughed at him when he dropped it and ran behind the teacher. Taryn simply sat back and watched.
Of course, Mom and Dad didn't take the news very well that their youngest daughter had sent a bully crying behind the teacher. At least, not in public. Privately, they congratulated her for her shrewd thinking. She was the apple of their eye. Cordy had always had to work hard for Daddy's approval. He was never appreciative of anything she did.
Cordy had often been jealous of her little sister but never did she hate the younger Chase. She was only jealous of the way Taryn had everyone else wrapped around her little finger. She didn't even try.
***************
"Taryn, I don't want you to hurt Daddy. Not for me. Please." Cordy was talking to Taryn the next day at the library. "Promise me you won't do anything to him?"
"For the first time in my life, you would ask me to break my promise to you?"
"Yes. Please, Taryn. It means a lot to me that you want to exact vengence for me but don't. Please."
"Ok. Only for you. I only break my promise because it's for you." Taryn saw the tension flow out of her sister's shoulders. She didn't have the heart to tell Cordy that vengence had already begun.
**********
Just a week later, the IRS knocked on the door of the Chase home. They had apparently been tipped off that Mr. Robert Chase hadn't paid any income taxes in several years if ever.
After a month of investigation, the Chase family lost everything to the IRS. Taryn went back to England under the sponsorship of the Watcher's Council. Cordelia continued to live with Angel.
Robert Chase was sent to prison where somehow it was leaked to several of the rougher inmates of the things he had put his oldest daughter through. He didn't survive the prison term. He committed suicide after one year of a five year sentence.
************
"So, Cordy, who do you think told them about your father?" Xander asked one day as they sat researching the Ascension.
"Taryn. She promised me that she wouldn't kill him. She didn't. He killed himself after they started using him the way he had used me."
"You're certain it was Taryn?"
"Of course, Willow. My sister never says anything she doesn't mean. It's a character flaw. Mine is a lack of tact and hers is that she never says anything she doesn't mean." Cordelia smiled at the girl across the table from her. "Now, let's try to figure out how to stop this Ascension thing."
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A/N: That's it. The whole story. I mean someone had to have told the IRS about Mr. Chase not filing taxes. Didn't they?
