Chapter 40: ice cream all around. (Yay us, we made it to 40, and counting)
Title: Reunion time.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that *English is not my native tongue* so you may find some spelling & grammar mistakes, you're more than welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
Disclaimer: Angel & Buffy's characters are not my creation (wish they were) they belong to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Other characters that are not familiar from the show do belong to me.
Author's remark: My chapters as of ch 12 will no longer be reproof by Sigma due to the fact that I have no internet and I'm asking someone else to post the remaining chapters for me. I want to take this opportunity and thank sigma for all the help. And I hope you will continue reading my story even without the excellent work sigma has done. Thank you again sigma for all your great work.
"Cordelia?" She heard Giles call her name waiting for an answer, they all waited. What was she to do?
"Hmm, sorry. What was the question?" She was stalling.
"Did you find a way to stop the Dorkanious?" Giles had little patience at this point.
"Well, the book is the key. It's the only weakness I found." **Better say something than nothing, even if it's partly true.**
"We already know about the book." Willow informed her. "Do you know where we can find it?"
"I don't know if Angel explained this part to you, but the book isn't in one place, he travels through dimensions, that's why the Dorkanious couldn't find him." Cordelia explained.
"Yes, yes we know this already." Giles snapped at her. "Do you have any new information?"
**God Cordy, there's nowhere to hide. Take the plunge tell them what you saw. Or at least tell them something.** "The book, it's protected. Even if we do find it, we won't be able to destroy it." She thought to herself; **that's new, right?**
"Wait a second." Gunn was confused, again. "If this book can masquerade itself, we can be holding it right now and not even know it?" He had a good point. How can you find something you can see, or feel?
"I can tell." Cordy said, causing every head in the room to turn at her direction.
"You can?" Willow was astounded. She was impressed; even she couldn't sense something like that. She tried earlier.
"I think so. When I was in the library, back in the past. I sensed that the book Xander was holding was the book in question." She explained.
"Maybe it was just temporary?" Fred suggested.
"No, its not. Don't ask me how I know. In some weird way I'm linked to that book." Cordelia couldn't explain it. She just felt it.
"Linked how?" Angel stepped in.
"Every time the book showed up I was around, its like he's following me." Everyone looked at her in shock. "You probably think I'm crazy but I'm not. I have a connection to that book, to the Dorkanious and I can't explain it."
"We need to get to the bottom of this." Giles said it without really knowing how.
"Can't we try location his whereabouts? I mean it has a tendency to come back to Sunnydale time after time, God knows why. And if Cordy's right and she does have a link to that book it should be here by now, right?" Xander looked around at all the weird faces staring back at him. They all found it hard to believe that Xander actually said something right and to the point.
"Well I'll be dammed." That's all Wesley could muster out of his wide opened mouth.
"Good thinking Xander, and did I really just say that. God, the apocalypse is coming." Giles Joked.
"So how do we find it? Magic?" Willow wiggled her fingers eager to do a spell.
"No!" Tara jumped in. "I mean we can try other stuff first like research." She thought Willow was using too much magic and didn't want to encourage her.
"Why not?" Willow didn't get Tara. "It be faster this way and we don't have a lot of time."
"Willow's right." Wesley backed her up. "We can't lose any more precious time. Willow should try a locater spell."
"Can you? I thought the thing traveled trough dimensions. Can you track him there?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know. I'll have to do some research, look for the right spell. But I think so, I mean it is a mystical thing and therefore has a mystical locater." She saw the doubtful looks. "Well it should work. In theory."
"So we have a plan." Buffy declared.
"Yes." Giles wiped his glasses. "Willow, Tara, you two try to find the locater spell." He looked around knowing there's not much any of them can do right now, except wait.
"What about us?" Gunn wasn't use to all the research and no action.
"To be honest there isn't much we can do." Giles said. "We can try to do some research but the truth is I don't believe there's anything else we can find about the Dorkanious that we don't already know."
"Strangely as it may sound, right now, we are probably the experts when it comes to the Dorkanious." Wesley elaborated.
"So what? We should just wait?" Fred asked in disappointment.
"I'm afraid so." Wesley knew how she felt. He felt the same way. Back home they had a job, a mission. There was rarely a boring moment. And even, when they were by themselves with no visions or cases, they filed their time, usually by hanging together. How he missed that.
Slowly the group dispersed. Anya and Xander went home to some well-needed quality time, or as Anya put it: "We haven't had sex in days. So you two don't show up in the next 3 hours." That was referred to Gunn and Fred of course. So they decided to go check out the sites in Sunnydale with the guidance of Dawn, Buffy and oddly enough Spike. All they had to do was mention the words ice cream and the summers' girls were on board. No one really knew how Spike fitted in, but he did. Lorne wanted to get some rest after a day out with Conor, so Cordy & Angel lend him the bedroom while they decided to take a stroll of their own. While Tara, Willow, Giles and Wesley stayed home to research and research and do a little bit of research. Uh and watch Conor, of course.
"It's a beautiful night. I love that smell." She took a big sniff of the night air.
"You like the smell of sewers?" Angel asked after taking a sniff.
"Just because you have super smell sense doesn't mean you have to use it every single time." She smiled and took his hand. "Filter, smell only the night air. Clear and sweet."
He loved hearing her talk. He could listen to her for hours, and he would have except he had that pesky thought that wouldn't go away. "Cordy?" He had to resolve this.
"Yes?" She was happy. He hated doing this right now, but he had to.
"Is there something you're not telling me?" He said so fast he wasn't even sure if she understood him. But when she stopped and let go of his hand and stared at him he knew she did.
"What? Where is this coming from?" She obviously caught off guard.
"I put a few things together and I think you're not telling me something. So, are you?" He laid it all out.
"Uh, playing inspector gadgets are we?" **Oh Angel for both our sakes stop asking these questions. Okay Cordy, play it cool. Look angry and deny like crazy. Remember he mustn't know. Not yet.**
"No, I'm not playing anything. But I'm not stupid either." Now he was getting angry. "All those questions you asked me about whether I love you no matter what?"
**I knew I shouldn't have asked that.**
"And the way you were stalling today when Giles asked you about what you knew." He raised his finger to stop her from interrupting him. "And don't say you weren't stalling. I know you too well for that and you were staling. And There are other things that I've noticed and I'm not gonna name it all, because I think the message got through. At least I hope it did." He looked at her waiting for her to respond, for her to tell him he's crazy and there's nothing going on and he's just worried. He wanted her to tell him she wasn't hiding anything from him, because if she was, she must have done so for a reason, a reason he didn't want to know about.
"Angel have I ever hidden something from you?" **No, no wait, I'm taking it back. Oh no he's gonna have a filed day with this.**
"Lets see, have you ever hidden something from me?" Angel was going all the way. "Something like; your visions are killing you, literally. You mean something like that?" She fell for it, she knew what he'd say and she fell for it.
"Okay okay, wrong question. But that was then..."
"And this is now Cor." He cut her off. "So I'm asking again, and before you answer take in mind we promised never to hid something from one another. Are you not telling me something I should know about?"
"Define should?"
"Cordy!!!" He snapped at her. "No more games fess up." He crossed his arms waiting for an answer.
"I want chocolate, vanilla and..."
"Strawberry. Dawn you always take the same flavors and yet you still think its necessary to name them every time." Buffy teased her.
"What will you have?" Fred asked spike. "When angel took me out for ice cream He ordered Cookie-dough-fudge-mint-chip, which is weird cause he can't taste it, how can he know what's the best flavor, unless someone told him once and he thought..."
"Fred honey. I think they got it." Gunn stopped her babbling.
"In that case, I'll have chocolate." Spike smiled marveling at the idea of Angel eating ice cream.
After they all had their ice cream combs, they started walking down Main Street. The weather was wonderful so it seemed like all of Sunnydale decided to take a walk.
"Hey, Cordy told me about the Bronze. Maybe we can check that out later?" Gunn offered. Fred and Dawn seemed thrilled about the idea but Buffy just pointed at Dawn and nodded. Gunn got the message. "On the other hand, I heard its not that cool, anyway."
"No it is. We have to check it out." Dawn tried convincing him, while Buffy behind Dawn's back nodded her head repeatedly.
"Actually I'm pretty tired." Fred came to her boyfriend's rescue who was caught between the summer's girls.
"Uh well another time, then." Buffy smiled at Fred and Gunn in appreciation. Dawn frowned and kept eating her ice cream.
"Do you think she'll find a spell? Fred brought up the subject they were all trying to avoid.
"Willow always comes through." Buffy said with pride.
"Is she that powerful? I mean Cordy and Angel didn't tell us much but we know she re-ensoul Angel a couple of years ago." Fred was curious about Willow and her power.
"Actually 4 years ago, and yeah she is." Buffy replied.
"She brought Buffy back." Dawn said with pride, but then remembered the whole I-was-in-haven-and-was-pulled-out-by-my-friends thing and she wished she hadn't said a thing.
"Yep, she did that too." Buffy said with a bit of bitterness.
"So I'm guessing, not pissing her off is the way to go?" Gunn didn't like magic all that much.
"No, willow will never hurt a fly." Buffy said and noticed Spike little pff form the side. "What? You disagree?
"Didn't say a word luv." Spiked baked away not wanting to get into this discussion.
"Don't call me luv, and you did say something. So spill. You think Willow's dangerous?"
"She's- not. Her magic- hell yeah."
"I can't believe..."
"Hey there's Cordy and Angel!" Dawn cut off Buffy with her little declaration. "Cordy!" Dawn ran over to her. Buffy couldn't understand why she was so attached to Cordelia.
The group came close to the couple that seemed to be in the middle of something. Everyone noticed, except Dawn, that is.
"Hey." Cordy welcomed the interruption, not like Angel, who now remembered why he wanted to go some place quite.
"Are we interrupting? We are aren't we?" Buffy smiled a half smile. "Sorry we'll be out of your way." She grabbed Dawn's hand a tried dragging her away.
**Oh no, you're my lifesaver. You can't go not yet. Do something Cordy! Make them stay.** "Hey, you guys are not bothering us at all." That was enough for Dawn who brushed Buffy off.
"Great, now we can all hang together." Dawn grabbed Cordy's hand and dragged towards the stores.
They looked like an odd group of people walking down the street. Fred and Gunn held hands and couldn't stop staring at Angel & Cordy. They knew something was up, they just didn't know what. Dawn kept dragging Cordy from one store to the other. While Buffy and Angel had a little chat of their own.
"So did you enjoy your walk? That is until we came along." Buffy asked Angel who seemed preoccupied.
"What? Sorry, didn't get that." He couldn't stop thinking about Cordy.
"Never mind. And speaking of mind yours seems to be away. Why is that?" Buffy had to ask. She could feel Spike staring at her and Angel, trying to listen in on every word they said. She wanted to laugh but decided to hold it in.
"There's a lot going on." He replied.
"And yet, somehow I don't think that's the reason. I thought you'd be happy that Cordelia's back?" Buffy saw him this morning, he was happy.
"Its nothing really." He brushed it off, no wiling to share.
"Okay I won't push. But if you need someone to talk to..."
"Thank you." He said with a smile, God how she loved that smile.
"Cordy?" Angel called out to her.
"Yeah." She turned around to see his angry stare looking back at her.
"Can you come here for a second?"
"But we were just looking at some dresses." She wanted to avoid talking to him.
"Cor?" He raised his voice a bit. Now Gunn & Fred knew for certain something was up.
"Sure." She sighed and walked towards him. He stopped walking and told the rest to go on, promising they'll catch up with them later.
"Hey, what's up?" She played it cool.
"You tell me? What with the hide & sick?" He was angry.
"I told I didn't want to talk about it."
"Well you'll have to." He pushed on.
"I'm not keeping something from you, and even if I did, that's my Prerogative." Cordy thought that sounded convincing.
"Why are you acting like a five years old? Did you bump your head on your way back to our time?" He mocked her.
"Uh you little..." Now she was pissed. "I'm not talking to you." She turned her back to him and started walking away.
"Oh no you don't." He went after her and grabbed her arm. Forcing her to turn.
"Let go of me!" She yelled at him.
"Not until you start acting your age." He held on.
"I'm 21 I can act which age I please to. Now let go!" She tried shaking him off.
"Cordy!" He tried calming her down hoping she won't cause a scene, knowing she would.
"I promise you I'll scream so loud you'll go deaf." She gnashed her teeth. "Angel I'm not kidding. Let go of me right now!" She was serious this time she had enough. If she didn't want to tell him that's her right and there's nothing he can do about it, except frown, which he did already.
"Fine." He let go of her arm. "But can you please talk to me and tell me what's wrong?"
"Why do you always assume, something is wrong? Why can't you believe me when I tell you it's all in your head? There's nothing going on." She tried one more time.
"Don't insult my intelligence." He looked at her in fear. He was afraid for her. He knew she was hiding something big and that something scared him.
"Okay, maybe I left something out. But it's insignificant." She admitted
"Tell me." He was glad she was opening up to him.
"You remember the series of visions I had before we came to Sunnydale?"
"Yeah." He nodded.
"I don't think they had anything to do with the Magistrate. I think they were about the Dorkanious all along. I believe the Magistrate just happened to come along at the same time, but the real reason the Powers sent us here was for the Dorkanious." She explained.
"Are you sure?" Angel asked.
"Yeah pretty much. After my little mind traveling, things became clearer."
"We have to tell Wes and Giles, they need to know." Angel thought it was important.
"I don't see the urgency. There's nothing in those visions that can help us. I learned more from my last vision that I ever learned from them. Until now I thought they belonged to some other demon." Cordy didn't really feel it meant that much, but she didn't mind Angel getting all worked up about it. At least now he'll back off and she won't have to tell him what she really saw in the other Cordelia's mind.
"Come one. Let's head back to the house and tell the others." He grabbed her hand and they walked away. "Cor?" She looked at him. "I'm sorry I acted like a jerk, I was just worried about you, that's all."
"I know Angel I know." She smiled, feeling bad inside for deceiving him.
"Cor?"
"What? Did you say something?"
"I asked if you wanted some ice cream? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine sweetie, just fine."
TBC
Hi ppl,
I know these couples of chapters are a bit weak, but they're important, I promise.
I posted this ch differently so you can see all the punctuation marks. So check it out and tell me what you prefer, this one or the others.
By the way when you see in the story this mark ** it means I'm writing someone's thoughts.
Thank you for reviewing. Hope you'll enjoy this ch, and that you'll review it more than you did the last one. Its not that I have to get reviews, its just that its nice to know that people read my story, and reviews are the only way for me to know that, so please review.
Thanks Nikka. Enjoy.
Title: Reunion time.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that *English is not my native tongue* so you may find some spelling & grammar mistakes, you're more than welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
Disclaimer: Angel & Buffy's characters are not my creation (wish they were) they belong to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Other characters that are not familiar from the show do belong to me.
Author's remark: My chapters as of ch 12 will no longer be reproof by Sigma due to the fact that I have no internet and I'm asking someone else to post the remaining chapters for me. I want to take this opportunity and thank sigma for all the help. And I hope you will continue reading my story even without the excellent work sigma has done. Thank you again sigma for all your great work.
"Cordelia?" She heard Giles call her name waiting for an answer, they all waited. What was she to do?
"Hmm, sorry. What was the question?" She was stalling.
"Did you find a way to stop the Dorkanious?" Giles had little patience at this point.
"Well, the book is the key. It's the only weakness I found." **Better say something than nothing, even if it's partly true.**
"We already know about the book." Willow informed her. "Do you know where we can find it?"
"I don't know if Angel explained this part to you, but the book isn't in one place, he travels through dimensions, that's why the Dorkanious couldn't find him." Cordelia explained.
"Yes, yes we know this already." Giles snapped at her. "Do you have any new information?"
**God Cordy, there's nowhere to hide. Take the plunge tell them what you saw. Or at least tell them something.** "The book, it's protected. Even if we do find it, we won't be able to destroy it." She thought to herself; **that's new, right?**
"Wait a second." Gunn was confused, again. "If this book can masquerade itself, we can be holding it right now and not even know it?" He had a good point. How can you find something you can see, or feel?
"I can tell." Cordy said, causing every head in the room to turn at her direction.
"You can?" Willow was astounded. She was impressed; even she couldn't sense something like that. She tried earlier.
"I think so. When I was in the library, back in the past. I sensed that the book Xander was holding was the book in question." She explained.
"Maybe it was just temporary?" Fred suggested.
"No, its not. Don't ask me how I know. In some weird way I'm linked to that book." Cordelia couldn't explain it. She just felt it.
"Linked how?" Angel stepped in.
"Every time the book showed up I was around, its like he's following me." Everyone looked at her in shock. "You probably think I'm crazy but I'm not. I have a connection to that book, to the Dorkanious and I can't explain it."
"We need to get to the bottom of this." Giles said it without really knowing how.
"Can't we try location his whereabouts? I mean it has a tendency to come back to Sunnydale time after time, God knows why. And if Cordy's right and she does have a link to that book it should be here by now, right?" Xander looked around at all the weird faces staring back at him. They all found it hard to believe that Xander actually said something right and to the point.
"Well I'll be dammed." That's all Wesley could muster out of his wide opened mouth.
"Good thinking Xander, and did I really just say that. God, the apocalypse is coming." Giles Joked.
"So how do we find it? Magic?" Willow wiggled her fingers eager to do a spell.
"No!" Tara jumped in. "I mean we can try other stuff first like research." She thought Willow was using too much magic and didn't want to encourage her.
"Why not?" Willow didn't get Tara. "It be faster this way and we don't have a lot of time."
"Willow's right." Wesley backed her up. "We can't lose any more precious time. Willow should try a locater spell."
"Can you? I thought the thing traveled trough dimensions. Can you track him there?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know. I'll have to do some research, look for the right spell. But I think so, I mean it is a mystical thing and therefore has a mystical locater." She saw the doubtful looks. "Well it should work. In theory."
"So we have a plan." Buffy declared.
"Yes." Giles wiped his glasses. "Willow, Tara, you two try to find the locater spell." He looked around knowing there's not much any of them can do right now, except wait.
"What about us?" Gunn wasn't use to all the research and no action.
"To be honest there isn't much we can do." Giles said. "We can try to do some research but the truth is I don't believe there's anything else we can find about the Dorkanious that we don't already know."
"Strangely as it may sound, right now, we are probably the experts when it comes to the Dorkanious." Wesley elaborated.
"So what? We should just wait?" Fred asked in disappointment.
"I'm afraid so." Wesley knew how she felt. He felt the same way. Back home they had a job, a mission. There was rarely a boring moment. And even, when they were by themselves with no visions or cases, they filed their time, usually by hanging together. How he missed that.
Slowly the group dispersed. Anya and Xander went home to some well-needed quality time, or as Anya put it: "We haven't had sex in days. So you two don't show up in the next 3 hours." That was referred to Gunn and Fred of course. So they decided to go check out the sites in Sunnydale with the guidance of Dawn, Buffy and oddly enough Spike. All they had to do was mention the words ice cream and the summers' girls were on board. No one really knew how Spike fitted in, but he did. Lorne wanted to get some rest after a day out with Conor, so Cordy & Angel lend him the bedroom while they decided to take a stroll of their own. While Tara, Willow, Giles and Wesley stayed home to research and research and do a little bit of research. Uh and watch Conor, of course.
"It's a beautiful night. I love that smell." She took a big sniff of the night air.
"You like the smell of sewers?" Angel asked after taking a sniff.
"Just because you have super smell sense doesn't mean you have to use it every single time." She smiled and took his hand. "Filter, smell only the night air. Clear and sweet."
He loved hearing her talk. He could listen to her for hours, and he would have except he had that pesky thought that wouldn't go away. "Cordy?" He had to resolve this.
"Yes?" She was happy. He hated doing this right now, but he had to.
"Is there something you're not telling me?" He said so fast he wasn't even sure if she understood him. But when she stopped and let go of his hand and stared at him he knew she did.
"What? Where is this coming from?" She obviously caught off guard.
"I put a few things together and I think you're not telling me something. So, are you?" He laid it all out.
"Uh, playing inspector gadgets are we?" **Oh Angel for both our sakes stop asking these questions. Okay Cordy, play it cool. Look angry and deny like crazy. Remember he mustn't know. Not yet.**
"No, I'm not playing anything. But I'm not stupid either." Now he was getting angry. "All those questions you asked me about whether I love you no matter what?"
**I knew I shouldn't have asked that.**
"And the way you were stalling today when Giles asked you about what you knew." He raised his finger to stop her from interrupting him. "And don't say you weren't stalling. I know you too well for that and you were staling. And There are other things that I've noticed and I'm not gonna name it all, because I think the message got through. At least I hope it did." He looked at her waiting for her to respond, for her to tell him he's crazy and there's nothing going on and he's just worried. He wanted her to tell him she wasn't hiding anything from him, because if she was, she must have done so for a reason, a reason he didn't want to know about.
"Angel have I ever hidden something from you?" **No, no wait, I'm taking it back. Oh no he's gonna have a filed day with this.**
"Lets see, have you ever hidden something from me?" Angel was going all the way. "Something like; your visions are killing you, literally. You mean something like that?" She fell for it, she knew what he'd say and she fell for it.
"Okay okay, wrong question. But that was then..."
"And this is now Cor." He cut her off. "So I'm asking again, and before you answer take in mind we promised never to hid something from one another. Are you not telling me something I should know about?"
"Define should?"
"Cordy!!!" He snapped at her. "No more games fess up." He crossed his arms waiting for an answer.
"I want chocolate, vanilla and..."
"Strawberry. Dawn you always take the same flavors and yet you still think its necessary to name them every time." Buffy teased her.
"What will you have?" Fred asked spike. "When angel took me out for ice cream He ordered Cookie-dough-fudge-mint-chip, which is weird cause he can't taste it, how can he know what's the best flavor, unless someone told him once and he thought..."
"Fred honey. I think they got it." Gunn stopped her babbling.
"In that case, I'll have chocolate." Spike smiled marveling at the idea of Angel eating ice cream.
After they all had their ice cream combs, they started walking down Main Street. The weather was wonderful so it seemed like all of Sunnydale decided to take a walk.
"Hey, Cordy told me about the Bronze. Maybe we can check that out later?" Gunn offered. Fred and Dawn seemed thrilled about the idea but Buffy just pointed at Dawn and nodded. Gunn got the message. "On the other hand, I heard its not that cool, anyway."
"No it is. We have to check it out." Dawn tried convincing him, while Buffy behind Dawn's back nodded her head repeatedly.
"Actually I'm pretty tired." Fred came to her boyfriend's rescue who was caught between the summer's girls.
"Uh well another time, then." Buffy smiled at Fred and Gunn in appreciation. Dawn frowned and kept eating her ice cream.
"Do you think she'll find a spell? Fred brought up the subject they were all trying to avoid.
"Willow always comes through." Buffy said with pride.
"Is she that powerful? I mean Cordy and Angel didn't tell us much but we know she re-ensoul Angel a couple of years ago." Fred was curious about Willow and her power.
"Actually 4 years ago, and yeah she is." Buffy replied.
"She brought Buffy back." Dawn said with pride, but then remembered the whole I-was-in-haven-and-was-pulled-out-by-my-friends thing and she wished she hadn't said a thing.
"Yep, she did that too." Buffy said with a bit of bitterness.
"So I'm guessing, not pissing her off is the way to go?" Gunn didn't like magic all that much.
"No, willow will never hurt a fly." Buffy said and noticed Spike little pff form the side. "What? You disagree?
"Didn't say a word luv." Spiked baked away not wanting to get into this discussion.
"Don't call me luv, and you did say something. So spill. You think Willow's dangerous?"
"She's- not. Her magic- hell yeah."
"I can't believe..."
"Hey there's Cordy and Angel!" Dawn cut off Buffy with her little declaration. "Cordy!" Dawn ran over to her. Buffy couldn't understand why she was so attached to Cordelia.
The group came close to the couple that seemed to be in the middle of something. Everyone noticed, except Dawn, that is.
"Hey." Cordy welcomed the interruption, not like Angel, who now remembered why he wanted to go some place quite.
"Are we interrupting? We are aren't we?" Buffy smiled a half smile. "Sorry we'll be out of your way." She grabbed Dawn's hand a tried dragging her away.
**Oh no, you're my lifesaver. You can't go not yet. Do something Cordy! Make them stay.** "Hey, you guys are not bothering us at all." That was enough for Dawn who brushed Buffy off.
"Great, now we can all hang together." Dawn grabbed Cordy's hand and dragged towards the stores.
They looked like an odd group of people walking down the street. Fred and Gunn held hands and couldn't stop staring at Angel & Cordy. They knew something was up, they just didn't know what. Dawn kept dragging Cordy from one store to the other. While Buffy and Angel had a little chat of their own.
"So did you enjoy your walk? That is until we came along." Buffy asked Angel who seemed preoccupied.
"What? Sorry, didn't get that." He couldn't stop thinking about Cordy.
"Never mind. And speaking of mind yours seems to be away. Why is that?" Buffy had to ask. She could feel Spike staring at her and Angel, trying to listen in on every word they said. She wanted to laugh but decided to hold it in.
"There's a lot going on." He replied.
"And yet, somehow I don't think that's the reason. I thought you'd be happy that Cordelia's back?" Buffy saw him this morning, he was happy.
"Its nothing really." He brushed it off, no wiling to share.
"Okay I won't push. But if you need someone to talk to..."
"Thank you." He said with a smile, God how she loved that smile.
"Cordy?" Angel called out to her.
"Yeah." She turned around to see his angry stare looking back at her.
"Can you come here for a second?"
"But we were just looking at some dresses." She wanted to avoid talking to him.
"Cor?" He raised his voice a bit. Now Gunn & Fred knew for certain something was up.
"Sure." She sighed and walked towards him. He stopped walking and told the rest to go on, promising they'll catch up with them later.
"Hey, what's up?" She played it cool.
"You tell me? What with the hide & sick?" He was angry.
"I told I didn't want to talk about it."
"Well you'll have to." He pushed on.
"I'm not keeping something from you, and even if I did, that's my Prerogative." Cordy thought that sounded convincing.
"Why are you acting like a five years old? Did you bump your head on your way back to our time?" He mocked her.
"Uh you little..." Now she was pissed. "I'm not talking to you." She turned her back to him and started walking away.
"Oh no you don't." He went after her and grabbed her arm. Forcing her to turn.
"Let go of me!" She yelled at him.
"Not until you start acting your age." He held on.
"I'm 21 I can act which age I please to. Now let go!" She tried shaking him off.
"Cordy!" He tried calming her down hoping she won't cause a scene, knowing she would.
"I promise you I'll scream so loud you'll go deaf." She gnashed her teeth. "Angel I'm not kidding. Let go of me right now!" She was serious this time she had enough. If she didn't want to tell him that's her right and there's nothing he can do about it, except frown, which he did already.
"Fine." He let go of her arm. "But can you please talk to me and tell me what's wrong?"
"Why do you always assume, something is wrong? Why can't you believe me when I tell you it's all in your head? There's nothing going on." She tried one more time.
"Don't insult my intelligence." He looked at her in fear. He was afraid for her. He knew she was hiding something big and that something scared him.
"Okay, maybe I left something out. But it's insignificant." She admitted
"Tell me." He was glad she was opening up to him.
"You remember the series of visions I had before we came to Sunnydale?"
"Yeah." He nodded.
"I don't think they had anything to do with the Magistrate. I think they were about the Dorkanious all along. I believe the Magistrate just happened to come along at the same time, but the real reason the Powers sent us here was for the Dorkanious." She explained.
"Are you sure?" Angel asked.
"Yeah pretty much. After my little mind traveling, things became clearer."
"We have to tell Wes and Giles, they need to know." Angel thought it was important.
"I don't see the urgency. There's nothing in those visions that can help us. I learned more from my last vision that I ever learned from them. Until now I thought they belonged to some other demon." Cordy didn't really feel it meant that much, but she didn't mind Angel getting all worked up about it. At least now he'll back off and she won't have to tell him what she really saw in the other Cordelia's mind.
"Come one. Let's head back to the house and tell the others." He grabbed her hand and they walked away. "Cor?" She looked at him. "I'm sorry I acted like a jerk, I was just worried about you, that's all."
"I know Angel I know." She smiled, feeling bad inside for deceiving him.
"Cor?"
"What? Did you say something?"
"I asked if you wanted some ice cream? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine sweetie, just fine."
TBC
Hi ppl,
I know these couples of chapters are a bit weak, but they're important, I promise.
I posted this ch differently so you can see all the punctuation marks. So check it out and tell me what you prefer, this one or the others.
By the way when you see in the story this mark ** it means I'm writing someone's thoughts.
Thank you for reviewing. Hope you'll enjoy this ch, and that you'll review it more than you did the last one. Its not that I have to get reviews, its just that its nice to know that people read my story, and reviews are the only way for me to know that, so please review.
Thanks Nikka. Enjoy.