Fred, Angela and Wesley are pointing guns at Cordelia. "All this time it was you, wasn't it?" Angel asked.
"Took you long enough to figure it out but nice turn with the Lorne bait. You know, there was a time I would've seen that one coming eons before it ever crossed your tiny little mind." Cordy replied.
"Because you're so clever." Angel said sarcastically.
"On the scale of you to me, pretty damn." She grimaced.
"Until now." Angel said.
"All good things." She sighed. "So, what finally tipped off the great detective?"
"Tongue, slip of." Angel replied, ""My sweet." Same phrase the Beastmaster kept using when he was whispering in Angelus's head. Thought it was a bit femme for the booming macho act."
"That's it? I get away with bringing the world down around you and two eentsy words tingle your spider sense?" Cordelia asked.
"What we already knew. What he found out as Angelus. All the circumstantial led to you." Wesley explained.
"Just needed to be sure." Angel smiled.
"Little late to the table, but I might have a few scraps left." Cordy told them.
"Why are you doing this, Cordy?" Fred asked.
"This thing isn't Cordelia." Angel blurted.
She smiled and shook her head, "Is that what you think, hero?"
"She would never hurt her friends like this." Angel told her.
"Or maybe you just don't know me very well." Cordy said.
He walked up to Cordelia, "I don't want to know you." He growled.
Cordelia tried to pull a knife on Angel, but he grabbed her wrist, averting her. With his other hand, he grabbed her neck, choking her. "Where's Cordelia?" He growled through gritted teeth.
Just then, Connor jumped through the glass roof, landing near Angel and Cordelia. "Connor, wait! Cordy's not what you think." Angel tried to explain.
Angel reached for Connor, but Connor just pushed him away hard, throwing Angel into Wesley. Lorne tried to shoot Connor with the tranquilizer gun, but misses. Connor kicked Lorne to the ground. Fred aims her tranq gun at Connor, but Connor grabbed her hand, redirecting the dart toward Angel as he tries to stand. Angel kicked Conner's arm knocking his balance off. "Bring it Junior." She growled.
Connor wanted to swing back but he reached his hand to Cordelia, "Come on!" Cordelia took his hand.
"Excuse me, but hell naw…" Angela said pulling up her own tranq gun about the size of a 9mm.
"Who's the bitch?" Cordy asked as Connor tried to get the gun from her.
"I should be really asking you." Angela growled just before she fired the gun, trying to get Connor off of it. Angel, however, wasn't doing so well because the tranquilzers were starting to take effect.
"What…" He fell to his knees, "are... you?" He fell forward, landing face down on the floor.
"Angel!" Angela exclaimed as she elbowed Connor in the nose, she knocked Connor and Cordelia halfway across the basement and rushed to Angel's side. After Angel collapsed, the "Magic 8 Ball" rolled to its side—the triangle inside reads "Ask Again Later."
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Gunn walked into the lobby where Angel, Fred, Angela Wesley, and Lorne are. Gunn read his pager, "Sorry, just got your message. Being close to Electric Gwen can really screw your equipment. What..." He looked up from his pager at the gang, "the hell happened to you?"
Fred looked over at him, holding an ice pack to her face, "Cordy's evil. Nice suit."
"It's not Cordy." Angel corrected her.
"We don't know that for certain." Wesley replied.
"Whoa. Back it up for the new guy." He put his pager back in his pocket. "You saying popping mama threw you a beating? What about you Angela, you don't look so bad?"
"Had to make sure everyone was okay…I'll get that little bitch, and her whooped lil' boyfriend too. They pissed me off, and that's something you just don't do." Angela explained.
"Kid Vicious did the heavy lifting. Cordy just mwa-ha-ha'd at us." Lorne explained just before sipping his drink.
"Why?" Gunn asked.
"Beastmaster." Angel replied.
"You think she's working for him?" Gunn asked.
"She is the Master." Wesley informed him.
"Guy steps out for a few hours, half the place goes super-villain." He said, then sitting beside Lorne.
"Conner's not a part of this." Angel said.
"Evidence upside my head to the contrary." Lorne replied.
"He's just... confused... again." Angel sighed.
"Now we know what she's been doing with him all this time. She was grooming him..." Fred began.
"...as her champion." Wesley finished.
"She's the evil genius that's been two-stepping all over us." Gunn shook his head, "How? And when?" He then took Lorne's drink from his hands, "Give me a sip of that." He then took a drink.
"Hey!" Lorne exclaimed.
"Has she been like this since she got back from that higher wherever?" Angela asked.
"What about that amnesia thing? Was that a fake-out?" Gunn asked.
"Or a side effect. Descending to a lower dimension was probably disorienting." Wesley explained.
"Or maybe this thing was curled deep inside for the trip on some kind of, you know, autopilot. Look, all we know for sure is that the real damage didn't start until after Lorne's spell." Angel said.
They all thought for a moment, Angela thought of what her brother had told her… "Oh, my God. We woke it up." Fred thought aloud.
"That's what I read. That's what Wolfram and Hart sucked out of my noodle. It wasn't Cordelia's future. It was the smacker-jack surprise." Lorne realized.
"Damn thing's been playing us right from the start." Gunn said.
"From the inside... where it could do the most damage. Everything the Beast couldn't have done, it was this thing…" Angel said, "Spiked my blood at Gwen's. Snuck into the vault, killed Manny."
"Wait a minute. When Gwen and I came in, faux Cordy didn't have any blood on its clothes. How'd it abracadabra that?" Gunn asked.
"Lizzie Borden. It wasn't wearing any." Wesley figured.
"Stripped down, then gave Manny forty whacks." Angel finished.
"Quick sponge down in the sink, and-" Gunn began.
"Voila. Shower-fresh murder." Lorne finished.
"Taking out the Svear priestess was a lot easier. Slip out while the heroes are chasing their tails...and slaughter the only hope of banishing her pet Beast. While everyone was reeling from that failure, it was making sure my soul was off the market."
"And the vision of the spell to re-ensoul you?" Fred asked.
"Misdirection…Getting everyone to look over here while the real action was happening over there." Angel explained.
"That explains why my mojo's been gunked up. Queen Bee-atch put the whammy on me." Lorne said angrily.
"And it let the monster out of the box… More misdirection, more blood, all designed to keep us off balance." Angel said.
"It was Cordelia. She murdered Lilah." Wesley said.
"We don't know if it's really Cordy." Angel said.
"Or what she's got baking in her oven." Angela added.
"Evil and pregnant? I'm guessing it ain't cookies." Gunn replied.
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(Author's Note: Okay, so as you all probably have noticed that the past couple chapters haven't been very original, but so basically instead of typing the WHOLE thing all over until I get to the end I'll just tell you what happens. If I do it this way it will be more original…Okay so basically the whole episode (Inside Out) happens until the end when Angel goes to kill Cordy, Well Angela goes with him. And when she sees Jasmine, she's a little less than perfectly happy. So I continue with my lil fanfic now and I hope you enjoy it!! Xoxo Charli)
"You're beautiful," Angel said dropping to his knees in front of her.
Angela looked at him in confusion, "Angel…get up." She commanded, but he did nothing.
Connor and Cordelia's baby (or not so much of a baby) looked at Angela, "I've come to bring peace, don't be afraid of change Angela, I am going to make everything better for everyone." She smiled warmly.
"Yeah, sure you will and I'm the queen of England." Angela said sarcastically.
"Now Angela, there is no reason for such tone. I'm here to make everything better," She smiled.
"Like hell, and I came here all the way from England to get a manicure. I know why you are here, to make everything worse." Angela grimaced.
"Angela, please, give me a chance, I can fix everything." She pleaded.
"Why do you care so much?" Angela asked, they all heard someone come in. "Because to you I'm just another dead body? Or am I?" She continued.
A tall, tan man stepped up beside Angela, he was wearing a white tank top, very baggy blue jeans and Timberlands. "Of course you aren't, she doesn't want you against her, that is why you matter so much." He told Angela. He had very green eyes and light brown hair, he was mucley and had really white teeth. "You know what though Angela?"
"What Jaden?" She asked.
"It seems like, she doesn't want you on my side…you are to important to her and she doesn't want to have to kill you because she knows what will happen." Jaden replied.
"I'm sorry that you are lost… Angela, you don't want to be on his side, He is trying to fool you. He has been ever since you first met." Connor and Cordy's child said. She reached out at tried to touch Angela, but she jerked back and flung her sword at her hand cutting it off. "That wasn't necessary." She growled.
Angel jumped up, "Oh my God are you alright? Angela how could you? She is perfect…Come on sweetie let's get you to the hospital." Angel said.
"Angel, I'll be alright." She smiled warmly, as her hand began to grow back. "Angela, I'm surprised, you seemed so welcoming."
"Things aren't always what they seem." Angela grimaced. She looked at Jaden, he stared at what was, but wasn't, Cordelia and Connor's baby. He tore his eyes away from her as the two of them darted out of the abandoned warehouse.
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Just after they were halfway down the street Jaden and Angela stopped running. She looked up at him, "Jay, we gotta get to Wesley before it does.
"Might be a wise chose." He agreed. "How much more we gotta run?" He asked.
"Not a whole lot." She replied and with that they took off again.
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Angel looked at her as she walked in-between himself and Connor, "You need a name." He smiled.
She looked around the enormous city as the three of them walked down the street. She inhaled deeply and smelled flowers in a garden beside the sidewalk. "What is that wonderful smell?" She asked.
Angel looked at the big bush of jasmines, "Jasmines." Angel smiled.
"Why don't you call me that? They smell so wonderful." She breathed in deeply. She smiled at Angel as the turned the corner where Angel Investigations sat. Connor saw Jaden and Angela running toward the main entrance.
They reached the gate before Connor, Angel and Jasmine did. Angela and Jaden burst through the front gate and then through the main entrance where Wesley, Fred, Gunn, and Lorne sat or stood waiting. "Out the back door." Angela commanded looking at her twin brother.
"Why?" he asked as Connor, Angel and Jasmine walked through the front gate and started toward the main door.
"All of you now unless you want to die." Jaden said as he followed Angela toward the back exit. Fred, Wesley, and Lorne started following with Gunn in the back. Angela and Jaden heard the door start to open.
"Don't look just run." Angela said as she let the four of the run out the back exit.
Jaden looked at Angela before leaving, "I'm not leaving you." He told her.
"You have to I'll catch up before long." She commanded him, shoving him out the door. Angela slammed the door and glared at Angel, Connor and Jasmine.
"Who told you that you were all high and mighty?" Connor asked angrily as he punched in the glass in the weapons cabinet and snatched a sword.
(A/N 2: Hoped ya like it, there will be more soon. xoxo Charli)