Connor swung at the big vampire with force. The vampire ducked and hit him. "Run!" he shouted at the girl that he had beaten th vampire away from.
She got up and dusted off her jeans with a slightly annoyed look on her fair face. She then grabbed the stake that Connor had unintentionally dropped, and threw it so hard it penetrated the vampire's flesh, then heart.
Connor watched in amazement as the vampire crumbled, then exploded into dust with a whoosh of air.
"Nice throw." Connor commented. The girl tossed her blonde hair and picked up the black duffel bag she had dropped.
"Thanks, I've been working on it." She slung the duffel bag over her shoulder.
"I should walk you home." Connor stepped forward to prevent her from passing.
"Fine by me." She shrugged.
"By the way, my name's Melody." She brushed past him.
He hurried to walk beside her. "I'm Connor."
"Nice to meet you, do you always go a-saving pretty girls like that, and then walk them home hoping for a chance to score?" She smirked.
"It's the vampires, we have a history." Connor explained.
"Say what?" She looked mildly confused.
"Long story."
She shrugged.
"I have time."
Connor shook his head.
"You wouldn't understand."
She threw an annoyed look at him.
"Like being part demon makes me oblivious to the Vampire world?"
Connor looked suprised.
"Part demon?"
"I was planning on taking that vamp back there out on my own, but you had to interfere. You with Angel Investigations?"
Connor nodded.
"Figures. Then let me guess your history. You are Angel and Darla's son, you were the product of 2 vampires, which is, in other cases, virtually impossible, so by unwritten law you shouldn't be here. You were kidnapped by one of Angel's friends, who thought that he was going to kill you, his souce being a false prophecy. You were then taken from him by a woman, and told that he was your father. He then took a chance by leaving the woman, and jumping through a portal to Quor'toth, where he raised you in only a couple of Earth months, then he made a way he was certain you'd find to get out of the dimension. You did find it, landing right in the middle of Angel's hotel, where the Investigations are based, trying to kill Angel, but failing, you fight your way out and flee the scene, riding on the top of a bus, not the way most people ride the bus, but, you come across a drug dealer and a runaway, the drug dealer threatens the runaway, you go in and save the day, and almost get rewarded for your actions, but the girl ends up ODing, and Angel saves your butt from the police, taking a bullet for you."
Connor was speechless. "How do you know all of that?"
Melody looked away mysteriously.
"I have more sources than you could track in a year, and I know how well you can track." Melody looked at Connor. There was a look of shock on his face.
"Don't look like that, you knew that you couldn't hide, and eventually you'd meet someone who knew all of this other than the Angel Investigations crew, I have more powers than you can ever imagine having. Comes with the demony-ness." "But like all demons and half-demons you have a tendency to talk too much." Connor interrupted her.
"I don't usually talk this much." She corrected him.
They made their way up to a white house with shocking red trim.
"Here's my foster-parent's house, do you mind coming in, I have a nasty feeling about this." She pulled up the fake-flowers in the window-box and pulled out a key. She replaced the blue flowers with care and stuck the key in the top lock. The door swung open soundlessly.
"Mmmmhhmm." She sounded satisfied.
She pushed the door open and looked around. Everything seemed to be in order to Connor, other than the massive blood spatters on the beige carpet. As he moved into the living room more he could see that the furniture had been overturned, and the place ransacked.
"Looks like the kind of carnage a demon would make, judging by the symbol on the floor back there."
Connor looked back, he hadn't realized it was a symbol until now. He could make out that it was supposed to be vaguely a crescent, although it then went up the stairs.
"I'd better get out of here, I'm the type of person that the police dont want to find at the scene."
She peeked around the corner before entering the kitchen, where on the counter sat a hugely fat cat.
"Come Selena Love, we have to go now."
The cat jumped into her arms, as if it understood her. Melody set the cat down and reached for a carrier on top of the cupboards, trying in vain to get it without any help. She finally decided to get a step-ladder to aid her lack of height. She handed the carrier to Connor, who set it on the floor, and put his hands on her waist to steady her. She stepped down and smiled at him out of the corner of her eye. Connor moved her hair back away from her neck. Melody gently tried to pull away, but Connor held her, trying just a little harder than she was.
"Tss, later." She whispered. She pulled away this time, and left Connor with the cat. The cat watched him with an unwavering gaze.
The cat knows. He thought with a shiver. The cat nodded, as if to say yes. Connor shook his head, realizing the thought was absurd, but he looked at the cat again to make sure he hadn't been seeing things. The cat was licking her paw noncholantly.
Melody returned a second later with her duffel bag, and another carrier.
"She has been teasing you, hasn't she?" she asked Connor.
Connor's eyes widened slightly. "I didn't know she could."
Melody shrugged. "She isn't a normal cat, as you migh've guessed."
Connor looked at her suspiciously.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Melody shrugged. "Whatever you think it means."
Connor was temporarily speechless. Melody grabbed s few bills out of a jar on top of the refrigerator.
"I suppose I'll head to the nearest Motel, maybe I'll see you again." She picked up the cat in one carrier and the cat stuff in the other carrier, along with her duffel.
"Wait. Angel Investigations works out of a hotel, I'm sure there are extra rooms, you could stay there."
Melody looked hopeful. "I- I guess."
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Connor helped Melody off the bus in front of the hotel. Cordelia rushed out.
"Do you know what..." She trailed off when she saw Melody.
"Who's this?"
"She staked a vampire for me, so I walked her home.." Connor's story was cut off by Melody.
"And it turns out my 3rd foster family was killed by the same race demons that killed the others." The way she said it was matter-of-fact.
"Then come in!" Cordy exclaimed.
"We'll get you a room."
Melody smiled at her.
"Thanks."
Connor followed the girls into the hotel. Angel was suprisingly swayed by Melody's story, and Cordy headed upstairs with her. But Angel wasn't done with Melody.
"She staked her own vampire?" Connor nodded.
"Yes."
"And she's completely human?"
Angel was incredulus.
"She's part demon, and she can talk alot." The peices fit together in Angel's head now.
"You like her?"
Angel watched Connor, and Connor stared back levelly.
"I never said that."
Cordy came down the stairs.
"She is settling in now. I think she was really shocked by her foster-family's death." Connor shook his head and headed upstairs, hearing Cordy and Angel discuss business. The last words he heard from Cordy were "They'll be in bed by midnight."
Connor turned the doorknob of his room, feeling the familiarity of it. He walked over to his bed and took off his shirt.
"Now why did you go and do that? I could've done it for you."
Connor didn't show his suprise.
"Less work for you."
Melody was suddenly right in front of him. She placed her hands on his chest lightly.
"You better have stamina boy."
She playfully toyed with him, nipping at his ear. Connor's door opened, and Lorne poked his head in.
"Not tonight kids, get to bed."
Melody rolled her eyes, and followed Lorne out.
She got up and dusted off her jeans with a slightly annoyed look on her fair face. She then grabbed the stake that Connor had unintentionally dropped, and threw it so hard it penetrated the vampire's flesh, then heart.
Connor watched in amazement as the vampire crumbled, then exploded into dust with a whoosh of air.
"Nice throw." Connor commented. The girl tossed her blonde hair and picked up the black duffel bag she had dropped.
"Thanks, I've been working on it." She slung the duffel bag over her shoulder.
"I should walk you home." Connor stepped forward to prevent her from passing.
"Fine by me." She shrugged.
"By the way, my name's Melody." She brushed past him.
He hurried to walk beside her. "I'm Connor."
"Nice to meet you, do you always go a-saving pretty girls like that, and then walk them home hoping for a chance to score?" She smirked.
"It's the vampires, we have a history." Connor explained.
"Say what?" She looked mildly confused.
"Long story."
She shrugged.
"I have time."
Connor shook his head.
"You wouldn't understand."
She threw an annoyed look at him.
"Like being part demon makes me oblivious to the Vampire world?"
Connor looked suprised.
"Part demon?"
"I was planning on taking that vamp back there out on my own, but you had to interfere. You with Angel Investigations?"
Connor nodded.
"Figures. Then let me guess your history. You are Angel and Darla's son, you were the product of 2 vampires, which is, in other cases, virtually impossible, so by unwritten law you shouldn't be here. You were kidnapped by one of Angel's friends, who thought that he was going to kill you, his souce being a false prophecy. You were then taken from him by a woman, and told that he was your father. He then took a chance by leaving the woman, and jumping through a portal to Quor'toth, where he raised you in only a couple of Earth months, then he made a way he was certain you'd find to get out of the dimension. You did find it, landing right in the middle of Angel's hotel, where the Investigations are based, trying to kill Angel, but failing, you fight your way out and flee the scene, riding on the top of a bus, not the way most people ride the bus, but, you come across a drug dealer and a runaway, the drug dealer threatens the runaway, you go in and save the day, and almost get rewarded for your actions, but the girl ends up ODing, and Angel saves your butt from the police, taking a bullet for you."
Connor was speechless. "How do you know all of that?"
Melody looked away mysteriously.
"I have more sources than you could track in a year, and I know how well you can track." Melody looked at Connor. There was a look of shock on his face.
"Don't look like that, you knew that you couldn't hide, and eventually you'd meet someone who knew all of this other than the Angel Investigations crew, I have more powers than you can ever imagine having. Comes with the demony-ness." "But like all demons and half-demons you have a tendency to talk too much." Connor interrupted her.
"I don't usually talk this much." She corrected him.
They made their way up to a white house with shocking red trim.
"Here's my foster-parent's house, do you mind coming in, I have a nasty feeling about this." She pulled up the fake-flowers in the window-box and pulled out a key. She replaced the blue flowers with care and stuck the key in the top lock. The door swung open soundlessly.
"Mmmmhhmm." She sounded satisfied.
She pushed the door open and looked around. Everything seemed to be in order to Connor, other than the massive blood spatters on the beige carpet. As he moved into the living room more he could see that the furniture had been overturned, and the place ransacked.
"Looks like the kind of carnage a demon would make, judging by the symbol on the floor back there."
Connor looked back, he hadn't realized it was a symbol until now. He could make out that it was supposed to be vaguely a crescent, although it then went up the stairs.
"I'd better get out of here, I'm the type of person that the police dont want to find at the scene."
She peeked around the corner before entering the kitchen, where on the counter sat a hugely fat cat.
"Come Selena Love, we have to go now."
The cat jumped into her arms, as if it understood her. Melody set the cat down and reached for a carrier on top of the cupboards, trying in vain to get it without any help. She finally decided to get a step-ladder to aid her lack of height. She handed the carrier to Connor, who set it on the floor, and put his hands on her waist to steady her. She stepped down and smiled at him out of the corner of her eye. Connor moved her hair back away from her neck. Melody gently tried to pull away, but Connor held her, trying just a little harder than she was.
"Tss, later." She whispered. She pulled away this time, and left Connor with the cat. The cat watched him with an unwavering gaze.
The cat knows. He thought with a shiver. The cat nodded, as if to say yes. Connor shook his head, realizing the thought was absurd, but he looked at the cat again to make sure he hadn't been seeing things. The cat was licking her paw noncholantly.
Melody returned a second later with her duffel bag, and another carrier.
"She has been teasing you, hasn't she?" she asked Connor.
Connor's eyes widened slightly. "I didn't know she could."
Melody shrugged. "She isn't a normal cat, as you migh've guessed."
Connor looked at her suspiciously.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Melody shrugged. "Whatever you think it means."
Connor was temporarily speechless. Melody grabbed s few bills out of a jar on top of the refrigerator.
"I suppose I'll head to the nearest Motel, maybe I'll see you again." She picked up the cat in one carrier and the cat stuff in the other carrier, along with her duffel.
"Wait. Angel Investigations works out of a hotel, I'm sure there are extra rooms, you could stay there."
Melody looked hopeful. "I- I guess."
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Connor helped Melody off the bus in front of the hotel. Cordelia rushed out.
"Do you know what..." She trailed off when she saw Melody.
"Who's this?"
"She staked a vampire for me, so I walked her home.." Connor's story was cut off by Melody.
"And it turns out my 3rd foster family was killed by the same race demons that killed the others." The way she said it was matter-of-fact.
"Then come in!" Cordy exclaimed.
"We'll get you a room."
Melody smiled at her.
"Thanks."
Connor followed the girls into the hotel. Angel was suprisingly swayed by Melody's story, and Cordy headed upstairs with her. But Angel wasn't done with Melody.
"She staked her own vampire?" Connor nodded.
"Yes."
"And she's completely human?"
Angel was incredulus.
"She's part demon, and she can talk alot." The peices fit together in Angel's head now.
"You like her?"
Angel watched Connor, and Connor stared back levelly.
"I never said that."
Cordy came down the stairs.
"She is settling in now. I think she was really shocked by her foster-family's death." Connor shook his head and headed upstairs, hearing Cordy and Angel discuss business. The last words he heard from Cordy were "They'll be in bed by midnight."
Connor turned the doorknob of his room, feeling the familiarity of it. He walked over to his bed and took off his shirt.
"Now why did you go and do that? I could've done it for you."
Connor didn't show his suprise.
"Less work for you."
Melody was suddenly right in front of him. She placed her hands on his chest lightly.
"You better have stamina boy."
She playfully toyed with him, nipping at his ear. Connor's door opened, and Lorne poked his head in.
"Not tonight kids, get to bed."
Melody rolled her eyes, and followed Lorne out.