Chapter Two



Author's Note: This is a mild Days of Our Lives crossover, only because Kelso's angel is one of the characters that was recently killed off by the Salem Stalker. And it's also a little AU, so let's just say that Cassie died in the 70's, not in the 21st century.



Kelso could see the bright light through his closed eyelids. He groaned, not wanting to open his eyes. How long had he been sleeping? He rolled over and threw one of his pillows at the light switch, hoping by some miracle he had managed to hit the switch so that it turned off. He had never had very good aim.

"Who turned on the god damn light?" he grumbled, finally opening his eyes. After a few moments, he was able to adjust to the brilliant white light. He saw a girl standing in front of him and blinked twice, sure he was imagining her. But she was still there after those two blinks and he was so startled, he fell off his bed.

"Hello, Michael." she smiled softly at him.

"How do you know my name?" he sputtered, "I don't even know you. Man, I know I'm attractive but that's no reason to start stalking me!"

She shook her head and eyed him with disdain. That was when Kelso realized there was something unearthly about her. She was dressed in a long, white, glittery gown. She was definitely hot, though. Her hair fell in reddish-brown waves over her shoulders and her eyes were a warm, brown colour. Not to mention he had the nicest body he had seen since Jackie Berkhart. What was weird, was that there was a filmy, white light surrounding her, it was like it was coming from her. Kelso didn't care though, he was too busy undressing her with his eyes.

"I know what you're thinking and stop it." she ordered him in a haughty voice, "You aren't supposed to think about your guardian angel in terms of sex. It's not allowed."

"My guardian angel?" Kelso laughed at the idea, "Do I really have one of those?"

"Yes," she answered immediately, "Everyone does. You had a different guardian angel before, but they got fed up with your stupidity and found someone else to watch over. Since I was so new to heaven, I got stuck with you. It's not that bad though, at least I also get to be my brother's guardian angel too."

"That's a lie," he argued, "I'm too sexy for that to be possible. No angel would ever turn me away. And I NOT stupid!"

"No, you're not. You're hormones are just in overdrive and it's affecting your intelligence," she softened after saying that, "God, I'm starting to sound like Rex. Anyways, I don't mind being your angel because I was in a difficult situation very similar to the one you're in now."

"What was the situation? And who the hell is Rex?" he questioned.

"I came to Salem and everyone thought my twin brother, Rex and I were aliens. Then they found out we were Marlena and Tony's children." she smiled bitterly, "I couldn't have asked for better parents. But Rex did some tests on our DNA and found out that Roman and Kate were our biological parents. It's like with you and finding out that you had a different father all these years."

"Oh," he said dully, remembering the pain he had been feeling before Cassie had appeared. Not even a sexy guardian angel like Cassie could numb that ache inside for long.

She shook her head sadly, "You had a good life, Michael. If only you had stuck around and tried to sort things out with your parents instead of backing out. Now it's too late."

"What do you mean it's too late?" Kelso's voice rose a notch higher than usual, "Can't I still go in there and try to sort it out?"

"Actually, you can't." she responded, "You made a wish. I am here to grant you that wish. And thanks to you making such a stupid wish, I can't even go visit my brother tonight."

"So, I'm dead?" he shrieked, feeling more scared than he had in a long time, "You killed me, didn't you? I thought angels aren't supposed to be allowed to kill people!"

"I didn't kill you," Cassie snapped, "You never existed."

"Um.... what?" Kelso said dumbly, not noticing the disgusted look on Cassie's face.

"You made a wish that you were never born." she reminded him, "Therefore, you no longer exist. You never have."

Kelso opened his mouth to argue, but then he remembered. His parents, Casey, Jackie, Laurie, Hyde............ none of them really seemed to care about him.

"I guess it's better this way." he mumbled not looking at her, "No one really wanted me around anyway."

Cassie took his hand in her own and he felt the ultimate feeling of warmth and lightness from her touch.

"Come on," she said, "Let's see what life was like with you around."

Suddenly, his bedroom dissolved into nothing. He was then in Forman's basement. He saw himself, making out with Jackie on the couch. He saw Fez, Hyde and Eric all near the couch, talking quietly and throwing little conspiratorial grins in he and Jackie's direction.

"What are they doing?" he asked curiously.

"They're making bets on what day you guys will start fighting." Cassie told him, "Remember? Then you found out about the bet and said you wished you could have gotten in on the bet?"

"Yeah," Kelso pouted slightly at the memory, "They didn't have any right to exclude me."

Cassie rolled her eyes and took his hand again, "Let's go look at something else."

The light flashed so that he couldn't see for a second. Then he was back in a much more dimly lit version of the basement. He saw himself and Laurie cuddling, his own face barely visible in the dim light.

"Kelso, I've been thinking." she told him, running one finger up and down his chest, "I like you a lot and I want to have a relationship with you."

Kelso watched as he hesitated before answering Laurie, "That would be great Laurie, but I've already got one of those with Jackie." before Kelso could watch what happened next, Cassie took his hand and moved him into another scene.

"Hey!" Kelso yelped, infuriated, "Can you slow down please?"

"We don't have much time." Cassie gestured at himself and Donna in the driveway, "Just watch."

Donna's face was streaked with tears. Her words and his words suddenly came out in a big jumble and Kelso couldn't make out what they were saying. But Kelso remembered this night. It was the night he and Donna ran away to California.

Then he was in Donna's bedroom. Eric lay on the bed, a regretful and tired look on his face. He shifted on Donna's bed and Kelso heard him say something.

"You'll be back soon, Donna." he murmured softly, "And once you do, I'll tell you that I love you and that I never want to let you go." Kelso watched as his eyes closed and as he seemed to drift off to sleep.

Cassie reached for his hand again. They were in an almost pitch black room, "Just to let you know, it's now been three days since you left." she whispered. Kelso eyes adjusted to the lack of light and he saw Jackie in the bed. He was surprised to see tears streaming down her pale cheeks. She clutched a stuffed unicorn to her chest and she was rolling around the bed, moaning loudly.

"Michael!" Kelso started when she moaned his own name in a sleepy, tearful voice, "Michael, don't leave me. I love you. I love you......."

"Jackie, I'm so sorry." his own eyes become full with unshed tears. His hand moved down to stroke her arm but he jerked back when his hand went right through her ivory skin.

Jackie's face suddenly faded away and he was back in his own room. Cassie was glaring at him.

"You hurt so many people!" she exclaimed, "You had so much time on Earth to experience life. I spent almost my whole life trapped on some island in a cage. And when I did escape, I made the most of the life I had. You wasted so much time acting like an idiot. And then you go and throw away your life when some people would love to still be on Earth alive." she broke off and Kelso could hear her sobbing.

"Gee, I'm sorry, Cassie." he said, "I didn't mean to upset you." he reached over to hug her.

"It's not your fault." she told him, trying to stop crying, "I just get so emotional sometimes. It wasn't my time to go."

"How did you die?" Kelso asked curiously, tact definitely not one of his strong points.

"I was murdered." she admitted, touching his skin once more, "I can show you."

"Okay." Kelso took a deep breath. Before he knew what was happening, he was standing near a small crowd of people. They were all watching some little kids wack a giant pinata. Suddenly the pinata began dripping with a thick, red substance.

"It looks like the pinata's bleeding." one little girl cried. A chubby man in a pilgrim costume took the bat from the boy and banged on the pinata for a final time. Kelso gasped along with the rest of the people there as a bloody body fell through the pinata. He recognized the bloody, cut up body as Cassie's. He noticed a woman standing nearby with a bloody knife in her hand.

"That's my mom." Cassie seemed to be able to read his thoughts, "She didn't kill me though. I knew who the killer was. I made the mistake of telling them I knew before I could get to the police station. Then they ambushed me and killed me."

"I-I- God!" Kelso exclaimed, not knowing what to say to comfort her. One question kept popping up in his thoughts and he had to ask her.

"What's the worst part of being dead?" he asked.

She just stared at him for a moment, "Besides the fact that it wasn't my time to go, it would have to be that I died a virgin."

"You're kidding!" he stared at her incredulously, feeling even sorrier for her than he had before.

"Nope," she laughed a harsh laugh, "I really wanted to have sex with a guy though. I tried so hard but I just had the worst taste in guys." she suddenly pointed to a man a little older than they were, with dark brown hair and eyes, "See him? That's Lucas Roberts. I almost did it with him."

"You're kidding." Kelso noted the horrified look on Lucas's face as he stared at Cassie's bloody body, "Why didn't you go all the way with him? He's really hot. I mean, for a guy." he added quickly.

"He turned out to be my half-brother." she confessed, watching as the look on Kelso's face turn to disgust, "But Rex walked in on us before we could go all the way. But enough about me. I'm here to deal with you, not give you my life story. I just get really carried away sometimes."

"What's going to happen to me now?" Kelso wondered out loud, looking to Cassie for an answer.

"I'm going to take you back to Point Place." Cassie told him, "I'll show you what life was like for all your friends now that you aren't around. But you probably aren't going to like it." she warned Kelso.

"They can't be any worse off now than they were when I was around." Kelso shot back, extending her hand so she could take it.

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Cassie said softly as Kelso prepared himself for the sites that he would soon see.