Chapter Thirteen ~ Try, Try Again
It was as if the world seemed to stand still. All the evil in the world appeared irrelevant. Nothing mattered but this single solitary moment. It was uplifting, childish and full of power. Then really seemed to come back to the two 'unfortunate' teenagers.
Rowena's eyes were the first to open, and then William's followed suit. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Rowena's face twisted in disgust and she started to cough.
"Yew hairball!" she hacked hard until a small ball of hair the size of a peanut came out of her mouth.
If she could have seen William blush through his fur, he would have been bright red.
"Umm - sorry"
He re-closed his eyes and concentrated on being normal and the thought came to he that Rowena had seen him in his human form yet. Oh lord she had fallen for him when he was a feline and not human! Maybe he did have a chance to be with someone after all! He forced the human part of him to surface, but kept a firm grip on the demon that had claim to it.
Rowena watched William while he changed. It was almost morbidly fascinating. He was handsome as a human, nearly forgetting that he was half vampire. That face looked so familiar, like something she had once seen in a dream but couldn't place it. When he was finished changing, the pale teenage boy lifted his gaze to her and blushed. A silly grin spread across his face and he hung his head again in embarrassment.
"Sorry about that, but I assure you that I don't have rabies" he said quietly.
She started to giggle and then was full out laughing. Rowena thought this was hilarious.
"Could you help me up please?" she snickered through gasps of breath.
He got up and helped her to her feet. As if fate had said it was meant to happen, they kissed again. But this time was for real. They just stood there and would have stood there longer if it wasn't for the bedroom door opening and to revile Darcy Osbourne standing there with his mouth hanging open on its hinges.
"Yew! Yew! Yew!"
That was defiantly too much for the ten-year-old werewolf. They both watched as his face showed its utter distaste and faked putting a finger down hid throat. But Rowena wasn't going to stand for that and grabbed Darcy by his ear and smacked his up side the head.
"You shut up you little monster" she snarled.
"Woe is me! My cousin has brainwashed my friend!" he turned to look at William "You'll never be free now buddy"
"Haven't you ever heard of knocking first?" William growled, crossing his arms.
Darcy struggled out of Rowena's grip and land to the floor in a heap. Jumping up, he dusted himself off, then turned back to William.
"Well you two sure must have done something wrong, because Aunt Willow and Kennedy are coming - express"
Rowena whipped around to tower over the boy.
"What! How come my mother and the 'Slayer' is coming here!" she demanded shrilly, her empathize one the word slayer dripped with disdain.
"It seems that William's family told them about your little 'love affair'" he grinned.
"But I only just kissed him now for the first time"
"Oh god" William moaned, causing both Rowena and Darcy to look at him funny.
"It was Lorne. He must have known this was going to happen"
"How?"
"He had read people's destinies when they sing for him. I was four years old when I first sang for him. Something's might have changed a bit, but not a whole lot"
"Great, now you'll have to meet my mother!" Rowena whined.
"Ooh goody for me. If I'm not careful, she might flay me" he replied with just as much enthusiasm.
"The both of you are going to have to face the music sooner or later and that would be sooner, so come on" Darcy added. "It'll just be easier if you do it now"
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An hour later, Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy Collins appeared in the center of Wolfram & Hart's lobby. The first person to see them was Harmony; Willow's former high school classmate turned vampire. But still a major prep. Harmony chattered on as they rode the elevator to the floor that had Angel's office. From there they would find her daughter.
When they entered Angel's office, Willow was shocked to she how much the vampire had changed. His dark coffee colored hair was streaked with silver, but that was all. He was just as young looking as the last time she had saw him.
"So, how are you?" Angel started with the small talk.
"Other then the fact that my daughter has fallen for the reincarnation of the world's most annoying vampire, I'm fine" Willow replied flatly, Kennedy just nodded with her.
"Well Buffy's son has decided to take him as his new best friend, so your daughter isn't the only one"
"Goddess, what is this world coming to?"
"Well what did you expect from her?" Kennedy muttered.
"You mean that you would rather have me locked up in my room till I rot away with age?"
Willow and Angel turned to find Rowena, William and Darcy standing in the doorway.
"Willow - she looks exactly like you"
"Kennedy says she's my clone"
"Kennedy would say that alright" Rowena mocked rolling her eyes.
Kennedy turned to glare at the young witch, but couldn't even use her super-strength to pummel her since it was her girlfriend's daughter. Rowena just smiled back at her, knowing exactly that.
"Ro! What do want to do, get us into more trouble!" William hissed at her.
"I'll just be leaving now" Darcy said, moving backwards to the door.
"Oh no you don't" the two teens snapped in unison, grabbing the pre-teen by his shirt and holding on with a death grip. "You're the one who brought us here, so you have to share our torment"
Angel and Willow cleared their throats to get attention of the three kids.
"Well - " Angel started.
"I'm sorry to have to say this, but you cant have this job any more Rowena" Willow interrupted.
"WHAT!" Rowena looked furious.
"Well" Angel repeated. "We came to this agreement because it isn't right to have a romantic relationship between 'patient and doctor'"
"I don't want you doing this any more either" Willow added.
"No!"
The word was snarled out and everyone went silent. It was William. Willow finally looked at the boy for a second time and seen that his appearance had changed. Instead of a younger Spike, stood a boy that looked as if he had been spliced with a cat. His facial features were in what looked like half of a vamp's demonic mask.
"You don't have the right to do this to us, Peaches!" he snapped, causing Angel to wince at the use of Spike's old pet name for him. "And neither do you Red. I know that it's all about my other life to you. Hell I have only one thing to tell you - I am not Spike! Ro has helped me to see that. These memories are his not mine. What he did is in the past. I can't help it if I really, really like your daughter, god I have to say that I love. Even if I haven't known her for very long"
"But you're a vampire" Kennedy snapped, her fingers twitching as if she were itching to get her hands on a stake.
"No he's a Dhampire!" Darcy interjected.
"But those are just legends"
"Does it look like it? I have blood transfusions everyday that replaces having to drink blood; damn I can walk in sunlight!"
"What a better reason for me to want to stake you" Kennedy muttered under her breath, but it still caught the attention of the older vampire.
"Please understand what we are say first before you all jump to conclusions" Angel sighed. "I didn't say that she couldn't stay here, only that she no longer has a job and William you don't even need a counselor any more. You have you friends and that means Darcy and Rowena are welcome here any time"
"I can agree to that. I don't see anything wrong with that plan" Willow nodded.
Rowena smiled and gave her mother a hug. But then Kennedy turned to the Willow with a look of outrage written across her face.
"What?! I can't believe you! First she lies to you and me about where her job is and second she does this? I really must insist!" Kennedy
"Insist on what!!" Rowena let go of her mother and turned on the Slayer.
Darcy turned to William and Angel and shook his head.
"This is going to be bad, so I think we should head for cover" he whispered.
"Why?" Angel asked the boy dumbly.
"Have you ever seen a Elemental witch and a Slayer fight? Well I have and it's not pretty"
"Listen to the kid pops, he takes after his mother" William advised.
Without a word more the three males took cover behind the office desk. Willow was trying to play the mediator with no success. Rowena and Kennedy were swapping insults and growing madder every second. It was when Willow finally got the picture that there was nothing that she could do to help; she went to hide with William, Angel and Darcy.
"How dare you say that to me!" Kennedy barked. "I helped to raise you and this is the thanks that I get?"
"Some job you did! Look at me. Because of you I lost five years of my life!" Rowena countered.
The four 'spectators' watched in silence as the two went at it. Rowena sent a fireball a Kennedy's head and Kennedy managed to drop to a crouch and lash out a foot with only singed hair. That lead to a full out brawl. But it began to seem as if no one was going to win this battle.
With pink hair and upside down vision, Kennedy stumbled and managed to hit Rowena in the face. Rowena had a twisted ankle and a spilt lip, but wasn't stopping either. William looked to Darcy with a expression that said 'please let me intervene' and Darcy just shook his head again and gave it back as 'you do that and its your funeral'.
They also had an audience. The employees that had been in the office that day were gathered around the outer window passing around bet money in who was going to win this fight. William was really beginning to twitch now. He really didn't care what happened to Kennedy at all, but to Rowena -. Concentrating on the minds of the two fighting women, he gently sent his strongest sleep spell. They both staggered from the 'lack' of sleep and collapsed to a heap on the floor. William then collapsed too, as he was still connected to Rowena from the spell that they had preformed earlier. It had finally come to an end.
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(7:00 o'clock P.M. ~ Angel's Office)
"I don't know what I am going to do with her," Willow said later that day. "Rowena always use to tell me that they got into fights, but I never thought it was like that"
Angel nodded. He knew how she felt about that kind of thing. He had taken care of two boys, his son Connor and now William. It seemed to remind him about the relationship between William and Gunn during the first years. He smiled and laughed when an image of a ginning nine year old William and Gunn fuming about finding a family of snakes living in his sock drawer.
"What's so funny? This isn't funny Angel!" the red headed witch snarled.
"No not that, I was only remembering something funny about William. He loved to cause a lot more trouble when he was younger then he does now. Fred and Wesley had to chase that kid all over the place when he was small. Always trying to sneak out of the building or annoy Gunn. Helping Lorne with all the parties we held and all the concerts that came to town. It was great"
"So that was how you got all those silver hairs?" Willow giggled.
"He thought it would make a excellent 259th 'birthday' present" the vampire replied.
Together the walked out of the office and down to the lobby where Willow would then leave. Kennedy was strapped up and would be sent to Buffy and the other Slayers to awaited trial for attacking a child without cause. Word was already out that the Witch's Slayer had cracked.
"Well see you later Angel" Willow smiled and pretended to click her heals like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
"You to. Don't get into too much trouble" Angel waved.
"No, you keep my daughter out of trouble and send her home by ten every night!"
"I can't make you any promises about that, but she'll be home on time"
"Bye Angle"
"Bye Willow"
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(9:58 P.M. ~ W&H Lobby)
"So - that went well, don't you think?" Rowena asked innocently.
"Hey don't look at me, I wasn't the one that stepped into a 'beehive'. Heck you two could have killed each other if it wasn't for me. You should just be happy that Angel put an end to the bets going on outside the office" William chided her with a grin.
"Anyway - so now that I'm not your doctor, I guess I didn't succeed in curing you"
"Well you can unofficially try again you know"
"Sure"
He kissed her lightly on the cheek and waved good bye. As he watched her shimmer out of the lobby, cheers and whistling erupted. William whipped around to find Fred, Wesley, Lorne and Gunn. Blushing madly, the embarrassed teen ran away from the laughing adults. Families - go figure.
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Hello! How was that? I hope that was a good chapter. For any verification, I had no idea if Kennedy had a last name, so I had to make one up for her. If anyone has any suggestions of what I should write in the next two chapters, please review and tell me.
I would also like to make a big thanx to Mimi Love Fox and everyone else that reads this story. Well gota go. Later! *
It was as if the world seemed to stand still. All the evil in the world appeared irrelevant. Nothing mattered but this single solitary moment. It was uplifting, childish and full of power. Then really seemed to come back to the two 'unfortunate' teenagers.
Rowena's eyes were the first to open, and then William's followed suit. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Rowena's face twisted in disgust and she started to cough.
"Yew hairball!" she hacked hard until a small ball of hair the size of a peanut came out of her mouth.
If she could have seen William blush through his fur, he would have been bright red.
"Umm - sorry"
He re-closed his eyes and concentrated on being normal and the thought came to he that Rowena had seen him in his human form yet. Oh lord she had fallen for him when he was a feline and not human! Maybe he did have a chance to be with someone after all! He forced the human part of him to surface, but kept a firm grip on the demon that had claim to it.
Rowena watched William while he changed. It was almost morbidly fascinating. He was handsome as a human, nearly forgetting that he was half vampire. That face looked so familiar, like something she had once seen in a dream but couldn't place it. When he was finished changing, the pale teenage boy lifted his gaze to her and blushed. A silly grin spread across his face and he hung his head again in embarrassment.
"Sorry about that, but I assure you that I don't have rabies" he said quietly.
She started to giggle and then was full out laughing. Rowena thought this was hilarious.
"Could you help me up please?" she snickered through gasps of breath.
He got up and helped her to her feet. As if fate had said it was meant to happen, they kissed again. But this time was for real. They just stood there and would have stood there longer if it wasn't for the bedroom door opening and to revile Darcy Osbourne standing there with his mouth hanging open on its hinges.
"Yew! Yew! Yew!"
That was defiantly too much for the ten-year-old werewolf. They both watched as his face showed its utter distaste and faked putting a finger down hid throat. But Rowena wasn't going to stand for that and grabbed Darcy by his ear and smacked his up side the head.
"You shut up you little monster" she snarled.
"Woe is me! My cousin has brainwashed my friend!" he turned to look at William "You'll never be free now buddy"
"Haven't you ever heard of knocking first?" William growled, crossing his arms.
Darcy struggled out of Rowena's grip and land to the floor in a heap. Jumping up, he dusted himself off, then turned back to William.
"Well you two sure must have done something wrong, because Aunt Willow and Kennedy are coming - express"
Rowena whipped around to tower over the boy.
"What! How come my mother and the 'Slayer' is coming here!" she demanded shrilly, her empathize one the word slayer dripped with disdain.
"It seems that William's family told them about your little 'love affair'" he grinned.
"But I only just kissed him now for the first time"
"Oh god" William moaned, causing both Rowena and Darcy to look at him funny.
"It was Lorne. He must have known this was going to happen"
"How?"
"He had read people's destinies when they sing for him. I was four years old when I first sang for him. Something's might have changed a bit, but not a whole lot"
"Great, now you'll have to meet my mother!" Rowena whined.
"Ooh goody for me. If I'm not careful, she might flay me" he replied with just as much enthusiasm.
"The both of you are going to have to face the music sooner or later and that would be sooner, so come on" Darcy added. "It'll just be easier if you do it now"
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An hour later, Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy Collins appeared in the center of Wolfram & Hart's lobby. The first person to see them was Harmony; Willow's former high school classmate turned vampire. But still a major prep. Harmony chattered on as they rode the elevator to the floor that had Angel's office. From there they would find her daughter.
When they entered Angel's office, Willow was shocked to she how much the vampire had changed. His dark coffee colored hair was streaked with silver, but that was all. He was just as young looking as the last time she had saw him.
"So, how are you?" Angel started with the small talk.
"Other then the fact that my daughter has fallen for the reincarnation of the world's most annoying vampire, I'm fine" Willow replied flatly, Kennedy just nodded with her.
"Well Buffy's son has decided to take him as his new best friend, so your daughter isn't the only one"
"Goddess, what is this world coming to?"
"Well what did you expect from her?" Kennedy muttered.
"You mean that you would rather have me locked up in my room till I rot away with age?"
Willow and Angel turned to find Rowena, William and Darcy standing in the doorway.
"Willow - she looks exactly like you"
"Kennedy says she's my clone"
"Kennedy would say that alright" Rowena mocked rolling her eyes.
Kennedy turned to glare at the young witch, but couldn't even use her super-strength to pummel her since it was her girlfriend's daughter. Rowena just smiled back at her, knowing exactly that.
"Ro! What do want to do, get us into more trouble!" William hissed at her.
"I'll just be leaving now" Darcy said, moving backwards to the door.
"Oh no you don't" the two teens snapped in unison, grabbing the pre-teen by his shirt and holding on with a death grip. "You're the one who brought us here, so you have to share our torment"
Angel and Willow cleared their throats to get attention of the three kids.
"Well - " Angel started.
"I'm sorry to have to say this, but you cant have this job any more Rowena" Willow interrupted.
"WHAT!" Rowena looked furious.
"Well" Angel repeated. "We came to this agreement because it isn't right to have a romantic relationship between 'patient and doctor'"
"I don't want you doing this any more either" Willow added.
"No!"
The word was snarled out and everyone went silent. It was William. Willow finally looked at the boy for a second time and seen that his appearance had changed. Instead of a younger Spike, stood a boy that looked as if he had been spliced with a cat. His facial features were in what looked like half of a vamp's demonic mask.
"You don't have the right to do this to us, Peaches!" he snapped, causing Angel to wince at the use of Spike's old pet name for him. "And neither do you Red. I know that it's all about my other life to you. Hell I have only one thing to tell you - I am not Spike! Ro has helped me to see that. These memories are his not mine. What he did is in the past. I can't help it if I really, really like your daughter, god I have to say that I love. Even if I haven't known her for very long"
"But you're a vampire" Kennedy snapped, her fingers twitching as if she were itching to get her hands on a stake.
"No he's a Dhampire!" Darcy interjected.
"But those are just legends"
"Does it look like it? I have blood transfusions everyday that replaces having to drink blood; damn I can walk in sunlight!"
"What a better reason for me to want to stake you" Kennedy muttered under her breath, but it still caught the attention of the older vampire.
"Please understand what we are say first before you all jump to conclusions" Angel sighed. "I didn't say that she couldn't stay here, only that she no longer has a job and William you don't even need a counselor any more. You have you friends and that means Darcy and Rowena are welcome here any time"
"I can agree to that. I don't see anything wrong with that plan" Willow nodded.
Rowena smiled and gave her mother a hug. But then Kennedy turned to the Willow with a look of outrage written across her face.
"What?! I can't believe you! First she lies to you and me about where her job is and second she does this? I really must insist!" Kennedy
"Insist on what!!" Rowena let go of her mother and turned on the Slayer.
Darcy turned to William and Angel and shook his head.
"This is going to be bad, so I think we should head for cover" he whispered.
"Why?" Angel asked the boy dumbly.
"Have you ever seen a Elemental witch and a Slayer fight? Well I have and it's not pretty"
"Listen to the kid pops, he takes after his mother" William advised.
Without a word more the three males took cover behind the office desk. Willow was trying to play the mediator with no success. Rowena and Kennedy were swapping insults and growing madder every second. It was when Willow finally got the picture that there was nothing that she could do to help; she went to hide with William, Angel and Darcy.
"How dare you say that to me!" Kennedy barked. "I helped to raise you and this is the thanks that I get?"
"Some job you did! Look at me. Because of you I lost five years of my life!" Rowena countered.
The four 'spectators' watched in silence as the two went at it. Rowena sent a fireball a Kennedy's head and Kennedy managed to drop to a crouch and lash out a foot with only singed hair. That lead to a full out brawl. But it began to seem as if no one was going to win this battle.
With pink hair and upside down vision, Kennedy stumbled and managed to hit Rowena in the face. Rowena had a twisted ankle and a spilt lip, but wasn't stopping either. William looked to Darcy with a expression that said 'please let me intervene' and Darcy just shook his head again and gave it back as 'you do that and its your funeral'.
They also had an audience. The employees that had been in the office that day were gathered around the outer window passing around bet money in who was going to win this fight. William was really beginning to twitch now. He really didn't care what happened to Kennedy at all, but to Rowena -. Concentrating on the minds of the two fighting women, he gently sent his strongest sleep spell. They both staggered from the 'lack' of sleep and collapsed to a heap on the floor. William then collapsed too, as he was still connected to Rowena from the spell that they had preformed earlier. It had finally come to an end.
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(7:00 o'clock P.M. ~ Angel's Office)
"I don't know what I am going to do with her," Willow said later that day. "Rowena always use to tell me that they got into fights, but I never thought it was like that"
Angel nodded. He knew how she felt about that kind of thing. He had taken care of two boys, his son Connor and now William. It seemed to remind him about the relationship between William and Gunn during the first years. He smiled and laughed when an image of a ginning nine year old William and Gunn fuming about finding a family of snakes living in his sock drawer.
"What's so funny? This isn't funny Angel!" the red headed witch snarled.
"No not that, I was only remembering something funny about William. He loved to cause a lot more trouble when he was younger then he does now. Fred and Wesley had to chase that kid all over the place when he was small. Always trying to sneak out of the building or annoy Gunn. Helping Lorne with all the parties we held and all the concerts that came to town. It was great"
"So that was how you got all those silver hairs?" Willow giggled.
"He thought it would make a excellent 259th 'birthday' present" the vampire replied.
Together the walked out of the office and down to the lobby where Willow would then leave. Kennedy was strapped up and would be sent to Buffy and the other Slayers to awaited trial for attacking a child without cause. Word was already out that the Witch's Slayer had cracked.
"Well see you later Angel" Willow smiled and pretended to click her heals like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
"You to. Don't get into too much trouble" Angel waved.
"No, you keep my daughter out of trouble and send her home by ten every night!"
"I can't make you any promises about that, but she'll be home on time"
"Bye Angle"
"Bye Willow"
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(9:58 P.M. ~ W&H Lobby)
"So - that went well, don't you think?" Rowena asked innocently.
"Hey don't look at me, I wasn't the one that stepped into a 'beehive'. Heck you two could have killed each other if it wasn't for me. You should just be happy that Angel put an end to the bets going on outside the office" William chided her with a grin.
"Anyway - so now that I'm not your doctor, I guess I didn't succeed in curing you"
"Well you can unofficially try again you know"
"Sure"
He kissed her lightly on the cheek and waved good bye. As he watched her shimmer out of the lobby, cheers and whistling erupted. William whipped around to find Fred, Wesley, Lorne and Gunn. Blushing madly, the embarrassed teen ran away from the laughing adults. Families - go figure.
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Hello! How was that? I hope that was a good chapter. For any verification, I had no idea if Kennedy had a last name, so I had to make one up for her. If anyone has any suggestions of what I should write in the next two chapters, please review and tell me.
I would also like to make a big thanx to Mimi Love Fox and everyone else that reads this story. Well gota go. Later! *