Chapter 10
The First Cut Is the Funnest....Until You're Caught.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews. TO Buffy Fan: I know the Gunn comment you mentioned in the review...that was actually what made me think to include what Sarai said into the fic. Wasn't sure if anyone was gonna pick up on that. Cool. :) In this chapter I will be resurrecting an old character, because well I want to and they'll be sticking around for the remainder of the fic(however long it may turn out to be.) Oh yeah and Spike is officially working for Angel at this point. Ok now with that out of the way, lets get to the story shall we?
It was 10:30am and a very boring day at School for Sarai, meaning it was a normal day. She was hanging out in the cafeteria during her free period because it happened to be Ryan's lunch period.
"So what'd you do last night?" Ryan asked her.
Nearly got attacked by my crazy sort've vampire sister, you? Sarai mused."Nothing much...you?" was what she actually said to him.
"Same"
"Oh, my god! You won't believe this!" Dawn(who was also on a free period) exclaimed rushing over to their table wearing headphones.
"What?" Sarai asked.
"They just announced on the radio that 50 cent will be signing autographs at the mall in like an hour AND there's a chance he might perform a gong or two! Edited versions of course since it's a mall but still!" Dawn said.
"Really. That's SO cool." Ryan responded.
"I know, I love him." Sarai added.
"I want to go" said Dawn.
"Me too, but we'd have to cut out in order to go." Sarai pointed out.
"So...should we?" Ryan asked.
The three of them thought for a few moments. "Lets go" they all said at the same time.
Meanwhile at Wolfram and Hart
"Ah boss there's some one here to see you" Harmony said to Angel.
"Who?"
"I don't know. He just said he needs to talk with you."
"He doesn't have an appointment?" Angel asked.
"Well that hurts...I am the one who got you into the whole helping people business when you got to LA when you were all extra-broody and staying away from people. Now your too big for me unless I have an appointment." A very familiar Irish accent said from behind Harmony.
No...it-it couldn't be Angel told himself. Angel stood up and looked past Harmony at the dark-haired man with a semi-tacky looking outfit on. Angel truly was shocked. "Doyle" he said. Harmony lost interest in what was going on and left.
"So you remember me after all. So, you haven't aged a bit, no surprise there though."
"How? What? You died" Angel stated.
"Yeah because we both know those always hold. I thought someone told you" Doyle said walking over to Angels little mini-bar set up and pored himself some bourbon. "You mind?" he then asked, but started drinking it before Angel could answer.
"Tod me what?" Angel asked.
"Oh, well it seems that The Powers are mad you don't have a link to them anymore, so for some reason they decided to send me back here. Be your vision guy again." Doyle answered.
"But your visions passed to Cordy"
"If that Powers want me to have the visions again they'll give me them no matter what."
"So...you're really back?" Angel questioned hopefully. He had really missed his friend.
"Hell with good booze like this there's no way you can get rid of me." Doyle joked as he started to look around the rest of the office. He walked to Angel's desk and looked at the 8 pictures on it. The 1st was one of Angel, Cordy and some man in glasses, 2nd was of girl long with brown hair next to a man with dark skin and one with green skin and red horns. 3rd was of all of them together, The 4th was actually one of himself, Cordy and Angel....he had no idea when that was taken. Number five was of an infant in a pink dress(which he didn't get at all.) The others were of a girl with mid length to long hair brown hair mixed with red and blonde highlights. "WOW Angel if this isn't your girlfriend you might have to hook me up and if it is, well you might want to watch out for the competition buddy." Doyle said holding up one of the pictures of the girl...of Sarai.
Angel swallowed hard and tried to get around the mental shock of hearing one of your best friends saying your daughter is hot. "She's not- she's 14, going on 15....and my daughter."
Doyle's eyes widened. "Hey look I am sorry forget I said anything. She's not hot...not that she's ugly either. Actually she looks like you, same forehead come think of it. Not that I am attracted or un attracted to- wait a minute you have daughter?" Doyle quickly thought, changing the subject....and Angel couldn't be happier he did.
"Long story short: There was a prophecy, she was born she was raised somewhere else where people age faster. She came back. That's her" Angel explained.
"Ok...so tell me why did the PTB need to send me back? What did Cordelia besome to good for the visions or something?"
He doesn't know Angel thought. He just stared at Doyle speechless.
"What?" Doyle asked.
"Come with me" Angel instructed...it would be easier to show him then tell him.
Mean while at the mall
"That was hot" Ryan said after 50 Cent performed 'In Da Club.'
"He's hot" Sarai added.
"Hotter then me?" Ryan asked.
"Way" Both Sarai and Dawn answered.
"I can't believe we got his autograph" Dawn said.
"I know" Ryan agreed. "Hey look, its almost one o'clock, you guys wanna sneak back in school or hang out here?"
"I would say hang here but we got that English test today and if Sarai and I aren't there after what happened with our essays well, it might not end well. Grade wise."
"Oh yeah I heard something about that. You two really screwed around with that assignment. What'd you write anyway?"
"Oh its not important lets go" Sarai answered.
All three teens walked back to the school and tried to sneak in through on of the back doors. Unfortunately a school security guard happened to be standing by "What are you kids doing coming through here?" he questioned.
"Oh...ah we were out side....for gym" Ryan replied.
"Then why aren't any of you in your gym clothes?" the guard asked. "You three left school grounds didn't you?" None of the kids answered. "Follow me to the office"
"You're dads going to kill us all with one of his weapons isn't he?" Ryan asked Sarai as the went with the guard.
"There's a chance" she answered.
Cordy's hospital room:
"I had no idea." Doyle said. "Is she will she ever...."
"We don't know" Angel answered.
"Because of the visions I gave her"
"That's not exactly true...you can't blame yourself."
The two men stood by her bedside for a few minutes...sometimes talking, sometimes not. The Angels cell phone rang.
"Hello...." "....yes this is Mr. Angel...." "She's done WHAT? I'll be right there." Angel said in his phone conversation, then he turned his attention to Doyle. "Look something's come up I've got to go. I'll send a car here...I'll take you back whenever you're ready"
"Yeah, sure" Doyle answered...he wanted to be alone with her anyway.
one hour later at in Angels office
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING" Angel yelled at Sarai, and kind of at Dawn too, since she lied and told the principle that her father and his girlfriends was out of town and that Spike was watching her, so they called his cell. Dawn knew that Spike would yell at her(or have Angel do most of it for him like he was currently doing) but she didn't care. She'd rather have Spike then her own father yell at her because did it because he actually, genuinely cares about her not because he's obligated too, unlike her father.
"I am sorry" Sarai said.
"YOU BETTER BE!"
"What's going on here?" Fred asked coming in he room with Gunn. "Angel why are you shouting?"
"I cut school....went to the mall and saw 50 Cent instead" Sarai explained before Angel could.
"You saw 50? Really? Cool!" Gunn exclaimed...then he saw the look Angel was giving him. "Or not."
"What made you think you it was a good idea to cut?" Angel asked, lowering his voice now that he realized all of W&H could hear him.
"I-I don't know. It's just I was hanging out and Dawn said he was...."
"DAWN...It was YOUR idea!"
Sarai was about to explain that wasn't what she meant but Spike cut her off "Now hold on a bloody minute here captain forehead. DO NOT go blaming the niblet for this!"
"Sarai's never done anything like this before!" Angel defended.
"She was never in a bloody school til recently"
Dawn, Sarai, Fred and Gunn watched Angel and Spike argue for ten minutes over 'who's girl' as they kept saying was to blame. Sarai and Dawn decided to try and slip out. "SIT" both vampires yelled.
"On the second thought Dawn wait....lets go I wanna talk to you in private" Spike said, and they left. Gunn decided to leave too. Fred stayed.
Angel calmed down a little.
"I know what I did was wrong daddy" Sarai said.
"Well....that's good. I am glad."
No one spoke for a few moments.
"Is that-are we done?" Sarai asked.
"I a I guess...."
"Angel could I talk to you outside?" Fred interrupted.
They went in the hall.
"You're not going to punish her?" Fred asked.
What are you doing Fred! Sarai thought from inside Angels office, listening in on what they were saying.
"Well I haven't given any thought to it" Angel confessed.
"Angel you need to set boundaries and show her that there's consequences for breaking rules."
"I guess you're right."
Angel went back in the office, Fred didn't.
What's a good punishment these days? Spanking? That was big when I was a kid. No, now I think some consider it as 'child abuse'. Even though it gets the point across. Time out? No, I think that's for real little kids. Grounding? No, no, She'd be hell to live with during that time, worse then hell in fact, literally plus, she'd be sad during that time and I can't have that. Take something away? No that would have the same consequence as grounding. Damn this is hard. Angel thought. "Now Sarai, what you did was wrong and you need to be punished." he told her.
"Come on man.....let it go. It was a first offence right? Everyone needs to cut loose every once in awhile." Doyle said entering the room.
"I don't know who you are but I like you" Sarai said.
"How did you find out?" Angel asked.
"I ran into that girl with the mans name outside, introduced my self and all and asked her what was going on. She told me." Doyle answered.
"Oh. Sarai goes upstairs and wait until I get up there, when I've decided what I am going to do about this."
Sarai didn't waste anytime, she left the office fast.
"Do you really think I should let it go?" Angel asked Doyle.
"I donno." he replied.
"Well, you were a school teacher right? Shouldn't you know about these things? What should happen if a kid cuts class?"
"I thought 3rd grade, she's way past that. There's a difference. But look I think if you want to let her off the hook this time then do it, as long as you're prepared to do something if there is another incident. Other wise you might as well get the first one over with. You'll have to sometime."
"I guess I will have to. What's a proper punishment these days?" Angel asked.
"I don't know."
"Thanks....I'll see you soon I should get up there."
Just as Angel said that Harmony came in and told then about a demon problem that needed to be taken care of. It took Angel until nearly 6:30 to finish it. Well he could've been done sooner but he prolonged it because he really didn't want to face Sarai.
"Can I come in?" Angel asked knocking on Sarai's door.
"Yeah."
"Shut the TV" Angel instructed.
Sarai did just that. "I am in trouble aren't I?" she guessed. Angel nodded. "Are you going to punish me?"
"I kind of have to....now go to bed."
"It's six thirty."
"I know, that's your punishment" Angel said because there was no way he could bring himself to really punish is little girl.
Sarai was happy that's what he came up with. "Ok then."
"You're never going to do what you did today again right?" Angel asked. "Cause next time I'll really will have to punish and I REALLY don't want to."
"I won't daddy." Sarai swore.
"That's my girl"
A/N: Did you like this chapter? Yay or Nay on the Doyle front? Also I have an idea of how to bring Buffy and co into this and find out Sarai, I just don't know if I should add it in this fic or make an entirely different separate one after this one that involves it. So I am taking a vote do you want it in this fic or a part 3 in the "sarai Series' as I am now referring to it as. Next chapter Sarai is under the weather with the gang under her thumb.
The First Cut Is the Funnest....Until You're Caught.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews. TO Buffy Fan: I know the Gunn comment you mentioned in the review...that was actually what made me think to include what Sarai said into the fic. Wasn't sure if anyone was gonna pick up on that. Cool. :) In this chapter I will be resurrecting an old character, because well I want to and they'll be sticking around for the remainder of the fic(however long it may turn out to be.) Oh yeah and Spike is officially working for Angel at this point. Ok now with that out of the way, lets get to the story shall we?
It was 10:30am and a very boring day at School for Sarai, meaning it was a normal day. She was hanging out in the cafeteria during her free period because it happened to be Ryan's lunch period.
"So what'd you do last night?" Ryan asked her.
Nearly got attacked by my crazy sort've vampire sister, you? Sarai mused."Nothing much...you?" was what she actually said to him.
"Same"
"Oh, my god! You won't believe this!" Dawn(who was also on a free period) exclaimed rushing over to their table wearing headphones.
"What?" Sarai asked.
"They just announced on the radio that 50 cent will be signing autographs at the mall in like an hour AND there's a chance he might perform a gong or two! Edited versions of course since it's a mall but still!" Dawn said.
"Really. That's SO cool." Ryan responded.
"I know, I love him." Sarai added.
"I want to go" said Dawn.
"Me too, but we'd have to cut out in order to go." Sarai pointed out.
"So...should we?" Ryan asked.
The three of them thought for a few moments. "Lets go" they all said at the same time.
Meanwhile at Wolfram and Hart
"Ah boss there's some one here to see you" Harmony said to Angel.
"Who?"
"I don't know. He just said he needs to talk with you."
"He doesn't have an appointment?" Angel asked.
"Well that hurts...I am the one who got you into the whole helping people business when you got to LA when you were all extra-broody and staying away from people. Now your too big for me unless I have an appointment." A very familiar Irish accent said from behind Harmony.
No...it-it couldn't be Angel told himself. Angel stood up and looked past Harmony at the dark-haired man with a semi-tacky looking outfit on. Angel truly was shocked. "Doyle" he said. Harmony lost interest in what was going on and left.
"So you remember me after all. So, you haven't aged a bit, no surprise there though."
"How? What? You died" Angel stated.
"Yeah because we both know those always hold. I thought someone told you" Doyle said walking over to Angels little mini-bar set up and pored himself some bourbon. "You mind?" he then asked, but started drinking it before Angel could answer.
"Tod me what?" Angel asked.
"Oh, well it seems that The Powers are mad you don't have a link to them anymore, so for some reason they decided to send me back here. Be your vision guy again." Doyle answered.
"But your visions passed to Cordy"
"If that Powers want me to have the visions again they'll give me them no matter what."
"So...you're really back?" Angel questioned hopefully. He had really missed his friend.
"Hell with good booze like this there's no way you can get rid of me." Doyle joked as he started to look around the rest of the office. He walked to Angel's desk and looked at the 8 pictures on it. The 1st was one of Angel, Cordy and some man in glasses, 2nd was of girl long with brown hair next to a man with dark skin and one with green skin and red horns. 3rd was of all of them together, The 4th was actually one of himself, Cordy and Angel....he had no idea when that was taken. Number five was of an infant in a pink dress(which he didn't get at all.) The others were of a girl with mid length to long hair brown hair mixed with red and blonde highlights. "WOW Angel if this isn't your girlfriend you might have to hook me up and if it is, well you might want to watch out for the competition buddy." Doyle said holding up one of the pictures of the girl...of Sarai.
Angel swallowed hard and tried to get around the mental shock of hearing one of your best friends saying your daughter is hot. "She's not- she's 14, going on 15....and my daughter."
Doyle's eyes widened. "Hey look I am sorry forget I said anything. She's not hot...not that she's ugly either. Actually she looks like you, same forehead come think of it. Not that I am attracted or un attracted to- wait a minute you have daughter?" Doyle quickly thought, changing the subject....and Angel couldn't be happier he did.
"Long story short: There was a prophecy, she was born she was raised somewhere else where people age faster. She came back. That's her" Angel explained.
"Ok...so tell me why did the PTB need to send me back? What did Cordelia besome to good for the visions or something?"
He doesn't know Angel thought. He just stared at Doyle speechless.
"What?" Doyle asked.
"Come with me" Angel instructed...it would be easier to show him then tell him.
Mean while at the mall
"That was hot" Ryan said after 50 Cent performed 'In Da Club.'
"He's hot" Sarai added.
"Hotter then me?" Ryan asked.
"Way" Both Sarai and Dawn answered.
"I can't believe we got his autograph" Dawn said.
"I know" Ryan agreed. "Hey look, its almost one o'clock, you guys wanna sneak back in school or hang out here?"
"I would say hang here but we got that English test today and if Sarai and I aren't there after what happened with our essays well, it might not end well. Grade wise."
"Oh yeah I heard something about that. You two really screwed around with that assignment. What'd you write anyway?"
"Oh its not important lets go" Sarai answered.
All three teens walked back to the school and tried to sneak in through on of the back doors. Unfortunately a school security guard happened to be standing by "What are you kids doing coming through here?" he questioned.
"Oh...ah we were out side....for gym" Ryan replied.
"Then why aren't any of you in your gym clothes?" the guard asked. "You three left school grounds didn't you?" None of the kids answered. "Follow me to the office"
"You're dads going to kill us all with one of his weapons isn't he?" Ryan asked Sarai as the went with the guard.
"There's a chance" she answered.
Cordy's hospital room:
"I had no idea." Doyle said. "Is she will she ever...."
"We don't know" Angel answered.
"Because of the visions I gave her"
"That's not exactly true...you can't blame yourself."
The two men stood by her bedside for a few minutes...sometimes talking, sometimes not. The Angels cell phone rang.
"Hello...." "....yes this is Mr. Angel...." "She's done WHAT? I'll be right there." Angel said in his phone conversation, then he turned his attention to Doyle. "Look something's come up I've got to go. I'll send a car here...I'll take you back whenever you're ready"
"Yeah, sure" Doyle answered...he wanted to be alone with her anyway.
one hour later at in Angels office
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING" Angel yelled at Sarai, and kind of at Dawn too, since she lied and told the principle that her father and his girlfriends was out of town and that Spike was watching her, so they called his cell. Dawn knew that Spike would yell at her(or have Angel do most of it for him like he was currently doing) but she didn't care. She'd rather have Spike then her own father yell at her because did it because he actually, genuinely cares about her not because he's obligated too, unlike her father.
"I am sorry" Sarai said.
"YOU BETTER BE!"
"What's going on here?" Fred asked coming in he room with Gunn. "Angel why are you shouting?"
"I cut school....went to the mall and saw 50 Cent instead" Sarai explained before Angel could.
"You saw 50? Really? Cool!" Gunn exclaimed...then he saw the look Angel was giving him. "Or not."
"What made you think you it was a good idea to cut?" Angel asked, lowering his voice now that he realized all of W&H could hear him.
"I-I don't know. It's just I was hanging out and Dawn said he was...."
"DAWN...It was YOUR idea!"
Sarai was about to explain that wasn't what she meant but Spike cut her off "Now hold on a bloody minute here captain forehead. DO NOT go blaming the niblet for this!"
"Sarai's never done anything like this before!" Angel defended.
"She was never in a bloody school til recently"
Dawn, Sarai, Fred and Gunn watched Angel and Spike argue for ten minutes over 'who's girl' as they kept saying was to blame. Sarai and Dawn decided to try and slip out. "SIT" both vampires yelled.
"On the second thought Dawn wait....lets go I wanna talk to you in private" Spike said, and they left. Gunn decided to leave too. Fred stayed.
Angel calmed down a little.
"I know what I did was wrong daddy" Sarai said.
"Well....that's good. I am glad."
No one spoke for a few moments.
"Is that-are we done?" Sarai asked.
"I a I guess...."
"Angel could I talk to you outside?" Fred interrupted.
They went in the hall.
"You're not going to punish her?" Fred asked.
What are you doing Fred! Sarai thought from inside Angels office, listening in on what they were saying.
"Well I haven't given any thought to it" Angel confessed.
"Angel you need to set boundaries and show her that there's consequences for breaking rules."
"I guess you're right."
Angel went back in the office, Fred didn't.
What's a good punishment these days? Spanking? That was big when I was a kid. No, now I think some consider it as 'child abuse'. Even though it gets the point across. Time out? No, I think that's for real little kids. Grounding? No, no, She'd be hell to live with during that time, worse then hell in fact, literally plus, she'd be sad during that time and I can't have that. Take something away? No that would have the same consequence as grounding. Damn this is hard. Angel thought. "Now Sarai, what you did was wrong and you need to be punished." he told her.
"Come on man.....let it go. It was a first offence right? Everyone needs to cut loose every once in awhile." Doyle said entering the room.
"I don't know who you are but I like you" Sarai said.
"How did you find out?" Angel asked.
"I ran into that girl with the mans name outside, introduced my self and all and asked her what was going on. She told me." Doyle answered.
"Oh. Sarai goes upstairs and wait until I get up there, when I've decided what I am going to do about this."
Sarai didn't waste anytime, she left the office fast.
"Do you really think I should let it go?" Angel asked Doyle.
"I donno." he replied.
"Well, you were a school teacher right? Shouldn't you know about these things? What should happen if a kid cuts class?"
"I thought 3rd grade, she's way past that. There's a difference. But look I think if you want to let her off the hook this time then do it, as long as you're prepared to do something if there is another incident. Other wise you might as well get the first one over with. You'll have to sometime."
"I guess I will have to. What's a proper punishment these days?" Angel asked.
"I don't know."
"Thanks....I'll see you soon I should get up there."
Just as Angel said that Harmony came in and told then about a demon problem that needed to be taken care of. It took Angel until nearly 6:30 to finish it. Well he could've been done sooner but he prolonged it because he really didn't want to face Sarai.
"Can I come in?" Angel asked knocking on Sarai's door.
"Yeah."
"Shut the TV" Angel instructed.
Sarai did just that. "I am in trouble aren't I?" she guessed. Angel nodded. "Are you going to punish me?"
"I kind of have to....now go to bed."
"It's six thirty."
"I know, that's your punishment" Angel said because there was no way he could bring himself to really punish is little girl.
Sarai was happy that's what he came up with. "Ok then."
"You're never going to do what you did today again right?" Angel asked. "Cause next time I'll really will have to punish and I REALLY don't want to."
"I won't daddy." Sarai swore.
"That's my girl"
A/N: Did you like this chapter? Yay or Nay on the Doyle front? Also I have an idea of how to bring Buffy and co into this and find out Sarai, I just don't know if I should add it in this fic or make an entirely different separate one after this one that involves it. So I am taking a vote do you want it in this fic or a part 3 in the "sarai Series' as I am now referring to it as. Next chapter Sarai is under the weather with the gang under her thumb.