Part 11 – Not late for School
Cordelia sat on the stool at the table in the chemistry lab. Mr. Leete was talking about physics, things in motion stay in motion, things at rest stay at rest. This is boring. Not that she didn't get physics or science for that matter, it just didn't interest her, at least not since her mind was full of the events of the weekend.
Angel was back from Hell. And she was the only one who knew. The Scoobies would freak out if they knew he was back. They would probably stake first and ask questions later, cause the last time they had seen Angel he was Angelus. Evil and would have killed them in a moment for sport. They could not be kept in the dark forever. Angel was not ready to deal with the guilt that Buffy was sure to bring. He needs at least a week back from hell before she would let her start imposing her guilt on him was a minimum in Cordelia's mind.
Xander was sitting next to her, doodling on his notebook, also not paying attention to the teacher. His thoughts were on Cordelia, he was glad that they had kissed and made up. Things had been better over the summer, and were good until Buffy got back to Sunnydale. They had even had a few small successes in killing several vampires over the course of the summer, working as a team, he, Willow, Cordy and Oz. But now that Buffy was back, they could get back to normal. His job was backing up Buffy no matter what. Especially since dead boy was well dead or at the very least gone. That was one vampire that Xander was glad was gone. He only wished he had been the one to push the sword through Angelus' gut sending him into the spirally vortex. Angel was bad for Buffy, bad for all of them, and his adventures in the spring just proved that he could not be trusted.
Xander moved his hand covertly over to rest onto of Cordelia's hand. He looked up from his notebook at her face and smiled. He squeezed it gently.
Cordelia looked down and saw Xander's big hand over hers. It was warm, really warm. It made her think of the cool hand that was resting on her arm when she woke up this morning. Angel's hand was absently stroking her arm as she woke. A shiver ran up her spine. She thought about waking up next to Angel. She turned over and looked at his face. His eyes were open and he had been watching he sleep. She smiled 'Morning Angel' he was a nice sight in the morning.
'Morning sweetheart' Angel said, he leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. He couldn't help hemself, she was so warm still kinda sleepy.
'Did you get any sleep Angel' she smiled at being called sweetheart, a little disconcerting though. She liked it too much.
'No, I read then watched you sleep. You snore Cordelia." He teased her.
'I so do not snore, Dorkus.' Cordy said. Angel had moved his hand down her arm and he weaved his fingers in between hers. His hands were cool and felt nice on her sleep warm skin.
'How are you feeling this morning, no sniffles?' Angel asked, taking an inventory of her smell and heartbeat and body, wanting to make sure she was not ill from being in the rain.
'No I am fine, thank you for asking.' This morning small talk with Angel was easy, comfortable so right.
'Then you should go to school' Angel said to the girl...loving how she felt so close to him, but knowing that she needed to have normalcy in her life.
'But, I don't want you to be alone' Cordelia said determined.
'I will be fine Cordy,' he squeezed her hand, 'I need to get some sleep, and you would be bored here all day with nothing to do.'
'Are you sure, you have had a very rough few days Angel,' Cordy said very serious.
'And you were here to keep me from turning into a monster. Seriously, all I want to do right now is sleep for a few hours, and you should not miss school' Angel wanted her to stay in bed with him all day is what he really wanted.
'As sure as you promise the minute you wake up you will go downstairs and heat up a bag of blood, eat, then page me.' Cordelia didn't want to argue this early in the morning. Plus, Angel was right she would be bored with him sleeping. She was already itching to get moving and start her day.
'I will, you will probably be done with school before I even roll out of our bed,' He planned on dreaming all day about her.
'Okay, but you are going to page me when you get up. I will leave you my cell phone, you will be able to figure it out right?' Cordelia looked at him. Knowing at some level that he would have no clue hot to make her cell phone work.
'Yes, heat blood, then page you' Angel said, letting out a yawn. He was tired and ready to get some sleep.
'Alright Angel, I will be back as soon as school is done.' Cordelia reluctantly let go of his hand and rolled out of the bed.
Angel grabbed the pillow that Cordelia's head had just vacated and put it under his head. Her scent surrounded his head, he knew he would sleep like a baby.
"Miss Chase, do you know the answer?" Mr. Leete broke into her thoughts of the morning.
"...uhhh sure..." Xander squeezed her hand and she looked down at his notebook, "372?"
"No Cordelia, if you were focusing on the board and not the young man next to you, you would have known that the answer is clearly 42." Mr. Leete admonished her for the public display of affection.
Cordy pulled her hand away from Xander. "Sorry Sir." She said, looking up at the blackboard and realizing that the answer was simply 42, how in the world had Xander calculated that ridiculous number.
At that moment the class bell rang, she was never so glad for that sound to rescue her from embarrassment of getting caught holding hands with Xander. She looked up at the clock, 2:15, she was done with classes today and had to get back to check on Angel.
They walked out of the classroom and into the hall, almost immediately running into Willow and Buffy.
"Hey Cordy, how are you? Great game yesterday, huh?" Willow said very quickly.
"Yah if you were rooting for Bayside and enjoy looking like a drowned rat." Cordelia said with bite, she hadn't completely forgiven the Scoobies.
"Cordy, Willow was just trying to be nice." Xander defended Willow automatically.
Cordelia immediately noticed, and decided to let it go. She was not going to start bickering again with Xander. For some reason it just didn't seem worth it.
At that moment Principle Snyder walked up to the group. "Loitering as usual Summers?" He loved to pick on the Summers girl, especially in front of all her friends.
"No we weren't loitering, we were standing." Buffy said. Snyder was such a pain.
"Well, I have better things you can do with your time, here" Snyder said, putting a box of chocolate bars into her hands, and then went on to put boxes in each of their hands. "You will sell this candy to raise money for new band uniforms."
"But we aren't even in the band." Willow piped in, she was not a band geek.
"Yah, and I don't sell candy." Cordelia said, trying to push the box of candy back onto the short little man.
"Well then Chase you can just get your Daddy to write a big check." Snyder said, shoving the candy back at her.
"Pfft...as if"
"What was that Chase?" Synder asked
"Nothing, sure check, candy sold, not a problem" Cordy said, amazed she caved into the little annoying man.
Snyder sneered at the group and then walked away to tackle another student into selling band candy.
"So, Cordy, we are off to the library to well, we were going to study for the SAT's, want to join us." Willow said to the cheerleader.
"Yah right, what big bad is in town now?" Cordy asked figuring it was just the public way of saying they had a Scooby meeting.
"None that I know of Cordelia, we really are just going to study. Yah know big test on Saturday." Buffy said. A little amazed herself that they were really going to use the library for studying. "Giles promised me he would quiz us on antonyms and such."
"Boy my idea of fun." Xander sighed. Even studying with the Buffster, was not enough of a bonus to not hate the whole studying part.
"Well I would love to join the study session, but I have an appointment this afternoon." Cordelia told them, well she didn't exactly have an appointment but she needed to get back and check on Angel. When was she going to tell them all, especially Buffy that he was back from Hell?
"Ahh come on Cordy, skip it and spend some quality study time with us." Xander practically begged.
"Can't miss it, sorry. I will catch you guys tomorrow." Cordelia, leaned over and gave Xander a peck on the cheek and turned from the group walking away.
She heard Xander say to Willow and Buffy, "Come on then, why don't my two best girls teach me everything I am going to need to know about SAT stuff."
Buffy laughed, "Xander we only have 4 days until the tests, I don't think that is even possible with both Willow and my help."
Cordelia heard the laughter and turned slightly, seeing Xander with his arms around both the girl's shoulders, having apparently gotten completely over the fact she was leaving him. Pfft...she had better things to do with her time.
Cordelia sat on the stool at the table in the chemistry lab. Mr. Leete was talking about physics, things in motion stay in motion, things at rest stay at rest. This is boring. Not that she didn't get physics or science for that matter, it just didn't interest her, at least not since her mind was full of the events of the weekend.
Angel was back from Hell. And she was the only one who knew. The Scoobies would freak out if they knew he was back. They would probably stake first and ask questions later, cause the last time they had seen Angel he was Angelus. Evil and would have killed them in a moment for sport. They could not be kept in the dark forever. Angel was not ready to deal with the guilt that Buffy was sure to bring. He needs at least a week back from hell before she would let her start imposing her guilt on him was a minimum in Cordelia's mind.
Xander was sitting next to her, doodling on his notebook, also not paying attention to the teacher. His thoughts were on Cordelia, he was glad that they had kissed and made up. Things had been better over the summer, and were good until Buffy got back to Sunnydale. They had even had a few small successes in killing several vampires over the course of the summer, working as a team, he, Willow, Cordy and Oz. But now that Buffy was back, they could get back to normal. His job was backing up Buffy no matter what. Especially since dead boy was well dead or at the very least gone. That was one vampire that Xander was glad was gone. He only wished he had been the one to push the sword through Angelus' gut sending him into the spirally vortex. Angel was bad for Buffy, bad for all of them, and his adventures in the spring just proved that he could not be trusted.
Xander moved his hand covertly over to rest onto of Cordelia's hand. He looked up from his notebook at her face and smiled. He squeezed it gently.
Cordelia looked down and saw Xander's big hand over hers. It was warm, really warm. It made her think of the cool hand that was resting on her arm when she woke up this morning. Angel's hand was absently stroking her arm as she woke. A shiver ran up her spine. She thought about waking up next to Angel. She turned over and looked at his face. His eyes were open and he had been watching he sleep. She smiled 'Morning Angel' he was a nice sight in the morning.
'Morning sweetheart' Angel said, he leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. He couldn't help hemself, she was so warm still kinda sleepy.
'Did you get any sleep Angel' she smiled at being called sweetheart, a little disconcerting though. She liked it too much.
'No, I read then watched you sleep. You snore Cordelia." He teased her.
'I so do not snore, Dorkus.' Cordy said. Angel had moved his hand down her arm and he weaved his fingers in between hers. His hands were cool and felt nice on her sleep warm skin.
'How are you feeling this morning, no sniffles?' Angel asked, taking an inventory of her smell and heartbeat and body, wanting to make sure she was not ill from being in the rain.
'No I am fine, thank you for asking.' This morning small talk with Angel was easy, comfortable so right.
'Then you should go to school' Angel said to the girl...loving how she felt so close to him, but knowing that she needed to have normalcy in her life.
'But, I don't want you to be alone' Cordelia said determined.
'I will be fine Cordy,' he squeezed her hand, 'I need to get some sleep, and you would be bored here all day with nothing to do.'
'Are you sure, you have had a very rough few days Angel,' Cordy said very serious.
'And you were here to keep me from turning into a monster. Seriously, all I want to do right now is sleep for a few hours, and you should not miss school' Angel wanted her to stay in bed with him all day is what he really wanted.
'As sure as you promise the minute you wake up you will go downstairs and heat up a bag of blood, eat, then page me.' Cordelia didn't want to argue this early in the morning. Plus, Angel was right she would be bored with him sleeping. She was already itching to get moving and start her day.
'I will, you will probably be done with school before I even roll out of our bed,' He planned on dreaming all day about her.
'Okay, but you are going to page me when you get up. I will leave you my cell phone, you will be able to figure it out right?' Cordelia looked at him. Knowing at some level that he would have no clue hot to make her cell phone work.
'Yes, heat blood, then page you' Angel said, letting out a yawn. He was tired and ready to get some sleep.
'Alright Angel, I will be back as soon as school is done.' Cordelia reluctantly let go of his hand and rolled out of the bed.
Angel grabbed the pillow that Cordelia's head had just vacated and put it under his head. Her scent surrounded his head, he knew he would sleep like a baby.
"Miss Chase, do you know the answer?" Mr. Leete broke into her thoughts of the morning.
"...uhhh sure..." Xander squeezed her hand and she looked down at his notebook, "372?"
"No Cordelia, if you were focusing on the board and not the young man next to you, you would have known that the answer is clearly 42." Mr. Leete admonished her for the public display of affection.
Cordy pulled her hand away from Xander. "Sorry Sir." She said, looking up at the blackboard and realizing that the answer was simply 42, how in the world had Xander calculated that ridiculous number.
At that moment the class bell rang, she was never so glad for that sound to rescue her from embarrassment of getting caught holding hands with Xander. She looked up at the clock, 2:15, she was done with classes today and had to get back to check on Angel.
They walked out of the classroom and into the hall, almost immediately running into Willow and Buffy.
"Hey Cordy, how are you? Great game yesterday, huh?" Willow said very quickly.
"Yah if you were rooting for Bayside and enjoy looking like a drowned rat." Cordelia said with bite, she hadn't completely forgiven the Scoobies.
"Cordy, Willow was just trying to be nice." Xander defended Willow automatically.
Cordelia immediately noticed, and decided to let it go. She was not going to start bickering again with Xander. For some reason it just didn't seem worth it.
At that moment Principle Snyder walked up to the group. "Loitering as usual Summers?" He loved to pick on the Summers girl, especially in front of all her friends.
"No we weren't loitering, we were standing." Buffy said. Snyder was such a pain.
"Well, I have better things you can do with your time, here" Snyder said, putting a box of chocolate bars into her hands, and then went on to put boxes in each of their hands. "You will sell this candy to raise money for new band uniforms."
"But we aren't even in the band." Willow piped in, she was not a band geek.
"Yah, and I don't sell candy." Cordelia said, trying to push the box of candy back onto the short little man.
"Well then Chase you can just get your Daddy to write a big check." Snyder said, shoving the candy back at her.
"Pfft...as if"
"What was that Chase?" Synder asked
"Nothing, sure check, candy sold, not a problem" Cordy said, amazed she caved into the little annoying man.
Snyder sneered at the group and then walked away to tackle another student into selling band candy.
"So, Cordy, we are off to the library to well, we were going to study for the SAT's, want to join us." Willow said to the cheerleader.
"Yah right, what big bad is in town now?" Cordy asked figuring it was just the public way of saying they had a Scooby meeting.
"None that I know of Cordelia, we really are just going to study. Yah know big test on Saturday." Buffy said. A little amazed herself that they were really going to use the library for studying. "Giles promised me he would quiz us on antonyms and such."
"Boy my idea of fun." Xander sighed. Even studying with the Buffster, was not enough of a bonus to not hate the whole studying part.
"Well I would love to join the study session, but I have an appointment this afternoon." Cordelia told them, well she didn't exactly have an appointment but she needed to get back and check on Angel. When was she going to tell them all, especially Buffy that he was back from Hell?
"Ahh come on Cordy, skip it and spend some quality study time with us." Xander practically begged.
"Can't miss it, sorry. I will catch you guys tomorrow." Cordelia, leaned over and gave Xander a peck on the cheek and turned from the group walking away.
She heard Xander say to Willow and Buffy, "Come on then, why don't my two best girls teach me everything I am going to need to know about SAT stuff."
Buffy laughed, "Xander we only have 4 days until the tests, I don't think that is even possible with both Willow and my help."
Cordelia heard the laughter and turned slightly, seeing Xander with his arms around both the girl's shoulders, having apparently gotten completely over the fact she was leaving him. Pfft...she had better things to do with her time.