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Title: A True End
Summary: Sequel to Friendly Reflection. Lexia and Connor fight to stay together against the apocalypse. As if Connor had never hooked up with Cordy in Rain of Fire.
Rating: I'ma make it R for fun!
Chapter 6:
Lexia woke when she felt fire spread into her hands. "Agh!" she cried sitting up. She was in bed, the power was back on and Angel was putting antiseptic on her scrapped knuckles.
"Ugh," she complained when the room spun and laid back down.
"You all right?" Angel asked.
"Oh I just feel like I fell off one of those fair rides that are way high up in the air and spin ya know?" Lexia said trying to reach up and feel her head but found she couldn't move her arm. "My shoulder's dislocated."
"Here," Angel said and put her hand on his shoulder. Lexia leaned her weight up and Angel pressed down, her arm popped loudly and she gritted her teeth. "Better?"
"Yeah," Lexia said shaking out her arm. "I'm really sorry Angel."
"Why? It wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was. I knew we couldn't take the Beast. But I didn't stop Connor and get everybody to run like I should have. Instead I got my ass kicked and Connor and Cordelia kidnaped."
"They'll be alright. They can handle themselves. And if the Beast wanted them dead he would have just killed them," Angel pointed out.
"Valid point," Lexia agreed. "What about the kitty that lives in the desert? Did you find him?"
"DOA unfortunately. Plus side we got that last one Manjet. Or Manny as he likes to be called," Angel said.
"Boy that guy gets around," Lexia complained. "Do you think we can track them?"
"I hope so. Right now rest. I'm going to go with Gwen and the gang to her place to lock up Manny. They're all gonna stay to protect him. I'll be back and we'll try to find them."
"All right," Lexia said sighing.
Angel patted her on her arm that wasn't damaged and left closing the door behind him. Lexia turned on her side and tucked her hand under her head. The bed next to her looked so empty. Now she knew how Connor felt this morning. She pulled his pillow over to her and hugged it, inhaling his left over scent.
"Connor," she whispered before she drifted off.
+ + +
Connor wrapped his arms tighter around her and sighed. She ran her hands through his hair, and rested her cheek on the top of his head. He smiled and nuzzled her neck inhaling her scent-
His eyes snapped open and stared into big brown ones instead of dark blue. Connor sat up and saw Cordelia was the one he's been cuddled up with. Then he felt that his head hurt, and he felt dizzy. Everything that had happened earlier came back to him. The Beast, trying to protect Lexia, then getting knocked out.
Looking around he saw they were in a large dirty room, that kinda looked like it belonged in a factory. There were no windows and only one, large, steel door.
"What happened?" Connor asked.
"We've been kid napped," Cordelia said sourly. "The Beast has us locked up in some factory. The door locks from the outside. There's no getting out."
"There has to be," Connor said jumping up and inspecting their surroundings. There were no vents, no other doors. He knocked on the walls to listen but none of them sounded hollow. The door had no knob on this side, just a steel plate where it had been. Frustrated Connor kicked the door but only hurt his foot.
"It's solid," she told him. "The good news is I think he's left us for dead."
"Why is that good?"
"Because that means he's not going to torture us," Cordelia explained. "The bad news is I bet it's a trap for your dad. Then again, we have been here for a while."
"Really?" Connor asked surprised. "How long?"
"I'm not sure, coz I don't have a watch. But we've both been asleep. I tried to stay awake but I just couldn't. You've been knocked out since we've been here."
"What happened after he knocked me out?" Connor asked worried.
"Lexia tried to fight him. She-," Cordelia stopped and looked at Connor worriedly. "Connor, she fought good for a while but, I don't know if she's gonna be alright."
"What?" Connor felt panic rising in his chest. "She's gotta be alright. She's half demon she could have-."
"He threw her all the way across the lobby," Cordelia broke in. "And she landed halfway up the stairs. Then fell all the way back down. She didn't look like she was gonna get up anytime soon."
"Oh God..." Connor murmured falling to his knees in front of her.
"I'm sorry Connor," Cordelia said touching his face lightly. "I just thought you should be prepared. Just in case."
"But she could still be ok right?" Connor asked hopefully. "She could survive that."
"Maybe," Cordelia said not promising anything.
Connor bowed his head. Lexia. His Lexia. If anything happened to her he would never forgive himself. He felt a tear slid down his face.
"Oh, baby," Cordelia said reaching out to him. "Ssh... It'll be ok. We'll be ok."
Connor let her take him in her arms. She ran her hands through his hair like Lexia did, and murmured soothing words. He felt safer.
"It will all be alright my sweet boy," Cordelia promised him
+ + +
Lexia scribbled a spell out of the book she had on the counter quickly. Angel came in as she was doing that. He looked surprised that she was there.
"I told you to rest," he said frowning.
"I did. I just got up a few seconds ago," she told him finishing. "I was thinking that it was pretty fishy that the Beast just took Connor and Cordelia. Why not kill them?"
"It's a trap," Angel confirmed her feelings.
"Right. So I figured we may as well not let him have his way. I heard of this spell before. It's to keep warriors from harm."
"Good deal. We should armor up thought."
"Oh yes, please."
He went over to the weapons cabinet and Angel got his broad sword. Lexia pulled the bag she had brought with her this morning out from under the counter. She unzipped it and pulled a large gun out that had prong looking things at the end. Angel looked over with widened eyes for a moment then smiled. "Flame thrower," he said admiringly.
"Yeah, I figured fight with fire and all that," Lexia looked at then threw it to Angel. He looked at it questioningly. "I'm a lousy shot."
"Oh," he said as she walked around the counter and got and axe from the cabinet. He put his broad sword back because the gun would be about all he could carry. She loaded up with another couple of daggers, sticking them in either of her boots.
"Ready?" Angel asked when she looked up at him.
"As I'll ever be."
Angel led the way out the garden entrance. Lexia held her axe in one hand and the slip of paper in the other. She only hoped it worked.
+ + +
Connor sat with his back against the wall as Cordelia paced back and forth. She had become more and more agitated as they waited. Connor felt... weird was he could think of. He was fully awake, but he didn't feel like he could move fast. When he moved his hands and stuff they felt weighted down. Why would he feel like that?
"Oh, God. I'm going nuts," Cordelia muttered.
"Maybe you should sit down?" Connor suggested.
"I can't I'm too wired."
Connor suddenly felt a slight pain in his arm. In the crook of his left arm. He looked at it and at first saw nothing then noticed a red circle there. He looked closer and saw a tiny pinprick in his arm. He frowned. Maybe it was a bug bite?
He looked up and saw Cordelia staring at him. He blinked and his vision seemed to shift around until it finally settled back the way it was supposed to. Then he felt dizzy.
"Connor," Cordelia said suddenly sitting beside him. "I'm scared. What if Angel's already been here and the Beast-."
"No," Connor said taking her hand in his. "Dad would think of something. I know he would."
"Yeah..." Cordelia said brushing his hair away from his face. "You're probably right. I just... I dunno." She shivered despite the fact it wasn't cold.
"Hey," Connor said putting an arm around her. "It'll be alright. You said so yourself."
Cordelia embraced him and rested her head on his shoulder. Connor tried to give her a reassuring squeeze but he felt limp again. He looked up at the ceiling and the room spun. He squeezed his eyes shut but that didn't help. Cordelia looked up at him.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"I- I just need to lay down," he muttered and felt himself falling anyway.
"Connor..." he heard her say but she sounded far away. Connor looked up to see Cordelia kneeling beside him. She hovered over him, seeming to check him. Then she sat back and Connor's vision blurred again. He blinked and thought he saw Lexia and not Cordelia.
"Lex..." he muttered squeezing his eyes closed.
She leaned down close to him and kissed his closed eyelids. "Ssh...," she whispered. "It's just me." Now he heard Lexia. Was he going nuts.
"Lexia?" he asked not feeling sure. He tried to open his eyes but couldn't. Then he just tried to move his hands to feel her but he couldn't lift them.
"We could die here," she whispered and he felt, faintly, her hands move over his chest, and caressing his shoulders.
"We won't," he promised. "I won't let anyone hurt you..."
"Connor... I need to feel you close," she said. It still sounded like Lexia, and her hands seemed to know him. It had to be her.
"I need you too..." He muttered and felt his clothes slipping off. Then he felt her soft warm body on his and he knew it must be her. His Lexia.
+ + +
Angel and Lexia followed the scent of their loved ones down an alley. This one was a dead end, with a factory at then end. The door was wide open. They looked at each other. Way too easy, Lexia thought.
She knew Angel thought the same but he shrugged and led the way. The entered scanning the area carefully. Angel held the flame thrower up ready to use it. Lexia gripped the slip of paper feeling her heart pound inside of her. She hoped it worked, because she knew she couldn't fight. Last time she got whooped, and she was still hurt.
The two advanced forward following the scent. It went in a straight line, right through several hundred crates. Ones the Beast could jump out of any minute. And ya know what? He did.
"Angelus," he thundered.
They looked up and to the right to see him standing on top of several large crates. He smiled down at them. Then he leaped into the air and over them landing on the other side.
"Glad you could make it," he sneered.
Angel didn't wait. He fired the flame thrower. It was enough to make the Beast stagger back, but he didn't seem fazed much. Lexia threw her axe at him and it landed in the crook of his neck. Angel blasted him with the flame thrower again. Then he just wacked him upside his head with it. Then he kicked him in the face.
Lexia unfolded the slip of paper. She began to read of the words, "Warriors of old I call to you, bring forth your protective light."
Angel blasted him with the flame thrower one more time then stepped back so he was side by side with Lexia. "Protect these Warriors from across the shores. Bring forth your light this very night."
A white orb appeared between them. It grew and spread then flashed and there was a surrounding blue wall around them. Lexia looked at Angel as the Beast advanced on them. Angel stepped protectively in front of her. The Beast sneered at them and tried to grab Angel only to be blocked by the wall and he actually staggered back from the shock it gave him. He growled in anger and punched at the wall. It rippled and the ripples came back together and sent a white light shooting at him that knocked him off his feet.
The Beast growled in anger and stood again. "Fine Angelus," he said. "Have your little witch protect you. Magick won't save you from everything." With that he turned and stalked out of the building. Lexia sighed and the wall came down.
"I can't believe it worked," she breathed. 'Why did he keep calling you Angelus?"
"I have no clue," Angel said sounding just as surprised as her. "Well let's get them out of here."
They headed for the only door there was nearby. They could smell that Connor and Cordelia's trail ended here. The door was solid steel, or Connor could have probably broke through it. Angel stopped before opening it and smelled the air. He looked at the door strangely and Lexia felt worried.
"What is it?" she asked.
Angel didn't answer her just opened the door slowly. Light from the windows streamed in and Lexia and Angel looked inside. Only to see Connor and Cordelia naked, wrapped in each other's arms. Cordelia noticed the door open and looked up in shock.
"Angel," she said startling Connor.
"Wha...?" he wondered looking around. "Dad? Lexia?"
Angel said nothing, but he turned and walked away. Lexia felt nailed to the floor. Her hand drifted up to her mouth and she covered it to stop from screaming. She watched Connor look from her to Cordelia and the position they were in. His eyes went wide and he turned back to her.
"Lexia I-," he began but she didn't let him finish. She turned and walked away as Angel had done. Outside she gulped for air as if she'd been suffocating. She looked around but Angel was gone. Then she heard Connor running to the door.
She began walking off again, but Connor grabbed her shoulder. "Lexia-," she cut him off by whipping around and punching him in the jaw. He looked at her in surprise.
"Stay the fuck away from me," she warned.
Cordelia came up to the door, having put on her shirt and pants. Lexia looked at her and was sure she saw Cordelia smirk. Then she looked at Connor who looked like she had just stomped his puppy to death. That look killed her but she wouldn't give in. She turned and walked away.
~Muhahahaha! I'm sorry I had to go all Joss on you guys and give you a cute happy couple and then rip them apart! Oh the power! Now I know how Joss feels!.... Ok I'm done now...hehehe. Oh and I know that spell was a little lame, but I couldn't think of anything. Lol~