Disclaimer: You all know the drill so don't even think about sticking your pack of rabid lawyers on me. I don't own any part of Angel or any other television show besides the ones playing in my demented mind. If I owned Angel then all my stupid ideas would have run the show into the ground by now.
A/N: The first chapter was beyond the expectations of being so utterly awful that I apologize for any mental damage that may have occurred. Now, hopefully this chapter will be better.
Angel: Arrival of the Mortal Immortal
Chap.2: Narcoleptic mystics
"As of exactly 12 midnight, pacific east coast time, last night all demons, vampires, and mystical or supernatural beings feel into a near comatose slumber," Wesley informed his lethargic partners as they sat around the large board room table at the ungodly hour of 3am." Nearly all accounts identically stating that they felt suddenly fatigued and then just blacked out waking exactly one hour later.
"As of this now the only explanations that anyone has been able to give is that a tremendous surge of magic backfired and caused all mystical beings to experience some sudden exhaustion or…"
"The Problem is beginning to give small glimpse of what it is capable of," Eve said standing in the doorway. She looked so cleanly pressed and polished that no one would have ever believed that just a few hours prior she had been a complete wreck.
She and Lindsey had been in the middle of one of the most amazingly lust driven moments of passion when he had blacked out leaving her, Eve, to race through all the possible explanations and impossible ones in her mind as to why Lindsey's seemingly dead corpse lay beneath her quickly becoming cold. Lindsey had woke an hour later to find Eve sitting in their bed flipping through his text dark tears still present in her fiery eyes betraying her serious unrelenting façade.
"And where in bloody hell do you come in," Spike protested peeved by the woman's mere presence.
"Well my dear Spike," she stated turning to the black clad vampire with a sarcastic smile, "I come in far ahead of you."
"Eve, you're mystical, right?" Fred asked cutting in before Spike could make his snide retort.
"In a way yes, but I wasn't affected like all the other cases, I just lost my coping skills and reasoning abilities during the hour." Eve replied before Fred had a chance to ask her real question.
"What do you mean 'in a way'," Wesley questioned.
"As some of you may understand by being an employee of Wolfram and Hart there are certain privileges that come with the positions," She started as the group began to settle in and listen.
"Being that I am liaison to the senior partners I received certain incentives for accepting and attaining my position. One of my incentives is immortality and the other is my link to the senior partners and the knowledge they assign me to confer and that of which they bestow me with to keep me safe."
"So in other words you're their bloody lapdog and messenger, you only get as much information as they think you should have." Spike chuckled, "Not so hi above the rest of us love."
"No Spike I am a liaison." Eve corrected.
"If you two are done bickering like children I'd like to find out what in hell is happening in my city!" Angel angrily stated.
"Actually, if the data's correct then it's not just our city," Fred said staring at her laptop's screen.
"What are you saying?" Gunn asked, rising from his seat.
"I mean reports are zooming in from all over," she stated her tired face awakening from the shock. "It happened everywhere all at the same time if you take in and account the difference in the time zones then it all happened at the same exact moment and ended exactly one hour later."
"So you mean to tell me all of use who are mystically inclined all went lights out and lights on all at the same time?" Loren asked holding an icepack to his bruised head.
"Yeah I guess so," Fred replied.
"Unless all of us non-humans are becoming narcoleptic together then we've got some big mojo out there working against us." Spike reasoned with his usual wrong but on the right track way.
" I contact all of the major covens to see if anyone's been partaking in any devious rituals and I'll hit the books for any event like this on record," Wes said holding the bridge of his nose with his left fore finger and thumb.
"You won't find much of anything to help you," Eve stated looking at the tired group. "I've been trying to tell you all this isn't anything we've dealt with before even the senior partners are a bit uneasy.
"Wait, I thought the partners wanted the apocalypse." Gunn said.
"They do but this isn't the one, this is something else. This is something new, something that we have no control over and we don't know what it wants or what else it's capable of," Eve confessed."Were blind in the dark and there could be something scarier than us out there just waiting for us."