About the drooling in chapter two: Kennedy's not drooling... as we all know,
she only drools for Willow. (Of course she'll have to fight with me for
willow....grrrrrrrr – Mandy)
Chapter 3: Headrush
"So, what are you doing here" Angel hesitates and looks around "with half of Sunnydale in tow?"
"Well" Buffy looks at the ground and then up to her friends, "we wanted to see the big city" she grins then in a quieter voice adds "of course, there's this whole thing were I actually blew up Sunnydale..."
"Define blew up" Angel encourages, raising an eyebrow,
"Large crater in the ground" Buffy explains, looking up sheepishly into the dark eyes of her ex-boyfriend.
"Yeah, I'd say that would be successfully blown up," Angel looks at the girls in the doorway, who were all still watching him appreciatively, "and they would be?"
"Slayers" Buffy answered, as if it should be obvious,
"Buffy, I've told you before" Angel replied solemnly "you can't just go around killing and resurrecting slayers for the purpose of building an army" smirking down at the blonde Angel shakes his head, Buffy smiles.
"Well, ya know whatever gets the job done." Buffy quipped; the old couple seem to be lost in each others eyes for a few moments as the ex- Sunnydale'ers glance at each other uneasily, Faith breaks the silence by elevating herself effortlessly onto the reception desk and shrugging,
"So do we get to crash here or are we looking at the daylight robbery that is the Hilton? Or I suppose we could head over to the prison, they were always accommodating" she jokes, Angel smiles skeptically at her and Buffy roles her eyes,
"Sure, mi casa es su casa" Angel looks towards the stairs, "it's not like we have a shortage of rooms," he explains, Willow smiles and then looks up,
"Hey was Cordelia telling the truth?" when Angel gives her a questioning look Willow elaborates, now with the attention of everybody in the room "is there really a pool?"
"Yes" Angel responds, "although I should warn you, there was a time when it was filled with demon larva..." that seems to be successful in putting the more squeamish girls off, but Faith still looks mildly interested, she is about to speak when Wesley comes down the stairs,
"Angel, I was researching the Libellus Doctrina Regnum like you suggested, but I still can't - " Wesley breaks off, gazing around the now crowded lobby, "oh, hello" he greeted, cagily eyeing Faith for a slight second longer than the others,
"We have visitors" Gunn approves needlessly from a chair in the corner "you missed the whole Buffy/Angel smooch session though."
"Pity" Wesley spoke, though he gave the impression of being distracted, "Angel I really must speak with you" before Angel can reply however Willow looks up from her conversation with Kennedy and see's Wesley.
"Wesley" she grins, Wesley walks over to her attracting the attention of Fred, who runs down the stairs after Wesley looking very flustered,
"Wes- Oh, hey ya'll" she smiles warmly, hugging Willow companionably, she fails to notice a glare from the brunette slayer standing protectively next to Willow, "Hey Will" she personalizes, the two share a smile and Willow's eyes fall questioningly to Wesley then back to the flustered girl who shakes her head dismally. Body language portraying sympathy, Willow leans into her girlfriend.
"Anyway girls, I say it's first come, first serve on the room front," Faith once again breaks the silence, "you should be careful, I hear some of the higher floors are haunted" that's sends the younger slayers bolting up the stairs to lay claim on their own, non-haunted rooms. Smiling at the newly re-acquainted Scooby Gang Faith looks to Kennedy and sends her a look that says to leave the gang alone. Kennedy and Faith make their way up the stairs to under the pretence of keeping their eyes on the others.
Gunn and Fred look sheepishly at each other and then leave to defend their own rooms.
Wesley, Buffy, Giles, Angel, Xander and Willow are standing alone in the lobby.
Lorne walks out of Angel's office and glances around, "not to be a disturbance to the reunion" he smiled, sipping elegantly at his drink "but the guys at the door don't look so friendly." The demon shrugged and walked back into the office. Picking up an axe and a wooden pole and tosses them promptly to the fighters.
"Gatecrashing's rude" Buffy explained, twirling the pole in her hands. Angel shifts next to her having commandeered the axe that Lorne so helpfully provided to Wesley.
"And possibly life-threatening in this instance" Xander jibes, "unless of course you brought beer, which would give me good incentive to talk these people around" he indicated to the slayer and vampire standing at the front of the room. He shuts up promptly when Willow jabs him in the side,
"You put on weight?" Willow asks, casually, Xander looks hurt and shakes his head. The two friends turn their attention back to the battle.
The two groups stand there, each waiting for the other to start the fight,
"Bored now" Buffy sighed and through her pole with such a force that it went straight through the chest of one of the demons, he falls forwards and blood splatters over the floor as his head connects with the concrete.
"Oh shoot," Lorne exclaims, "and I just cleaned the floor"
"Oh quite whining and give them a hand" Xander orders, noting that he is in fact, standing well back.
"Want me to give the other slayers a heads up?" Lorne asks, helpfully,
"Other slayers?" a demon asks the leader, "you didn't say anything about other slayers,"
"There are no other slayers, there is only one and she's in Sunnydale,"
"What about that hot brunette that was – "the lackey is cut off by his boss,
"Okay there are two, but she's in jail."
"Buffy," Angel enquires politely
"Yes Angel?"
"Do you think they're going to shut up anytime soon?"
"I doubt it, could be fun to make them though" with that Angel and Buffy jumped into battle, Angel's axe took off two demons heads and Buffy managed to kill a few on her own,
"Hey boss?" a demon spoke, smoothing down his sweatshirt and looking quizzically at Buffy,
"What" he growled, punching Angel down onto the floor,
"Haven't I heard the name Buffy before?"
"Stop talking and kill them" he ordered, stumbling backwards from a collision with Angel's axe. There was a loud noise behind them as about half of the young slayers trailed down the stairs,
"Erm......boss?" the demons voice was wary,
"What now?" growled the demon,
"There's a whole lot of girls there,"
"They smell like slayers" another of the lackeys filled in, they looked at each other and fled out the door leaving their boss standing in the lobby with Angel on one side of him, Buffy on the other side, the slayers on the stairs at the back of him and an extremely powerful witch standing just off to his front.
"So, who do you work for"
"Nobody, I'm my own demon" the demon replies, pride evident in his body language,
"Somehow I find that hard to believe" Buffy sighs, rolling her eyes, the demon just glares at her,
"Okay, but you should know vampire" he spits out the last word as if it tastes badly in his mouth, "there's a price on your head. You should be afraid."
"Be afraid, be very afraid" Xander quotes quietly, Willow smirks and Angel's scowl deepens,
"Be afraid of this" Angel breathes and swings the axe so hard the demons head comes clean off, rolling along the floor leaving a bloody trail in its wake.
"Angel, cupcake, was that really necessary?" Lorne asks, looking forlornly towards the floor then swirling the liquid in his glass before lifting the cocktail stick out in a well-practiced maneuver and devouring the olive whole.
Angel gives the green demon a look that clearly states that of course he had to do it as proof of his masculinity in front of Buffy. Lorne rolled his eyes.
"And stop calling me pastries" Angel adds as an afterthought.
Buffy looks to her friends and notices that Wesley is staring intensely at her,
"What?"
"Oh, nothing" Wesley looks away and then back, "did you do something with your hair?"
Buffy blushes as Angel grins.
Chapter 3: Headrush
"So, what are you doing here" Angel hesitates and looks around "with half of Sunnydale in tow?"
"Well" Buffy looks at the ground and then up to her friends, "we wanted to see the big city" she grins then in a quieter voice adds "of course, there's this whole thing were I actually blew up Sunnydale..."
"Define blew up" Angel encourages, raising an eyebrow,
"Large crater in the ground" Buffy explains, looking up sheepishly into the dark eyes of her ex-boyfriend.
"Yeah, I'd say that would be successfully blown up," Angel looks at the girls in the doorway, who were all still watching him appreciatively, "and they would be?"
"Slayers" Buffy answered, as if it should be obvious,
"Buffy, I've told you before" Angel replied solemnly "you can't just go around killing and resurrecting slayers for the purpose of building an army" smirking down at the blonde Angel shakes his head, Buffy smiles.
"Well, ya know whatever gets the job done." Buffy quipped; the old couple seem to be lost in each others eyes for a few moments as the ex- Sunnydale'ers glance at each other uneasily, Faith breaks the silence by elevating herself effortlessly onto the reception desk and shrugging,
"So do we get to crash here or are we looking at the daylight robbery that is the Hilton? Or I suppose we could head over to the prison, they were always accommodating" she jokes, Angel smiles skeptically at her and Buffy roles her eyes,
"Sure, mi casa es su casa" Angel looks towards the stairs, "it's not like we have a shortage of rooms," he explains, Willow smiles and then looks up,
"Hey was Cordelia telling the truth?" when Angel gives her a questioning look Willow elaborates, now with the attention of everybody in the room "is there really a pool?"
"Yes" Angel responds, "although I should warn you, there was a time when it was filled with demon larva..." that seems to be successful in putting the more squeamish girls off, but Faith still looks mildly interested, she is about to speak when Wesley comes down the stairs,
"Angel, I was researching the Libellus Doctrina Regnum like you suggested, but I still can't - " Wesley breaks off, gazing around the now crowded lobby, "oh, hello" he greeted, cagily eyeing Faith for a slight second longer than the others,
"We have visitors" Gunn approves needlessly from a chair in the corner "you missed the whole Buffy/Angel smooch session though."
"Pity" Wesley spoke, though he gave the impression of being distracted, "Angel I really must speak with you" before Angel can reply however Willow looks up from her conversation with Kennedy and see's Wesley.
"Wesley" she grins, Wesley walks over to her attracting the attention of Fred, who runs down the stairs after Wesley looking very flustered,
"Wes- Oh, hey ya'll" she smiles warmly, hugging Willow companionably, she fails to notice a glare from the brunette slayer standing protectively next to Willow, "Hey Will" she personalizes, the two share a smile and Willow's eyes fall questioningly to Wesley then back to the flustered girl who shakes her head dismally. Body language portraying sympathy, Willow leans into her girlfriend.
"Anyway girls, I say it's first come, first serve on the room front," Faith once again breaks the silence, "you should be careful, I hear some of the higher floors are haunted" that's sends the younger slayers bolting up the stairs to lay claim on their own, non-haunted rooms. Smiling at the newly re-acquainted Scooby Gang Faith looks to Kennedy and sends her a look that says to leave the gang alone. Kennedy and Faith make their way up the stairs to under the pretence of keeping their eyes on the others.
Gunn and Fred look sheepishly at each other and then leave to defend their own rooms.
Wesley, Buffy, Giles, Angel, Xander and Willow are standing alone in the lobby.
Lorne walks out of Angel's office and glances around, "not to be a disturbance to the reunion" he smiled, sipping elegantly at his drink "but the guys at the door don't look so friendly." The demon shrugged and walked back into the office. Picking up an axe and a wooden pole and tosses them promptly to the fighters.
"Gatecrashing's rude" Buffy explained, twirling the pole in her hands. Angel shifts next to her having commandeered the axe that Lorne so helpfully provided to Wesley.
"And possibly life-threatening in this instance" Xander jibes, "unless of course you brought beer, which would give me good incentive to talk these people around" he indicated to the slayer and vampire standing at the front of the room. He shuts up promptly when Willow jabs him in the side,
"You put on weight?" Willow asks, casually, Xander looks hurt and shakes his head. The two friends turn their attention back to the battle.
The two groups stand there, each waiting for the other to start the fight,
"Bored now" Buffy sighed and through her pole with such a force that it went straight through the chest of one of the demons, he falls forwards and blood splatters over the floor as his head connects with the concrete.
"Oh shoot," Lorne exclaims, "and I just cleaned the floor"
"Oh quite whining and give them a hand" Xander orders, noting that he is in fact, standing well back.
"Want me to give the other slayers a heads up?" Lorne asks, helpfully,
"Other slayers?" a demon asks the leader, "you didn't say anything about other slayers,"
"There are no other slayers, there is only one and she's in Sunnydale,"
"What about that hot brunette that was – "the lackey is cut off by his boss,
"Okay there are two, but she's in jail."
"Buffy," Angel enquires politely
"Yes Angel?"
"Do you think they're going to shut up anytime soon?"
"I doubt it, could be fun to make them though" with that Angel and Buffy jumped into battle, Angel's axe took off two demons heads and Buffy managed to kill a few on her own,
"Hey boss?" a demon spoke, smoothing down his sweatshirt and looking quizzically at Buffy,
"What" he growled, punching Angel down onto the floor,
"Haven't I heard the name Buffy before?"
"Stop talking and kill them" he ordered, stumbling backwards from a collision with Angel's axe. There was a loud noise behind them as about half of the young slayers trailed down the stairs,
"Erm......boss?" the demons voice was wary,
"What now?" growled the demon,
"There's a whole lot of girls there,"
"They smell like slayers" another of the lackeys filled in, they looked at each other and fled out the door leaving their boss standing in the lobby with Angel on one side of him, Buffy on the other side, the slayers on the stairs at the back of him and an extremely powerful witch standing just off to his front.
"So, who do you work for"
"Nobody, I'm my own demon" the demon replies, pride evident in his body language,
"Somehow I find that hard to believe" Buffy sighs, rolling her eyes, the demon just glares at her,
"Okay, but you should know vampire" he spits out the last word as if it tastes badly in his mouth, "there's a price on your head. You should be afraid."
"Be afraid, be very afraid" Xander quotes quietly, Willow smirks and Angel's scowl deepens,
"Be afraid of this" Angel breathes and swings the axe so hard the demons head comes clean off, rolling along the floor leaving a bloody trail in its wake.
"Angel, cupcake, was that really necessary?" Lorne asks, looking forlornly towards the floor then swirling the liquid in his glass before lifting the cocktail stick out in a well-practiced maneuver and devouring the olive whole.
Angel gives the green demon a look that clearly states that of course he had to do it as proof of his masculinity in front of Buffy. Lorne rolled his eyes.
"And stop calling me pastries" Angel adds as an afterthought.
Buffy looks to her friends and notices that Wesley is staring intensely at her,
"What?"
"Oh, nothing" Wesley looks away and then back, "did you do something with your hair?"
Buffy blushes as Angel grins.