Chapter 2: Smile For Me Now
"Do you have a car?" Connor asked Dalton, really hoping she did.
"Actually, yeah. I do, it's an old hunk-a-junk sometimes but most of the time it goes." Dalton smiled. "Over here." She led him to the staff parking lot and over towards a blood red Pontiac GTO that had been restored.
"Wow it's great!" Connor looked at the car as the two walked toward it. "I've never seen a cooler looking car!" Connor exclaimed.
"You haven't been looking very hard have you?" Dalton raised an eyebrow and unlocked her doors. Connor got in the passenger side and she got into the driver's side and started the car. "How old are you Connor?" Dalton ask with interest as she backed out of her parking place.
Connor really didn't know, he figured at least 18 so that is what he went with, "Eighteen." He replied. "How old are you? I can see you are old enough to have a job and drive but, doesn't give me much."
"Nineteen." She replied, as she turned left out of the hotel parking lot. "Why you wanna know?" She asked, looking at him briefly while they were at a red light.
"Well it's just kinda weird. Why is someone as young and pretty as you working in a hotel? I'm sure you could have any job you wanted if you tried." Connor told her.
"It's actually what I'm waiting on, I'm a singer but there are a lot of undiscovered singers in New York and I'm just waiting on my turn to try to shine." She explained. "Here I am telling you all about lil short me, what about you huh? I know what brings you NYC but why did you come yourself?" She asked. Dalton could tell this boy was hiding something; she just wanted to figure out what.
"No one else thinks she can be found." He replied simply. It was true, he knew she didn't want to but that didn't mean she wouldn't be.
"What about your mom and dad? They probably didn't want you coming all the way up here by yourself."
"Actually my mother died during childbirth and my father probably hasn't known I was gone that long. I left during the middle of the night, but he's probably flipping out." Connor smiled at the thought.
"I'm sorry about your mom." She said sympathetically.
"I never knew her. She was a vamp--" He caught himself off, this girl was so easy to talk to. It was almost like he could tell her everything, he almost did.
"What?" She had caught the hint of the word. She knew if he almost said what she thought he was going to say then she could tell him the truth.
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"Do you think our demony friend is doing as told?" Charlize asked Damien. The pair was sitting the V.I.P. in Suite 16 with a bloody Mary in both of their right hands; except these weren't ordinary drinks they had actual blood in them. New York saw a lot of vampires and therefore had specialized drinks in certain places for them.
"If he isn't we will hunt him down and make him wish he had." Damien replied happily. He took a drink of his bloody Mary and looked over the railing of the V.I.P. to see a big crowd of humans, "Look at them, not ever aware of the danger we could put them in." He sighed.
"You're bored aren't you?" Charlize smirked after licking the blood from the bloody Mary off her teeth. She didn't wait for an answer, "Okay then, let's go." She stood up and put her glass on chrome looking table beside the couch in the V.I.P.
Damien did then same and took his evil lovers' hand and the pair walked down the stairs and toward the exit. Charlize smiled as the two left the club, she knew Connor was in New York, she could feel him. So she purposely left her bill with her name on it on the table with the rest of the bloody Marys. "You think he'll be here later?" Damien ask as the two started down the sidewalk to the car that they had bought after 'borrowing' a dead rich man's money.
"I made myself visible in one way or another to every cheap hotel receptionist in this city in different places, there was no way they could miss me." Charlize explained.
"Good thinking." Damien said unlocking the doors of the 2005 red convertible Celica. They both got in and took off.
"Stop, Drop, Shut 'em down open up shop, Ooh Noo, where's tha Ruff Ryders roll?" Charlize and Damien sang along to the DMX on blast in the car. "All I know is pain, all I feel is rain, how can I maintain, with madd shit on my brain?" They continued laughing after the bar.
"What do you plan on doing to Connor after we let us find him?" Damien asked his Slayer. His Slayer, she always had been.
"Good question D, nothing." She smiled in reply.
"Huh?" He raised an eyebrow.
"We aren't goin to let him find us I'll leave him a trail that's so close he can smell your Burberry cologne, all 'till it drives him insane and he gives up." Charlize answered, smiling maliciously.
"That's good, you always were better at making evil plans than I was." Damien complimented.
"I know." She said sarcastically, "But you are good for a lot of other things." She said with a slight smile gracing her lips.
"Boom not anymore!" Charlize and Damien yelled along to the song simultaneously, then both erupting into laughter.
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"Are you sure about this Willow, we've never done it before and it could be quite dangerous." Giles told the redheaded Wicca, knowing she probably would ignore everything he had just said.
"Giles trust me I am pretty sure that this will work. Angel thinks it will works, so why would you doubt me?" Willow ask, not really paying attention to what she was saying while she measured out ingredients.
"Angel just wants his son back." Giles said, saying something everyone was thinking but no one would say. Giles and Willow were in the kitchen measuring out ingredients while everyone else involved was in the lobby getting the place ready to do the spell with the map.
"Giles! He isn't letting me do this because that is all he wants he is doing it because he wants to find Charlize, just like the rest of us." Willow slammed down an herb grinder (A/N I don't know what they called).
*Out in the Lobby*
"This looks very, complicated." Faith commented standing on the stairs with Gunn, Spike, Lorne and Xander.
"Does anyone else feel really useless?" Gunn asked. The five of them stood in a line close to the bottom of the stairs all with their arms folded across their chests.
"Yeah," They all agreed in unison. "Maybe we should patrol or something." Spike suggested.
The four of them all looked at Spike, "Sun doesn't set for another half hour." Xander reminded the bleach haired vampire.
"I knew that." Spike said, everyone knew he hadn't actually noticed. The five of them suddenly grew quiet again and watched everyone else at work in the lobby. Buffy and Cordelia were arranging all the different maps that they would need, Bryan, Anya and Dawn were making lists of places where Connor and Charlize could be, Fred, Wes, and Angel were waiting on Giles and Willow to finish up with the ingredients.
"Sure you did." Faith said sarcastically after the long silence. She looked over at Angel who was standing in-between Fred and Wesley, "You know what Angel, you shoulda bought that kid a cell phone." Faith smiled, uncrossing her arms.
"Now I can see why he would. Whose side are you on here?" He asked arching an eyebrow.
"Yours of course Angel." She smiled then laughed a little. "At least that's what I'll tell ya." She laughed.
"Great Faith." Angel replied. He knew she was joking, she always seemed to make him feel better with her ability to kid with him. They smiled at each other and moments later Willow and Giles came out of the kitchen.
"Let's do this." The redheaded witch said simply.
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Connor didn't want to reply, he couldn't tell her the truth so his mind raced with words that started with vamp, he couldn't think of any. Dalton realized she wasn't going to get an answer. "Your mother was a vampire?" She asked in a regular tone.
"You aren't surprised and you aren't throwing me out of your car?" Connor questioned.
"No, but she was, wasn't she? What about your dad?"
"They both are, my mom had to stake herself so I could live and my dad runs an Investigations company for weird stuff back in L.A." Connor explained.
"Well, Connor now that I have the truth about you I guess you can have it about me." She finally said, letting him know that almost everything she told him had been a lie. "I am singer and I do work at the Holiday Inn, I do help people, and I did see your friend at Suite 16. But I'm not nineteen, my name isn't Dalton Adams, and I'm not exactly all human." She confessed.
"Then who are you?" Connor arched an eyebrow.
"I'm Twenty-one, my name is Cameron Doyle and I'm half demon." She said with a tone that said she was truly sorry for not telling him before.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Connor asked.
"Well, you said you were from L.A. which is where my brother lived for a while. He was also half demon and I thought you might know him or something. And I thought you kinda didn't know about vampires and stuff and I didn't want to freak you out. Don't really know why I lied about my age." She laughed a little at herself.
"What happened to your brother?" Connor asked. At first He was a little upset that she lied, but she had been willing to help him so he thought he could probably get over it.
"Well he's kinda, um, dead." Cameron replied.
"Sorry." Connor replied.
"He was a great guy though, used to work for some do-gooder named Angel. He used to have vis-
"Angel?" Connor's tone became very serious.
"Yeah." Cameron nodded.
"That's my father."
"Wow that's weird.
"No shit."
Cameron laughed, "So you are the kid of two vampires and I'm half demon. Funny how we found each other huh?" She smirked. The pair sat in silence for a moment until they had to stop at another red light. Connor turned and looked at the blond and was about to say something when she screamed out in pain and jerked forward.
"Cameron are you okay?" Connor leaned forward as she continued to gasp for air.
"Do I look okay?" She asked sarcastically, still holding her head in pain.
"What happened?" Connor asked, he'd never seen anything like this before, she had been fine.
"I had a vision." She breathed quietly. "God!" She screamed, smacking her steering wheel. "She looked up through the windshield, "Why me?" She growled.
"What did you see?" Connor ask inquisitively.
"Your friend, she's with some guy right?" She asked.
"Think so."
"Well she's gonna be," She shook her head quick, still obviously in pain. "Fighting for her life, pretty soon." She explained. Connor was about to say something, but Cameron stopped him, "We can't save her by ourselves, we are gonna need some help on this one." She told him. Cameron took a sharp left and passed Suite 16 and turned down an alley on the opposite side of the street.
"Where?" Connor asked, sitting up straight.
"Where what? I said we were gonna need backup." Cameron repeated.
"You might, but I don't." Connor said, undoing his seatbelt and preparing to get out of her car.
"Whoa big boy, slow down. Yes you do, trust me." Cameron said calmly, she got out of the car and locked Connor in to be sure he wasn't going anywhere. She turned to see a crew, her crew, a bunch of misfit do-gooders just like her. Including herself there were five of them: Adrienne, a girl whose parents were killed by vampires; Tommy, whose girlfriend had tried to turn him; Kara, who was left for dead after a vampire attack, but was just faking it; and Terry who had been halfway to being turned when Cameron saved him.
"Killah Cam, what's going on?" Terry ask, he was always the first to talk. He was a black guy who stood at 6'5, the tallest in the group, with deep brown eyes and a lot of muscles.
"Vision, 57th street, alley behind Fifty Seven Fifty Seven. Lots of big demons, there will be two vamps there, don't kill them and don't let them leave." She commanded.
"K who's he?" Adrienne raised a think blond eyebrow. She had straight blond hair that barley brushed her shoulders and deep almond-brown eyes.
"He's Connor, Angel's son." She smirked.
"You mean the famous Angel from L.A.? The one your brother worked with?" Tommy asked, with a surprised look. Cameron nodded, "Wait a sec, Angel had a kid? With who?" He said, still surprised.
"Darla." She replied.
Connor rolled down the window on the driver's side and poked his head out, "How did you know that? I didn't tell you." Connor said, remembering their conversation.
"You said your mother staked herself so she could live, I knew she had staked herself for some reason. Plus there aren't really all that many kids runnin around saying that their mommies and daddies are both vampires." She raised both her eyebrows. "Come on kid, you think I wanted to help you because I am a nice person? Partially, but I had a vision about you coming out here." She smiled.
"Cam, hate to bust your explanation bubble and everything, but we do gotta go save some, un-lives here." Terry reminded her, poking her to get her attention.
"Lets roll."
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A/N: Thanks my reader!!! Chocolate for you **hands giant heresy bar** Hehehe! This is defiantly my fav. Sequel out of all the ones I've written, or ever thought about writing. PLEASE REVIEW!! XOXO Charlize
"Do you have a car?" Connor asked Dalton, really hoping she did.
"Actually, yeah. I do, it's an old hunk-a-junk sometimes but most of the time it goes." Dalton smiled. "Over here." She led him to the staff parking lot and over towards a blood red Pontiac GTO that had been restored.
"Wow it's great!" Connor looked at the car as the two walked toward it. "I've never seen a cooler looking car!" Connor exclaimed.
"You haven't been looking very hard have you?" Dalton raised an eyebrow and unlocked her doors. Connor got in the passenger side and she got into the driver's side and started the car. "How old are you Connor?" Dalton ask with interest as she backed out of her parking place.
Connor really didn't know, he figured at least 18 so that is what he went with, "Eighteen." He replied. "How old are you? I can see you are old enough to have a job and drive but, doesn't give me much."
"Nineteen." She replied, as she turned left out of the hotel parking lot. "Why you wanna know?" She asked, looking at him briefly while they were at a red light.
"Well it's just kinda weird. Why is someone as young and pretty as you working in a hotel? I'm sure you could have any job you wanted if you tried." Connor told her.
"It's actually what I'm waiting on, I'm a singer but there are a lot of undiscovered singers in New York and I'm just waiting on my turn to try to shine." She explained. "Here I am telling you all about lil short me, what about you huh? I know what brings you NYC but why did you come yourself?" She asked. Dalton could tell this boy was hiding something; she just wanted to figure out what.
"No one else thinks she can be found." He replied simply. It was true, he knew she didn't want to but that didn't mean she wouldn't be.
"What about your mom and dad? They probably didn't want you coming all the way up here by yourself."
"Actually my mother died during childbirth and my father probably hasn't known I was gone that long. I left during the middle of the night, but he's probably flipping out." Connor smiled at the thought.
"I'm sorry about your mom." She said sympathetically.
"I never knew her. She was a vamp--" He caught himself off, this girl was so easy to talk to. It was almost like he could tell her everything, he almost did.
"What?" She had caught the hint of the word. She knew if he almost said what she thought he was going to say then she could tell him the truth.
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"Do you think our demony friend is doing as told?" Charlize asked Damien. The pair was sitting the V.I.P. in Suite 16 with a bloody Mary in both of their right hands; except these weren't ordinary drinks they had actual blood in them. New York saw a lot of vampires and therefore had specialized drinks in certain places for them.
"If he isn't we will hunt him down and make him wish he had." Damien replied happily. He took a drink of his bloody Mary and looked over the railing of the V.I.P. to see a big crowd of humans, "Look at them, not ever aware of the danger we could put them in." He sighed.
"You're bored aren't you?" Charlize smirked after licking the blood from the bloody Mary off her teeth. She didn't wait for an answer, "Okay then, let's go." She stood up and put her glass on chrome looking table beside the couch in the V.I.P.
Damien did then same and took his evil lovers' hand and the pair walked down the stairs and toward the exit. Charlize smiled as the two left the club, she knew Connor was in New York, she could feel him. So she purposely left her bill with her name on it on the table with the rest of the bloody Marys. "You think he'll be here later?" Damien ask as the two started down the sidewalk to the car that they had bought after 'borrowing' a dead rich man's money.
"I made myself visible in one way or another to every cheap hotel receptionist in this city in different places, there was no way they could miss me." Charlize explained.
"Good thinking." Damien said unlocking the doors of the 2005 red convertible Celica. They both got in and took off.
"Stop, Drop, Shut 'em down open up shop, Ooh Noo, where's tha Ruff Ryders roll?" Charlize and Damien sang along to the DMX on blast in the car. "All I know is pain, all I feel is rain, how can I maintain, with madd shit on my brain?" They continued laughing after the bar.
"What do you plan on doing to Connor after we let us find him?" Damien asked his Slayer. His Slayer, she always had been.
"Good question D, nothing." She smiled in reply.
"Huh?" He raised an eyebrow.
"We aren't goin to let him find us I'll leave him a trail that's so close he can smell your Burberry cologne, all 'till it drives him insane and he gives up." Charlize answered, smiling maliciously.
"That's good, you always were better at making evil plans than I was." Damien complimented.
"I know." She said sarcastically, "But you are good for a lot of other things." She said with a slight smile gracing her lips.
"Boom not anymore!" Charlize and Damien yelled along to the song simultaneously, then both erupting into laughter.
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"Are you sure about this Willow, we've never done it before and it could be quite dangerous." Giles told the redheaded Wicca, knowing she probably would ignore everything he had just said.
"Giles trust me I am pretty sure that this will work. Angel thinks it will works, so why would you doubt me?" Willow ask, not really paying attention to what she was saying while she measured out ingredients.
"Angel just wants his son back." Giles said, saying something everyone was thinking but no one would say. Giles and Willow were in the kitchen measuring out ingredients while everyone else involved was in the lobby getting the place ready to do the spell with the map.
"Giles! He isn't letting me do this because that is all he wants he is doing it because he wants to find Charlize, just like the rest of us." Willow slammed down an herb grinder (A/N I don't know what they called).
*Out in the Lobby*
"This looks very, complicated." Faith commented standing on the stairs with Gunn, Spike, Lorne and Xander.
"Does anyone else feel really useless?" Gunn asked. The five of them stood in a line close to the bottom of the stairs all with their arms folded across their chests.
"Yeah," They all agreed in unison. "Maybe we should patrol or something." Spike suggested.
The four of them all looked at Spike, "Sun doesn't set for another half hour." Xander reminded the bleach haired vampire.
"I knew that." Spike said, everyone knew he hadn't actually noticed. The five of them suddenly grew quiet again and watched everyone else at work in the lobby. Buffy and Cordelia were arranging all the different maps that they would need, Bryan, Anya and Dawn were making lists of places where Connor and Charlize could be, Fred, Wes, and Angel were waiting on Giles and Willow to finish up with the ingredients.
"Sure you did." Faith said sarcastically after the long silence. She looked over at Angel who was standing in-between Fred and Wesley, "You know what Angel, you shoulda bought that kid a cell phone." Faith smiled, uncrossing her arms.
"Now I can see why he would. Whose side are you on here?" He asked arching an eyebrow.
"Yours of course Angel." She smiled then laughed a little. "At least that's what I'll tell ya." She laughed.
"Great Faith." Angel replied. He knew she was joking, she always seemed to make him feel better with her ability to kid with him. They smiled at each other and moments later Willow and Giles came out of the kitchen.
"Let's do this." The redheaded witch said simply.
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Connor didn't want to reply, he couldn't tell her the truth so his mind raced with words that started with vamp, he couldn't think of any. Dalton realized she wasn't going to get an answer. "Your mother was a vampire?" She asked in a regular tone.
"You aren't surprised and you aren't throwing me out of your car?" Connor questioned.
"No, but she was, wasn't she? What about your dad?"
"They both are, my mom had to stake herself so I could live and my dad runs an Investigations company for weird stuff back in L.A." Connor explained.
"Well, Connor now that I have the truth about you I guess you can have it about me." She finally said, letting him know that almost everything she told him had been a lie. "I am singer and I do work at the Holiday Inn, I do help people, and I did see your friend at Suite 16. But I'm not nineteen, my name isn't Dalton Adams, and I'm not exactly all human." She confessed.
"Then who are you?" Connor arched an eyebrow.
"I'm Twenty-one, my name is Cameron Doyle and I'm half demon." She said with a tone that said she was truly sorry for not telling him before.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Connor asked.
"Well, you said you were from L.A. which is where my brother lived for a while. He was also half demon and I thought you might know him or something. And I thought you kinda didn't know about vampires and stuff and I didn't want to freak you out. Don't really know why I lied about my age." She laughed a little at herself.
"What happened to your brother?" Connor asked. At first He was a little upset that she lied, but she had been willing to help him so he thought he could probably get over it.
"Well he's kinda, um, dead." Cameron replied.
"Sorry." Connor replied.
"He was a great guy though, used to work for some do-gooder named Angel. He used to have vis-
"Angel?" Connor's tone became very serious.
"Yeah." Cameron nodded.
"That's my father."
"Wow that's weird.
"No shit."
Cameron laughed, "So you are the kid of two vampires and I'm half demon. Funny how we found each other huh?" She smirked. The pair sat in silence for a moment until they had to stop at another red light. Connor turned and looked at the blond and was about to say something when she screamed out in pain and jerked forward.
"Cameron are you okay?" Connor leaned forward as she continued to gasp for air.
"Do I look okay?" She asked sarcastically, still holding her head in pain.
"What happened?" Connor asked, he'd never seen anything like this before, she had been fine.
"I had a vision." She breathed quietly. "God!" She screamed, smacking her steering wheel. "She looked up through the windshield, "Why me?" She growled.
"What did you see?" Connor ask inquisitively.
"Your friend, she's with some guy right?" She asked.
"Think so."
"Well she's gonna be," She shook her head quick, still obviously in pain. "Fighting for her life, pretty soon." She explained. Connor was about to say something, but Cameron stopped him, "We can't save her by ourselves, we are gonna need some help on this one." She told him. Cameron took a sharp left and passed Suite 16 and turned down an alley on the opposite side of the street.
"Where?" Connor asked, sitting up straight.
"Where what? I said we were gonna need backup." Cameron repeated.
"You might, but I don't." Connor said, undoing his seatbelt and preparing to get out of her car.
"Whoa big boy, slow down. Yes you do, trust me." Cameron said calmly, she got out of the car and locked Connor in to be sure he wasn't going anywhere. She turned to see a crew, her crew, a bunch of misfit do-gooders just like her. Including herself there were five of them: Adrienne, a girl whose parents were killed by vampires; Tommy, whose girlfriend had tried to turn him; Kara, who was left for dead after a vampire attack, but was just faking it; and Terry who had been halfway to being turned when Cameron saved him.
"Killah Cam, what's going on?" Terry ask, he was always the first to talk. He was a black guy who stood at 6'5, the tallest in the group, with deep brown eyes and a lot of muscles.
"Vision, 57th street, alley behind Fifty Seven Fifty Seven. Lots of big demons, there will be two vamps there, don't kill them and don't let them leave." She commanded.
"K who's he?" Adrienne raised a think blond eyebrow. She had straight blond hair that barley brushed her shoulders and deep almond-brown eyes.
"He's Connor, Angel's son." She smirked.
"You mean the famous Angel from L.A.? The one your brother worked with?" Tommy asked, with a surprised look. Cameron nodded, "Wait a sec, Angel had a kid? With who?" He said, still surprised.
"Darla." She replied.
Connor rolled down the window on the driver's side and poked his head out, "How did you know that? I didn't tell you." Connor said, remembering their conversation.
"You said your mother staked herself so she could live, I knew she had staked herself for some reason. Plus there aren't really all that many kids runnin around saying that their mommies and daddies are both vampires." She raised both her eyebrows. "Come on kid, you think I wanted to help you because I am a nice person? Partially, but I had a vision about you coming out here." She smiled.
"Cam, hate to bust your explanation bubble and everything, but we do gotta go save some, un-lives here." Terry reminded her, poking her to get her attention.
"Lets roll."
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A/N: Thanks my reader!!! Chocolate for you **hands giant heresy bar** Hehehe! This is defiantly my fav. Sequel out of all the ones I've written, or ever thought about writing. PLEASE REVIEW!! XOXO Charlize