Chapter 4: Against All Odds
"Cameron, are you okay?" Connor asked, helping her stand back up.
"No." She said bitterly.
"Here." Cordelia handed the blonde two pills and a glass of water. "I know how you feel." Cameron half smiled at Cordelia and took the two aspirins.
"What did you see?" Angel asked.
"Connor I don't think we killed all of those demons." Cameron told him.
"What do you mean?" He asked, everyone thinking that this was what Cameron's vision was about.
"Let's go." She said, sitting down her glass on a table and she walked toward the door. Angel, Connor, and Buffy followed. "I don't have my car." Cameron frowned; she thought it would just be her and Angel.
"We can go in mine." Angel told her. She nodded and straightened her shirt and followed the vampire out to his black convertible.
"Ooh, shine-y!" Cameron smiled. She hopped over the door on the passenger side in the front and buckled up. Angel got in the driver's seat and started the car. Connor and Buffy got into the back and Cameron, as a 'reflex' turned on the radio until she found something acceptable. The half- demon settled on Baby Bash & Frankie J.'s 'Suga Suga', she started singing; and she was good.
"I didn't know demons could sing." Buffy said, she wasn't too trusting of the half-demon she just met, and vice versa.
"Didn't know Slayers were so bitchy." Cameron smiled in reply. Angel tried not to laugh, but at the moment he couldn't help it.
"Cameron-
He was about to say something like, 'even though it's true be nice' when Cameron screamed and grabbed her forehead and slung forward almost hitting her head on the dashboard. Angel slammed on the breaks and then pulled over into a parking place.
~Vast fields of green *Old castle looking buildings ~Charlize & Damien *Damien dusting ~More Liva demons in an alley in L.A. * 'I SAID GO HOME' scrawled across the wall
"What is it?" Connor asked, leaning forward.
"The powers really wanted to make sure I got the point." Cameron smiled weakly. "God that hurts." She said, then shaking her head furiously. The four of them sat in silence, "Alley down the street to the left, that's where they are hiding. They, um, the Livas." Cameron explained.
Angel nodded and started his car back up, and started to drive again. "You look like him you know." Angel said, glancing over at Cameron.
"You're supposed to be making me feel better." She rolled her eyes at the vampire. "Angel can't you drive any faster?" Cameron asked anxious to get in a fight.
"Can't you just do that thing that you did to get us here in like 10 seconds?" Connor asked.
"What thing?" Angel asked, glancing back at his son, then back at Cameron.
"Be careful." She looked at Angel and then disappeared again in that oh-so-special shimmery way.
"What was that?" Angel asked, looking back at Connor, who shrugged as Angel turned and started looking for the alley full of Livas. When he found it he stopped the car and the remaining three got out and looked down the alley where Cameron was standing, with a knife in hand surrounded by lots of dead demons.
"Angelcakes, that was my shimmer effect and I only killed three, the rest were already dead." Cameron explained, sticking her knife in her tan jacket.
"What's that?" Buffy asked staring back toward the back wall of the alley.
Cameron, Connor, and Angel turned around to see 'I SAID GO HOME' written across the wall in deep purple demon blood. "What is she talking about, I am home." Connor stared at the wall mysteriously. "We got one of these in New York." Connor told his father.
"She's not talking to you." Cameron said, finally understanding that she wasn't talking to her ex-boyfriend, but to her.
"Huh?" Buffy asked looking at the half-demon.
"She wants me to go home." Cameron explained.
"Where's home?" Angel looked over at her.
"Ireland." Cameron replied.
"Ah, we goin' on a field trip?" Spike's voice came from the entrance of the alley with Faith, Gunn, Wesley, and Bryan.
"No. Who are you?" Cameron turned her head slightly to the left and stared at the attractive vampire and his friends.
"I'm Spike." He smiled, looking at her. Buffy was about to say something about there marriage and the fact that Cameron was half-demon but she sneezed once again and her skin turned green and little blue horns popped out all over her face. She shook her head and returned to the person Spike had been checking out. Faith, instinctively, redrew her stake and stood in her fighting stance.
"And I'm not evil." Cameron said innocently.
"Excuse the Slayer." The black man said, taking a step over a dead Liva. "Did you do all this?" He asked curiously, Cameron shook her head. "Gunn." He introduced himself.
"Cameron." She said simply.
"This is Wesley, Bryan, and Faith." Gunn told her. "And what were you saying about Ireland?" Gunn asked, as they were all curious to see what was going on.
"Angel, I've got to go." Cameron looked into his chocolate eyes.
"No." He looked up from the demon bodies into her eyes. "You can't go by yourself." He told her.
"Angel you aren't my father, you can't tell me what to do." She said, turning toward the end of the alley and stepping over demons bodies. She was stopped by Spike.
"Come on now pet, the man is offering you help. Which you're gonna need against this crazy bit. Trust me I know, she's my daughter." Spike said, stopping her with his arm.
"Okay fine." Cameron growled at Spike and turned around. "Let's go back to the hotel and load up." She told the oldest ensouled vampire.
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Cameron and Cordelia, whom also insisted to go, so much that she annoyed Angel into it, walked down the stairs fresh and wearing clean clothes. Cameron had borrow a pair of jeans and a black tank top with a green clover on it from Cordelia and Cordy was wearing a pair of dark jeans and a tight navy pullover over a white camisole. Connor stood beside his father at the base of the stairs holding a black duffle bag that was filled to the brim with weapons.
"What so now we're all going?" Cameron raised an eyebrow.
"He knows her better than the rest of us do, he could help." Angel told Cameron, who wasn't very willing to be taking three people with her when she thought she could take it on her own.
'He knows Charli, not Charlize.' Cameron thought as she stepped off the last stair beside Cordelia. "Okay peoples I've only done this with one person before so if I accidentally leave you, sorry in advance." She explained, and then picked up the black messenger bag that was full of weapons. Cordelia also picked up a bag and Connor and Angel both had swords and stakes inside their jackets. "Okay then." Cameron grabbed Cordelia's hand with her left one and put her right arm around Angel's waist. Connor stood in front of her and put both his arms around her and Buffy and the gang stood amazed that the four of them disappeared.
Seconds later the four reappeared in a large green field under the night sky in Galway, Ireland. "Wow." Cordelia looked around seeing the city in Ireland for the first time in her life.
"Your brother never told me that he was from Galway." Angel told Cameron.
"Well Angel, there's a lot of stuff you don't know." She said, readjusting her bag and walking toward the town. Angel rolled his eyes and followed her, with Connor and Cordelia close behind.
The vampire caught up with her first, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Sorry Angel, I didn't mean to be bitchy about it. But there is some stuff you don't know, but we'll go there later." Cameron replied.
Angel looked up at the sky; the blackish color was beginning to fade. "It's almost sunrise I need to get in the sewers or inside."
"I know where a hotel is that will give us one room for free." Cameron said as the four entered the cities sidewalk.
"How can you get it for free?" Connor asked curiously.
"I used to date the owner, he never got over me." She smiled and bounced her eyebrows as the four rounded a corner.
Ten minutes later the Angel, Connor, Cordelia and Cameron were in a rather large room of a hotel. "You were a lot more charming than your brother." Cordelia laughed as she dropped her bag of weapons on the floor.
"Yeah, Francis never was a big people person. That's just the way he was, he was quiet and kinda shy and I was the loudmouth." Cameron explained.
Cordelia smiled sadly and looked at Angel, everything she was saying had been true. They both missed their friend, but they couldn't let the pain get in the way of what they were there for.
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Cameron breathed deep, "Sunset." The sky was traced with its last streaks of orange and pink and the purple and blue mixture began to take it over. The first stars were appearing around the full moon. "Angel, Connor, you two are the resident super-smellers and hearers so therefore it's up to you two to find Charlize and Damien." She explained. She picked up her bag from the couch and put it over her shoulder.
"What do we do when we find her?" Connor asked. The four had all day to plan something but they didn't Cameron and Cordelia had went 'shopping' but had really devised their own plan because the girls knew that Connor and Angel wouldn't be too fond of this plan.
"We'll have too see." Cameron replied. And that was the end of discussion for the moment. The four of them left the hotel and Angel and Connor started using their super senses to track Charlize and Damien.
About an hour later Angel's senses were telling him that they had found the Slayer. She was inside a huge abandoned warehouse that was mostly underground. The top stuck out of the ground about eight feet and had three small windows on three out of four sides. The fourth side held the door, but to get to it there was a long staircase leading down. "I suggest we peek in the window before we go busting in like a bunch of idiots." Cameron suggested.
"I agree." Angel nodded.
Cameron took her bag off her shoulders and handed it to Cordy, she looked at Angel, "pick me up." She commanded him.
"What?" He asked, surprised.
"You wanna know what's in there don't you?" She said, taking a step closer to the vampire.
"Alright." Angel bent down and Cameron hopped on his shoulders and he stood up again. Cameron laughed at the vampire as he steadied himself and she peaked up through the window.
Inside she saw: Charlize and Damien surrounded by vampiric henchmen and a huge machine with a laser beam generator on the top and two video screens on it. On one of the screens were Buffy, her friends and Angel's friends in the hotel in different places. On the other was a satellite camera from space that was hovering California, it had two mirror panels on it, but Cameron knew what they were for.
"Oh God." She said so quietly that only Angel heard her.
"What? What is it?" He asked lowering her back down to the ground.
"Somehow Charlize has gotten someone to get a satellite re-orbited and they've got it right over L.A. and it's positioned on the Hyperion." She explained.
"She couldn't stand the thought of letting the only people in the world living and tracking her and caring about her. That's why she wants them dead." Connor told Cameron, his father and Cordelia.
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A/N: This chapter wasn't as long as the last ones but that's okay b/c the next one will be pretty long. (I think) Please review!! XOXO Charlize
"Cameron, are you okay?" Connor asked, helping her stand back up.
"No." She said bitterly.
"Here." Cordelia handed the blonde two pills and a glass of water. "I know how you feel." Cameron half smiled at Cordelia and took the two aspirins.
"What did you see?" Angel asked.
"Connor I don't think we killed all of those demons." Cameron told him.
"What do you mean?" He asked, everyone thinking that this was what Cameron's vision was about.
"Let's go." She said, sitting down her glass on a table and she walked toward the door. Angel, Connor, and Buffy followed. "I don't have my car." Cameron frowned; she thought it would just be her and Angel.
"We can go in mine." Angel told her. She nodded and straightened her shirt and followed the vampire out to his black convertible.
"Ooh, shine-y!" Cameron smiled. She hopped over the door on the passenger side in the front and buckled up. Angel got in the driver's seat and started the car. Connor and Buffy got into the back and Cameron, as a 'reflex' turned on the radio until she found something acceptable. The half- demon settled on Baby Bash & Frankie J.'s 'Suga Suga', she started singing; and she was good.
"I didn't know demons could sing." Buffy said, she wasn't too trusting of the half-demon she just met, and vice versa.
"Didn't know Slayers were so bitchy." Cameron smiled in reply. Angel tried not to laugh, but at the moment he couldn't help it.
"Cameron-
He was about to say something like, 'even though it's true be nice' when Cameron screamed and grabbed her forehead and slung forward almost hitting her head on the dashboard. Angel slammed on the breaks and then pulled over into a parking place.
~Vast fields of green *Old castle looking buildings ~Charlize & Damien *Damien dusting ~More Liva demons in an alley in L.A. * 'I SAID GO HOME' scrawled across the wall
"What is it?" Connor asked, leaning forward.
"The powers really wanted to make sure I got the point." Cameron smiled weakly. "God that hurts." She said, then shaking her head furiously. The four of them sat in silence, "Alley down the street to the left, that's where they are hiding. They, um, the Livas." Cameron explained.
Angel nodded and started his car back up, and started to drive again. "You look like him you know." Angel said, glancing over at Cameron.
"You're supposed to be making me feel better." She rolled her eyes at the vampire. "Angel can't you drive any faster?" Cameron asked anxious to get in a fight.
"Can't you just do that thing that you did to get us here in like 10 seconds?" Connor asked.
"What thing?" Angel asked, glancing back at his son, then back at Cameron.
"Be careful." She looked at Angel and then disappeared again in that oh-so-special shimmery way.
"What was that?" Angel asked, looking back at Connor, who shrugged as Angel turned and started looking for the alley full of Livas. When he found it he stopped the car and the remaining three got out and looked down the alley where Cameron was standing, with a knife in hand surrounded by lots of dead demons.
"Angelcakes, that was my shimmer effect and I only killed three, the rest were already dead." Cameron explained, sticking her knife in her tan jacket.
"What's that?" Buffy asked staring back toward the back wall of the alley.
Cameron, Connor, and Angel turned around to see 'I SAID GO HOME' written across the wall in deep purple demon blood. "What is she talking about, I am home." Connor stared at the wall mysteriously. "We got one of these in New York." Connor told his father.
"She's not talking to you." Cameron said, finally understanding that she wasn't talking to her ex-boyfriend, but to her.
"Huh?" Buffy asked looking at the half-demon.
"She wants me to go home." Cameron explained.
"Where's home?" Angel looked over at her.
"Ireland." Cameron replied.
"Ah, we goin' on a field trip?" Spike's voice came from the entrance of the alley with Faith, Gunn, Wesley, and Bryan.
"No. Who are you?" Cameron turned her head slightly to the left and stared at the attractive vampire and his friends.
"I'm Spike." He smiled, looking at her. Buffy was about to say something about there marriage and the fact that Cameron was half-demon but she sneezed once again and her skin turned green and little blue horns popped out all over her face. She shook her head and returned to the person Spike had been checking out. Faith, instinctively, redrew her stake and stood in her fighting stance.
"And I'm not evil." Cameron said innocently.
"Excuse the Slayer." The black man said, taking a step over a dead Liva. "Did you do all this?" He asked curiously, Cameron shook her head. "Gunn." He introduced himself.
"Cameron." She said simply.
"This is Wesley, Bryan, and Faith." Gunn told her. "And what were you saying about Ireland?" Gunn asked, as they were all curious to see what was going on.
"Angel, I've got to go." Cameron looked into his chocolate eyes.
"No." He looked up from the demon bodies into her eyes. "You can't go by yourself." He told her.
"Angel you aren't my father, you can't tell me what to do." She said, turning toward the end of the alley and stepping over demons bodies. She was stopped by Spike.
"Come on now pet, the man is offering you help. Which you're gonna need against this crazy bit. Trust me I know, she's my daughter." Spike said, stopping her with his arm.
"Okay fine." Cameron growled at Spike and turned around. "Let's go back to the hotel and load up." She told the oldest ensouled vampire.
~~~~
Cameron and Cordelia, whom also insisted to go, so much that she annoyed Angel into it, walked down the stairs fresh and wearing clean clothes. Cameron had borrow a pair of jeans and a black tank top with a green clover on it from Cordelia and Cordy was wearing a pair of dark jeans and a tight navy pullover over a white camisole. Connor stood beside his father at the base of the stairs holding a black duffle bag that was filled to the brim with weapons.
"What so now we're all going?" Cameron raised an eyebrow.
"He knows her better than the rest of us do, he could help." Angel told Cameron, who wasn't very willing to be taking three people with her when she thought she could take it on her own.
'He knows Charli, not Charlize.' Cameron thought as she stepped off the last stair beside Cordelia. "Okay peoples I've only done this with one person before so if I accidentally leave you, sorry in advance." She explained, and then picked up the black messenger bag that was full of weapons. Cordelia also picked up a bag and Connor and Angel both had swords and stakes inside their jackets. "Okay then." Cameron grabbed Cordelia's hand with her left one and put her right arm around Angel's waist. Connor stood in front of her and put both his arms around her and Buffy and the gang stood amazed that the four of them disappeared.
Seconds later the four reappeared in a large green field under the night sky in Galway, Ireland. "Wow." Cordelia looked around seeing the city in Ireland for the first time in her life.
"Your brother never told me that he was from Galway." Angel told Cameron.
"Well Angel, there's a lot of stuff you don't know." She said, readjusting her bag and walking toward the town. Angel rolled his eyes and followed her, with Connor and Cordelia close behind.
The vampire caught up with her first, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Sorry Angel, I didn't mean to be bitchy about it. But there is some stuff you don't know, but we'll go there later." Cameron replied.
Angel looked up at the sky; the blackish color was beginning to fade. "It's almost sunrise I need to get in the sewers or inside."
"I know where a hotel is that will give us one room for free." Cameron said as the four entered the cities sidewalk.
"How can you get it for free?" Connor asked curiously.
"I used to date the owner, he never got over me." She smiled and bounced her eyebrows as the four rounded a corner.
Ten minutes later the Angel, Connor, Cordelia and Cameron were in a rather large room of a hotel. "You were a lot more charming than your brother." Cordelia laughed as she dropped her bag of weapons on the floor.
"Yeah, Francis never was a big people person. That's just the way he was, he was quiet and kinda shy and I was the loudmouth." Cameron explained.
Cordelia smiled sadly and looked at Angel, everything she was saying had been true. They both missed their friend, but they couldn't let the pain get in the way of what they were there for.
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Cameron breathed deep, "Sunset." The sky was traced with its last streaks of orange and pink and the purple and blue mixture began to take it over. The first stars were appearing around the full moon. "Angel, Connor, you two are the resident super-smellers and hearers so therefore it's up to you two to find Charlize and Damien." She explained. She picked up her bag from the couch and put it over her shoulder.
"What do we do when we find her?" Connor asked. The four had all day to plan something but they didn't Cameron and Cordelia had went 'shopping' but had really devised their own plan because the girls knew that Connor and Angel wouldn't be too fond of this plan.
"We'll have too see." Cameron replied. And that was the end of discussion for the moment. The four of them left the hotel and Angel and Connor started using their super senses to track Charlize and Damien.
About an hour later Angel's senses were telling him that they had found the Slayer. She was inside a huge abandoned warehouse that was mostly underground. The top stuck out of the ground about eight feet and had three small windows on three out of four sides. The fourth side held the door, but to get to it there was a long staircase leading down. "I suggest we peek in the window before we go busting in like a bunch of idiots." Cameron suggested.
"I agree." Angel nodded.
Cameron took her bag off her shoulders and handed it to Cordy, she looked at Angel, "pick me up." She commanded him.
"What?" He asked, surprised.
"You wanna know what's in there don't you?" She said, taking a step closer to the vampire.
"Alright." Angel bent down and Cameron hopped on his shoulders and he stood up again. Cameron laughed at the vampire as he steadied himself and she peaked up through the window.
Inside she saw: Charlize and Damien surrounded by vampiric henchmen and a huge machine with a laser beam generator on the top and two video screens on it. On one of the screens were Buffy, her friends and Angel's friends in the hotel in different places. On the other was a satellite camera from space that was hovering California, it had two mirror panels on it, but Cameron knew what they were for.
"Oh God." She said so quietly that only Angel heard her.
"What? What is it?" He asked lowering her back down to the ground.
"Somehow Charlize has gotten someone to get a satellite re-orbited and they've got it right over L.A. and it's positioned on the Hyperion." She explained.
"She couldn't stand the thought of letting the only people in the world living and tracking her and caring about her. That's why she wants them dead." Connor told Cameron, his father and Cordelia.
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A/N: This chapter wasn't as long as the last ones but that's okay b/c the next one will be pretty long. (I think) Please review!! XOXO Charlize