Chapter 5: Hero
"Ahhh!" Cameron fell off Angel's shoulders, before she hit the ground Connor caught her. "Thanks." Cameron blushed.
Connor slowly leaned in toward Cameron's face and was about to kiss her, but she pulled back, "No, you don't want that." She looked into his chocolate brown eyes. He didn't say anything, she stood up, "I'm sorry Connor, I couldn't do that to you." She turned back and faced Angel and Cordelia.
"Do what to me?" He asked curiously.
"Nothing." She said, giving Cordelia the let's get this plan rolling' look.
Cordy began to fake a vision as planned and Connor and Angel rushed to her side, Cameron shimmered into the warehouse.
The half-demon drew her sword and began killing the vampires with ease, Charlize looked at her, "Ooh look at you, I wish I could do that." Charlize looked at the small blonde before her, she moved with grace and skill already; just think if she became a vampire.
"Don't you though." Cameron grimaced.
"What are you?" Damien stepped in front of Charlize, protecting his girlfriend, although she needed no protecting.
"Half-demon, you're a half-vampire, this will be an interesting fight." Cameron's accent was thick, and her attitude and anger growing. More vampires emerged from a back room and attacked the half-demon in the center beside the machine set to kill Charli's family.
"If you get that far." Charlize smiled maliciously.
"I will." Cameron began fighting the herd of the vampires with her strength, she couldn't match a Slayer's strength but she was powerful. The vampires numbers didn't seem to get any smaller, the half-demon was beginning to tire out when she heard a loud crashing sound and Angel, Cordy and Connor stood at the entrance, with the door lying on the stairs before them. Cameron glanced at Cordy in-between dustings "Took you long enough." She said, then spinning and slicing a vampire in half.
"Sorry, didn't know how long it would take you." She apologized. The three of them rushed toward the mass of vampires surrounding Cameron. When there were only around ten left, Cameron rushed to the machine's upper level where Charlize and Damien were, Cameron quickly knocked Charlize over the bar, sending her flying to the cement ground below. Before the half demon could attack Damien pressed a button on the killing machine. Cameron, who was in a non-obvious panic, looked down at Angel, Cordy and Connor, who were finishing off the last few vampires.
"Get out NOW!" She screamed, the punching Damien in the nose with all the strength she had left. He fell, but not all the way to the ground. Angel and Cordelia looked at each other with a returning sadness from when the half-demon's older brother had died before their very eyes.
Angel grabbed his son's arm, "Let's go." He commanded, leading him up the stairs quickly.
"But Cameron..." Connor began.
"She'll be fine." Angel lied, he knew she wouldn't be and he could spot his own lie, and so could Connor. When the three were outside of the warehouse, they stopped, Connor turned and looked back through the doorway. Charlize and Damien ran out past them and Connor saw the machine firing up and Cameron's small blonde frame jumping into the laser meant to kill all of Angel and Buffy's friends. A single tear dropped from Connor's chocolate eyes, he didn't have time to mourn, so he blamed Damien. The son of two vampires still believed that there was a little good in Charlize, she could have never killed an innocent person. He jerked his father off his arm and then faced him and Cordelia again.
"What now?" He asked.
"We have to follow them." Angel stated, so they did.
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Cordelia kicked the bottom of the ticket desk, it was taking way to long to get a flight back to Los Angeles. Angel and Connor were standing by the window watching flights take off into the darkened night sky. The three of them knew that Charlize and Damien were already on the way back to Los Angeles. "Ma'am, we're trying our hardest and we don't need to have security to escort you out." The receptionist glared at the brunette in front of her.
"Sorry, but I need three tickets back to Los Angeles as soon as possible." Cordelia tried to explain again. The woman behind the desk still didn't look as if she were in a big hurry, "It's a family emergency." Cordelia started tapping her foot impatiently.
"Miss," The woman glanced back down at her computer screen, then back at Cordy with a look of relief on her tired face. "Okay, I have three coach tickets for—
"I'll take it." Cordelia cut her off, "When?"
"Thirty minutes." The receptionist replied.
"Great." Cordelia smiled as she pulled her wallet out of her pocket and grabbed her credit card out of the side. She handed it to her and seconds later the receptionist handed Cordelia the three tickets and her credit card. The brunette walked over to Angel and Connor who were still watching planes take off. "Thirty minutes." She handed each of them a ticket and kept one for herself.
"I don't believe this." Angel said quietly. Cordelia and Connor looked at him curiously and he continued, "She's..." He trailed off, both of them knowing what he would have said.
"It's not you're fault Angel." Cordelia told him.
"Next you're going to tell me that it wasn't my fault Doyle died either." Angel snorted angrily.
"It wasn't." Cordelia said simply. "Everyone has a destiny."
"But things can be changed. We shouldn't have let her go in there alone." Angel replied.
"You couldn't have stopped her." Connor butted in, showing his father that he cared about him.
"I didn't even try to." Angel replied. Then he heard a voice in his head, 'You can't save everyone Angel. Everyone has there time to die, to live and be happy. You know deep down what you've got to do to save Charli.' This voice was very familiar, but it spoke with concern that Angel had never heard from this person.
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Charlize and Damien stood on the outside to the pentagram watching the witch work. The pair of them were leaning on each other and wall of the plane behind them. The two vampires had caught a ride on a luggage plane on it's way to Los Angeles, Charlize had figure out that if she couldn't kill them all from far away, then she'd have to do it in person. Damien shifted, it had been his idea to get the witch to use black magic to 'speak' to Angel and make him follow out their plan. The witch blew out her candle and grew quiet.
"Thank you for doing this on short notice." Charlize smiled, rather maliciously. She ran her tongue over her slight fangs, then licked her lips. "It really was a great gesture." She said, stepping inside the pentagram toward the witch.
"Really, we can't make him evil another way." Damien said, stepping up beside Charlize. "Although it was really great of you to do this, we can't risk their witch finding out about it." The pair continued to move closer to the witch, whom was now slowly backing away from the two vampires.
"You know how the goodie-goods are." Charlize smiled, "They taste so damn good." She growled. Charlize was on the left of the witch and Damien was on the right and they had her pressed up against the side of the plane. The witch looked terrified, "But the evil ones taste better, less sugary." She smiled her malicious smile again and she and her lover each bit into the witch's neck.
Minutes later, the witch lay dead on the floor and Charlize and Damien were going through her magic book. "It's it great what they leave behind?" Damien smiled, turning the page.
Charlize liked a drop of dried blood off her lower lip then looked down at the book, "I can't wait 'till Angeles." She smiled to herself.
"No place like home."
"Nothing like family."
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"Angel are you sure we should even try this, it hasn't worked well in the past." Cordelia asked him as they boarded the plane.
"Cordelia, I'm not going to spend the rest of my eternity chasing after her, this way she'll come to me." Angel replied, sitting down in his seat.
"But what if she knows better than to fall for it?" Connor asked sitting on the opposite side of his father as Cordelia.
"Look, this is what my instincts are telling me. We need Angelus. He understands how an evil mind works."
"Shouldn't you know?" His son asked. Cordelia gave him a glare.
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A/N: OKAY! That was WAY shorter than I thought it would be. Thanks for the reviews, I would like some more! *grins hopefully* The next chapter is already in the works...XOXO Charlize
Next Chapter: The return of Angelus.
"Ahhh!" Cameron fell off Angel's shoulders, before she hit the ground Connor caught her. "Thanks." Cameron blushed.
Connor slowly leaned in toward Cameron's face and was about to kiss her, but she pulled back, "No, you don't want that." She looked into his chocolate brown eyes. He didn't say anything, she stood up, "I'm sorry Connor, I couldn't do that to you." She turned back and faced Angel and Cordelia.
"Do what to me?" He asked curiously.
"Nothing." She said, giving Cordelia the let's get this plan rolling' look.
Cordy began to fake a vision as planned and Connor and Angel rushed to her side, Cameron shimmered into the warehouse.
The half-demon drew her sword and began killing the vampires with ease, Charlize looked at her, "Ooh look at you, I wish I could do that." Charlize looked at the small blonde before her, she moved with grace and skill already; just think if she became a vampire.
"Don't you though." Cameron grimaced.
"What are you?" Damien stepped in front of Charlize, protecting his girlfriend, although she needed no protecting.
"Half-demon, you're a half-vampire, this will be an interesting fight." Cameron's accent was thick, and her attitude and anger growing. More vampires emerged from a back room and attacked the half-demon in the center beside the machine set to kill Charli's family.
"If you get that far." Charlize smiled maliciously.
"I will." Cameron began fighting the herd of the vampires with her strength, she couldn't match a Slayer's strength but she was powerful. The vampires numbers didn't seem to get any smaller, the half-demon was beginning to tire out when she heard a loud crashing sound and Angel, Cordy and Connor stood at the entrance, with the door lying on the stairs before them. Cameron glanced at Cordy in-between dustings "Took you long enough." She said, then spinning and slicing a vampire in half.
"Sorry, didn't know how long it would take you." She apologized. The three of them rushed toward the mass of vampires surrounding Cameron. When there were only around ten left, Cameron rushed to the machine's upper level where Charlize and Damien were, Cameron quickly knocked Charlize over the bar, sending her flying to the cement ground below. Before the half demon could attack Damien pressed a button on the killing machine. Cameron, who was in a non-obvious panic, looked down at Angel, Cordy and Connor, who were finishing off the last few vampires.
"Get out NOW!" She screamed, the punching Damien in the nose with all the strength she had left. He fell, but not all the way to the ground. Angel and Cordelia looked at each other with a returning sadness from when the half-demon's older brother had died before their very eyes.
Angel grabbed his son's arm, "Let's go." He commanded, leading him up the stairs quickly.
"But Cameron..." Connor began.
"She'll be fine." Angel lied, he knew she wouldn't be and he could spot his own lie, and so could Connor. When the three were outside of the warehouse, they stopped, Connor turned and looked back through the doorway. Charlize and Damien ran out past them and Connor saw the machine firing up and Cameron's small blonde frame jumping into the laser meant to kill all of Angel and Buffy's friends. A single tear dropped from Connor's chocolate eyes, he didn't have time to mourn, so he blamed Damien. The son of two vampires still believed that there was a little good in Charlize, she could have never killed an innocent person. He jerked his father off his arm and then faced him and Cordelia again.
"What now?" He asked.
"We have to follow them." Angel stated, so they did.
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Cordelia kicked the bottom of the ticket desk, it was taking way to long to get a flight back to Los Angeles. Angel and Connor were standing by the window watching flights take off into the darkened night sky. The three of them knew that Charlize and Damien were already on the way back to Los Angeles. "Ma'am, we're trying our hardest and we don't need to have security to escort you out." The receptionist glared at the brunette in front of her.
"Sorry, but I need three tickets back to Los Angeles as soon as possible." Cordelia tried to explain again. The woman behind the desk still didn't look as if she were in a big hurry, "It's a family emergency." Cordelia started tapping her foot impatiently.
"Miss," The woman glanced back down at her computer screen, then back at Cordy with a look of relief on her tired face. "Okay, I have three coach tickets for—
"I'll take it." Cordelia cut her off, "When?"
"Thirty minutes." The receptionist replied.
"Great." Cordelia smiled as she pulled her wallet out of her pocket and grabbed her credit card out of the side. She handed it to her and seconds later the receptionist handed Cordelia the three tickets and her credit card. The brunette walked over to Angel and Connor who were still watching planes take off. "Thirty minutes." She handed each of them a ticket and kept one for herself.
"I don't believe this." Angel said quietly. Cordelia and Connor looked at him curiously and he continued, "She's..." He trailed off, both of them knowing what he would have said.
"It's not you're fault Angel." Cordelia told him.
"Next you're going to tell me that it wasn't my fault Doyle died either." Angel snorted angrily.
"It wasn't." Cordelia said simply. "Everyone has a destiny."
"But things can be changed. We shouldn't have let her go in there alone." Angel replied.
"You couldn't have stopped her." Connor butted in, showing his father that he cared about him.
"I didn't even try to." Angel replied. Then he heard a voice in his head, 'You can't save everyone Angel. Everyone has there time to die, to live and be happy. You know deep down what you've got to do to save Charli.' This voice was very familiar, but it spoke with concern that Angel had never heard from this person.
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Charlize and Damien stood on the outside to the pentagram watching the witch work. The pair of them were leaning on each other and wall of the plane behind them. The two vampires had caught a ride on a luggage plane on it's way to Los Angeles, Charlize had figure out that if she couldn't kill them all from far away, then she'd have to do it in person. Damien shifted, it had been his idea to get the witch to use black magic to 'speak' to Angel and make him follow out their plan. The witch blew out her candle and grew quiet.
"Thank you for doing this on short notice." Charlize smiled, rather maliciously. She ran her tongue over her slight fangs, then licked her lips. "It really was a great gesture." She said, stepping inside the pentagram toward the witch.
"Really, we can't make him evil another way." Damien said, stepping up beside Charlize. "Although it was really great of you to do this, we can't risk their witch finding out about it." The pair continued to move closer to the witch, whom was now slowly backing away from the two vampires.
"You know how the goodie-goods are." Charlize smiled, "They taste so damn good." She growled. Charlize was on the left of the witch and Damien was on the right and they had her pressed up against the side of the plane. The witch looked terrified, "But the evil ones taste better, less sugary." She smiled her malicious smile again and she and her lover each bit into the witch's neck.
Minutes later, the witch lay dead on the floor and Charlize and Damien were going through her magic book. "It's it great what they leave behind?" Damien smiled, turning the page.
Charlize liked a drop of dried blood off her lower lip then looked down at the book, "I can't wait 'till Angeles." She smiled to herself.
"No place like home."
"Nothing like family."
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"Angel are you sure we should even try this, it hasn't worked well in the past." Cordelia asked him as they boarded the plane.
"Cordelia, I'm not going to spend the rest of my eternity chasing after her, this way she'll come to me." Angel replied, sitting down in his seat.
"But what if she knows better than to fall for it?" Connor asked sitting on the opposite side of his father as Cordelia.
"Look, this is what my instincts are telling me. We need Angelus. He understands how an evil mind works."
"Shouldn't you know?" His son asked. Cordelia gave him a glare.
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A/N: OKAY! That was WAY shorter than I thought it would be. Thanks for the reviews, I would like some more! *grins hopefully* The next chapter is already in the works...XOXO Charlize
Next Chapter: The return of Angelus.