6x02: Ex-Potential

Previously on Angel: W&H collapsed, Buffy, Willow, and the Slayers helped with the battle against the demons, Spike got burned, Angel, Spike, Illyria, and motionless Gunn in the factory, and Missy turning around saying, 'I'm Missy, the Vampire Slayer. Duh.'

A didgital clock blinked 3:22 am on a small crate next to two figures as they slowly streched in symbolism. Angel stood on the left, leading off the streching to Missy who followed closley after his actions. Angel was shirtless but wore black sweats and Missy wore a black spegg. strap tank top and black sweats, both had their arms streched out in front of them with soft soothing yoga music playing in the backround.

" This is really.... Tireing." Missy sighed dropping her position. " Why do we gotta do this at 3 in the morning?"

" Because I like to torture you." Angel replied simply continuing with his streches.

" But why me? Why do you want to train me?" Missy asked then grinned, " That other vampire said that you, 'fancied me' or something."

Angel groaned, " That's just Spike being an ass."

" Oh." Missy said shrugging.

" Why? Do you fancy me?" Angel said quickly turning to her. " I mean, not like I really need to know or anything."

" Well, lets see." Missy said smiling and started to walk around him. " Tall. Dark. Mysterious to an extent. Tattoes are a turn on majorly. But...." Missy stopped at his side and Angel immediantly turned his head to her.

" But what?" He asked with a higher tone.

" Waking me up at 3 am to do Yoga lessons is a no no. I need my freaking beauty sleep!" Missy said crossing her arms and pouting.

Angel chuckled, " So do you fancy me for those reasons?"

" I never said that I fancied you though." Missy said smiling and walked off to the boom box she brought over and turned off the Yoga music. " I so desperetly need some sleep. Don't you vampires sleep during the day or something?"

" Yeah during the day, but I'm not like other vampires." Angel said grabbing his shirt from the back of a chair and putting it on.

" You cerently aren't." Missy said with a smile and walked out into the dimly light streets.

Missy walked down the street to her apartment with a slight yawn, she waked into the allyway leading to the backdoor and gasped when a dark figure swept in front of her.

" Melissa you're out early." Said the figure, he had gray scaley skin and a white hair to his shoulders, two white horns stuck out 2 inches from his head and a white stubby beard stuck out from his chin. His eyes were bright red with dark red iris's, his eyes stared deeply into Missy's.

" What do you want Scorn?" Missy asked with much distaste in her voice.

" What no 'hello'?" He asked with a slight smirk. He wore a long black cloak that reached to the floor with blood splattered over it.

" Hello." She said rolling her eyes, " Okay, now back to the orginal question, what do you want?"

" I need you to do a job for me." He said simply.

" No freaking way, I'm done working for you Scorn." Missy said grunting and started walking to the door but Scorn stepped in front of her blocking her again.

" I'm afraid I can't accept that cupcake." He said folding his hands behind his back. " You've got to do what I say."

" Look, I don't got to do anything you say, I'm not your cupcake, so get lost and find another lacky to do you dirty work." Missy said stepping to the side to pass him but Scorn blocked her again.

" Oh, I'm afraid you are binded to me. We have a contract, remember?" Scorn said pulling out a peice of paper from his robe.

" I don't care what the freaking contract, you can kiss my blonde slayer ass for all I care cause I don't work for you know more. Get that through your head." Missy said grabbing the contract and went to rip it in half when Scorn held out his hand and sqweezed his palm. Missy screamed and clutched her heart falling to her knees. " Oh god my heart!"

" No no, not your heart, your soul." Scorn shook his head taking the contract from her again. " We made this little contract back when I discovered you as a frightened little 16 year old Potential Slayer taking care of your sick mother, and I took you in and trained you for 3 years. And you did what ever I said so in return I saved your mother, I took controll of your soul just incase you decided to defy me, guess that came in handy huh?" He smiled as she started to get back onto her feet again. " Then you ran off to Rome when you were 19 after you became a Slayer and came back and didn't even bother to call me? Tsk Tsk we're nearly family!"

" You. Are. Not. My. Family." Missy said gritting her teeth in a scowl. " You killed my mother!"

" Oh no I didn't, you told me to save her from cancer I did. You didn't say anything about saving her from that speeding bus that-"

" Shut up!" Missy said coverering her ears.

" Oh don't worry, I didn't bring you all bad news. I have some good news. If you do this one last mission for me, I will destroy the contract and give your soul back to you and never bother you again. Deal?" Scorn asked holding out his hand and Missy shook it reluctantly.

" What do you want me to do?" Missy asked crossing her arms.

" Kill the souled vampire they call Angel." Scorn said with a devilish smile.

Angel sat on a crate watching Illyria as she moved her hand over Gunn's stomach, Spike lay on a few crates in the shadows watching her as well.

" I am fully empowered now." Illyria said emotionless as she placed both hands over the wound in his stomach.

" She's whatly what?" Spike asked sighing.

" She's fully empowered. I guess that means she's chalk full of energy again." Angel replied. Illyria closed her eyes and hummed dully as a blue light started to form around her hands and then moved into Gunns stomach. Gunn twitched a little, and then groaned and opened his eyes. Illyria removed her hands and looked down at him.

" I thought we took Queen Smurf's powers." He said sitting up. " Not like I'm complain'n or anything, just wondering."

" She still has healing powers." Angel said walking over to Gunn, " Welcome back."

" Man how long was I out?" Gunn said rubbing his eyes.

" A month." Spike replied from the shadows.

" 27 days, 6 hours and 53 minutes." Illyria replied.

" Do you count the seconds too?" Spike asked sarcastically.

" Do you two shut up?" Angel snapped at the two of them.

" Uh, not to but in on your little love fest here but what happened to the hundreds of demons that were about to whip our ass's in an unpleasent way?" Gunn asked raising a brow. Angel sighed and grabbed a bottle of water out of a pack that Missy had left and handed it to Gunn who opened it willingly.

" Well, we fought for a while and then some reinforcments came from Rome." Angel started.

" You 'n Spike's honey Buffy and Watched jr. Andrew?" Gunn asked guzzling water.

" Along with 'bout 20 new Slayers and Willow who got a little Fire happy." Angel said glancing over at Spike who had layed back down in the dark.

" So the demons are taken care of?" Gunn asked finishing off his water.

" Most of them yeah but there's still a few roam'n around LA." Angel nodded.

" Okay, question two. Where the hell am I?" Gunn asked looking around.

" Wolfram & Hart was destroyed, so we basically have no where to go." Angel shrugged.

" Oh. Well. That's conferting." Gunn said standing up a bit wobbily, Angel caught him before he could fall and sat him back down on the Conveyer belt.

" You haven't had anything to eat in less then a month." Angel said looking around. " Well, we have some blood packets but I guess you don't want those. And I don't think Illyria eats anything, I haven't seen her eat anything at least."

" I do not need food for energy." Illyria said, she was standing by the crates near Spike.

" Missy's probably asleep by now." Angel said looking at his cell phone.

" Who's Missy?" Gunn asked confused.

" Peaches's new girlfriend." Spike replied.

" When did this happen? She know's about all of us?" Gunn asked looking around.

" She's a slayer." Angel replied looking over at Illyria, Gunn looked morely confused though. " Illyria could you do me a favor?" He asked her, Illyria cocked her head to the side.

Gunn and Fred sat across from each other in a diner, both looking at menu's.

" Gosh I don't know what I want to order." Fred said with a giggle. She wore a light pink t-shirt with a long pink and white flowery skirt to her brown cowboy booted feet. " Well, I sure liked it when my mom used to make me pancakes on Saturday morning, maybe I'll have some pancakes!" She smiled.

" That's really creepy." Gunn said looking at her sternly.

" What's creepy Charles?" Fred asked, her long curly brown hair bounced to the side.

" You. Like her." Gunn sighed and looked back down at his menu.

" I must look like the shell in order to pass as a mortal being in order to recive food for you to regain energy to your mortal body." Fred said with a blank face and a voice like Illyria's.

" Oh yeah." Gunn said looking over the menu again. " Still's a bit creepy though."

" Do you still have feelings for the shell? Her memorys indicate that you two were once joined in the bond of love. But that bond was broken with her." She said still in Illyria mode.

" Fred was one of my best buds even after we broke up. I don't have those kind of feelings for anymore but kinda like brotherly feelings ya know?"

" Aw Charles that's so sweet thanks!" Fred replied sounding like herself again.

Gunn smiled and nodded and looked up at the waitress when she came over and started to order.

Missy walked down the street looking at her watch, it was a little after 7 am. She looked deep in thought, her arms crossed over her red t-shirt which she had changed into. She walked across the street not even seeing the bus heading her way, she heard the honking of the bus and shot her head to see it coming at her fast. The bus skidded away from her and ran into a ditch, crashing on the side with the door and laying on the side.

" Shit!" Missy cursed and ran to the side of the bus and jumped on the side looking at the windows. " Is everyone okay in there?" She asked watching them as they started to move. A few voices replied saying yes, Missy jumped off to the top of the bus and dug her hands under it and then raised the bus back onto it's side. She fled the scene as soon as she saw the doors start to open. As she was running down the street she saw a phone booth and stopped and dug in her pockets for some change when a hand grasped her shoulder.

" Hey there cupcake." Said Scorn when Missy turned around. " Fleeing the scene? What don't you what your thanks?"

" No I don't, slayer remember? Demons and Vampires want to kill me?" Missy said sarcastically glaring at him.

" Speaking of Vampires...." Scorn looked at her.

" I'm on it, just keep to your end of the bargin Scorn." Missy glared at him.

" Oh don't worry about me." Scorn grinned opening up his hand and sqweezing it again making Missy fall to her knees in pain again. " If you don't do what I say I will simply kill you. Ta." He grinned and vaporized into white smoke. Missy coughed and got back up onto her knees, her hand over her chest.

" Bastard." She growled and walked into the phone booth slaming the door behind her. She called up the only number she could at the moment.

Angel's cellphone started to ring from the conveyer belt, Angel walked over and picked it up.

" Hey." He said cooly but with a big grin, Spike was walking behind him and rolled his eyes, and sat down on a crate. " You want me to go out?" He asked raising a brow, " You mean like on a date or something? Well that'd be neat but it's daylight out right now. So maybe.... uh huh..... yeah.... Oh uh yeah..... I'll see you in a couple of hours then. Yeah. Bye." Angel turned off the phone and grinned doing a little happy dance not knowing Spike was behind him.

" I dunno what's more pathetic. You or that dance." Spike said shaking his head.

" I'm not pathetic. I got a date." Angel replied sitting on the conveyer belt.

" Oh joy. Our fearless leader has a date." Spike said sarcastically. " And what is with you and blondes?"

" Hey at least I have a date, your just sit the shadows and brood."

" Oh bloody hell I've become you...." Spike groaned and jumped up a few crates.

" You wish." Angel muttered. " You know, if you went out more you'd probably meet someone, who cares if your-"

" A toasted marshmellow?" Spike cut him off with a slight chuckle, " I don't want too."

" Cause of-" Angel started.

" No. Not because of her.... Buffy has nothing to do with this. None what so ever. Not even a little." Spike nodded and layed back down.

" Sure." Angel said skeptically. He looked up at the door as it started to open, Fred and Gunn walked in. " Feel better?"

" Oodles." Fred said grinning.

" Uh yeah, what she said." Gunn nodded and Fred changed back into Illyria.

" That form creates more memories that I must sort out." She said dully and wandered around.

" You look happy." Gunn said to Angel.

" It's nothing really. Just a date with Missy at 9 pm." Angel shrugged cooly.

Angel stood in a park looking around checking back down at his watch every 5 second, he tapped his foot a bit impationtly.

" Hey you." Missy said walking up behind him with what looked like a forced smile.

" Oh hey." Angel said turning around to face her. " You okay you don't look so good."

" Oh I'm dandy." Missy smiled again looking around. " How long have you been waiting I'm pretty sure I'm on time."

" Uh not long.... Just a half hour or so.... Earlybird." Angel laughed nervously. Missy walked up to him still smiling, her hand reaching behind her back as she stepped up to him.

" I'm really sorry to do this...." She started and Angel looked at her with a confused look, Missy pulled out a stake and impaled the demon with it. Angel stared at her in a little bit of shock as a Feralgt demon fell from behind him, Missy's stake in his chest as he started to turn to goo. She pulled out her stake and cleaned it off. " Poor stakey. Sorry I got cha all gooey." She cringed and turned to Angel.

" Stakey?" Angel asked raising a brow.

" Shut up." Missy giggled, " I know it's silly."

" Hey I knew a slayer once who called her stake Mr. Pointy so." Angel said chuckleing.

" You know Buffy?" Missy asked, " I met her and Faith while I was training in Rome."

" Really? I saw her recently too, kinda short meeting though." Angel shrugged, they smiled at each other for a few minutes when Missy looked over her stake then looked at Angel.

" I really don't want to do this...." She sighed clutching the stake tightly.

" Aw man did Spike put you up to this? I swear to god I'm going to throw him into the incenterater when I get back." Angel growled.

" No, no it's not Spike. I really like you Angel but.... I can't be with you. I.... I have to kill you." Missy said looking at her feet.

" This date is turning out really weird...." Angel said looking around.

" Look, I don't like to do this. But I have to. You know though...." Missy said standing off with him, " It's gonna be really hard to hit a guy with such a hot bod."

" Thanks I guess. I hate it when I can't catch on if a girl is evil before I go out with her." Angel sighed and took a swing at her but Missy ducked and kicked his knee. Angel jumped and they continued to fight while Scorn watched on. He grinned in amusment as they fought. Missy's contract held tighty in his hand as they fought, a cough was heard behind him and Scorn turned around only to get punched in the face. He fell back onto his back and looked up at the person who punched him.

" Impossible!" He said wide eyed as Angel swoped down and grabbed the contract from him and Missy stepped on Scorns neck.

" Doesn't seem so to me. By the way, you REALLY should try some moisterizer cause your skin is just grossing me out." Missy said stepping down on his neck decapitating Scorn and killing him, Angel ripped up the contract as well. " I'm free." Missy said smiling, " A little cliche' but it gets it done."

" I think we can still make that movie now." Angel said smiling, Missy giggled and they walked off down a path holding hands.

Next time on Angel: " Spike's learned a new trick", Spike stands in front of the Angel gang, fire engolfing his hands and arms but not touching him, " Is it a good thing?" He burns a few demons" Or a bad thing?" Spike screams and hunches over the fire starting to scortch him. " Or both?" Spike and Illyria sit across from each other, their lips coming closer together.... Watch next time to find out!