CHAPTER ONE

UNTIL TODAY, ANGEL DIDN'T REALLY KNOW, OR UNDERSTOOD, HOW very hard and very stressful running an evil law firm could be. And after mounds of paper work, people, and employees, he needed to get out. Get some fresh air and hope there would be some blood-sucking fiend he could hit and dust.

And after twenty minutes of anxious waiting he sighed. Out of all the nights, He thought.

He really didn't want to go back to the law firm, or home. What he wanted to do was cause some violence, make some dust. But there was nothing. And he wasn't that desperate. But just as he was about to turn around, like his prayer had been answered, he heard, what to him sounded like a damsel in distress, scream. A small smile crept across his face. This is what he'd been waiting for all night.

She screamed, and screamed and screamed, until it felt like her lungs were going to burst. And she wanted to stop, but every time she glanced at his face, the face she once loved, she couldn't help it.

"What's a matter Susie?" The vampire asked her in a caring voice. "Am I frightening you or something?"

"Your face Jimmy," She cried as she looked at her boyfriends scrunched up, yellow-eyed face.

Jimmy put his hands to his face and felt around. "You don't like it?" He asked, sounding hurt. "I think it makes me look handsomer and more tough?"

Tears jetted down her face. "Pl-Please, don't hurt me."

"Aw, baby. I could never hurt you. Just please stop crying. Every thing is going to be all right. It will only hurt for a couple of seconds anyway, and when you wake up you'll be just like me."

"I don't want to be just like you!" Susie cried as she turned her back toward Jimmy. "You're a monster now."

Rage devoured Jimmy. "I'm the monster? What? Just because my face is a little off, I now suddenly become a monster? Answer me, bitch!"

"No." Came a voice from in the shadows that made both Jimmy and Susie turn their heads. "Because you have no soul. That's why you're a monster."

"And who are you?" Jimmy asked, pushing Susie to the side making her fall on the asphalt ground.

Stepping out of the shadows, wearing his famous leather jacket the man responded. "I'm Angel."