Chapter 8
Dinner With Friends
A/N; I am posting this chapter at the same time as the previous one because I'll be without a computer for about a week so it'll be about 2 weeks before I can write a new one. But in the mean time, feel free to leave me lots of reviews to come back to.
Angel Sarai and Wesley walked into the penthouse and find that the rest of the gang was already there. "Hello all, miss me?" Sarai said brightly sitting on the couch Gunn was on.
"Damn Angel, why'd you have to bring her back?" Gunn asked playfully.
"I didn't, she just followed me. I tried to loose her but...." Angel started to responded.
"But I am far smarter then he'll ever be" Sarai cut in.
"So I take it everything's better?" Fred asked.
"Yes." Angel replied. "And right now I don't want to hear anything else remotly related to the topic for the rest of the night."
"So what do we do now?" Willow questioned.
"Well I am hungry" Fred said, which didn't surprise any of her friends.
"I could eat too" Xander said.
"I think you've been eating enough whelp. I mean seriously now that you're off the hellmouth there's no reason for you to be wolfing down the doughnuts and chips. You're puffed-out enough." Spike informed Xander. Besides Angel, Xander was his favorite person to make fun of, well actually he was tied with Riley but Spike didn't like to think about him much.
"Shut up Spike" Xander replied.
"Is that the best you've got? You're slipping. Even Poofy McPeaches over there can come up with something better then that."
"Poofy McPeaches" Sarai echoed giggling. "Good one"
"Why do we order Chinese food?" Angel suggested changing the subject. "My treat."
"You're treat? Sarai said, the she got off the couch and out her hand on his forehead. "Hmm...he doesn't feel feverish, or possessed. Do you even know how to open your wallet?" she asked.
"Hey not that long ago you told me I paid for a very expensive haircut and I didn't say a word, so you can't make cheep jokes." Angel defended.
"Yeah but that's only because you know how important hair is. And you use like $1,000 worth of hairgel a day."
"She's gotta point" Doyle agreed.
"Hey why don't we all stop making fun of me and order some food instead" Angel stated.
"Thanks for the offer but I'd rather do both at once" Sarai said.
45 minutes later everyone was in Angels living room passing around the food.
Sarai was taking some boneless spare ribs out of a carton and putting them on her plate when she realized she was missing something. She got up from her spot on the floor and started to run towards the kitchen. Midway however she tripped over her own feet and fell flat on the floor but she bounced fright back to her feet. "I am fine" she announced to the people in the living that had ignored her fall.
"Oh, good. I was so worried for a second" Angel said dryly, not looking up from the very small amount of food on his plate, that he was only eating to fit in.
"Besides you deserved that fall for the awful crime you're about to commit." Gunn stated.
"Shut up, you can't comment until you tried it" Sarai answered rummaging through the refrigerator.
"And I never want to try it."
"Ah ha!" Sarai declared taking the peanut butter out and returning to the living room. She unscrewed the top and began to dip her ribs in the peanut butter.
"Must you dip them right in the jar? You'll get the sauce in there." Angel said.
"Why do you even care? It's not like you eat it or anything" she argued.
"That's one strange girl you've got there" Xander commented to Angel.
"I know." he answered with a proud smile on his face.
"Pass the fried rice" Cordy requested from Xander.
"Its nice to see you're still bossy as ever" he replied, handing her the rice.
"And its nice to see that you're still a loser who follows Buffy and Willow around."
"Oh yeah I almost forgot you've known each other for a seriously long time." Sarai said.
"Yup, I've known Cordy almost my whole life, it must be why I grew up so depressed" Xander answered.
"Shut up. It's not like knowing you all has been great for me" Cordy shot back.
"Wow. Didn't mean to start a fight or anything. Wesley, you moved there a little after Faith did, right?" Sarai asked, beginning to get an idea.
"Yeah" he answered.
"And daddy, you moved there around 97' right?"
"Yes I did"
"And you did it because you needed to help Buffy because she's a vampire slayer, at the time the only slayer, right?"
"Ooo, I see what you're getting at" Lorne said. "See, now we might have something."
"I know!" Sarai exclaimed.
"No" Angel cut in. "Sarai I know what you're thinking to, so stop. And Lorne don't encourage her because I still won't allow it."
"Oh come on Angel-cakes, this is a genius idea."
"What is?" Giles asked.
"They want to make a TV show about Angel's life...or well unlife" Faith informed him.
"Now it doesn't have to be just Angel. See what Sarai's getting at is that we start off in Sunnydale, show what life was like there, get everyone interested in the characters for about three seasons and then..."
"We do a spin off" Sarai finished Lorne's expiation. "I mean we can make the first show mainly center around Buffy so this way even after my dad and Cordy and Wesley leave, we can keep that show going, whilst having somewhat of a built in audience for the new show."
"Oh, and we can do special cross-over episodes" Lorne added.
"Well in order for that to happen we'll need to make sure they stay on the same network so we won't have to do a cross-over that we never actually get to show on the air kinda thing thats makes people have to guess what happened."
"Huh, like what Angel did to me after he and Buffy met again after she came back from the dead" Cordy pointed out.
"Actually princess you won't need to make sure of anything because you're not doing the TV show" Angel told her.
"Fine then, shatter my creative dreams and scar me for life by making me think I am not good enough to pull it off" she said mock-pouting.
"If you insist" Angel said.
"So Buffy gimme the dirt" Sarai requested.
"Huh?" Buffy questioned.
"The dirt, tell me some shi-stuff about these people..." Sarai pointed to Wesley, Angel, Cordy and Spike "...during the time period where they lived near you......preferably very embarrassing stories that I could use to mock them with the entire summer."
"You really are a sweetheart you know that?" Angel told Sarai sarcastically.
"Like I care? Now back to getting more ammunition to drive you people crazier then you are. C'mon you guys gotta have something."
"Sorry Sarai, I can't help you." Buffy said.
"I can" Xander offered.
"Start talkin'" Sarai demanded.
"Well at this big fight at out graduation, Wesley got knocked down in the first few seconds and then spent the entire fight on the floor whining. There was this time in home ec in 9th grade...."
"Xander shut up!" Cordy, and Harmony cut in.
"....where we had to bake a cake and Cordy and Harmony blew up their oven and got the cake batter all over themselves." Xander finished.
"I remember that" Willow said, whiles Sarai and everyone else giggled.
"Hhmm..... what are good stories about the other two...."
"Knock it off Harris, I am in a bad enough mood as is, don't make it worse." Spike insisted.
"Why Spike what happened?" Dawn asked.
"I was busy today and something happened with my TiVo and it didn't record Passions."
Angel snickered, "I can't believe you watch that."
Sarai decided to go to the deffence of her friend and to embarrass her father "I missed my soaps today to cause I was getting my hair done. Say daddy, what happened on All My Children today?"
"Oh well Jamie continued to try and prove that JR drugged Babe, and Bianca was getting ready to...I mean how should I know?" Angel answered lowering his head in shame. Everyone laughed.
"I don't like the new girl who plays Kendall I thought the old one they had years ago was much, much better and prettier." Buffy commented.
"I know what you mean Buf, have you seen the new Lily? That little girl they had around the same time as the old Kendall is far better then the latest Lily" Dawn added.
"I am getting tired I think I am going to go home" Fred announced.
"I'll take you" Wesley offered.
"I bet you will" Sarai said to him raising her eyebrows at him.
"I wonna go to" Buffy said. "We have hotel rooms"
Everyone decided to go home for the night leaving Angel and Sarai alone. Sarai laid on the couch as Angel started to clean up the remainders of the food. "Don't get up, really" he commented sarcastically.
"I had no intentions of it."
"Skittles get away" Angel ordered as the dog started to follow him as he put the food away. "You're such an animal."
"Thats far to easy for me to waste my time making a joke on" Sarai said in regards to Angels comment.
After all the leftovers were away Angel returned to the living room where Sarai was. "What are you watching?" he asked.
"Friends. Can I sleep here tonight?" She asked.
Yeah, sure if you want. Why don't you want to sleep in your room?"
"I don't know I just don't. Can you stay with me?"
"I can do whatever you want." Sarai opened her mouth to say something about what Angel had just told her but Angel cut her off "...except give you permission to pierce you're navel or get another tattoo."
Sarai pouted. "I'll have my people call your people, I am sure we can work something out" she said.
"Um..princess...we have the same people."
"Not all of them...I have Ryan...he can be my people."
Angel's face once again twitched at the mention of his name. "Fine then, lock me in a room with that boy and no witnesses. Please, do it. It'd be like Christmas in the summer."
"That's mean. Anyway, so what are you going to tell everyone...."
"Sarai its none of your concern" Angel said soothingly, playing with her hair. "Don't even think about it, just let daddy take care of everything for you."
"But its hard not to think about it, cause I have nothing else to think about."
"Ok then, think about the one place in the world where you'd like to go on vacation over all the other places."
"Why would I do that?" Sarai asked.
"Because when all this is settled I'll take you there."
"Really? You will? Just me right? No one else is coming?" Sarai questioned. Angel knew that when Sarai said 'no one else' she meant Cordy. Sarai liked Cordy very much but Angel could tell that since Cordy came back and her and Angel have been together Sarai's been less then pleased about sharing him. Much like he was having problems with her dating except Sarai was a lot more subtle about it and Angel was having way, way, more problems with Sarai dating then she was about Angel and Cordy.
"No one else" he confirmed, lifting her on to his lap and wrapping his arms around her tightly. "I love you precious."
"And I love to torment you daddy" Sarai said in her usual casually snarky, yet loving manner.
"Have you ever given any thought to working for Hallmark? I mean really you're flattery would make great greeting cards." Angel teased.
"I should make my own greeting cards, there are far to many sappy ones out there. Where are the ones that say what people really think? Like 'Happy Birthday, I am only giving you this card so I won't have to hear BS about how I did n't give you anything'. Or 'Happy Anniversary, I personally thought you would've divorced a while ago and she'd take you to the cleaners on the alimony.' But no everyone always has to be so nice and polite."
"Everyone but you" Angel corrected.
"Yup. I'd rather be direct. False niceness is just a waste of my time."
Angel chuckled and smiled at Sarai's philosophy "I love you" he repeated deeply honestly.
TBC
A/N: How was this chapter? Review please. Next chapter we'll find out whats going to happen now that Angel won't let Sarai go into Quor-Toth.