Chapter 10 Helping Out
A/N: Thanks to Buffy fan and Freezyboncoolipants for the reviews. And sorry for the lack of update.
When Angel reached the other side of the portal he hit the ground; hard. He took an unnecessary deep breath and open his eyes that he'd kept shut since he jumped through back in LA. Angel finally got to see where his daughter; his little princess spent just about her entire life. And he then wished he didn't. Angel knew it wasn't going to be a pretty site, but he didn't think it would be as bad as it was. He didn't have to worry about the sun because there was none, the sky was filled with red, black, yellow and dark orange lightning; none stop. The ground was all red and brown rock with extremely rough textures, the infamous trees he'd unfortunately heard about were all dead looking. Demons roamed the land just killing anything whether it was the little human population there was, animals(Again only a small population of them) or other demons. It was one big battle field. For a moment an image of Sarai, at all different ages walking through that place entered Angel's head and made him sick.
'This isn't right. No...no. this can't be where my little girl grew up. It's horrible. She never did a single thing to justify her being in a place like this. No wonder why she was so angry at me for so long. How the hell did she survive this place?' Angel thought as he looked around more. He could see the castle the Sarai had mentioned from where he was standing. It was huge, Angel guessed it could be seen from anywhere in the dimension. He knew he should start to head toward the castle but he couldn't stop thinking about Sarai and just how much she must've gone through living there. His thoughts were soon interrupted.
"Angel...can you hear me?" Willow asked entering his head.
"How's Sarai?" was the first thing Angel said to her.
"She's fine. I'll check back with you soon...if you need me, you should be able to contact me. Just think about it really hard and it will happen. That is if you're capable of thinking at all....by the way that last part Sarai and Spike told me to say."
"Yeah, I kinda figured that." Angels connection with Willow was cut off, then he took out the sword he'd tucked in his waste before he left and started to head toward the castle, and hoping not to get killed trying.
Meanwhile in LA:
Sarai wasn't fine. She wasn't fine at all. She was worried sick about Angel.
'Huh, now I know how he must've felt while I was there. Why'd he go alone? He could be killed. We only started to get close a few months ago, I can't loose him. But what if I do? What would I do without him? I need him. What am I saying? This is daddy, he'll be fine. He'll go to Quor-toth get the special sword, slay that Aza-whatever thing and everything will be better. Because daddy always makes things better for me. Its what he does. But what if he can't this time?' Sarai said to herself as she sat in a chair in Wesley's office, where everyone else was. Sarai had on her brooding face, and her brooding face looks so much like Angels' that the resemblance was starting to frighten Xander.
"Why are you staring at me?" Sarai asked Xander.
"Oh, no reason. I just...well I was noticing how much you look like Angel."
"Whatever." Sarai replied with a sneer and a roll of her eyes. "So Willow, my dad said he was Ok right?"
"Yeah." Willow said. "I still have the connection with him. I think he's near the castle now, he just fought some Gasrnor demon."
Quor-Toth:
Angel had entered a backdoor into Iggy's castle. He had many guards surrounding the place, so Angel had to be especially careful. Eventually Angel entered a hallway and at the end of the hallway were two big wooden doors with jewels on them, he figured it must be Iggy's main room.
"So, which one of you is Iggy?" Angel asked bursting into the dimly lit room where 6 demons around his size were.
"I am." A voice called out from the back of the room. Iggy got off the thrown he was sitting in and revealed himself to Angel, he was a little over seven feet tall, blue, scaly and had blades coming out of his arms.
'This'll go well' Angel thought as he started to fight the minions and Iggy.
'Angel, Angel are you alright?' Willow asked entering his head, sensing something was wrong.
'I am fighting Iggy and some other demons, they're strong....really strong.' Angel told her as he fought for his life.
In LA:
"Oh no." Willow said as she lost contact with Angel.
"What is it?" Sarai asked.
"Angel's in the castle, I think he's in trouble, big trouble. I lost the connection with him but before I did he said the demon was very strong."
"What can we do?" Buffy asked.
"I am not sure there's much we can do."
"Yes there is." Sarai countered. "Open it."
"Open what?" Willow questioned.
Sarai hesitated for a few moments before speaking. "Open the way to Quor-Toth. I am going in," she finally announced. 'Quor-Toth is the last place I want to go but if its what I need to do to save daddy, then dammit its what I'll do it.' she added in her head.
"Sarai, you can't go. I know you want Angel to be fine, so do I but...." Cordy started to say before Sarai cut her off.
"But nothing. I can help him, I know I can. Now Willow, open the portal."
"No." Willow answered.
"Why do we all just think about this, there must be other ways we can help Angel. Lets just look at all our options before we do anything drastic." Wesley suggested.
"Why couldn't you have had this attitude two years ago? If you had then this wouldn't be happening and my father would be fine! You are the reason why my life has sucked and why my father could very well be getting killed at this very moment, if anything happens to him, I'll hold you personally responsible." Sarai stated. "I can't believe I was starting to think you weren't a complete hypocritical bastard. What I can't believe even more Fred, is how you chose him over Gunn."
"Yo, leave me outta this." Gunn insisted.
"Alright Sarai I've put up with you're attitude long enough. I know what I did wasn't the best course of action but I was trying to do what was best for...." Wesley defense was cut short by Sarai punch him in the face.
"Sarai!" Fred exclaimed.
"I am sorry...I just....I need to be alone." Sarai replied, stalking out and up to the penthouse. When she got up there she slammed the front door, headed straight for her room, slamming that door and flopping face down onto her bed.
"Its nice to see the tempers genetic too." A vice said from behind Sarai.
Sarai turned around to see if it was who she thought it was, and she couldn't believe it when she realized she was right. "Darla?...Mom? What are doing here? Am I in another coma?" she asked, referring to the only other time the two had met.
"No, you're not in another coma...." Darla answered, then she added "...and you're not Haley Joel Osment either." causing Sarai to pout a little because she had really wanted to make that joke and didn't enjoy having it taken away.
"You've seen the Sixth Sense?" Sarai then questioned.
"Free motel cable.....long story."
"What are you doing here?" Sarai asked a bit rudely.
"Now, now its fine if you want to talk to Angelus....I mean Angel that way but its no way to talk to your mother. " Darla responded.
"Sorry, its just that when someone's dead, you don't exactly expect them to just show up agai-...oh wait that does happen around here a lot. Never mind, I am not surprised anymore."
"Ok. Anyway, I am here because you need help."
"You can say that again. How are you going to help me?"
"Well, you want to go to Quor-Toth to save Angel, right? So here you go." Darla said handing Sarai a gold talisman and a piece of paper.
Sarai looked at the paper. "Where am I supposed to get a dimensional-opener from?" she then asked.
Darla started to play with Sarai's hair "you're smart-you get that from me- you'll figure it out."
"How are you able to be here?"
"Its what mothers are for"Darla said, then she started to walk away from the bed toward the door.
"Your leaving?"
"Yeah, you will be too soon."
"Will you ever be back?"
Darla smirked at her "I'll try to fit it into my schedule."
"Cool."
"Oh, Sarai." Darla said, stopping in her tracks and turning around.
"Yeah?"
"Angel doesn't know what he's talking about. You and him would make a very good television show, trust me, I know"
"Thanks." Sarai replied smiling, then out of no where Darla disappeared, leaving Sarai to look at what was given to her. Sarai thought about what the dimensional tearer could be, and then she figured it out. So she ran to her two-way pager and paged the people that she'd need to help her.
Five minutes later Spike and Dawn entered the penthouse.
"So what's up?" Dawn asked.
"Ok Spike you're mainly just here for back up incase something goes wrong and Dawn, well I am about to asked out the biggest favor, like ever." Sarai informed them.
"What do you mean 'incase something goes wrong?" Spike asked.
"Well I found a way tog et me into Quor-Toth..."
"And you need me here if you muck it up." Spike finished.
"Well, yeah."
"So what's the favor you need from me?" Dawn asked.
"I need your blood."
"What?"
"Ok see I have this thingy called a..." Sarai looked at the paper Darla had given her "...a Quor-Toth invoker....its supposed to open a gate to Quor-Toth is mixed with a dimensional-opener. SO I figured since you told me you're key that can tear through the fabrics of realities, I figured if you bled a little on it, it'd work. But ya know, I am asking a lot here and if you don't want...that's fine. I'd understand."
Dawn thought about what Sarai had said for a few minutes. Then, she looked at Sarai's face. Dawn knew that look, it was the same look she had the night Spike had found her by her mothers grave with the resurrection book, and the look she had last year when her mother was trying to contact her, but had trouble doing so, so Dawn had to try spells, it was the look of someone willing to do anything to save their parent. If the roles were reversed, Dawn would be asking the same thing of Sarai, so Dawn had no choice but to agree. "Ok, fine I'll do it."
"Thank you so much." Sarai replied.
"Wait, wait, wait. I don't know about this." Spike said.
"Why?" Sarai questioned.
"First of all, you'll probably end up exploding the whole universe, with that thing you've got. How do you even know that's legit? Where'd you get your hands on it?"
"I have some connections." Sarai answered, she didn't feel like she should tell anyone about her meeting with Darla. Not because she didn't think anyone would believe her but because she had gathered that Darla wasn't a very well liked person among her groupand Darla was being so nice to her she didn't want to here anyone say otherwise. Plus, a part pf Sarai enjoyed keeping it privet, just something for herself.
"Ok then, second of all there's Angel. I mean it kid, father Poof would have a fit if he saw you show up there, and worst of all he'd blame me when he gets back."
"Yeah you're right Spike, she really shouldn't do anything to make my dad mad, what was I thinking? I also understand that you don't want him mad at you I mean he can be scary when he's mad, not to mention extremely strong and...."
"Now hold on just a bloody minute." Spike said cutting Sarai off. "I know what you're doing, you're implying that I am afraid of that walking forehead. Well I am here to tell you I am not. Go ahead and do your mojo."
Dawn and Sarai smiled at each other since Sarai's reverse psychology on Spike worked brilliantly. Then, Sarai grabbed a tiny needle and Angel's favorite broadsword. For some reason Sarai felt something when she picked up the sword...she felt strong....she felt like her father and that feeling comforted her enough to be able to do what was needed to save him.
"Here ya go. Just prick your finger with it. Don't worry I sterilized it so if this way you won't have to worry about getting some disease and dying if this spell infact doesn't kill us." Sarai told Dawn handing her the needle.
"Gee, thanks." Dawn made a little whole in her left index finger and let the blood drip onto the talisman. A red light flashed and a gate to Quor-Toth opened, the next the Dawn and Spike knew Sarai jumped through and was on the other side.
"Home sweet hell" Sarai said as she entered Quor-Toth and looked around at the dimension she hadn't been to in two years.
TBC
A/N: So how was this chapter? Will Sarai be able to help Angel? What will happen when she confronts Iggy again? Wait and see. In the meantime please, please review. Also, I think the next chapter will be the end of this story, but I am not sure if it'll be the end of the Sarai stories, I already have some ideas for new stories(some examples: Sarai being sent back in time to another season, the darla thing explored more, a fic set back in the episodes 'Dad' to "sleep Tight' through the POV of baby Sarai, Angels father showing up and Sarai yelling at him for being a bad daddy to her daddy...just to name a few of the stories) but it all depends on you, the readers. So tell me, do you want more Sarai stories or should this be the 'end', end?
A/N: Thanks to Buffy fan and Freezyboncoolipants for the reviews. And sorry for the lack of update.
When Angel reached the other side of the portal he hit the ground; hard. He took an unnecessary deep breath and open his eyes that he'd kept shut since he jumped through back in LA. Angel finally got to see where his daughter; his little princess spent just about her entire life. And he then wished he didn't. Angel knew it wasn't going to be a pretty site, but he didn't think it would be as bad as it was. He didn't have to worry about the sun because there was none, the sky was filled with red, black, yellow and dark orange lightning; none stop. The ground was all red and brown rock with extremely rough textures, the infamous trees he'd unfortunately heard about were all dead looking. Demons roamed the land just killing anything whether it was the little human population there was, animals(Again only a small population of them) or other demons. It was one big battle field. For a moment an image of Sarai, at all different ages walking through that place entered Angel's head and made him sick.
'This isn't right. No...no. this can't be where my little girl grew up. It's horrible. She never did a single thing to justify her being in a place like this. No wonder why she was so angry at me for so long. How the hell did she survive this place?' Angel thought as he looked around more. He could see the castle the Sarai had mentioned from where he was standing. It was huge, Angel guessed it could be seen from anywhere in the dimension. He knew he should start to head toward the castle but he couldn't stop thinking about Sarai and just how much she must've gone through living there. His thoughts were soon interrupted.
"Angel...can you hear me?" Willow asked entering his head.
"How's Sarai?" was the first thing Angel said to her.
"She's fine. I'll check back with you soon...if you need me, you should be able to contact me. Just think about it really hard and it will happen. That is if you're capable of thinking at all....by the way that last part Sarai and Spike told me to say."
"Yeah, I kinda figured that." Angels connection with Willow was cut off, then he took out the sword he'd tucked in his waste before he left and started to head toward the castle, and hoping not to get killed trying.
Meanwhile in LA:
Sarai wasn't fine. She wasn't fine at all. She was worried sick about Angel.
'Huh, now I know how he must've felt while I was there. Why'd he go alone? He could be killed. We only started to get close a few months ago, I can't loose him. But what if I do? What would I do without him? I need him. What am I saying? This is daddy, he'll be fine. He'll go to Quor-toth get the special sword, slay that Aza-whatever thing and everything will be better. Because daddy always makes things better for me. Its what he does. But what if he can't this time?' Sarai said to herself as she sat in a chair in Wesley's office, where everyone else was. Sarai had on her brooding face, and her brooding face looks so much like Angels' that the resemblance was starting to frighten Xander.
"Why are you staring at me?" Sarai asked Xander.
"Oh, no reason. I just...well I was noticing how much you look like Angel."
"Whatever." Sarai replied with a sneer and a roll of her eyes. "So Willow, my dad said he was Ok right?"
"Yeah." Willow said. "I still have the connection with him. I think he's near the castle now, he just fought some Gasrnor demon."
Quor-Toth:
Angel had entered a backdoor into Iggy's castle. He had many guards surrounding the place, so Angel had to be especially careful. Eventually Angel entered a hallway and at the end of the hallway were two big wooden doors with jewels on them, he figured it must be Iggy's main room.
"So, which one of you is Iggy?" Angel asked bursting into the dimly lit room where 6 demons around his size were.
"I am." A voice called out from the back of the room. Iggy got off the thrown he was sitting in and revealed himself to Angel, he was a little over seven feet tall, blue, scaly and had blades coming out of his arms.
'This'll go well' Angel thought as he started to fight the minions and Iggy.
'Angel, Angel are you alright?' Willow asked entering his head, sensing something was wrong.
'I am fighting Iggy and some other demons, they're strong....really strong.' Angel told her as he fought for his life.
In LA:
"Oh no." Willow said as she lost contact with Angel.
"What is it?" Sarai asked.
"Angel's in the castle, I think he's in trouble, big trouble. I lost the connection with him but before I did he said the demon was very strong."
"What can we do?" Buffy asked.
"I am not sure there's much we can do."
"Yes there is." Sarai countered. "Open it."
"Open what?" Willow questioned.
Sarai hesitated for a few moments before speaking. "Open the way to Quor-Toth. I am going in," she finally announced. 'Quor-Toth is the last place I want to go but if its what I need to do to save daddy, then dammit its what I'll do it.' she added in her head.
"Sarai, you can't go. I know you want Angel to be fine, so do I but...." Cordy started to say before Sarai cut her off.
"But nothing. I can help him, I know I can. Now Willow, open the portal."
"No." Willow answered.
"Why do we all just think about this, there must be other ways we can help Angel. Lets just look at all our options before we do anything drastic." Wesley suggested.
"Why couldn't you have had this attitude two years ago? If you had then this wouldn't be happening and my father would be fine! You are the reason why my life has sucked and why my father could very well be getting killed at this very moment, if anything happens to him, I'll hold you personally responsible." Sarai stated. "I can't believe I was starting to think you weren't a complete hypocritical bastard. What I can't believe even more Fred, is how you chose him over Gunn."
"Yo, leave me outta this." Gunn insisted.
"Alright Sarai I've put up with you're attitude long enough. I know what I did wasn't the best course of action but I was trying to do what was best for...." Wesley defense was cut short by Sarai punch him in the face.
"Sarai!" Fred exclaimed.
"I am sorry...I just....I need to be alone." Sarai replied, stalking out and up to the penthouse. When she got up there she slammed the front door, headed straight for her room, slamming that door and flopping face down onto her bed.
"Its nice to see the tempers genetic too." A vice said from behind Sarai.
Sarai turned around to see if it was who she thought it was, and she couldn't believe it when she realized she was right. "Darla?...Mom? What are doing here? Am I in another coma?" she asked, referring to the only other time the two had met.
"No, you're not in another coma...." Darla answered, then she added "...and you're not Haley Joel Osment either." causing Sarai to pout a little because she had really wanted to make that joke and didn't enjoy having it taken away.
"You've seen the Sixth Sense?" Sarai then questioned.
"Free motel cable.....long story."
"What are you doing here?" Sarai asked a bit rudely.
"Now, now its fine if you want to talk to Angelus....I mean Angel that way but its no way to talk to your mother. " Darla responded.
"Sorry, its just that when someone's dead, you don't exactly expect them to just show up agai-...oh wait that does happen around here a lot. Never mind, I am not surprised anymore."
"Ok. Anyway, I am here because you need help."
"You can say that again. How are you going to help me?"
"Well, you want to go to Quor-Toth to save Angel, right? So here you go." Darla said handing Sarai a gold talisman and a piece of paper.
Sarai looked at the paper. "Where am I supposed to get a dimensional-opener from?" she then asked.
Darla started to play with Sarai's hair "you're smart-you get that from me- you'll figure it out."
"How are you able to be here?"
"Its what mothers are for"Darla said, then she started to walk away from the bed toward the door.
"Your leaving?"
"Yeah, you will be too soon."
"Will you ever be back?"
Darla smirked at her "I'll try to fit it into my schedule."
"Cool."
"Oh, Sarai." Darla said, stopping in her tracks and turning around.
"Yeah?"
"Angel doesn't know what he's talking about. You and him would make a very good television show, trust me, I know"
"Thanks." Sarai replied smiling, then out of no where Darla disappeared, leaving Sarai to look at what was given to her. Sarai thought about what the dimensional tearer could be, and then she figured it out. So she ran to her two-way pager and paged the people that she'd need to help her.
Five minutes later Spike and Dawn entered the penthouse.
"So what's up?" Dawn asked.
"Ok Spike you're mainly just here for back up incase something goes wrong and Dawn, well I am about to asked out the biggest favor, like ever." Sarai informed them.
"What do you mean 'incase something goes wrong?" Spike asked.
"Well I found a way tog et me into Quor-Toth..."
"And you need me here if you muck it up." Spike finished.
"Well, yeah."
"So what's the favor you need from me?" Dawn asked.
"I need your blood."
"What?"
"Ok see I have this thingy called a..." Sarai looked at the paper Darla had given her "...a Quor-Toth invoker....its supposed to open a gate to Quor-Toth is mixed with a dimensional-opener. SO I figured since you told me you're key that can tear through the fabrics of realities, I figured if you bled a little on it, it'd work. But ya know, I am asking a lot here and if you don't want...that's fine. I'd understand."
Dawn thought about what Sarai had said for a few minutes. Then, she looked at Sarai's face. Dawn knew that look, it was the same look she had the night Spike had found her by her mothers grave with the resurrection book, and the look she had last year when her mother was trying to contact her, but had trouble doing so, so Dawn had to try spells, it was the look of someone willing to do anything to save their parent. If the roles were reversed, Dawn would be asking the same thing of Sarai, so Dawn had no choice but to agree. "Ok, fine I'll do it."
"Thank you so much." Sarai replied.
"Wait, wait, wait. I don't know about this." Spike said.
"Why?" Sarai questioned.
"First of all, you'll probably end up exploding the whole universe, with that thing you've got. How do you even know that's legit? Where'd you get your hands on it?"
"I have some connections." Sarai answered, she didn't feel like she should tell anyone about her meeting with Darla. Not because she didn't think anyone would believe her but because she had gathered that Darla wasn't a very well liked person among her groupand Darla was being so nice to her she didn't want to here anyone say otherwise. Plus, a part pf Sarai enjoyed keeping it privet, just something for herself.
"Ok then, second of all there's Angel. I mean it kid, father Poof would have a fit if he saw you show up there, and worst of all he'd blame me when he gets back."
"Yeah you're right Spike, she really shouldn't do anything to make my dad mad, what was I thinking? I also understand that you don't want him mad at you I mean he can be scary when he's mad, not to mention extremely strong and...."
"Now hold on just a bloody minute." Spike said cutting Sarai off. "I know what you're doing, you're implying that I am afraid of that walking forehead. Well I am here to tell you I am not. Go ahead and do your mojo."
Dawn and Sarai smiled at each other since Sarai's reverse psychology on Spike worked brilliantly. Then, Sarai grabbed a tiny needle and Angel's favorite broadsword. For some reason Sarai felt something when she picked up the sword...she felt strong....she felt like her father and that feeling comforted her enough to be able to do what was needed to save him.
"Here ya go. Just prick your finger with it. Don't worry I sterilized it so if this way you won't have to worry about getting some disease and dying if this spell infact doesn't kill us." Sarai told Dawn handing her the needle.
"Gee, thanks." Dawn made a little whole in her left index finger and let the blood drip onto the talisman. A red light flashed and a gate to Quor-Toth opened, the next the Dawn and Spike knew Sarai jumped through and was on the other side.
"Home sweet hell" Sarai said as she entered Quor-Toth and looked around at the dimension she hadn't been to in two years.
TBC
A/N: So how was this chapter? Will Sarai be able to help Angel? What will happen when she confronts Iggy again? Wait and see. In the meantime please, please review. Also, I think the next chapter will be the end of this story, but I am not sure if it'll be the end of the Sarai stories, I already have some ideas for new stories(some examples: Sarai being sent back in time to another season, the darla thing explored more, a fic set back in the episodes 'Dad' to "sleep Tight' through the POV of baby Sarai, Angels father showing up and Sarai yelling at him for being a bad daddy to her daddy...just to name a few of the stories) but it all depends on you, the readers. So tell me, do you want more Sarai stories or should this be the 'end', end?