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And now: Angel versus Damon

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Chapter 9

There was a small change in the air a few hours later. Like a nothingness, the temperature sinking a grade more than it would naturally, but Angel felt it, and opened his eyes. On a spot not very far away from him stood an exact copy of himself, looking at him.

The looks in the other one's face was hard to read, the older one had a lot of practise on that point. Actually he had that on most things, Angel hadn't even turned 18, Damon was over 500 years old.

Angel immediately knew – no, he had known it since when he first saw the crow – that this wasn't someone you played with, this was someone who was the hunter, who never would be the prair, no matter what.

He rose, but stayed at the spot.

"What took you so long to get here?" Angel asked.

"What took _you_ so long to discover me?" Damon replied.

"I don't have the same training in searching areas as you have."

"I guess it's too much to ask from her for that," he said sardonically.

Angel felt as if he had to defend her against such comments, but soon realized that was exactly what he waited from him.

"How long have you known of me?" Angel asked instead. It would be useless fighting with him, he could see that the other one recently had been eating.

"Does it matter?"

Damon looked at him with an amused look upon his face.

"Actually, yes it does."

Damon looked at him for a little while, as if concidering his answer.

"I knew that the Nemesis was coming the very night you were created, but I didn't know that it was you, until Bonnie decided to show up with you here in Fell's Church."

"How do you feel about the fact that I exist?"

"As my son or as the Nemesis?"

"Both."

Angel saw something that could have been a smile upon Damon's lips, but it vanished so fast that he didn't have time to check twice.

"Honestly, I couldn't care less that you were my heir, but the fact of that you are the Nemesis makes you special. I guess I'll have to teach you how to take over the world and kill properly, as that is the reason why you were born."

Angel shook his head.

"I won't do it."

"Either you like it or not, you are the Nemesis. You _will_ bring out every human life, leaving the world with only vampires and creatures of darkness. They in their turn will develop in to a higher life-form which will only kill vampires, and then, when everyone is dead and you are the only one left, you will fall down dead, killed by a falling star. And when your blood is spilt over the ground, two humans will rise from your body and reinstall humanity. Then it'll all start over again, with one vampire coming from the third son of the first two."

"I don't believe you," Angel said, shaking his head violently.

Damon shrugged his shoulders.

"Do as you wish, but don't say I didn't tell you when you see that you've killed your mother by using your powers in the wrong way."

With those words he turned into a crow and flew away, leaving Angel with a heart filled of fear and a growing hunger – a hunger of human blood.

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AN: In the next chapter of Nemesis: What has happened with Angel since he found out the truth about his heritage? Will Bonnie understand, and what does the dreams she have mean?

Find out in the next chapter of Nemesis.