A/N: I'm back from vacation and school started so it's back to the old routine. O joy…

okay, i know how i said i don't swear, and i don't, but for the sake of my stories i will make an exception. and to any of my friends who read this, swearing on here doesn't count! lol

Small recap: Cordelia is recovering in the hospital. She avoids the talk with Angel about the night she was attacked. Everything was going great when she gets struck with a vision. Angel leaves to take care of it unwillingly.

Chapter 7-The Impending Argument

6 days later, Cordelia was released home. Angel only left her side once, when he went to go take a shower cause Cordy had complained about the smell being worse than the hospital stench. Although very against it, she needed a wheelchair.

Angel and the others thought it would be best if Cordelia stayed at the hotel where someone would always be there to keep an eye on her incase she needed anything. And plus, climbing those stairs to her apartment would be a pain since someone had just happened to break the elevator. Thank god for the one at the Hyperion.

Angel brought her up to a room next to his that he had had Fred and Gunn fix up over the past few days. "Oh thank god I can get out of this wheelchair! Anything is better than this!"

"Even being bedridden?"

Cordy's face went serious for a second, "You're leaving the wheelchair here right?"

Angel smirked at her. "Yes, It'll be right next to your bed." He sat down in the chair next to her bed. "You're feeling better?"

"Yeah, not so much with the coughing anymore thank god. I thought my lungs were gunna come out. The noggin seems to be remembering everything clearly again. As far as the impaling part goes, there's pain."

He chuckled, "Yeah, well that's going to take a little while to go away." His face grew grim. "Cordy, can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"That night, when you were attacked, when did…how…why?" He had a confused but stern look on his features.

Cordelia sighed, "Can we please not talk about it? I really don't-"

"Cordelia, you've been avoiding this ever since it happened. I want answers, I need answers, and I need them now."

Her eyes shifted down, "I didn't want you to get hurt…"

"And you thought you dieing wouldn't hurt me?!"

"It wasn't suppose to go like that! I swear! My vision, I told you that I saw you die, well the reason you died was because of me and I couldn't let that happen! Not as long as I could stop it!"

"But not at the risk of your own life! We have always changed the outcome of your visions before and we could of then-"

"I changed the outcome on my own! And no one died so it's all okay-"

"It's not all okay! Look at you! Your bedridden, were hospitalized for about a week, had surgery, almost died might I add, and need help to even get around! That's not an outcome I would go for."

"And it's not one I wanted to go for either but it happened okay? Everyone is alive and that's all that matters."

"How can you say that in your condition?"

"Because it's me in this condition and not you!"

"I have fast healing! I could have been healed 6 days ago!"

"Not if you had a stake through your heart you couldn't of! Look, in this vision that you think you know sooo much about, we BOTH died. Happy now? Still wanna 'change the outcome'? Cause I honestly don't know if any of us would of made it out!"

Angel wiped is hand over his face, "That's not what I mean and you know it. If you had let me come and not been so stubborn about it-"

Cordelia cut him off mid sentence, "Stubborn? I didn't exactly see you follow me anyways like you normally do. And don't even tell me you normally don't cause I know when you're there. We've spent over 5 years together including Sunnydale."

"Well I wasn't exactly peachy with the idea of it!"

"If you were there and I got pulled into the alley, you would of ran to help me right?"

"Of course I would ha-"

"Yes or no answer."

"Yes."

"Don't you see? It wasn't you they were after! It was me! If you didn't go after me in my vision, you would have lived!"

"And you would of died, not an option."

"Well you dieing wasn't an option either."

"So you should of come back with me to the hotel!"

"They follow their prey, they must of already knew about me or something."

"And their prey are seers," Angel concluded.

"Yes, how did you-"

"Wesley told me, that's why I went back, cause I knew you'd gotten yourself into more trouble."

"Excuse me?! Me getting myself into trouble?! You don't think I was scared out of my mind?! Scared of them killing me, scared of them torturing me, scared of you coming back for me and dieing, scared of you finding me dead in an alley, scared of how our friends would take it, scared of the demons, just scared of everything!" At that point, Cordelia broke down into tears. "I was just plain scared Angel! But I knew it was the only way to keep you and the gang safe, alive. I couldn't let those monsters get my family too…" Her voice grew faint as she whispered out the last sentence.

Angel's face softened as he wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sorry, I was scared too. I didn't want to lose you and then when I thought you were dead I just, gave up. I couldn't take it, the thought of you dieing on me." He chuckled slightly, "Just ask Wes, Gunn, and Fred how I was in the hospital. I think I scared them."

Cordy smiled at the thought, "See? What would you do without me saving your ass all the time?"

He smiled back, "Okay, I get it. Just please, don't do that again?" She nodded in response but neither were certain if she would keep to her word on that subject. He knew he probably wouldn't if Cordelia asked him that question. Her nod was the best he was going to get so he let it slide. "You should get some sleep."

"Not with the sleep again! Geeze, can't you think of anything else?! OH! Idea! How about renting some movies for tonight? We can all watch them! Just one thing?"

"Yeah?"

"Send Gunn to go get the movies?"

"Why?"

"Because you would pick an old movie, Wesley would get either a history movie or something to do with supernatural phenomenon, and Fred would get something to do with physics."

"So why Gunn then?"

"Cause he'd most likely get an action movie thank god!"

"You know I could pick an action movie."

"Your definition of an action movie is probably two Irish guys fighting in a bar."

"And that's not action," Angel asked innocently with a smirk on his face.

Cordelia made a 'pfft' noise and turned over on her side. Angel laughed at her actions and walked out of the room. She looked behind her to see him shut the door. She fell asleep with a peaceful smile graced on her lips.

A/N: I think I'm going to end it there cause #1- idk where else to take this story to #2-I think that's a pretty spot to stop, if it keeps goin too long, it will probably just begin to suck after a while. lol

If you guys want to see it continue and have any ideas on what should happen, then let me know in your review. Thanks!