Chapter 8: Fury.
Angel learned from Eve that if Connor's powers were given back to him it'll be definitive.
Days passed. Angel wasn't at W&H very much and when he was, was really busy. None of the crew had been able to ask him questions, or Eve for that matter who was as much as him in the building. Restrained, Wes and Gunn just returned to their occupations. They didn't see Fred that much, and it's her we can find in the W&H's lab, all alone at 3am.
She was sat and waiting reading files to keep her busy. When a knock on the door sounded she made a jump and stood up.
- "Get in!" she said her voice eager. Knox got in as said. She greeted him with a big smile hiding anxiety "Did you get it!?"
He approached her and his face then tensed was now joyful.
- "Yep! The boss put lots of security! Wow! Took me days to get in, but that was worth it" he said taking out of his pocket a little test tube containing blood. He gave it to Fred who put it immediately under the microscope. She locked her eyes on it.
- "So why did you want it for anyway? What do you expect to find in it?"
- "I don't know" she said "Maybe nothing"
Knox approached her a little more, flirty. He began "So….." but Wesley entered, he called after Fred but stopped at the sight.
- "Oh you're busy, Ill come later then."
She looked up at him:
- "You wanted something?" she said really naturally.
- "Hum, we received the samples, and…"
- "Oh yeah" she cut and locked her eyes on her microscope once again "Put them somewhere Ill check them later"
Wesley sighed and put the specimens on a table. He threw a last look at Fred and went out.
Hours passed….Everybody was long asleep…
- "There's nothing!! Nothing!!" Fred said, her voice echoed in the big room where she was alone in the dark and silence, the air was humid. "Perfectly human!"
She then had an idea, weird and coming from nowhere…No time to wonder where it came from but if she wasn't that tired she certainly would have. She went toward a shelf, and opened one of the big glass doors. She took another test tube which was safely in a little vault incrusted in the wall, Angel was written on it, and she put it under microscope. She concentrated on it intensively but it was getting harder to focus when her eyes seemed to want themselves shut.
In fact she wasn't the only one awake in the building…W&H never slept…Wes arrived for the second time in Fred's lab to find it empty. Well at 7 in the morning it wasn't that much of a surprise…
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Wesley went toward Angel's office; Fred might have let the results to him, well if she had checked them of course. Maybe she had left with Knox, Wesley thought, whatever, not my problem, I should just stop thinking about that already. In the corridor Wes heard Angel's doors opened, he stopped and suddenly Fred rushed out of the room clacking one of the doors roughly.
Her face was red and deformed by anger. She nearly hurt Wesley passing by him and passed him without a look, rude, well at least I don't see Knox around, Wes was surprised to see her like that and a little hurt by that indifference. He ran for Angel's office. When he was in he found Angel quite shaken, but looking at him you wouldn't say that, Angel always looked like a rock but Wesley knew better. They weren't close like brothers but maybe it wasn't bad because Wesley had weird interactions with his family. They've been through so much together in so short time, he even tried to kill me…huh…Angel?...No! Angelus…really?...Of course…why would Angel try to kill me for?...I don't know…
Fred angry was not something you could see everyday but was obviously thundering. Wes came in after knocking slightly on the already open door. Angel faced him, neutral.
- "Yeah," Angel asked casually.
- "What happened?" asked Wesley asking the obvious.
- "Im tired, Ill talk about it later"
Wesley frowned "There's lots of things you have to talk about later"
- "Well I'll do then" Angel said going slowly toward his elevator.
- "Did Fred let analysis here?"
- "Nope" Angel managed just before the doors closed on him.
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So Fred wasn't stupid. Angel had a son, as crazy as it sounded she believed in it…maybe she'll forget it when sleeping on it. Well, aint gonna happen is it? And she was right to do so. Angel hadn't agreed when she asked him, when she said she knew. It was so unbelievable and amazing for the scientist she was…Okay, she had have to reconsider all of her knowledge but vampires having babies was definitely not an option. She had by herself made all the conversation little by little adding thoughts and making the reconstruction of the facts and leading to the conclusions. Really not stupid…Memory zapped out by W&H's powers she knew so little about scared her. And she was pissed that Angel didn't talk to them about that, first because he took a decision for them and second because W&H having so much power was a fact they would've liked to know for their own safety. Of course how could she know that those memories were best off their mind since she didn't remember them…Despite all the anger she promised to let Angel tell the others about it, soon.
How? Connor is dying….Connor is dying…Hey guys I zapped your memory…Connor is dying…yeah, well, it was for the best…Connor is dying…Eve'll tell them…Connor is dying…I don't give a damn my son's dying…
Angel didn't know what to do, Eve kept saying him that give him back his powers was to risky, not sure it'll work, can't go back after, would it be so bad if he came back here? Former memory would certainly show up after sometimes, I could find a way to let the past behind? Maybe Eve was scared, if the pact was broken, nothing would obliged Angel to stay at the head of W&H anymore…but why would they want him to stay there…again the same old question, what do they hide? What's their agenda? Is Connor concerned? His destiny really was this crazy goddess thingy? This little baby born in the ashes of his mother…it can't be just for that…can it? What do I know anyway? Was it safe? Obviously no.
In his office, invaded by silence, a shadow in the middle of shadows appeared. Spike, got up from behind the couch where he was gently hidden during the entire Angel versus Fred big match, a big smile on his face…
- "Interesting!" He went through the wall "Indeed"
A/N: I plan on updating more, maybe once a day well except inspiration less days :lol:
I need to know one thing, I have my own feelings about Spike in the show…but if those who care could tell me if they prefer him to be toward
Angel (friendly or not) and Connor (friendly or not) that would be cool…if not, Ill just see…oh and if anybody wants pairings same thing…
