Chapter 2: Meeting the outside

"I can't believe you guys didn't wait for the Pizza guy" Cordelia said looking out the car window. "We could have so been eating Pizza right now"

"How about thinking of something other than your stomach for once" Wesley asked.

"I…" Cordelia started to say. "…No, your right. Touché"

"Ok" Gunn said. "So what's up with the house Fred?"

"Well this is what I've got" Fred said pulling a whole draw of papers out from under the seat. "It's all I could find on such short notice. It's not a lot but..."

"Not a lot?" Cordelia asked. "That's more then I could ever find. I give her props for that"

"Maybe just simplify it for us Fred" Angel said driving the car.

"Ok…if you insist" Fred said putting the papers down. "Basically this. There was a family that used to live in the house a few hundred years ago or so. It was a mother, father and there twin daughters. Then the mother passed away in an accident of some kind. The dad went a little loopy after the funeral. He drank a lot and quit work. So his mother moved in to help him coupe with the family and stuff. They say that one of the children was really depressed. Then one day someone came to the house and found them all dead. The grandmother, father and one of the twins were murdered. And the other twin supposedly killed herself. They say that she was depressed over her mother's death so she killed her family. Case closed"

"Yikes" Cordelia said.

"More like incredibly…Yikes" Fred said. "She killed her whole family Cordy…"

"No not the murder thing" Cordelia said holding Fred's face and pointing it in the direction of the house. "That yikes"

They pulled up to the old house. It was big with had boarded up windows and a rusty old gate in the front. It had a water fountain and the path up to the house was overgrown with vines. The path for the cars was full of dust and mud.

"This place is…Yuck" Cordelia said waving dust from the road out of her face. "Does this house need a DIY make over or what".

"DIY?" Fred said wondering what that word meant. "Well it does look pretty old"

Angel and Gunn got out of the front of the car as it stopped. They went to the boot. Cordelia got out of the back seat then followed Angel and Gunn. Fred looked at Wesley not knowing if he would get out first or if she should. Fred stood up but Wesley also stood up at the same time. As they both stood up, they knocked there heads together and then both sat down.

"Sorry I thought you weren't getting out" Wesley said blushing thinking he was a dork.

"Oh its fine" Fred said

"So sorry" Wesley said again.

"It's ok" Fred said. "Really I'm fine. I'm fine"

They sat there looking at each other waiting to see who would get out first again.

"Oh" Wesley said. "Ladies first"

Fred got up and got out of the car. Wesley shock his head then stood up and got out.
"Angel" Cordelia said in a serious voice. "Have you ever thought of getting a bigger car? Because this one is just way too small".

"What's wrong with this one?" Angel asked.

"Oh there's just this little thing of being squished at the back" Cordelia said helping them with the weapons, herbs and books. "Like, we had to sit there squished at the back, our bodies against each other for what seemed like a lifetime. Like Angel. I want my own space"

"Oh come on Cordelia" Wesley said. "It wasn't that bad".

"Yea your right it wasn't that bad" Cordelia said. "…it was horrible"

Gunn looked at the house. It was rattling like hard wind was blowing on it. But there was no wind.

"Cordy" Fred said putting her hand on her shoulder. "It's ok. It really wasn't that bad"

Cordelia dropped the books violently. Fred backed away from her. Cordelia then picked up and axe and faced towards her.

"YOU DON'T KNOW FRED" Cordelia shouted. "WHAT I'M DEALING WITH. MY PAIN. YOU DON'T KNOW. MY SHOES THEY STINK OF SNAKE. OF DEATH"

"Ok is Cordy going crazy or what" Gunn said reaching for a sword.

"Calm down Cordy" Angel said rushing over to her.

"SHUT UP YOU BLOOD SUCKING FREAK" Cordelia shouted. "YOU SOULESS VILE CREATURE OF THE NIGHT"

Cordelia took the axe and swung it at Angel. Angel jumped to the side as the axe just missed him. Cordelia turned to Fred.

"YOU EVIL THING FROM THAT HORRIBLE PLACE" Cordelia yelled. "YOU CURSED US IT WAS YOUR FAULT"

Cordelia ripped the axe out of the ground and was about to swing it at Fred. Wesley ran and grabbed Fred just as the axe was swung at her. Wesley pulled her and put her behind him. Fred was shaking in terror.

"Cordelia" Wesley said firmly. "Stop this at once"

"Yea" Gunn said. "Angel will get a new car if that bothers you that much"

Cordelia's eyes started to turn white.

"NO NO NO NO NO" Cordelia shouted. "YOU ALL MUST DIE. YOU ALL…"

Angel knocked Cordelia on the head with some kind of plant. Cordelia feel to the ground coughing and chocking.

"What's going on" Cordelia said looking around helplessly.

Angel knelt down and helped her up.

"What…" Cordelia said looking around. "…What…happened…who…I"

"You were possessed" Angel said.

"Hu…oh…" Cordelia continued saying. "…and… hey oww. I think I'm going to need an ice pack".

Cord ilea held her head.

"Sorry Cordy" Angel said. "But you were acting all crazy and you were possessed by something…evil"

"I was going to…" Cordelia began saying. "I'm so sorry Fred"

Fred pocked her head out form behind Wesley.

"It's ok" Fred said. "You were possessed. It wasn't you"

"I'm so sorry" Cordelia said again to Fred.

"what no sorry for me" Angel said under his breath.
"How did you know she was possessed?" Gunn asked curiously.

"One: her eyes turned white. Two: she was acting crazy and not her self. And Three: the real Cordelia would never speak badly about a pair of shoes" Angel said.

"You right" Gunn said amazed. "So you just hit her on the head and then she become unprocessed or something?"

"No" Wesley said. "It's a magic type of herb. If only I had found out about I, when that little boy was possessed a while back. I can't believe Angel new about its power of unprocessing people"

"Power?" Angel asked. "Does it really do that? Oh. I just took the closed thing I could grab. Cordy was going to kill us. I was just trying to knock her out".

"Oh" Wesley said.

"Yea and it hurt…badly" Cordelia leaning against the car. "So I was possessed…what else is new?"

"This isn't a joking matter Cordelia" Wesley said. "This came from the house. There's evil here. Something doesn't want us to go in there and find out something"

"Well let's go and get it then" Angel said.

"Are we sure" Fred said. "I mean …if it possessed Cordy…couldn't it like posses us or something? What if something happened to us?"

"I won't let anything happen to you" Wesley said looking into her eyes. "And besides we have to do this. It's our job. And it won't be safe for anyone else either"

"Plus Gunn's gotta keep up face with Silvia" Cordelia said almost skipping towards the house looking back at him smiling cheekily.

Gunn followed not even going to try and think of a come back. Angel followed. They all approached the front door. Gunn tried to open it.

"It won't budge" Gunn said looking at Angel.

"Maybe it's under a spell of some sort" Wesley said looking at the door.

Fred looked around the side of the house and noticed the fountain.

"Guys…" Fred said tapping Angel on the shoulder. "I think you should see this"

Angel, Wesley, Gunn and Cordelia turned and faced the fountain.

"What the…"Cordelia said.

"Took the words right out of my mouth" Gunn said.

They all stared at the fountain that instead of spitting out water it was spitting out blood.

"That's not blood' Angel said.

"What?" Wesley asked confused.

"I would have smelt it when I walked past it" Angel said.

"Then what is it?" Gunn asked.

Fred walked up to it and put her hand in it. She took it out quickly.

"Its not there" Fred said.

"Not there?" Angel asked.

"It's like a hologram or something" Fred said. "Its not real blood"

"Probably the ghost's, trying to scare us off" Wesley said.

"YOU HEAR THAT GHOST'S" Cordelia shouted. "WE"ER NOT SCARED OF YOUR MAGIC TRICKS SO OPEN UP"

"Cordy I don't think that will make the ghosts open the…" Wesley started to say.

The front door slowly opened.

"Never mind" Wesley said.

"Ready?" Angel said.

They all looked at the door. Wesley picked up his bag of books and herbs. Gun picked up some weapons. Fred fixed up her papers on the house. Angel put on his game face and Cordelia fixed up her hair.

"Ready" the rest replied.

To Be Continued