HELLO ALL AVES HERE WITH A NEW CHAPTER UP AND RUNNING. HOPEFULLY NOW I WON'T HAVE TWO MONTHS BETWEEN ENTRIES. PLEASE R & R AS THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND FEEDBACK IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED.

DISCLAIMER: I WISH I OWNED THE CHARACTERS BUT I DON'T SO I MUST SETTLE FOR WRITING AND DREAMING.


CHAPTER 8

DARK INTENTIONS

Angel hung from the beam above him. He chained just high enough from the ground so he could not reach it. His arms were bound and he was shirtless. His captors had done very little to torture him physically, just a few cuts and lashes. Mentally, however was a different story. It probably wasn't an intentional torture procedure, however having to listen to Drusilla's babbling was doing quite nicely.

"I missed you Daddy, did Daddy miss me?" she asked for about the tenth time. "Last time we saw Daddy he tried to burn us, bad Daddy. He still has his nasty soul, and now my Spike has a bad soul too." She danced around the room before standing in front of Angel and slapping him hard. "Did you spoil my Spike with that nasty soul?"

Angel shook his head to clear the stars he was now seeing, "Yea Dru I did it, tried to get yours back too, but it said it had enough of you before I turned you. The remark caused Drusilla to raise her hand to slap Angel again.

"That will be quite enough Drusilla," a voice from the darkness said.

Angel gritted his teeth as saw the source of the voice. "Hamilton," he sneered. "I thought I smelled something foul."

Hamilton smirked at the vampire's remark. "Angel, so glad you accepted our invitation, I take it Drusilla's persuading convinced you to join our event."

"I'll tell you like I told her Hamilton," Angel responded. "You touch my son and I will tear you apart."

Hamilton showed an evil grin. "So Drusilla's little gift to you worked eh? You saw what would occur if you did not come, and I bet you thought you would not have another vision after that little kiss from Cordelia."

Angel's jaw dropped obviously surprised by the lawyer's knowledge. "How did you?"

Hamilton chuckled and gave Angel that smug look that the vampire so despised. "I know many things Angel. The Senior Partners know many things. We know why Cordelia has brought my dear brother into our war. We know that you, he, and one other well so foolishly try to face my masters, and we know that will never occur."

Angel managed a chuckle of his own. "You don't know as much as you think, kill me if you want but that won't keep the others from fighting. You should know by now that we don't quit. Ask the Circle of the Black Thorn, oh wait, you can't, because they're all dead."

Angel got the satisfaction of seeing Hamilton's face turn about six shades of red after that comment, however the lawyer quickly recovered. "Angel I would like to introduce you to someone." A short figure dressed all in black appeared. He held an orb in one hand, and some kind of scepter in another. His face was covered but something about this, whatever it was, seemed familiar to Angel. "This is Kengar," Hamilton said. "He is a member of the same tribe the Shaman was from. You remember the one who cast the spell that took your soul when you were fighting the Beast. He does not follow the archaic ways of his people and has agreed to help us."

"Help you do what?" Angel asked as he was becoming very uneasy at the sight of the strange shaman.

"We're going to make Daddy his old self again!" Drusilla giggled.

Hamilton's grin was positively evil as he spoke. "Yes, the Senior Partners think having Angelus as an ally will be invaluable.

Hamilton's statement made Drusilla cackle with delight. "Daddy's coming home!"


I KNOW THIS WAS A VERY SHORT CHAPTER BUT IT'S BASICALLY JUST A SET UP FOR BIGGER THINGS AHEAD. NEXT ONE WILL BE MUCH LONGER. AS ALWAYS R&R AND UNTIL NEXT TIME.