Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
Chp.29
Confusion
Info: Chp.1
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Willow screaming at Angel had been heard all over the vastness of the hotel. It seems that everyone had rushed out of doors, down the stairs, and from the outside of the building. Anywhere a person could be that's where they came from.
After he had finished his laughing at the expense of the vampire, Lorne looks over at the witch. "Whoa, little lady that's one powerful, set of lungs you have there." He retorts, rubbing a hand over his fore head, and looking around the room at all of the little girls standing in defensive poses around the room. "Boy, Gunn wasn't kidding about the army of little girls, was he?"
Xander having heard his best friend screaming bloody murder sticks his head out of the kitchen door. "Will, what's going on?" He asks, as he steps fully into the lobby. "Brood Boy, didn't turn all Angelus on us did he? Please tell me that isn't the case." He blurts the last statement out, full out panic evident in his voice. He grapples for any weapon he can find, settling on a lamp sitting beside him in a box. He raises it looking around for the evil version of the soulful vampire.
Watching the young man with the lamp, Willow and Lorne burst out in laughter once again, wiping tears of mirth from their eyes, as they take in the sight of Xander standing in a doorway, a table lamp raised in his hands like a battle axe.
Lorne gives a Boy Scout salute to the brunette, still chuckling at the ridiculous sight. "No, Angel cakes, just got his come uppance from this little slip of a girl, here." He points to Willow, as he talks through his laughter. "Angelus isn't back, unless hearing the truth gives him a happy that is."
Lowering the lamp, and looking from the demon to his best friend, "uh, Will?" The girl looks at him. "Who's the big, green guy, and why is he dressed like the Great Pumpkin?" He raises the lamp back up in defense, in case the demon decides he looks like a nummy treat. He then looks back at Lorne, thinking about what he'd just said, lamp still raised, "Oh, no offense."
"None taken. My little sta-puft." Lorne retorts back. What goes around comes around, and the boy had just insulted his silk, Armani. That's something to take offense of. He winks at the boy for effect.
Off of the perplexed look of Xander, Lorne smiles, almost laughing again, but is interrupted.
"Willow!" They hear someone shout, and a clattering on the stairs.
"Oh excuse me, I'm, uh, I. . . Oh bugger! Get out of the way."
Giles finally gets down the stairs, trying not to knock into anyone else standing on them. "Willow?" He pants, putting his hands on his knees. "What on earth, is going on?" He looks over to her, his glasses crooked on his nose, from all of the jostling of coming down the stairs. His shirt half tucked into his pants, hair disheveled, sticking up at strange angles. Standing back up he makes his way to Xanders side, noticing the lamp raised over the boys shoulder, and not particularly caring why, he runs his hand through his hair in a Ripper-esque way. "Dear lord." He exclaims, his eyes falling on the demon sitting on the couch beside his witchy charge. "What is that thing?"
"G-man, please don't make the big, green, and orange guy mad." Xander whispers, loudly into the watchers ear.
Walking into the room, as if there hadn't been any blood curdling screaming. Faith looks around the room, taking in the scene. Glancing to her right she notices Xander with a lamp over his shoulder. Her eyebrow quirks up at that then her gaze shifts to the disheveled appearance of Giles, and she smirks. She pans her gaze over to the Slayers on the steps, and landing, and scrunches her brows together. Finally looking to her left, noticing the demon and Willow sitting on the couch, she smiles, getting the situation. "Hey, Lorne." She casually says. "Long time. Well not really, but you know." She finishes, brushing by Kennedy, who had appeared from somewhere, taking in the stunned expressions of everyone, she pushes lamp boy out of the way, and heads into the kitchen. "YO! Angel, you got any grub in this place?" They all hear her shout, from the room.
Giles chuckles, shaking his head, "ah, yes, I should have known you're the demon that Angel was talking about." Looking over to Xander. "You look ridiculous. Put the lamp down." His gaze comes back to Lorne, as Xander complies. "He said you might be able to help with the slight catatonic state that Buffy has seemed to fall into."
As he sits the lamp on the floor, Xander seems to get what's going on. "Oh, this is the singing demon." He stands there for a moment pondering. "The singing demon not to be confused with Sweet. The 'Sing 'til you combust' demon." He laughs at his quip, and smiles.
"Xander!" Willow and Giles yell, shaking their heads at the one- eyed man.
"Come on!" He sighs. "You can't tell me that wasn't just a little bit funny." Xander holds up his forefinger and thumb about an inch apart from each other, in a gesture of just how funny it might have been.
"Xan, you're losing your touch." Dawn says, from the third step, in which she'd finally found a hole along the railing. "They're starting fall a little flat." She shakes her head at him, too, trying not to laugh, and hides her face against her arm.
Dawn had taken the attention from the goof ball of the group, and as everyone turns from her their eyes fall back onto the anagogic demon on the couch.
As he notices that the attention is back on him, Lorne's amused expression fades. "Yes, I'm a singing demon, and no I'm not evil, and Sweet not even gonna ask." He waves his hand across his chest, meaning that the subject isn't going to be breeched.
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(Okay, yeah I know not a whole lot of anything really going on here, but the next chapter is what everyone has been begging for. I just wanted a little fun, and who's more fun than Xander, and Lorne?)
I have lots of people to talk to this chapter, plus the Angel review for this week.
Ape18: You have to remember that Willow was trying to get through the whole thing as quickly as possible. That's why it was so messed up; I always have a reason for everything. So the errors, and misquoting was intentional. She just left out some stuff or totally screwed it up, in her haste to have it over with. As you see there's still not any B/S, but I promise that there will be.
Lilmamaday: You've soo gotta love Willow. Don't I know about the whole Angel being childish when the subject of Buffy comes up? In my little universe here, no one actually has no clue as to what is going on, especially the Scooby's.
Sovereign of Selenity: If everyone doesn't love Lorne, they should, he's just so much fun. The singing when nervous thing, I totally get, it's not of the fun.
Spuffyfan4eva: OOPS! I sorta drop that bunch of cookies, too. The problem is the doggy isn't all that small. That's why I didn't wrestle her to get the last bunch back, then I went and dropped this batch. The reason being that I went to the happy place again, I said wrestle and well I remembered the scene in Chosen where Buffy said the line about oil of some kind, and Spike, and (EWW!) Angel could wrestle it out. And well Spike and oil, you can form the picture, I know you can. When they fell All three cats decided they looked good, and well I wasn't gonna chase a bunch of cats around for cookies, cause yuck. Can you say furry cookies? Well they'd tickle as they went down, anyway.
BuffyFan: Lorne does have a tendency to make stuff a lot lighthearted. That's why he's one of my favorites, but after watching Wednesday's episode, I think he could kick a little booty if he really wanted too. I'm sorry that the Scooby's seem a little dull, but I have to get to the point where everything comes together, and I couldn't do that without having the set-up.
Buffspike: I swear the updates will come. They will keep coming, at least up 'til chapter 37 'cause that's as far as I've gotten.
Darklover: (Raised eyebrow) Uh, well has been revealed, but not all. I've still got quite a ways to go. Quite a lot has happened and a lot more will be coming.
Caliope: I'm happy I could make your day. Smile Time I just can't get over it.
Kari: I thought having Willow put Angel in his place, would be perfect. I lose it every time I see Chosen, so you're right about the losing of Spike. Even though I know he's on Angel, it still rips my heart out to see him die.
Let me rest in peace: Love the name. I'm flabbergasted that you think this story rocks. Hope you think the rest of it rocks, too. I have to agree on the whole hotness of Spike, and I'm trying to keep up with the goodness.
Ponceybugger: I'm glad I can make it more tolerable. I hope it stays that way. Thanks for reviewing.
Spoiler alert: Angel S5 Episode: A Hole in the World: My god how sad was this? I cried from the middle to the end. Wesley, my heart broke for him. Poor Fred she so didn't deserve that. What's up with Joss? She was the only girl left of the original team. It just makes no sense, and what was up with the whole turning her into DARK Willow, ver.2.0? Is he running out of villain ideas? I'm totally confused. But anyway, have to say that the whole Cordy thing tore my heart out, but god this one just tore it out and showed it to me. Spike and the whole caveman, and astronaut thing, what the hell brought that on? Then everyone went all-righteous on Eve, Lorne omg, what can I say? He hit Eve, and damn if I didn't want him to do it again. I had Drusilla running rampant in my head by that time. It was like do it again, do it again! "Look and they brought us weapons." best line out of it. I have to admit that I can't wait to see what happens next week, cause it'll probably tear out my heart, show it to me, and then shove back in through my throat. Because, it's gonna be just like 'The Gift' in which when I see Spike fall to his knees at the end of I bawl like a bitty baby, this is gonna be worse, because it's not only going to be him, heartbroken and lying on the floor, it's gonna be all of'em. I just know it.
Chp.29
Confusion
Info: Chp.1
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Willow screaming at Angel had been heard all over the vastness of the hotel. It seems that everyone had rushed out of doors, down the stairs, and from the outside of the building. Anywhere a person could be that's where they came from.
After he had finished his laughing at the expense of the vampire, Lorne looks over at the witch. "Whoa, little lady that's one powerful, set of lungs you have there." He retorts, rubbing a hand over his fore head, and looking around the room at all of the little girls standing in defensive poses around the room. "Boy, Gunn wasn't kidding about the army of little girls, was he?"
Xander having heard his best friend screaming bloody murder sticks his head out of the kitchen door. "Will, what's going on?" He asks, as he steps fully into the lobby. "Brood Boy, didn't turn all Angelus on us did he? Please tell me that isn't the case." He blurts the last statement out, full out panic evident in his voice. He grapples for any weapon he can find, settling on a lamp sitting beside him in a box. He raises it looking around for the evil version of the soulful vampire.
Watching the young man with the lamp, Willow and Lorne burst out in laughter once again, wiping tears of mirth from their eyes, as they take in the sight of Xander standing in a doorway, a table lamp raised in his hands like a battle axe.
Lorne gives a Boy Scout salute to the brunette, still chuckling at the ridiculous sight. "No, Angel cakes, just got his come uppance from this little slip of a girl, here." He points to Willow, as he talks through his laughter. "Angelus isn't back, unless hearing the truth gives him a happy that is."
Lowering the lamp, and looking from the demon to his best friend, "uh, Will?" The girl looks at him. "Who's the big, green guy, and why is he dressed like the Great Pumpkin?" He raises the lamp back up in defense, in case the demon decides he looks like a nummy treat. He then looks back at Lorne, thinking about what he'd just said, lamp still raised, "Oh, no offense."
"None taken. My little sta-puft." Lorne retorts back. What goes around comes around, and the boy had just insulted his silk, Armani. That's something to take offense of. He winks at the boy for effect.
Off of the perplexed look of Xander, Lorne smiles, almost laughing again, but is interrupted.
"Willow!" They hear someone shout, and a clattering on the stairs.
"Oh excuse me, I'm, uh, I. . . Oh bugger! Get out of the way."
Giles finally gets down the stairs, trying not to knock into anyone else standing on them. "Willow?" He pants, putting his hands on his knees. "What on earth, is going on?" He looks over to her, his glasses crooked on his nose, from all of the jostling of coming down the stairs. His shirt half tucked into his pants, hair disheveled, sticking up at strange angles. Standing back up he makes his way to Xanders side, noticing the lamp raised over the boys shoulder, and not particularly caring why, he runs his hand through his hair in a Ripper-esque way. "Dear lord." He exclaims, his eyes falling on the demon sitting on the couch beside his witchy charge. "What is that thing?"
"G-man, please don't make the big, green, and orange guy mad." Xander whispers, loudly into the watchers ear.
Walking into the room, as if there hadn't been any blood curdling screaming. Faith looks around the room, taking in the scene. Glancing to her right she notices Xander with a lamp over his shoulder. Her eyebrow quirks up at that then her gaze shifts to the disheveled appearance of Giles, and she smirks. She pans her gaze over to the Slayers on the steps, and landing, and scrunches her brows together. Finally looking to her left, noticing the demon and Willow sitting on the couch, she smiles, getting the situation. "Hey, Lorne." She casually says. "Long time. Well not really, but you know." She finishes, brushing by Kennedy, who had appeared from somewhere, taking in the stunned expressions of everyone, she pushes lamp boy out of the way, and heads into the kitchen. "YO! Angel, you got any grub in this place?" They all hear her shout, from the room.
Giles chuckles, shaking his head, "ah, yes, I should have known you're the demon that Angel was talking about." Looking over to Xander. "You look ridiculous. Put the lamp down." His gaze comes back to Lorne, as Xander complies. "He said you might be able to help with the slight catatonic state that Buffy has seemed to fall into."
As he sits the lamp on the floor, Xander seems to get what's going on. "Oh, this is the singing demon." He stands there for a moment pondering. "The singing demon not to be confused with Sweet. The 'Sing 'til you combust' demon." He laughs at his quip, and smiles.
"Xander!" Willow and Giles yell, shaking their heads at the one- eyed man.
"Come on!" He sighs. "You can't tell me that wasn't just a little bit funny." Xander holds up his forefinger and thumb about an inch apart from each other, in a gesture of just how funny it might have been.
"Xan, you're losing your touch." Dawn says, from the third step, in which she'd finally found a hole along the railing. "They're starting fall a little flat." She shakes her head at him, too, trying not to laugh, and hides her face against her arm.
Dawn had taken the attention from the goof ball of the group, and as everyone turns from her their eyes fall back onto the anagogic demon on the couch.
As he notices that the attention is back on him, Lorne's amused expression fades. "Yes, I'm a singing demon, and no I'm not evil, and Sweet not even gonna ask." He waves his hand across his chest, meaning that the subject isn't going to be breeched.
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(Okay, yeah I know not a whole lot of anything really going on here, but the next chapter is what everyone has been begging for. I just wanted a little fun, and who's more fun than Xander, and Lorne?)
I have lots of people to talk to this chapter, plus the Angel review for this week.
Ape18: You have to remember that Willow was trying to get through the whole thing as quickly as possible. That's why it was so messed up; I always have a reason for everything. So the errors, and misquoting was intentional. She just left out some stuff or totally screwed it up, in her haste to have it over with. As you see there's still not any B/S, but I promise that there will be.
Lilmamaday: You've soo gotta love Willow. Don't I know about the whole Angel being childish when the subject of Buffy comes up? In my little universe here, no one actually has no clue as to what is going on, especially the Scooby's.
Sovereign of Selenity: If everyone doesn't love Lorne, they should, he's just so much fun. The singing when nervous thing, I totally get, it's not of the fun.
Spuffyfan4eva: OOPS! I sorta drop that bunch of cookies, too. The problem is the doggy isn't all that small. That's why I didn't wrestle her to get the last bunch back, then I went and dropped this batch. The reason being that I went to the happy place again, I said wrestle and well I remembered the scene in Chosen where Buffy said the line about oil of some kind, and Spike, and (EWW!) Angel could wrestle it out. And well Spike and oil, you can form the picture, I know you can. When they fell All three cats decided they looked good, and well I wasn't gonna chase a bunch of cats around for cookies, cause yuck. Can you say furry cookies? Well they'd tickle as they went down, anyway.
BuffyFan: Lorne does have a tendency to make stuff a lot lighthearted. That's why he's one of my favorites, but after watching Wednesday's episode, I think he could kick a little booty if he really wanted too. I'm sorry that the Scooby's seem a little dull, but I have to get to the point where everything comes together, and I couldn't do that without having the set-up.
Buffspike: I swear the updates will come. They will keep coming, at least up 'til chapter 37 'cause that's as far as I've gotten.
Darklover: (Raised eyebrow) Uh, well has been revealed, but not all. I've still got quite a ways to go. Quite a lot has happened and a lot more will be coming.
Caliope: I'm happy I could make your day. Smile Time I just can't get over it.
Kari: I thought having Willow put Angel in his place, would be perfect. I lose it every time I see Chosen, so you're right about the losing of Spike. Even though I know he's on Angel, it still rips my heart out to see him die.
Let me rest in peace: Love the name. I'm flabbergasted that you think this story rocks. Hope you think the rest of it rocks, too. I have to agree on the whole hotness of Spike, and I'm trying to keep up with the goodness.
Ponceybugger: I'm glad I can make it more tolerable. I hope it stays that way. Thanks for reviewing.
Spoiler alert: Angel S5 Episode: A Hole in the World: My god how sad was this? I cried from the middle to the end. Wesley, my heart broke for him. Poor Fred she so didn't deserve that. What's up with Joss? She was the only girl left of the original team. It just makes no sense, and what was up with the whole turning her into DARK Willow, ver.2.0? Is he running out of villain ideas? I'm totally confused. But anyway, have to say that the whole Cordy thing tore my heart out, but god this one just tore it out and showed it to me. Spike and the whole caveman, and astronaut thing, what the hell brought that on? Then everyone went all-righteous on Eve, Lorne omg, what can I say? He hit Eve, and damn if I didn't want him to do it again. I had Drusilla running rampant in my head by that time. It was like do it again, do it again! "Look and they brought us weapons." best line out of it. I have to admit that I can't wait to see what happens next week, cause it'll probably tear out my heart, show it to me, and then shove back in through my throat. Because, it's gonna be just like 'The Gift' in which when I see Spike fall to his knees at the end of I bawl like a bitty baby, this is gonna be worse, because it's not only going to be him, heartbroken and lying on the floor, it's gonna be all of'em. I just know it.