Title: New Friends, Old Places

Author: Supergurl15

Summary: Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) never expected to find solace in the busy 'city of Angels' with a vampire, an ex-cheerleader, and a former watcher/rogue demon hunter. But when a chain of unexplained murders begin happening around Smallville that none of its residents can stop will Chloe be able to put aside her unabashed feelings of betrayal long enough to help the 'fang gang' solve the case?

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: If I really owned Smallville or Angel do you really think that this would be the last season of... A-An-g-gel? (sobs) I promised myself I wouldn't do this. (sniff sniff) I'm okay... just... j-j-just read the story.

Author's Note: This is a crossover with Smallville and Angel. I know, I know... pretty weird crossover, but it's gonna rock! I promise. You guys wanted to know what happened to Chloe after 'Trouble in Paradise' (my Smallville fic), well, here ya go! You don't have to read the other two stories to figure out what's going on. It's pretty self-explanatory. So you're not going to be utterly confused if you read this fic without reading the other two.

Takes place around season two of Angel.

Thoughts are in italics.

Prologue

"These cheese pretzels are great, huh?" Ashley Howard said, before carefully taking another bite of her pretzel.

She had been desperately trying to comfort her friend Mandy Evans ever since the party a Crater Lake had begun. After a lot of questioning and guessing, she had finally gotten the girl to confide in her and it wasn't going so well. Mandy had done nothing but bawl, and occasionally nod her head at Ashley's questions, other than that she wouldn't respond at all.

Ashley couldn't help but feel sympathetic towards the girl. She had been the one who suggested that they go to the lake party, something, anything to get Mandy's mind off of Chad. It was just like that jerk to break up with a girl right before summer break; he was a pretty obnoxious flirt ninety-five percent of the time. In the five classes that she had with him at Metropolis University she couldn't remember one time where he actually managed to stop flirting long enough to focus on his studies. She thought that with everyone commuting back to Smallville for the summer break that Mandy would forget about Chad.

But now she was horribly regretting her decision. Seeing everyone dancing with their significant others and having fun was a little too much for Mandy.

Some friend you are. She thought.

Ashley slowly got up from where she was sitting at the edge of the lake. "Look, I'm going to go get some more of these things. You coming with?"

Mandy, staring almost in an entranced like state at the ripples in the water, shook her head sadly.

"Are you sure?"

Again, another pitiful head throb from Mandy.

Ashley really hated seeing her friend like this; she just looked so weak, so pathetic.

"Okay," Ashley sighed, "I'll be right back."

Mandy simply nodded again, not bothering to watch her friend leave.

"H-how could... how could he do t-this to me?" She spat through her teeth, her voice no more than a whisper. "W-what... did I do to deserve this?"

Her voice was breaking but she didn't care, and she doubted that the void of darkness did either.

She rested her chin on her knees, and closed her eyes. Something about the calmness of the water was relaxing. The way it rippled, and bubbled.

Bubbled? Peeping over the edge of the pier, her large dark eyes scanned the surface of the water. Why is the water bubbling? It's almost as if there's something-

Mandy barely had enough time to scream as she felt the monkey creature's hand-like tail grasp around her throat. It had literally appeared out of nowhere. Her arms and legs kicked and flailed as it continued pulling her towards the murky water. Mandy could feel its grip tighten on her throat as her body plunged into the unusually warm water.

Even underwater she could see the creature's toothy wicked grin before everything faded to black.

Just my luck. Ashley huffed, walking quickly over to the spot where she had left Mandy. Outta pretzels.

"Sorry it took me so long... there are ZERO cheese pretzels left! Can you-?" Ashley halted mid stride, when she realized that Mandy wasn't where she left her.

Don't panic... she probably went back to the party. Yeah, that's it... party. Ashley hastily turned and ran back to the main event, oblivious to the water's scarlet tint.