"So you just ran into her?" Gunn said after hearing Angel's story.
"You don't think she could be with Wolfram and Hart do you?" said Cordy. Everyone turned to stare at her. "Hey I'm just saying, don't you think it's a very interesting that things have been so quiet lately and then Angel goes out and 'happens' to meet a girl in trouble that turns out to be a 'helpless' slayer? Don't you think that is quite the coincedence?
"Cordelia does have a point Angel. We know next to nothing about this girl. What do you intend to do with her anyway?" Wesley asked questionably.
"Guys, look she's not lying I can tell. We can't leave a slayer out there with absolutely know idea what she's capable of. Do you have any idea what most creatures would do if they found out about this?"
"Yeah, we know that but what are you going to do with her?" Gunn asked
"I don't know yet. Look why don't you guys go home and I'll talk to Faith about it. She doesn't really seem to like a lot of people around her." Angel said carefully.
"Wait! What? You just want as to leave you here with some stranger? What if she does something to you?" Cordelia asked with a concerned voice.
"Or what YOU would do to HER." Gunn stated to Angel.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Wesley asked.
"You haven't seen this girl yet. She's hot."
"Look, I'll be fine o.k.? You guys just go home and get some rest and come over around noon like you guys usually do." Angel cut in sharply. First he had to make sure that Faith was still in the city and hadn't bolted while they were talking.
"Fine, whatever we'll go. But if she tries to kill you don't blame us." Said Cordy.
?
Angel walked into the lobby not really knowing what he'd find. What he did find was that Faith had fallen fast asleep on the couch. She looked so beautiful. Her legs had been tucked up close to her and she had curled up into the center of the pillow she was leaning against like a kitten. Her dark hair was fanned out around her and her arms looked slightly limp at her side. 'I can't just leave her in the middle of the lobby.' He thought to himself. He went over and scooped her up into his arms. He felt her make some soft movements in his arms and cuddle closer into his chest. An unwilling smile passed his lips for a brief instant. 'Better hurry, if she wakes up and catches me holding her like this I'm dead where I stand.' He thought as he carried her up the stairs.
It was late afternoon when Faith started to open her eyes. She stretched her arms over her head and arched her back to get all of the kinks out. She sat up with a smile on her face and blinked a few times. It took only an instant for the warm smile to disappear.
'WHERE THE HELL AM I!?!?!?!?' Faith thought to herself. She looked around. She was in a tasteful room, if not a bit dark, though in an elegant sort of way. She was in the center of a very large bed. The mattress was soft and the entire bed and pillows felt like they were covered with silk and satin. '
'Okay don't panic, where was the last place you were?' That guy. Angel. She was in his hotels lobby.
'I must have fallen asleep on the couch. How did I end up here, wherever the fuck here is.'
Suddenly she heard a door slowly creak open. She looked over in the direction of the door and saw mister 'I'm tall dark and handsome' himself. 'I knew it.' Was the only thing that crossed her mind.
"Glad to see you're awake." Angel said, half cheery, half cautious. He wasn't exactly sure how the slayer beauty would act when he walked in. She didn't seem the type who liked surprises.
"You want to tell me where the hell I am!?!" Faith said glaring at him.
"You fell asleep on couch downstairs. I couldn't just leave you there so I put you in my room while I slept in one of the others." Angel said quickly.
Okay, I'm in the bed of a guy who thinks he's a vampire. This is going to make a VERY interesting story later. Not to mention weird. First time she'd ever been in the bed other man she didn't sleep with and he thinks he's a blood sucking creature of the night. 'You meet the most interesting people on the road.' Was all Faith could think of as she sat there.
"Yeah well that's great. I'm going home now." She said slipping out from under the covers.
"What? Wait! You can't go yet!" Angel said quickly rushing over to her side.
"What do mean I can't go? I'm pretty much through here. I don't know why I came to begin with." "What about being the slayer? The other...stuff." Angel said trying to find someway to make her see how much danger she was in. There had to be some way to make her do...something, whatever the hell it was that either of them were going to do. Telling a girl she was a slayer was the council's job, not his.
"Look I have no idea what you want me to do but I think I can get along just fine." She said walking by him.
"And how much longer do you think you'll last living like you do? You can't keep going on like that, it's a miracle that you've even lasted this long." Angel said trying to get her attention.
Faith immediately snapped around. "Look, I have no idea who the fuck you think you are but you don't know me and right now I would really like it to stay that way, so you can just take your slayer crap and shove it!" she said voice dripping with venom.
The two of them continued to stare at each other for a long while in silence.
"Look." Angel finally said. "I don't know you, and after talking with you I can tell that you cab probably handle yourself, but that guy in the ally. That vampire who almost killed you, there are things out there a million times stronger and worse and you can kill them if you only know how." Looking at her he could tell that none of this was really going work, even he had a hard time believing himself. He let out a sigh. "Look can you just stay a few days? I'll prove to you that you are who I say you are and that you are needed to help others weather you like it or not, please? You can even stay here, I have at least 100 empty rooms you can have, you wouldn't have to pay anything."
Faith just looked at him. For some reason him asking her like that made her want to stay. Maybe it would be nice to have someone to talk to who didn't just want to get her into bed. Besides it wasn't like she was going anywhere, she had no money and she would be thrown out of the motel she was staying at soon.
"Fine I'll stay here, but only because I'm about to get thrown out of the motel I'm staying at. And if things get too weird I'm gone. Got it?" Faith said staring at him.
"Yeah." Angel said giving a small smile. 'I won that one...I think.....I hope.'
"So, uh, when do you want to move in?" This is not the kind of thing my work should include he thought to himself.
"I need go get my stuff." Faith said in a monotone voice.
"We can go right now. Sunset was officially a few minutes ago. The whole thing shouldn't take very long if we take my car." He said eager to get her out of that place. He didn't need his super senses to tell him that place had seen a lot of blood.
"Fine, away we go." Faith said sarcastically.
Wolfram And Hart
"So is so fascinating about what soul boy is doing now?" Lindsey said walking into secretive room located near the basement of Wolfram and Harts head office with his co-partner Lilah Morgan walking in behind with paper work in hand, still filling something out.
"We've been reviewing the surveillance tapes that we got from watching at Angels Hotel. Most of them are just the same old pattern, but recently someone new has shown up." Said a younger man putting a tape into the VCR.
"Oh? So what is it now?" Lilah said looking up from her paper work.
"See for yourself." He pushed play. At first it just showed the shadowy figure of Angel walking out the front doors. But instead of walking out alone as usual someone else came out behind him. A beautiful young woman in her early twenties or late teens. She was tall and slender with long dark raven hair with a perfect body and face.
"Well who has are little friend picked up now?" Holland Manners said with a small smile on his face that would cause most people to break.
"I have no idea, but she came just before sunrise and stayed all day, they left together right after sun down and came back an hour later carrying some bags in. I don't think she'll be leaving for a while, looks like she's going to stay with him."
"So Angels found a little girlfriend." Lindsey said with a smug smile.
"A pretty one too." Lilah said taking some interest. "Who is she?"
"Well," said the man standing next to the television. "We don't know. We don't know her name, her age, where she's from. Basically we don't know anything about her."
"Well find out. If there is any way to get to Angel, something tells me it's her."
Two days later
Two days, Faith thought to herself. She'd been living in this place for two days. The room she had chosen was about six rooms away from Angels but close to the lobby. She'd gotten to know everyone a little better. Wesley was sweet in a bookish, nervous, over zealous kind of way. Cordelia was nice enough, but they really irotated one another. To Faith Cordelia was a over protective, air head fashion prone, rich bitch and to Cordelia Faith was a completely cold, untrustworthy, bitchy tramp of a slut. But the two of them could tolerate each other. Gunn was the most like her. Both had spent a lot of time on the street, and could really relate to each other.
She sat down on her bed and looked around. She had killed a few vampires and learned more about the world around her that most people ever would. But did she really want this life? That was the question she had asked herself almost 100 times in the past few days. It was dangerous, but she'd probably live longer doing this than they way she was going before.
Angel was constantly checking up her, even when they weren't out on a power that whatever mission thing, that made her a little jumpy. She was mostly used to doing whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted. Having someone always watching out for her drove her crazy. Could he just back away? Having people around her that she knew was nice but having people care about her so much all at once was something she didn't really want.
Tow days. Angel thought, she had been living here for tow days. He liked it, always having someone there, even though he would nee r admit it. He could tell that him checking up on her every half hour made her jumpy and that she was getting annoyed. He knew he should stop but he always had thins nagging feeling in the back of his head that something terrible was going to happen to her the second he was away. For most people that would classify as over protective paranoia, but looking at the track record of what seemed to always happen to the people he cared about, he had a right to be a little shaken. He looked at the clock. 10:00 am. Faith usually got up around this time. He would wait in the lobby for her. If she found out he knew her sleeping times she would definitely freak out. That was the last thing he wanted. She was just now starting to open up to him, and he liked that. He wanted it to keep happening.
"You don't think she could be with Wolfram and Hart do you?" said Cordy. Everyone turned to stare at her. "Hey I'm just saying, don't you think it's a very interesting that things have been so quiet lately and then Angel goes out and 'happens' to meet a girl in trouble that turns out to be a 'helpless' slayer? Don't you think that is quite the coincedence?
"Cordelia does have a point Angel. We know next to nothing about this girl. What do you intend to do with her anyway?" Wesley asked questionably.
"Guys, look she's not lying I can tell. We can't leave a slayer out there with absolutely know idea what she's capable of. Do you have any idea what most creatures would do if they found out about this?"
"Yeah, we know that but what are you going to do with her?" Gunn asked
"I don't know yet. Look why don't you guys go home and I'll talk to Faith about it. She doesn't really seem to like a lot of people around her." Angel said carefully.
"Wait! What? You just want as to leave you here with some stranger? What if she does something to you?" Cordelia asked with a concerned voice.
"Or what YOU would do to HER." Gunn stated to Angel.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Wesley asked.
"You haven't seen this girl yet. She's hot."
"Look, I'll be fine o.k.? You guys just go home and get some rest and come over around noon like you guys usually do." Angel cut in sharply. First he had to make sure that Faith was still in the city and hadn't bolted while they were talking.
"Fine, whatever we'll go. But if she tries to kill you don't blame us." Said Cordy.
?
Angel walked into the lobby not really knowing what he'd find. What he did find was that Faith had fallen fast asleep on the couch. She looked so beautiful. Her legs had been tucked up close to her and she had curled up into the center of the pillow she was leaning against like a kitten. Her dark hair was fanned out around her and her arms looked slightly limp at her side. 'I can't just leave her in the middle of the lobby.' He thought to himself. He went over and scooped her up into his arms. He felt her make some soft movements in his arms and cuddle closer into his chest. An unwilling smile passed his lips for a brief instant. 'Better hurry, if she wakes up and catches me holding her like this I'm dead where I stand.' He thought as he carried her up the stairs.
It was late afternoon when Faith started to open her eyes. She stretched her arms over her head and arched her back to get all of the kinks out. She sat up with a smile on her face and blinked a few times. It took only an instant for the warm smile to disappear.
'WHERE THE HELL AM I!?!?!?!?' Faith thought to herself. She looked around. She was in a tasteful room, if not a bit dark, though in an elegant sort of way. She was in the center of a very large bed. The mattress was soft and the entire bed and pillows felt like they were covered with silk and satin. '
'Okay don't panic, where was the last place you were?' That guy. Angel. She was in his hotels lobby.
'I must have fallen asleep on the couch. How did I end up here, wherever the fuck here is.'
Suddenly she heard a door slowly creak open. She looked over in the direction of the door and saw mister 'I'm tall dark and handsome' himself. 'I knew it.' Was the only thing that crossed her mind.
"Glad to see you're awake." Angel said, half cheery, half cautious. He wasn't exactly sure how the slayer beauty would act when he walked in. She didn't seem the type who liked surprises.
"You want to tell me where the hell I am!?!" Faith said glaring at him.
"You fell asleep on couch downstairs. I couldn't just leave you there so I put you in my room while I slept in one of the others." Angel said quickly.
Okay, I'm in the bed of a guy who thinks he's a vampire. This is going to make a VERY interesting story later. Not to mention weird. First time she'd ever been in the bed other man she didn't sleep with and he thinks he's a blood sucking creature of the night. 'You meet the most interesting people on the road.' Was all Faith could think of as she sat there.
"Yeah well that's great. I'm going home now." She said slipping out from under the covers.
"What? Wait! You can't go yet!" Angel said quickly rushing over to her side.
"What do mean I can't go? I'm pretty much through here. I don't know why I came to begin with." "What about being the slayer? The other...stuff." Angel said trying to find someway to make her see how much danger she was in. There had to be some way to make her do...something, whatever the hell it was that either of them were going to do. Telling a girl she was a slayer was the council's job, not his.
"Look I have no idea what you want me to do but I think I can get along just fine." She said walking by him.
"And how much longer do you think you'll last living like you do? You can't keep going on like that, it's a miracle that you've even lasted this long." Angel said trying to get her attention.
Faith immediately snapped around. "Look, I have no idea who the fuck you think you are but you don't know me and right now I would really like it to stay that way, so you can just take your slayer crap and shove it!" she said voice dripping with venom.
The two of them continued to stare at each other for a long while in silence.
"Look." Angel finally said. "I don't know you, and after talking with you I can tell that you cab probably handle yourself, but that guy in the ally. That vampire who almost killed you, there are things out there a million times stronger and worse and you can kill them if you only know how." Looking at her he could tell that none of this was really going work, even he had a hard time believing himself. He let out a sigh. "Look can you just stay a few days? I'll prove to you that you are who I say you are and that you are needed to help others weather you like it or not, please? You can even stay here, I have at least 100 empty rooms you can have, you wouldn't have to pay anything."
Faith just looked at him. For some reason him asking her like that made her want to stay. Maybe it would be nice to have someone to talk to who didn't just want to get her into bed. Besides it wasn't like she was going anywhere, she had no money and she would be thrown out of the motel she was staying at soon.
"Fine I'll stay here, but only because I'm about to get thrown out of the motel I'm staying at. And if things get too weird I'm gone. Got it?" Faith said staring at him.
"Yeah." Angel said giving a small smile. 'I won that one...I think.....I hope.'
"So, uh, when do you want to move in?" This is not the kind of thing my work should include he thought to himself.
"I need go get my stuff." Faith said in a monotone voice.
"We can go right now. Sunset was officially a few minutes ago. The whole thing shouldn't take very long if we take my car." He said eager to get her out of that place. He didn't need his super senses to tell him that place had seen a lot of blood.
"Fine, away we go." Faith said sarcastically.
Wolfram And Hart
"So is so fascinating about what soul boy is doing now?" Lindsey said walking into secretive room located near the basement of Wolfram and Harts head office with his co-partner Lilah Morgan walking in behind with paper work in hand, still filling something out.
"We've been reviewing the surveillance tapes that we got from watching at Angels Hotel. Most of them are just the same old pattern, but recently someone new has shown up." Said a younger man putting a tape into the VCR.
"Oh? So what is it now?" Lilah said looking up from her paper work.
"See for yourself." He pushed play. At first it just showed the shadowy figure of Angel walking out the front doors. But instead of walking out alone as usual someone else came out behind him. A beautiful young woman in her early twenties or late teens. She was tall and slender with long dark raven hair with a perfect body and face.
"Well who has are little friend picked up now?" Holland Manners said with a small smile on his face that would cause most people to break.
"I have no idea, but she came just before sunrise and stayed all day, they left together right after sun down and came back an hour later carrying some bags in. I don't think she'll be leaving for a while, looks like she's going to stay with him."
"So Angels found a little girlfriend." Lindsey said with a smug smile.
"A pretty one too." Lilah said taking some interest. "Who is she?"
"Well," said the man standing next to the television. "We don't know. We don't know her name, her age, where she's from. Basically we don't know anything about her."
"Well find out. If there is any way to get to Angel, something tells me it's her."
Two days later
Two days, Faith thought to herself. She'd been living in this place for two days. The room she had chosen was about six rooms away from Angels but close to the lobby. She'd gotten to know everyone a little better. Wesley was sweet in a bookish, nervous, over zealous kind of way. Cordelia was nice enough, but they really irotated one another. To Faith Cordelia was a over protective, air head fashion prone, rich bitch and to Cordelia Faith was a completely cold, untrustworthy, bitchy tramp of a slut. But the two of them could tolerate each other. Gunn was the most like her. Both had spent a lot of time on the street, and could really relate to each other.
She sat down on her bed and looked around. She had killed a few vampires and learned more about the world around her that most people ever would. But did she really want this life? That was the question she had asked herself almost 100 times in the past few days. It was dangerous, but she'd probably live longer doing this than they way she was going before.
Angel was constantly checking up her, even when they weren't out on a power that whatever mission thing, that made her a little jumpy. She was mostly used to doing whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted. Having someone always watching out for her drove her crazy. Could he just back away? Having people around her that she knew was nice but having people care about her so much all at once was something she didn't really want.
Tow days. Angel thought, she had been living here for tow days. He liked it, always having someone there, even though he would nee r admit it. He could tell that him checking up on her every half hour made her jumpy and that she was getting annoyed. He knew he should stop but he always had thins nagging feeling in the back of his head that something terrible was going to happen to her the second he was away. For most people that would classify as over protective paranoia, but looking at the track record of what seemed to always happen to the people he cared about, he had a right to be a little shaken. He looked at the clock. 10:00 am. Faith usually got up around this time. He would wait in the lobby for her. If she found out he knew her sleeping times she would definitely freak out. That was the last thing he wanted. She was just now starting to open up to him, and he liked that. He wanted it to keep happening.