Day 1

"I'm sorry I missed out the past few years. To tell you the truth, being possessed by god spawn sucked." Cordelia said, her head resting on Angel's bare chest as she traced her fingers over his stomach. "Maybe if I was there, things could've gone different, you know? We could've saved Fred… and Wesley… and Gunn…" She said, closing her eyes. She felt the tears well up in her eyes as Angel rubbed her arm. She turned to look at him, chewing on her lip. "I loved them all Angel… we were a family… and now we're all gone… I never got to say goodbye…"

"Cordelia, they knew what they were getting into. I knew what I was getting into. We gave our lives fighting and nothing will change it." Angel said, tracing his fingers down her cheek as she looked up at him, her eyes watery. "They know you loved them." He said to her softly as she nodded, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. Angel looked to the curtains, knowing it held out the light. "Don't you have to go to school?"

Cordelia sat up, looking confused. "What?" She said, scrambling to the side of the best as she reached down and grabbed her watch. "Yeah, school starts in like ten minutes… but I already passed high school… it sucked he first time… do I have to go back?" She pouted, giving him an innocent look as she leaned down, kissing his shoulder.

"Cordelia, we can't change the future. You went to school then, which means you still have to go now." Angel said, sitting up as he traced his fingers down her arm as he took her hand. "It's only a few hours, once school is over you can come back, alright?" Angel asked, looking at her face as sighed. "Don't look at me like that. You may look younger, but I know you are a mature adult."

Cordelia sighed, rolling her eyes. "Fine. Fine. But thanks to you I now have to do the walk of shame back to my house. And then school. Yuck. I'll come back as soon as I am out of school… I mean, who needs homework anyway?" She said, giving him that guilty smile as she slid onto his lap, her hands tracing up his bare chest as she kissed him. Angel slid his hands down her sides, his fingers tracing over her skin as he kissed her back.

"Hmmph. I'm both putting off heaven and going back to Sunnydale High for you. You owe me." She said as she pulled back and grabbed up her dress from the night before, sliding it on. "Okay, be the bitch, be the bitch… I don't like to help people… I am human, I can't fight… and I am currently pissed at Xander. That sums it up, right?" She said as she adjusted her dress, looking to Angel.

"Yes. That's about it. At least you're aren't cooped up in here all day… at least at Wolfram and Hart I had a window… and good blood… and a really, really comfortable chair…" Angel said as Cordelia chuckled, walking over to him on the bed as she touched his chin, pulling him in for another kiss.

"I'll be back as soon as I can." She said, grabbing up her purse as she walked from the room, glancing back at him once before continuing out the door. She had to walk from the graveyard back to her house. She wasn't about to show up at school dressed in a rumpled, dirty and bloody dress.

Angel watched her leave and then grabbed his own clothes, deciding to go take a shower. "I miss having Harmony now too…" Angel sighed, knowing that Wolfram and Hart did break him down. He missed having a million dollar law firm. "Who wouldn't?" He grumbled to himself.

Cordelia stood in front of the mirror, sliding her hands down her waist. "I look so young… I mean, I haven't exactly grown out yet… but I look good… except my hair. I liked it short…" She said to herself as she opened her closet. She let out a sharp intake of breath. "Oh my god-- clothes." She started going through her hangers, choosing a short blue dress, a green light floral pattern covering it as she slid it on. "Oh, I miss being rich!"

Cordelia slid out of her car, closing the door. She looked around uneasily. She was nervous, of course. She was Queen C in high school… and now she was suffering over the breakup of Xander Harris. "Look at me now… I'm dead and I've come back to life to spend a week with the love of my life… who happens to be a vampire who's supposed to be dust. Story of my life." She walked up to the building, not yet spying any of the Scooby's as she walked down the hall. People looked at her, whispering to themselves as she rolled her eyes. "Think of Angel. Seven hours until I'm back in Angel's arms. Seven long, long, long hours." She sighed, stopping as Harmony and her friends stood in front of her.

"If it isn't Cordelia Chase. Why did you disappear last night? The guys were all… itching to dance with you." Harmony said, the others bursting into giggles as Harmony flashed them a smug smile.

"Harm. Don't you look so… lively today. I mean, have you gotten a tan? Anyway, I should be going, I have to get something from the library. Oh, and be careful what you bite, or… what bites you." Cordelia said, rolling her eyes as she pushed past them and continued walking. She did not need Harmony and her posse. Harmony would end up fetching Angel blood for a career.

She walked towards the library, pushing open the door as she stepped in. "Giles, I need a-" She was cut off as she was grabbed from behind. She wriggled, slamming her elbow into the side as the figure stumbled back. She turned around, slamming a fist into the person's face when she put her hands to her face, in shock. "Oh my god! Buffy! I am so sorry!" She cried out. Buffy put her hands to her nose, her eyes welling up as she nodded.

"Ow… Ow… like, really...ow…" Buffy said, tears streaming down her face. Getting punched in the nose hurt. She moved her hand away from her nose. "It's not broken… just…hurting, like, really bad…" Buffy said, looking to Cordelia as she took a few steps back.

"Alright, who are you and what have you done to Cordelia you demon sucking fiend!" Xander said, holding out a cross to her. Cordelia rolled her eyes, wrapping her hand around the cross and tossed it over her shoulder.

"Whoa. Okay, what the hell is going on? First I'm jumped by Buffy and then a cross is waved in front of me? I can't even begin to name off what is so totally wrong with you people." Cordelia started, turning around to look at them as she put her hands on her hips. "So I taught myself how to fight, hello, I've just been impaled, you think I want to just sit around and wait for it to happen again?" She demanded, looking to Willow, Buffy, Giles and Xander. They were her friends, well, Willow was.

"Uh, no. But we heard that you were… you know… uh, well, less Cordelia Chase-y and more… um, explain Xander." Willow said, starting out strong before she moved behind Xander, not wanting to get punched in the face herself.

"Faith and Buffy caught you using demon abilities Cordelia. Not demon abilities per se, but abilities that cannot be accessed by normal humans. Have you um, well, started researching upon spell books after the unfortunate incident?" Giles said, taking off his glasses as he looked at Cordelia.

"Spell books? Are you serious? I just get the headaches." She said automatically without thinking. "Oh my…" She muttered. Giles was sounding so much like Wesley at the moment she thought she was back in Los Angeles. At the Hyperion, with Angel and everyone else. They were all dead… "Sorry, I mean, I just give everyone the headaches, right?" I have to go to class." She said, her voice hurt as she walked from the library.

Buffy and the others stared at the doors. "Something is defiantly up." She said, looking back to Giles. "First of all, you hear her tone of voice? Sincere. And second, she can't fight and wouldn't be able to learn within a week without… without help." She paused, frowning. She had recognized Cordelia's fighting tactics now. Angel's. "Oh my… I have to go… I'll be back… I just, have to find something out." Buffy stated flatly, grabbing up her bag as she rushed out of the library.

"Well. This only leaves… a hundred more questions." Xander said, staring at the door.

"Right, but you two best be heading to class now." Giles said, picking up a book.