A/n: Well I put some huge spins on things here. So I hope you like them. I added some flaws and darkness to my character so I hope you guys like that and yeah Enjoy the chapter and never forget to R&R!
Chapter: 5- HellBound
Looking around herself Rhea saw Angel. He was impaled on a metal spike right through his body, blood poured down his face as he looked at her. She pulled herself up and ran to his side. She tried with all her strength to pull him off of the spike. Tears pouring down her face she kept trying, she could here Angel's breaths being muffled by the blood in his lungs and his cries of pain.
"Who did this to you?" she asked him. She felt all the hairs on the back of her neck stand up she turned around to see Angelus standing there. A grin was on his face as he stood dominating her.
"Hello kitten" he said as he grabbed her neck and through her across the woods where they were. She got up and dusted took a few deep breaths before Angelus grabbed her by the throat; Rhea began gagging as his grip tightened. "You think you can save him don't you? In all your angelic goodness. But you and I both know that you're a lot darker than you let yourself appear to be. Killing a whole companies worth of people. For what the family business? I wish I learned from you." He said. He pulled her in closer she could feel his hot empty breath on her neck as he sank his fangs in to her throat.
Rhea flew up in her bed. With a cry her wings flew out around her. A dark aura flew from her chest as she fell to the floor from the force and her wings became pure white once again. They retracted once more. Feathers were strewn about the room. Angel ran into the room he fell to her side and picked her up placing her back into her bed.
"What happened?" he asked her.
"It's gone! It's gone, oh god." Rhea said she jumped to her feet. "Angelus his soul or lack of soul… its free." She looked at Angel who looked like he was in extreme pain.
"No" he mumbled as he held his chest. Rhea ran to him and held him in her arms. She began stroking his forehead.
"It's okay. It's okay. I'll find you. Even if I have to go to hell and back, I'll find you." Angel passed out for a moment as Rhea quickly let him fall to the floor and moved away. Angel's eyes shot open. Rhea looked out the window, the sun shoe through it brightly.
"Shit, vampire safe windows" she said as she dodged into the kitchen.
"Oh come on Rhea don't you want to play? How about cat and mouse." Angelus said as he began to go through the apartment. "I gotta say I like what you've done about the whole face changing thing. It's nice to be able to kill people without them noticing." He walked into the kitchen. "Come on now, I know you're in here. I can't wait to eat you up, Angel drinking you was the most tantalizing experience I've had in a while."
Rhea tackled him from behind and managed to get Angelus to the ground. She grabbed his left hand just as he grabbed the collar of her shirt and through her across the living room. Rhea pulled herself to her feet and ran for the door. She ran up the stair well and out the door. She jumped onto the motorbike and began to drive away.
She whizzed down streets trying to calm down and figure out who would have extracted Angel's soul. She stopped abruptly. Wolfram And Hart. She started up the bike and turned around. She drove for about twenty minutes before pulling up to an old apartment building she walked into the entrance and saw that there was a laser lock and she could only get in if she had a key or got beeped in.
" I really have no time for this." She growled. She grabbed the handle for the door and tore it back so that it opened and the lock was lying on the floor. She walked up the stairs to the eighth floor and stopped in front of apartment 316. How ironic she thought.
Rhea kicked in the door and walked inside. Lindsey who was walking in from the bedroom stopped and looked at her.
" Well isn't it good to see you." He said as he finished tying his tie.
"Where is it Lindsey?" She asked as she stepped into the room.
"Where's what?" he asked in a cocky tone as he stopped in front of Rhea. Faster than Lindsey could properly see Rhea flipped and kicked him in the face. Lindsey flew back and hit the ground; he lifted his head to see Rhea who simply kicked him in the face again.
"Look, I'm glad that your company changed my history and gave me fake parents but I refuse to pretend that I was not a contract killer and that I can't blow your head off faster that you can say found that soul. So what is it gonna be Lindsey? Are you going to help me or am I just going to have to kill you?" She asked as she held a gun to his face.
" So you're looking for the soul. Well, I can't help you with that I wrote the plans and played a small part in the participation of getting you set up to extract the souls. But, that was just a favor for the new CEO of Wolfram And Hart."
" Well then, I guess I know where I'm going." Rhea said before hitting Lindsey in the face once more with the butt of her gun and left the apartment.
She walked up the large steps to the Wolfram And Hart building she had stopped to buy some new, more battle practical clothing. She now sported a pair of black leather pants a pair of black combat boots and a black t-shirt. She stopped in front of the reception desk and looked around the entrance, it was big and no doubt a handful of the lawyers had guns but that was part of the job. Know the risks then take them.
"Can I help you?" Asked the receptionist.
"Yeah you can." Rhea said. She reached her arm over the receptionist's desk and grabbed her throat before throwing her across the foyer. She looked around and noticed that everyone was looking at her. She looked at them and said in the most plain and business like of tones.
"Now that I finally have your attention, where is the CEO of Wolfram And Hart." Two of the security guards drew their guns and aimed that at Rhea. Who then drew her own two guns, she then drew her angel wings everyone stared at her, and then the two officers began shooting.
Rhea began to shoot her guns and used the desk as a push off to push herself onto the main stairs. She jumped into an open elevator full of people and one officer as the doors closed.
The doors opened on the tenth floor, the inside of the elevator was full of dead bodies and broken wires. Rhea stepped out her angel wings were drenched in blood so that they were crimson red. She walked out and crossed into the two large oak doors that led to the CEO office.
"Ah, hello Rhea." Lilah said as she stood up and put her hand out.
"Enough bull Lilah where is the soul?" She asked.
"Sorry sweetie it ain't here. We sent it down. Your friend is down in hell. The only way to bring him back is to kill Angelus then go down and get him." She said with a giggle.
"Take me to the white room." Rhea demanded.
"Umm, no" Lilah said.
"That's all right. I was just trying to be polite, I know the code I'll go myself." Rhea said as she began to turn around.
"Ugh, fine. I'll tell you what happened to soul boy. We need Angelus you know for the apocalypse. So we destroyed it well, sent it down to hell. Where that son of a bitch belongs. You see had we not had Lindsey get you to extract that part of his soul, well then we wouldn't have been able to kill him."
"Thanks for the info. I guess I'll just have to kill him now won't I? None the less Lilah, I want to see the senior partners." Rhea said as she began to turn around. Lilah who gave in led her to the elevator where she pressed a series of elevator buttons. A giant silver button appeared above and she pushed it. They now appeared in a white room. Standing before her was a replica of her but what as standing before her had a pair of black bat wings that were scorched.
"I either want to talk to the PTB or for you to tell me what to do. On second thought I want to talk to the PTB so yeah. You're going to do that or, I am going to be forced to kill you so lets go." Rhea said as she drew her sword.
"The sword of Rhaxamon. So you know how to banish a senior partner." The creature said to her. "In order to go to hell you have to kill your self but in order to get to where Angel is. You're going to have to arrange that with the Powers. Find the chalice of souls and then you can talk to the powers."
"Oh we have that," Lilah piped up.
"Well then lets go. Oh and put in a good word for me to the guy downstairs. I know the price of Angel's salvation if this works." Rhea said as her and Lilah were transported to the safe where all of the law firms most priced possessions were. Rhea took the chalice and pierced her hand on a spike on the side, she closed her eyes and when she opened them she was in a room full of light.
"Hello Rhea" someone said as they moved into the light.
"Hmm, you know part of me thought that the powers were seraphim, and now I know. So the PTB are angels so I take it that the Senior partners are-" Rhea stated.
" Fallen Seraphims" The Angel replied.
"Well any ways. Enough with the small talk. How can I make sure that I get sent to the right hell, and how do I make sure that Angel and I both make it back to earth because his soul was illegitimately destroyed." Rhea said anxiously.
"First you must destroy Angelus. Then you have to take this and commit the highest of murders. Take this and you can proceed to the same hell. I'll make sure you get there. Then when you find him, make sure you have a strong hold on him then break the hourglass and you'll end up back here. The vampire in toe."
"Thank you." Rhea said. " I know that I have done horrible things that deserve nothing from you."
The angel smiled to her and disappeared. When Rhea opened her eyes she was on the campus of the university of LA. She looked around in confusion.
"Why the hell did they send me here?" She asked herself. Then she remembered Angle murmuring something about his son in his sleep once. Connor was his name, maybe he went here.
"Well guess I should get looking, besides Connor isn't a very popular name." Rhea said as she began walking to a large building. She was thankful that she remembered a few things about the campus that Wolfram And Hart implanted in her brain. When she opened the door to her astonishment Angelus stood in front of her.
"Hey Kitten." He said as he took a step forward. Without a moments notice Rhea swung a fist to hit him, Angelus naturally dodged it and grabbed Rhea's shoulders and flung her into the ground. Rhea slid a few feet then used the momentum to push herself up and do a back flip she landed with a bit of a slide and then ran for Angelus again. This time she used his shoulders to push herself up and into the stairwell.
"You know the foyer just isn't a practical place to fight you know?" She said before she began leaping up through the floors of the stair well with Angelus close behind. She made it onto the rooftop and began fighting with Angelus again. The both of them took swings at each other but they seemed to dodge each other's moves. Rhea noticed that after some time that a group of students were gathering to watch the fight unfold. The building was fairly small so you could see the rooftop from the ground level. Rhea finally managed to hit Angelus in the face then the stomach but just as she was about to do a drop kick her foot slid and Angelus grabbed her by the hair and through her of the edge of the building.
To the amazement of the students Rhea managed to balance herself and land firmly on the pavement. She wiped the blood off of her lip from when she slid off of the rooftop. Angelus leapt down and began to approach her. Suddenly Rhea heard a voice in the front of the crowd say "Dad?"
Connor stepped out of the crowd and looked at him confused. Rhea looked at Angelus who seemed to get that predatorial smirk on his face. He stepped forward and began to speak.
"Hey Connor long time no see. How's life?" he began walking forward more. Rhea watched his legs lock as though he was ready to make a large bound or sprint. Angelus did just that. He pushed off and began sprinting towards Connor. Rhea intervened at the halfway point knocking Angelus and herself onto the ground. Rhea, who had landed on top of Angelus quickly, pulled out a steak that she had gotten at Wolfram And Hart from one of the dead guards. She went to push it into Angelus' heart that grabbed her arm with both hands. Rhea slid a second one out of her sleeve and rammed a second steak into the heart of Angelus who looked at her in shock before turning to dust. She could hear Connor scream in the background. She stood up and ran to him. Grabbing his hand she ran to the motorcycle.
When they stopped in front of it Connor looked at her. Teas were pouring down his face. "What the hell did you do? Why did you kill him?"
"I didn't kill Angel Connor. That was Angelus and no we couldn't get him re- insouled. I have to go down to hell and find Angel and bring him back." Rhea said as she tried to calm Connor down. "Look at me Connor. You need to calm down and I need your help to do this. Okay?"
Connor nodded his head in agreement.
"Do you have a car?" Rhea asked.
A/N: Alright so that was Chapter five. Thought I'd put a new spin on things. Connor is back and a dead Lilah runs Wolfram And Hart. So R&R I figured that I would tie this in a little bit with my faith, so the PTB are the Seraphim the highest ranking Angels and god's right hand after man. And the Senior partners are that to the devil you see? So technically Angel's spent about seven years in hell already because of the difference in time. I don't know if I am gonna mention that in the next chapter but we'll see.