Chapter 24. Earth Bound.

"What are you doing here?" asks Connor. "How did you…" Connor then remembers when he left the prison he didn't close the cell door and he drop the keys. He was so in shock with what she had said to him and not wanting to believe what she said to him that he didn't realize what he did.

"Oh brother," says Drusilla walking up to him slowly. "You're not well." Connor starts to back away from her and hit's the wall. He looks to the other side of the bed where he sees his sword on a table. "No no no. Don't you think about that." She looks at him straight in the eyes.

"Stop calling me that. I'm not your brother!"

"Mommy was a bad girl. She never told you or daddy. She kept a secret. Till death to us part, but I know the truth. I saw it in your little head. It comes clear dear. Darla has had a son." Connor's eyes widen when she mention his mothers name.

"You have visions?"

"I do but not pretty ones like you. Oh my mommy was not well you see. She was mad and daddy had to find new mommy for us. He did in this world."

"Who is my father? Where is he?" Drusilla grabs Connor's hand and Connor watched her as she had a vision. A vision that reveal that her father had escape alive from the battle.

"Daddy killed mommy. She was bad very bad."

"What?" Connor then realize what the crazy woman was saying. His father was the man who had fought Dawn and had killed and taken his mother away.

"The little girl must die. She hurt poor daddy."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"I won't let you."

"That's too bad." Drusilla with a wave her arm makes Connor rise up against the wall then onto the ceiling.

Meanwhile Spike heads over to Angel's room to see how he was doing. He found Cordy in his room as usual.

"So how are you doing?" asks Spike.

"Been better but my nurse here is doing fine," says Angel. "Giving me everything I need."

"Oh I see," says Spike with a grin as he looks at Cordy. "Can I barrow her?"

"Spike!" says Cordy as she slaps him on the shoulder.

"I was just kidding," says Spike. "Can't you take a joke." Angel nods his head.

"Spike you'll find someone," says Angel.

"I don't know. I've been so devoted to being a Jedi that I don't think that I'll ever find someone."

"Come on Giles found someone and he's old." The three laugh.

"Guess you're right. Hey, we really need you back. Connor's a little hard to handle these last couple of days."

"What happen?"

"He hit Giles in the face."

"Whoa. He's still alive?"

"Yeah, Giles wouldn't kill him, would he?"

"Maybe I should talk to him."

"Believe me talking is the last thing on his mind."

"Just bring him here."

"I'll need chains." Spike heads over to the door and exit's the room.

As he walks down the hall way he hears some crashes then some glass breaking and big banging sounds. He follows the noise down the hall.

Inside Connor's room, Drusilla was throwing Connor like a rag doll all around the room. Pushing him against tables, mirrors and anything in the way. Connor is on the floor already bleeding from his noise. He wipes it as he gets up.

"Brother dear, join me," says Drusilla. "Daddy would be so pleased." She smiles a wicked smile.

"Never!" Connor yells and then he waves his arm and Drusilla goes flying against the wall. He looks at his hand and reveals a smile.

"You hurt me. You are cruel. I like that." Connor then uses his new found powers and moves a table against Drusilla.

"Again I ask. Who is my father?" Drusilla struggles to get free and ignores Connor's question. "Is he a dark warrior? Am I a dark warrior?"

"Yes." Drusilla stares at him in the eyes. This hypnotizes Connor for a second and Drusilla pushes the table against Connor. He falls on the floor. "You have the power to rule worlds. Take the dark side." Connor stands up and pushes the table aside.

"No I won't."

"Yes you well. You'll always be…have darkness in you." Connor swings his arm around and Drusilla goes flying out of the door breaking the doors open. Spike from the hall way sees her coming out. She quickly gets up and runs the opposite way where Spike is. He then sees Connor come out.

"What the hell…" says Spike.

"Spike," says Connor out of breath.

"That's the prisoner. What are you doing with her?"

"I'll explain later. She's after Dawn." They both start running after her.

Drusilla arrives at Dawn's door, she knew this from another vision she got from Connor. She crashes the doors in and they hit the maids. Drusilla enters the room and Dawn crawls to the other side of the bed and jumps off the bed. Drusilla walks over to her and Dawn freezes. Then Drusilla with her wave of her hand makes her rise and she starts to strangle her. This another power that she has.

"Dawn!" yells Connor when he enters her room. He sees her struggling. "No! Let her go!" Connor uses his powers on Drusilla and moves her away from Dawn. Dawn falls the moment Drusilla is pushed away. Connor rushes over to Dawn and pulls her away from Drusilla.

"Bad brother," says Drusilla as she gets up.

"Dawn get out of here."

"Connor what's going…" asks Dawn.

"Go!" Dawn runs out of the room and over to Spike. A second later Giles, Tara and Lorne appear outside the room. When they see that Dawn is alright they all hug her then they see the doors on the floor.

"What happen to the doors?" asks Giles.

"The prisoner. Connor is fighting her," says Dawn. They could all hear the fight and they all knew that is was rough as they hear many things break.

Giles heads inside and he sees Connor being cornered by the prisoner. She then makes him slide up the wall and starts to strangle him like she tired with Dawn. Giles grabs Dawn's practice sword and throws it at the prisoner in the back.

Drusilla chokes then she touches her chest, takes some deep breaths and falls to the side. Connor then immediately falls onto the ground. He looks up and sees Giles giving his hand for him to help him up. The instant he does this he gets a vision, the first since his mother died. He sees Giles talking to Tara and talking about Dawn. He snaps out of it quickly and gets up.

"Thanks," says Connor. Giles looks at him but is unable to say anything because Dawn comes rushing over to his side and hugs him. Connor looks at Giles then at Dawn. He then ignores his feelings and hugs Dawn.

Meanwhile, in outer space a man with one hand watches his beloved from a ice coffin in which she inhabits. An older man walks into the room that he is in and puts his hand on his shoulder.

"You know that this can only be performed once," says the man who has entered the room.

"I know," the other says. "I haven't seen her in seventeen years. I loved her. I still do. I've lost everything. My children, my hand, but now I have her."

"Very well." The other man opens a book and starts to recite some kind of ritual. The ice then begins to melt and the woman inside is levitated into the air. A round form envelopes her and it begins to get brighter. The light then enters through her nose.

Suddenly, the woman breaths heavily and starts to move. Then they lay her down on a table. Lindsay walks over to her and looks at her. He takes her hand as she begins to breath normally. She looks at him with wide eyes.

"My love," says Lindsay rubbing her hand softly. "You're home again."