Alexa shot Angel a smile, as he came up to her. "You have no idea how much fun this is going to be," she said as she got ready to fight him. "I've been waiting for the longest time to take you down."
"Then now is your chance," Angel said to her, as he looked at her. "It's your chance to put me in my place. Me being a mere pitiful creature and all." Alexa threw her coat aside and pulled out her daggers. "Let do this."
"Bring it on." Alexa lunged at Angel only to have him slam a kick into her chest knocking her down to her knees. "Good, you're not holding back on me." She jumped to her feet and lashed out at Angel, catching him on the arm. "How does that feel?" Angel slammed a punch into her chest and she growled at him. "You're playing hard, Angelus." She went into a combo of kicks and punches only to have Angel block them all. "I see that old age, hasn't slowed you down."
"And you haven't learn much." Angel grabbed her arm and threw her against the wall. She crashed into hit hard and fell to the floor. "I would know, because your style of fighting would be so much more different that it is now."
"You think you know me, Angelus." Alexa jumped to her feet and looked at him. "You don't know anything about me."
Flashback
"Spike, what's wrong?" Angelus asked him, as he came up to him. "You and Lex been fighting again?"
"She's collecting puppies, mate," Spike said, as he turned to face him. "Puppies, and not to eat either, but to keep as pets."
"Hmm, strange." Angelus then walked past Spike. "I'll go talk to here." He found Alexa sitting on the floor of her room surrounded by puppies, all dead. "Lex?"
"They're dead," Alexa cried out, as she looked up at him. "Dru had to have a snack. So she ate them."
Present Day
"Can I ask you one thing, mate?" Spike asked, as he watched them fight. "What was the whole thing with the bloody puppies?"
"They connected me to my past," Alexa said, as she lunged at Angel again only to have him kick a dagger out of her hands. "I used to have tons of dogs when I was human. I thought that if I surrounded myself with things from my past, I could keep it. Didn't work out. Dru ate the puppies." She ducked one of Angel's attacks and got a kick to his chest. "I didn't know better. I was young."
"A vampire collecting puppies," Faith said, as she looked at the two vampires fighting. "Now I've heard of everything."
"Who's got the girl?" Lorne asked, causing the others to look for Sara and found her missing. "I thought that Alexa was on the side of good."
"We really don't know," Fred answered, as they took off to find Sara only to find her sitting in the middle of the lobby with the other girls surrounding her. "Oh, that can't be good."
"No, it's not," Faith replied, as she looked at the girls. "They'll die in trying to protect Sara. To them she's their queen and their only purpose in life is to protect her."
"And we can't hurt them."
"Nope." Faith then shot a glance back to see that Alexa and Angel were still in battle with each other. "Anybody have any ideas?"
"Can't you talk to them? Being a Slayer and all."
"I don't think they'll listen to me any more." The girls on the outside of the circle held up the weapons that they were holding and took a step towards them. "They don't look happy."
"No they don't," Lorne said, as he slipped back as the girls started to attack them. Faith went into action kicking their weapons out of their hands, and trying not to hurt them all too much. "Doesn't Wes have a spell or something to help us out here?"
"I don't have a clue if he does," Faith said, as she fought against the girl who was holding her leg. "Why don't you go and see if he does?" Lorne was about to go when Alexa came sailing out of Angel's office, hit the floor, and slide into Faith knocking her down. "Hey!"
"Sorry, Faith," Angel said, as he came up to her side and grabbed thevampire off of her. "Okay, Lex, we need to talk."
"You have no right to call me that," Alexa said, as she struggled to get to her feet, but Faith put a foot on her chest, keeping her down on the floor.
"Here's the deal, we talk, you listen," Faith said, as Alexa struggled to get free but she soon found that she couldn't. "I grow tired of you. I'm not like Angel. I can kill you without a second thought. You guys have history, we don't." She moved her foot up closer to Alexa's throat. "Do we have an understanding?"
"Fine, I'll listen." Faith kept her foot on her chest. "What do you want to talk about, Slayer?"
"How about why you're fighting us?"
"I have to protect the queen."
"Really?"
"Our queen will be the one who brings forth the offspring who will destroy this world."
"Is that all." Faith stepped off of Alexa's chest and turned to face Angel. "That's it."
"How do we severe the connection between the girls and Sara?" Spike asked Alexa as he knelt next to her.
"You can't." Alexa said, as got to her feet. "No one can break it."
"We will find a way. That Demon isn't as strong as he thinks he is, if he needs girls to protect the queen. Doesn't seem like a very strong Demon? Why would you be on his side?" She shrugged. "Hmm, makes one think."
Alexa then turned to face Sara only to get knocked down by a small electric surge. "What the heck?"
"But I can," a voice called out causing everyone to look across the room.
TBC
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