Angel and Cordy gathered everyone in the lobby of the hyperon. They all
were tired and Fred and Gunn had already gone to bed for the night, but
were waken up for the meeting. Cordy and Fred were behind the desk
listening to Angel explain their plan.
He had mostly been going on about how they need to find more help before they went after a new vamp nest, stuff too boring to pay attention to. Angel looked over at Cordy, she looked like she was almost asleep. Laying her arm on the desk and laying her head on it. Her eyes were almost closed and she was snoring slightly. Angel walked quietly to the desk and shook her shoulder, as not to startle her. "Cordy, you awake?"
She sat up startled and looked up confusion turning into embarrassment. "Sorry its just been a long day. I'm awake I swear." She fixed the note pad she had been writing on before she dozed off and looked ready to take notes.
Wesley stood from the couch and raised his hand slightly. "if I might make a suggestion?" When no one objected he continued. "We obviously need more allies, why is everyone ignoring the most obvious one?"
Gunn threw down the towel he had been cleaning his axe with and raised the blade at him. "no ones trusting you or your friends at that law firm."
Wesley looked unphased and pushed the axe away from his neck, "I wasn't suggesting lilah" He glanced at Angel for any recognition. "I was talking about Connor, he fights almost as well as angel, better on a few occasions."
Angel leaned against the wall considering the question. "I don't think he should be involved in any of this."
"He's already involved angel, he's always been involved." Cordy stood and walked past Angel towards the front door. "I'm going after him".
The brunette vamp caught up to her before she reached the knob. "Your not going out on your own." He looked at the group before him and let out a short sigh. "Fred, stay with Lorne here. Cordy and I will get Connor and you two" he said pointing to Wesley and Gunn. "get weapons and meet us at the docks, that's where the nests supposed to be. Everyone got that?"
Everyone separated and Angel and Cordy drove towards the apartment to find connor.
***
He was asleep again, it seemed like all he did was sleep. He wouldn't feed from anything, so she hunted a few times a night and made him feed from her. She brought him the prettiest girls, yet he didn't feed from them. He would push them away until she stopped offering. Dru finally let him feed from her but he would turn away and spit out the blood most nights, and others he drank and would be sick latter from it. Right now he was asleep, laying on a desk in the new warehouse they had found.
It was completely abandoned, no people around for miles, except the homeless, and they made perfect meals. Drusilla looked around again, the warehouse was only one large room, where factory equipment once was. But all of it was now in ruins, dust and spider webs decorated the area. A large desk was turned upside down when she first came in, but that didn't seem to do for a bed, so she flipped it and let connor lay on it as a bed.
Most of the time he slept on the floor, or near a sink, too sick to move. Dru would hold a wet cloth to his face during the day and hunt for food at night. She didn't know if it was her or not, but he was sick and wasn't going to get any better.
That single thought was her downfall and her salvation. 'The only one who knows what to do would be daddy. He knew everything, he would know what to do. But if I go to him he'll be cross with me.'
She watched connor shake again, sweat on his face and chest. He had a fever since she turned him, not at first, but latter that night he developed it. Dru feared it had been her blood. That she hadn't turned him right. But as the week progressed he's fever grew stronger, and they had to find new shelter. Angel would find them if they didn't, and she hadn't been ready for her sire until now.
**
Angel and Cordy drove to Connors "apartment" and spent the best part of a hour looking for anything to prove he was there in the last week. Cordy commented that the place looked just like it had when she left a week before. They didn't have anyone to ask for information because connor and Cordy where the only ones who even knew how to find the room. They left the building and drove to the factory they were supposed to meet Gunn at.
Gunn and Wesley were waiting by Gunn's truck, arguing again about who's business was who's. Angel broke it up by pushing Wesley away from Gunn and standing between them. "did you find anything about where the nest is supposed to be?"
Gunn pointed to the warehouse across the street. "not a nest, just a vamp, according to "the locals" she gets meals every night and goes straight home, been moving around a lot too."
"that explains why we've had trouble finding. her. But there has to be more, according to the news there's been at least twenty girls murdered in the last week." Angel lowered his eyes and leaned against the truck.
Cordy pouted as she sat on the car hood, "So what do we do now? Its late and I'm tired."
Everyone looked at Angel, he was watching the building. "this can wait, everyone get home, its too close to dawn anyway." He grabbed his keys and they drove off not knowing someone was watching and fallowing them home.
******
Dru fallowed them back to the hotel, she wondered back and forth around the small garden in the front. The flowers were all dead but that only made them look more beautiful. She ran her fingers over the dried out roses and watched the petals fall softly. It wasn't time for her to go inside, she wanted to see daddy and none else.
After the last light was switched out she sat near the door and waited for him to come downstairs. The wait wasn't long, only a few moments.
Angel came down the stairs and straight to the desk. He didn't bother turning on a light, just walked into the office and grabbed a book from the shelf. She couldn't see the title but from the way he was flipping thought the pages, it must be boring. She tapped on the door and stood with her back to it, not ready to see him yet.
Angel looked up confused, he set the book down and went to the main doors where he thought he heard a knock. He opened the doors and stepped out only to see the figure of someone dart to the other side of the garden. He fallowed it and just as it was ready to lead him out of the fenced area, he grabbed her wrist.
She slowly turned to him, keeping her head down and eyes on the ground. "'s daddy cross with me?"
He almost let go of her from shock. "Drusilla?"
She looked up and pouted again, "You said you'd come back but you never did. Left me and my William all alone. We needed you yet, you and mummy."
Angel looked dumbfounded at her, "Dru. im sorry that was a different life I."
Dru cut him short and held him around the neck almost giddy with herself. "I've got a present for you. Made it myself" her glee turned to pouts, "but he doesn't wake long enough to play. Wont you make him play again? For princess?"
He let go of her wrist momentarily before turning it over and looking for any signs she turned someone. Not everyone fed from their sires wrist, but Dru wasn't intelligent enough to make someone feed from a spot unnoticeable. On the soft inside flesh of her wrist were a few marks. Healing and only one looked like the thing feeding had fangs, but marks.
Angel grasp her wrist harder and growled out, "who did you sire, and where are they?"
She giggled again, shrilly and insanely. "He's mine, you must remember that and I'll show."
He thought of it for a second before nodding, "he's yours now show me."
Dru ran off pulling angel with her down the street, towards the factory that had been her home for the last few days.
**
As they arrived outside Angel looked at the factory and realized it was the same one they had been at earlier. He let Dru lead him inside and watched her run towards the other side of the room. He realized as he stood at the door that it smelled like blood and dust.
As he became lost in his train of thought, Dru yelled for him to come. He jumped at the sound of her voice, forgetting she was even there. He knew that scent from somewhere, the smell was so familiar. He saw Dru crouching next to a old oak desk talking to something, his attention was caught again when she started talking of him. "my angel will care for you, he wont let me have you back. But it will end as I want it to."
She reached up to his arm and pulled him down to the floor next to her.
Authors note: if you haven't seen already, my computers broke my disk I wrote all my fan fics on. So I had to rewrite all the stories, I wrote this story one night, it took three hours and had 12 chapters, that's why their so short. But I'm changing it all now, hope you still like it.
He had mostly been going on about how they need to find more help before they went after a new vamp nest, stuff too boring to pay attention to. Angel looked over at Cordy, she looked like she was almost asleep. Laying her arm on the desk and laying her head on it. Her eyes were almost closed and she was snoring slightly. Angel walked quietly to the desk and shook her shoulder, as not to startle her. "Cordy, you awake?"
She sat up startled and looked up confusion turning into embarrassment. "Sorry its just been a long day. I'm awake I swear." She fixed the note pad she had been writing on before she dozed off and looked ready to take notes.
Wesley stood from the couch and raised his hand slightly. "if I might make a suggestion?" When no one objected he continued. "We obviously need more allies, why is everyone ignoring the most obvious one?"
Gunn threw down the towel he had been cleaning his axe with and raised the blade at him. "no ones trusting you or your friends at that law firm."
Wesley looked unphased and pushed the axe away from his neck, "I wasn't suggesting lilah" He glanced at Angel for any recognition. "I was talking about Connor, he fights almost as well as angel, better on a few occasions."
Angel leaned against the wall considering the question. "I don't think he should be involved in any of this."
"He's already involved angel, he's always been involved." Cordy stood and walked past Angel towards the front door. "I'm going after him".
The brunette vamp caught up to her before she reached the knob. "Your not going out on your own." He looked at the group before him and let out a short sigh. "Fred, stay with Lorne here. Cordy and I will get Connor and you two" he said pointing to Wesley and Gunn. "get weapons and meet us at the docks, that's where the nests supposed to be. Everyone got that?"
Everyone separated and Angel and Cordy drove towards the apartment to find connor.
***
He was asleep again, it seemed like all he did was sleep. He wouldn't feed from anything, so she hunted a few times a night and made him feed from her. She brought him the prettiest girls, yet he didn't feed from them. He would push them away until she stopped offering. Dru finally let him feed from her but he would turn away and spit out the blood most nights, and others he drank and would be sick latter from it. Right now he was asleep, laying on a desk in the new warehouse they had found.
It was completely abandoned, no people around for miles, except the homeless, and they made perfect meals. Drusilla looked around again, the warehouse was only one large room, where factory equipment once was. But all of it was now in ruins, dust and spider webs decorated the area. A large desk was turned upside down when she first came in, but that didn't seem to do for a bed, so she flipped it and let connor lay on it as a bed.
Most of the time he slept on the floor, or near a sink, too sick to move. Dru would hold a wet cloth to his face during the day and hunt for food at night. She didn't know if it was her or not, but he was sick and wasn't going to get any better.
That single thought was her downfall and her salvation. 'The only one who knows what to do would be daddy. He knew everything, he would know what to do. But if I go to him he'll be cross with me.'
She watched connor shake again, sweat on his face and chest. He had a fever since she turned him, not at first, but latter that night he developed it. Dru feared it had been her blood. That she hadn't turned him right. But as the week progressed he's fever grew stronger, and they had to find new shelter. Angel would find them if they didn't, and she hadn't been ready for her sire until now.
**
Angel and Cordy drove to Connors "apartment" and spent the best part of a hour looking for anything to prove he was there in the last week. Cordy commented that the place looked just like it had when she left a week before. They didn't have anyone to ask for information because connor and Cordy where the only ones who even knew how to find the room. They left the building and drove to the factory they were supposed to meet Gunn at.
Gunn and Wesley were waiting by Gunn's truck, arguing again about who's business was who's. Angel broke it up by pushing Wesley away from Gunn and standing between them. "did you find anything about where the nest is supposed to be?"
Gunn pointed to the warehouse across the street. "not a nest, just a vamp, according to "the locals" she gets meals every night and goes straight home, been moving around a lot too."
"that explains why we've had trouble finding. her. But there has to be more, according to the news there's been at least twenty girls murdered in the last week." Angel lowered his eyes and leaned against the truck.
Cordy pouted as she sat on the car hood, "So what do we do now? Its late and I'm tired."
Everyone looked at Angel, he was watching the building. "this can wait, everyone get home, its too close to dawn anyway." He grabbed his keys and they drove off not knowing someone was watching and fallowing them home.
******
Dru fallowed them back to the hotel, she wondered back and forth around the small garden in the front. The flowers were all dead but that only made them look more beautiful. She ran her fingers over the dried out roses and watched the petals fall softly. It wasn't time for her to go inside, she wanted to see daddy and none else.
After the last light was switched out she sat near the door and waited for him to come downstairs. The wait wasn't long, only a few moments.
Angel came down the stairs and straight to the desk. He didn't bother turning on a light, just walked into the office and grabbed a book from the shelf. She couldn't see the title but from the way he was flipping thought the pages, it must be boring. She tapped on the door and stood with her back to it, not ready to see him yet.
Angel looked up confused, he set the book down and went to the main doors where he thought he heard a knock. He opened the doors and stepped out only to see the figure of someone dart to the other side of the garden. He fallowed it and just as it was ready to lead him out of the fenced area, he grabbed her wrist.
She slowly turned to him, keeping her head down and eyes on the ground. "'s daddy cross with me?"
He almost let go of her from shock. "Drusilla?"
She looked up and pouted again, "You said you'd come back but you never did. Left me and my William all alone. We needed you yet, you and mummy."
Angel looked dumbfounded at her, "Dru. im sorry that was a different life I."
Dru cut him short and held him around the neck almost giddy with herself. "I've got a present for you. Made it myself" her glee turned to pouts, "but he doesn't wake long enough to play. Wont you make him play again? For princess?"
He let go of her wrist momentarily before turning it over and looking for any signs she turned someone. Not everyone fed from their sires wrist, but Dru wasn't intelligent enough to make someone feed from a spot unnoticeable. On the soft inside flesh of her wrist were a few marks. Healing and only one looked like the thing feeding had fangs, but marks.
Angel grasp her wrist harder and growled out, "who did you sire, and where are they?"
She giggled again, shrilly and insanely. "He's mine, you must remember that and I'll show."
He thought of it for a second before nodding, "he's yours now show me."
Dru ran off pulling angel with her down the street, towards the factory that had been her home for the last few days.
**
As they arrived outside Angel looked at the factory and realized it was the same one they had been at earlier. He let Dru lead him inside and watched her run towards the other side of the room. He realized as he stood at the door that it smelled like blood and dust.
As he became lost in his train of thought, Dru yelled for him to come. He jumped at the sound of her voice, forgetting she was even there. He knew that scent from somewhere, the smell was so familiar. He saw Dru crouching next to a old oak desk talking to something, his attention was caught again when she started talking of him. "my angel will care for you, he wont let me have you back. But it will end as I want it to."
She reached up to his arm and pulled him down to the floor next to her.
Authors note: if you haven't seen already, my computers broke my disk I wrote all my fan fics on. So I had to rewrite all the stories, I wrote this story one night, it took three hours and had 12 chapters, that's why their so short. But I'm changing it all now, hope you still like it.