Sunnydale's Angels: Angel
Disclaimer: Oh wait, you thought I actually own them. The choking sound you hear in the background is me dying of laughter.
Pairings: Buffy/Angel, Jesse/Cordelia, Xander/Willow, Syl/Oz eventually.
Author's Note: This story is just starting, I plan to keep to the storyline all the way into Season Seven, and I might even do an Angel spinoff later on. Hope you enjoy it and once again I would like to apologize for the 'death' of the first incarnation of this story, the original Sunnydale's Angels.
Author's Second Note: I skipped over the episodes, Teacher's Pet, Never Kill A Boy On The First Date, and The Pack. I'll be doing Nightmares and Prophesy Girl, then go into Season Two, so If there's any confusion, just go watch the episodes on dvd or something. ENJOY, Then Press the little blue button at the bottom and review.
Sunnydale street
Willow walks down the street, looking very nervous. She walks up to a nearby alleyway and starts down After a few moments, she is grabbed from behind and thrown into a wall. She falls to the ground and looks over at her attacker. There are three vampires standing in front of her.
"Get away." Willow exclaims, trying to fend them off. They laugh and haul her to her feet.
"You might want to listen to her. She does have a couple of very powerful friends." Syl says as she drops onto the head of one of the vamps, knocking him to the ground. Buffy jumps another and quickly slams a stake into it's chest, just a Syl decapitates hers' with a metal shard. The third one releases it's grip on Willow and flees as Jesse, Xander, Giles and Cordy arrive on the scene. Buffy begins to give chase, but Syl holds out an arm, stopping her sister.
"I think that he has a handle on the sit-rep." Syl tells her, indicating the shadows near the fleeing vamp. Angel steps out and clotheslines the vampire with an outstretched arm. The vampire does a flip in midair and falls to the ground and Angel quickly stakes him.. Angel looks at the group of seven that are staring at him twenty feet away. Without saying a word, he turns and walks away.
"What the hell is it with that guy?" Syl wonders aloud.
Library
Giles is leaning against the counter, reading some ancient book, as Syl and Buffy spar. The three of them look over as Xander and Jesse enter the room.
"I'm telling you Jesse, Blade would definantly kick Dracula's ass. There's no denying it, it's like natural." Xander argues with his best friend.
"Boys and their comics." Syl says with a smirk. "Hey guys."
"Hi Syl, Buffy." Jesse and Xander say simultaneously. "Are we going bronzing tonight?" Xander adds.
"Yeah, that sounds like fun." Buffy says.
"What about patrolling?" Giles cuts in.
"Jeez G, rain on our parade, why don't you?" Syl quips. "Relax, there will be plenty of time for the killing of the undead tomorrow."
"But, but…" Giles stammers.
"Can it, British." Syl says. "We need a break. Between the anointed one, Xander and Jesse's possession by that Hyena, and Catherine Madison, I think that we could all use a night of evil-free relaxation."
The Bronze
Syl and Cordy are dancing amongst the hordes of people crowding the dance floor, Jesse and Xander are off trying to pick up a date and Buffy and Willow are sitting at a table, talking.
"It's a lot of fun…. What's it like where 'you' are?" Willow asks Buffy, noticing that her friend has a thoughtful look on her face and isn't paying attention.
"I'm sorry…..I was just thinking about things…." Buffy says apologetically.
"So we're talking about a guy?" Willow asks.
"Not exactly a guy, For us to be talking about a guy, there'd have to be a guy for us to have a conversation about." Buffy answers, then pauses. "Is that a sentence?"
"You lack a guy." Willow notes.
"I do. Which is fine for me, most of the time, but…." Buffy hesitates.
"What about Angel." Willow suggests.
"Angel, I can just see him in a relationship. Hi honey, you're in grave danger…. See you next month."
"He's not around much, that's true enough." Willow agrees.
"When he is around, It's like the lights dim everywhere else. You know how that is?"
Willow looks over where Xander is standing talking to a girl. "Yeah, I do."
Buffy follows her friend's gaze. "You should tell him about your feelings."
"He's never shown any interest in me, I'd just embarrass myself." Willow tells Buffy sadly.
Buffy gets a idea. "I'll be right back."
Buffy gets up and walks over to where Xander is talking to the girl.
"Hey Xand, can I talk to you for a second in private." Buffy asks him. He nods and the pair walk off to a corner.
"What's up Buffy?" He asks.
"Willow is madly in love with you, and you've been to blind to see it. Now get over to that table and talk to her." Buffy says. "And tell her that I'll see her tomorrow."
Xander nods and heads toward where Willow is sitting. Buffy waits until he sits down and starts talking to Willow, then turns to leave. She heads towards the exit, passing the stairs where Angel is watching her. She turns around, sensing something, and looks. Angel's gone. She continues out. Syl sees her go and quietly follows. She quickly catches up to Buffy and the two of them walk into the alley outside. After walking for a little bit, they stop, sensing something behind them.
"Okay, It's late, we're tired and don't wanna play games, so show yourself." Syl announces.
Twelve vampires come out of the shadows. Buffy and Syl exchange a look before the vampires swarm them. They manage to dust four of them before they are subdued, held by three vampires each, while the other two remaining vampires stand in front of each of the girls, moving in for the kill. Just before they can bite the two girls, they both explode into dust. Angel is standing behind where the two vamps had been, holding two stakes in his hand.
"Good dogs don't bite." Angel says as one of the other vampires releases his hold on Syl and charges him. Angel punches the vampire and knocks him away. Syl takes advantage of the decreased pressure holding her down, and flips the other two of them off of her. She grabs one of the vamps holding Buffy and throws him crashing through a window of an abandoned warehouse, and kicks another in the groin. Buffy throws the other vampire holding her off and punches him in the face. She grabs a piece of wood that had fallen when Syl threw the vampire into the window, and stakes the vampire on the ground. Syl is pummeling two of the vamps that had been restraining her and clearly has the upper hand as she kicks the head off of one of them, then uppercuts the other, sending him flying back and crashing into the dumpster. She grabs her stake and flings it at the stunned vamp, hitting home. She looks over at Angel, who is fighting another of the vamps and doesn't see the one that she had thrown through the window sneaking up behind him with a knife.
"Look out Angel!" Syl yells too late as Angel dusts the vamp he's fighting and turns to her call, only to receive a knife to the gut. The remaining vamps back off and run as Syl and Buffy hurry over to Angel, who is hunched over in pain. Syl looks at his wound.
"This looks serious, you should get to a hospital." Buffy commented.
"No, I'll be fine. I heal quick and this is just a scratch."
"No, you're hurt bad, and talking nonsense." Syl countered. "Come on, we'll take you." She finishes and tries to help him up.
"I said no!" Angel roars, and shifts into game face. Buffy and Syl jump back in shock and Angel looks at them for a moment, shifts back to his human guise and tears off down the alley, leaving a pair of stunned blondes behind.
School – The Next Day
The whole gang is walking up the steps to the school.
"So Angel's a vampire?" Willow asks, her arm interwined with Xander's.
"Yeah, we were trying to get him to go to the hospital after he got stabbed, and he said no and 'vamped' out." Syl said.
"Is it possible for a vampire to be a good person?" Buffy asks.
"A vampire isn't a person at all. It may have the movements, the, the memories, even the personality of the person that it took over, but I-it's still a demon to the core. There is no halfway." Giles tells them.
"Then why has he been helping us?" Syl wonders aloud.
"I don't know." Giles says.
Library – Later the same day
The gang is looking through books trying to find out why Angel is helping them when he is supposed to be evil. After a few moments Giles stands up from where he is sitting with a book.
"I may have found something. There is a mention some two hundred years ago in Ireland of a vampire called Angelus, the one with the angelic face." Giles announces, reading from the book.
"They got that right." Buffy murmurs
"Does he have a tattoo behind his right shoulder?" Giles asks.
"Yeah, it's of a bird or something." Syl replies. "I saw it when he was hunched over bleeding."
"Angelus leaves Ireland, uh, wreaks havoc throughout Europe for several decades, and then about eighty years ago, he comes to America, shuns other vampires and lives alone. There's no record of him killing here."
"So he's good then." Buffy says hopefully.
"There's no record of it, but all vampire's kill. It's what they do." Giles says.
"But he could have fed from either of us." Syl reasons. "He had a chance to. Those vamps last night had us. We were vamp feed for sure, but he helped to fight them off. He didn't feed."
"Question: A hundred years or so before he came to our shores, what was he like then?" Jesse asks.
"Like all of them, a vicious, violent animal." Giles replies with a grimace.
That Night
Summer's home
Buffy and Syl are in Buffy's room studying for history.
"Okay, reconstruction began when?" Syl quizzes Buffy.
"Umm… It began after the…. Uh Civil War…. When Angel was already over a hundred years old." Buffy says distractedly.
"Wow, you've really fallen for him haven't you." Syl jokes with a smirk on her face.
"Hey girls, you have a visitor!" Joyce calls from downstairs. "Oh my god, what are- What are you doing?" Joyce screams.
Buffy and Syl run out of Buffy's room to see one of the vampires from the night before hunched over their mother at the bottom of the stairs. Syl leaps into action, diving from the top of the stairs to tackle the vampire around the waist as he stands, sending them both crashing through the window.
Buffy runs down the stairs and to check on her mother. She doesn't see the other vampire hiding around the corner. She is backhanded violently and flies into a nearby wall. The vampire grabs Joyce and carries her outside. Buffy picks herself up and follows. She runs outside, and finds that it is a trap set for her. The vamp who had carried her mother outside is now holding her unconscious form, his fangs pressed lightly against her neck. Some twenty feet away, a huge vampire is holding a likewise Syl up, a large ornate dagger pressed against her throat. Syl apparently dusted the other one before being caught offguard.
"One will die her tonight slayer. Who's it gonna be?" The large vamp says mockingly. "Your precious mother, or your beloved sister?"
Buffy looks from Syl to Joyce, unable to make a decision, tears streaming down her face. She slowly takes a step forward.
"I have a better idea." Angel says, sneaking up behind the large vampire and slamming a stake into his back, dusting him and catching Syl before she hits the ground.
Buffy charges the other one, who drops Joyce and attempts to flee. Buffy pulls a stake out of her back pocket and flings it at the retreating vamp, hitting true and sending him to dustland. She picks up Joyce and looks over to where Angel is helping a groggy Syl to stand.
"Let's get them inside." Buffy instructs and leads the way, carrying Joyce as Angel assists Syl to the house. He stops at the door and Buffy looks at him.
"I have to be invited in." He says in a way of explanation.
Buffy continues to look at him for a few moments, before deciding that he really is a good vampire. "Come in." She says. He complies and leads Syl over to a chair in the living room and helps her to sit, as Buffy lays her still unconscious mother on the couch. She looks at Angel with a strange expression on her face. "So why is it that your helping us? You're a vampire, you're supposed to be evil."
"You don't believe a man can change?" Angel asks.
"Not a man." Syl murmurs dazed.
"You used to be a diehard, merciless killer. What changed?" Buffy asks.
"Killed a girl about your age, beautiful…. Dumb as a post, but a favorite among her clan." Angel says.
"Her clan?" Buffy asks, perplexed.
"Gypsies. The elders cursed me with a soul." Angel reveals.
"Oh. I get it now. They gave you a soul so that you would feel horrible for all of the evil things you did." Syl realizes.
"Yeah, that pretty much covers it." Angel says. "I better get going before your mom wakes up." Angel gets up and starts to leave. Buffy watches his retreating back.
"Wait!" She calls, running up to him and kisses him passionately, and Angel slowly wraps his arms around her and returns the kiss, both completely oblivious to Syl's drowsy whistling.
To Be Continued.
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