Title: Desperate Measures 7?
Author: Wereleopard
Rating: PG
Pairing: C/A
Crossover Angel/Buffy
Email: Romance
Summary: Cordy is dying from the visions and the AI gang will go to any lengths to save her, but they first have to go to Sunnydale to help the Scoobies
Spoilers: All of Buffy and Angel
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angel verse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made I am just poor and the song doesn't belong to me either.
Distribution: Let me know
Feedback: Yes please!

N/B When Tara and Willow split up due to the magicks; Tara moved to LA and joined AI. And the timeline may not be correct but it is my story so just ignore it ok LOL

As usual could not do this without hotstuff you rock so much

Chapter 7

Tears fell from Tara's eyes, there had been a sudden excruciating pain but that quickly vanished and all that was left was an empty ache, a hole where Cordy had once been, she had lost something, her connection to her friend, it was gone.

"Tara what is it?" Willow asked softly as she reached out and touched the upset young woman on the shoulder. Tara flinched at Willow's touch, the feeling of loss that she felt was still too strong within her. She never saw the hurt that flashed through Willow's eyes.

Fred leaned forward and rested her head on the bed staring into Tara's pain filled, teary eyes.

"Tara what happened? Is it Cordy?" Fred whispered hoping not to spook or upset her friend anymore.

Tara's eyes moved to look at Fred, but she seemed to stare right through her.

"She's gone." Tara said softly, numbly.

Fred's eyes widened, she forced the tears back, she had to know what Tara meant before she called the others.

"You mean she's…" Fred stuttered afraid to say the words in case she made them come true.

"I don't know." Tara answered vaguely.

Willow's face was full of confusion. "Then what happened?"

"The spell that I cast connected us, she was in so much pain, more pain than I could ever imagine and I was only sensing the tail end of it, it must have been unbearable for her and then she was gone." Tara tried to explain through the tears.

"Gone how?" Willow asked sensing that Fred was too upset to ask anything.

"She cut the strands that connected us, so whatever she went through I wouldn't. If she died I wouldn't. She left me alone." Tara sobbed she had enjoyed the connection, it had become part of her and now it felt as if she had had a limb amputated and the loss was devastating.

"So you don't know if she's…" Willow waved her arms around vaguely but deep down glad for what Cordy had done; the witch didn't have any idea what she would have done if Tara had died.

"I don't know anything except that I can't sense her." Tara mumbled, the tears still falling as she turned and hid herself under the blanket wanting everyone to leave her alone to mourn, mourn the loss of a special connection.

Fred breathed deeply trying to control her emotions, taking out her cell she hit speed dial and held the phone to her ear.

"Angel?" She said softly her voice tinged with the emotions she was feeling.

Angel stared down at the small piece of plastic in his hand as if it were a demon.

"NO!" He screamed as he threw it against the wall and it shattered into a million pieces just like his heart.

He turned and walked towards the wall and stood there just staring at it. Everyone except Buffy stood their watching waiting to see what was going to happen, whether he would remain Angel or would it be the return of Angelus.

"Angel?" Buffy asked cautiously as she reached out and touched his shoulder.

"Cordy." Angel sobbed as he punched the wall and pieces of it showered over them.

Wes and Gunn walked forward and stood either side of him.

"Angel what has happened to Cordy?" Wes asked his voice shaking ever so slightly.

"No idea." Angel mumbled numbly his shoulders hunched.

Gunn and Wesley frowned at each other.

"Angel man what do you mean?" Gunn asked.

"Tara, she said that she sensed Cordy was in a lot of pain and then the connection between them was cut." Angel muttered.

"So we don't actually know that she is dead." Wes told them logically.

Angel turned his eyes blazing amber. "But we don't know if she is alive either." He growled.

Wes's eyes went cold. "Well it is up to you what you think but until I have proof I'm not giving up, I won't, I can't. She wouldn't and hasn't ever given up on me."

Angel's eyes turned back to their natural human brown colour.

"I'm sorry Wes." Angel reached out and grabbed Wes and Gunn by the shoulders and gave them a gentle squeeze.

"We won't give up. Cordy's our girl and no one, I mean no one gets her without a fight." Gunn told them with a grin.

Cordy lay on the floor in a fetal position trying to become as small as she could, hoping and praying that they would leave her alone. Her body shook as the pain racked through it.

She had tried to figure out where she was but whoever had her didn't like it and they blinded her with a spell, she guessed it was a spell because it was exactly like what had happened back in Sunnydale except that she had no one to help her. All she had was herself.

"You could have taken strength from your little witch friend with that connection you had." A ghostly indistinct voice said.

"Yeah and if I die so does she. That was just so not going to happen." Cordy said with as much strength as she could muster.

More excruciating pain went through her body and she could feel the blackness come over her.

"Thank god." She whispered as she went into unconsciousness her last thoughts were hoping that this was over and she wouldn't wake up for awhile or that she wouldn't wake up at all.

Daylight was approaching he could feel it as he stood watching over Tara. She poked her head out from under the blankets and looked at the man who was just a shell of the vampire he was a few hours ago and there was only one thing Tara could do, she held out her arms to him and it only took a second for him to be in them as they both cried at the loss they felt. They never noticed the one other person in the room, Willow. The young red-head felt out of place, it felt as if she were intruding but it also hurt. Tara had a whole new life, a family that she knew nothing about.

Cordy awoke still in a world of blackness her body ached with all the pain that had passed through her, but something was different she seemed to be laying on some kind of hard surface her ankles and wrists were bound and she couldn't move and Cordy screamed as a knife bit down in the flesh on her thigh.

TBC