What it takes- I know no one is really a fan of this but I think I'm going to ride this out. I love Christian Kane, he is fantabulous.
Disclaimer- I do not own anything to do with Angel.
Wesley and Angel had both listens to Darla's tale that Lindsey told her. Angel wasn't surprised at the great lengths the law firm would go to get Lindsey. Angel had Wesley look up his old school record and the time that he signed on with Wolfram & Hart. Lindsey had been at the top of his game; his Dean of the school remarked how driven to succeed the boy had been to get out of his hometown. How much work Lindsey put into everything that he had done. Wesley raised his eyebrows when he had come to an article about Lindsey's live in girlfriend, pretty girl, bright future, then a horrible shooting had taken the young girl's life. Lindsey had for gone his own graduation to attend Amanda's funeral.
"Angel, look at these grades, I've never seen them this high " Wesley said with awe in his voice.
" I never said he was stupid, just misguided" Angel answered as he himself was impressed with the grades. He looked back over at Darla, who was pacing back and forth.
" I still don't understand why you think that Amanda is alive, it looks pretty cut and dry to me. She was caught in a shoot, multiple gun wounds to the body. Lindsey and her parents claimed the body; she was buried here in LA. Hmmm."
Wesley gave Angel a look, Darla saw it.
"What?"
"Well, if she was from the same state Lindsey was from, wouldn't you take the body back home, I mean if you were her parents why bury her here and not in a family plot."
Darla smiled at the two of them" See, didn't I tell you there was something strange going on. Where did she work maybe if we call there or her parents house they can tell us if their daughter is alive."
"That is a great idea Darla, I'll do a search to see where her parents are. And we can call about her job or something."
"Guys, I don't know if that is a good idea I mean, would we really want to bother a grieving family?" Angel asked, still not full convinced that Amanda was alive.
"If she is truly dead, then at least we can find out something to ease her mind and Angel, it is connect to Wolfram & Hart some how so the chances of her being a live are rather good."
Darla sat down at the computer and started typing in Amanda's name, when an article popped up.
Amanda Collins, top chef at Triton's Code restaurant coming to LA to open new branch for Jake Code…
"Um Guys?"
Wesley was still making his case to Angel, neither one paying attention to Darla, who was still reading the article that had popped up. Her eyes widened at the page, this girl was far from dead. She was trained out of the country in France. Came back to California and was hired by Jake Code a young diner owner at the time, who decided to go bigger. Now he own two places and was ready to open a third. On top of it Wolfram & Hart hired them to cater large luncheon with important clients. Amanda was to arrive tomorrow to give a demonstration of her techniques.
"Angel, Wesley, can you to stop for one moment I think we found our corpse and she has been pretty busy for a dead girl" Darla stepped away from the screen to let them get a look at it.
" Well I'll be." Wesley whispered as they both read the article.
"Darla, call Cordelia and tell her we said to come back here, our girl has risen."
Wesley and Angel's eyes both went back to the screen, it had seem that Amanda was very much alive and going to be catering a luncheon for Wolfram & Hart. The woman had a very beautiful smile; it almost reminded Wesley of the sunshine. Angel looked at Wesley then back at the picture of her.
"I'll go see if I can't find anything else on her, if she is alive and not a vampire then I can go tall to her right?"
Wesley nodded then added "Angel, be careful this might just be a trick" Angel nodded before grabbing the address and leaving the building.
Scene
The limo pulled up in front of the office, Amanda sighed as she looked at the building, it wasn't one of the friendliest buildings in LA The woman sitting next to her smirked, she thought the building was ugly too, when she first started there.
"Amanda, you ready to go see the kitchen you will be working in?"
Amanda gave Lila a smile " Sure why not."
Lila opened the door and stepped out into the bright sun. She waited for Amanda to step out as well. She saw the woman stare at the building in a little fear.
"Relax, this place isn't so bad. It made me a little nervous too when I first got here. I'll show you around before you can get started" Lila led the younger woman towards the building . As the got closer to the door, a familiar shape stepped out of the shadows. Lila stopped in her tracks and looked at the dark skinned man.
"Charles Gunn, I wondered, when we would meet."
Gunn smiled at her " Oh I'm not here to see you Lila, Ms. Collins? I'm here to see you. There is someone I know who would love to see you, so if you would just come with me."
"Amanda, that man is very dangerous, he works for a vampire, a very dangerous vampire at that."
Gunn gave Lila a death glare to make her stop talking "Amanda, my name is Charles Gunn, I'm a Vampire slayer, but I work for him. I know this will sound strange but Lindsey wants to see you? So I was sent here to pick you up. I'll have you back in time to cook lunch for Satin I promise."
It was Lila's turn to have a smug look on her face, when Amanda looked at him oddly and said " Whom? I'm sorry I do not know who you are talking about." Amanda pushed past Gunn into the building with Lila.
Gunn frowned as he watched Amanda and Lila walk into the building; he pulled out his cell phone.
"Hey Wes, you were right the girl had no clue who Lindsey was and Lila 's smile couldn't get any wider. I'll go pick up Cordy in a few minutes" Gunn walked back to his truck where Angel sat waiting for him.
"Well it is time for plan two…" the truck roared to life as they headed over to Lindsey's apartment.
So here is part of it. Amanda will not remember Lindsey at least not until Lorne gets there.