Ch. 3 Destination: Lost Angels
"Come on Mini B, get a move on!" shouted the dark haired slayer.
"I would go faster if I didn't have to carry four freakin' bags at once!" Erin shouted back as she stumbled her way towards the car.
"Language!" shouted Buffy as she started the engine in her black jeep explorer.
"Sorry!"
Faith grabbed the two black canvas bags and the two red ones Erin was carrying.
"Damn E! What the hell do ya got in here!"
"Don't look at me, two of those are Mom's and they are filled with makeup."
"Oh B!" Faith cheerily exclaimed. "Feelin' a little nervous about seeing Angel." She put extra emphasis on Angel.
"NO!" she quickly replied.
"Oh I don't think so! I think that you are ready for some action with an Angel in the city of Lost Angels."
"Shut Up Faith!"
Faith just chuckles with Erin.
"Just get in the car you two." She tosses Faith the keys.
"You're driving."
"Where's Willow?"
"She's sending all our transcripts and stuff to UCLA. She's going to have Giles and my mom drive her down. My mom wanted to because she wants to see where her "Grandbaby is going to be living so she knows how to drive down to visit."
Faith chuckles, "You better tell Giles to blindfold her while he drives."
"I already did." Buffy says dryly.
They both laugh and get in.
10 minutes later
Faith is driving, Buffy is in the passenger seat.)
"So what is Dad like here?" Erin asked.
The only way to describe Buffy in that moment was, "Deer caught in headlights."
Luckily Faith came to the rescue. "Oh I don't know, broody, quiet, but hotter than-
"OKAY thank you Faith!" Buffy quickly interrupted.
Buffy was quiet for a minute then said "Angel's…nice, …quiet," she chuckles, "But he still manages to catch your attention."
He was working through college on my grandpa's farm
I was thirsting for knowledge and he had a car
"When I first met him I didn't trust him, but I did think he was a hottie." She smirks. "He helped me when I fought the master." "He didn't come around much, but when he did, when he walked into a room, it was like all the lights dimmed and there was spotlight on him."
"He was mysterious, kind of dark and dangerous. I guess that's what attracted me to him. I mean what girl doesn't want a bad boy." She quickly looked back at Faith and Erin with a grin.
I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child
Faith smirked back. "I hear that baby! Woo!"
They all laughed.
When one restless summer we found love growing wild
"I wanted him around more." "So I decide to make him jealous one night by dancing with Xander." "This was after I came back from staying with my dad that summer after the Master drowned me."
On the banks of the river on a well beaten path
Funny how those memories they last
" After that we sort of told each other how we felt, and he was around when I needed him, and when I didn't." "We started patrolling together, but there was less and less staking of vampires and more kissing."
Faith grins. Erin makes a face, she didn't want to hear about her parents making out. Hearing about her dad was great, just leave out some of the details.
"Everything was fine. Except for the fact that Spike and Druscilla were in town. She furrows her brow in confusion. " They were trying to put a demon called the Judge back together, which I now realize was really stupid because the judge gained power by frying people and if he killed all the humans what would they eat?" Buffy shakes her head to stop her babbling.
"The night of my seventeenth birthday the Judge became whole and was ready to kill."
Like strawberry wine
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like strawberry wine
Buffy looks back at Erin, "I know that night of my seventeenth birthday in the dimension you are from was the night you were conceived."
"It was different here."
"Angel and I went to the factory that Spike and Dru were held up in. After we saw that the Judge was active we were going to get out of there, but they spotted us. In shorter terms we almost died."
"That night Angel lost his soul, and became Angelus." "He was vicious." " "Threatened my friends, and in turn, my sanity."
"He killed my watchers girlfriend."
"I grew up fast after that."
I still remember when thirty was old
"Angelus planned to send the world to hell." She was quiet for a time, and when Faith looked at her there were tears in B's eyes.
"Willow must have been trying the spell of restoration while I fought him, because all of a sudden when I had the upper hand-"
She takes a deep breath.
"He had his soul back…he was my Angel again."
"But the portal had opened and-" The words came out in rush.
"I killed him."
"I ran away to L.A. and I got a crappy apartment, and a crappy job."
"Something happened and I came back."
"Everything was getting better. My friends and Giles started to forgive me, my mom let me back in to the house. And a new friend, a sister slayer came and showed me how to live again."
"I even started dating. His name was Scott."
"Then Angel came back. He was…well he was a mess. He was like an animal. He couldn't talk that well and he was more growly and protective."
She remembers him breaking Pete's neck. She winces and continues.
"I helped him in secret, well Faith new but, I didn't want her around Angel. I didn't know how he would react."
"He started to get better and soon he was almost like he was…almost." She whispered the last part almost reverently.
"My mom found out that we were together again, and couldn't handle it." She gave a bitter laugh. "She went to the Mansion and talked to him and convinced him he wasn't good enough for me. That he couldn't give me what I needed."
"I can't just blame her though, because Angel wouldn't have left just because my mom had a problem with us. He had to of had some doubts and been thinking about leaving before that."
My biggest fear was September when he had to go
"He broke up with me in a sewer of all places." Her words were angry.
Then they turned sad,
"He showed up at the prom... we danced…then he left."
"I haven't seen him since."
A few cards and letters and one long distance call
We drifted away like the leaves in the fall
"I went back to the mansion once, to get some of my things I left there."
But year after year I come back to this place
Just to remember the taste
Of strawberry wine and seventeen
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like strawberry wine
"Do you miss him?" Erin broke the silence.
"Always."
The fields have grown over now
Years since they've seen a plow
There's nothing time hasn't touched
Is it really him or the loss of my innocence
I've been missing so much
Like strawberry wine and seventeen
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like Strawberry wine
1 Hour Later
"Okay that's it!" Faith suddenly shouted.
"It has been an hour and we have barely said anything!"
"B I know you miss him but we are going to see him in like two minutes so lets start to be happy okay?"
"Aunt Faith is right! We are beautiful women-
Faith and Buffy give her a look.
"We are two beautiful women and a beautiful pre-woman so we are going to have some fun and forget boys for a while." Erin continued.
Buffy laughed. "Alright, what are we listening to?" She asked reaching for her CD case.
"Beastie Boys!" Erin and Faith screeched excitedly.
Buffy popped the CD in and turned up the volume full blast. Faith rolled the windows down.
KICK IT! They all screamed along with the song.
YOU WAKE UP LATE FOR SCHOOL MAN YOU DON'T WANNNA GO!
YOU ASK YOUR MOM "PLEASE?" BUT SHE STILL SAYS "NO!"
They all turn to each other and scream No!
YOU MISSED TWO CLASSES AND NO HOMEWORK!
BUT YOUR TEACHER TEACHES CLASS LIKE YOUR SOME KIND OF JERK!
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY!
YOUR POPS CAUGHT YOU SMOKIN AND HE SAID "NO WAY!"
THAT HYPOCRITE SMOKES TWO PACKS A DAY!
MAN LIVIN AT HOME IS SUCH A DRAG
NOW MOM THREW AWAY YOUR BEST PORNO MAG BUST IT!
Angel, Robin, Gunn, and Connor are all standing outside the Hyperion talking while the cleaners clean the upstairs rooms.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY!
YOU GOTTA FIGHT!
DON'T STEP OUTTA THIS HOUSE IF THAT'S THE CLOTHES YOUR GONNA WEAR!
I'LL KICK YA OUTTA MY HOME IF YOU DON'T CUT THAT HAIR!
Angel and the guys turn as they hear pounding music coming from the street.
YOUR MOM BUSTED IN AND SAID "WHAT'S THAT NOISE?"
AW, MOM YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS IT'S THE BEASTIE BOYS!
YOU GOTTA FIGHT
FOR YOUR RIGHT
TO PARTY!
A black Jeep Explorer pulls into the driveway twenty feet from where they are standing.
"Yo Angel, you expectin' someone?" Gunn asks.
Angel just nods his head. They all focus their attention on the SUV.
End ch.3, The songs in this chap were Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter, and Fight for Your Right by the Beastie Boys.