Chapter 6 Thanks and Giving part 2
The police were at the hotel finishing up the questioning and the investigation but the people of the hotel knew they weren't going to find Isabella or any other people that were taken by this demon. Angel had completely shut down and didn't answer the police. He had no idea where to start looking and the day of the feast for the Cyberdemon was close.
Angel sat on his bed against the headboard asleep with his knees to his chest.
"Angel?" A voice asked. Angel felt a hand on his forearm and someone shaking him. "Angel wake up." The voice said again and Angel's eyes opened and he looked up. The person's figure went from blurry to clear. The room that had little light now was shining brightly. She always brought light to his dark world.
"Buffy?" Angel asked and she leaned in closer. "You can't, you're dead," He stammered.
"Where's our baby Angel?" She asked, she was still beautiful with her green eyes, Isabella had the same green eyes, and long blonde locks cascaded around her shoulders. She wore a thin white dress that displayed all her curves and showed off her tone body and sun kissed skin.
"I don't know they took her away from me." Angel said and his words were choking and eyes were filling with tears.
"She's the target now Angel for everything that can happen." Buffy said to him. "You have to protect her, only you can."
"You tell me how I'm supposed to do that, because of me she's out there." Angel argued back but fought the tears from falling.
"Angel you are so strong, stronger than you allow yourself to think." She stated and scooted closer placing both hands on his arms as if she was about to pull him up. He fought against her not wanting to move.
"No," He said in protest, if he was so strong then Buffy would have never died.
"Get up." She said in a stern voice.
"No," He then pulled her close, she moved onto his lap, straddling him as he held her as close as possible. His hands roamed her body remembering how she felt. He could feel her warm body, her soft skin that felt like the silk dress she had on. He grabbed her thighs and she knew what he wanted, she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck as he kissed her shoulder that was bare except for the thin straps that help up her dress straps he could easily pull off and wanted to pull off. He made a frantic trail of kisses from her shoulder up to her neck to his mark and then tenderly kissed it.
"I love you Angel, more than you'll ever know, always have and always will." She moaned as she could feel his kisses up and down her neck, she then kissed him back. She kissed his cheek and then their lips found one another's kissing passionately, their tongues dueled for dominance. He pulled away and kissed her cheek and back down her neck and then held her.
"I love you too." He sobbed and she held him tight. He literally melting in her embrace, she could make him do that just with one touch. Angel could make her go weak all over just by looking at without even the slightest touch.
"I'll always be with you Angel." She said and he pulled away kissing her cheek and then the two rested each other's foreheads together as he let her catch her breath. He took in her scent, a scent he missed. She placed a hand on his cheek caressing it lovingly and let her thumb rest on his lips and he kissed it lightly. "Remember Angel, things that are, things that were will become undone and the future is black." She said and Angel rested his head on her shoulder, that phrase she said came from the Sanshu, his prophecy. He nodded and let more tears fall; he wanted her stay in this place where ever they were. She kissed the bridge of his nose and he kissed her mouth hungrily. After a few moments of kissing her mouth he kissed her all over her face remembering every detail, every feeling, the way her skin felt on his lips. She kissed him all over the face too and burned those silk lips into his mind and to keep them in a secret place. Angel buried his face into the crook of her neck inhaling her scent burn into his memory and pulled her closer as if he wanted her to melt into him and more tears fell. But when he was going to look at those emerald eyes again she was gone. He turned to the door where she stood.
"Stay with me Buffy." He pleaded as he slowly got off the bed. He wanted her to stay, to hold him, to love him in every way possible. He wanted to feel her warmth and the silk that was her body.
"There's not much time left in this world Angel." She said and then walked away.
"No wait Buffy please," He got up and left the room. She was already far down the white hall heading back to where ever she came from. He ran to her as fast as he could but it felt like she was speeding up and he was getting slower and slower. He ran through the double doors and she was gone and he was outside in front of a broken down building and Isabella stood before him.
"Izzy?" He asked and she smiled.
"Daddy." She said giggling and off to the building.
"Izzy come back!" He yelled and ran after her.
Angel woke up from the dream and knew where to find Isabella.
The adults sat at the table discussing what Angel had said and what they found.
"It's off Crammer's street." Gunn stated as Angel sat at the table with his ax sharpening it. Tonight was the night and they were waiting for sun down. Then Kate came in.
"I want to help," She said and no one said anything so she sat down.
"There's nothing there though," Xander said.
"Maybe it's under." Wes suggested.
"Well two skilled vampires can sneak in and not even be noticed." Gunn stated and Angel kept sharpening his ax.
"Yeah a skilled vampire can but not a vengeful and pissed off one." Cordelia stated and she looked to Angel as he was off in some other place.
"We go in, get the people out and kill the demons another day." Giles suggested, the amount of people down there might cause too much commotion to fight. Angel kept sharpening his ax. Kate nodded but she knew Angel wanted to kill every last demon there.
"Angel?" Cordelia asked and he looked up. "What's the plan?" She asked and he didn't response instead he ran the stone that sharpen the ax up the blade once last time and then tossed the stone onto the table, got up and left.
"Has he said anything?" Kate asked and everyone shook their heads no.
"His top priority is Isabella so we'll make the others ours." Giles stated and Kate nodded.
"Hypothetical," Kate began. "Isabella dies?" She asked and everyone was quiet.
"Angel will die too and Angelus may come back." Wes stated and Kate nodded.
"Isabella dies so does the rest of this world." Cordelia stated, everyone understood the situation.
Tara stayed behind to look after Levy and Evan while the rest of the hotel's people went to the building and Kate joined them. They walked into the run down building looking for anything that can lead them under, trap door anything.
"Yo, stop your grinning and drop your linen." Gunn said and everyone came to him. "Found it." He said and kicked the tar mat over reveling a door. They all gathered around looking at it and Angel lifted the handle he and Spike were the only ones strong enough to lift the door.
"Oh it stinks." Lorne commented as everyone peered down into the black hole.
"Everyone has a weapon?" Gunn asked and everyone nodded. Kate took out her gun and clicked the safety and Gunn shook his no.
"What?" She asked and he handed her a crossbow.
"Bullets won't kill a damn thing down there." Gunn stated and Angel jumped in first.
"I'll stay close to Angel cake, out of all of us here he's got the biggest weapon." Kate said out of everyone here she was the most inexperienced fighter and Spike chuckled which everyone glared at him knowing what he was laughing about.
"Sorry trying to lighten up the mood." Spike stated and jumped in after his Sire and everyone followed in. Angel and Spike had to lead the way because they were the only ones that could see in the dark even though everyone had flashlights, you could still barely see.
"Keep it tight." Gunn said as everyone moved as a group. "Check corners." Angel was so focused on Isabella and nothing else, he then picked up her scent, it was faint but she had been this way. Her scent resembled that of Buffy's like flowers mixed with the Spring rain with a hint of honey and Jasmine. Buffy smelt like the honey and Jasmine so he could understand why Isabella took on that small portion and then the rain and flowers were her own unique scent. Then there was a flicker of light down the way. Finally they were out of the dark and into what looked like a cave lit by torches. Angel kept moving and they all followed trusting he knew where he was going. He stopped and did a signal indicating everyone to hang back as he advanced. He checked and saw the Baron demons walking away deeper into the cave. Angel signaled for everyone to follow and they did slowly not wanting to make their present's known not yet at least.
The group followed Angel as he followed behind the demons and singled everyone to stop again, there was a lone demon guard and Angel went to sneak up on him. Angel stood behind him up on a small mound and growled. Before the demon could turn around Angel grabbed its neck and twisted it violently and the demon fell to the ground. Angel picked up his ax and advanced.
"My God, what's he like when he is evil?" Kate asked and Giles looked to her.
"You don't want to even know." Giles stated and they kept moving. And then came over to a ledge and crouched down looking around as more and more of the demons gathered. Cordelia pointed to a direction.
"There," She said and everyone looked and Angel could pick up Isabella scent, it was getting stronger. They all stayed crouched and headed to the direction Cordelia pointed to. Angel climbed down the rocky walls and Spike followed. The two helped the others down and they continued to follow the demons to where ever they were going. They came to a flight of stairs as the demons disappeared up them. The group saw that it was a plat form of some kind. They all climbed up the plat form and looked to the top. On the far side was a huge cage of people and in the wall was the Cyberdemon. A few of the demons were bowing down to it chanting something.
Angel motioned everyone to flank the plat form as he headed to the foot of the stairs and on his signal they would attack. Isabella was in the cage and she could pick up her father's presents and ran to the front of cage looking around for him. Angel advanced slowly up the stairs with his ax ready as everyone took a position and waited. Angel was at the top of the stairs and sliced a head of a demon off and it was on. The demons ran frantically attacking the AI team. Kate fought her way through to free the people from the cage.
"Angel!" Giles scream as the Cyberdemon was coming out of the wall. Angel turned to it and morphed into his vampire face as the demon broke from the wall and screamed in anger. Angel growled back and ran to the demon and swung his ax. The Cyberdemon dodge the swing and then smacked Angel to the ground. The Cyberdemon lifted up his foot to crush Angel and Angel rolled away while a Baron demon came to defend its lord. Angel held up his ax blocking the sword.
Kate opened the cage and the people screamed as the flooded out. Kate however was looking for Isabella and saw her and went up to her.
"Remember me?" Kate asked kneeling down and Isabella stood there, scared.
"Kate," She said and Kate held out her hand and Isabella came up to her. The two walked out of the cage hand and hand ready to run when they saw the Cyberdemon charging their way. Kate ran back into the cage with Isabella shutting the door as the Cyberdemon screamed and started to pull apart the railings. "Kate," Isabella said pointing up seeing that a set of bars on top were pulled just far enough apart that they could squeeze out.
"Here." Kate knelt down and Isabella climbed on her back and wrapped her arms around her neck. Kate stood up and begun to climb the rocky wall. Meanwhile Angel could see what was going on afar and knew they needed help. He fought his way through and made his way as fast as he could. Kate made it to the top and had Isabella climb through it first. They two got on top of the cage and on to the ledge and ran.
Kate scooped up Isabella and ran with her down some caves. Isabella indicated she wanted down and Kate decided to take a small break but Isabella kept running.
"This way," Isabella said and Kate followed. Isabella picked up some of the groups scent as they were leaving. Then the two saw Cordelia and Xander ushering out the people and they headed off in that direction when the Cyberdemon came through the roof of the cave. Kate picked up Isabella and they ran down a different cave as the thing followed them.
They were trapped as Isabella and Kate tried to climb up the rocky walls but where to go. Kate grabbed Isabella and held and took out her gun and fired at the demon but nothing happened. She fired off all her rounds and the gun just clicked indicating it was empty. There was nothing they could do. Kate was ready to shield Isabella and try to fight off this thing so she could scoot away. The demon stood before them and drooled.
"Daddy!" Isabella scream as it reached for them and then it screamed. It turned around and there stood Angel vamped out and he growled, he had swung his ax into it back. It swiped at him and Angel jumped into the air while slicing its chest. It fell and Angel stood over it and swung the ax into its face and it no longer moved. He took a step back and heard Isabella whimpering. He turned to face the girls, Kate was holding Isabella looking at the dead demon. Isabella looked up and saw her father there and pulled away from Kate and ran to her father. Angel knelt down and hugged her, while Isabella clung onto her father he took off his coat and wrapped it around her and stood up and begun to leave. Kate followed the two looking at the demon. Angel bent over and took his ax out of the demon's face and left.
Kate sat at her desk looking at a file the name read Buffy Ann Summers O'Brien. She also had Isabella's file and it read Isabella Buffy O'Brien. The birth certificate had Buffy's name and another, it read Liam Angel O'Brien. While she could look at blood test what she saw down there in that cave was enough for her. She closed both files.
Angel stood on top of the building where the demon's home was. The Cyberdemon was tied to a post and Angel circled it studying it. He pulled out something from his pocket a little glass angel and shoved into the demon's mouth with just a little bit of anger. He poured gasoline all over the demon and a trail down the edge of the roof. Angel knelt down and struck a match and dropped it on the gasoline and the blaze ran up to the demon and the demon was engulfed in flames. Angel stood there and watched it burn.
Kate, Wes, Giles, Cordelia, Xander and Gunn stood on the roof top the next day looking at the burn corpse.
"Angel?" Kate asked and they all nodded.
"It's a type of warning." Giles stated as Kate looked at the burnt demon.
"What? Stay away from me?" Cordelia asked , Wes and Giles shook their heads no.
"No, Angel is strong he can take out anything that comes in his way." Wes said.
"It's a warning to stay away from Isabella." Giles confirmed and Xander nodded.
"I'd do the same thing if it attacked my son." Xander said and left to go home, they all did except Kate. She reached into the demon's mouth and pulled out the glass angel and smiled.
The table was being set for the big Thanksgiving feast. The kids ran around the hotel and Angel heard a knock at the front door. Angel went to answer it and Kate stood there.
"Hey," She said.
"Hey," Angel replied back.
"How's, how is she?"
"She's good, we're both good." Angel confirmed and Kate nodded. "I want to thank you for helping."
"No problem," Kate said and then Isabella came to see who was here. Angel knelt down and picked her up.
"Hi Kate," The little girl said.
"Izzy," Angel began and his daughter looked at him. "You want Kate to have dinner with us?" He asked and Isabella nodded with a smile and Kate smiled.
"No it's ok,"
"We have plenty," Angel said with a small smile and she nodded and came in. Isabella was put down and charged after Evan and Levy and three ran around until Cordelia called everyone to come and sit. Isabella sat in her high chair and took a bite of food and Angel leaned in to her ear.
"No one said eat yet miss Isabella Buffy O'Brien." Angel said to his daughter and kissed her cheek and Isabella smiled and leaned back in her chair. Kate smiled at Isabella, she was Angel's daughter, she looked so much like him except those green eyes she knew those green eyes were her mother's. Everyone took their seats as soft Irish music played in the background.
"Who's going to give thanks?" Willow asked with a smile. Everyone looked to Angel and he nodded.
"Thanks for the good food, to family and to good friends and to Kate." He said and she smiled. They all nodded and begun to pass the food around while kids begun to eat the already made portions for them. Angel looked across the table to his family, an interesting family but a family nonetheless, he was thankful and then a warm feeling came over him and he smiled again, he knew that feeling and it felt like two arms wrapped around him and he reached for his glass and pour some wine and passed it around the table, it was a good Thanksgiving, he had everyone he wanted with him even just for a moment.
So what do you think? Hope you liked Buffy's steamy appearance in Angel's dream and her suggested appearance at the end. What you ask, am I going to put more dreams like this in my story? I might, we'll see. More on the way, pretty soon I'll fast forward to a later age for Isabella where she'll started learning about the true dangers and fighting alongside her father. Hope you're enjoying it. Thanks for reading, comments and reviews are most welcomed.