Buffy and Cordelia

"Season 5 and up"

Disclaimer: I don't own it!

Pairing: Buffy/Cordelia

Summary: Re-write

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Chapter 47: Hero

Buffy and Cordelia's Apartment

Buffy was on there bed, relaxing, enjoying not having to be worried about anything. Mostly because they just arrived back home about and hour or so ago and Angel hadn't called just with the latest news of impending danger. Cordelia was currently in the shower so when the doorbell rang Buffy knew she was going to have to be the one to get up and get it.

She got up out of bed and walked into the living room. When she looked out the door she saw Angel's convertible sitting in the apartment complex's parking lot. "Great," Buffy said to herself as she opened the door and saw Angel and Doyle standing in front of her.

"Hey Buffy," Angel said as he and Doyle walked through the open doorway and into the living room. Doyle sat on the couch and put his feet on the table and Buffy shot him a glare, which made him move his feet.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, which by the way I'm not, but why are here?" she asked as she walked into the kitchen and hopped onto one of the counters.

"Don't even think about it Buffy," Cordelia said coming out of the bathroom drying of her hair. "You know better than to sit on my counter, off," she said and Buffy hopped up.

"Not a word," Buffy said to Angel as a smirk came across his lips.

"I called them over Buffy," Cordelia said as she leaned against the counter that Buffy had previously been leaning on. "Angel we need to do something to get Angel Investigation more looks, were people will actually know that we exist and that we're here to help them," she said as she looked at everyone in the room.

"What do you have in mind?" Doyle asked seeing as he was the only one really interested. He never did understand why Angel didn't want to be recognized by all the good things that he had done.

"I was thinking something along the lines of a commercial." She said with a smile and Buffy rolled her eyes and Cordelia slapped her. "It's a good idea," she said. "We have a lonely female walking down the street and she gets attacked by a group of men, muggers." She paused for affect. "Then Angel comes walking out of the shadows and saves the day getting the women home safe and sound." She ended.

"Honestly Cor, I don't ever know what goes on in your brain," Buffy said as she placed her hand on Cordelia's head. "I going to bed," Buffy said as she kissed Cordelia on the cheek and walked into the bedroom closing the door behind her.

"And I'm going home," Angel said as he looked at Doyle. "You coming?" he asked.

"Nah, I'll stay and see what else Cordelia has in mind," he said as he looked at the brunette. "I'll catch a taxi or soemthin," he said as he looked at Angel. "This really is a good idea because even thought your saving lives you still have to make rent," Doyle said with a smirk.

"Good night," Angel said as he walked out the door.

"Why is it that the good guys never want to be recognized?" Cordelia asked the Doyle. "Buffy's the same way," she added as she plopped on the couch next to Doyle.

"I think to them it makes what they do less heroic," he said as he looked at her. "For some reason if the get rewarded than it isn't the same." He added as he looked at her and then back toward the bedroom door where Buffy had gone moment before. "In Buffy's case for centuries before her slayers where never even aloud to have friends and she might feel that she is being unfair to them if she is making commercial so that she is more public." He explained and then got up off the couch. "I gonna go, we'll talk more about this tomorrow maybe even you and me will make a tape of our own," he said as he walked out the door making sure to close it behind himself.

Cordelia sighed as she looked at the bedroom door before getting up and walking over there. When she opened the door to the bedroom she saw that Buffy was fast asleep and Doyle's words rang in her head. Before slayers weren't even aloud to have friends. What would Buffy have been like without her friends? Would she eve still be alive? Cordelia thought as she walked further into the bedroom and climbed into bed next to her wife. She felt Buffy's arms come around her waist as she fell asleep.

Angel Investigations

The next morning when Buffy walked into Angel Investigations she saw Cordelia and Doyle working on a way to get Angel to do the commercial and that's when Buffy saw Angel going down to his apartment on his elevator. Buffy smiled as she walked into the office and Cordelia was complaining to Doyle about Angel and that's when Cordelia looked at Buffy and smiled.

"Oh no," Buffy said once she saw the look in Cordelia's eyes. "Don't even think about asking me to do this, you know my stand on this situation." Buffy said as she put her hands out to stop Cordelia from advance and using her abilities to cuddle to sway Buffy.

"Come on Buffy," Cordelia said. "If you loved me you would do this for me," she said as she winked at her.

Buffy smiled in return. About a year ago that line would have worked on her but no anymore because Cordelia didn't have it in her to leave her so it didn't matter what she said. Also she had come up with a great counter line. "If you loved me you wouldn't ask me to do something I clearly don't want to do," Buffy said as she walked over to the elevator and followed Angel's lead in going into his apartment to escaped that crazed friends.

Cordelia looked at Doyle and he just shook his head and shrugged his shoulder. "I don't know what you expected," he said. Then a smirk came across Cordelia lips once again. "What?" he asked in his thick Irish accent.

"You do it," she said. "Me and you don't care about the whole hero status so why don't you do it instead of either Angel or Buffy," she said as she looked at him with the looked that said she meant business.

"I don't know Cordelia, I mean I'm not good with that kind of stuff," he said as he tried to back away.

"Don't even think about it." She said. "I'll put what you have to say on cards behind me and all you have to do is read." She paused. "You can ride can't you," she said and he just glared at her. "Okay," she said with a smile as she began to write down what exactly what Doyle had to say.

She turned her back on his and he watched as she taped the cards to the wall behind her. The camera was set up so it was facing him, where he was currently sitting on the table. He couldn't believe he was doing this he wasn't a superhero.

"You ready?" she asked him.

"Ready as I'll ever be," he said as he looked at her. He still, even though she is married to someone who could break him in two, is in love with her.

"Ready, set…read." She said pointing to him.

"If you need help. Then look no further. Angel Investigation is the best! Our rats are low…" he said.

"Our rates!" Cordelia screamed.

"It says rats…" he said but she just started at him so he continued on. "Our rates are low, but out standers are high. When the chips are down, and you're at the end of your rope you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here…someone that will go all the way, no matter what. So don't lose hope. Come on over to our offices and you'll see that there's still heroes in this world." He finished with a smile. Then he noticed that she wasn't doing anything so he cleared his throat. "Am I done?" he asked.

"Yeah," she looked him up and done. "I guess no ones perfect," she said as she turned off the camera and placed it back in its case.

"I could try again," he said almost sounding hopeful.

"I don't think so," she said and then she walked out of the offices. But before she got to far she poked her head back in the door. "Tell Buffy I went out for lunch," she said and then closed the door behind her.

Angel's apartment

Buffy had been sitting at Angel's table as he took his shower. She really didn't want to go back upstairs due to the fact that she new that if Cordelia asked her to do the commercial again she would cave in and do it. So she came do here, but when she opened the door to his apartment she heard the shower running and guessed that he was in there.

When he came walking out of the bathroom she looked up at him and noticed that he was in a towel. "Buffy, what are you doing down here?" he asked as he walked into his bedroom and within a few minutes walked out completely dressed. "Cordelia tried to get you to do the commercial didn't she?" he asked.

"Oh yeah, she even pulled the 'if you love me card'" Buffy said with a smile.

"I remember that card, and if I remember correctly you used to use it on me a lot," he said with a smirk.

"I was young and stupid then," she said. So looked at him. "So why won't you do the commercial?" she asked seriously.

"For the same reason you won't," He said as he walked over and sat at the table beside her. "Because it doesn't seem far that we get recognized and other people who do heroic things don't," he said.

She looked up at him and smiled. "It's just that all the slayers before me did things totally different and I guess I just want to do one thing that they did," she said.

"And what's that?" he asked.

"Stay hidden," he said as she looked up at him.

Upstairs

Cordelia was sitting on stairwell when Doyle came out and joined her. She looked at him sadly. "I'm sorry about what I said before," she said as she looked at him.

"No worries," he said. "You wanted the actual superhero not the sidekick," he said with a smile.

"Oh no Doyle," Cordelia said as she placed her hand on his back as a sign of comfort. "I didn't mean it like that," she said with a smile. "I just meant that as a woman I would rather see Angel on the screen than someone that looks like you," she said with a smirk. "Of offense."

"None taken," he said with a smirk of this own. Then without warning Doyle's hand shot up to his forehead and she yelled, a manly yell, in agony. He saw numerous images run through his head in the few moments that it took to make the pain and the images go away. But what he saw wasn't good, something very, very bad was coming and even he was scared.

When he looked up he saw that Cordelia was looking at him concerned. "Don't say anything," she said. "Just answer me on question," she paused and he knew it was for affect. "Whomever you saw just now…did they look like they could afford to pay?" she asked.

Months before he knew he would have been offended that someone would ask him such a question but he had gotten to know Cordelia…actually he half expected the question. But he knew once he explained what he saw she wouldn't want there money even if they could afford it because what was coming was much worse that she had seen in a long, long time.

That's when Cordelia turned to the sounds of steps coming upstairs and when she turned toward the stairwell she saw Buffy and Angel. She noticed Buffy released a sigh as if she thought something had happened to her and it made Cordelia smile…she never thought she could love someone as much as she loved Buffy but she did.

"What did you see?" Angel asked as Cordelia got up from where she was sitting and went over to Buffy and Angel took her place. "Is it bad?" he asked when Doyle didn't say anything.

"It worse that bad," Doyle said as he looked at the soled vampire. "It's the day all half-breeds have feared, including yourself, somewhere down deep." He said. "They're coming to wipe us out, demons that's they deem unworthy to walk the earth," Doyle explained.

"How long?" Buffy asked.

"Two to three days," he paused. "At the most." He added as he looked at both Buffy and Angel.

"That's not enough time," Cordelia said forgetting all about the money.

"Should we call in backup?" Buffy asked Angel.

Angel didn't say anything instead he looked at Doyle. "No," he said. "What they have planned will kill anyone with even the tiniest of humanity or human in them." He paused. "Basically everything that isn't full blooded demon will die." He looked at Angel. "We can't let this happen," he said.

"Don't worry we'll stop it," Angel said as he watched Doyle place his head in his hands and then he looked at Buffy. "You got to."

Buffy looked at them as they just sat there. "Come on," she said. "We have three hours until night fall so we need to do as much research as possible," she said as she looked at them.

"Why do we need to wait for nightfall?" Cordelia asked and Buffy just looked at her. "Right, dumb question," she said to herself and smiled. "Looks like I've been hanging around Xander to long."

"Come on," Buffy said as she grabbed Cordelia's arm giving Angel and Doyle some time alone. Buffy dragged Cordelia down stairs to where Angel's apartment was. "We need to start the research, now I don't know where to start so just pick a book and start reading."

"You know I'm not good at this," Cordelia said as she looked up at Buffy.

"Neither am I but it doesn't look like they're going to be moving any time soon so we might as well do something useful as they just sit around." She said.

"What if I just want to sit around?" she asked and Buffy shot her a look. "Okay research," she said as she went for a book. "This is bad isn't it?" she asked as she looked over at Buffy. "I mean really bad."

"Yeah…it is," Buffy said.

Somewhere in L.A. (LATER THAT NIGHT)

They had to wait until nightfall hit because they couldn't have Angel going up into smoke while they were trying to save people. So now it was completely dark so they could also walk around without being seen. The three of them were walking along the streets of L.A. trying to find the place that Doyle had seen in his vision. Cordelia had decided that's she wanted to stay back at Angel's apartment and research, she was never one for field work.

All three of their heads snapped to the right when they saw a figure running from the corner of their eyes. They decided to follow. After all if they wanted to find a bunch of scared demons why not follow a scared demon. They followed this demon into a run down, literally falling apart, building. But as soon as the demon entered the building he disappeared and once again they were alone in the dark, or so they thought.

Doyle pulled out a flashlight he had brought with him just in case and started to scan the building. They saw shoes, clothes, cans that's had once upon a time had food in them, and a bunch of other stuff. Doyle couldn't believe what he was seeing; he never thought the day would come where his kind, the half-breeds, would be hunted down like this.

"What's this?" Buffy asked as she looked at the floor and saw that it was some kind of door. "Should we open it?" she asked nervous because she really didn't want to have anything jumping out at her.

"I'll do it," Angel said as he stepped in front of Buffy. After all he didn't want anything to happen to her because she had someone waiting for her back at home. But you have Katie you big loser. Why do I have Kate, because we talk on the phone at night? Every night. That doesn't mean anything; Cordelia I know is waiting, whereas Kate and I are still undecided. Whatever.

Doyle watched from the corner as Angel bent down and opened the door on the floor. Once the door was open he stepped forward and shined his flashlight in the hole and what he saw scared him more that he would ever admit.

They were there, huddled in a corner as if they were waiting to die. He never before understood why they didn't fight back, why they didn't stand up for themselves. He understood now, they couldn't, they didn't have the weapons that the people, demons, that were hunting them down had.

"We need to get them out of here," Buffy said from behind them and everyone's eyes went to her and she suddenly felt like she shouldn't have said anything. Because she bet once in there life times they were either on the run from her or some other slayer…maybe Faith.

"She's right," Angel said from beside Doyle. "We need to find a way to get them outta here because whatever is hunting them is going to find them and they're not going to take mercy on they when they are killing them," he said as he looked at his friend.

"You expect us to follow the slayer, who has killed so many of our kind," one of the demons said from in the hole.

"But you would rather hide out in there where even you know they will find you," Buffy said. "Listen I'm not here to kill you, I'm here to help you," she said.

"Yeah right because you usually help demons," the one said.

"I'm here with a vampire that was my ex-lover and a half-breed just like you guys so I'll let you come to your own conclusions." She said as she folded her arms across her chest. This time the demon said nothing. "Thought so."

"So what are we going to do with them?" Doyle asked Angel. "Where are we going to put them so they're safe?" he asked.

"I don't know but I may have an idea, I just need a little time to put it all together." He said as he looked at everyone. "I will figure it all out today and we'll come back tonight and ship them out of here," he said as he closed the door on them again. "We need to get back to Cordelia so we can start doing what needs to be done before tonight." Angel said and together they all walked out of the building and headed back toward Angel's Investigations.

Doyle's apartment

Doyle had never been so scared in his entire life. He knew they were coming but he didn't know when and that was the part that scared him. He knew Angel was going to try and save them but Doyle knew the cold hard truth, there was nothing that could save them. They were doomed no matter what Angel's team tried to do and it was about time that Doyle accepted that fact.

He heard something, something faint, but something nonetheless. He got up from where he was sitting and walked into the other room and hid in one the shadows. He held a baseball bat in one hand as he waited for his intruder to pop out.

"I wouldn't even try it Doyle," the person said and Doyle dropped the baseball bat. "You don't want to help them kill us off do you?"

"Lucas," Doyle said when he saw his brother. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I need help we all do," he said as Doyle took another seat and Lucas sat down next to him. "You know whose coming and you know that we need all the help we can get." He said. "I've heard you have the slayer helping us." He said.

"Yes I do," he said. "She was here and she thought what the hell lets save a bunch of demons," Doyle said in a sarcastic voice. "She's not brutal like all of you think, she had mercy for those, even if they're not human, who need her help," Doyle explained.

"What do you have planned?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know," Doyle said as he looked out the window as the sun started to go down. "I don't know," he said again as he looked at his brother.

Angel Investigations

Buffy was sitting in Angel's office because Angel was out doing whatever he needed to do for tonight. He had told her to call the gang for Sunnydale so they should be arriving any minute. She knew she should have called them when Doyle told her not to, because it was then that she knew that this is something they might not all make it through.

"Hey," Buffy looked up to see Cordelia walking through the door. "I don't, um, I don't know what to do," Buffy smiled at her wife. Cordelia always tried to help but there was times when Buffy just liked it when Cordelia was in the room and keeping her company. "I want to help," she said.

"There is nothing we can do until the gang gets here and then we can start to plan a counter attack," she said as Cordelia walked over and sat on her lap. "You know we'll get thought this." She said as she looked at her.

"You're a horrible liar," Cordelia said as she kissed her lightly. "I know not all of us are going to make it, I'm not naive." She said.

"I didn't say…"

"I know but I'm just saying. You don't have to act like people aren't going to die tonight just because you don't think I can handle it." She said as she looked at Buffy. "The only thing I won't be able to handle is you not making it," she added.

A few minutes later the front door swung open and in walked backup. Willow came walking in followed by Faith, Xander, Anya, and Giles. Buffy was glad that they listened to her and convinced Dawn to stay home. Yet there was still one person missing. That's when she heard someone coming up the stairs behind and he and within a few seconds Spike came walking through the door.

Cordelia got up off Buffy's lap as Willow and the gang walked into Angel's office. "I'm glad you guys could make it," Buffy said as she stood up. "We really need the help," she said with a smile.

"You know we wouldn't have let you down." Xander said as he looked at his friend. "So how bad is it?" he asked. She didn't say anything. "That's bad huh," he added.

"Yeah it's that bad," Angel said as he entered the room. "Spike," he said noticing the man that he despised for so long, yet he knew he needed help. "This is something that many half-breeds have feared for so long," he said as he looked at Spike. "They're coming," he said.

"The army," Spike said and everyone looked at him. "What everyone knows about this, it's just that no one ever thought this day would come," he said as he looked back at Angel, man he really hated him. "Why are you not running away you're a half-breed too," Spike said.

"I know but…"

"But nothing," Spike said. "You know what's coming and you know that no matter what they will slaughter anything that isn't full blow demon," Spike explained. "I fact I don't even know why I'm here."

"You're here for the same reason I'm still here," Angel said. "We are here to help people," Angel explained.

"No I'm here because I was asked to help, I don't care about these people,' he said. "I'm here because someone needed me here," he explained.

"So Angel what did you find out?" Cordelia asked.

"There's a boat that can take then to an island where many others have could safety." Angel explained. "I thought we could get them all there tonight and then ship them off in the morning," Angel explained.

"We better get moving then," Willow said as she started to walk out of the apartment.

"I don't mean to be the bringer of bad news but what if this doesn't work? I mean what are they planning to do to these demons?" Giles asked.

"I don't know." Angel said. "Spike we need to find out, I have an idea come on." Angel said and he and Spike existed through the sewers.

"Okay you guys go and we'll head over to the house and start rounding everyone up," Buffy said.

Somewhere in L.A

What they were seeing before them now was something strange and deadly. Not only to every half-breed but to them as well. Spike and Angel had got themselves on the inside pretending to be half-breed haters and so far so good. Together they were finding out everything they needed to find out in order to save a whole bunch of people.

Right now in front of them they were witnessing how these pure breed demons planned to kill all the half-breeds. It was some kind of light that when turned on burns whomever or whatever is in its path inside out. Angel risked looking over and Spike and he saw that the other vampire was all grimacing, which meant that he didn't like what he was seeing either.

"Isn't that cool," Angel looked at the other person standing next to him. "I'm that is going to kill all the scum that it comes into contact with, which means none of use have to get our hands dirty. Which is how I like it," the demon said turning back to the show.

Once the display was over the commander gave his last speech and then everyone left, Angel figured they were going to get the kills. "We need to leave," Angel said and he and Spike left and ran to the docks, because unlike everyone else they knew exactly where the half-breeds were.

Docks

They were running short on time; Spike and Angel should be back any minute. The sun had gone down a good two hours ago. Buffy was standing on deck of the ship they were going to take. They had gotten everyone into the ship without any trouble but getting the boat out on time was looking like it was going to be a little difficult.

That's when Cordelia came up behind Buffy and wrapped her arms around her. "You know I still think you should have done that commercial," she said into her wife's ear. "It would have helped you a lot." Cordelia explained.

"I couldn't do it," Buffy said.

"Why not?" Cordelia asked really not understanding.

"You wouldn't understand," Buffy said.

"Well explain it to me!" Cordelia said raising her voice. "Buffy honestly don't know what your deal is about this subject but you just brushing me off like this isn't going to go over." Cordelia said.

"We'll have to argue later because right now we have people to save," Buffy said when she saw Angel and Spike running for the ship.

Angel and Spike ran up the stairs to the ship deck as fast as they could and once they reached the top they heard bikes behind them. When they turned around they saw all the pure breed demons standing there. And that's when Angel turned to the ship captain.

"What's going on?" Angel asked.

"Sorry Angel but they paid more money," he said.

"Do you even understand what's going to happen?" Cordelia asked the captain. "Once they set there machine off everyone is going to die…even you," Cordelia said as she turned on her heel and walked away.

"You ready to fight?" Spike asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be," Buffy said.

They tried to fight them off, they really did but there was too many of them. Angel was the first on to be dumped into the cargo hole. They Spike and after Spike Buffy was dropped in. Angel saw Doyle standing in the corner.

"It is time that the world be whipped clean of you filthy half-breeds." The commander said as he started to lower the contraption that would kill them all.

Angel got to his feet and snapped the neck of the demon guard that was watching over him. He watched as Buffy and Spike started to take out the rest. Willow was doing a protection spell over the demon but Angel knew that the spell wouldn't protect them from what was about to happen. He watched as Xander and Giles worked together to take out some demons. Faith was also doing a good deal of killing.

"How are we going to stop this?" Cordelia asked when she and Doyle walked over to where Angel was standing.

"I have to pull the plug," Angel said.

"Are you crazy it will kill you," Cordelia said.

"If I don't then who's gonna?" Angel asked.

That's when Doyle pushed Angel down into the cargo hole. "What are you doing?" Cordelia asked when she turned to look at him.

"Saving the day and becoming a hero," Doyle said as he looked at her. Then he grabbed her arms and brought his lips to her's. Buffy saw this.

"Hey! I'm married," she yelled and then she watched as Doyle's face changed and a bunch of needles came out of his face. "Oh my God!" she said and then he jumped.

What they saw was something that Buffy would wish on anyone. They all watched as Doyle was burned from the inside out as he tried to unplug the machine. When he succeed the light went out and nothing was left, not even a body. Buffy watched as Angel took Cordelia in his arms. Buffy and her gang quietly made their way out of the ship and so did the demons since they no longer had anything to fear.

Angel Investigations

Buffy didn't even come back to the apartment with Cordelia. Instead she went straight home with Willow and Xander. So Cordelia went to Angel Investigation with Angel and decided that they could moron the death of their friend together.

Angel didn't say anything the whole ride home and Cordelia didn't mind because she wouldn't know how to respond anyway. Once they walked into the office Cordelia, without and word, we over to the tape that was sitting on her desk and put it in the tape player. Together her and Angel watched Doyle on screen in the commercial that they made together.

"He was a hero." Cordelia said.

"What?" Angel asked confused.

"Before he got that vision he said he wasn't a hero, that he was just a sidekick," she explained.

"He was a hero," Angel said.

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Okay I know it's been a long time but I had trouble with my computer and then I had my graduation and grad party and I have had a really busying summer but now that everything is cooling down I have more time. So I will be updating more. I'm not going to give a date to the next update because I don't know if it will be up by then so until next time.

P.S. This was a great episode I hope I changed good enough for it to still be a good episode.