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No one dared answer right away and he didn't expect them to. What he was asking of them was huge and he knew that they needed time to think about it.
"We will be outside. Let us know when you have made your decision and know that any decision that you make is fine with us." Angel said as he took Cordy's hand and led her out on the deck.
"Well they took it better than I expected." She said sadly
"Yeah they did, but Connor is furious with me."
"At first he was but now he understands."
"I hope so." Cordy wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist and they stood out in the darkness listening to the waves crash, hugging each other tightly. Neither of them knew how long they were standing there like that, they were just concentrating on being close to each other, when they were interrupted by Connor.
"Dad, Cor, we have made our decision." They slowly broke their embrace and followed Connor back into the house.
"Angel we have discussed this to death. We have all weighed the pro's and con's and the con's definitely outweigh the pro's but the one pro that we can't get past and that would be saving the world. It's what we do. We help the helpless and right now the helpless is the world and it's our job and duty to help the world, to save it and ourselves so we are in." Wesley said.
"Thank you, everybody. I.." Angel looked at Cordy "We couldn't do this without you." Over the next couple of hours, Angel and Cordy laid out their plan and what everyone needed to do.
"I have called Spike in to assist us." Angel said
"But you hate Spike." Ciara said
"I don't like him, that is true sweetie, but he is almost as strong as I am and when I take down The Senior Partners I need all of the muscle I can get." Everyone nodded. "Now when all of the members of The Circle are terminated Cordy will summon the partners and then Spike, Connor, Gunn, and Wesley will destroy them."
"And me." Cordy said.
"No not you." Angel said and Cordy opened her mouth to respond but Angel stopped her. "Don't start this argument again Cordelia." She glared at him and he ignored her and continued. "Cordy and I have also managed to put away some of Wolfram & Hart's money away in accounts for all of you so no matter how tomorrow turns out, you all will have enough money to do whatever you want."
"That's stealing." Fred said
"From the big bad. Who cares?" Gunn said.
"What about the agency?" Wes asked
"My plan is to keep it open but now that we will have a little extra cushion to fall back on I want to help people because we can, not because we have to so we can make a living."
The group all agreed that they wanted to keep on working for Angel after all was said and done.
"I have one more favor to ask of you." Angel said
"What's that?" Lorne asked
"Spend tomorrow with your family. Take the time to look at the sun."
"Shouldn't we be preparing for battle?" Wesley asked
"We are already prepared. We have done this a thousand times. We are ready. We will meet tomorrow in the alley behind the Hyperion at sundown." Angel said.
After all of the details of their plan had been fined tuned and Connor and Ciara had made arrangements to come by the next day, everyone had headed to their homes to spend some quality time together.
"Cor, I want to take the kids down to the beach. The sun has set but it is still light out. What do you think?" Angel asked.
"I think that is a wonderful idea." She said with a smile then she yelled for their children. "Catherine, Chase come out here please." Within seconds they heard two pairs of feet running down the hall.
"Daddy." They yelled when they came into the living room and saw Angel standing with Cordelia. He bent down to their level and held out his arms as they threw themselves at him.
"I have missed you guys so much." He said into their hair.
"Where were you?" Catherine asked
"Working pumpkin."
"I hate your work." Chase said.
"You guys want to go to the beach?" He asked them
"Yeah." Both kids yelled
"All right then, let's go." He hoisted Catherine up on his shoulders and took Chase took his hand and the family headed down to the beach. The water was still warm so Angel, Catherine and Chase all ran into the waves.
"Mama, come on in." Chase yelled
"I'm coming baby." Cordy slipped her shoes off, rolled up her pants and joined her family in the water. They all stayed playing in the water until it was so dark that they couldn't see and they reluctantly headed back to the house.
"They're going to need baths." Cordy said
"I know. I'll do it. Why don't you go get your own shower?" She kissed his lips and headed for her bathroom while Angel got started on the kid's bath. Thirty minutes later, the kids were bathed, tucked into bed and their father had just finished reading them a story. They fell asleep half way through the book but he finished anyway just because he could. He kissed his children and went to check on Cordy. He walked into the bedroom and found his beautiful wife lying naked on the bed.
"Care to join me?" She asked seductively and Angel couldn't get out of clothes fast enough. Once naked he jumped on the bed causing Cordy to start giggling.
"Something funny?" He asked as he placed his lips on her neck. The giggling immediately ceased and was replaced by a soft moan.
"Kiss me." She murmured. She pulled his head up to meet hers and their lips quickly found each other's. He found her tongue with his own. He groaned into her mouth. As much as he loved kissing her mouth, there were other parts of her body that he really needed to kiss at that moment. He pulled his mouth away from hers and placed it on her breasts. His mouth fondled one breast while his hand fondled the other.
"Angel" She breathed as she ran her fingers through his dark hair. He moved his mouth down to her belly, leaving wet kisses on every inch of her stomach. The closer he got to her center he felt the heat radiating from her body. He placed gentle kisses on the most intimate part of her. While he was still kissing he slid his fingers inside of her. She responded by digging her nails into his back. The once loud Cordy had learned to express her pleasure in other, quieter ways because she didn't want to wake the kids. He began to nibble on her engorged clitoris. She began to squirm beneath his mouth. She wrapped her legs around him, rubbing the soles of her feet up and down his back. Suddenly his fingers were gone and his tongue was inside her. The squirming intensified. He swirled it around and then darted it in and out of her. Her legs tightened around him. He drew this delicious torture out for awhile. Finally, after a lot of begging on her part mixed with soft whimpers he finished what he started and brought her to an intense orgasm.
"How is it possible that it just keeps getting better?" She asked breathlessly as he lay beside her.
"I guess I'm just good like that." Cordy rolled herself on top of him.
"You think an awful lot of yourself don't you?" She leaned forward, her breasts brushing against his chest and met him with a gentle kiss. One of his arms snaked around her neck while the other gently caressed her back. "I love you Angel." She whispered as her tongue began to flick his nipples.
"I love you Cordy." He groaned. Just like he did to her she planted light, wet kisses all over his chest and taunt stomach. Very soon she reached his throbbing erection. She lifted her head, winked at him then took his entire length in her mouth. Puffing out her cheeks she moved her head slowly up and down while Angel ran his fingers through her hair. When she pulled her mouth away from him she blew a puff of air onto his tip and then began to draw circles on it with her tongue. He practically went over the edge right there. It was her turn to do the torturing and she was enjoying every minute of it. When it got to the point that instead of running his fingers through her hair he was pulling it until she finished what she started.
"Talk about getting better every time." He said as he wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her close to him.
"I thought that you would like that." She replied smugly.
"I'm so sorry that we can't make love Cor." He whispered sadly in her ears.
"Don't be sorry. I'm okay with it and you should be too. I never thought that we ever would be able to but we got to do it twice Angel and every time I look at Catherine or Chase I remember those two wonderful nights. I wouldn't change a thing about our life together. Okay, there would be a lot of things that I would change, like the monsters and demons that attack us, shit like that but I never would change anything about the love that we feel for each other."
"Neither would I baby." He kissed her head. She quickly fell asleep in the familiar comfort of his arms while he stayed awake all night hoping like hell he had made the right decision in taking down The Senior Partners. By the time the sun rose he didn't feel any better but he knew what had to be done.
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Two hours after sunset they were all in the lobby of their former home, The Hyperion, regrouping and repairing wounds. They had all successfully destroyed the members on The Circle of the Black Thorn. They all were injured but Gunn and Wesley took the worst of it. They were sitting in the lobby getting patched up while Cordy and Angel were yelling at each other.
"Cordelia, I am not discussing this with you anymore. You are not coming in with me."
"I am not a child Angel. Gunn and Wes can't help you so you need me."
"Connor, Spike and I can handle it."
"I can handle it myself. I don't need pop and junior." Spike had to put his two cents in.
"SHUT UP SPIKE." They yelled together.
"I can help you."
"You are helping by summoning the partners. That's all the help that you are going to give." He snapped at her. He was tired of having the same argument with her.
"Don't talk to me like that."
"Look Cor, I can't have you in there with me. I won't be able to fight if I have to worry about protecting you."
"I don't need your protection." She snapped
"It's who I am. Protecting the woman I love is in my DNA. Do this for me, please." The last word came out in a whisper. She nodded. "Wes, Gunn you guys are in no shape to fight but do you think you can handle keeping her out after she says the spell. I don't exactly trust her to do as I ask." They both nodded and Cordelia glared at him. "Why don't we say goodbye now?" Each man went over to their families. Angel hugged his children tightly to his chest.
"Ow daddy." Catherine cried. "Your hug hurts."
"Sorry chipmunk. Daddy needs to go to work now."
"Again?" Chase whined. He just got his father back and wasn't ready to lose him back to work yet.
"Yeah Chase, again. I love you both very much."
"I love you too." They both said together. Angel reluctantly released his children and met his crew at the door. "All right then, let's finish this." And the six of them headed to Wolfram and Hart.
"So you think since I am helping save the world and you have given up your chance to become a real boy ya think that I will be rewarded with humanness?" Spike asked on the drive over.
"Is that why you are helping Spike? For a reward?" Wesley asked
"You don't think that I am doing it out of the goodness of my heart do you because in case you have forgotten I don't have one."
"Why would you want to become human? You will lose the strength and power." Gunn said
"I would like to be able to walk out into the sun with my girlfriend. I want to give her a baby. She wants one and unlike a vampire that I won't mention by name but happens to be driving the car, those damn powers haven't felt that I deserved to be able to reproduce."
"Because they are smart. No one or thing with any sense at all would let you reproduce." Angel said.
"Are you still with Buffy?" Wesley asked
"Yep."
"Does she want your child?" Connor spoke up.
"She hasn't come right out and said it but I see the way she looks wistfully at kids. So I know that she would like a child of her own, although she would never admit it to me." The remainder of the car ride was silent, each lost in their own thoughts about their own kids except Spike who was just whistling a happy tune.
Once the arrived at Wolfram & Hart they all walked into the foyer. The building was deserted. All of the employees must have sensed that something was going down and they all took off to save their own hides.
"Okay Spike and Connor, when the powers are summoned along with them will come their protection in the form of demons. Once the power source is destroyed the partners and demons will be gone. Got it?" They nodded. "Gunn, Wes, keep her out of harms way, no matter how much shit gives you." Cordy glared at him so he took her hand and pulled her away from the others. "You stay safe, for me, Catherine and Chase. Promise me Cordy."
"I promise." This time he believed her. He pulled her into his arms and kissed her with all of the love that he felt for her. "I love you so much Angel." She whispered tearfully.
"I love you too Cordy. More than you'll ever know."
"Promise me that you'll be careful." She begged.
"I promise." They kissed once more then they joined the rest of the group. "All right Cor, you're on. As soon as the party starts get the hell out." She nodded and after one last lingering look, Cordy began to chant and throw the Melikic powder around the room.
"Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun. Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun. Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun.. Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun. Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun. Ahinson Biaconfir, Coudsentin, Dontachum,Siumdoum,Olengahd, Finbedsun."
As soon as Cordy spoke those words for the fifth time the walls began to shake inside of Wolfram & Hart. "Cordy get out." Angel shouted. She froze. The shaking was getting worse. "Cordelia GO." He yelled. They locked eyes for a second before she ran out of the building.
The walls were cracking and furniture was being torn apart and the pieces were being tossed throughout the room by the sheer force of the partners being brought to this dimension. The demon protectors were the first to show up. There were lots of demons but they really were no match for Connor, Spike and Angel. They were all muscle but no brain so that made killing them easily. The shaking increased and from out the floor raised something that Angel had never seen the likes of and he spent a hundred years in hell. The best way was he could describe what he was seeing was ten giant black blobs, each with red eyes and multiple tentacles. It didn't take Angel long to spot their power source. It was on a podium in the middle of the partners. It was a giant ball with a black smoke inside of it.
"Holy shit." Spike said as he saw The Senior Partners.
"Oh my God." Connor whispered as his eyes widened.
"Vampire you will die." The partners roared.
"You first." Angel said as he began chopping off tentacles as Spike and Connor were easily keeping the demons at bay.
"A little help would be great." Angel shouted as he picked himself off the ground for the tenth time, after being picked up by one of the tentacles and thrown across the room.
"Spike can you handle these?" Connor asked. There weren't many left and Spike was having a blast.
"Got it mate. Go help grandpa. He needs all the help that he can get." Spike said with a smile. He was quite amused that Angel was a grandfather so he loved using that to imply that he was old anytime that he could, even in the middle of a battle.
"Dad to your right." Connor shouted. Angel ducked and missed the attacking tentacle, spun around and chopped it off.
--
Cordy was pacing in front of the car. She hated waiting. She wanted to be in there fighting alongside of Angel but she knew that he was right. She knew that he would be worrying about her safety and he wouldn't be able to do his job to the best of his ability but it still pissed her off.
"God Dammit." She shouted
"What's wrong?" Gunn asked
"What's wrong is that I am out here being baby sat and Angel is inside fighting. I should be helping him."
"Cordelia, you are helping him by being out here and allowing him to concentrate. It will be over soon." Wesley said,
"It shouldn't be taking this long. We have been out here for over an hour. I need to know what is going on." She said. She started to head from the door but Gunn and Wesley each grabbed one of her arms and led her back to the parking lot.
"Cordelia don't." Wesley warned.
"What if he needs me?" She whispered.
"This is Angel that you are talking about. He will be fine." Gunn said
Cordy sighed and began to pace again. She was never a patient woman and this waiting was killing her. Suddenly the powers sent her a vision, or more accurately, she was seeing what was happening inside in real time. "Thank you." She whispered. She felt better that she was able to watch what was going on.
--
Angel was finally making headway since Connor had started helping him. He was getting closer to the power source. He was just waiting for the perfect opening.
"Connor, behind you." Angel shouted and Connor easily spun on his heels and chopped off yet another tentacle.
"Duck Dad." A group of tentacles were swooping down towards him. He quickly fell on his back to avoid being trapped. He couldn't afford to waste anymore time by getting thrown across the room. He was becoming exhausted. Once he was in the clear he popped back up and got to chopping. He finally saw his opportunity. He had a perfect path to the power source.
"I'm going for it." Angel yelled and he took off running, pulling out his small ax from his pocket. He swung his arm back and when he was a few feet away he swung is ax and sent it flying right into the middle of the power source. As soon as contact was made the demons disappeared, The Senior Partners screamed in agony and a huge light filled the room and exploded, sending everyone through the air.
"Oh my god." Cordy said as she saw all of this from outside and she began to run toward the building.
Because Angel was the closest to the explosion he was sent flying with more force then Spike and Connor. Even though it was only seconds, Angel felt as he was in the air forever. It was as if his body was moving in slow motion. He was slammed into a wall across the room, the only part of the wall that had a piece of wood protruding out from a former desk that sat in the lobby. Before he knew what was happening he felt that piece of wood cut right through his heart.
"ANGEL." Cordelia screamed and the last thing that Angel saw was Cordelia's beautiful panic stricken face because within seconds he was a pile of dust.