CHAPTER 3
"Hello Rupert", Alex said referring to Giles. "It has been a while"
Giles slowly closed his book and removed his glasses. "Yes Alex", Giles said. "A longtime"
"I heard rumors that the only male slayer had rebelled from the council", Alex said. "At first I did not believe it. But then I hear that the infamous Elizabeth is shagging up with the male slayer and I come up with one conclusion"
"What is that?", Angel asked defiant as he stood up.
"One", Alex said. "You are sick. Sleeping with the enemy? Slayer you and I are the same. Born and bred to eradicate this filth from the face of the earth. And I see you protecting the very enemy your duty demands you to kill"
"She is different", Angel defended Buffy. Buffy had not stood up. She was sitting down taking the entire situation in.
"She is a 250 year old vampire", Alex retorted. "She is a killer"
"Not anymore", Angel said. "She works with me now. Side by side"
"Ok college boy", Alex said mockingly. "Maybe math will help you. Over 100 years of mayhem and destruction. Killing 24/7 Give or take 5 victims a day plus 2 victims turned insane for the kick of it. Five slayers dead. Two dozen demon hunters. You know what that adds up to?"
Angel and Giles looked at Buffy who sat on the chair not saying a word.
"Over 2 million deaths", Alex said. He let the words just sink in. In Buffy's mind the number echoed. Two million lives ended by her hands. Millions more ruined by the abrupt loss of a family member. A demon. A demon that needed to be destroyed. The silence was deafening. "Yes", Landry continued. "She is practically a small holocaust of a monster"
"It doesn't matter", Angel said still defending Buffy. "She is not Elizabeth anymore"
Alex took a step forward getting frustrated. "It is like talking to a wall", he said filled with frustration. "No matter. If you do not want to see. I will make you see".
In an instant the demon's behind Alex were put in motion. Four launched themselves at Angel and the fith one on Giles. They were strong and brown foot soldier demons. Buffy saw the commotion and her protective instincts kicked in. Alex just smiled as he saw his prey join the fight. Angel blocked the kicks and punches. He then fired devastating attacks that floored his opponents. Buffy did the same, but the demons just jumped back up and continued the assault.
Alex slowly moved across the room and took in Buffy's taste's. He reached one of the windows and ripped the curtain away. Sunlight started to pour in. A fist smacked into Buffy's face and she went down. She fell on the light and grunted. She quickly stepped away from direct sun light. And a demon was on her. She started to punch and kick but the demon seemed to be faster. He scored two hits to her face and chest. And a kick to her head that put her down. From the floor Buffy stood back and re engaged.
Sir Alex walked to the second window and ripped the curtains down. More sunlight. Less space for Buffy to move. The demon that Giles fought grabbed a fistful of hair and smacked smashed his head on the wall. Giles crumpled to the floor unconscious. The fifth demon joined the fight and helped isolate Angel from Buffy. Together they are a force to be reckoned with. Apart, they would crumble. Alex slowly place in his hands a pair of holy brass knuckles. For each finger there was a small cross embedded in them. He looked up to see Angel. One demon had his arms pinned behind his back. A second his legs. The third was just freely punching his face and chest.
Buffy noticed that. She flung the two demons away and rushed to Angel's aid. At that moment Alex pulled the last curtains. Vast sunlight poured in blocking Buffy's path. She felt a kick in the back of her spine and fell unto the sun. She started to scream as she started to burn and crawled to safety away from Angel into the shade. She saw helplessly how Angel stopped fighting. He was just slumped in the demon's hands. Alex walked over to Buffy and pulled her up from her blouse. He pulled his fist and wacked her in the face. The brass knuckle burned and the metal caused devastating pain. Blood erupted from her mouth as she crumpled down.
Alex just fixed his suit and looked at his defeated foe. "You are beginning to get the idea, Elizabeth?", Alex playfully asked. "The idea that you cannot escape your fate. You cannot escape justice. You thought the Landry clan was dead. How wrong you were. You thought you could get away with everything you did". The demon hunter crouched down and pulled Buffy from the front of her jacket. "I won't kill you. That is too good for you. I will finish what my ancestor started. I will drive you insane just as you did to the Landry clan. I want you to go insane".
Buffy felt tears start up to swell in her eyes as he looked at his enemy.
"I want you to remember this moment Elizabeth", Alex said. "In all the years to come… in those quiet moments… in those moments of darkness. I want you to remember my fist… I want you to remember my name. Alex Landry… the demon hunter that beat you". Buffy just saw his fist smash against her face. Before darkness fell upon her.
Giles woke up his head banging. He slowly got up and the dizziness overwhelmed him. He looked around and saw the living room completely trashed. He saw Buffy's body sprawled over the floor. He ran up to the vampire and examined her. He saw a huge bruise on her face. It was slowly healing. He saw she still had the Gem of Amarra. Giles pulled her hand unto the sun. He saw that the light was not burning the flesh. He picked her up and carried her to the couch where he laid her. He went to the kitchen and picked a wet towel. He slowly started cleaning her face. The Watched frowned. Alex Landry must have taken Angel he figured. And somehow he had found a way to neutralize the power of Buffy's ring.
Slowly Buffy started to stir. She opened her eyes and instantly regreted it. A blinding headache made her winch. She didn't remember the last time she and Angel had gotten beaten this badly. Than it hit her like and armored truck. Where was Angel? She tried to stand up but her body did not cooperate. She looked at Giles and he returned her stare sadly. "Alex Landry has Angel", he flatly said.
Angel stirred to regain consciousness. He felt thick chins at his anckles and wrists. He noticed he was in a sitting position in a cold metal surface. He opened his eyes and notices his surroundings. He was in a large room. It had only on source of light and it was head lamp on top of him. He saw that the entire room had crucifix encrusted in the floor, ceiling and floor. There were around 4 fountains in the corners of the room. The sound of dripping water was sort of soothing.
Angel tried to pull the chains apart. But these were thick. And he still felt a little weak from the beating he received from the foot soldier demons. Guess he need to practice more his unarmed combat skills. He pulled the chains again and still no good results.
Alex Landry entered the room and saw Angel struggling with the chains. "Don't bother", Alex said. "The chains were a special commission to the dark arts. They were forged in order to keep a slayer on a leash. They are unbreakable".
"Guess you have come prepared", Angel said understanding. "Well… you got me. What is your next step in your master plan?"
Alex drew an evil smile on his face. "I drive your girlfriend insane", he said cruelly. Angel struggled to get his chains off but it was no use. He hated the way Landry referred to Buffy. "I don't think you fully grasped what Elizabeth is", Alex continued. "She is a vicious demon. And you not killing her is abomination+ to the council and our profession"
"You don't work for the council", Angel said. "You were banished".
Akex continued to smile. "Rupert still remembers me?", he mused. "He taught me a lot before he ratted me out to the corrupt. But you are right. I was banished for trying to do what is right. Their blindness did not allow them to see the dangers I see"
Angel was starting to realize that Alex Landry had lost it completely. He was full of hate to those who did not see his way. Those he did not understand his obsession.
"You are obsessed with Elizabeth", Angel said. "You can't stop thinking about her"
Alex just pulled a chair and sat across from Angel. "I am a Landry", he said. "We are taught to never forget the crimes of a killer. For 200 years, my peopled have hunted down Elizabeth. We lost her scent but now it is me… Alex Landry that finally puts her away"
"For past crimes", Angel concluded.
"You don't seem to grasp the situation Angel", Alex said rolling up his sleeves up to his elbows. "Maybe we should both travel in time and you can let me enlighten you". Alex grasped Angel's head and a yellow glow emitted from his palms. Angel screamed in pain. He thought his mind was on fire. Angel opened his eyes and saw a horse carriage. He was not in Sunnydale anymore. He was no longer chained
Alex looked at Angel and smiled. "Welcome to Waterford Ireland Angel. The year is 1771".
Angel looked around and a billion questions started to jump in his brain. Had Alex really travelled in space and time? Or was this a trick? It didn't matter. Angel jumped Alex. Alex just smiled as Angel's fist just went through him. It was like hitting a ghost. Angel looked at his hands in surprise and saw that they were transparent.
Alex laughed. "Several rules before we continue", Alex said. "In time travel we are not corporal"
Angel saw that people walking in the night were walking right through him. He then turned towards Alex as soon as he realized what was going on. Alex Landry smiled. "Rule number two… you see only what I want you to see". A scream of terror broke the conversation. People scattered at the ear piercing scream. Angel turned towards an old cathedral. The screams came from inside.
Giles searched franticly through the books. He had shown Alex how to find the most destructive spells. He was not only proficient in hand to hand combat. He was a master of the dark arts. Buffy paced in front of the watcher. She wanted to run out and find Angel before it was to late. But she didn't know where to start. Alex Landry was a brilliant demon hunter. He had well knowledge of Buffy's strength and weaknesses. She just couldn't jump into the fray. She just needed a plan fast enough.
"Here it is", Giles said. Buffy looked at the watcher. "It is the Kelgor medallion. The medallion was worn by the ancient Kelgor demon himself. He feared vampires with the gem would turn on him so he created it to neutralize Amarra's power. It has a range of 500 yards". Giles looked at Buffy worriedly. "It is the only thing that can neutralize The Gem of Amarra".
"And Alex has it", Buffy concluded. "That is why when I neared the house the sun started to burn me. He is wearing it".
"Correct", Giles said. "To defeat him, he has to take the medallion off".
"Knowing his strategy", Buffy said. "The medallion must have been dipped in holy water".
"To stop you from grabbing it", Giles said. "I wouldn't be surprised".
Buffy looked at Giles. "You know this guy", Buffy said. "You trained him. What is he going to do?"
"Well", Giles answered. "He never lies. So if he told ushe would drive you insane, that is what he will do".
"How?", Buffy asked.
"Getting in your head", Giles concluded. "The mind is the strongest link to a warrior. Destroy the mind…"
"You destroy the warrior", Buffy finished looking at the floor ashamed.
"Yes", Giles said.
Buffy just smiled. "That was Elizabeth's moto", the vampire said. "That is how she destroyed the slayers and demon hunters that crossed her path"
"He is using the memories of Elizabeth to destroy you", Giles said. "He is using your past to bring you down".
"It is working", Buffy said sadly. "He is wearing me down".
"Buffy", Giles said. "Your past does not control your destiny. It molds you and teaches you but never controls you. Don't you let it".
"Let us try a locator spell", Buffy said seriously. "Find Alex. Point me in the right direction".
Waterford Ireland – 1771
Angel followed Alex into the cathedral as the screams continued. When Angel entered he regretted it. He saw Darla dancing with a corpse in her arms. He then saw Elizabeth tearing apart every living thing in the building. She was like an animal. She slit throats and bit every bit of flesh. The screams were only drowned out by Darla's giggles. "I love to see my little sister playing with her food", the eldest vampire said.
Angel saw how easily Elizabeth ended the lives of about two dozen people. The evil vampire than turned her attention towards the priest who was on his knees praying. "You call on to God", Elizabeth mocked. "He can't hear you!", she screamed.
The priest looked at the demon defiantly. "I pray that God may have mercy on your soul".
Elizabeth laughed as she plunged her fangs on his neck. "I don't have a soul", she concluded. She than turned her eyes upward and saw Angel starring right at her yellow eyes. His eyes showed a lot of hurt. For a brief moment Elizabeth felt human emotion. Was she ashamed? She continued to feed of the priest.
Sunnydale Present Day
Buffy screamed in pain and fell on her knees. Clamping her head. The memory was vicious. Was Angel there with her in the past? Was it his eyes?
Giles ran over to Buffy as tears started pouring from her eyes. Buffy sobbed. Angel knew the type of demon she was first hand.
Alex walked out of the cathedral satisfied with what he had seen. A look on Angel's face only confirmed he had shaken up the male slayer. "IT is not the same as reading a book", Alex said with a satisfied smiled. "it is like seeing a 3D movie. You just feel the blood spurt onto your face".
"You are sick", Angel said. He felt like he was going to throw up.
"I am sick?", Alex asked. "I am not in love with that monster"
"Neither am I", Angel said. "I am in love with Buffy"
"You truly think that Buffy and Elizabeth are two different people?", Alex asked. "You have a lot to learn boy".
Angel walked besides Alex trapped. He could not escape this realm Alex had taken him to. He just needed to be strong. Take in all the images in stride. He had read what Elizabeth had done. He had read it all before he faced her. But Alex was right. It was not the same reading from the pages of a book and seeing it firsthand. Alex's voice brought him back from his thoughts.
"Vampire fact", Alex said. "When a human gets turned into a vampire, the vampire maximizes what is already in the heart. What is good becomes great. What is rotten, becomes more rotten. What is evil becomes more evil".
"So what are you saying?" Angel asked.
"Your girlfriend was rotten before she became a vampire", Alex turned as he said this. He was dead serious. "The vampire just pulled out the psyco she already was before she was turned"
Angel launched himself towards Alex. Alex laughed as he went through his body.
Angel landed on a white floor. He saw it was a hospital for sick children. He saw a nurse dressed in white over the head of a child. The child was no younger than five. The nurse turned towards Angel. She smiled a sad smiled. It was Elizabeth. She turned to her demonic self and submerged her fangs into the child's neck.
Angel tried to close his eyes but he couldn't. Elizabeth just cleaned her mouth and continued to the next one. "I will be called The Scourge of Europe after this", she mused. She bit another child as Angel watched in horror the deeds of the demon.
Buffy clinched her eyes. Angel was in the past. He is witnessing her crimes first hand. She tried to push away the pain but it was to much. She heard a faint voice call her name. She opened them and saw Giles call her.
"Buffy?", the watcher asked. "What is wrong?"
"It is Alex", Buffy gasped through the pain. "He is with Angel in the past. Reviewing all my crimes".
Giles looked grim and understood what was happening. "Buffy", Giles said. "Alex cannot travel into the past. It is impossible for him". Buffy looked puzzled. Through the pain she tried to understand what Giles was telling her. "Alex has taken Angel and is giving him a tour of your memories".
Buffy stood up trying to ignore the powering headache. She tried to piece everything together. "He is using the guilt of your crimes and showing him only the bad part", the watched continued. "That is what Alex does".
Buffy flinched at the pain in her head. The memories were burning her brain. And the fact that Angel was witness to it all just hurt her the most. Giles guided her back to the couch. "Try to control your thoughts", he said. "It is your head. He cannot own your mind"
Buffy felt her brain was being fried. She tried as hard as she could but the pain was too much. She screamed as the pain got worse.
Giles ran into the kitchen. He had trained Alex well in the art of deception and mind manipulation. But he also knew how to stop it. He just hopped it was in time. He pulled some ingredients and started pouring them in water.
Angel was powerless to stop the visions. He was in a hotel now. It seem like the 30's Angel glanced at a newspaper and saw that it was in L.A. The sign above the hotel read Hyperon Hotel. He looked at Buffy now. She was Buffy. She had a soul. And she just sold out the lives of every single person on the hotel to the thesulacdemon. Her words ringed hard on his ears. "Kill them all", Buffy said as she walked away and the demon laughed.
Alex looked at the sadness of Angel and smiled. "Yes", Alex said. "That is your girl. Even with a soul she just doesn't seem to do right"
Angel closed his eyes. When he opened them, Angel was suddenly with Landry at the high school he destroyed to the ground. It was the computer room. He was standing behind Jenny Calendar. Angel could feel the hope that Jenny felt while she looked at the computer screen. Angel saw as Jenny sipped on her coffee waiting for the program to finish. She had been sitting there for a while now. Angel could feel her emotions. After she was done and hopefully it works Giles will stop by and they would talk. Then the little bar on the screen finished filling and then on one side of the screen was a text in some strange language. The other side of the screen was blank for a moment but the computer translated the text into English. Jenny smiled, she did it she couldn't believe she did it. Buffy could have her soul again.
Angel saw as Jenny saved both texts on a disk and set the disk aside. She then went to print out both texts and waited. She's done it, she could give Buffy her soul, Angel can have Buffy again. Angel wanted to cry. He felt Jenny`s best interest for him. Just as she waited for her print out Jenny looks up and gasped getting out of her chair. In the back of the classroom sat Elizabeth at a desk as if she was ready to start class. Jenny was alone, there was no one here to help her. Angel wanted to intervine. But he was paralyzed. He could feel Jenny`s fear.
Angel looked at Landry who smiled evilly. "If I don`t show you, how else can you feel what I feel?"
"Buffy, how, how did you get in?" Jenny asked and Elizabeth shrugged with a cute smile.
"I was invited duh," She smiled. "Sign outside the school says Scire volunt omnes, qui ingrediuntur."
"Enter all ye who seek knowledge," Jenny felt stupid for staying here by herself in a public place. Elizabeth then stood up smiling.
"I like to learn," She started looking around. "Why are you so afraid of me? I mean we don't have a stellar history together but can't we just put that behind us?" Elizabeth asked but Jenny knew better not listen to Elizabeth.
Angel wanted to jump in. He knew what was going to happen. And he was right in the middle of it.
"Buffy, I, I've got good news," Jenny didn't know if this was going to help.
"First it's Elizabeth and I heard. You went shopping at local boogied boogied store." Elizabeth was closer to her and then saw something she never wanted to see again. Elizabeth reached for it holding it. "The Orb of Thesulah, wow never thought I'd see this again. So it's supposed to summon some one's soul from the ether? I think that's what it's supposed to do." Buffy held it up and gaze at it. Then she slammed it to the ground shattering it into tiny pieces causing Jenny to jump. "Opps, kinda clumsy with glass." Elizabeth then walked over to computer and looked at the screen
Jenny slowly made her way to the door. She had to get out and fins somewhere safe. Angel's place was the safest. He lived maybe about five or six miles from here. Could she run five miles from Elizabeth? Angel closed his eyes at the thought. Jenny was doomed the moment she was locked inside the school with a monster.
"I will truly never be amazed how much this world has changed in two and half centuries. I mean this amazing Jenny." Elizabeth commented looking at the screen. "You put the secrets to restoring my soul in here," Elizabeth then grabbed the computer and smashed it to the ground. "I don't want it." She growled then Elizabeth grabbed the paper Jenny was printing out. "Look at that," Then she ripped it.
"No, that's your," Jenny wanted to stop her as Elizabeth dropped it in a small flame.
"What my cure? Not sick." Elizabeth then squatted and put her hands over the fire. "I never had much growing up but a warm fire sometimes made you feel the richest." Elizabeth looked up and her face morphed into its demon form. Jenny ran out of the room and Elizabeth stood up and walked up to Angel who was frozen solid. She looked at him with her yellow demonic eyes. "I feel a serious bitch fight about to happen.", she said to his face before walking after Jenny.
Jenny ran down the hall and looked back seeing Elizabeth was already perusing her. Jenny had to get out of the school and into a place with more people. She needed Angel the most he was the only one strong enough to hold Elizabeth back. Jenny turned around right besides Angel and Landry. They were moving along with the pursuit. Angel felt Jenny calling him with her mind. Jenny looked around and had nothing on her to protect herself. She then saw Elizabeth coming to her and saw down the stairs an exit.
Jenny ran as fast as she could out the doors with Elizabeth on her heels. Jenny ran down the steps off of campus as fast as her feet could take her. She looked behind her and Elizabeth wasn't there but that didn't mean she was safe at all. Jenny kept running and went to round a corner and then stopped dead in her tracks and went behind the corner. Elizabeth was tracking her. Jenny than ran across the way and needed to find another rout to Angel's.
Jenny stayed on the ground until she thought she could get up and started to run. Jenny was in tears having nowhere else to go. Angel could feel the desperation and the terror. He could feel the helplessness. That is how every victim he had seen felt when they faced Elizabeth. Jenny could go knocking on doors but raving and screaming a vampire was after her well then no one would let her in. She just kept running.
Jenny was slowing down but that was dangerous and then she came to a broken down building. It was under renovations and she thought maybe she could hide here until daybreak or maybe even lose Elizabeth here and make it to Giles' place. Jenny climbed into a broke window and hid under a table. Angel tried to stop her, but he was forced to keep quiet. He could do nothing. He could feel Jenny`s fear. He felt Jenny try to calm down as she wiped the sweat from her forehead and the tears from her eyes.
Just then she heard something and the sound of someone walking around. Elizabeth found her. Elizabeth liked to play with her food and victims. Angel knew this very well. "I can smell you Jenny," Elizabeth called out. "I know where you're trying to go." She looked around and then found some worker's tools and picked up a sledgehammer and smiled. "I like this, you know I usually don't go after women, not my thing." Elizabeth started to talk and then slammed the sledge hammer against the wall and it cracked and crumbled. Jenny held her breath and started crawl now realizing this was a bad idea.
"It's men I don't like, just animals that's all they are and Angel is one. I mean all he wanted was sex. He pretended to care to tap it." Elizabeth said as she looked at Angel in the face. "That's all they want. It's not about love, Buffy thought it was but she forgot what happened before."
Jenny crawled slowly on the ground and stopped realizing just on the other side of the bench was Elizabeth walking letting the sledgehammer drag on the floor. Jenny sat as still as possible.
"I guess you can say I have daddy issues," Elizabeth then slammed down the sledgehammer on the bench breaking it. Jenny covered herself from the debris but Elizabeth missed. "Boys, like sniveling dogs, they only want, they don't love. Hmm maybe Angel thought he loved but I know it's only for a little while. There's no such thing. I've seen men butcher their wives for another younger woman. Angel would do that to Buffy, the lust is there but lust doesn't last." She then slammed down the hammer again. "Giles will do the same to you!". She than turned towards Angel who had tears in his eyes. "You don`t know love", Elizabeth said. "You only know lust".
Jenny crawled away but then knocked some paint buckets over.
"Shit," She whispered knowing Elizabeth heard it. Elizabeth turned around and smiled and literally skipped that way. Jenny crawled away and saw a hole in the wall. She climbed in but now that she thinks about it maybe this was a bad idea. She sat there and Elizabeth still hunted. She then smiled and slammed the hammer against the wall smashing it in. Jenny started to crawl away as fast as she could.
"Jenny, come out, come out where ever you are." Elizabeth nearly sung it. She slammed the hammer against the wall again crushing it and Jenny laid flat as pieces of the wall fell on her. Elizabeth passed over her and she waited. Jenny crawled backwards and out and Elizabeth turned around and she threw the sledgehammer and it crashed through glass that was once a huge window.
Jenny dived to the floor covering herself from the glass. She stayed on the ground cutting her hands and knees on the pieces of glass and got behind something. Elizabeth looked around saw nothing there and picked up the hammer. It was becoming the classic cat and mouse chase. Jenny then saw a screwdriver and picked it up for a weapon and crawled away knowing she had to get out and fast. Jenny then saw a platform being held by rope and if somehow she could get Elizabeth over there and release it, it'll land on Elizabeth and she can get away.
"I will destroy you Angel! You will be in pieces before I hack you up for making me feel again!" But what Jenny didn't see were the tears in Elizabeth's eyes. "You can't trust them! You can't trust anyone! I will make them all pay for it! Angel will pay the most! And it starts with you!" She then slammed the hammer again. Jenny sat there holding the screwdriver and was trying to not cry anymore. She was in a small broom closet or at least it was one.
Then from the cracks she saw Elizabeth and Jenny tensed up. Elizabeth smelt the fear and knew she was close. Jenny held up the screwdriver ready and Elizabeth slammed the sledgehammer at the door breaking it. Jenny screamed as she got up and held out one hand shoving Elizabeth back and then stabbed her in the heart. Elizabeth screamed in pain. It wouldn't kill her but it did some damage. Elizabeth threw Jenny off of her and then ripped out the screwdriver.
"You bitch!" Elizabeth yelled and then threw the screwdriver at Jenny and it caught her in the leg. She could threw it at the back of her head and ended it there but Elizabeth wanted to drag this out. Jenny ran to where the platform was as best as she could with a screwdriver in her leg. She ran to the wall and stood up as Elizabeth walked to her ready to bash her head in. Jenny franticly pulled on the ropes as Elizabeth got closer to her. Jenny managed to free the ropes and the platform fell.
The scene was so dramatic. So unfair. Why is no one here? Can`t anybody hear what is going on here? Angel thought to himself. Somehow, he had this incredulous believe that things would turn out differently.
Jenny fell to the floor crying but she had to get up. Jenny pulled the screwdriver out of her leg and got up slowly hearing something. Elizabeth would break free from the platform and when she does she'll be very upset. Jenny limped out of the building climbing over a broken window and fell to the sidewalk. She took a moment to breathe and then got up and hobbled away.
The night seemed to drag as Jenny was limping on. She then smiled knowing where she was. Angel was desperate to do something. He knew how this would end. Jenny stumbled a little and saw across the way Giles' place and she sighed. She made it and to her luck she saw Giles' car there and Giles just getting out of his car about to head in.
She smiled, she had to tell him the news of her findings. Elizabeth didn't destroy it all even though Jenny played it off well that she did. Jenny headed to the street and waved to him and was ready to jump into Giles' arms and hug him and things can return to normal.
"The hell you will," A voice growled and Jenny barely got out a yelp as she was pulled into some bushes and shoved against the fence. "No!", Angel screamed. Jenny was no longer in the line of vision to where Giles could see her. Elizabeth smiled and covered Jenny's mouth with her hand. Giles was then inside and now Jenny was hers. Elizabeth smiled and saw Angel`s blank expression. "You can relieve it all you want", the demon said. "I will always win".
Jenny whimpered in fear of not knowing what Elizabeth will do. "Like I said, I usually don't hurt girls, but you're going to help bring him down." Elizabeth said smiling and turning towards Jenny to bite her.
"You crazy bitch!" Jenny went to scream but Elizabeth backhanded her and she went to the ground and Elizabeth pinned her down giggling. The vampire looked up at Angel. "So sad baby", Elizabeth said referring to Angel. "I am a blast from the past aren't I?"
Angel tried not to listen to that evil voice. But it was there. Elizabeth's tone was just hard to erase from his mind. Elizabeth just frowned at Angel's blank expression and turned her attention to Jenny Calendar. "Sorry Jenny", Elizabeth said. "This is where you die". Elizabeth started to destroy Jenny and Angel could only watch. His face was expressionless to the mayhem. He could hear the heart beat slowly fade away. Soon he was all alone in the dark. Alex walked around him smiling.
"This is the evidence presented against Elizabeth", Alex said. "Just a handful of victims of the total of death she has causes. This evidence is irrefutable."
"It is irrefutable", Angel said blankly.
Alex smiled and clapped his hand. In the middle of the darkness a light appeared. Buffy was in the middle of the light chained to the floor. She looked at Angel. His eyes did not reflect love or compassion. He just had a blank stare. "What is the verdict for her crimes?", Alex asked Angel.
"Guilty", Angel said as he looked straight at Buffy. At that moment Buffy's heart broke. Her face fell as her eyes teared up again. Alex just smiled as he saw the hurt in Buffy's face.
"What is her punishment?", Alex asked.
Angel turned towards Buffy than Alex. "An eternity of torment", Angel answered.
Alex turned towards Buffy whose sadness was profound. "The prosecution rests", Alex said as he clapped his hands. Both Angel and Alex were back to reality. Alex looked at Angel's eyes. They seemed gone and out of focus. He looked tired. He should. The mind travel was time consuming for the mind. In just a couple of hours both had traveled decades. Angel did not know it, but his mind had aged while in trance.
"Rest", Alex said to Angel. "You will need your strength".
Angel did not say a word as Alex left the room. Outside. His 5 foot soldier minions guarded the door. The demons that he had met at the bar waited patiently. "Is he dead?", they asked.
"His mind is almost gone", Alex said. "When he helps me kill Elizabeth, you can do with him what you please".