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Chapter 13

Cordelia stared in shock at Angel, who was standing in her doorway. "How?" was all she managed to say before the stress she'd been under for the past few hours wore on her. She growled, barely containing a scream. As happy as she was to see Angel, this was just making today an incredibly bad day.

"We found the amulet," Wesley explained.

"What? You're here too Wesley?" Cordelia said surprised, she hadn't even noticed the ex-watcher standing next to Angel.

Wesley rolled his eyes, he was getting used to being ignored when he was with Angel. "Can we come in?" he asked as he stepped through the opening without giving her a chance to reply.

Cordelia backed out of his way with a glare. "Come," Cordelia began as Angel stepped through the doorway, "in. … How did you…?"

"The amulet let me enter the non-magic field, but nothing magical binds me. I can't even feel the demon, can't take my demonic form, it's very… weird."

"Oh," Cordelia said simply as she guided them into the house. It was only a few moment before they were settled into the living room. "You want anything to drink? I can make tea, more tea. You know what, I'm sick of making tea, if you want tea you can make it."

Wesley looked at Cordelia, then Angel and went back to Cordelia. "I'll go make some tea, do you want some?"

"I don't like tea," Cordelia said pulling out another bottle of water from behind her chair.

"Angel?"

"Alright," he said agreeing. Seeing Cordelia look at him confused, "I don't need to drink blood here since I can't go into my game face. I need to stick to an all liquid diet though. At least that's what Cindy recommends since no vampire has ever worn the amulet before."

"Where's the kitchen?" Wesley asked, getting a pointed finger in reply.

"You seem very tired," Angel commented, concerned.

"It's been an awful evening," Cordelia explained. "I had to explain about the Initiative to some air force guys, the ones I think are dealing with aliens. I had to explain it all without revealing anything about 'hostile sub-terrestrials'. I even had to mention the Nautilus treaty. I don't think they believe me anyway."

"Ah."

Wesley reappeared in the living room without the tea, "Dennis kicked me out. I was apparently making too much noise looking for stuff so he's making the tea for us."

"How did you find out about the Nautilus treaty?" Angel asked Cordelia. Wesley, hearing the question, let out a small 'eep'. Angel looked at Wesley, sort of half shook his head, and said, "Nevermind."

Dennis came into the room holding two tea cups and placed them in front of the guests.

"Thanks," Wesley and Angel both said as they took their first sips.

"This is really good," Wesley said surprised. He had been expecting American tea, which he could only just stand.

"Giles sends it… So how does the amulet actually work?" Cordelia asked.

"Well actually its sole purpose is to identify the supernatural," Wesley began entering Watcher mode, setting down his cup. "It was originally used to identify people entering villages with one entrance, making sure they weren't supernatural. It's fascinating really, you see-"

"It lights up when near demons, witches and slayers," Angel interrupted, simplifying it. "That's all it does. Some human family has had it for centuries without it activating. They were getting rid of it in an estate sale, I bought it."

"Why didn't you just say that?" Cordelia asked Wesley, smacking him softly.

"Ow!" Wesley cried out. He continued while gently rubbing his arm, "Basically when the non-magic field turns the amulet off, whatever it's touching looses magical properties. Cindy was busy when she was explaining it so I didn't get all the details."

"Wait!" Cordelia called out as she processed in what Wesley had said. "What do you mean the non-magic field turns off amulets?"

"What's what Cindy said it does," Wesley confirmed.

"But…" Cordelia's eyes narrowed in anger, her hand going over her heart for a moment before she thrust her hand out, palm up. "Dennis! Cell phone!" She was wide awake now.

It only took a few moments before Dennis had located the phone and dropped it off into her hand. She flipped it open and pressed a bunch of buttons. Angel and Wesley were very confused as the phone loudly began to ring. Cordelia had put it on speaker phone.

"Hello, Dr. Cindy Demona's phone. This is Jonathan speaking. What is the nature of your call?"

"Jonathan? From Sunnydale High?"

"Yes…"

"This is Cordelia Chase. I want to talk to Cindy NOW!"

"Cordelia?" Jonathan gulped, suddenly terrified. Give him a Fyarl demon any day over Cordelia. "I'll let Cindy know you're here, on the phone I mean. I mean I'll go get her." Jonathan's steps could be heard as he ran with the phone.

Cordelia looked at Angel and Wesley, "What is Jonathan doing answering Cindy's cell phone?"

Angel looked to Wesley for help since he wasn't sure how to explain it. The only explanation they'd gotten was from Andrew, and it was full of all sorts of Jedi metaphors that he didn't get. Wesley didn't understand them either… The best they'd figured out is that Cindy had gone to Sunnydale to check out Buffy's big bad, but had been unable to locate her. She had, on the other hand, found Jonathan, Andrew, Warren and Tucker. She'd taken both Jonathan and Andrew in as apprentices and they were both learning how to heal various human-friendly demons. No one was quite sure what she'd done with Warren and Tucker. And Wesley wasn't about to tell Cordelia that he'd come here with Angel to get away from them.

"I'm waiting!" Cordelia said with an impatient glare. "Why is Jonathan answering Cindy's phone?"

"Because I've made him one of my interns," Cindy's voice came over the speaker phone. "Please tell me you didn't scare my student into interrupting me while I was giving a WERTGEHN demon a physical to ask that."

"I was told that the non-magic field turns off magical amulets!"

"It does."

"Then how does my necklace protect me from possession? I have no intention of getting taken over by snakes!"

"The amulet isn't just magical Cordelia. I imbued it with my true blood."

"What?"

"The spell I used caused your pendant to absorb my true blood. Outside the non-magic field it'll protect you from supernatural possessions and no matter where you are the presence of my blood will protect you from the goa'uld. Due to my being in a human form my blood isn't currently poisonous to humans or anything native to Earth, but it is to others, including them. In fact it's highly poisonous to them."

"Oh."

"Is that it?"

"Are you sure it isn't poisonous to me?"

"Of course not! I mean, I wouldn't swallow it or anything, but normal skin contact leaves a protective residue on you."

"Alright then. Thanks Cindy."

"Uh huh. No problem. Please don't call me during my office hours unless it's an emergency, okay?"

"This was an emergency."

"Uh huh… Jonathan no! Don't give him that! You spit that out! WERTGEHN's can't eat sugar!" CLICK

Cordelia ran a hand through her hair to push it back behind her ears while turning to look at Angel and Wesley, "This day has been evil. I'm too tired to deal with anything else. I'm going to go enjoy my bath, that's probably cold by now, and then go to bed. I have a guest bedroom and a couch," Cordelia waved her hand in the direction of the couch. "Figure out for yourselves which you want."

* * *

Cordelia woke with a start. "What's wrong Dennis?" She watched confused as Dennis softly banged two glasses together. She reached for the light, but stopped immediately as Dennis dropped the glasses onto her bed to move the lamp away from her. "Ok ok!" Cordelia said softly as she stood up and followed Dennis as he picked the glasses back up and guided her towards the stairs.

As they passed the guest bedroom they were joined by Wesley, who didn't appreciate being woken up in the middle of the night, even if it was by a beautiful woman. He grumbled from the moment he woke up until they got downstairs about needing his sleep. This trip took several minutes too since they were doing it in the dark.

Angel, having heard Wesley and Cordelia moving about had already woken up. He was sitting on the couch as they entered the living room. He reached out to turn on the light for them when a glass came flying through the air and hit him.

"Ow! What's wrong with you?" Angel asked rubbing his head.

"Shhhh," Cordelia said shushing Angel. "Something is bothering Dennis."

Angel focused on his hearing as Dennis led the way into the dining room. Angel frowned as he looked out the window of the house and caught flashes of movement through the fence. Angel focused on his eye sight, trying to see what was moving. "There are several men in black breaking into the house next door."

"That's Jack's house!" Cordelia said quietly. She moved quickly to the front of the house to look through the kitchen window at Jack's driveway. Her eyes widened and she moved back into the dining room, "I think Murray is over there."

End – Chapter 13

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I was having trouble writing the details for this chapter so it took awhile to write.

So, finally it's revealed how amulets work, or rather don't, in the non-magic field. Why Cindy's blood was green when she 'enchanted' Cordelia's necklace.

The next couple of chapters will have adventure in it. YAY!