Hell on Earth: Trinity: Chapter 9: Faith, Hope and Glory Pt 1
by Timan
“All I want to do is kill some itty bitty monks for keeping my key from me!” Glory said in an annoyed tone as she leaned lazily on her chair, “That’s not to much to ask is it?”
“Absolutely not,” Pearl replied cheerfully, “I can assure you that we will use every resource at our disposal to assist you.”
This didn’t make the hell god any happier. She looked at the lawyer irritated.
“It was real peachy keen of you to pull me out of Benny boy before he died,” she replied, “but if your lying to me . . .let’s just say I can do things to a building that your janitors really won’t like.”
“I guarantee you that Emerald is one of our best,” Pearl replied, “Aren’t you?”
“Sure.” Rebecca replied distracted
Glory looked at Rebecca curiously.
“Hello!” she said annoyed, “we’re talking about me here! Little attention would be nice.”
“Sorry,” Rebecca replied seriously, “had something on my mind.”
Glory shot Pearl a look.
“This is your pro?” she asked
“Emerald brings in results you have nothing to worry about.” The lawyer replied
Glory stood up lazily.
“Whatever just get me some monks.”
Rebecca joined her in standing.
“I’ll go shake down some leads,” Rebecca replied.
Rebecca went to leave but found Glory blocking the doorway. She looked the Divine One up and down.
“You know, this is gonna sound like an old line, you look familiar.” Glory mentioned
“I get that a lot.” Rebecca replied
Rebecca walked briskfully out of the Wolfram and Hart building. Outside Markus and Samuel waited patiently as thy always do. They took up their positions behind Rebecca as she made her way down the street. Once clear she turned to them a look of distress on her face.
“Go to Gabriel. Tell him that Glorificus is alive and is heading for the monastery.” She said in a serious tone
The brothers looked at each other.
“Divine One, if this is truly the case, then our position is by your side.” Samuel said
Rebecca shot him an angry look.
“Go and warn him!” he said insistently
“But, Divine One, you can not handle the hell god alone. If she discovers you the key your life will be in great danger.” Markus replied
“Do I have to repeat myself for a third time?” Rebecca said annoyed.
There was anxiousness in her voice the bothers didn’t like but both knew that Rebecca was a capable person. They bowed gracefully.
“As you wish Divine One. We will return promptly.”
“No, stay there, Gabriel is going to need all the help he can get.”
The brothers stood steadfast in front of Rebecca. In frustration she shot her arm out to the side and opened a portal to the monastery.
“GO!” she yelled at them
“We do not like this plan Divine One but we will do as you wish.” Samuel said.
The brothers entered the portal and Rebecca sealed it afterwards. Fidgeting in her pocket she pulled out her cell and speed dialed whistler.
“Yo.” Whistler said on the other end of the line.
“It’s me,” Rebecca replied
“Hey Beck, just the person I wanted to talk to, listen I don’t think the gambit with the slayers brother paid of . . .”
“Never mind that I have a new job for you,” Rebecca replied hurriedly, “I need you to talk to some of your contacts.”
“Okay what about.”
“They need to pretend to know something about the Emerald Light Monks.”
“The key makers? Alright but I’m not sure how many are going to go for it.”
“They better I’m going to be shaking them down pretty hard.”
“Now I know their not gonna go for it. What’s the deal Beck?”
Rebecca looked around agitated.
“Glory’s back in town.” she replied
“Whoa, whoa, whoa you mean hell god Glory? Though she snuffed it back at the Hellmouth.”
“Wolfram and Hart pulled her out at the last second apparently. Guess they didn’t want to loose a valuable asset.”
“I’ll spread the word around. They’ll be ready.”
“Great.”
“Is it worth asking what you’re gonna be doin’?”
“I’m going to stall for as long as I can.”
“Now’s not the time to grow a sense of humor Beck.”
“I’m not.”
“What about the banana brothers they gonna help?”
“I sent them back to the monastery.”
There was a long pause on the end of the line.
“Tell me you’re not planning on doing this alone.”
“If I walk around with two monks following me that’s not going to hold my cover.”
“Then what is your plan?”
Rebecca hung up. She pulled back her hood and leaned against the alley wall with a shocked expression on her face. She slowly slid down until she was sitting on the ground. Rebecca ran her options through her brain, so far, everyone ended up with a lot of people dead including her. What was she going to do? How the hell do you stall a god?
A large board was set up in the lobby of the Hyperion. Angel, Gunn and Connor looked at the scale model seriously.
“I think our best option is to lure her from the south that way we can corner her in the alley.” Angel commented
Gunn looked up at Angel in surprise.
“You do remember the freaky portal thing she did when we first saw her right?” he asked, “I don’t think cornering her is gonna work for very long.”
“Will’s working on a spell to stop that.”
“What if she tries to escape by the roofs?” Connor asked
“We’re gonna have slayers posted on each rooftop.” Angel replied gesturing to the parameter of the alley, “This should hold her long enough for Willow to use her magic.”
The front door slammed loudly catching everyone’s attention. Alex, still fuming from the meeting with his father, stormed over to his workstation and slammed down one of the sample cases. Angel, Gunn and Connor looked at each other.
“Something wrong Alex?” Angel asked
“No!” he growled, “Why would there be? Everything in the universe revolves around dad so why should their be a problem.”
“I’m guessing there’s a problem.” Gunn commented.
The group move away from their strategy meeting and over to the scientist. Alex leaned stressfully against his desk and looked through his microscope.
“What happened?” Angel asked
“Don’t want to talk about.” Alex replied
“Alright we’ll be over at the board if . . .”
“Do you know what this is about?” Alex yelled as he slammed the mysterious note down on the reception counter, “This is about my father being the asshole he always was! Do you know what he did to Penny, his only daughter? He got her kicked out of college and cut off her money because he was worried about the Whitfield name being tarnished because she’s a slayer!”
“Man that’s cold.” Gunn replied
“Is she alright?” Angel asked
“I don’t know,” Alex, replied anxiously as he leaned against his desk, “she’s still trying to be daddy’s little girl which just wont happen. You should have seen her eyes Angel. She’s trying so hard but she’s still sliding down the hill.”
“Anything I can do?”
“I need to get her out of that disease trap she’s living in.”
“I’ll set up one of the room’s here.” Angel replied caringly, “we could have her in by tonight.”
“Thanks,” Alex replied, “Gunn is there any legal stand we can take?”
Gunn though about this deeply.
“There might be a negligence case in this, I’ll have to make a few calls, you sure you want to go down this road with your dad? I’ve seen a few of these cases and they can get very ugly.”
“I’ve been on this road for a while,” Alex replied seriously, “he started it now I’m going to finish it.”
Rebecca entered her apartment. She shut the door and slipped of her jacket. Throwing it on the sofa she paced anxiously backwards and forwards in her living room trying to think of a strategy to delay the hell god Glory from finding the temple.
“Your out of low fat yogurt.” Glory said as she entered from the kitchen.
Rebecca swung around shocked.
“What are you doing here? How did you get in?” she asked
“Talked to the nice Spanish guy who said he was the super for the building,” Glory replied as she shifted Rebecca’s jacket and sat down on the sofa, “F.Y.I. that’s not a real accent he has. So where are my monks?”
Rebecca took a moment to collect herself. The shock of Glory coming out of her kitchen rattled her more then she liked.
“I’m meeting an informant later on this after noon.” Rebecca replied
Glory frowned at the Divine One.
“That’s not finding that’s talking. If I thought I could find them by talking I would do it myself. I though you were supposed to be the expert here.”
“This guy knows about the religious groups and cults around Los Angeles. If they’re around here he would know.”
“Why can’t we see him now?”
“He’s busy.”
“So? He can make time for us. I’ll bust down the door and you can do . . . what do you do anyway?”
Rebecca looked at Glory curiously. The hell god stood from the sofa and walked up to her.
“Wolfram and Hart pay you for something sweetie what is it? Aside from standing still and looking scared.”
“I’m an assassin.” Rebecca replied seriously
Glory smiled warmly and placed her hands on Rebecca’s shoulders
“Honey who do you thinks you’re talking to? That grade school ‘my dog ate my homework’ lying might work on casa del evil but it doesn’t work with me okay.”
“I just do jobs for them.” Rebecca replied as seriously as she could
“So why do I smell slayer on you?”
Rebecca looked surprised.
“Oh don’t look so shocked. You know if more of you peons worshiped at the temple of me. You’d understand. Smell a few other things on you as well. kinda like your some giant box of candy.”
”That’s a good nose you have.”
“Hey people pay to look like this,” Glory replied as she wandered slowly around looking at the apartment, “So monks, where, the, are. Sure you can make that sentence work.”
Pearl walked back into her office. Ss she entered her executive chair turned around. Buffy sat casually as she stared playfully at the lawyer.
“Nice office,” she commented as she toyed with one of the pens on the desk, “I met the guy who used to own it. Heard he got fired I guess that’s a literal translation around here huh?”
“There is, unfortunately, a high staff turnover in this firm,” Pearl said as she stood in front of her desk, “I wasn’t expecting a visit from the Slayer General.”
“You and I have something in common namely a woman who has a passion for cooler colors.”
“I have know idea what you’re talking about.”
Buffy leaned forward in her seat.
“Now why don’t I believe you?” Buffy replied, “You better take a seat this is gonna be a while.”
“I’m happy standing.” Pearl said
Suddenly her legs began to feel weak. She stumbled slightly then collapsed into on of the chairs in front. Willow walked up from behind her and placed her hands calmly on Pearls shoulders.
“Willow here is very good at picking the truth from the lie,” Buffy explained, “If what you say is gospel that no harm can come to you. If you start being less then honest then I’m afraid that my goddess friend is going to have to hurt you.”
Pearl smiled at the slayer general.
“You seriously think this little plan is going to work don’t you?” she said calmly
Buffy stood up from the seat. She walked around the desk and moved in front of the lawyer. Buffy leaned down to match Pearls eyeline.
“Let’s find out.” Buffy said mischievously
“Alright . . . I’m a penguin who like’s to play tennis.”
Buffy frowned. She looked up at Willow who shrugged in confusion. Pearl brushed Willows hands of her shoulders and stood up.
“Your goddess friend is powerful Buffy but she’s not all powerful. Her magic was neutralized as soon as she stepped into the office. Now is there anything else I can help you with?”
Buffy glared at the lawyer who kept on smiling in return.
“No? Then I’ll have to ask you to leave I have a lot of work to do.”
Pearl gestured for the door. Buffy and Willow stepped out just as the lawyer closed her door.
“Think she bought it?” Willow asked
“Let’s hope so Will Otherwise Angel’s in for a major ass kicking from me.”
Rebecca punched the demon across the face.
“I don’t know any monks I swear!” he screamed
“Do you lie to most people like that?” Rebecca replied
“You know green’s really not your color.” Glory said casually
Rebecca looked over to Glory, who was sitting at the bar of the demon club they went to.
“I see you more as a sky blue.”
“I’m trying to work.” Rebecca said
“Sorry miss ‘professional’.”
Rebecca punched the demon again.
“Why is this taking so long?” Glory asked annoyed, “I could have had one of my minions admitting to anything by now.”
Rebecca ignored her and continued to pound on the demon.
“Alright, alright,” the demon said, “there’s this church a few blocks over. I heard from this guy that the priest is holding some people who sound like monks.”
Rebecca dropped the demon. Glory stood up and threw her hands in the air
“Finally! I though this would never end!” she shouted.
The hell god turned and headed for the exit. Rebecca leaned down close to the demon.
“I am so sorry about this.” She whispered
“Whistler said you were only gonna pound me lightly.”
“I had to make it more convincing. You okay?”
“The internal bleeding should stop soon.”
“I’ll make it up to you.”
“You’re supposed to be the key or something right couldn’t just portal me to a hospital?”
Glory stopped in her tracks. She slowly turned and looked at the demon.
“The key?” she asked, “the keys here? I though Dawnie died.”
Rebecca looked up at Glory. This had just become beyond bad. Glory stormed over and yanked the demon from under Rebecca.
“You’re going to tell me where the key is.”
The demon looked panicked at Rebecca who shook her head seriously.
“I-I don’t know where the key is.” he said nervously
“I want you to say that to me again. This time remove the word ‘don’t’ and, at the end of the sentence, ad the key is . . . you can fill in the rest.“
“I don’t know where it is. But your friend might.”
Rebecca shot him a look. Glory turned and smiled at Rebecca.
“So greenies been holding out on me,”
“I . . .though you wouldn’t want it since it doesn’t work anyway.” Rebecca replied thinking quickly
“Scaly over here said that I could make portals permanently.”
“That’s just a rumor.”
Glory tilted her head curiously. She bent the demon in half unnaturally until his head touched his feet. Throwing him through a brick wall she turned back to the Divine One.
“Remember that little conversation we had about lying slayer, I do, if you don’t want to end up like lumpy you’ll take me to my key.”
“Alright.” Rebecca replied trying to mask her nerves, “follow me.”
Whey wandered around the streets for about half an hour. It was all Rebecca could think of doing. A moment later Glory, sick of the delay, moved in front of her.
“You are really starting to get on my nerves Emerald,” she said angrily, “Don’t you know how much it hurts me when you do that?”
“I told you the guy holding the key is very hard to track down,” Rebecca replied, “he shifts himself hourly so that the wrong people can’t find him.”
Glory didn’t listen. She seemed more interested in what was happening over Rebecca’s shoulder.
“Hold on,” she said cheerfully, “is that Buffy?”
Rebecca swung around. Buffy and Willow walked down the street casually. After a few moments they entered the building across from them. Rebecca looked up and swore under her breath. She had inadvertently guided Glory straight to Gen S.
“Stay here I’ll be one minute.” Glory said as she crossed the road.
“I think we . . .” Rebecca attempted
“Stay their puppy!”
Buffy and Willow entered the club. Angel, Gunn and Connor were already waiting inside.
“How did it go?” angel asked
“Well I think,” Buffy replied, “if Wolfram and Hart are targeting slayers they should be sending out Emerald at any moment.”
“We should get into positions.” Gunn said
“Right I’d hate to be caught off guard if anything happened.” Angel replied
The front door exploded. Glory walked in casually and looked around the club.
“This is definitely a step up from Sunnydale,” she said, “I’d get that front door fixed anybody could just walk in.”
Buffy and Willow stared at the hell god in sheer terror. The rest just looked confused.
“Hey Buffy how’s things?” Glory asked, “did you know there’s, like, thousands of slayers in this town now? That’s gotta hurt the chosen one badge you like to wear.”
“How are you here?” Buffy asked in shock, “Ben died.”
“What? No hello master can I by you a drink? You really got to work on your host manners.”
“Who the hell is this chick?” Connor asked
Glory smiled at Connor
“You’re a cute one are you?”
“More then you can handle.”
“Sweetie you don’t come even close to what I can handle.”
Glory walked slowly up to the group.
“Now there’s something I wanted to talk to you all about.” She thought playfully, “I remember. You guys stole my key and tried to kill me! that’s not very nice. I think it’s only fair that I return favor.”
The group started to scuttle backwards just as Glory advanced on them. Just before the hell god grabbed her first victim a portal opened between glory and the group. Rebecca jumped out and stood defiantly between her and the group.
“Hey!” she yelled, “I though you wanted to look for the key not jerk around with theses nobodies.”
Glory folded her arms and frowned at Rebecca.
“I told you to wait outside puppy.”
“You want my help quit wasting time!”
Glory looked from Rebecca to the group. Her eye’s kept scanning from Buffy to Angel to Rebecca. A broad smile crossed her face.
“Oh I just figured it out,” Glory said in an excited tone, “You’re Dawnie’s baby aren’t you?”
The group looked up at Rebecca in shock. Rebecca half expected this to happen so remained calm.
“What the hell are you talking about?” Rebecca replied angrily
“There you go with that lying I don’t like.”
Glory marched up to Rebecca and grabbed her roughly by the shoulders.
“There’s a simple test we can do,” she said as she spun Rebecca to face the group.
The group was dumbfounded, especially Buffy and Angel.
It was Rebecca! She was alive! . .
And working for Wolfram and Hart. This was the most unsettling though that crossed their minds.
“Now are you going to tell me where my key is or am I going to have to kill each and every one of these people?”
Rebecca frowned sadly at her family. She didn’t want them to find out this way but she had no choice.
“I am.” Rebecca replied softly.
“That’s a twist didn’t expect that.” glory replied, “So you going to get me my monks now?”
Rebecca closed her eyes. Reaching out her hand to the side a portal opened. On the other side the monastery could clearly been seen.
“Good Puppy.” Glory said as she dragged Rebecca through
What ever happened next it did not look positive. Rebecca hoped that she gave Gabriel enough time to prepare.
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