Catherine stood and let her black cowl flow around her. It was great to be back in a human body. The witch realized she was still standing with her arms out as she had held the pompoms for over a year. With a little effort, she pulled them down to her sides.
Then it surprised her. The door bell had rung. Catherine glanced at a broom, and it lept into her hand. She placed the broom in mid air, and it floated. The witch sat on it from the side, and the broom expertly weaved its way to the door. The witch (without getting off the broom or moving a muscle) openned the door, and was met with a very attractive male.
"I think I might be able to find something better than a broomstick for you to sit on, Cathy old girl.", Angelus told her. The witch looked up at him and smiled. "I didn't think that any one who knew I was here would have the guts to talk to me that way.", she replied. "After all, I'm in a sort of a 'annihilate everything' mood."
"You don't want to annihilate every single thing Cathy.", Angelus said smoothly. "You want the same things I want, I think.", he continued. "After all, what position am I in to argue with you?"
"The only people who would know about me would be that good for nothing brat and her Slayer freind.", Catherine spat-attempting to dissuade herself from Angelus' charms. Angelus let his human face fall away to reveal his true nature. "Do I look like I'm with the Slayer?", he said between his fangs.
Catherine continued questioning this intriguing vampire. "Then what do I want?", she asked. Angelus pointed down at the threshold keeping him outside the house. Catherine nodded, and the invited vampire stepped over it replacing his human visage. Angelus moved behind Catherine faster than the eye could see. "You want a dead Slayer-one so dead it would be hard to say that she was ever alive. You want what I want-power. Power to always be at that cusp of life.", he told her. Angelus moved his hands to her shoulders and began whispering in her ear.
"And you want a man.", the vampire told her. Catherine stiffened. "A real man. Not some coddling, let your daughter get fat, you're mean because you're a witch man.", Angelus said. He stroked her hair with his cheek, moved his arms to encompass her. "You want some one strong.", the vampire told her while strengthening his hold on her. "You want some one attentive.", Angelus said, then reduced his hold on her only on her pulse and heart beats. "You need an angel.", he told the witch.
Catherine leaned back to him, supported by him more than her broom. "And what would you want from me?", she asked. "My dear...dear Cathy.", Angelus began. "I may be a vampire, but I'm not stupid. To try to make a deal with some one as powerful...as deadly as you would be foolish. What I want is to bask in your glow. Catherine the Great is a legend. To see your power and live is a feat within itself."
Angelus ran his lips from the beginning of her shoulder up her neck, all the way across Catherine's skin to her ear. "I want to be that man, Cathy.", he whispered. Cathy sighed into him. "I want that spot. Come.", Angelus told her softly.
The vampire took her hand and led her out onto the lawn. "Here Cath...here we can be together. We're strong, vibrant...no one dares take us here.", Angelus told her. Then he leaned toward her, dropping his eyebrows suggestively. "No one takes us, but each other."
Catherine ran into Angelus, barely giving him time to catch her. Catherine kissed him with years of pent up passion, years of pent up aggression, and the fire that would be her revenge. When her mouth let go of him, he spoke. But he only spoke one word. "Now."
Amy came from behind a tree, and took a pendant off. While Catherine was still registering the appearance of Amy, the illusion itself dropped away. The image of Amy became cracked...disfigured. And Angelus stood in the spot when that illusion died. Catherine (entirely confused) looked back at the creature she held in her arms. "Surprise.", Amy said. "Oh yeah. 'Agranom akmorum'."
Catherine tried to catch her racing mind, but it was too late. Her body became immaterial once again as her daughter's spell came into affect. Amy waved her hands in the air, whirling her mother's essence arround her in a vortex. Then she started channelling.
Little by little, the component energy that was once her mother entered Amy. The young witch's eyes were black, yet still glowed. Her muscles and nerves and bones were stretched beyond limits, yet held. The energy cloud that enveloped her slowly began to dissipate...yet exploded.
"Amy!", Chris yelled from his hiding place. Cordelia and Chris appeared, and rushed to the fallen young witch. Her clothes had burned off, and ashes covered her. Amy's breathing was ragged...then stopped. Chris looked around frantically for support. Cordelia was in total shock at the dead Amy. Angelus revealed no emotion. No sympathy, no regret, not even an aknowledgement. Just when Chris was ready to launch himself at him.
"Chirs, do that CPR thing.", Angelus commanded. "You're some type of scientist, you should be able to figure it out." The vampire slapped Cordelia and she fell to the ground. After picking her up, he gave her orders. "Go get your car, you have to get this girl to the hospital as quickly as possible." Cordelia nodded bleakly and her heals clicked on the side walk as she ran back to her car.
Angelus knelt beside Chris as he turned Amy over. "You breathe, I'll work her heart.", the boy told the vampire. There was no time for arguement, so Angelus grabbed the boys hand and held it to his mouth. "See, no breath. You breathe for her, and tell me what to do with her heart.", he told his junior.
Chris didn't even bother to instruct the vampire. The boy put two fingers to the young witches neck, and found a pulse. He breathed a sigh of releif, straight into Amy. An image of God, breathing the breath of life into Eve as he was taught as a child crossed his mind. "I gave my brother a second chance on life, why can't I do this?", Chris cursed himself after the fifth breath. He looked at Angelus again.
Then it struck him. Sunnydale was on a Hellmouth. Some of the theories behind his brother's ressurection were impossible, but it still worked. He was kneeling next to a vampire over a witch. Chris took a leap of faith just then.
The young man leaned down and stroked Amy's still face, leaving trails in the ashes on her cheek. "I love you.", he said. Chris bent his face over Amy's and kissed her...just slightly. Amy's mouth responded to him. Then she gasped, and coughed up ash. When she openned her eyes, she saw Chris smiling above her.
"Here's a blanket!", Cordelia said. The haggard teen threw the blanket in their general direction, completely covering Chris' head. He took the blanket off and wrapped Amy in it. "Which way to the car?", he asked Cordelia. Cordelia turned on her heal and ran back to the Queen C with Chris in tow right behind her.
As soon as they took off, an old, out of shape Citroen rolled to a stop in front of Catherine's house. Giles, Buffy, Xander and Willow leaped out of the car and ran up to Angelus. "What's happening? Where's Catherine?", Giles asked him. Angelus smirked. "Oh, that little thing about the angry witch that wanted to destroy you all. We took care of that.", he replied. "What about Cordy?", Xander asked pointedly. "She and Chris are taking Amy to the hospital.", Angelus said.
He started walking away and got about three feet. "What should we do now?", Buffy asked after him. Angelus turned around in full vampire form. "Why Buffy.", the vampire said with a certain menacing jocularity. "You surrender now."
And with that Darla, Spike, Dru, Dolton, and Teresa came from their hiding spots and surrounded the mortals in front of Angelus. And he laughed.
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