Disclaimer: I wish I owned Buffy and Angel but I dont. I only own the storyline and the characters I invented. Joss Whedon is so lucky.
Angel sat at the chair and stared at the newspaper, a three letter word for an object, similar to a scythe. He sat their and scowled, this one answer and he would of completed the puzzle. He looked up from the page to see Fred standing with a cup of blood.
“You seemed to be concentrating so hard, I… I didn’t want to bother you.” Fred said, she lent forward and placed the cup gently on the table, as she did some blood spilt on her hands.
“Ewwww, gross!” She exclaimed and quickly wiped her hand on a tissue she had gotten from her pocket. Satisfied after wiping her hand she placed the bloody tissue in the bin.
“Thanks for that; I don’t feel at all odd drinking this now.” Angel said sarcastically, Fred blushed at his comment. He placed the paper down and swung his feet down off the desk. “Has Wesley found any demons for me to kill yet?”
“No, he’s been in his office all day and only comes out for coffee,” Fred replied, she crossed her arms awkwardly, as if embarrassed to be in Angel’s presence.
“Coffee?” Angel stopped drinking the blood.
“He was up all night, going through his books.” Fred leant forward a bit and glanced at Angel’s paper, “Another crossword?”
“I have nothing better to do, no demons to chase or research, the only fighting I have done is that one vamp yesterday. I can’t even do that during the day.” He sighed then continued to drink.
“Well, their hasn’t been much baddie action. I don’t mind though.” She tugged at her black skirt and carefully smoothed down her shirt.
Angel noticed her smoothing her shirt, “Are you going anywhere special?”
“No, why?”
“Oh, well, your dressed up, I mean your dressed differently.” He continued to drink. Fred blushed, “I … I… I bought new clothes yesterday; I had nothing else to do.” She quickly turned to face the door, “Axe.”
“What?”
“The crossword answer is Axe.”
“Well I’ll be damned.”
The young girl ran as fast as she could, she screamed and shouted, her face with a look of sheer horror. The vampire chased after her, a big smile on his face, he had her cornered.
“Scream all you like, no one can hear you.” He walked closer to the girl, her back was to a big wall, she walked slowly backwards, staring at the vampire. “You ran pretty fast, but not fast enough.” He ran to right in front of her, he pinned her to the wall. He lent forward so far that the girl could feel his unneeded breath on her face. She screamed.
“I love it when you scream,” The girl became silent, a tear dripped down her face. “No more screaming then? But I liked it, it made me feel good. It boosts a guy’s confidence. Scream for me.” The girl whimpered. “Scream for me” A tear fell down her face. “I said SCREAM FOR ME!” The vampire shouted and grabbed her by the hair. The girl screamed.
Angel turned around. “Did you hear that?”
“What?”
“I heard a scream, down here, quick!” Wesley and Angel ran as fast as they could, Angel clearly faster than the ex-watcher but Wesley managed to keep up. “It’s a vampire, I bet you.”
The vampire lent in towards the girl, his face lent on hers. “That felt good, I think teenagers are the way to go.”
“Leave me alone… please.” The girl pleaded with the grinning vampire.
“Don’t worry; I’m not going to hurt you. I’m going to give you an offer you can’t refuse. But if you refuse, then I might hurt you.” He let go of her hair.
Angel ran to where he heard the scream, standing their was a vampire in full game face, he had pinned to the wall a young teenage girl. He ran and put the whole force of his weight and rugby tackled the vampire to the ground. He punched the vampire in the face repeatedly. Wesley ran up towards the girl.
“Are you hurt?”
“I will be fine, you should get out of here, that man… he’s different.” The girl pulled her wrist towards her chest, she cradled it. Wesley hesitated,
“No, it’s our job to stop people like that.” He turned to face the vamp who was currently punching Angel. Wesley rushed over to the vamp and pulled him off Angel, he punched him hard in the face. The vamp lurched backwards and paused, surprised, Wesley let his guard down, the vampire stood and smashed the heel of his hand into Wesley’s nose, knocking him out cold.
“You’re good; you’re more than just a normal vampire.” Angel stood, wiping the blood from his mouth. He then morphed into his game face.
“I think the same goes for you.” Angel ran at the vampire who casually stuck his arm out, Angel ran right into it and buckled over in pain. “Maybe I’m better though.” The vampire turned to face the girl, still stood in the same place as when he left her. “That was easy.”
The girl flexed her cradled arm and ran up to the vampire and delivered a clean fatal blow to the vampires head. The vampire was knocked clean off its feet.
“I have been tracking you for ages Mr Mysterio or whatever, that mind reading thing is quite handy, pity I’ am better at it than you, although I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting these queer baits to come and mess it up.” The vampire snarled and turned to face the girl, “Read this, asshole.” The girl plunged a stake into the vampire’s chest, much to the surprise of a dazed Wesley and injured Angel. She turned to face the two of them, “What? Didn’t expect to see a girl dust one?” She turned and walked quickly, straight through the fresh vampire dust and out of the alley.
Angel and Wesley both looked at each other. “What the hell?”
“So your sayin’ that you went to rescue a girl about to be eaten by a vamp, and you were both knocked out?” Gunn paced up and down the hotel reception.
“No, only Wesley got knocked out, he crushed my ribs.” Angel said angrily, annoyed that he was having to repeat himself.
“Stop moving Angel, you need to keep still.” Fred said quietly, trying to bandage Angel’s ribcage.
“And the girl that you were gonna save dusted the vamp?” Gunn sat down on the sofa and shook his head.
“She did it with hardly any effort at all, she must have been luring the vampire their or something along those lines, she seemed pretty annoyed that we came and disturbed her.” Wesley said weakly, he was sat casually on a chair with an ice pack held up to his nose.
“She probably was, I don’t know why….. I can’t believe that vampire beat me.” Angel said ushering Fred away.
“Look Angel, you may have special vampire healing power but you have to bandage this up or it will get worse.” Fred said sharply much to Angel’s surprise. She continued to bandage a less stubborn Angel. She went on to say much more softly, careful not to bruise Angel’s ego, “You said that the vampire could mind-read, which means that you were lucky to just come back with broken ribs. As for the girl maybe she is well trained or something.”
“Well trained? I don’t know, she seemed too strong for a human. She looked about 15 so she can’t have been expertly trained.” Wesley said taking the ice pack away from his nose, he looked at its swollen appearance and sighed. “The bugger.”
“Well, how about a slayer? She is old enough.” Fred said finishing up on Angels bandage. “All good, no messing about though, you too.” She pointed at Wesley.
“No, she can’t be a slayer, one has to die for the……..” Wesley stopped. Angel’s face with a look of worry. Angel stood up and walked to the phone; he paused for a moment then dialled a number.
“Hello, Giles is that you?............. Is Buffy ok?........Oh ok, no I just needed to see if she was ok. Do you know about Faith? ……….. That’s good. No, its just some girl’s been staking vamps around here, I just thought, you know, could be a new slayer. ………. Yeah, brown hair, about 15…… you haven’t? I’m not sure.……… I see. No, tell her its someone else, I shouldn’t keep calling. Thanks” He hung the phone up, no longer worried. He turned to face the rest of them, “It’s not a slayer, we could be dealing with a demon or a human or even another vampire, I don’t know.”
The young girl was sat in a park next to a rather oddly dressed man. The man turned to the girl and said,
“So what’s your name?”
“Sara.”
“What brings you to L.A?”
“Business.”
“What kind?”
“You.”
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