I sucked in a shocked breath. Cordelia! But, how!
My voice cracked as I whispered to Angel, "They told me she was dead. I went to the hospital, and they said she was dead! What the Hell is going on here?" My voice had been rising with each word until the last part was almost screamed. Oh, God! Cordelia! She was alive!
Angel slipped deeper into the stacks as everyone looked in our direction in shock. Everyone but George. He was looking at Cordy with a similar expression on his face.
"You're Cordelia? He said you were in a coma. That you were never going to wake up."
Now everyone was looking at George in shock. I still couldn't take my eyes off her. Cordy!
"Xander..." she whispered. The others must of had to strain to hear her.
"XANDER!?" This came in unison from Buffy, Will, and Giles. If they had been shocked earlier by my outburst, now they must have been having fits.
Cordy ignored them all. She rushed up the stairs at full speed only slowing down when she saw me.
"They said you were dead. I went to the hospital..."
She started to walk towards where I was sitting. I gasped at she began to get blurry. No! This could not be a dream. She couldn't fade away!
But she wasn't fading. The blurring came from the tears I didn't realize were streaking down my face. She was real. She was alive.
She knelt down next to me and I stretched a shaking hand to her cheek. It was a little rounder than I remember. She must have gained some weight.
I couldn't stand it anymore. I pulled her into my arms and held her for all I was worth. Like she was a delicate glass figurine and I never wanted to let her go.
I was sobbing now. So was she. My Cordy. Alive.
"He... He told me you were in a coma. And that you'd never wake up." I finally managed. "And, it was all my fault. I should have been able to protect you. I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you!"
"Shhh... It's OK, Xander. It's OK."
I wasn't sure now who was holding on to who. I was vaguely aware of Giles and George trying to convince Buffy and Will not to come up here.
"Daddy lied to you. I was never even in a coma. I was fine, the doctors just wanted to keep me overnight.
"Daddy told me that he offered you money to leave. Just to test you, he said. And that you took the money. I didn't want to believe him, but you never came to see me. It wasn't until a week later that Buffy told me what he had done. Oh, Xander, I moved out the very next day. Joyce was nice enough to let me live with them until I got back on my feet. We looked for you. Even hired private detectives. No one could find you." "At the hospital, they told me you were dead."
"They must have thought you meant Mother. Her and Daddy got a divorce after she found out the way he had lied. She died of cancer a year ago. Oh, Xander."
Her mother. I had liked the woman. She wasn't a snob like her husband was. The weird thing was, she was the one who had been born into money, he married into it.
I could here George and Giles trying to explain to each other what was going on. There was almost a mass confusion going on down there. I didn't care, as long as she was in my arms, I was happy.
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