Life (or Unlife) Goes On

Title: Life (or Unlife) Goes On
Author: AddictedtoBuffy
Summary: Right after Angel Season 5 What happens next
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I did not come up with the characters of Buffy and Angel therefore they are not mine.
Distrubution: Ask and you will receive
Pairing: Angel/Spike eventually Angel/Spike/Xander
Rating: PG this chapter
A/N: Thank you to everyone whose reveiwed. Please do and criticism welcome, if you hate it tell me, if you like it tell me
Reveiws:
Razz: Glad you like the Angel/Spike action more soon I promise. As for Mystery Girl their are a few clues coming up
Anon: Thanks for the encouragement. It means I spend time on this instead of studying for my exam. Whoops.
Purrfus: Yeah it is my first fanfic, thanks for the criticism, I like people who are honest, My new aim will be to get you to hold your breath, it does get better I'm still trying to set the scene at the moment, necessary but not thrilling drama. Glad you like my Conner, I have a hard time writing him

Chapter 4

Mystery Girl's POV

I become aware of something hard pressing me to the ground. I have a strange feeling of dejavu, then everything that’s happened since I woke up in the graveyard comes flooding back. A groan escapes my lips and I wonder what I should do now in this hallucination, because it definitely can’t be real. No way can this nightmarish world of monsters and killer sun and bloodsuckers be real. Well hallucinations probably take care of themselves like dreams so I should probably just go with the flow. I easily push the concrete of myself and get up. Looks like I have super strength in my hallucination, it should come in handy. As I start to walk down the tunnel, I hum something about going to a fair. Strange. Having a weird feeling that it is night again outside I climb up to a manhole and hesitantly move it open a crack. No sunlight so I guess its safe to go out. It seems I can make it night in my hallucinations as well. Funny, in my mind I’m this big superpowers creature but I don’t even know my name. I climb out of the sewers and find myself in a dirty, rat infested alley. First of all, I need some proper clothes and definitely, some food my stomach is growling. I can hear thumping, rythmic thumping and more than one but they all have their own rhythm. Heart beats, I’m hearing heartbeats but they are a little way away, I quickly check my pulse or where my pulse should be but I can’t feel anything. This hallucination is getting weirder by the moment. I head of in the direction of the heartbeats when I hear a shout.

‘Hey you stop.’ I turn around to find a knife being pointed at me by a burly, unkempt guy in a black leather biker jacket that screams attitude. I like the jacket. ‘Give me all your valuables.’

‘I don’t have any.’ He looks me up and down and then smirks.

‘Let’s see about that shall we.’ He snarls as he tries to force himself on me. I just give him a quick smile back and punch him right in the nose. He flies through the air, hits the wall opposite and slides to the ground. I step over to him drag him up with one hand while he whimpers and try’s to break free. My face feels different and I snarl at him before launching myself at his neck. His skin tears like paper and I’m soon gulping down the rich warm blood. Oh it feels so good. I’m not killing anybody if this is a hallucination so why should I care and the blood is warming me up, making me feel powerful. He goes limp in my arms and I let go.

‘Thanks.’ I wipe my mouth and look down at him. I smile as I drag the jacket off him, put it on and walk away. I turn into another alley and I hear angry voices.

‘That’s blackmail. You pay like anyone else. Nobody gets us for free,’ Female, bossy and sure of herself.

‘Would you rather be arrested for prostitution without a license?’ Male, authorative and kinda sleazy.

‘We’re not prostitutes, we’re strippers.’ I turn round the corner and find two policeman with three scantily clad women. No one notices me.

‘Doesn’t matter either you give me what I want or down to the cop shop for you. Your choice.’

‘What’s going on here?’ I ask, like I don’t know but I have to say something and that was good enough. They always say something in the movies.

‘One of your pals?’ The cop who does all the talking says. He pins the girl closest to him to the wall. ‘Do we have a deal?’

‘I don’t like corrupt cops.’ I would rather just fight but you have to get the banter out of the way first, think I remember that from somewhere. The ringleader laughs.

‘You don’t like corrupt cops hey well who cares what you like.’ He sniggers. I just smile and walk up to him. When I’m standing right in front of him, I punch him full in the nose just like I did to the mugger. He just collapses with blood streaming, the whiff of blood makes me feel hungry again. I turn on the other one but he takes off round the corner. Good away from witness. I race after him around the corner, where he is standing with a gun pointing at my chest. What do I care? This is a hallucination, I can’t die for all I know I can fly or can go swimming with the mermaids.

‘I’ll shoot.’ I smile and rip the gun out of his hand and hold him to me with the other.

‘Sure you will.’ My face definitely feels like its changing and he screams as I bite his neck.

‘Hey, are you okay?’ It’s the outspoken woman calling from around the corner. I let the corpse go and making sure I look human, I step back round the corner.

‘I’m fine I think.’

‘Look thanks for dealing with the pigs. What’s your name?’ She has a kind face with almond skin and big, wide eyes.

‘Um I ah I’m not sure.’

‘What do you mean?’ asks one of the others, they are all pretty in a trashy way.

‘I really don’t know. I just woke up and nothings familiar. I’m really having the weirdest night.’ Well that was the understatement of the century! Oh, sarcastic much. I really must have an attitude

‘You don’t remember anything? Guys look, we are going to have to move there's a dead cop here. Why don’t you come with? You look like you need a change of clothes and a shower. The club could always do with more girls and you can obviously look after yourself. What do you reckon girls, should we make her one of us.’ They nod and smile.

‘Okay um thanks.’

‘Great. I’m Charlie by the way.’ They turn to go and I follow. What an interesting hallucination.

Spike’s POV

I become aware of the soft linen under me, the smell of sex and of a hand resting on my bare chest. My eyes flicker open and all I see is Angel. Glorious Angel as naked as the day he was born. Wow! that was an unexpected but welcome outcome of my little speech. He looks so peaceful lying there. I wonder if I should wake him for round two. No, its sunset outside. We have a meeting soon and he was exhausted, I’d better just let him sleep. I manoeuvre myself out of the bed and go have a shower. It would be embarrassing if everyone else found out what we were doing. This was probably only a one off thing anyway, he has Nina. It might have been stupid coming to him last night but I couldn’t sleep in the same bed as him all day without saying anything. Now I’ve just got to get back to pretending to hate him, it has been becoming harder to keep up the charade. Doesn’t mean I’m not angry at him, he has hurt me so much in the past but I just can’t seem to hate him no matter how much I try. After my shower I dress and grab a mug of blood, I take another one with me out of the room cos I need to find somewhere to smoke. I find the roof and realise that someone else is already up here, its Faith.

‘Have you got a light?’ I ask as I join her and put down my mug to reach into my jacket for a smoke.

‘Sure.’ She quickly lights my cigarette and goes back to staring over the city. The sun has just set and darkness is quickly taking over. Lights are turning on until the city looks like one huge beacon. I pick up my mug of blood and take a big gulp. Faith looks across a me.

‘You don’t mind, do you?’ I ask. The Scoobies hated me drinking in front of them so I’d deliberately pour it over human food to upset them.

‘Na bloke’s gotta eat or in your case drink."

‘If Buffy still with the Immortal?’ There I go, I’ve said it.

‘Fraid so.’ I just nod. Damm oh well she’s moved on. It’s my fault, if she’d known I was alive or undead, things might be different but do I really want them to be? I don’t think so, I’m not in love with her and she was never in love with me. I’m sick of being the boy toy, the ditry little secret or the just plain sex toy.

‘So … why won’t you give Robin his mum’s coat back?’ There it is, knew it would come up at some point. So, Robin isn’t impressed with me being around. Good.

‘It has great sentimental value for me, besides this isn’t it, his mum’s coat is in shred’s.’’

‘Wow, What happened?’

‘‘Bout a week ago I ended up holding a bomb when it went off. Lucky I’m a vampire right but the coat was history. He can have the shreds though. If he wants to go to my old apartment and brave Wolfram and Harts lackeys.’ I take another drag then gulp the rest of the blood down. Faith just nods. ‘So what are you guys doing here anyway, didn’t get any answers last night.’

‘Let Buffy tell ya. Which reminds me we had better get down there.’ I stand up and follow her down. Before I even get to ground floor I can hear raised voices, sounds like Angel and Conner.

‘Ah the joys of fatherhood.’ I smirk. Faith gives me an unreadable look.

‘You don’t regret not having children when you were alive?’

‘Nah, if I did have any, I would have eaten them when I changed so its probably better that I didn’t. Anyway the girl I pinned for back then became a vengeance demon.’ Faith just laughs. Yep my love life is amusing and I always go for the ones who will hurt me the most. We step into the foyer where Conner and Angel are having one heated discussion.

‘You should have gone with your family.’ Angel nearly roars.

‘They aren’t my real family. You are.’ Conner roars back.

‘You were happy being around them. I can’t give you anything. I can’t even guarantee your safety around me.’

‘I can look after myself and I want to get to know you. How can you expect me to lead a normal life when I know the truth. I’m not normal, I sent my father to the bottom of the ocean and I slept with my mother figure. Knowing that do you think I could just continue living the lie with my fake family.’ I decide to step in before they start getting physical.

‘You got to admit it mate he is as pig-headed and stubborn as you are.’

‘I am not.’ They both yell at me.

‘Bollocks!’ I decide to try a different tack. ‘Look Angel if he stays with us, we can at least keep an eye on him.’ He just looks at me. Why don’t I want them fighting each other? It would be fun to see father and son going at it.

‘Okay your in but don’t you dare go off on your own, I don’t want you hurt. There is a meeting of everyone out in the garden, you might as well join us.’ Conner goes to open his mouth but Angel glares at him so he shuts it before turning and trotting outside. Angel just stands there looking at the floor. I turn to follow Conner when I hear Angel softly say.

‘You left before I woke up?’

‘I ah I.’ Shit what am I supposed to say that doesn’t sound complicated or wimpy.

‘I don’t want last night to be a one time thing.’ I look up and stare at him. He doesn’t… wow…He always seems to know what I’m thinking. ‘I thought I made that clear last night.’ I just smile at him and try not to put much weight onto his words so I’m not disappointed later. I turn to head outside but he comes up behind me and as he pinches me on the butt, he whispers into my ear. ‘Besides, I owe you one hell of an orgasm.’ Before I can say something, we are outside with the others and I need to concentrate on acting naturally. I sit down next to Dawn and give her a smile. Buffy is standing at the front and glaring at us.

‘Now as most of you know I am positioning slayers all over the world but I also want three groups at certain points. The main one will be at a slayer school in Europe and also a smaller group at Cleveland to keep an eye on that hellmouth. The third is more for those who need a second chance. Which is why I want you Angel and you too Spike, seeing you actually didn’t die in Sunnydale, to head this group along with Faith. I realise that even though a person might have killed or in either of your cases massacred people at one point you were the victim and you can choose to do good at some point’. Dawn has her head in her arms and Buffy is trying to catch her eye. Maybe something went on with her? ‘Is that okay with you Angel?’ she asks. Since when does Buffy ask if people are okay. She used to just give orders and expect them to be carried out. I wonder if the poof will agree to be part of team slayer.
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