On the move

[freddles]

[Continued from here and here]

Finally something was starting to go right. Well, not right saying that I was still stuck inside what some considered to be my own body, but wasn't. No, whatever Illyria was simply looked like a shadow of me, and that was something I was hoping to fix once we arrived back at Wolfram and Hart. Illyria thought she'd

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[mr_angel]

Alright, so Cordy and I were supposed to go off and do what exactly? Hell if I knew, but for some reason I got the suspicion that I wasn't wanted around anymore while they decided to do their locator spell.

Cause hey, why would a champion be of any use to anyone in this situation?

I glanced between Cordy and Wes for a moment before finally nodding. "Alright, fine. We can go back down to the office and see if security has found out anything on where they went." That or why hadn't they found out anything. I swear, the people in this place are no help whatsoever.

Just as we started out of the lab, I felt an odd buzzing in my pocket. When I started to get a few looks I picked it up and answered. "Hello?" I said harshly.

"Uh, yes. M-Mr. Angel? We have a location on the.. the individuals you were requesting earlier."

I stopped short. "Where are they?"

"In the lobby, sir, but I doubt they'll be there for long. They're making their way through the building."

Mumbling a few more things into the phone, I told him to call me back if they left again before we could get to them. I turned back to everyone still in the lab. "You can take a rain check on that locator spell. Looks like we don't need it. They're here."

[_wes_pryce_]

I was quite relieved that Cordelia had taken the hint and was already on a mission to get Angel out of the way. The last thing we needed was a brooding vampire to disrupt the spell. I shared a look, and almost a smile with Cordelia at Angel's words. Just like old times, which would never return.

Just as I was about to turn to Willow and Lorne, to get things started, there was an odd buzzing sound. Which once again made me wonder about the so called 'silent alarm'. That wasn't really silent. Most of us looked at Angel until he picked up the damn phone. At this point, any call could be important.

And as it turned out, this one was.

Grabbing my gun out of my holster, I strode toward Angel, a feeling of dread in my stomach. If 'they' was both that blue thing and Knox? Then the latter was mine. "I'll take care of Knox," I said grimly, the tone of my voice not leaving any room for argument.

Because there wasn't going to be one. They could jump high and low, Knox was mine.

[lornegreen]

The second I saw Wesley pull out that gun from his holster, I knew he meant business. A knot began to clench within my stomache, because deep inside I knew what might end up happening.

See, no one really knew whether or not Fred was still in there. I didn't even want to think about the possibility that she wasn't, because help me God, that girl was one of my best friends, and I wasn't about to come to terms with the fact that I would never see her again.

But the guns.. Wesley could use them on Knox all he wanted. For all I cared, that little weasel got what he had coming to him. But if it came to having to take 'Fred' down, I didn't want to be there to watch. I had already had to witness her slowly being taken over by that thing.. I didn't want to see anything else .. well, except for her complete and total recovery.

I looked over at Willow and Cordy, saying nothing but giving them both an apprehensive look. At this point I was completely unsure of whether or not I wanted to be a part of any bloodshed that might go down. On the outside I'm all talk when I say I want to wring Knox's little neck for this, but on the inside, I'm still a pacifist..

What's a demon to do.

[queen__c]

As I moved along with the group, I knew I was going to need a weapon. Angel's office had a few weapons. Wesley had his gun and Angel had his fist of fury. Well Willow had her magic, so really that left me and Lorne without anything to use. Unless you consider me trying to tap into my half demon powers but I dont even know if I could do that.

"What exactly are we going to do once we get there? Distract the old one while someone does whatever to get them separated? Sounds good if you have the same powers as she does."

I was nervous. We didnt have a plan. if we had done the spell and found them through the spell, That would give us time for a plan.

"Please tell me someone has a better plan then what I just said."

[not_an_amazon]

I really hadn't been looking forward to the spell. Doing the spell on big evils? Not usually productive. Usually it led to someone getting possessed and...

"I'll take care of Knox,"

I couldn't help but wonder if I had sounded like that after Tara died. It was kinda scary. I frowned at Wesley slightly. I could understand wanting revenge, but...I just didn't think it was the best path anymore.

"Please tell me someone has a better plan then what I just said."

"That pretty much sounds like the plan. Cause I really can't say I'm coming up with one at the moment" I glanced around, looking for a source of inspiration. We really didn't have an idea.

We could improvise, right? No big deal. Improvisation was supposed to be out forte, after all. With the way things usually went, we had to switch to Plan B anyway. It kinda made me want to skip plan A from the get-go.

I had to think. There had to be some sort of spell, or at least an everyday gimmick that would slow things down.

[freddles]

Where in the hell was this thing going anyway? Illyria was moving so fast down the hallways that I was having trouble focusing on any one thing to figure out where we were all going. I wasn't hearing any of those loud ringing noises or siren like sounds going off in my head, so I was pretty sure Illyria wasn't jumping through any portals or altering time like she likes to do from time to time.

From what I could tell, Knox was still following close behind. Either that or Illyria was dragging him along to make sure he was able to get 'the annoyance' out and destroyed.

Blurred face after blurred face, I was finally able to figure out where we were probably going - the lab. Finally facing the door, I was hoping that on the other side of that door was the entire gang of heroes looking for a fight against the thing that took me away. They'd be searching for answers, right?

The doors flew open and it took me a moment to focus on the faces in front of me. Once I did, I saw them. They were here. God, they were *all* here. I saw Angel standing there next to Wesley who had his gun. They wouldn't.. shoot me-us, would they?

As for Knox, I'd just as soon see him bleeding from the chest and dead on the floor after what's happened, but I prayed that Wesley wouldn't get gun happy and kill him before he was able to 'remove the annoyance' from his god. Though I hated to admit it, but Knox was probably the best person in this room to figure this all out. After that? God, I don't know.

"Angel! Wesley!" I screamed as loud as I could, but from their reactions I knew I hadn't gotten outside of this head. They wouldn't kill Illyria before I was able to get out of this shell, would they? That's what my body was now.. just a shell.

[mr_angel]

I looked at Wesley for a moment and nodded. Right now I couldn't give a damn what he did to Knox as long as he did it *after* we got Fred back. "The plan is to find them, contain them, and then force the son of a bitch responsible for all of this to give us Fred back."

The part after finding them.. I really had no idea how we were supposed to 'contain' her. She'd already gotten away the first time by altering time or whatever the hell she'd done to get away.

Just as we were all about to head out of the lab, I stopped short next to Wes and frowned. I doubt we were going to have much trouble with the finding. A moment later the doors flew open and there was Illyria and Knox standing right there in front of us.

I had to admit that I had no idea why they were back here when they both knew what we'd try to do once they arrived. Gripping my fists at my sides, I stared at the thing that dared to look like Fred and let out a lowly growl.

"Glad to see you decided to join us."

[_wes_pryce_]

From the looks in their eyes, I could tell they thought I was just going to shoot Knox, no questions asked. And no matter how tempting that sounded, I *did* have some questions for the git. And there were going to answers, one way or the other. I knew things long before Faith used me as a practice target. I've used them and I'm not afraid to use them again.

"Knox is mine," I repeated again, sounding grim. Just in case it hadn't been clear the first time I'd said it. Returning Angel's nod, I started after the rest. Cordelia and Lorne keeping up, but staying out of he line of eventual fire. I'd seen the flash on Willow's face as well. When all this was over, she and I were going to have a talk, I knew that much.

I didn't care; I just wanted it over with. What I wanted most was to have Fred back. See her laughing again. Scolding me for working to long. Giggling with Cordy, singing with Lorne, sternly telling Angel to stop brooding.

I skidded to a halt when the door of the lab opened up, the subjects of our little hunt entering. My eyes narrowed as I looked from the thing that pretended to be Fred, to the man who had betrayed her.

"Knox," I growled, a non-to pleasant smile appearing on my face. I aimed my gun at him, ready to fire off his kneecaps should he try to run. Or say something wrong. I wasn't unreasonable; I was giving him time to explain his side of the story.

"You've one second to tell us what's going on, Knox. Use is wisely."

[qwahazahn]

Only a second? I decided right then that I hated metaphors. The phrase Wesley had used was almost as bad as 'the pot calling the kettle black'. Unless pots and kettles communicated on a frequency humans couldn't hear, it was impossible.

However, I doubted Wesley would appreciate learning any of this information. Chances were, Wesley could literally mean that I had only a second, and wouldn't appreciate that second used to explain that the time limit was scientifically improbable, and against everything he they taught in most highschools. Even if I could spit out all of this, and my purpose with the second, the sound waves would still take more time than that to drift through space to Wesley.

Needless to say, I didn't think well with firearms trained on me.

"We're here to save Fred." I said quietly. They probably had figured out I was in cahoots with the God-King by now, but I didn't know how else to get the point across without getting shot. Hopefully they would pick up on the words 'Save' and 'Fred' existing in the same sentence, and refrain from attacking.

Speaking of the God-King, she was looking at Wesley's weapon with disdain. Obviously I had nothing to fear. I mean, she could deal with something silly like that.

[queen__c]

I glared at Knox. This guy was done for. No one messes with our deranged family. "Maybe we should go for back-up." I whispered to Lorne. "Like slayer back up." Sure the scooby gang thought A.I was now evil but Fred definately wasnt evil.

My eyes shifted over to Wesley. Why hadn't he just take one of his guns and shoot his ass? I knew that was what he had in mind and he was probably waiting for the right moment.