set the night Connor and Cordy take off from the hotel

[cordys_bitch]

I couldn't stay here anymore. Maybe it wasn't my place to voice my opinion on how to handle Harry, but it was annoying that they pushed me away one minute and then expected me to step in and fix shit later. You'd think that Dad of all people wouldn't do that to me since everyone does it to him, but I guess that is the way it goes. It was clear they

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[visiongirl]

I had no idea what was going on with Connor, besides the obvious. Angel's got himself all wrapped around a skanky evil vampire again and we're all left to clean up the mess. Oh no, not this time, bub! I feel for Angel, I do but it shouldn't be Connor's job to run off and take care of everything like driving his skanky girlfriend back from Georgia. He had to have a life of his own once in awhile.

I'd packed just a few things (Okay, two suitcases, but two is much better than I usually am!) and I made it downstairs just in the nick of time. Twenty minutes wasn't very long to get everything together but I didn't blame him for being in a rush. I'd left Dawn and Buffy each a message on their cellphones that I was gonna be gone for a few days and please try not to burn my office down.

"Okay, I'm here." I announced, kissing him hard on the mouth before opening the back and throwing my suitcases in there. "Where are we going?" I asked him, as I got into the passenger seat and pulled my seatbelt on.

[cordys_bitch]

I kissed her back just as hard before walking around to the driver's side of the car to let myself in. A couple minutes later we were driving away from the hotel and toward some place that wasn't Los Angeles. I needed a break, and it wasn't like Cordy and I got much time for just us anymore.

"We can go wherever you want. San Francisco, San Diego, wine country, Lake Tahoe, whatever you want is cool."

I wanted her to be able to decide something since I basically demanded she run off with me. Not that she would have said no. I had a feeling the situation at the hotel had been weighing on her for awhile now too.

I let out a sigh as I looked over at her and smiled, "You're what keeps me sane in the middle of this chaos. You know that right?"

[visiongirl]

"I know." I smiled at him when he said I was keeping him sane. Well, duh! I'm very soothing. Although compared to that hotel a root canal might look kind of soothing. Somehow I didn't think that was the suggestion Connor was looking for. He looked kinda of angry actually.

"Let's go to San Fransisco." I suggested. "I haven't been there in forever and maybe the beach will be relaxing." Two seconds too late I realized that he'd just spent the entire summer ona deserted island and probably wasn't looking forward to going back. "And there's a spa, or you know...we could just stay in the room." I smiled at him a little bit.

With a sigh I turned around to see that the hotel had completely disappeared from view now with as fast as Connor was driving. Like he was trying to escape something and I really couldn't blame him.

"Are you going to tell me what's going on now?" I asked him, threading my fingers through his on the shifter.

[cordys_bitch]

It was a three hour drive to San Francisco which meant we'd get there in two. She wanted to know what was going on, and really so would I. It was so fucked up, and no one seemed to be looking at things logically

[visiongirl]

I knew that I had missed a lot while they were on that island all summer but from the little bits and pieces I'd recovered there had been something to do with drugs that Angel turned Harry to save him from. But on top of that there was also some talk of that room and the insanity that ensued. I didn't really know for sure besides the blinding glimpse that the vision had given me. The only thing I did know was that when Angel and Faith came back, they weren't the same

[cordys_bitch]

"The contract isn't his fault, but life isn't fair. He's bound to them, and it sucks that it went down like that but it is what it is. Now we can't even rely on Dad being able to control him because Harry is acting like a defiant teenager who is pissed his car got taken away. I doubt he's just going to vandalize a building when he decides to try and get Dad's attention

[visiongirl]

Cruel and sadistic? Pffft. The last thing I wanted was for Angelus Jr. to show up and try something cruel and sadistic on Angel or Connor or God forbid, his children. Screw cruel and sadistic, I'm all for the cruel and sadistic treatment of the cruel and sadistic

[cordys_bitch]

That was the bitch of it, right? He wasn't even eating people. At least he said he wasn't and fine I stalked a little too. I hadn't seen any traces of him killing people.

"Being turned by Dad with his soul apparently made him a little different. Less with the 'i want to rip your throats out and litter the streets with the carnage of the innocent' and more with the 'it's not fair Faith was possessed and killed me and people don't trust me now' whining."

Maybe I wasn't being real fair either, but the entire situation was fucked up. Fine, we didn't stake Dad when he was Angelus, but we would have if we couldn't have returned his soul.

"Maybe..." I paused and then looked at her. "Maybe we could send him to Quor'toth. He wouldn't be stuck under the ocean, and he'd have things to feed and hunt. Demons with demons and all that stuff. It's more humane than sinking him to starve for eternity."

[visiongirl]

"So he's only whining people to death then?" I asked him as I furrowed my eyebrows. I'd never heard of anything like that before and I really wasn't sure what to say about it. Did Angel break him when he turned him? Had that ever even been done before? Angel turned a vampire with a soul so what did that mean exactly? I'd be really curious if I wasn't mostly terrified which meant there was no way in hell I was going anywhere near Harry again anytime ever unless I had to.

"I don't really understand the problem then, except for the whole evil Wolfram and Hart thing." But Angel worked for Wolfram and Hart and okay, even I can admit that I hated that he was working there but we all managed to get over it eventually. Because I knew what kind of man Angel was and that he would be able to rise above their influence but Harry? Not so much

[cordys_bitch]

"If he is going to do that then he has to be clearly on that side. When he kicked me out, I thought he hated me, Cordy. I was a kid, yeah, but I still thought he hated me. He never made me think he wouldn't let me back, but still it was a blow."

I kept my eyes on the road as I listened to her say that Wolfram and Hart was a problem. Yeah, and I was the reason he really got tangled up in it. And Harry and Faith were tangled up thanks to their family too.

"It's like if we try and ask him to stay a part of the family we put the kids and everyone at risk. But if we push him away aren't we giving Wolfram and Hart too much control over him? I don't know. It shouldn't be this hard. I should be able to stake him and that be the end of it or we should be able to put a stuff a soul into him. This current state he's in...it's frustrating."

[visiongirl]

"I know." I said sympathetically when I watched Connor struggle with what the right decision here is. It was impossible to put Harry out of his misery if Wolfram and Hart would continue to bring him back and over and over again. Containment was really the only solution but I had the feeling that would be met with strong opposition at the hotel

[cordys_bitch]

"When did I turn into Dad?" I asked her with a wry smile. She was right because I couldn't fix all of them. It was exhausting to try and keep them afloat. I was mostly freaked out that somehow I became the adjusted one. Could we get everyone mindwipes?

"I've never been to San Francisco before, have you?"

There were a lot of places she and I had yet to visit together. I needed to seriously look into arranging a proper honeymoon for us. It wasn't right that we were constantly having to help everyone else and neglecting taking time for ourselves.

"I'm not even logging into my journal for the next few days. They can call if it's an emergency, but unless there is an apocalypse, let's just forget about Los Angeles for awhile."

[visiongirl]

I smiled a little bit at him. "I think we all turn into our parents a little bit, we can't help it. But you could have a worse role model." I pointed out to him. Like Richard Chase for example. Leaving a string of illegitimate children across the state of California, Tax Fraud Extraordinaire.

"I've been there a few times when I was younger but it's been a long time." I admitted to him. "The beaches are great, it's very pretty there." Just the kind of place where we could go and escape the hellish drama of our lives for a few days. I'd have Connor unwound and relaxed in no time at all.

"Forgetting about LA for a few days? That sounds like a plan." I smiled at him, determined to forget that the last time I did that Connor ended up getting kidnapped to a hell dimension. But since he was here with me? I didn't have to worry about that, now did I?