Jan 20, 2007 22:38
The cab ride through Los Angeles reminded me of just how dirty the city could be.
When you saw Los Angeles in television, you see that palm trees and the sunshine. What you don’t see are the back alleys and the prostitutes, although some of them do look good from where I’m sitting; you don’t see the fights in those same alleys and the seedy bars.
When I had last been here, I was around Spike and it was the first time that I had seen him after thinking he was dead for all of those months, so that made Los Angeles easy to take…that and the fact that I had the slayers just waiting in reserve for Angel to find Dana.
Now, Dana had been rehabilitated and had come back to Los Angeles, dying along with all of the other slayers that had come here, not named Buffy, Faith, Melissa or Jada. Now, I’m with two brand new slayers who are already black-belts in karate and have taken to the calling nicely and smoothly.
The cab pulled over and I tipped the guy like six dollars, which I thought was a good tip, but he didn’t and as we got out, me following Leah to the right, he cursed at me in some foreign language, which is something that you see on television when watching a show that takes place in Los Angeles.
Staring at the three of us is the Hyperion hotel, a hotel that still belongs to Angel, and still looks pretty cool, even though for the past year, he and his crew no longer resided here and instead took residence at Wolfram and Hart, the evil and now destroyed haven of evil, which Giles, myself and Xander all felt uncomfortable with Angel and Wesley and company taking over.
Monique was first to walk inside, followed by me and then Leah and what we saw took my breath away. The call to Xander about Dawn’s powers had been put into motion, because now, Dawn was fighting with Spike and kicking his muscular ass. I knew that Dawn had powers and when training with her back in London, she always, though I wouldn’t openly admit it, put me down with a couple of punches. Dawn was tougher then people thought before becoming a slayer and now, she’s like uber tough. She slammed Spike down so hard, that it had to hurt but when she looked over to see the three of us, Spike decked her and knocked her to the floor, but Dawn, being tough, managed to get back up.
Xander came over to us and I had questions for him.
“Xander, I wouldn’t have thought that Buffy would have gone for this kind of training for Dawn…”
I looked over and saw Buffy intently watching the fight. She is calmer then I would have thought.
[Xander, Leah and Monique]