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[face_of_angelus]

Standing there with my arms folded I watched as Spike gave his slightly spurred annoying remarks before disappearing up the steps, Fred on his heels
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"He's drunk. Don't listen to a word he says."Great, now Fred is tagging after him like a wide eyed puppy. Spike, William the bloody retard is her champion now. Nothing about that is making me

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[visiongirl]

Finally the retard twins disappeared upstairs. Don't get me wrong, Spike and Fred are back and I'm glad about it because hey the more the merrier around this crazy place right? Now we were all back. Wesley was upstairs brooding, Doyle was upstairs drinking, Fred and Spike were upstairs...umm doing whatever they were doing and they so better no leave any stains anywhere, cause I draw the line at cleaning up those kinds of messes!. And Angel was back. Everything was good and this was the way things should be. Angel was the champion, not Spike contrary to some wide eyed Texans oppinions around here.

"What?" I asked defensively when he had to go and bring up the dead pets spell thing. "It was in Latin. Do you have any idea how long those things take to translate, and it wasn't like I had a whole lot of help on the angry British guy front." My stern tone was all shot out the window the wide smile broke out over my face.

"You're really back, so I don't care. It worked."

[face_of_angelus]

"How many years have you watched Wes or I translate Latin?" I really didn't want to do the lecture thing, that could be left for Wes to do. After spending a good year as a ghost I didn't want to waste time fighting with her. Easy as it would be considering she had confused me with a dog.

"Your right, it doesn't matter now. Neither of us is dead, or evil, or something in between." And best of all Spike was gone to do whatever it was he planned on doing. No, that wasn't the best thing. The best thing was seeing her smile.

[visiongirl]

"Watching and actually doing? Two completely different things." I pointed out, not letting that fabulous Cordelia Chase smile waiver for even a second.

"You're right about that. Now hopefully things around here can get back to some semblance of normal. Which I guess by everyone else's standards is low, but hey! Gotta find that bright side!" I wondered how long it would be til we got to the shopping. I mean, who even knew what was left of all of his clothes upstairs. I hadn't been in there in a long time. When Angel first died I spent a lot of time in his old room, and then one day I picked myself up and dusted myself off. I said to myself; self, there are people counting on you and you can't sit around and mope about this forever. No, that was Wesley's job.

[face_of_angelus]

"Fine, guess I'll have to sign you up for a latin lesson or something then." Her smile made me smirk just a bit too. Was she really that happy to see me?

Or was she already thinking about going shopping?

"You know, I think we should find someplace that pretty much isn't here. What do you think?" As much as I wanted to see Doyle and talk to everybody else...I didn't want to be interrupted again.

[visiongirl]

I made a face when he suggest Latin lessons. No thank you, and now that Angel was back I knew he'd be able to help Wesley. Then things could go back to the way they were before. The three of us solving cases, and helping the hopeless. The three of us plus one star eyed Texan, a retarded vampire, and a fashion challenged vampire slayer. Maybe smurfette too, if she could ever learn to play nice. Of course she did save us all from dying not too long ago, that was probably as close to playing nice as Illyria got.

"I think that's the best idea you could have had." I didn't know where we were going, and I knew that shopping was probably pushing it. I mean, sure, I love spending lots of money on overpriced clothing but he just got back. Shopping could wait, and so could everything else.

"I'm driving." Well duh. He'd been dead for years and we didn't exactly hold onto his car...or cars. Pretty much destroyed along with Wolfram and Hart.

[face_of_angelus]

"You think I came back from the dead so you could drive? Hah." Saw her pulling a ring of keys out of her pocket and snatched it out of her hand before she could react. I might be dead but I'm not slow.

"Are you coming or what?" Twirling the keys I walked up the stairs keeping ahead of her as she tried to take them back. "Come on Cor, I taught you better then that. You have to be quicker."

[visiongirl]

Ugh. Stupid vampire reflexes. Not to toot my own horn or anything but this half demon wasn't too shabby herself. Still, no match for Mr. Dark and Broody. And besides hello! That was my car he was proposing to drive. Emphasis on the mine.

"Fine. You get your way this time. But don't think it'll happen again, Mr." I gave him my serious face for all of a second before the wide grin broke out again. Sure, he'd been dead and incorporeal for years, I'd let him get his jollies on driving if that's what he really wanted. Please tell me I just did not think the word jollies. Oh well, at least it beat brooding in the dark and reading some depressing book.

[face_of_angelus]

"I'm pretty sure it will happen again Missy." Taking the back way out I came to a stop on the street, looking up and down the rows of parked cars. Figures, it would be the red one.

Opened the passenger door for her, giving the car a once over. "It looks nice, but does it actually go fast?" Raised an eyebrow towards her as she sat, walking around and getting in myself. "You actually bought a stick? Who are you really?"

[visiongirl]

I raised an eyebrow at him as he asked if the car would go fast. It was a car, it brings you places. How fast it could go on the freeway? Not exactly my top priority. Truth be told, I'd bought it cause a. I so needed a car as Wesley is not exactly reliable man anymore. And b. it was cute, and the vanity mirror has lights on it. That was always very important.

"Sorry not all of us can drive a symbol that would make certain Psychologists go hmmmm." I shot back at him, just as he closed the passenger side door.

My eyes drifted to the driver's side as he got in and started the car up. Hey, driving a stick shift was cheaper than buying an easy car. Cause automatics? Way easier, especially when you're trying to talk on your cellphone, and change a cd and reapply lipstick through downtown traffic. "Oh, just the local vision girl. The local vision girl whose starting to wonder where we're going."

[face_of_angelus]

"First of all hey! And for that you can just wonder for a while." Ok, I was a man, or, vampire with a plan.

Grabbed a gear and shot the car into traffic, hearing horns errupt from behind as I shifted and hit the expressway. Maybe the only good thing about being a vampire in LA was the fact the traffic actually moved when I was out and about.

I headed north a little ways until the city faded, then I turned west finding the narrow road that led up the bluffs overlooking the beach. She had wanted to meet me here once. Better late then never.

[visiongirl]

I raised an eyebrow at him as he hit the gas pedal hard and floored us into traffic. "Hey! Some of us? Not exactly immortal here." Putting my seatbelt on, I could only hope he wouldn't try and hijack the radio to put Manilow on. It was even worse when he sang along. Let me tell you, listening to a two hundred year old vampire croon Mandy in the shower from the other room? Truely frightening.

We drove up a windy road that I recognized all too well. The place Skip had stopped time and told me all about the sham that was me being a higher power. Ugh. Skip and his personable talking and lying and have I mentioned how glad I was that someone ended up killing him?

When we got to the bluffs, I looked at Angel for a second before opening the door and stepping out onto the sand. I looked out at the water before turning back to Angel who was walking up behind me. Ofering him a small smile I turned to the ocean once again. "That day should have happened." I said quietly.

[face_of_angelus]

"Maybe it just got postponed." Swallowing for no reason I could remember that night like it was yesterday. Connor had come and surprised me. If I'd known what he was thinking, I could have talked to him. If I could have just talked to him...

"I thought about you a lot while I was down there you know. Wondered if you had shown up, what you wanted to tell me. There was at least a good week where I thought you wanted to tell me you and Faith were running off to live in Guatamala."

Standing behind her we both stared out at the dark ocean. We had both missed out, I hope thats over.

[visiongirl]

I wrinkled my nose at the thought of me. "I wished I had been in Guatemala instead of all with the being a fake higher power. But with skank-o-rama? Yeah right." I guessed it didn't matter if they were sixteen or over two hundred years old. All men? Their brains think the same way.

"It was horrible being trapped up there. I could feel you, I knew you were in trouble and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. I was so unbelievably bored with all that time to kill and no vampires to bail out of sticky situations." Shaking my head, I crossed my arms over my chest trying to block out the slight chill in the air.

"And then when I came back, it was like being trapped. I couldn't do anything." I looked up into those familiar dark eyes guiltily. So sure, his alter ego tied me naked to the stairwell. My alter ego? Pretty much destroyed the bond he could have had with the only son he'd ever have. Not to mention eating people? Eww.

[face_of_angelus]

"Kinda know the feeling." If there was one thing I understood it was being trapped while Angelus ran the show, killing innocents without a care.

Brushing a stray strand of hair away from her eyes I knew she still blamed herself for that. Guess she had learned how to brood over the years too.

"If I couldn't have gotten the Powers to bring you back there wouldn't have been any deal. It isn't like you to hold onto guilt like that, so don't do it. Especially not for me."

[visiongirl]

That's all it took. Cold hands gently brushing away the hair out of my face and vision girl's knees go weak. It just felt like I'd been holding it all together for so long, and I had to. It was more than obvious that no one else was going to do it. Sure, everyone else can just fall apart so Cordelia has to take care of everything. I wasn't bitter though, even though sometimes I thought I should be. The powers gave me a choice, and I made it. I chose him

[face_of_angelus]

"Do you know why I decided to bring you here tonight?"

Answered her question with one of my own. Might not be the smartest guy in the world when it comes to women but I'd managed to figure enough out over the years. She had wanted to tell me, well, we all know what she'd wanted to say. And it wasn't about shopping or a vision or my hair for once.

Maybe I should just blurt it out, see what happens. Find out if I'm the fool here, if she can really love a vampire, if...screw it. "I love you Cordelia Chase."