Until we die:
Lost Souls

by Nando

Disclaimer: All characters in my story are not mine, they belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Wb, etc.All.Everything up to season 4 of Buffy and season 1 of Angel stays.It continues in Crossed Paths.



Angel is in his way back from Europe in a ship with Wesley. They are looking at the stars at night.

Wesley: "Come on Angel she died saving you she redempted herself you should be happy"

Angel: "Happy because sheīs dead!"He shouted

Wesley: "No sorry I didnīt mean that... I mean after all the things she went through she found herself. You helped her do that... you comforted her as well as she comforted you. She didnīt died in vain Angel"

Angel: "You are right my friend, even if I donīt want to... she...she is dead I must let go of her for her memory and my sake"

Wesley: "You will find someone else to love forever youīll see"

Angel: "I once did..."

A week later....Scene changes: Codeliaīs desk next to Angelīs office.

"2 years had been since doyleīs dead but judging for Angelīs face he still fells responsable now more than ever because the aniversary of his death"Cordy tells Wesley.

Wesley:"Of course I donīt know the implications or causes of his death but I have to say you are right, after 2 years I can read his eyes as well as yours my love"

Cordy:"I have to admit that at first I couldnīt stand when Doyle died but I thought that I and Angel togheter had forgotten."

Wesley:"Seems like he havenīt"

The two of them are watching through the window to Angelīs office, a sad Angel is thinking, looking deeply into the broken clock and a picture of his lost friend.

The picture remembered him his lost friend, his hero and many others hero the only one that he could tell in words the events happened in that lost day with Buffy.

Cordy: "Look, he is picking up the broken clock always at 3 minutes after nine oīclock, I know you wonder why he keeps that old thing but is one of the few things that remember him the lost day with buffy"

Wesley: "So why he keeps it if it reminds him the love he couldnīt have?"

Cordy: "I guess after all this time he is still not ready to let go of Buffy"

Thereīs a moment of silence

Cordy: "Three minutes that are worth a whole day"

Wesley: "What a story"

Cordy: "Yeah"

Angel picks up a photo of he and Faith

Wesley: "The man seems always in great pain"

Cordy: "Yeah, but thats the way he is. I donīt know if he really liked Faith that much to injure Riley so bad to almost kill him. You know that I never liked her and she knew that if Angel had a heart Buffy would always have it but she helped and comforted him, for that I will be always thancksfull. I hope she finalled reach redemption.... Anyway I know he didnīt continue to revenge Faithīs dead so he wouldnīt hurt Buffy feelings but I took care of that"

Wesley: "What do you mean?"

Cordy: "I wrote a letter to Buffy explaining how her fienced tried to kill Angel because he went mad after Angelīs last visit to Sunnydale and used Faith to get to Angel, she should be entering that door to take Riley in a couple of days."

Wesley: "Is Angel aware of this?"

Cordy: "Is Angelus Good? Of course not you know that he almost canīt stand being near Buffy"

Wesley: "Oh, and what are you going to tell him then? A ops.

Cordy: "Ops"

Wesley: "What happened?"

In that moment Angel was standing right behind Wesley looking with a half angry – half happy face to Cordelia.

Angel: "Sorry, you did what?"

Cordy: "Well... I kind of.... there is a very good explanation to all this you know."

Angel: " Iīm waiting for it"

Cordy: "Arenīt you going to tell her what he did to you? I mean this is a very good chance to stop her marriage to Riley, a chance to win her back. Isnīt that what you have always wanted.....being with Buffy happily ever after?"

Angel: "You know me well Cordelia Chase but I am sure I donīt want it this way. Is not good for any of us. Iīm still a vampire... with a soul or not...... but that is not gonna change like it did before, the supreme forces told me remember."

Wesley: "If my memory is good I can recall that they did spoke about a last chance for you Angel, something about regaining your right to exist."

Angel: "Yes but all they said is still a big puzzle to me and then they vanished right after I killed Vorkhalīs son"

Wesley: "I can remember Angel, I were there remember? So maybe if we work toghether with our memorys we can understand a little more about our trip to the outter dimension"

Cordy: "Sorry guys I canīt help because I was kind of passed out remember. So work on it boys, Iīm gonna make a cake so Iīm on my way to the supermarket. Need anything?

Wesley: "Maybe a goodbye kiss."

Cordy: "Never say goodbye honey, right Angel?"

Angel stares at her with a sad and remembering look.Then Cordy kisses Wesley on the mouth and leaves the building.

Wesley: "Itīs dawn....Come on Angel letīs go to a better place to think and try to solve the supreme forcesīs puzzle."

Angel noddles in agreement and the scene changes.

Wesley and Angel are in the roof of a very tall building somewhere in L.A.īs dowtown.

They are both looking at the horizont.

Wesley: "Big city, many problems eh Angel?"

His eyes were lost in memories that passes throught his mind like lights turning on and off.

Wesley: "Angel?"

Angel: "Sorry my friend I was lost in my thoughts"

Wesley: "Ok.... now after they told you about your destiny as a warrior what happened?

Angel: "Nadios broke in and we battlered"

Wesley: "Now during this I recall woking up and listen to something like this:

"You and you were never one
when time choses it right
and the slayer dies
youīll fight the last battle."

"Yet destiny is not revealed to us
we know youīll free the slayer from her prision
while the darkness will keep you in living hell
until you chosees to exist"

His mind coudnīt control from thinking that maybe it was too late and her life was already taken. He showed no regrets or second thoughts when he said:

Angel: "Buffy.....the slayer....dying.... never."

Wesley: "I could be wrong Angel you know...."

To Angel Wesleyīs last words didnīt get to his mind.

Angel: "Wesley call Cordelia and tell her to set up the car and tie up Riley in the backseat. Iīm leaving to Sunnydale."

Wesley: "Ok Angel but Iīm leaving with you ok man"

Angel: "This isnīt your fight understant."

Wesley: "As you say."

The scene changes to Angelīs apartment

Cordelia is coming down in the elevator.

Cordy:"Wow what a creepy place with lights off."

Cordelia turns on the light.

Cordy: "With lights on is still creepy.Who is his decorator anyway?"

Cordeliaīs cel rings.Well it should be Angelīs but since he doesnīt uses it she had taken it for her.

Cordy: "Hello Angel investigations. Can I help you?"

Wesley: "Itīs me Cordy"

Cordy: "What happened Wes? Is Angel in trouble?"

Wesley: "No, he is heading for the office he wants you to set up the car and tie up Riley in the backseat"

Cordy: "Oh my god so he is really gonna kill him?"

Wesley: "No...we kind of figure out what the supreme powersīs riddle was. In resume Buffy is in trouble."

Cordy: "Oh so here comes Angel to the rescue again. Why he risks his life for a person that has ingnored and hurt him all the past year?"

Wesley: "Maybe they have something that unites them and we canīt see it"

Cordy: "It doesnīt matter, after he went to Sunnydale to clear things after Buffy encounter with Faith here on L.A. Buffy has been only a bitch to him...."

Wesley: "I didnīt know you feel that way towards her"

Cordy: "Well itīs no use to continue arguing about her Iīm gonna do what Angel said.Iīll be waiting for him"

Wesley: "Right , bye see you at home"

Cordy: "Bye"

Last conversation had remembered Cordelia all the bad things Buffy had donne to Angel the last years and how she treated her when she came back to Sunnydale to visit her parents.

Cordelia heads towards Angelīs bedroom, There is Riley all beaten up and tied to the bed.

She picks up a recipient that says "Morphine"

Cordy: "Let me see should I give him another morphine dosis or not?"

She turns around to find something to use to apply the morphine.

Rileyīs eyes suddenly open and he starts slowly to stand up, taking away the rope.

Cordy: "What the hell, if I kill him Iīd been doing the world a favor no matter how Angel thinks he can make him come to reason"

Riley grabs her from behind tieing her hands with the rope.

Cordy: "What the.... mphh .....let me...."

Riley: "So he thinks Iīm just nuts, he will face his death if he continues thinking that way"

Cordy: "mphhhhhh.........mmmmmh"

Riley: "May the world be my witness that Iīll kill Angel with my own hands"

Scene changes, Angelīs apartment Cordy and Riley are gonne.

Angelīs comes running down the stairs looking for Cordy.

Angel: "Cordelia where are you? Is the car ready?"

He heads towards his bedroom.

Angel: "Damn Riley is loose.Whatīs that note?"

He picks it up and reads it:

"As you can see I have your secretary my bloodsucking friend, I have only one demand your life. Our fight will continue"

Angel: "This time Iīm taking you down Riley"

Angel picks up the cell and dials.

Angel: "Wes Rileyīs got Cordy"

Wesley: "What? This time if you donīt kill him I will

"

Angel: "Now man relax I now where he is. He wrote "Our fight will continue....."

Wesley: "Where it all started: the subway station"

Angel: "Iīm leaving the building weīll meet there"

Wesley: "Iīll be there right away"

Scene changes: a subway station entrance Wesley is waiting for

Angel.Wesley: "I canīt wait any longer Iīm going in"

He starts coming down the stairs. Several machines and computers fils the enviroment.

Wesley: "Pretty dark down here. And where the hell all this machinery came from?"

Suddenly a shape appears between the shadows.

Riley: "Itīs all to torture and kill your vampire friend you four eyes freak"

Wesley: "Your intelligence makes me fell so superior you know."

Riley: "Iīm sorry you wonīt enjoy that feeling any longer. Iīm making sure of that"

Riley raises an assault rifle. Suddenly they listen:

"Thatīs because you canīt feel nothing Riley"

When riley was turning an arrow hit his shoulder and he drops the rifle.

Wesley: "Who is there?"

Angel appears between the shadows.

Angel: "Great shot donīt you think"

Wesley: "Ok I get it, I was the bite right"

Angel: "It took you a lot to came here I had to wait five minutes untill you showed up"

Wesley: "You couldnīt do it without your bite ha"

Angel: "He is a piece of cake for me come on...."

They hear "Mhhhhh hehhh hey"

Angel: "It came from under that lone"

Wesley: "Cordy.... we were looking everywhere for you

"

He letīs Cordyīs mouth free.

Cordy: "I could hear you guys and what were you waiting for to look for me?"

Wesley: "Sorry sweetheart we were right about to look for you"

Angel: "Right"

Cordy: "Well next time not wait till a mad ex-comando kidnap me to worry about me ok Wes"

Wesley: "It will never hapen again my darling"

Cordy: "That goes for you too Angel"

Angel: "Next time Iīll use you as a bite"

Cordy: "Ha ha very funny"

Riley regains concius and start reaching for the rifle.Angel reloads and raises his crossbow.

Angel: "Not so fast Riley"

Riley continues reaching for the rifle

Riley: "Come on kill me, what are you gonna tell Buffy? That you killed her fienced when he was looking for work in Los Angeles. Sheīd kill you for sure"

Angel: "Maybe I could tell her how you tried to kill me using Faith... and how you killed her. And after that I could continue with this"

Riley stops reaching for the rifle as Angel aproaches.

Angel: "Stop this Riley Iīm taking you to Sunnydale"

Riley: "Oh to talk to Buffy eh. And who is she gonna believe, in the lost man that hurted her so much or her fienced that has conforted her this last years"

Angel: "I donīt care what you think. I just care about Buffy"

As Angel wants to help Riley he tries to estrangulate him.

Riley: "Why you had to appear every time we were getting closer and screw things up? Itīs your fault that she posposed our wedding and Iīm gonna kill you"

Angel with no efort gets rid of Rileyīs hands, takes the arrow from the wound and starts tieing him up.

Riley: "Aahhhhg (because of the arrow), I donīt care about her anymore I just want to kill you"

Angel: "Thatīs enough"

Angel finishes tieing him up and gets a remote from his pocket and press a button.

Angel: "Say hi to the camera farm boy. Wes could you get the camera?"

Wesley: "Ok Angel"

Cordy: "Seems like someone is going to cancel a wedding and kick her fienced ass"

As she points Riley in the chest.

Riley: "Give me that tape"

Wesley: "Can I kick him a little Angel?"

Cordy: "That would be nice. What do you think now army boy?"

Riley: "That Iīm gonna kill you"

Wesley: "Thatīs it he is dead"

Angel: "I still need him and better imagine a slayer cleaning the floor with him"

Cordy: "A very good picture, even being Buffy there..."

Angel: "Buffy..... Tie him up in the car and put a vendage on the wound, Iīm visiting a friend and then Iīm leaving"

Scene changes: The street in front of the police station

Angel: "Glad you came Kate"

Kate: "Iīm still recovering from the other night Angel. What do you want?"

Angel: "Iīm sorry....."

Kate: "Itīs not your fault Angel...."

Angel: "You know that Iīm not what you want"

Kate: "You are what every girl wants Angel"

Angel trys to avoid any eye contact and then Kathy looks a side.

Angel: "Iīm leaving town and I donīt think I can make it back"

Kate laughs half laugh - half crys

Kate: "Liar, I know you are going to meet Buffy...."

Angel: "Thatīs true but Iīm pretty sure that I wonīt be able to make it back...."

Kate: "What did you do this time mess with the forces again?"

Tears starts coming from her eyes.

Angel: "No, I have to show Buffy something"

She starts crying against his chest. And she looks up at him as she says:

Kate: "Listen to me Angel if she does anything to you I swear I wonīt rest untill she pays"

Angel: "Thatīs not ......"

Kate: "I know, I know youīll be always in love with her no matter what she does to you"

She breaks away from Angel and tries to stop crying. She manages to stop.

Angel: "Well Iīd like if you could visit Cordelia, Wesley, Xander and Gunn from time to time to check if they are ok"

Kate: "Donīt worry I will"

A silence fills the air for a while....

Angel: "Well I hope to see you again someday my cop friend"

Kate: "Friends.....Itīll always be like this ah?"

Angel: "You are a very good person Kate always remember that"

Kate: "You are not very good saying goodbye"

Angel: "Itīs much better that donīt saying it at all"

Their sights finally cross.

Angel: "Well I guess thatīs all, bye Kate."

Angel starts walking away crossing the street.

Kate: "Angel"

He turns around searching for kate

Angel: "Yes"

Kate: "Tell her she is lucky"

Angel: "Somehow I will"

Scene changes: Angelīs garage

Cordy: "So you finally showed up we were freezing out here"

Wesley: "Did you talk to Kate?"

Angel: "Yes, but how do you know?

Wesley: "A friend in L.A. comeon Angel, we and since Gunn is out of town slaying with Xander the only one left is Kate"

Cordy: "Oh that cop, I think she feels something for you Angel. When she is around she asks a lot of questions about you"

Angel: "I have kind of figure out that long ago"

Wesley: "Well guess Itīs a see you soon right Angel?"

Angel: "No, if the foces werenīt lieing Iīm sure itīll be hard for me getting back.... so this is more like a goodbye...."

Cordy: "What? No way we are coming with you"

Wesley: "He has to fight this one alone Cordy, neither you or I can help him"

Cordy: "But with all the forces said and Buffy there, are you going to let him go alone?"

Angel smiles at both of them.

Angel: "I will never forget any of you never. In almost 250 years I have had few friends and you have got a special place among them"

Cordy: "Take care ok Angel"

Angel starts the car and checks Riley.

Wesley: "We gave him enough morphine so he sleeps all the way. Be carefull man and just call if you need help"

Angel leaves in the car.

Wesley: "He will probably donīt need us, heīs got Buffy there"

Cordy: "Yeah letīs just hope they donīt kill eachother"

Continues in Crossed Paths

The End
Continues in Crossed Paths

Feedback is always welcome(it makeīs me write)

Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say I'm a friend.
Buffy: What if I don't want a friend?
Angel: I didn't say I was yours.
--"Welcome To Hellmouth"


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