{"id":3378,"date":"2015-07-02T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:21:24","slug":"fallen-angels-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/02\/fallen-angels-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Angels. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 10.\u00a0<\/b>SPIKE<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou sure this is the one luv?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCould be, but hey, I don\u2019t even remember the brand name of my first baby booties.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know you wore a brand.\u201d I held out my hand as the girl jumped the last leg of the ladder avoiding the puddle that was gathered at the base.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamn straight.\u201d She held her bags closer with one hand while she straightened her pants with the other. \u201cAfter tonight, I can just tell I wouldn\u2019t wear anything below Prada.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t help grin at this woman while she stood there in all her grace and glory balancing six bloody bags worth of clothing and shoes from the one store that she had found open.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh I believe you luv. You homed in on that store as if you had a bloody radar on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have our gift.\u201d She sighed and looked both ways down the sewer tunnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncluding swiping credit cards?\u201d I couldn\u2019t help wink at the girl. She had balls. Not only had she been carrying Angel\u2019s plastic, but she was strutting it with as much confidence as if they\u2019d been given to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey! He did give them to me!\u201d<\/p>\n

I flipped open my zippo and lit a cigarette as we walked down the tunnel. \u201cRo\u2019ight luv. He handed you the key to his life saving out of the goodness of his heart. But for the record, don\u2019t make a habit of lying to a vampire. Humans have telltale hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The beautiful brunette snickered next to me as we turned a corner and came to a fork. \u201cIn that case swiped is such a strong word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTry pilfered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTry technique,\u201d she came to a stop and grinned at me like the cat that swallowed the proverbial canary, \u201cit\u2019s all in the pinky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs in wot luv?\u201d I couldn\u2019t hold a mirrored grin. \u201cA pinky that\u2019s quicker than the eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d She chuckled. \u201cAs in the pinky he\u2019s wrapped around. I didn\u2019t forget everything.\u201d She looked between the two tunnels. \u201cSo, did my radar get us in the right place?\u201d<\/p>\n

I raised an eyebrow when I caught movement around the edge of the tunnel heading east. \u201cI don\u2019t know Vix, why don\u2019t you ask him?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, now Cordelia is a smart bird. Although she couldn\u2019t probably tell that the figure walking towards us was her vampire, and see that I use the term loosely considering the talk I\u2019ve had with her. I\u2019d seen enough of us pining over my current problem, namely one stuck up slayer, and I had a feeling Angel needed a push in the right direction where Cordelia was concerned.<\/p>\n

Now just for reference, I couldn\u2019t give two figs about Angel\u2019s love life, but something about this damned chit made me wish I could beat the shit out him and tell him just how much she really loved him.<\/p>\n

My own love story wasn\u2019t going anywhere fast, but if anyone deserved a break, I\u2019d say it was this hot little number. I couldn\u2019t begin to imagine why my dope of a sire hadn\u2019t shagged her brainless already.<\/p>\n

When she realized who it was, I saw the instant straightening of her spine and the muscle in her temple twitched. It was a fight of flee reflex if I ever did see one. Grabbing her wrist I leaned in close to her ear, and again just for reference, the warning growl from the other side of the tunnel was enough to assure me, my sire knew it was his seer.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime to test your pinky theory luv.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the dim light of one solitary zippo lighter Angel stopped in front of Cordelia, his hands by his side and the fire from my lighter dancing in his eyes. \u201cI was just going to look for you?\u201d<\/p>\n

When the chit didn\u2019t speak, because she seemed to find the tip of his nose entirely too fascinating she received a slight kick to her heel that snapped her out of her revere.<\/p>\n

\u201cAH! I mean\u2026Hi!\u201d And in that moment I sort of understood why she had this big poof wrapped around her bloody finger.<\/p>\n

It was the biggest, brightest smile I\u2019d ever seen in my undead life and I\u2019d kissed plenty.<\/p>\n

Now of course it would only be fair to mention Angel\u2019s no idiot, even if he is a bit of a nincompoop. At the full beam of that smile, an eyebrow shot up before his eyes skirted over the bags in her hands the bags that I had swung over one shoulder.<\/p>\n

His eyes slowly rose up until they met mine. \u201cAsha\u2019s Boutique? Hadn\u2019t you given up cross-dressing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh that was low even for a shmuck like him!<\/p>\n

\u201cOh pffft.\u201d Cordelia waved an indifferent hand in the air. \u201cThey\u2019re mine! You think I\u2019d let him pilfer your Visa Card and use it on himself?\u201d<\/p>\n

I spun around to stare at her. Oh she wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Angel\u2019s arms crossed across his chest and his eyes fixed themselves on me.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t believe it! Not only did she pin this one on me! But she was still grinning like a bleeding idiot without flinching or a slip in her bloody heartbeat! Telltale hearts indeed!<\/p>\n

Turning her face to me, her eyes flickering with mirth she held out her hand. \u201cHand it over Sparky.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would have merrily wrung her scrawny little neck had Angel not been standing two feet away within reach to snap mine in two. Digging into my pocket I pulled out the card she\u2019d told me to keep and slapped it into her upturned palm with a glare.<\/p>\n

Conniving little chit!<\/p>\n

With a wink and a smile she turned and stepped up to Angel, slipping the card into his coat pocket like a good little seer. \u201cThere ya go! Right back where it belongs!\u201d<\/p>\n

Angel looked down at her. \u201cAnd your buying clothes is?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPayment for returning it of course!\u201d She grinned brightly before digging into one of her bags. \u201cAnd I got you a present!\u201d<\/p>\n

I stared at her. When the hell did she have time enough to buy something for him!? I watched in awe as Angel\u2019s stoic expression melted into pleased alarm. Couldn\u2019t he SEE what she was doing! Was he really that bloody blind!?<\/p>\n

There in front of my eyes, she pulled out a midnight blue scarf that glowed in the light of my lighter and held it out to him. Sneak! She\u2019d picked that out for herself! Wrapped around her pinky! I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing.<\/p>\n

Right there in front of my bloody eyes, I saw my sire melt like a puddle of mush as he reached out and took the silk scarf from her hands. His face flickered with a smile as he gazed down at her excited and INNOCENT face!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got me a scarf?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s color! See I\u2019ve noticed you don\u2019t wear any color so I thought I might get you something besides basic black, but I didn\u2019t want to go too far out and get something too much in color so I decided in between. Do you like it? I figured I should have told you about Spike being over and to say I\u2019m sorry I yelled at you, although you did act all male with the throwing me over your shoulder routine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were being obstinate.\u201d He gazed down at the silken material running the pad of his thumb over the damned thing like it was sacred.<\/p>\n

Cordelia poked the vampire in his chest and if she hadn\u2019t been the one doing the poking, I\u2019ve known him long enough to figure he loved her or her finger would be leaving with her in a doggy bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were being growly!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou both are bloody mad!\u201d I snarled as I watched the two of them talk as if I wasn\u2019t even there. \u201cYOU!\u201d I snapped at Cordy. \u201cI cannot believe you had it in you chit, and YOU!\u201d I glared at my idiotic poof of a sire.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou bloody deserve it!\u201d Flipping my lighter shut I flicked my cigarette and stalked past Angel towards what I figured was the hotel as my cigarette sizzled out on the damp floor.<\/p>\n

Angelus was right! This is what you get when you play with your food!<\/p>\n

Well there was one perk.<\/p>\n

I still had Angel\u2019s MasterCard.<\/p>\n

Part 11<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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