~ To warn everyone, I?ve been thinking a lot lately. And the more I think about it, the more I?m pissed
about how Cordelia never gets a break. It?s just one thing after another. She get?s nothing out of what
happens to her. I mean, to apologize Angel just buys her clothes. She actually forgives him that quickly?!
NO WAY! That is NOT the Cordelia Chase I know and love. So ergo, I?m going to be doing some ranting
later in the chapter. I think you?ll recognize it when you get there! Ok, toddles! ~
Aftermath
By Jules
Chapter 3
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Spike was walking to Giles? when he bumped into Angel, Wesley, and Gunn, literally. Right in front of
Giles? place.
?Peaches! You?re in Sunnydale!?
?How many times have I told you not to call me that.?
Spike shrugged, ?Don?t know, don?t care. So what are you doing here out of bloody LA?? he pretends to
not know that it was linked to Cassandra.
?None of your business Spike.? Wesley informed him.
?What are you doing here?? Angel asked.
?Same thing Xander does, I?m here to bug them.? Spike tells Angel smiling, and then goes in calling out,
?The poof and his disciples are here.?
Everyone turns to look at Angel.
?Hello Angel.? Buffy stammers, standing up.
?Hi Angel! What brings you to town. Cordy didn?t call to tell me you were coming.? Willow exclaims.
?She is the precise reason we are here.? Wesley explains.
?Yeah, the boss?s ex turned her. She?s a vamp now.? Gunn explains, ?Oh, I?m Gunn by the way.?
?Cordelia?s a vampire?? Xander asks paling.
Angel finally speaks, everyone can see the anguish in his eyes, ?Cordelia?s gone, for good. Darla and
Drusilla had her for a week before they turned her. They spent it torturing her. They cut her, beat her,
broke her bones . . . they told her that no one cared about her and that the only reason I?d kept her
around was that she was my link to the PTB. And she believed them, because I?d fired all of them the day
they took her, so we didn?t even realize she was gone . . . . When she started to go crazy, Darla finally
turned her. Named her Cassandra. When Cor ? Cassandra came to visit me, she told me. She also told
me that she liked it better this way, now she had people that loved her. That no one hurts her anymore.
That she didn?t care that I didn?t love her, even though she loved me.?
Everyone, including Wesley and Gunn looked at him shocked, the two hadn?t heard the story, and
everyone was shocked by it, especially the fact that Cordelia loved Angel, and from the sound of things, he
loved her too.
Spike told that moment to sneak out. He had to get to Cassandra and warn her.
That?s when Buffy noticed he was gone, ?Hey, where?d Spike go??
Everyone looked around, he was nowhere to be found.
?Maybe he didn?t feel like dealing with Deadboy and left.? Xander guesses.
Buffy doubts it, knowing Spike?s been hanging around her more, and wouldn?t leave just because Angel
was there, but didn?t say anything.
Spike ran to the mansion quickly. Running through the door, and up the stairs. He ran into David buttoning
up his shirt, who was on his way out from a game of Truth or Dare.
Spike didn?t even stop to chew David out for being in his way; he had news for Cassandra.
?Pet, guess who?s in town.?
?Dru?? Cassandra guessed, as she dyed thin chunks of hair dark red.
?She came yesterday Andra. Angel is here. With the Angelettes. Wimp Watcher and some black guy.?
?But Angel hates coming back to Sunnydale! Why would he come back??
Spike sat down and thought for a moment, ?I don?t know . . . but it can?t be good. He came to tell
everyone that you?d been turned . . . but he could have bloody well done that over the phone.? Spike
can?t think of anything, so he changes the subject slightly, ?Oh well, on the upside, he sounds very upset
over the fact that you were turned. It sounds like he really cares for you pet. More then a friend at that.?
Cassandra?s eyes light up and she turns to look at him, ?Really Spike??
?Yep, looks like we?re headed in the right direction.?
Cordelia squealed and spun around the room (luckily having just finished putting the streaks in her hair),
finally stopping in front of her closet, ?I want to look very pretty when I surprise Angel . . . and beat him up.?
Spike looks at her shocked, ?What was that pet??
?I?ve been thinking, a lot. And I realized, he hurt Cordelia?s feelings that day. He discarded her like she
was nothing. Just threw her away. And that makes me angry. In fact, I?m extremely PISSED! I?ve been
thinking about this a lot. About Cordelia?s life. She?s NEVER gotten a break. Everyone just pisses all over
her. I mean, first, she?s born into a family, and though they?re rich, they don?t care about her. She tries to
make up for it by surrounding herself with people who act like they adore her 24/7, but she knows how
precarious the balance is between her being their leader, or having them dump her. It?s her only piece of
security in life. She finds out about demons and things, and eventually fall?s for Xander, and falls in love
with him. She gather?s up her courage, and makes the fact that she loves him publicly known, and her
whole world comes crashing down. Everything she knows is gone. But she thinks that he is worth the
sacrifice. But do the group understand when she?s a bit touchy? NO. THEN she walks in on Xander and
Willow cheating on her, and get?s a rebar through the stomach, very painful!
Her parent?s never even visit her in the hospital. She tries to get back in with her former friends, making a
tentative dent, and then her family loses all their money! Now she can?t let anyone know about it, because
she?ll once again lose the things she has such a precarious grip on . At Graduation, her school blows up,
and she has to help make sure no one else dies. So basically, she?s lost her parents, she?s struggling on
her own, and there?s nothing keeping her in Sunnydale anymore.
So Cordelia ups and moves to LA to try and make it as an actress. She eventually ends up in a dingy
apartment, stealing food from parties so she doesn?t starve to death. She meets Angel at a party, but
figures it?s just like a chance meeting. The next day, a guy who she thinks can help her, Russell Winters,
calls and asks her to come over. That he?ll help her make her break into Hollywood. But it turns out, he?s
a vampire. Angel saves her just as she?s about to become demon food. She goes to work for him, and
helps him start up his company, not that she gets any thanks for it. So once again, she?s helping fight the
badies of the world. Her apartment becomes majorly infested with icky bugs, so she moves in with Angel.
Doyle finds her an apartment, but guess what, it comes complete with a ghost who?s trying to kill her. They
exorcize the evil ghost, but not without her almost dying once again in the process. Next, she begins to fall
for Doyle, whom no one has bothered to tell her is half-demon. She finally gets told, and they kiss for the
first time, just before he goes and kills himself to save everyone. To make matters worse, she doesn?t just
have to morn his death, his kiss gave her the damn vision from the PTB that tell Angel where there are
people in need. So she?s dealing with these visions, but no thanks what so ever. She finally starts dating
again, and the first guy she sleeps with, causes her to wake up eight months pregnant with eight demon
babies. Angel and Wesley manage to save her again, but man does she never want to date again.
Angel becomes her friend, and they talk a lot. Especially after she gets cursed with never ending visions
and ends up in the psych ward at the hospital. Their offices blow up hours later, and so everyone moves
into her apartment. She and Angel really bond, and are each other?s family. They finally find new offices
at this Hotel where Angel lived at during the 50?s, and everything seems like it?s starting to be ok . . .
Then Angel starts sleeping all the time, and grows distant. Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn have no idea
what?s going on. And then, out of nowhere, Angel fires them all. Throwing them out. Cordelia?s best
friend, the only person she?s been able to depend on, and truly care?s about has abandoned her. She?s
wandering the streets. Mother sees her, torture?s her for a week, then finally turns her. She becomes me.?
Cassandra?s face is in its demon visage and she?s pacing wildly, looking very angry. Spike can tell how
dangerous it would be to speak now.
?That BASTARD hurt her! He never cared about her at all! He was just using her because she was his
link. The moment he felt he didn?t need them anymore, he cast her to the streets. Not caring about her
one little bit. Cordelia Chase never got a break in her whole damn life and he fucking knew it! I can?t stand
that. I hate liars.? She growls dangerously, ?Angel knew how much she depended on him. He deserves
pain. I want him to feel the heartbreak she did. He will PAY for what he has done.? Then she does a
complete 180 and smiles, ?And then AFTER he does, I?ll forgive him and do him!?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
about how Cordelia never gets a break. It?s just one thing after another. She get?s nothing out of what
happens to her. I mean, to apologize Angel just buys her clothes. She actually forgives him that quickly?!
NO WAY! That is NOT the Cordelia Chase I know and love. So ergo, I?m going to be doing some ranting
later in the chapter. I think you?ll recognize it when you get there! Ok, toddles! ~
Aftermath
By Jules
Chapter 3
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Spike was walking to Giles? when he bumped into Angel, Wesley, and Gunn, literally. Right in front of
Giles? place.
?Peaches! You?re in Sunnydale!?
?How many times have I told you not to call me that.?
Spike shrugged, ?Don?t know, don?t care. So what are you doing here out of bloody LA?? he pretends to
not know that it was linked to Cassandra.
?None of your business Spike.? Wesley informed him.
?What are you doing here?? Angel asked.
?Same thing Xander does, I?m here to bug them.? Spike tells Angel smiling, and then goes in calling out,
?The poof and his disciples are here.?
Everyone turns to look at Angel.
?Hello Angel.? Buffy stammers, standing up.
?Hi Angel! What brings you to town. Cordy didn?t call to tell me you were coming.? Willow exclaims.
?She is the precise reason we are here.? Wesley explains.
?Yeah, the boss?s ex turned her. She?s a vamp now.? Gunn explains, ?Oh, I?m Gunn by the way.?
?Cordelia?s a vampire?? Xander asks paling.
Angel finally speaks, everyone can see the anguish in his eyes, ?Cordelia?s gone, for good. Darla and
Drusilla had her for a week before they turned her. They spent it torturing her. They cut her, beat her,
broke her bones . . . they told her that no one cared about her and that the only reason I?d kept her
around was that she was my link to the PTB. And she believed them, because I?d fired all of them the day
they took her, so we didn?t even realize she was gone . . . . When she started to go crazy, Darla finally
turned her. Named her Cassandra. When Cor ? Cassandra came to visit me, she told me. She also told
me that she liked it better this way, now she had people that loved her. That no one hurts her anymore.
That she didn?t care that I didn?t love her, even though she loved me.?
Everyone, including Wesley and Gunn looked at him shocked, the two hadn?t heard the story, and
everyone was shocked by it, especially the fact that Cordelia loved Angel, and from the sound of things, he
loved her too.
Spike told that moment to sneak out. He had to get to Cassandra and warn her.
That?s when Buffy noticed he was gone, ?Hey, where?d Spike go??
Everyone looked around, he was nowhere to be found.
?Maybe he didn?t feel like dealing with Deadboy and left.? Xander guesses.
Buffy doubts it, knowing Spike?s been hanging around her more, and wouldn?t leave just because Angel
was there, but didn?t say anything.
Spike ran to the mansion quickly. Running through the door, and up the stairs. He ran into David buttoning
up his shirt, who was on his way out from a game of Truth or Dare.
Spike didn?t even stop to chew David out for being in his way; he had news for Cassandra.
?Pet, guess who?s in town.?
?Dru?? Cassandra guessed, as she dyed thin chunks of hair dark red.
?She came yesterday Andra. Angel is here. With the Angelettes. Wimp Watcher and some black guy.?
?But Angel hates coming back to Sunnydale! Why would he come back??
Spike sat down and thought for a moment, ?I don?t know . . . but it can?t be good. He came to tell
everyone that you?d been turned . . . but he could have bloody well done that over the phone.? Spike
can?t think of anything, so he changes the subject slightly, ?Oh well, on the upside, he sounds very upset
over the fact that you were turned. It sounds like he really cares for you pet. More then a friend at that.?
Cassandra?s eyes light up and she turns to look at him, ?Really Spike??
?Yep, looks like we?re headed in the right direction.?
Cordelia squealed and spun around the room (luckily having just finished putting the streaks in her hair),
finally stopping in front of her closet, ?I want to look very pretty when I surprise Angel . . . and beat him up.?
Spike looks at her shocked, ?What was that pet??
?I?ve been thinking, a lot. And I realized, he hurt Cordelia?s feelings that day. He discarded her like she
was nothing. Just threw her away. And that makes me angry. In fact, I?m extremely PISSED! I?ve been
thinking about this a lot. About Cordelia?s life. She?s NEVER gotten a break. Everyone just pisses all over
her. I mean, first, she?s born into a family, and though they?re rich, they don?t care about her. She tries to
make up for it by surrounding herself with people who act like they adore her 24/7, but she knows how
precarious the balance is between her being their leader, or having them dump her. It?s her only piece of
security in life. She finds out about demons and things, and eventually fall?s for Xander, and falls in love
with him. She gather?s up her courage, and makes the fact that she loves him publicly known, and her
whole world comes crashing down. Everything she knows is gone. But she thinks that he is worth the
sacrifice. But do the group understand when she?s a bit touchy? NO. THEN she walks in on Xander and
Willow cheating on her, and get?s a rebar through the stomach, very painful!
Her parent?s never even visit her in the hospital. She tries to get back in with her former friends, making a
tentative dent, and then her family loses all their money! Now she can?t let anyone know about it, because
she?ll once again lose the things she has such a precarious grip on . At Graduation, her school blows up,
and she has to help make sure no one else dies. So basically, she?s lost her parents, she?s struggling on
her own, and there?s nothing keeping her in Sunnydale anymore.
So Cordelia ups and moves to LA to try and make it as an actress. She eventually ends up in a dingy
apartment, stealing food from parties so she doesn?t starve to death. She meets Angel at a party, but
figures it?s just like a chance meeting. The next day, a guy who she thinks can help her, Russell Winters,
calls and asks her to come over. That he?ll help her make her break into Hollywood. But it turns out, he?s
a vampire. Angel saves her just as she?s about to become demon food. She goes to work for him, and
helps him start up his company, not that she gets any thanks for it. So once again, she?s helping fight the
badies of the world. Her apartment becomes majorly infested with icky bugs, so she moves in with Angel.
Doyle finds her an apartment, but guess what, it comes complete with a ghost who?s trying to kill her. They
exorcize the evil ghost, but not without her almost dying once again in the process. Next, she begins to fall
for Doyle, whom no one has bothered to tell her is half-demon. She finally gets told, and they kiss for the
first time, just before he goes and kills himself to save everyone. To make matters worse, she doesn?t just
have to morn his death, his kiss gave her the damn vision from the PTB that tell Angel where there are
people in need. So she?s dealing with these visions, but no thanks what so ever. She finally starts dating
again, and the first guy she sleeps with, causes her to wake up eight months pregnant with eight demon
babies. Angel and Wesley manage to save her again, but man does she never want to date again.
Angel becomes her friend, and they talk a lot. Especially after she gets cursed with never ending visions
and ends up in the psych ward at the hospital. Their offices blow up hours later, and so everyone moves
into her apartment. She and Angel really bond, and are each other?s family. They finally find new offices
at this Hotel where Angel lived at during the 50?s, and everything seems like it?s starting to be ok . . .
Then Angel starts sleeping all the time, and grows distant. Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn have no idea
what?s going on. And then, out of nowhere, Angel fires them all. Throwing them out. Cordelia?s best
friend, the only person she?s been able to depend on, and truly care?s about has abandoned her. She?s
wandering the streets. Mother sees her, torture?s her for a week, then finally turns her. She becomes me.?
Cassandra?s face is in its demon visage and she?s pacing wildly, looking very angry. Spike can tell how
dangerous it would be to speak now.
?That BASTARD hurt her! He never cared about her at all! He was just using her because she was his
link. The moment he felt he didn?t need them anymore, he cast her to the streets. Not caring about her
one little bit. Cordelia Chase never got a break in her whole damn life and he fucking knew it! I can?t stand
that. I hate liars.? She growls dangerously, ?Angel knew how much she depended on him. He deserves
pain. I want him to feel the heartbreak she did. He will PAY for what he has done.? Then she does a
complete 180 and smiles, ?And then AFTER he does, I?ll forgive him and do him!?
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