“A Genie on the Hellmouth”
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Chapter Two: This Town is Ours for the Taking
Highlighted Sentences below indicate
what’ll be in this chapter.
And just so everyone knows, I love Old
Navy, but I have to make Cordelia, well, Cordelia so…
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Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the
characters from Buffy or Angel.
Summary: This is an answer to a
challenge from BAU (Buffy/Angel University).
Buffy is a Genie who has been trapped in a bottle for a very, very, long
time. Then one day her bottle ends up in
the hands of a vampire named Angel.
Time: You decide which season of Buffy
this is set in.
~It’s not going to take place in any
season. It’s 2003. Sunnydale has not
been destroyed by the first and Angel never left for
Story Requirements:
1) Faith is the slayer of Sunnydale, the
things that happened to Buffy in the show happened to Faith instead, except her
and Angel are just friends, they were never involved romantically.
2) Buffy calling Angel “Master” all of
the time.
3) Angel helping Buffy adapt to the
modern world.
4) Buffy giving Angel a moment of true
happiness, Angelus comes out, Buffy using her genie powers to put the soul
back. Because Angelus is a demon, he can
not command a genie.
5) Buffy getting
6) Genies and Demons are immortal
enemies.
7) Cordelia and Faith taking Buffy
shopping for new cloths, each trying to dress her in their style of clothing.
8) Buffy and Anya had met before she
was imprisoned in her bottle when Anya was still a vengeance demon.
9) Mr. Gordo
10) An evil villain causing trouble. *BRIEFLY:
They are just entering the story in this chapter*
11) Jenny is still alive.
12) If possible find somebody new to
pair Faith up with (not Spike); he doesn’t have to be a character from the
Buffy or Angel show.
13) Optional: If you want you can give
Angel some of Angelus’ traits/personality, make him a little more forceful.
14) B/A Romance, that’s a given.
15) Any rating
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“Master,” Buffy quietly entered
Angel’s den.
“Yes, Buffy?” Angel turned around to
look at her.
“Cordelia and Faith say the NEED to
take me shopping,” Buffy asked stepping into the room.
“I’m surprised they haven’t dragged
you out of here yet, the way those two are obsessed with fashion, in their own
respective senses of course,” Angel said getting up.
“Well, you see they can’t,” Buffy
finally admitted with the shrug of her shoulders.
“Why?” Angel started to look
concerned.
“It’s nothing bad, Master, it’s
just…well I need your permission to leave,” Buffy looked at him with begging in
her eyes.
“Buffy, you’re welcome to leave
anytime you want, just don’t leave me
leave me, I like you a lot,” Angel told her holding her shoulders gently.
“You do?” Buffy made the mistake of
looking into his electric brown orbs. “I
mean I like you a lot too, I mean not just Master-wise but…” She paused when
Angel put his hand over hers. She felt
the cold sensation, and yet it felt warm to her.
“Go have fun,” Angel smiled. “We’ll talk later.”
“Thanks, Master!” Buffy quickly kissed
him on the cheek and ran out the door.
She didn’t see Angel’s hand run up to the spot where she kissed it, nor
did she see the brilliant smile that he gave.
~*-(At the mall…)-*~
“OK,” Cordelia said taking a look at
Buffy. “The whole genie-look needs to
go; people will notice you too easily.” Before her eyes, Buffy snapped her
fingers and changed into a simple white blouse, jeans, and sneakers. “You can change your clothing? Then what’s
the point of going shopping?”
“This is the only outfit that was ever
given to me, I kind of like it,” Buffy smiled innocently.
“Well, we’re still gonna get you new
clothes B, you need ‘em,” Faith said punching her shoulder playfully.
“Buffy, who gave you that outfit?”
Cordelia asked.
“Master Angel gave it to me
yesterday,” Buffy said.
“In the three days that you’ve been
with us, when did he have time to get you that outfit?” Cordelia asked.
“I don’t know, but one day he just
came into my room and said ‘I bought you this outfit. I didn’t think you had anything else to wear
besides what you’re wearing right now.’” Buffy told them.
“So you can only wear any outfit
that’s given to you?” Faith asked, slightly confused.
“Yea, that’s about how it works,”
Buffy said.
“Then you are getting a major new
wardrobe,” Cordelia said. She parked the
car close to the front of the mall.
“I can see the whole combat boot look
on ya, B,” Faith said.
“WHAT?!” Cordelia whirled around to
Faith, “We ARE NOT getting her combat boots!!”
“You’re going to get her Gucci I
suppose?” Faith mumbled.
“Yes, as a matter of fact,” Cordelia
stated. The three of them got out of the
car and went into the mall. Cordelia
dragged Buffy over to Macy’s first.
Faith sighed and followed them in.
“Don’t you think we should get her
something more casual?” Faith asked.
“Casual in your book means black
leather pants and a tight black shirt,” Cordelia said, looking at Faith with
disgust.
“Well, yeah, but I was thinking, more
along the lines of jeans, those crazy shirts that the people who aren’t
cheerleaders, sluts, or rich people wear, like normal human beings,” Faith
rolled her eyes. Cordelia glared at
Faith. “What? I’m telling it like it is,
C. Old Navy’s a good place to go for
casual stuff.”
“Old Navy?!” Cordelia whined, “But
that’s where people with no taste go!” No one heard her as she watched Faith
drag Buffy off to Old Navy, “UGH!”
Faith first took her over to a table
of rugby shirts. “You like any of these,
B?”
“Well, I think the pink one’s kinda
cute…” but before Buffy could finish, Faith had picked it up and dragged her
off to another selection of cargo pants and shirts.
“Alright, let’s just get that shirt
and get out of here,” Cordelia said, pushing her hair off her shoulder. “Buffy
has to go to the stores with some class in them.”
“Old Navy’s a perfectly respectable
store where people can afford to by clothes they actually like and feel
comfortable in,” Faith said.
“Oh please, I’ve never seen you wear
anything from here,” Cordelia snorted.
“You know, you’re right,” Faith ran
over to the cashier, paid for the shirt and dragged Buffy over to Wildcats
(A/N: I can’t think of the store that I have in my head’s real name right now,
so I made up this one.). Buffy looked a
bit weirded out.
“Faith, all I have to say is…ew,”
Cordelia said, “Look even Buffy is slightly grossed out by this place.”
“Come on, this place is awesome,”
Faith said, “If we dragged Angel in here he’d love it.”
“So not,” Cordelia snorted, “He’s got
better taste then this. Come on Buffy
let me take you to a real store.”
Cordelia dragged Buffy over to
“One question, Queen C,” Faith said,
“How are you gonna pay for all this?”
“Daddy didn’t give me his plastic for
nothing,” Cordy flashed her father’s credit card at her.
“Um, may I cut in for just an eensy
second?” Buffy said, “I know you guys
are trying to be helpful and all but, um, do you think I could pick out my own
clothes? I don’t want either of you to
argue over which of your styles is better for me to wear.” Cordelia and Faith stared at her for a moment
before what Buffy had just said had sunk in.
“OK, I don’t think what I said
registered so I’ll say it again…”
“No!”
Cordelia almost yelled, “We got it, we understand. So, um…where do you
wanna go?”
“I was thinking about a store back
there called the New York & Co.,” Buffy said.
“New York & Co. is so…”Cordelia
started to rant, but got two glares from Faith and Buffy, “New York & Co.’s
good.” Buffy then led them over to New York & Co. and went in. The store had its’ clothes neatly racked on
the floor and up against the wall. Buffy
found a bunch of outfits she liked and threw them over her arm. Faith was pretty impressed with the store and
Cordelia couldn’t believe she was wrong about all the things she had thought
about it. They took the things Buffy
wanted to buy and brought them up to the cashier and Cordelia paid for all of
it.
Before they left the mall, they went
into the Bath & Body Shop. Then, they
dropped Buffy off at the mansion. Buffy
found Angel inside reading a book by the fireplace. “Hey, I’m back,” she said to him.
Angel looked back at her, “Hey!” he
immediately put his book down and came to help her, “Wow, Cordelia and Faith
sure did get you a whole new wardrobe.” He said looking at the many bags
Cordelia and Faith had left on the front porch behind Buffy. “Need any help?”
“Nope,” Buffy snapped her fingers and
the bags behind her disappeared, then she snapped her fingers again, “They’re
already taken care of.” Angel looked upstairs and then back at Buffy. God, how
badly he wanted to just take her in his arms and kiss her. Buffy was thinking along the same lines.
“Well, um…” he thought of something, “I want to show you something.”
“What?” Buffy asked as he extended he
hand.
“Can’t tell you, I’d ruin the
surprise,” Angel replied to her. She
took his hand and he led her out to the backyard where there was a huge grass
entrance to a maze.
“You have a maze?!”
“Yeah, I guess you could call it
that,” Angel said taking her through it.
When he neared the destination, he got behind Buffy and closed her eyes
while he led the rest of the way.
“Angel!” Buffy slightly squealed. He quietly shushed her and led her to the
middle of the maze, where there was a beautiful garden of many different
varieties of roses.
“OK,” Angel took his hands off of
Buffy’s eyes as she looked around and gasped at the hundreds of different
colored roses.
“Angel,” she turned to him when she
was finished looking around, “It’s beautiful.”
“If you’d like to stay with me,” Angel
began to fluster, “You can have it.”
“Angel,” she put her hand to his face
and stroked his cheek with her thumb.
“Buffy,” he looked deep into her
eyes. He slowly descended his lips upon
hers as he began to kiss her. She kissed
him back and wrapped her arms around him and kissed him back.
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“So, you think they like each other?”
Jenny Calendar, Giles’ girlfriend, asked.
“Well, I saw some feeling there,”
Giles said, “But I don’t think it’ll blossom into anything.” Giles was looking through some books when a
headline said Vampire/Genie Prophecy. He
began to sit down and read it. “Oh,
bollocks.”
“What is it?”
“She’s going to release his inner
demon,” Giles said.
“Who’s gonna release who?” Jenny asked
uncertainly.
“Angel and Buffy…it says here that
they will fall in love, and on the night of the full moon, their love will
fully bloom and Angel will revert back to his old self, Angelus.”
“But…that’s…oh no, Giles we must keep
them apart at all cost,” Jenny warned him.
“Jenny, I don’t think we can,” Giles
took his glasses off and began cleaning them, “Buffy by written law belongs to
him and isn’t to leave his presence without his permission.”
“You mean…” Giles just solemnly nodded
his head. Jenny groaned.
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A large black Hummer said across the
borders of Sunnydale and stopped at a gas station. Three men and a woman stepped out. The tall, black man began filling up the tank
with gas.
“Forrest, make sure there’s $30.00
worth,” the woman said.
“Yes, Professor Walsh,” Forrest
answered, “Hey, Riley,” he called to a tall blond, man who was very lanky, “Can
you give me a hand?” Riley immediately
came over and helped him.
“Graham,” Professor Walsh turned to
the last boy, “Make sure you don’t lose these reports. They’re very important in our experiments.”
“I won’t, Professor,” Graham answered,
“Exactly why did we come to Sunnydale?”
“We must find the Master Vampire,
Angelus, known as Angel around here,” Walsh told him.
“We’ll get him,” Riley said from the
pump, “No matter what it takes.”
~*-End Chapter Two-*~