Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy Season6 01 by Monster Island # Christopher Golden;Thomas E. Sniegoski

Author:Monster Island # Christopher Golden;Thomas E. Sniegoski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-30T13:37:51+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Angel was in pain. Nothing like what he had felt earlier, of course, but his whole body stung. Every time he moved, the still-healing burns sent sharp splinters into his flesh that went down bone deep. The only consolation he had for his pain was that he knew Spike would be feeling it too. Wesley and Cordelia had taken off for what they were all calling Monster Island, with Spike, Willow, Xander, and Lorne in tow. Now Angel drove stiffly along the Los Angeles backstreets— the dangerous neighborhoods that most of the traffic avoided— heading for the warehouse Gunn’s crew still used as their main base of operations. Some of the streetlights were out, and there wasn’t much by way of typical L.A. neon in this neighborhood, but what illumination there was striated the hood and windshield of the convertible.

The lights washed over Buffy where she sat in the passenger seat, casting a golden glow upon her face for a moment before throwing her into shadow once more, only to begin again. The effect gave her the look of some old-time Hollywood starlet, and she was just as radiant. Just drive the car, Angel chided himself.

With a smile that pained him as the skin at the edges of his lips crackled, he forced his gaze back to the road. Fred was in the backseat, along with Tara. Though Angel had met Willows girlfriend before, he still was not sure what to make of her. On the outside was a kind of vulnerability that made him want to protect her, a classic damsel in distress, and yet, he sensed something resonating inside her, a steely resolve that told him that when put to the test, she might well be as strong-willed as any of them. Stronger, even.

The combination of Tara and Fred, in whom Angel had sensed a similar internal power upon first meeting her, was odd, to say the least. Fred would mutter something that seemed nonsensical to Angel and Buffy, up in front, but in back, Tara would smile and say, “I know” with a certain inflection that made Angel wonder if the two weren’t communicating telepathically Not that he thought they were, but the women seemed to have formed an instant bond.

The headlights in Angel’s rearview mirror belonged to Gunn’s truck. He and Calvin were following behind, more to keep the teenager away from the rest of them in case something should happen than because they couldn’t have squeezed in together.

Angel turned left along a one-way street that was little more than an alley. His own headlights splashed across a Dumpster and a bunch of broken wooden palettes. A police car was pulled up to a loading dock on the left, but it was empty and dark.

“James Ellroy, eat your heart out,” Buffy said.

“You read James Ellroy?” Angel asked, raising an eyebrow as he shot Buffy a sidelong glance.

“I might,” she replied, not looking at him. After a moment, a sweet smile came to her face. “Okay. I saw LA.

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