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"No," said Lily. "No! No! No! That is the worst plan I've ever heard, Angel. I won't do it. Too many things can go wrong and too many people can be killed. I won't do it."

Angel sighed. "Do you have any better ideas?" he asked Lily. "Look, I know it's horrible and dangerous, but it's the only shot we've got. Take it or leave it, Lily."

"I'll leave it," said Lily. "I'm sorry, Angel, but do you realize that could kill a young girl? My God, I can't believe you even found someone willing to do it. I'm sorry, but I'd rather be murdered myself than let some innocent little girl be murdered. I'm sorry, but I won't do it."

"Then there is nothing else we can do for you here," said Angel. "If we come up with anything else, we'll contact you, but we have other cases ,and if you won't take what we can offer you, then you should go."

Lily stood up. "Fine," she said. "It was nice to work with you, Angel," she said very business like.

"You too," said Angel, shaking Lily's hand. Part of him felt guilty, though. He felt he was letting her down, in a sense, but what else could he have done? She wouldn't take his last offer, but really, he couldn't blame her. When he thought about it, he wouldn't have taken the offer, either.

Lily walked out of the office. Shutting the door behind her, she spotted Harmony in the hallway. "Hi, Lil," said Harmony with a smile. She was clutching a unicorn figurine in her neatly manicured fingers. "Where are you off to?"

"Africa, I guess," said Lily. "See you in the next life, Harmony."

Harmony was confused and caught Lily by the arm as she passed. "You're not coming back?" she said. "Lil, what's going on?"

"Angel has nothing more to offer," said Lily. "He gave me an offer. I didn't like it. So, I said I wouldn't take it. Our partnership is over. So, I guess I'm leaving LA."

Harmony looked saddened. "But... but..."

Lily pulled away. "I'm sorry, Harmony, but I've got to go. Just... just tell Wes I said good-bye, okay? Tell him I couldn't take the offer." Lily, who's eyes were welling with tears, ran off down the hall before Harmony could say another word.
 
Harmony burst into the office. "What did you do?" she damanded.

Angel looked up from the papers he was working on. "Harmony, can't you knock? And what-"

"What did you say to Lily?" Harmony damanded again. "She just left here and said she was going to Aferica! Why is she going to Aferica, Angel? Why aren't you still helping her?"

'Harmony, that's none of your business," said Angel, rather annoyed with Harmony's on going anger at him. "It wasn't working. We'd done all we could."

"Don't give me that bull," said Harmony. "You've helped worse and harder cases than her, Angel! She needs you! I know that if it were Fred or Wesley or Gunn or Lorne, iit would be a different story!"

"Harmony, why are you defending her?" Angel asked. "You've never cared before. Why start now, eh?"

"Never cared!" said Harmony. "I've always cared. I usually just bit my tongue, though! I always assumed you knew what you were doing, but now I know you don't! I hate to remind you, Angel, but Buffy is the one who sent her to you. Buffy thought you could help. If not for Lily, do it for Buffy... or Wesley."

"What do you mean, 'or Wesley'? What does Wes have to do with this?" Angel asked.

"Are you blind?" asked Harmony. "Wesley loves Lily. He cares for her like a little sister. He's going to be furious! So will Fred, I imagine. She liked having Lily around, as did I!"

"Look, Harmony-"

"No," said Harmony. "Look, I know I'm evil, but I won't stand for this at all. If you are just going to send innocent people who need your help to Aferica, then you aren't doing your job at all. You know what? I quit. I won't watch you send her away. Find yourself a new secritary."

Harmony stormed out, leaving Angel alone in the office. He knew Harmony was right, but he couldn't do anything else. He had tried everything he knew! As for Buffy and Wesley, he didn't want to let them down, but Buffy would never know... would she? As for Wesley, he would get over it... wouldn't he? Angel just didn't know. What could he do?
 
Fred ran into Wesley's office. "Wes," she said, sounding frantic. "Lily's gone. She went to Africa. Harmony just told me. Angel had her go, and Harmony's quiting."

"Whoo, slow down," said Wesley. "I heard what you said about Harmony quiting, but what do you mean Lily went to Africa? Why would Angel send her away? Fred, you aren't making sense."

"I don't understand, either," said Fred. "You have to talk to Angel. Find out why Lily's leaving. We've got to stop her. Ionay is powerful and Lily's small. Ionay will track her down in no time. She can't go to Africa!"

"Okay," said Wesley. "You and Harmony go try to stop Lily and I'll talk to Angel. This must be some miscomunication. Angel wouldn't just send LIly out into a dangerous world like that. He knows Ionay will get her. I'll talk to him."

Fred rushed out.

Wesley followed her, except he went toward Angel's office. He pushed the door open. "Angel," he said. "What's this about Lily going to Africa and you sending her away? Surely there's been some miscomunication."

"There hasn't," Angel sighed. "I sent her away. She wouldn't accept my last idea. She said it was too dangerous. I had to let her go. There are more people out there who need me."

Wesley couldn't believe this. "Are you saying she isn't important? Angel, she's got a demon chasing after her and she's in an ancient prophecy... she's important to the future of Earth. Haven't you read the prophecy? I left it on your desk. Lily and IOnay are involved in Armegeden. Lily's fate could be our fate."



Author's Note: I know that was short, but it's all I can give right now.
 
Angel felt stupid, guilty, and ungrateful. He felt stupid for not looking at the prophecy, guilty for sending Lily away, and ungrateful because Wesley had spent all that time translating it and he hadn't even read the thing.

In short, the prophecy stated that if Lily were to die in her battle with Ionay, it would bring forth a terrible monster that would, if not stopped, bring an early Armegeden (the end of the world.) So, now, Angel knew he had made a huge mistake. "Where's LIly?" he asked Wesley.

"Fred and Harmony were supposed to go catch her," said Wesley.

At that moment, Fred walked in. She shrugged her shoulders. "We didn't find her. She's gone. We looked everywhere a thirteen year old could get into. We've lost her. She's probably in Africa."

"Where's Harmony?" Wesley asked her.

"She refuses to be in his presents,' said Fred, pointing at Angel. She then turned to him. "You should of heard some of the nasty names she called you. She's pissed."

"I figured," said Angel. "I've got to go find her. You two stay here incase she comes back. She can't be in Africa yet."
 
"Do you think he found her?" Fred asked Wesley as they sat waiting in Angel's office. "I'm really getting worried. She could be anywhere and so could Ionay. What if Ionay gets Angel, too? What will we do? Oh, do you think we should have gone with him?" She fidgeted nervously. "Sorry," she said. "I shouldn't go into all the 'What Ifs' but I can't help it. I'm really worried."

"I know," said Wesley. "But Angel's a champion. He can handle this. He's handled much larger cases."

"Did any of them depend on the end of the world?" Fred asked. "Were any of them going ot affect us this much if we were to fail? Wesley, this is bigger than most cases that we get. This is HUGE!" She looked at the clock. "He's been gone for two hours now. We should call him."

"Think about that Fred," said Wesley. "Angel doesn't know much about cell-phones, really."

"Well, we should go looking for him, then," said Fred. "I have his bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. We have to find him." She stood up. "We have to look for him. Wesley, I can feel it. Something bad is going to happen. I just know it."

Wesley, knowing better than to argue, stood up. "Fine, but where do you suggest we look? He could be anywhere and LA is a big place."

"I don't know, yet," said Fred. "Get Charles, Spike, Lorne, and Harmony. We'll devide into groups. We have to find him. Oh, God, I know something bad is going to happen. I just know it!"

Meanwhile, Angel, underground at the time, was searching for Lily. He was directly under the airport when he heard a loud, high pitched scream. "Lily!?!" he called. There was no answer. He ran in the direction of the scream. "Lily!' he yelled. Could he get there in time?
 
Angel hurried down the passage. He reached a fork. One way lead to a dead end, while the other lead to a smaller, torch lit, room. In the middle of the room, Lily and Ionay were engaged in battle. Angel, not stopping to think, jumped in as Lily dodged out of Ionay's path.

"Angel," Lily yelled, "look out! She's got a stake!"

Sure enough Ionay, now in the form of a blond stuartess, held a stake in her right hand. She lunged at Angel, who dodged and called to Lily. "Get out of here, now!"

"Yeah, right!" said Lily. "I'm not running!"

Meanwhile, Wesley and Fred walked down an empty, underground passage. Wesley, holding a torch to see, said to Fred, "I really don't see how you expect to find Angel. We don't stand a chance."

Before Fred could respond, Wesley held out his arm to stop her from going any further. "Did you hear that?" he asked, holding the torch high. "Shhh..."

Both of them listened carefully. "Footsteps," Fred whispered. "Someone is coming up the other passage. Should we hide?" Fred looked around the passage frantically. "But where? Oh, crap, there's not a place to hide, is there?"

Wesley stepped in front of Fred protectively as the footsteps came nearer, but, to his surprise, it was only Gunn and Harmony. "Scared us half to death," said Wesley as they came into sight. "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for Angel... and you?" said Gunn.

"Same here," said Fred. "Well-"

Before she could finish, more footsteps were heard. Gunn and Wesley held their torches high and stepped in front of Fred and Harmony. "Who's there?" Wesley asked.

Spike, sheilding his eyes from the torches, came into view. "Put those bloody things down," he said. Lorne followed him into the passage.

"So much for splitting up," said Fred with a sigh. "How did we all wind up here?"

"Well, Angel and LIly are both vampires and LIly would be going to the air port so under the air port seems logical," said Spike. "Even Harmony could figure that out." He grinned. "Any sight of him, then?"

Everyone shook their heads. "We ought to keep looking down here,' said Fred. "If we all thought of this, maybe it's right."

So they continued down the passage. They soon reached a fork. One way lead to a dead end and the other lead to a small, underground, torch lit, room. In the room, the gang found Lily and Angel in a battle with a blond stuartess, who, they assumed, was Ionay in one of her forms.

"Angel!" Wesley called, tossing him the torch.

Angel caught the torch and used it to fend off Ionay as best he could.

Ionay, spotting the rest of the bunch, began to multiply into clones of them all.

"Not good,' said Fred. "Definatly not good..."
 
As Ionay changed and multiplied, LIly and Angel backed into the rest of the gang. "We're in trouble now," siad Lily. "How do we manage this one?"

"Everyone, hold somebodies hand," siad Lorne. Everyone turned to look at him awkwardly. "That way," Lorne explained, "you know who the real one of us is. I mean, there are clones of us, now."

"Lorne's got a point," said Gunn. "Everyone, get a buddy and watch their back."

Fred grabbed Wesley's hand and whispered, just so he could hear, "I know something bad was going to happen."

So everyone paired up. Fred and Wesley took hands. Gunn and Harmony, with an awkward look at each other, took hands. Spike, feeling uncomfortable holding another guy's hand, reluctantly held Lorne's hand. This left LIly and Angel to hold hands.

"If we can kill the real Ionay," siad Wesley, "the others will disappear. The trouble is, which one is the real one."

"Why don't we just kill them all, that way we know we've got the real one," said Gunn. "This is gonna be hard to fight, though. It ain't easy to fight while your holding someone's hand."

"It's better than nothing, though," said Angel. "Anyway, does everyone have something to fight with? Are we good?"

Before anyone could answer, the clones began to attack. Gunn had been right, it was hard to fight while you were holding someone's hand. In fact, Angel and Lily were parted when one of Angel's clones kicked them apart. NO one noticed and there wasn't time for LIly to grab Angel's hand again, so they just had to fight on.

Because they were so preocupied, no one knew what had provoked the high pitched scream that shattered the air in the chamber.

Wesley turned to see Lily, the real one, with a stake through her heart and she faded into dust. The other LIly, the one who had staked her, then turned into the tall brunet form the alley.

Wesley, releasing Fred's hand, ran at the brunet with a fiery. Picking up the stake on the ground, he shoved it through Ionay's heart. Ionay, not expecting this, fell to the ground.

Though she wasn't a vampire, stakes can kill many other things. She didn't vanish. She didn't turn to dust. She just turned a horrid green color. As she did, the clones all around the room vanished. NOw, the only ones who remained were Fred, Wesley, Angel, Lorne, Gunn, Spike, Harmony, and the dying Ionay. LIly was dead.

"She lost the battle,' said Fred, quietly. "It's coming, then. The monster that can bring an early Armegeden. It's coming."

"Not if we can stop it," said Angel. "Let's get out of here."

Everyone followed, except Wesley. Wesley fell to his knees, tears on his face. Angel, at the door of the chamber, looked uncertainly at him.

"Let me," Fred told Angel. "YOu all go on.We'll catch up later."

Fred walked over to Wesley. "Wesley," she said, "don't blame yourself. It isn't your fault."

"I don't blame myself," said Welsey. "I blame Angel. He let go. He let go of her hand. If he had held on... if he hadn't let go..."

"Don't waste time on 'What ifs' ,Wesley," said Fred. "And don't blame Angel. He didn't want this to happen, you know that. Right now, we have to focus on this monster."

"I've lost her and Nichole, now," said Wesley.

"Who's Nichole?" Fred asked.

"She was my little sister," said Wesley. "She was killed when I was thirteen by a metomorphic demon... just like LIly. It's like history repeating it's self."

Fred sank to her knees. She didn't say anything. She couldn't. She pitied Wesley and she couldn't find the words.


NOTE: That's the end of this story, but you can find it's sequal under the title The Beginning of the End which I will be starting soon. Thanks!
 
Nooooo....poor Lily!!.Wesley is wrong,it was Angel's fault...but poor Wes anyway::crying::

I wish I could read the second part....
 
It's a very good story! I haven't seen much of Angel yet (I'm gonna watch it in 5 minutes for the first time! lol), but this story is really great! It's easy to read without being too easy...ok, that didn't make any sense, but oh well, it's soon midnight here, I have an excuse! Anyway, GREAT STORY!😀
 
I'm flattered. I just wish more people would read it. I have like three readers. Magui, Hero, and JustAnnie. Well, I've gotten good reviews, anyway.
 
I'm still here! LoL. I think you should continue. I'm not a big fan of Angel fan fics, but I like your story for some reason. So, I definatly think you should release the next part soon.
 
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