Title: Innocent Child 7/7
Author: Kate R.
Rating: Hard R to NC-17
Pairings: G/E, Wes/A (us) (Eventually)
AN: Dark Fic in the beginning. Written for Shawna who asked for a fic where
Angel rescues Wesley from Wolfram and Hart.
Summary: Saving Wesley is only the first step.
Disclaimer: own nothing and no one used herein. All of them belong to Joss
and I make no money.
He was waiting with his father and the others when they came. He had sensed them as soon as they hit LA limits. He was waiting. The Air was talking to him. Telling him things about them. The other elements were silent right now. They feared the crazy Slayer and the witch. Faith stood next to him watching as his eyes aged suddenly back to 23. Wesley was back but he was not Wesley, as she had known him before anymore. He was Innocent Rayne right now. Innocent Rayne who would deal with the Slayer, the Witch and the Thing with them. He was waiting.
Giles took the cue to keep everyone back until Wesley was finished. Something had changed in him when he faced the Oracles. Something powerful and scary and Wes was no longer afraid.
The door was slammed open and Buffy, Willow and a half cyborg, part human, part demon, all Evil thing came in. None of them got near the group before the thing screamed as Wes' Purity, his Innocence began to burn all three of them. The Thing was smoking and everyone watched as it slowly dissolved into nothing. Buffy and Willow just gawked as Willow felt burning in her arms and the places she projected magic from. Buffy was backed against a wall and she looked pissed.
"State your business," Wesley said.
'No,' Faith though, 'Not Wesley, Innocent. Innocent was dealing with them. Innocent knew what he was and what he had to do.'
"My Watcher abandoned me," Buffy snarled. Innocent stared at her coolly.
"You abandoned him, did you not?" innocent asked. "You chose to work with the soldiers knowing it was wrong. You chose to turn your back on your friends. That too is wrong. You ignored your mother and sister and I know that was wrong. So, tell me Buffy, Who cost you everything? Certainly not anyone here. Look in the mirror. As you wanted a normal life, so shall you have one. You are no longer the Slayer, Buffy. You are just a regular girl. Someone else will be chosen. Someone who will appreciate the gifts you had."
His purity burned and Buffy began to scream. It hurt so much. The Purity that was Wesley was painful to look at. It burned through her leaving her feeling weak. When it was done, he looked into Willow.
"You have power and potential Willow," he said. "But your natural power is being usurped by the gypsy spirit who threw the curse. Do you want it gone?"
"My magic will be under my control then?" she asked. Innocent nodded and so Willow looked into him and nodded.
"Yes, please, Wesley," she said. He chuckled.
"You can tell that gypsy bitch my name is Innocent Winter Rayne. I bound Angel's soul. No clause no nothing. I am not amused."
Again his purity began to burn. But it wasn't Willow who was screaming.
It was the gypsy spirit that had inhabited her for the last year or so. When it was gone, she looked better. Innocent then looked at Ethan.
"We need to go to uncle Derek," he told Ethan. "I just activated Katherine."
Ethan looked at Giles then. "Are you up to watch a new Slayer? This one is young."
"Yes," Giles said. "We can get my stuff on the way through. Come along."
The group gathered things together for a trip to San Francisco as Ethan called his brother to tell him what was up with Kat and they were coming to train her. Derek was relieved. Ethan estimated their time of arrival to be 8 hours or so. Derek said he would have rooms ready for them. They hung up and Ethan looked at Innocent.
"We're ready," Ethan told his son.
"Lets go then," Innocent, said in return.
INNOCENT LEGACY (Sequel)