Laura Curtis - Laura Giles 16

TITLE Laura Giles Part 16/?
AUTHOR Laura Curtis
PAIRING Laura meets her soul mate
RATING G (For Now)
SUMMARY Laura is sent with Andrew and the other Slayers to California to Rescue the slayer from Angel and Company.
DISCLAIMER Don’t own them, just the ones I make up. Don’t know them. Not making any money. Just having fun with them. I promise to return them unharmed.
Italic denotes thought < > denotes phone conversation.
Big Thanks to my sister for beta’ing my story for me.
I’m taking a little liberty with the Angel episode, ‘Damaged’. I’m making it so Spikes hands weren’t cut off, he was only unconscious when Andrew and the Slayers showed up to take Dana. Also Andrew’s explanation as to where Buffy and Giles are, was a bit vague. So I’m making them in Cleveland visiting. They also know Spike is alive.
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January 2004

[Laura is in Rupert’s office having just given her report on the slayer she had just brought back with her from Key West, Florida.]

“How are you doing Laura?” asked Rupert.

“You would think with all the traveling I’ve been doing for the last year, first with Potentials and now Slayers, I would be so use to it that I could sleep on the plane. God I’m exhausted. I feel like I could sleep for a week.”

“I know how you feel. The summer Buffy took off after she sent Angel to hell I had keep up the appearance that she was there. If it hadn’t been for the help of Xander, Willow, Cordelia and Oz while I looked everywhere for her I don’t know what I would have done.”

“Well I’m off to take a hot soaking bath and then get a good 24 hours sleep. Hey, before I go, how is my cousin Jessica doing?”

“She’s doing fine. She reminds me of you at that age. She’s asked me a lot of questions about you. You may want to take her to England with you sometime, show her where you grew up. She’s taken to the horses like you did.”

“Good, I’m glad. When I found out that I had Aunts, Uncles and Cousins and that one was a slayer I had go and meet them. They had pictures of me as a baby, and even one of my parents with me and Mitchell. I’m glad they let make a copy for myself.”

“I know. The one time Helen visited I don’t know if she told Father what was done with the household stuff after we left.”

“My Aunt Colleen told me that she had everything, just in case I ever came home. Well I’m off. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Laura got up to leave when the phone on Rupert’s desk rang. He answered it and then just as she was closing the door she heard him say. “Hello Wesley.”

Laura started to go back in but then decided not to. If it was an emergency Rupert would let her know about it. She just really need the warmth of her bath right now. It would help her if she was needed again. So off to her room she went.

They had bought an old hotel that had been empty for a few years. Xander was having fun using his construction skills refurbishing the place. They had first fixed up what had originally been the ball room as the primary training area. They also turned the top floor into suites for the gang. Buffy, Giles, and Dawn had one suite. Faith and Robin another, Willow and Kennedy a third, Xander and Kelly the last. And the girls were having fun doing their rooms the way they wanted to. Laura had made her room here like her room at home. Laura could have had a room in Buffy and Giles’ suite but she didn’t want to. For some reason she wanted a place to call her own. So she grabbed a room on the next floor down and in the northwest corner. She took that room because she would have two windows. One to look at the north star any night, and two so she could watch the setting sun.

When she got to her room and opened the door she got a surprise. Someone had helped her while she was away by straightening her room for her. She had left it in a disaster five days ago when they got word of another slayer in need of advice in Florida. And someone had brought her bags up for her while she talked to Rupert. Smiling she shook her head and headed for the bathroom. Once she got the tub going with her favorite bubble bath she headed into her room to change out of her travel clothes. Just as she was about to head back into the bathroom someone knocked on her door.

“Just a minute.” She then put on her robe to answer the door.

Opening the door she got a surprise. Buffy was back from Rome.

“Hello! How was Rome?”

“Beautiful. Dawn and I saw everything you told us about. It was great.”

“Come in. I was about to get into the bath, let me go and shut the water off.”

“I can’t stay long. I just got back from the store, picked up the pictures of our trip. I heard from one of the girls that you were back so I stopped by to say hey.”

“Hey. We have a new one with us.”

“Oh? Is she being oriented into the fold?”

“Oh yea. Amy was there to welcome her and assign her a room. Just like all the others who join us. She merged in just like a drop of water into the ocean. Rupert has all the information but what I will tell you is this. I had to bring her back with me. Her parents are morons. They had the nerve to tell me I was wrong and it was just a phase she was going through. Even after the vampire attacked us in front of them and we had to dust him.”

“You were attacked by a vampire? What was he a fledgling?”

Laura smiled. “So new that he hadn’t had time to wipe the dirt of his clothes. She dusted him and do you know what the first thing she said? Man, I didn’t even break a nail.” They both laughed at that. “Luckily she’s 18 and can decide for herself. She chose us.”

“Well I’d better let you get to your bath. See you later for dinner?”

“If I’m alive by that time. Oh, by the way. As I was leaving Rupert’s office the phone rang. I think it was Wesley calling.”

“Ok! Hope to see you later.” And out the door Buffy went.

Laura went back into the bathroom, finished filling her tub, climbed in, relaxed and slept until the water grew cold.

Oh God I don’t want to move. But I’d better. Time to get into my warm comfy bed.

Just as she got into her bed her phone rang.

Looking to the ceiling Laura raised her arms. “Six hours. That’s not too much to ask for is it? Just six hours of uninterrupted sleep.”

The phone rang again.

Picking it up Laura said, “Room of the wanna be dead at this moment. Head wanna be speaking.” God I’ve been hanging around Dawn too much.

“I know Rupert. Where are you sending me this time?”

<“L.A. A girl, a slayer, in a mental institute broke out. One problem though is she is psychotic. Killed a doctor, nurse, store clerk and security guard that is known so far.”>

“I’m not sure I can handle this one on my own. You gonna send anyone with me?”

<“You, 11 other girls and Andrew. He’ll be the front man for this assignment. He has all the information you need. It may take a couple of days so you can rest out there. We’re sending you on one of the private jets. Easier to transport her that way.”>

“Ok Rupert but after this one I get a vacation for a week, Ok?”

“Rupert! In all the years you have known me have you ever known me to need help packing?”

<“Just thought I’d offer.”>

“Oh ha ha. Give me 10 minutes. I’ll be in your office in 10 minutes.”

<“I’m sorry Laura. But this time Angel is involved and is already out looking for her.”>

Laura’s eyes rolled. “I’ll be there in 5 minutes. Bye.” And she hung the phone up. She laid back for a minute. He is so owing me for this one. Yup, been hanging around Dawn too long.

Rubbing her hand over her face Laura began her mental packing list. LA: warm weather: 4 shirts: 3 pants: 1 shorts: 4 sets undergarments; bras, panties, socks: jacket for nighttime: tennis shoes: nice shoes: stakes: cross. A moment and a big sigh later she got up and got her suitcase. Opening it she looked at what was inside. Deciding to pack fresh clothes she dumped what was in her suitcase and started packing. 3 minutes later and she was out the door and on her way to Rupert’s office.

Exactly 5 minutes after she hung up the phone Laura stood in front of Rupert. “So what do we do, keep her down, out or both?”

Buffy spoke first. “After talking we’ve decided that we may have to take her slayer ship from her. We’re not sure she can be cured. We’ll have to wait until our doctors look at her and her medical records. I’d rather not if we can help it. We need all the slayers we can get. But she may just be too much of a danger to allow her to keep her slayer strength.”

“That will be the first thing I’ll get when we get there, her records. Have you thought about if we do take her slayer ship away? Do we keep her in our medical facility or do we send her to a better medical facility than she was in to help her?”

Rupert then spoke up. “That will be up to our doctors. If they feel that they can help her then we keep her. If they can’t then we send her to a better facility than she was in. We’ll keep her history only she’ll be listed as a daughter of a rich couple. With the money and power of the Council behind her she will get top treatment.”

Laura nodded her head. “That’s good. When do we leave?”

“The plane is being prepared now. You leave in a half hour. As I said on the phone to you. Andrew and Amy are going with you. He will be the front man to Angel. We don’t trust him now that he works for Wolfram and Hart.” Rupert then felt Laura’s exhaustion through the slight bond they still held. “Laura try and get some rest on the way there. I don’t need you collapsing.”

“I will. I promise. Either there or here. You did promise me a weeks vacation when I get back.”

“Yes I did. You had better be off. See you when you get back.”

“Bye everyone.” And Laura with the others left for California.

Nine hours later and all the girls are in the four hotel rooms they had rented for their time here. With all the excitement of the trip the others were unable to rest like they should have so Laura didn’t get any rest either.

“Laura you need to rest.”

“Don’t worry Amy, I got some on the plane. I’ll rest when we get home. Rupert’s promised me a weeks vacation.”

“That brother of yours. If he had been mine I would have told him to go flip sand.”

Laura laughed. “I could never do that, I think. Rupert and I have almost always been close. We’ve helped each other hold our sanity a few times over the years.”

Just then Andrew came in and reported his trip to Wolfram & Hart. Things were moving faster than they thought. So the girls got ready to go and get Dana from Angel and company.

They got to the warehouse where Dana had been hold up. Andrew confronted Angel and then did the signal for the girls to come out of hiding. Angel gave in without a fight. Laura was about to go with the other girls with Dana when they brought Spike out on a stretcher. She just happened to be the closest to the door and she got a good look at him.

It was like lightening had struck her. She kept looking at him and knew that he was the one she had been looking for all these years.

She spoke up in a soft voice. “Andrew, he’s going with us.”

Wesley was closest to Laura and heard her. He spoke up. “What? He can’t, he’s under some kind of curse. He can’t leave the L.A. area.”

Laura stepped up to the stretcher. She didn’t take her eyes off Spike. And in a louder voice said, “Andrew, he’s going with us.”

Something inside her told her to place her hand on him and claim him. So she placed her hand on his chest and thought, “I accept you and with everything that I am, pledge myself to you.” A shock, like static from rubbing your feet across carpet, ran through her. And then a sense of peace, of completeness came over her. She and her soul mate were joined. She was no longer alone.

Andrew started to protest when he looked into her eyes and saw something he had never seen in her eyes before. “Ok, he goes with us.” Then he signaled the girls to take Dana away.

Laura stayed by Spike as they wheeled him to the waiting ambulance. She never left his side, never took her hand off him, the whole way to the airport.

As the ambulance pulled away Wesley spoke up. “He’ll just pop back here when they try and leave L.A. with him.”

Angel shook his head. “No, I don’t think so. Spike is of my lineage so there is that bond. And he was bonded to me through that curse. But when she put her hand on his chest, both bonds were broken. I don’t feel connected to him anymore.”

Wesley’s eyes widened. “Oh no!”

“What? What’s wrong?”

“Rupert talked of the watcher/slayer bond that sometimes forms. It’s a bond so complete that it breaks any other bond. She just bonded with Spike.” Then he laughed. “That is going to be an interesting pair to watch.”

With a confused look on his face Angel asked, “Why?”

“Don’t you know who that woman is?”

“I’ve seen her a few times over the years. Isn‘t she Giles‘ sister?”

“She was also a Potential, now she’s a Slayer. We had better head back to the offices. She and Giles had a sibling bond. I have a feeling that we will be getting a phone call soon.”

“Oh God. You’re right. We need to get back to the offices.”