This story is pretty old. I wrote it eight or so months ago. Tell me what you think. This story does not include Gunn, Tara or Dawn and Doyle died during the 'Hero' episode. (I told you it's old) The timeline doesn't really matter, somewhere in the later part of Season 1 of Angel.

It was a typical L.A. day. An attractive brunette came walking through the door, "What a beautiful day! I think I'm gonna go outside and sit in the sun, wanna come? Oh never mind, they don't make Coppertone SPF 2 million yet".

Angel looked up from his book only for a moment, "Gee, thanks for the offer Cordelia, I'm going to do some more research on the demon I ran into last night".

Cordelia said with little concern, "Demon, what demon? "

Angel walked towards the shelf and pulled out a different book, "He sorta looks like this one, only with the point eyes. I just had a strange feeling that he was following me, rather than me following him. It just doesn't sit with me right".

"Hum, well okay, see ya later, if you want me I'll be on the roof until the sun goes down". Cordelia walked out of the room with bikini in hand.

Angel just looked at her and shook his head; he sat down and began flipping through the book. "This is it!" he said. A noise came from the next room. "Wesley, is that you? Hey man, have you ever heard of an Angoric Demon? Wesley?"

Angel became suspicious and walked into the next room. To his surprise there stood the Angoric Demon. Angel lunged for the demon, and a strange blue force field stopped him in his tracks. "I choose you because I thought you were smart, and you just now figure out what I am?" Says the demon.

Angel tried pushing the force field away from him, but he only grew more tried with every push and shove. "What do you want!" he shouts.

The Angoric demon is very amused with Angel's efforts to break free. "I want you Angelus, or shall I say - your body".

"My name isn't Angelus, it is Angel, or haven't you heard", the vampire growled.

"I'm going to know alot about you very soon, you see, many have tried and failed. They tried to turn you evil. So what's the next best thing. Hmmmm lets think, oh I know, possessing you body." With arrogance, the Angoric demon just laughed.

Angel stood not fearing the demon, "My soul will tear yours apart, you will not take over my body".

The Angoric demon pulled open a black bag that Angel didn't notice sitting on the floor. He opened the bag and pulled out a dead cat. "Gee, I thought of that already. You see this cat? It has no life, no SOUL. What I am going to accomplish is simple. I transfer your soul to this cat and then I take your body". The Angoric demon laughed again. "My body is just not in great form nowadays. I'm tired of this old body, ugly sagging skin. I want to be young and youthful. I want the face of an angel. So let the games begin".

Angel thought as quickly as he could, "why don't you just transfer my soul to your body, what's the thing with the cat all about?"

Angoric demon chuckled, "what angel, you think I'm going put you in a body where you can talk to people, read a book of spells maybe and reverse it. Please, I am much smarter than that. You'll soul will be in a body where you can not communicate with the outside world. It's perfect; you'll roam the streets, helpless, alone. I'm a genius". The Angoric demon boasted, "let's get on with it. I have plans this evening".

With the wave of his hands and a few mystical words, the cat's lifeless body awoke, and the Angoric demon's body falls to the ground. The Angel the cat hissed ran away. The Angoric Angel laughed as he looks at his new body.

Now Cordelia entered the room, "Angel, I'm going to get something to eat, has anyone called for me?"

Angel's body quickly turned and walked towards her. He took a wift of her neck and said, "Boy, you smell lovely today".

Weirdid out Cordelia said, "What's wrong with you? You need to get a woman".

The Angoric demon just laughed. "I'm going to lie down, why don't you clean up the mess. That damn demon almost killed me. I'm lucky to be alive".

Cordelia looked at the limp, old body "Eyye gross. What do you want me to do with him, put a rug over him?"

Angoric demon said, "Burn it. Burn it good".

"I knew I should have never come down here". Cordelia huffed as she dragged the body outside.

Downstairs in Angel's apartment the Angoric demon sighed, "All these memories Angelus, you have had a full life. Ahhh, what pain you have suffered."

Outside Cordelia threw a match on the gasoline soaked body that was once inhabited by the angoric demon's soul. From around the corner came the black cat that Angel's soul is now in. "Shoo kitty". The cat tried to rub himself on Cordelia's leg. Cordelia only kicked the cat away. "Stay away or I'll throw you with the demon". As Cordelia walked towards the building, the cat sneaks his way behind her.

The possessed Angel emerged from his apartment; "I'm going out now. Lock up would ya."

Cordelia mocked Angel after he left; "Lock up would ya, like I don't have a life". She rolled her eyes as Angel left the building.

Out from the shadows came the cat again. The cat jumped up on the desk that Cordelia sat at. "How did you get, you are the pestiest cat".

The cat only meowed at Cordelia. "Oh, I bet you're hungry aren't you kitty, I think I have some milk in here, you want some milk kitty?"

Cordelia poured a saucer of milk for the cat and the cat turned away. "Fine, don't drink it you stupid cat, see if I care". Just then Cordelia got a mind crushing vision. As she fell to the floor the cat sat by and watched carefully.

After her 20-second spasm, she started to regain control of her movements. "Oh my God! Oh my . . . " Cordelia looked frightened and ran to the phone. Angel the cat hoped her vision was of that fact that he's now a cat. The cat walked closer to the desk so he can hear what Cordelia was saying. She picked up the phone and dialed frantically. "Wesley, oh my God Wesley. Angel has gone bad." she paused for response on the other end "What don't you understand, Angel is normally good but NOW HE'S BAD!" she paused again "No don't hang up - what if he comes back - he's gonna eat me. Oh my God he smelled me earlier! Wesley, he smelled me and said he wanted to eat me - but I thought he was joking! Would you hang up already and come get me". Cordelia slammed the phone down, grabbed papers and threw them into her bag. She starts to clean up the office but then realizes she's not going to clean up after a vampire who's going to drain her of her blood. As she rushed out the door the cat followed her. "Oh, I suppose you wanna come to huh? Well, I don't blame you, he might wanna take a bite out of you too".

Back at Wesley's flat, the two try to figure out what's going on. "Cordelia tell me again, what exactly happened today."

Cordelia looked frustrated "He told me he was going to do research on a demon that he ran into last night."

"Okay very good. Then what happened." Wesley scratched his head.

Cordelia bite her lip said, "Well then Angel said he didn't want me around so I should just go up on the roof and sunbathe." (Cat meowed)

Wesley looked at Cordelia "Really, he suggested you leave."

"Well, not exactly, I told him I was going to the roof". Cordelia rolled her eyes; she wasn't good at lying just yet.

Wesley was starting to grow impatient with the brunette, "Cordelia, if we are going to get to the bottom of this you need to be honest with me".

"Okay, Okay, I said I was going to the roof and that was it. I sat in the sun, reading a novel until chapter 16 where this young beautiful mistress found out that the man she was seeing was really. . "

Very aggravated Wesley said, "Cordelia, would you concentrate please!"

Cordelia, "Sorry, when I came back there was a dead demon on the floor and Angel said he needed to go lie down".

The cat walked over to Welsey, and meowed. "Where did his feline come from?"

"Oh, he was in the alley and just won't leave me alone".

Wesley picked up the cat "He kinda looks like a cat I had when I was a small lad".

Cordelia said, "who cares about that stupid thing. What are we gonna do about Angel, Are you gonna stake him or am I?"

Wesley, looked at Cordelia adoringly, "Don't you remember how much trouble Buffy had trying to kill Angel, I don't think you and I can handle it alone." (Cat meowed)

Cordelia shrugged, "Oh, please, Buffy couldn't kill Angel because she loved him too much. I don't love Angel, he just my employer. I'll have no problem staking the bastard". (Cat meowed loudly)

Wesley, "I still think it'll be more harder than a will issue. I'm going to phone Giles and see what he thinks".

"Oh, yes, phone Giles, he really likes Angel, no doubt he'll advise anything else than staking him", Cordelia sputtered. (Cat meowed)

After a brief phone conversation, Wesley hung up. "Well, we are going to Sunnydale to strengthen our forces. If we have to fight Angelus it's going to take all of us, acting together as a team". (Cat meowed)

Cordelia, "We're going to Sunnydale? Can we stop at my apartment so I can bring picture of it, ya know show everyone how well I'm doing!"

Wesley sighed, "No we mustin dawdle. Let's get going."

Cordelia grabbed her bag and the cat. Wesley questioned Cordelia about why the cat is going too. "Look I don't know, I just would feel guilty letting it sit outside in the cold with no food. Ya know I have a heart too".

Wesley, "Giles also suggested we leave a note for Angel to make him follow us to Sunnydale. So we need to stop by the office". (Cat meowed)

Cordelia, "Your nuts, go back to the vampire's lair, you can, I'll wait in the car".

Back in Sunnydale, Giles rounded up the Scooby Doo gang. "Okay, here's what we know. Cordelia received a vision that Angel is bad again".

Xander said, "Well how do we know that Angel is bad, we are just going to trust Cordelia. For all we know, Angel could have told Cordelia that her skin tone didn't compliment the outfit she was wearing and now he's bad."

Giles sympathetically looked at Xander and the gang, "I think Cordelia isn't that shallow".

Buffy and Willow exchanges smiles. Buffy cleared her throat, "Well, I think we outta test him, see what happens. We can't assume he's bad and kill him".

Xander, "Should we wait until he takes a bite out of one of us. You remember how psycho he got last time."

Willow, "I don't think we need to discuss last time. It is in the past". Most of the gang became silent to reflect on Jenny Calendar.

Then finally Buffy spoke up. "The note Wesley left from me should do it. If Angel's good I can tell, if he's not - I'll have to kill him. Let's just hope he comes to Sunnydale".

Willow piped in; "I'm also going to see if I can hunt down the Thorb, to summon Angel's soul".

Giles took his glasses off, "That's a good idea Willow."

There was knock at the door, Xander, "Anybody wanna go answer that, cuz I'm going to go to the bathroom."

Anya huffed, "And what hide? Cuz I'm going do with you."

Buffy stiffens, "I think I feel Angel's presence".

Giles peered through the window, "Well Buffy, happy to report your wrong. You can stop hiding Xander, it's Cordelia and Wesley".

Xander called from the bathroom, "I'll continue to hide, thank you".

Giles invited Wesley and Cordelia in. Anya peered up, "Cordelia, so nice to see you. In case your wondering, Xander and I are sleeping together now, so he's mine, you've lost him. STAY AWAY!"

Cordelia looked with disgust, "Not a problem."

Xander, "Oh, yea, baby. You wished you could have some of this," then Xander looks at Anya "But I wouldn't want ya anyway."

Cordelia pushed her way past Giles and put the cat in Buffy's arms. "Here Buffy, I know how you like to take in the homeless".

Buffy opened her arms to catch the cat that Cordelia was dumping in her arms, "So nice to see you too".

As Wesley and Cordelia start telling the gang the details again, there was another knock at the door. Everyone became quiet and stiffened.

Willow, "Ya think that's Angel?" The cat meowed and everyone ignores it.

Buffy went to the door with stake in hand. "Oh, it's Riley you guys. Riley hates it when we talk about Angel -so lets just leave it that way right now. K?" (Cat meowed)

Buffy opened the door "Hi Riley, come on in."

Riley walked in and waves hello to everyone. "So is this what it's like when the whole gang gets together."

Buffy started the introductions, "Riley, I want you to meet Cordelia and Wesley. I've told you alittle about them right?"

Riley, "Yea, Wesley was your watcher for a little while, and Cordelia was a friend of yours. Nice to meet you". Riley shakes their hands.

Back in L.A. the Angoric Demon that has taken over Angel's body came in just before sunrise. "Ahhh, what an evening, I think I can get used to sucking on the necks of beautiful women." As Angel entered the elevator to go down to his apartment, he sees a note taped to the wall. "I know everything, Cordelia had a vision and I know what you are! Come to Sunnydale so we can set things straight. Signed Buffy." Buffy, the Angoric demon thought to himself "Oh, the slayer, the lovely blonde slayer, what a body she had. I think I'll take you up on your invitation little lady".

In Sunnydale, Riley questioned Buffy's appearance. Buffy was sitting on the coach stroking the beautiful, black cat.

With concern Riley asked, "Buffy you don't look very well, is something wrong".

Buffy sighed, "No, Riley, I just thought I felt something and I'm just can't shake it". Buffy sets the cat down. The cat jumps back onto Buffy's lap. "You're a pesty little thing aren't you". Buffy put the cat down and walked towards Riley, (cat meowed)

"Is this cat in heat? He won't shut up!" Riley was getting annoyed with the constant meowing of the cat.

Buffy picked up the cat and took him out of the room. The cat meowed and walked back in.

Riley pointed to the feline, " See, he won't leave you alone".

Buffy shrugged her shoulders, "Cordelia your cat must be in heat, he won't leave me alone."

Cordelia stopped her conversation with Anya and yelled, "Oh that's not my cat, I found him this afternoon."

Giles chuckled, "Well, he has taken quite a liking to you Buffy, have you named him yet."

Buffy picked up the cat and looked into his eyes, "I don't know what should we name him - Curiosity?" Buffy stared into the cat's eyes and seemed to be in a trance.

Xander was now suspicious, "Buffy what's wrong - cat got your tongue?" He chuckled as he amused himself.

Buffy handed the cat over to Giles, "There's something up with this cat, something's not right."

Cordelia flipped her back, "Yea it could probably use a bath, it was creeping around the alley and in the office. Who knows what kinds disease it has".

Giles examined the cat. "Buffy, this cat has no heartbeat" With that the cat meowed again.

"And it's obviously living."

Willow went to double check Giles analyze, "So what are you saying, IT'S a vampire cat!" The group started laughing except for Giles and Buffy.

Buffy reviewed, "It's been since this afternoon that Angel has been acting strange and this cat appeared?"

Not putting two and two together, Cordelia replied, "Uh -- yea".

Giles motioned for Willow, "Willow get me a spell we can do to find out what possess this cat?"

Anya, "The cat hasn't bitten any of us so it can't be a vampire cat, and in all my years I haven't cross upon a cat that was a vampire either."

Giles, "it could have been a soul transferring spell. Those are a very popular spell, especially for the aging demons".

Buffy, "If I was a aging, smelly demon, I would want Angel's body". The gang looked at her. "You know what I mean, Giles do you think if we could get this cat to communicate with us, like with a Ouiga board?"

Giles thought, "it's worth a try. However I don't have one of those boards."

Willow said excitedly, "we could make one!" The gang gathered around and made up a board with letters. They brought the cat over and placed him in front of the board.

Xander, "Let's hope this cat knows English".

Giles acknowledged Xander's concern, "To the spirit that possess this cat, are you good or bad?" Giles whispered, "Will start with an easy one".

The cat placed his paw on the word GOOD.

Willow, "How do we know you're not lying?"

The cat placed his paw on the word GOOD again.

Giles, "Okay we will assume you're good and not lying. Who are you?"

The cat placed his paw on the letter A, then N, followed by G, E, and L.

Buffy, "Okay this is a little freaky, this cat can spell".

Giles, "Angel, we are assuming you soul was transferred to this cat and the cat's soul to your body?"

The cat pushed his paw to the word YES, then it spelled out KINDA.

Buffy, "Okay, so you doctor up a spell to switch the souls, easy right Giles?"

Giles, "Yes, we can do that. I just need to locate a spell. And unfortunately I assuming we need Angel's body here for the transformation".

Buffy, "Well, just leave that job up to me!" Buffy walked out and into the night.

After a few hours of hunting Buffy, found Angel. Buffy, "Hey stud how about coming back to my place, so we can be naughty?"

The Angoric demon recognized Buffy from the memories inside Angel's head, "sure Buf, I'd love to." Bite into a slayer he thought to himself, but he followed Buffy to Giles' home. Once Buffy reached the door outside Giles' apartment she turned to Angel's body and said, "hey babe, you mind waiting for me one second, I want to make sure my roommate isn't home."

The Angoric demon, doesn't mind the wait, for he will be drinking the slayer's blood in a mere few moments. Buffy stepped into Giles' apartment and signaled them that the demon is outside. With a few carefully prepared words Willow started the spell. Within moments the cat's body is engulfed in green light and then the light faded away. Buffy opened the door and Angel gave her wonderful hug, "I've missed you."

"I miss you everyday," Buffy replied.

Present day

"Uncle, can you tell me another story about my mommy and daddy?" Braelyn asked.

Doyle smiled, "Sweetheart, it's almost time for you to wake up. I'll see you in your dreams tomorrow night and I'll tell you another story about your parents."

The little girl gave her spiritual uncle and hug and kiss, "I love you Uncle Doyle."

"I love you, too. Now finish your sleep." Doyle smiled and disappeared. Braelyn woke up and walked into her mother's room.

"Mommy, can we get a cat?"

(What did you think? Corny huh?)

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