Try not to Breathe (Angel)

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Madison Mackenzey Compassion Saxon walked down the street from her house. It was a more beautiful night than expected, so the young ginger prophet didn’t drive her motorcycle. Maddie continued to walk and she had her phone in her back pocket. She loved what a nice night this was, the soft breeze blowing through her ginger curly hair. She wore her dark blue skinny jeans, a black jacket with her light blue, maroon, olive green, brown and tan stripped scarf, and her Beatles themed converse shoes.

When Maddie got to the beach she smiled. She walked over and through the sand and just stared at the water. The moon reflected off of the wavy water as well as the bright stars. Maddie sat down and took off her scarf and jacket, revealing her tan Beatles loose fitting t-shirt. The young prophet also took off her socks and shoes and buried her feet in the sand. She smiled as it seemed as if this was going to be a peaceful night.

Madison reached into her union jack bag and she pulled out her sketch book that looked like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. She started finishing her sketch of a dark haired man. She knew who it was and she had never met him yet. Maddie had only met a few of Buffy’s friends, Spike and Willow. She didn’t know if she should even meet the rest of Buffy’s friends because of Gabriel and the wonderful thing called her past, but she wanted to anyway. She really wanted to meet the people who she dreamt about that made Buffy who she is today.

Maddie looked up from the sketch and stared at the water again. She wondered if they knew that she saw a lot more of their lives than she let on. Maddie wouldn’t tell though. She knew that they weren’t really supposed to know about her and how she receives visions from the angels about them. She just happened to run into Willow and that’s how it all started. Maddie was actually kind of happy that she got to meet them. She knew that she had to be careful though.

WORDS 361
TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Somebody Like You - Adele
NOTES
OUTFIT Click!

[angel]

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Tonight Angel had needed to get away. After having been cooped up in the house for so long, he needed a bit of fresh air. While he didn’t literally need to breathe the expression still stood. The gang was now moved back into the house and the tension was unbearable. Angel stayed in the basement and away from all of them, simply not wanting to deal with his feelings. Not only was he hurt from what had happened with Buffy and Angelus, but he was angry about it as well. Ever since she’d come back to the house things had been off between them. They hadn’t spoken or even made eye contact, simply avoiding seeing each other whenever possible. Katheryn was back at home tonight spending time with Buffy. While Angel didn’t want to see her, he knew that Katheryn needed a bit of female influence in her life. During his absence the two of them had grown very close, something he knew that he needed to deal with.

Getting into his car he simply drove for awhile in complete silence. All of the thoughts consuming his mind seemed to revolve around his sister, and Buffy. It wasn’t anything abnormal as they were the two most important people in his life. However his thoughts then drifted to Spike. Knowing what he had done, or tried to do, to Buffy simply pissed him off. Spike would get what he deserved soon enough, Angel would make sure of that. It was a beautiful night out tonight. The wind blew, but not hard enough to disturb anyone. The temperature was probably in the late sixties and early seventies, seemingly perfect. Right now he needed the time away to sort through his thoughts. Sometimes he wondered if he should take Katheryn and leave the Boarding House. He knew it was hard for her to be cooped up and bored all the time. However he also didn’t want to take her away from the gang, after having grown so close to them. For now he shook off all thoughts of the gang, and Buffy especially.

Parking his car at one of the boat launches at the beach, he stepped out into the night’s air. A nice walk on the beach would be perfect to clear his mind, as he hadn’t seen the beach since he’d left California. Plus if he happened so spot some demons, as some loved living in the caves near the ocean, that’d be even better. Stepping into the sand he kept his black boots on, not caring if sand got into them at the moment. As he began to walk along the water he felt someone near him. About fifty feet ahead of him, he could see a young, redheaded girl as clear as day with his night vision. Vaguely he wondered why on earth such a young girl was out here alone at night, but decided it wasn’t any of his business. However he would keep his distance and watch out for her while he was here, might as well do something useful.

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[maddie]

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Madison Mackenzey Compassion Saxon Still sat there on the beach burying her feet in the sand as she continued to sketch in her journal. She really didn’t know what she was sketching but she just was. She kept her bag close to her, since she had Gabriel’s archangel blade inside. She just wondered what Gabriel was up to at this time. She knew that he was doing something important, though sometimes she wondered if what he was doing was the right thing. She could never tell though. Gabriel’s family was just that messed up, sometimes the right thing was out of their reach.

Maddie then heard something from behind her. She turned her head just a bit and lead it to the left a little, so she could hear a bit out of her right ear. The person behind her was being silent, probably another person like her, just out wandering, thinking. She ran her pencil through the sketch book once more. Maddie started drawing more from what she saw in her dream the previous night. Maddie then let out a sigh. The person behind her was standing there, or they moved and was really quiet. She didn’t know whether to say anything to them or not. Part of her wanted to be alone.

Maddie wanted to know where and what Dean was up to. He was the hunter that had helped her and she had become friends with the hunter. She knew that she could trust him because Gabriel did. That was almost enough for her. Maddie finally turned and looked at the man.

“looking for a quiet night too?” Maddie asked him, not able to recognize the figure in front of her because of the darkness.

WORDS 288
TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Someone Like You - Adele
NOTES
OUTFIT Click!

[angel]

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Although he hadn’t been trying to be noticed he apparently had been anyways. Hearing the girl call out to him he knew he had two options. He could slink off into the shadows like he liked to do so often and simply disappear. Throughout his life he had been known to simply disappear without people even realizing that he was gone. It was something he was known for and quite used to doing. On the other hand he could come out of the shadows and show his face to her, knowing she wouldn’t recognize him anyways. However he knew that if he slunk away right now there was the possibility that she’d grow weary of being alone on the beach. While It was a warranted fear, she didn’t truly have anything to fear with him around. Deciding that he didn’t want to frighten her he stepped out of the shadows to reveal his handsome features.

”Something like that”

he replied, offering a half smile. Angel rarely ever smiled fully as typically he was broody and far from being smiley. Plus, not to mention the fact that he rarely had anything to be truly smile about. The last time he could remember truly smiling was right before he’d lost his soul a few months ago. Lying in bed with the love of his life and his sister he had smiled in a moment of true happiness, causing him his soul and therefore pain.

With weary steps he walked a bit closer to the girl though kept a decent sized gap between them. He still wanted to make sure he wouldn’t freak her out or frighten her, but wanted to be able to talk without being loud. Angel had never been a remotely loud person. ”Mind If I ask what you’re drawing?”

[/color] he said, seriously interested. He himself was a skilled artist and enjoyed sketching so that was something the two of them had in common.[/blockquote][/color]
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[maddie]

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Madison Mackenzey Compassion Saxon looked back at the figure and recognized his voice. She wasn’t too sure, though she could be wrong. It wasn’t until he stepped out of the shadows that she had her thoughts confirmed. It was Angel, formerly Angelus, Buffy’s ex boyfriend. She smiled to him, knowing that he wouldn’t know her unless Buffy or Spike or Willow had told him about her. She wouldn’t think so. After what she had seen recently, she knew that he probably wasn’t in a great mood, if that had happened yet. She wasn’t sure. Maddie wasn’t really in that loop. She didn’t talk to the gang as much, and if she did, it would be Spike. Maddie looked from her sketch book in the sand and she picked it up and held it on her lap.

He had then asked what she was drawing as he walked closer to her. “wondering when I would meet you. Just drawing what I see.” Maddie said to him, wondering if that would freak him out a little. She remembered when Spike found out and asked her a bunch of questions, same as Willow. She wondered what Angel would do. She hoped that he didn’t go crazy angry. She didn’t want anything bad to happen to him, since Gabriel was still around out there and not completely overlooking her and that she might be in danger.

The young ginger prophet looked at Angel and she then decided to introduce herself and apologize. “sorry that was a little too much, uh I’m Madison, or Maddie, doesn’t matter.” Madison said to him with a small shrug.

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TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Someone Like You - Adele
NOTES
OUTFIT Click!

[angel]

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Having been afraid to frighten the poor girl Angel was glad to see her greet him with a smile. A smile made him feel slightly uncomfortable as he didn’t usually smile himself, though it was better than her screaming and running away out of fear. When she spoke in response to his question he couldn’t help but arch his eyebrow in question. Wondering when she would meet him? That was definitely a strange comment and one he hadn’t been expecting to hear from the girl. Upon walking closer he stood off to the side of her as she sat in the sand, looking down to what she’d been drawing. ”Is that…is that me?”

he asked unsure, the pure surprise showing in his voice at what she had been drawing.

Now she said she’d been drawing what she saw, however he felt like maybe that wasn’t the truth. Only because he had just gotten here and this looked like she’d been working at it for awhile. After all the sketch was almost now fully completed and he didn’t see how someone could draw that so quickly. ”Do I know you from somewhere? I’m sorry but you just don’t seem familiar…”

[/color] the man said, voice trailing off into the darkness. In the background he heard the waves crashing up onto the shore, lapping at the sand viciously. The water had been calm only moments ago and it seemed strange to him that all of the sudden the water was so choppy. He then wondered if perhaps a storm was coming but he couldn’t be sure.

Deciding that he felt a bit too awkward towering over he, he plopped down gracefully next to her. There was about five feet or so between them so he hoped she wouldn’t mind. ”I’m Angel. But then, you already knew that, didn’t you? I don’t know how..but you knew who I was before I walked over to you, didn’t you?”[/color] he asked suspiciously. Now he didn’t view her as a threat or anything like that, he was simply curious to find out who she was. Obviously she knew him which definitely struck him as odd.[/blockquote][/color]
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Madison Mackenzey Compassion Saxon looked at Angel and she smiled. So this was the man who was causing so much grief with the Scooby gang besides Buffy. Maddie didn’t blame them though. Their lives seemed so much more, well better than hers. She held her book and watched him walk closer to her and looked down at the sketch book. She allowed him too, after all it wwa one of the only ways to actually get him to believe her, just as she got Spike to believe her as well. He had asked if that was him. The young ginger prophet looked at him and she smiled. She nodded. “yeah. it’s a gift, being able to see the events in Buffy’s life thanks to the angels.” Maddie replied to him, knowing that he would be asking questions.

Maddie knew that it was okay to be around him since she knew that he had his soul back. She then looked at him when he asked if he knew her from somewhere. She shook her head, not unless he was told about her by Buffy or some other friend of hers that Maddie had met. “no, not unless Buffy or someone had told you about me. Probably not since the only person I have talked to more than once is Spike and you guys are not on good terms at all, from what I understand.” Maddie said to him with a smile.

Madison watched Angel sit down beside her. She looked at him and nodded as he introduced his name. “yeah I did, technically I’ve known you for years. And I’m Madison, though people call me Maddie.” Madison said to him with a smile. She handed him the sketch book offering him to look at it if he wanted to.

WORDS 298
TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Whisper - A Fine Frenzy
NOTES
OUTFIT Click!

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Angel was….confused and very confused at that. Seeing a young girl drawing his face without even having seen him definitely set off his spidey sense. Wishing that he hadn’t said that he remembered how Buffy used to say that expression all the time. Then hearing Buffy’s name also being said his eyes immediately darted to the redhead. Quite frankly it startled him to hear her name leaving this girl’s mouth that he had only met a few minutes ago. ”Angels? You mean like…”

and as he trailed off, his finger and eyes lifted to the sky as if wondering if that had been what she meant. Realizing once again what she’d said in the first place and having gotten distracted, he drug his eyes down to her. ”Buffy? You…see Buffy’s life?”

[/color] he said confusedly.

Hearing about Spike didn’t exactly thrill him. So she talks to Spike? Great sense of character she must have. After what Spike had tried to do to Buffy he felt like Spike shouldn’t be around any women at all. As if he shouldn’t be trusted even if he seems to think that he’s made up for it. ”Yeah, not exactly”[/color] he said in a huff voice, seemingly annoyed even to hear his grand sire’s name. ”But no one has ever said anything, not even Buffy…How am I supposed to know you’re not some creature from the blue lagoon?”[/color] Had that been a joke? It seemed that Angel made a joke to the girl, as strange as It was. He needed to lighten the mood a bit after being so dreary and down lately.

”Years? See anything interesting in my future?...”[/color] he asked jokingly. Eyes looking down to see her handing him the sketch book, he offered a small half smile and took it gently out of her hands. Beginning to flip through the pages he was a bit overwhelmed seeing images of him and everyone else Buffy knew. It seemed like this entire book was built from Buffy’s head, which half freaked him out, half interested him. Drawing wise though she was fantastic.[/blockquote][/color]
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Madison Mackenzey Compasstion Saxon looked at Angel. She could tell that he was confused which was fine. Anything he asked her she would answer. She really didn’t have anything to hide from him. She knew a lot about him, from what she learned from Buffy’s life in her dreams. He then asked about Angels. Maddie nodded. “yeah the halo wearing bastards, those angels.” Maddie said, still not really fond of them. She knew that she would never get over it. She would never trust another angel, even though the only one she had ever trusted was Gabriel. She then looked back at Angel when he had asked another question. “yes, everything that the angels think is important to record.”

Maddie watched his reaction when she mentioned Spike. She expected that type of reaction she really did. Maddie looked at him and listened to him ask how he was supposed to trust her. There was really only a few ways, one would be for him to attack her and feel Gabriel’s wrath, that would be fun, or she could try to convince him more. She would lay it out flat for him that way too. “you can attack me if you like, but I know an archangel who would get pretty pissed off and blow you to oblivion ending in purgatory which by the way, is not a good place to be, or you can call Buffy or Willow.” Maddie said handing him her cell phone. “use my phone.” Maddie said to him wondering if he would take her offer.

Maddie looked out at the water and she hoped that the angels weren’t watching her. It was kind of annoying now, them watching every little thing that she did, wondering when Gabriel would show himself. Part of her wondered if they were even watching at all, Raphael not really caring anymore about jack shit. That would be awesome. She would be able to be free from it, though not so much the visions part.

“no. I don’t see much of the future, just what has happened, what’s happening, sometimes the future but if it is its just Buffy and who is in the vision with her. Sorry…” Maddie said to him watching him look through the sketch book.

WORDS 377
TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Whisper - A Fine Frenzy
NOTES
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Had she really just called angels bastards? Alright, that was something to note; she clearly didn’t seem to be too fond of them. ”I take it you’re not a fan?”

Angel asked about the angels, wondering why she didn’t appear to favor them. After all they were angels and supposed to be the most good and purest beings alive. However sometimes he heard rumors that suggested otherwise, but one couldn’t believe everything he heard. Nodding slowly, he tried to take everything in a stride. It seemed that this girl was a hell of a lot more interesting than what he’d originally thought when he first seen her. ”Do you…How do I say this? Do you interfere? Or do you just record…”

[/color] he asked curiously.

Honestly he was almost wondering if she was sort of like Doyle. He had been able to see the future though and had been a seer, far different than a prophet. He assumed that Maddie was indeed a prophet as she didn’t seem to have visions from what he understood. Although he had heard of prophets he had only ever met one. Her name had been Natalia and it had been back when he was Angelus in Europe. Angelus hadn’t ever taken the time to find out what she was supposed to be ‘recording’ (as Maddie called it) and had killed her instead. Unfortunately for him, he remembered each and every one of Angelus’ kills.

Gabriel? Why did that sound so familiar…he took a few moments to think, but nothing came to mind. ”Hmm…being blown to an oblivion doesn’t sound like much fun”[/color] he said with a smirk. ”Who is Gabriel?”[/color] he asked just coming right out with the questions. As she went to hand him her cell phone, he waved it away. ”I’ll take your word on it, the sketch book was definitely enough for me.”[/color] It was true In that he trusted her for some reason, having seen what she seen through her drawings. Plus she clearly couldn’t harm him, as she was still human. And on some level he didn’t particularly want to take to neither Buffy nor Willow, but that wasn’t the main reason.

Angel handed her back her sketch book. ”No worries, I’m not so sure I’d want to see”[/color] he said in a bit of a defeated tone. He was definitely feeling down lately and it only got worse as the days went by, he felt like it was better not knowing the future anyhow. [/blockquote][/color]
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Madison Mackenzey Compassion Saxon nodded to Angel when he came to the conclusion that she wasn't fond of angels. Of course she wasn't it's like hell knowing them. The only one who ever seems to care about anything, the only one who seems to care about what happens to this earth and to humanity is Gabriel. "can't you tell? They aren't what people think they are." Maddie replied to him with a small shrug. They were violent and reckless and didn't understand a thing about this planet.

She smiled when he said being blown to oblivion didn't sound like much fun. Nope it didn't. She agreed with him there. Gabriel wasn't the angel to mess with. His temper was a lot worse than Raphael's and she learned that the hard way, though Gabriel thinks when he is angry, Raphael just acts. Angel then asked who Gabriel was. She looked at him with a slight confused look on her face. Maybe he wasn't familiar with the bible at all. "Gabriel, the archangel. The messenger of god." Madison replied to him, wondering if that would spark something, if something was even there.

He had waved her cell phone away and she put it down. At least he trusted her on this. It was weird sitting here next to a man that used to be evil though she was kind of used to it because of Spike and Gabriel. Gabriel wasnt all that good either. He did kill and harm people. 

"the future will always get better though, believe me. I know from experience." Maddie said to him taking her sketch book back.

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TAGGED Angel !
LYRICS Whisper - A Fine Frenzy
NOTES
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Angel hadn’t ever even so much as seen an angel, let alone met one. However he hadn’t heard of them called as anything but saints until now. A part of him wondered what her bad experiences with them were, what happened to make her dislike him. This may have been too personal of a question for only having known her for a few minutes though so he held off on it for now. He’d ask later after he’d known her for awhile and trusted her more. ”Haven’t met one…Probably never will”

he said simply with a shrug of his shoulders. Unless of course her friend ‘Gabriel’ showed up to blow him into oblivion as she had called it. He however didn’t see that happening anytime soon if ever.

Seeing the confused look on her face, he wondered what was so confusing. So he didn’t know this Gabriel fellow, what was the big deal? Those as she explained who Gabriel was, it was like a light bulb went off in his head. ”Oh…OH”

[/color] he said it louder the second time, everything finally clicking in his head. Angel knew the bible and knew it quite well actually. Not only had he been raised a Catholic, but he’d had many times over the year to read it after getting back his soul. He had thought there might be answers within it, but he never found any. ”The Gabriel, huh? What are the chances…”[/color] he trailed off, slightly skeptical about the whole thing. How in the hell would she know Gabriel, and why?

As she set her phone down, she then took her sketch book back afterwards as well. A slow nod was all he gave her for now, knowing that she was probably right. Well instead of knowing he more than likely just hoped that she was right. Knowing that it was getting later and later, he knew he should get back to Katheryn. His head turned to face the redhead. ”I should really get back, to my sister, Katheryn…Have a good night, Madison”[/color] he said with a small smile. Standing up he gave her one last look before he began walking back into the darkness. Where he once stood, there were only shadows and he was gone. [/blockquote][/color]
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[ADMIN ASHLEY]