InsaneJournal

WHO: Cordelia Chase and Daryl Dixon
WHAT: A random meeting between two of the most opinionated captives in Colligo. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
WHEN: Early evening
WHERE: A random street.
RATING: TBD [probably high due to violence and language]
STATUS: In Progress

Although Cordelia hadn't seen Angelus very much since the first time she'd spotted him in the city a few days earlier, her thoughts hadn't been focused on much else. The soulless version of her Champion weighed heavily on her mind; worry that he was going to show up at any moment to torture then kill her was just about all she could really focus on. And the fact that he was still out there somewhere, roaming the streets and harming innocent people, was just about all she could bear most of the time. However, there were times when her attention did shift to something else. When Spike had mentioned Buffy arriving and giving him such a hard time was one instance. And when she'd had a vision shortly after dinner that evening was another.

Normally, Angel was the one that Cordelia turned to when the PTB decided to send a vision her way. However he wasn't an option at the moment and Spike, who was her second choice even if she'd yet to inform him of as much, wasn't all that capable of doing his part at the moment either. Which meant it was left solely up to her. Fortunately, the vision involved a demon she already knew how to defeat, one that was easily dispatched by both her sword and her crossbow. As the brunette favored her crossbow over her sword, not to mention it was much easier to travel with as it was compact enough to fit into a satchel slung over one shoulder, that was her weapon of choice as she made her way to the location she'd seen a few hours earlier in her mind's eye.

Of course, responses to visions rarely followed the same sort of definitive playbook that the vision itself tended to go by, and more often than not something always wound up going ridiculously wrong at precisely the worst possibly time. This one was no exception as what have should have been nothing more than a simply arrow to the demon's heart turned into the demon having three others just like him who were hiding in the shadows as the one pictured in her vision lured some unsuspecting local to their certain demise. That, in turn, ended in Cordelia being grabbed by the throat, lifted a good foot or so in the air, and tossed out of the alley as though she weighed absolutely nothing.

Normally, being thrown that far would have certainly knocked the wind out of her and possibly rendered her unconscious. However this time she managed to crash into someone who was unfortunate enough to be passing by the entrance to the alley at precisely that moment, which caused both of them to fall to the ground in a mess of limbs and grunts of mild pain. Scrambling quickly to her feet, she barely paid the person she'd landed on more than a cursory glance, offering a quick apology, before she was snatching up her crossbow and stalking back into the alley as though she was doing some sort of rendition of Xena: Warrior Princess. Taking aim, she quickly hit one demon in the heart with an arrow before smoothly loading her crossbow and turning to face one of the two that was remaining.

"You know," she said calmly as she caught the thing in her sights and prepared to pull the trigger, "I have seen some seriously ugly beings in my day. But I'm pretty sure that you guys? Definitely take the cake."

Any thoughts of the person she'd landed on a moment before, or anyone else who might be around to witness what was taking place, was quickly forgotten in lieu of dealing with the current threat that was eying her as though she'd make a very good substitute for the human meal she'd just let get away.