Her Name Is Amy

[Luke]

Luke took his place behind the large oak desk and pourd himself a brandy. His eyes glanced at the clock which hung on the wall beside him and he shook his head, Where is that girl? He thought of Angel and sighed as he rolled his chair over to the bookcase and picked it up off of the shelf.

He laid the book flat on the desk and flipped through it's pages which were covered in useful information. Useful to someone who needed it that was.

Not able to concentrate on the pages with the black ink filling the off white paper that was bound in the book Luke closed it, harder then he intended, and he sat leaned back in his chair with his hands behind his head and looked at the picture sitting on his desk. Amy. He thought as he picked the picture up and his fingertips gently traced the glass with the photo underneath.

Luke felt suddenly overwhelmed with emotion as his eyes stared at the picture almost as if the image would suddenly transform and take on a human shape- something which Luke wished for from time to time. " What are we going to do with her?" He asked the image as his thoughts drifted off to Angel for a moment as he once again glanced at the clock, " It seems to me she doesn't know what a curfew is." He chuckled as he pulled out a piece of paper and began writing a letter.

[Angel Killer]

Angel ran into the front door of the house and heard the sound of the t.v. sifting in from the living room. " Home." She called as she took her jacket off and hung it up on the hook that was fastened on the wall by the door.

Angel walked into the living room where she seen Luke sitting quietly, his usual button up shirt unbuttoned revealing a white tank, sitting on the table in front of him was a bottle of brandy, it wasn't hard to tell he was having a bad night, " You okay?" She asked him as she swooped the bottle up off the table and took a swig, " You english men and your brandy." She said as she wrinkled her nose in disgust and put the alcohol up on the shelf.

Angel sat down beside the man and looked picked up the remote for the t.v. and began surfing through the channels, " I seen that demon you mentioned, the red haired one." She stated, " The group had her surrounded, I was going to stop but I wanted to get home. You know, homework comes before hunting demons." She said as finally finding a show she liked, " I was on my way home from.... The mall," She added, careful not to mention that she was late due to meeting up with Roman, " They had her surrounded. I thought you'd be with them tonight. Skyler was." She mentioned as she thougth of the twenty year hold member of the Light Givers who had always tried to pick her up.

Angel looked at Luke and noticed his silence, " What's wrong?" She asked him as she looked at the man, " You're awfully quiet tonight."

[Luke]

" Huh?" Luke asked inquizitively, " I'm just tired." He yawned suddenly, " It's been a long day, that's part of the reason I wasn't with the others tonight, they're actually training Skyler actually." He said in between yawns.

Luke's eyes were placed on the t.v., and watched an add for some cell phone commercial, he looked back at Angel, " The school called today." He said suddenly. " They wanted to know why you weren't there."

Luke looked at the young girl firmly and could see her mind racing for an excuse. He put a hand up to stop her. " Angel, this is why I won't take you on any of the missions with us, school first, leave the demon hunting to those of us who have gone through school already." He said a little more firmly than what he ment. His gaze on the girl softend " Look, all I want for you is to give you a normal life..... Well as normal as I can manage." He said as he watched the girl sit quietly listening to him.

[Angel Killer]

Angel stared at the t.v., Normal? She thought to herself, What is normal?

She turned and looked at Luke who always treated her like she was his very own daughter, he was always trying to keep her safe, always putting school, and her life before other things, he didn't want Angel messing around with stuff that involved demons.

This was a cause of guilt to Angel as she thought about her, extra curicular activities; to her the normal stuff; Making objects float across the room using her mind, making the dead come back to life, changing her hair color with just the touch of her hand- Girl stuff.

These were the things that she needed to keep hidden from Luke to protect him from, so that she did not cause him anymore sadness and worry as the man had already experienced.

Angel forced herself to smile at Luke as she watched him, she muttered sorry to him and they returned to the television where a newscast suddenly popped up with a calm news reproter came up and began talking to her viewers.

..... News has just came from witnesses that tonight is not the night to be walking around town streets- It seems there has been a battle, ending lives of several of white robed men, all trying to stop this woman.

At this time a woman with beautiful long red hair popped up onto the screen, Angel looked at Luke, her gleaming blue eyes questioning him without saying a word. Angel turned to the t.v. again and continued listening to the blond woman who's voice was cautioning terror.

...... " It seems...." She continued, " That a young man is currently at the scene battling the demon. At this point no one is able to get near the gripping fight, but we will have more information as it comes."

[Luke]

Luke stood up, he looked down at Angel who sat on the couch seeming to be ready to protest his departure. " I have to go." He argued before she had a chance to spit the question out of her mouth. "Skyler is no where ready to be battling a demon of the girl's power, he's only young yet."

The stern face he had wore ealier sofented and he grabbed his favorite gun out of the top drawer of his desk and check the ammunition in it. " Very nice." He said as his eyes took in the beauty of the Desert Eagle, Magmum handgun he held in his hand and remembered the damage it was able to do.

Of course though, Luke was not going to go there with the intentions of killing Tiffany, just with the intentions of protecting the young man Skyler by whatever means.