Story: Devil's Law: The Devil's Advocate

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TITLE: Devil's Law: The Devil's Advocate
AUTHOR: Femvamp
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DISCLAIMER: Joss Wheadon and many others own the characters of BtVS 
(lucky bastards). 
NOTE: Story takes place a month before Dreamers
FURTHER NOTE: I dive into religion here. Don't mean to offend 
anyone, just playing out some thoughts in my head. Not sure I agree 
with the outcome myself, but was way too good to erase afterwords.
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The Devil's Advocate

Detective Kate Lockley sat at her desk and flipped though her newest 
case. Yet again, for the umpteenth time, someone had stuck her with 
an unbelievable and therefore unsolvable case. She suspected that 
even if she did solve the case she would still have to classify it as 
unsolved. Something smelt "otherworldly." 

*** This is a case for demon cop. *** 

Kate smiled. Lately both Doyle and Cordelia had been calling her 
demon cop. At least it was more original then what her so-called 
friends at the police department called her. The nicest was "Spooky 
Mulder" 

*** They couldn't even come up with anything original. ***

Kate continued to read through the case file. A man had been accused 
of killing a family. There had been a great deal of blood loss. And 
the kicker was two puncture wounds by the jugular. It was a classic 
vampire case.

*** Ok this is bad. Calling vampires classic. ***

The man's name was Jeffrey Trinker. He was a big time business 
tycoon. He was also a recluse. Even in the file there was no picture 
of him

*** I guess he didn't want anyone to notice he didn't age. ****

Kate continued to read from the file. When she got to the bottom she 
saw something that made her blood boil. Jeffrey Trinker's lawyer was 
from Wolfram and Hart.

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Lee Mercer walked down the hallway with Lilah Morgan and Lindsey 
McDonald at his flanks. They were discussing their newest client. A 
vampire by the name of Jeffrey Trinker. 

"I can't believe that a hundred year old vampire would be that 
sloppy." Lilah commented.

"It happens." Lee said simply, "He was hungry."

"So how do we handle this one. " Lilah asked, "Do we bribe or kill 
the witnesses?"

"Bribery if possible, the other if not."

Lindsey continued to walk in silence. He was basically a good guy. 
At least that's what he told himself. He had agreed to work for 
Wolfram and Hart because they had offered him a whole lot of money. 
He had found out about their interesting clientele a month after he 
started. He had been given a case that seemed to be a normal run of 
the mill murder. He knew the guy he was defending was guilty, he just 
didn't know that he was a demon.

Now he was on his way to becoming a junior partner and now he was 
having second thoughts. Suddenly a conciounce he thought he had 
killed years ago was coming back with a vengeance.

"You've been very quite Lindsey." Lee commented.

"Sorry, sir." Lindsey feigned a smile.

"That's Ok we all have our quite introspective moments." Lee smiled, 
"My last one was whether or not to kill the bastard of a son-in-law of 
mine. Eventually I cam to the only logical conclusion. What the 
hell." Lee paused for a moment, "Oh that reminds me. We've just 
hired a new partner for our little firm, and I want to the two of you 
to make him feel at home."

"Does he know about our.....clients?" Lialah asked.

"Don't think so, so don't scare him off on the first day." Lee 
paused, "We have plans for him. Big.....big plans."

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That Night

Kate was sitting on Cordelia's couch having a.....discussion with 
Dennis. Well it was more like Kate talking and Dennis writing on a 
board, but it was interesting. When Kate had first found out about 
Cordelia's "roomate" she had been spooked. The two women had been in 
a relationship for over a month before Kate had become privy to the 
little secret.

"Here's your coffee Detective." Cordelia smiled.
Kate smiled. It had become a running joke with them. Cordelia very 
rarely called her Kate. She must preferred calling her Detective when 
they were alone and Demon cop when they were with the others. Angel 
and Doyle had found out about their relationship only recently and 
they were both a little hurt. Doyle more then Angel. Kate had known 
for awhile that Doyle was in love with Cordelia. She couldn't blame 
him though, Cordelia was a hard woman not to fall for.

"Thanks Cordy." Kate took a sip of the really bad coffee.

"So what were you and Dennis talking about?"

"The Tree of Knowledge." Kate smiled.

"What?"

Kate laughed, "The Bible. Adam and Eve. The snake. The Garden of 
Eden."

"Oh."

*** I won. *** Dennis wrote on his board.

"I was playing devil's advocate, I agree with you."

"About what?"

"Nothing major, just that the Devil picked Eve not because she was a 
woman, but because she was an easier mark. She was an innocent. "

"And Adam wasn't?"

"Not to the same extent. He was in the world longer. Even if the 
Garden of Eden was a paradise, it was still the real world, which 
meant real stuff happened. Eve was there for less time, which made 
her less aware of the surrounding evil."

"So the snake conned her."

*** Yup. Hook, line and apple. ***

"This is what you were talking about?" Cordelia laughed, "You both 
have to get out more."

"You're the one to talk, Miss I nightlight for a vampire and live with 
a ghost." Kate smiled.

"Hey we all have our issues."

Cordelia smiled and then kissed Kate. 

Cordelia and Kate heard Dennis hit his board and turned around to read 
it.

*** Hey if you're gonna do that go into your own room. Unless you 
want an audience. ***

Cordelia groaned and Kate laughed. They were about to do just as 
Dennis had suggested when the phone rang.

"There's only one person who'd call this late." Cordelia got up and 
headed for the phone.

"Angel."

"The one and only."

Cordelia spoke on he phone for a few minutes. Kate listened to what 
she could. Cordelia didn't sound too happy. 

"Let me guess the bat signal?" 

"Yeah we've been called to headquarters."

Kate got up, "Well its seems that Queen C and the Demon Cop are needed 
once again."

Both women heard Dennis once again bang on his board.

*** Denna nena nena nena ...... ***

Kate laughed and Cordelia sighed.

"You too really need to get a life."

TBC