Story: Devil's Law : The Devil's Trap

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TITLE: Devil's Law: The Devil's Trap
AUTHOR: Femvamp
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The Devil's Trap

Three days later

Lee Mercer, Hank Summers, Lilah Morgan and Lindsey McDonald were 
sitting in Hank's office planning their next move. Hank was sitting 
behind his desk with the others sitting in chairs in front of him. 

"I still don't understand why someone like Cordelia Chase would work 
for a corrupt detective." Hank began, "From what I saw of her, she 
was a popular girl."

"Things change." Lee frowned, "LA is a scary place, maybe Miss Chase 
got involved with things she didn't understand. It happens to the 
best of us."

"Besides, from what I understand, Angel is a very convincing man." 
Lilah smiled.

"Yes, he is." Hank muttered, "He was my daugher's boyfriend for 
awhile."

"Really." Lee said genuinely surprised. "I didn't know that."

"Yes" Hank began, "My daughter is no saint, by any standard, she's 
gotten into her share of trouble, but when I heard about her newest 
fling, I nearly died."

Lilah patted Hank on the arm, "You did the best you could with your 
daughter."

Hank nodded, "After she got in trouble my marriage to her mother fell 
apart. When they moved to Sunnydale I thought she would settle down a 
bit. Things just got worse. Then I met some of her friends and 
well..."

"You hoped they would change her." Lindsey said.

"But from what I see, she changed them."

"Maybe it was Angel's doing." Lee said simply.

Hank smiled, "I would like to think so. Anyway he is dirty, and now 
we have the proof. What are we going to do about it?"

The others just smiled.

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The next night

Angel, Doyle, Cordelia and Kate were relaxing. It had been a slow few 
days for all of them. The cases they had, had been simple dust the 
vampire cases. Nothing special or particularly difficult. 

"So what do you want to do tonight, ladies?" Doyle asked.

Kate smiled, "I was figuring on flirting with you and then ravishing 
Cordelia."

Both Cordelia and Doyle turned odd shades of red. Angel just smiled.

"I think we're having a bad effect on you, Kate." Doyle laughed.

"I think so too." Kate joined the laughter and turned to Cordelia, 
"You wanted me to get a life, remember?"

"Yeah I just didn't expect you to turn into Doyle." Cordelia smiled.

"Hey I'm one of a kind." Doyle said in mock anger.

"Thank God for that." 

Angel smiled, "Well there isn't much going on tonight. " He turned to 
Kate, "If you want to get going with the ravishing, feel free." 

"Hey can I watch?" Doyle smiled wickedly.

"Only in your dreams." Cordelia smiled, "No wait. Not even in your 
dreams."

"Darn. And here I thought I was going to have the best...." 

Suddenly Doyle fell to the floor in pain. Everyone jumped. They all 
ran to Doyle and tried to comfort him the best they could. 

"Get out." Doyle said gasping for breath. 

"What?" Angel asked startled.

"What did you see?" Cordelia asked.

Doyle turned to Angel, "Run. Now!"

Suddenly the door flew open and a group of police officers entered the 
office. Angel barely had enough time to move to the shadows. One of 
the police officers walked to Kate.

"Detective Lockley." The man nodded.

"Detective Kendrick." Kate said without emotion, "Is there something 
I can do for you."

Kendrick smiled, "Detective Kate Lockley, you are under arrest for 
accepting bribes." He then turned to Doyle and Cordelia, "And you two 
are also under arrest."

Angel watched from the shadows as his three friends were handcuffed. 
None of them said anything. The last thing Angel saw before they were 
taken away was Cordelia's face staring back at him. 

Angel turned around and left. There was nothing he could do. He knew 
he needed help. There was only one place to go.

Sunnydale.