Summary: Set in Buffy and Angel season flashbacks, telling the entire story of Darla and Angelus and Darla and Angel. Based on the song "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias.
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*The Rise of Angelus*
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Would you dance437Please respect copyright.PENANAlR2hLj6UX7
If I asked you to dance?437Please respect copyright.PENANAhvQHbNi264
Would you run437Please respect copyright.PENANAsR21ySz31f
And never look back?437Please respect copyright.PENANAC0zlrcNZhR
Would you cry437Please respect copyright.PENANA7mCEUTq0ic
If you saw me crying?437Please respect copyright.PENANAeYu7LMSb3V
Would you save my soul tonight?
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It was a dark night in 1753 Galway, as Darla lured a drunk Liam into an alley. She was going to turn him into what she was. He didn't even have any suspicion and no knowledge of vampires. His only thought was of her. He was charmed by her and her beauty. That's what made it so easy to lure him into a dark and desolate alley. Besides, by turning him into a monster, she would be saving him from this mortal life of unhappiness, cruelty, and of plainly being an outcast.437Please respect copyright.PENANAE1StcU5CCF
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After he had awoken and had been told everything by Darla, they went to his place where his sister invited him in, saying that he looked like an angel. Then he killed his entire family, leaving his father for last, as Darla watched with amusement and joy. She knew that she had chosen right, because he had the skill of pure evil like herself. 437Please respect copyright.PENANAsOf4NShABR
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In the centuries that followed, Darla and Liam became known as the most evil of all the vampires. Liam's name was even changed to Angelus. So, throughout time, he became known as "Angelus; the one with the angelic face; the face of an angel."437Please respect copyright.PENANAsdyvm5fjcq
In 1764 York, England Darla and Angelus killed the Vampire Hunter Holtz' family, but left his older daughter a vampire; Sarah. That made Holtz want to seek vengeance so much that he hunted them down, tracking them the best that he could. He and his friends almost found them in 1765 France, but all they accomplished was tracking them, due to Darla and Angelus hiding in a stable. But then in 1767 Marseilles Angelus, Darla, James, and Elisabeth were tracked and found. Angelus wanted to go, but James wanted to prove that he wasn't afraid or a coward by staying. That resulted in Angelus taking an arrow for James just moments after Darla and Elisabeth fled for safety. Then James betrayed Angelus by fleeing and leaving him at the hands of Holtz. 437Please respect copyright.PENANAkfnP5Run5c
In 1771 Rome, Darla saved Angelus from any further torture by Holtz, and they fled into the night, leaving Holtz alive but his friends dead. 437Please respect copyright.PENANAOWUb35FtC5
In 1860, Angelus sired Drusilla after driving her insane by killing everyone she had known and loved. Then, a few years later, seeking companionship of her own like Angelus and Darla had, she sired the young poet William, in 1880, and brought him to Angelus to meet. Darla by now had left to rejoin The Master. Later, William became known by two names; William the Bloody and Spike. 437Please respect copyright.PENANAybuDUICwBf
In 1898 in the Rumanian woods, Angelus killed the most beloved girl of the gypsies, which resulted in them punishing him with restoring his soul. Then, in 1898 Borsa, Romania after sensing that he had a soul, Darla turned her back on him.
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Would you tremble437Please respect copyright.PENANAqXIE91jblO
If I touched your lips?437Please respect copyright.PENANANZYO93dTv3
Would you laugh?437Please respect copyright.PENANAsjaqfUtktt
Oh, please, tell me this437Please respect copyright.PENANACY3L981Pc5
Now would you die437Please respect copyright.PENANA7mKHYCEbUP
For the one you love?437Please respect copyright.PENANAPNJjJe05dl
Hold me in your arms tonight437Please respect copyright.PENANALUULE757OG
I can be your hero, baby437Please respect copyright.PENANAUU35aTQSvh
I can kiss away the pain437Please respect copyright.PENANAM8r8wyHiqp
I will stand by you forever437Please respect copyright.PENANAPAgRkuVcmq
You can take my breath away437Please respect copyright.PENANAD64GMVvNRm
Would you swear437Please respect copyright.PENANAWcebEfaACz
That you'll always be mine?437Please respect copyright.PENANAJpNtC0LcOo
Or would you lie?437Please respect copyright.PENANAejcOUFbow8
Would you run and hide?437Please respect copyright.PENANAFo0TWYOAik
Am I in too deep?437Please respect copyright.PENANA3NblMLPxWS
Have I lost my mind?437Please respect copyright.PENANAJlqwl6rd79
I don't care...437Please respect copyright.PENANAenfvUY3So0
You're here tonight
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In 1996 Manhattan in a dark alley, a demon named Whistler found him. By now he had changed his name from Angelus to Angel. Whistler told him that if he wanted to find his place in the world, he had to follow him. So, he did. Then Whistler enlisted him to watch over Buffy who would soon become the new LA Vampire Slayer and then Sunnydale's Slayer. 437Please respect copyright.PENANAr8ZuvML7py
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After leaving Sunnydale and going to live in LA, and after establishing Angel Investigations with the help of some new and old friends, he soon discovered that Wolfram and Heart had brought Darla back to life, but as a human. That wasn't the problem really, though. The real issue was that because she was human, she was dying of Syphilis, just as she had been before The Master had turned her centuries ago. So, even after everything evil that she had done as a vampire, he did what he could to save her life. He even went through the trials and tests to save her. In the end though, he couldn't save her, because Dru turned Darla back into a vampire.
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I can be your hero, baby437Please respect copyright.PENANAWSHsmakkpy
I can kiss away the pain437Please respect copyright.PENANAckptM37LG4
I will stand by you forever437Please respect copyright.PENANAuEJTjTrlk1
You can take my breath away437Please respect copyright.PENANANjt1wK8jfM
Oh, I just want to hold you437Please respect copyright.PENANAT2nEudZUV6
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah437Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0SvfGALsE
Am I in too deep?437Please respect copyright.PENANARpRSCH6Nce
Have I lost my mind?437Please respect copyright.PENANADz9m9iv1fZ
Well, I don't care...437Please respect copyright.PENANAcDYIre0UxP
You're here tonight...437Please respect copyright.PENANAhK4BTD6Pps
I can be your hero, baby437Please respect copyright.PENANAdoY0TBr48U
I can kiss away the pain437Please respect copyright.PENANA2KIPjmDuRP
I will stand by you forever437Please respect copyright.PENANAkiGl5a0pIu
You can take my breath away
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About six months later or so, Darla came to the Angel Investigations hotel pregnant after they had had a night of passion six months earlier, when she had tried to get him to lose his soul with a "moment of perfect happiness." Then, around a month or so later, after she had him promise to take care of their son, she staked herself in an alley on a rainy night, and baby Connor was born.
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I can be your hero437Please respect copyright.PENANAXGl77uJ1ot
I can kiss away the pain437Please respect copyright.PENANAp5oJ6qtkKm
And I will stand by you forever437Please respect copyright.PENANAkQpDkQ1YjG
You can take my breath away437Please respect copyright.PENANAzJqRTzWmcY
You can take my breath away437Please respect copyright.PENANAows3Nq00zQ
I can be your hero...