Live Through This, Part Four

"Live Through This, Part Four" was the fourth issue of the Angel & Faith comic book series.

Synopsis
Pearl and Nash fought Angel and Faith. Nash said that he had already killed 50 slayers and killing Faith wouldn't be fun anymore, just boring. Angel attacked Pearl and bit her, and her brother stopped fighting Faith in order to help his sister. Faith got the chance and put one of the two Mohra jars she held inside Nash's pocket, and she told to the crowd that he had the last of the Mohra blood. The crowd attacked the demonic siblings and Faith with Angel got the chance to escape the fight. Faith noticed that Fraser was running for the door instead, suggesting to Angel they should do the same. But Angel smelled something in the basement and decided that this was the chance to see what more Fraser was keeping and hiding as a secret.

As they are heading downstairs, we get a look into Faith's thoughts. She wonders if she can trust him, she wonders whether she should make him human right now using the jar she has in her hands, wondering what will happen if Pearl and Nash attack human Angel, realising that they will probably kill him, but at the end she makes the choice to use the blood to turn Angel into human. But right before she does it, surprise!

They find a room full of monsters! Realiaing that those monsters are just the people who had paid to buy the Mohra blood and use it to heal themselves, they are the people that were missing from last issue's investigation that Faith and Angel had done. Because of the breaking of the seed, the Mohra blood keeps on regenerating the cells, getting to the people that use it a kind of cancer. Faith shocked, lets the last jar of blood drop and gets smashed on the floor. Then a monster talks informing them that they hurt very much and what they live is a torture. They have been keeping the monsters inside the basement trying to find a cure, but nothing works and it only gets worst. The monster tells them that they tried to kill themselves and each other, but they keep on healing and asks for Angel's and Faith's help to end their misery. But Angel asks for their help first.

Meanwhile upstairs, Nash and Pearl are enjoying the fight and winning it. So the monsters go upstairs informing everyone how the blood works, and the crowd gets uninterested in the blood now. Pearl and Nash leave when they realize they came for nothing informing Angel that this isn't over and that they'll be back. Faith thinks it's a trick and they'll be back soon, but Angel believes that they have wasted too much energy already. A monster attacks and Angel beheads it and kills it. He informs that separating the head from the body is the only thing that will stop the regenerating part, and the monsters ask them to kill them and do it fast. So Angel and Faith kill all the human monsters releasing them from their misery. Angel tells Faith that he will keep on trying to find another way to bring back Giles and they leave.

Next we see Pearl and Nash arriving at Whistler's place. They inform him that they found Angel, but the reason they left was because Faith put the jar inside his pocket and they were afraid of breaking it. Happily they inform Whistler that things are much better than they had imagined, since the blood now without magic works differently since it's more lethal than anything right now.

Next morning Faith meets Nadira in a park, informing her that Pearl and Nash are in England and that she'll make sure they will pay for what they did. Nadira happily gives her a hug, telling her that she finally will get a chance to make things right and kill them and then Angel so she can finally get some peace. As Faith leaves the park she meets Alasdair again. He tells her that he has heard what happened with the blood and asks her if she has considered what he has told her. Faith gets angry and tells him that all she does is lie to people she cares about, just like she has done in her past. Alasdair replies that he knows nothing of Faith's past, bit it's up to her judgment to dissuade Angel from his mad plan. As Faith leaves him, she mentions that it was her judgment that almost got Angel killed the previous night.

Faith returns home finding Angel doing research reading books. She comments on the fact that Angel wears glasses, and she thought that vampires don't need them. Angel tries to justify it saying that if you needed them before you need them afterwards. He also adds that he has found another way to bring back the dead. A Sadhu in 1764 claimed that he had restored a physical body from its ashes. So Faith gets the chance to tell him that she is on his side, but one of the things that were made clear even by Giles was that you can't bring someone back from the dead after a natural death. And she warns Angel that if he crosses the lines, she will stop him whatever it takes. Surprisingly Angel says that he knows and that this is the reason why he has asked for her help. He gets obsessed too often and the last thing that Giles would want would be to bring him back by hurting other people. That is exactly what Angel didn't have while he was Twilight, somebody who knew him, who had seen the best and worst of him and somebody who could tell him when he was going too far and he was crossing the lines. Somebody to stop him when he couldn't stop himself. So Angel asks again for Faith's help, and she promises to watch his back. Then Faith heads to the kitchen, she's hungry, and she asks Angel if he wants some blood. But Angel tells her that he doesn't and that he prefers some tea. Faith doesn't notice it at the beginning but when she mentions that he sounded "just like him" she kind of gets suspicious of something going on. But she says "Never mind, "earl gray coming up".

Continuity
The story was set after "Last Gleaming", but before "In Perfect Harmony".

Individuals

 * Angel
 * Faith
 * Nadira
 * Pearl
 * Nash
 * Mal Fraser

Species

 * Vampire
 * Human

Locations

 * London

Collections

 * Live Through This