4 The Child
They stood there, all was silent.
Gunn broke the ice, “Sounds like we have a case on our hands.”
“This isn’t right,” said Angel.
Spike spoke: “I haven’t done anything with Buffy since, um…. Years.”
Angel looked at Spike, “What makes you think this prophecy means you Spike, have you ever even been in a Prophecy?”
“That’s not what it’s about,” said Wesley, “the fact there’s a child.”
“Wait,” started Conner, “This is just a prophecy, what if, it hasn’t happened yet.”
Angel replied, “That isn’t usually what happens Conner.”
“Things are playing out,” addressed Wesley.
“This is big,” said Gunn, “What if this kid is evil.”
Spike just sat up on the bar speechless.
“Then we’ll make sure they’re not evil later, or something,” said Angel.
“I’m not the dad type Angel, I’m the bad boy,” said Spike.
“Alright,” said Wesley, “It could be either one of you alright, either Angel, or Spike.”
“Spike has a soul, Angel signed away the Shanshu,” said Gunn, “There’s possibilities.”
“Spike is never in the Prophesies,” said Angel.
“Well things have changed,” stated Spike.
They all went quiet again.
“We should contact Buffy,” said Wesley.
“We don’t do anything with Buffy,” said Angel, “It wont matter, at least not yet, uh, the child will find the father. Any other stuff Wes?”
“No, not really, more translations, a lot of gibberish, but it’s what’s been in every diary I have ever read just before,” replied Wesley, “It showed that prophecy right before they all died.”
“This isn’t real,” said Spike, “It’s unbelievable, me a dad, I…”
“I don’t care who is at the moment,” said Angel, “We need to get on this job.”
Conner was looking down, “A child that comes from Quortoth isn’t just some job, they think differently,” said Conner, “Anyone from Quortoth is dangerous, or, human , they’d be scared.”
“We do know that the child is human,” said Wesley, “Child.”
“Well Child could mean anything,” said Gunn.
“We need to start thinking, we need to find out when this child went to Quortoth,” said Wesley.
“I agree with Wesley,” said Angel, “We need to know where we should start, okay.”
Gunn rubbed his head and then folded his arms, Spike just sat there, Conner sat down on that large teal chair in the middle of the room and knelt with his elbows on his knees, They were quiet.
“Missing Children,” said Gunn.
“Buffy’s in where, uh, England again, not Rome,” said Angel.
“Yeah, she went back there right before we left Wolfram & Hart,” said Wesley.
Angel took a breath putting his hand on his hips, “Gunn, um… go to the library downtown, look up missing children in England. Spike stay here, Wesley keep reading Conner go with Gunn, Conner look up, um,” he rubbed his temples, “Just go home instead.”
“I can help,” said Conner.
Angel voice was demanding, angry pitched, “Well Conner, I can’t think up anything for you to do!”
Conner just looked at him then walked out the door. Spike looked down at the ground still.
“That was hard Angel,” said Wesley.
“I need to go see someone,” said Angel going into his office and grabbing his coat.
He ran out of the room.
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Lilah sat at the bar of a nice little place. The usual in fact. She sat there drinking her martini.
“Not much of a social life I see,” said Angel from behind.
“Ah, yes, my black knight,” she just looked at her glass as Angel sat down next to her.
“I want you to tell me about portal openings,” said Angel.
“Are you going to do what you did last time, do a bad, bad spell,” she said.
“No, I need to know if any portals have been opened in the last week to 3 weeks, sometime soon,” said Angel.
“Well I just can’t say that off the top of my head can I?” she replied.
“I wasn’t expecting you too,” said Angel, “I don’t care how you do it, just tell me.”
“I hear nowadays you like petty left,” said Lilah.
“It wasn’t petty,” said Angel.
“It was petty,” replied Lila.
“I really don’t care what you think about that Lilah, just tell me what you know. Tell me how I can find out.”
“You do know that I’m The Wicked Witch, Dorothy, and I can’t give you the slippers to go home,” she smiled looking at him.
“I take it you don’t want to help me,” said Angel.
“Well actually I want to help you to bite the Senior Partners in the ass, and… I just wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting into.”
“I know, that’s why I wont really trust you,” said Angel.
“Well then move a long cow boy you don’t need anything from me,” said Lilah.
“I need to know these things, because, they are important. If you have any cent left of morals in you you’ll tell me what I want, cause, I hate to hit a lady,” he said.
“You don’t know me that well do you?” she smiled.
“I have hope that people do have hearts, and ones that don’t only bleed black,” said Angel.
“We happen to have our interest on the same things then, sort of,” she replied.
“Start talking,” said Angel looking forward.
Lilah took a drink of her martini and looked forward too, “I’ve become interested in portals, hot spots really because, about 3 weeks ago there was a dimensional tear in the worlds, over in Europe.”
“Okay then, and,” said Angel.
“And, there’s dimensional, worldly tears every day, you name when, any where. But this tear wasn’t like any tear that had occurred, not since the one in your hotel was made, and defiantly not since Sahjun was around, so I got interested,” replied Lilah.
“That’s why? What have you found?” questioned Angel.
“Well, there’s hot spots all over, sending out weird rays of forces. Down in Alaska those weird little liquid demons that your hotel had time ago got out and killed a whole tribe of Eskimos. Of course we terminated those, closed up the very small rip, it wasn’t like the others though.”
“So to find what I’m looking for,” said Angel, “I’m going to have to go to Alaska.”
“I take it you’re expecting something,” said Lilah.
“You have no idea,” said Angel.
“I do know this, we bring in psychics, have them try and track why these hot spots are so active, you know. well, they’re heads end up on the walls.” She took a final drink of her martini, “Talk about looking into your brain.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, you should look at the Cleaning bills, and we’ve just rebuilt. I’m almost worried that The Senior partners will dock my pay.”
Angel crossed his arms, “I’m sure there’s bigger things.”
“So why did you steal those books, those contain watchers prophecies, why, something to do with Wesley, or….. Buffy,” she said.
“A little,” said Lilah.
“What do you know?” asked Angel.
“Well, about that, Buffy?”
“Yes,” stated Angel.
[This next part is probably not accurate here, but I think it’s better then my other ideas.]
“Had a baby the 1 yr. Anniversary of the destruction of the Hell mouth,” said Lilah, “Creepy right?”
“I guess, so who’s the father?” asked Angel.
She took a good last drink of her martini, “I don’t know,” she put the glass down, “I don’t really know much about this stuff, just collect info. That follows over the demon law firm board. Senior Partners do not like this either but, that’s not my fault.”
“Anything else,” said Angel.
“Well, hmm…. Now that I think, NAH,” she said.
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Morning came. Angel hadn’t returned. Spike sat on the bar. Conner walked out of Wesley’s office closing the door behind him.
“Conner, I want to talk to you,” said Spike getting up and walking over to Conner.
“About what?” asked Conner.
“Do you think there’s any chances that, I’m this child’s father?” questioned Spike.
“I have no idea,” replied Conner.
They stood there for a moment, Spike spoke next, “What’s Quortoth like?”
“It’s probably changed some,” said Conner.
“What was it like then,” said Spike.
“Bad, demons all over,” said Conner, “People dying, fighting for food, nothing called a good pair of shoes, torturing people, demons torturing, it’s a hell dimension.”
“You might be a half brother,” said Spike.
“I know,” replied Conner.
Gunn walked in through the front doors, “I now know why all those people on T.V. hate the library, it’s a bore, I was in there all night.”
Spike and Conner looked at Gunn.
“Where’s Wesley, or Angel?” asked Gunn.
“I’m back,” said Angel coming from the hall, from the basement.
“Wesley?” questioned Gunn.
“Sleeping,” said Conner, “He stayed up a long time, really, he’s in the office I would’ve woken him up but-”
“He just looked so sweet in that state,” said Spike sarcastically, Conner looked at him, “Did you find anything?”
“I found out that there’s no missing children in Europe with anything to do with Buffy,” said Gunn, “And I looked.”
“I found out some,” said Angel, “The baby was born on the 1 year anniversary of the destruction of the Hell mouth and that there was a rip in the dimensions, 3 weeks ago.”
“So this child would be 16,” said Conner.
“Teenager,” said Spike.
“Has there been any disturbances?” questioned Angel.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Spike.
“Anything,” said Angel.
Angel sat down on the teal thing, “I saw Lilah.”
“You did?” questioned Gunn.
“Yes, she was the one to tell me about Buffy and the destruction of the hell mouth,” said Angel, “She told me that there were Slucks in Alaska.”
“I ain’t going to no Alaska,” said Gunn.
“I don’t expect you too,” said Angel, they were quiet, the area flashed, they looked up at the place, Angel kept talking, “ There’s so many hot spots, probably doing what that is doing right now, or whenever it does. We don’t have leads. We don’t know if this child is evil, or good, or both.”
“I doubt that’s possible,” said Gunn.
“Nope,” said Spike, “I was saving the world without my soul, I loved, I acted good, but then again I was evil.”
“You’re Spike,” said Gunn.
“So,” said Spike crossing his arms across his chest.
Angel took of his coat and put it down on the bar.
“Things just aren’t right,” said Conner.
The area flashed again. They watched it.
Spike looked at the flashing confused, “It doesn’t do that twice in that much time.”
“So that means-” said Gunn.
The room’s imaginary space started to spark when it tore all of a sudden. A rip of red light shined through. Then something flipped out. A person. A girl.
She had long wavy/straight light brown hair, she was thin and beautiful. She wore animal skins and was armed with sharp weapons. And boots.
This Mysterious Girl had perfect pale skin, to go along with her mysterious presence. She looked a lot like Buffy, her features of her face were more defined then Buffy’s.
[I kind of imagine Avril Lavigne. She looks like Buffy/Dawn relative.]
The Girl landed and threw something into the air. The object halted in the mid air, a jewel, purple, shot out a blue light , the light then closed the tare. The girl turn towards them. They were quiet.
“I think we found them, her,” stated Spike.
“Hi,” said Angel, “Just don’t do anything sudden.”
Her big blue eyes went wide as she looked at them with her head cocked to the side, she spoke in a low tone, you wouldn‘t of been able to tell much of her characteristics through her tone, “Hi.”
Angel looked at her for what felt like a long time. The girl quickly took off, faster then most humans at Angel. The Girl jumped up and kicked Angel across the face. He was thrown back inhumanly over the bar onto the desk falling off.
She landed abruptly. Spike came at her from behind and she swung around and punched him in the face and pushed him down.
Conner went to punch her and she ducked the blow and grabbed him by the fist so quickly with her strength she flipped him by his arm. He landed on the floor on his back. She went forward towards the door.
Gunn went to punch her from behind and she swayed out of the way with ease, then he went to do it again and she swayed the opposite direction and turned to face him, he missed. He went down to kick her off her feet. She back flipped over his leg landing in a crouching position and quickly stood up and kicked him in his chest. He flew back.
Angel had blood dripping down his face from getting hit in the face. She quickly twisted around to Angel and swiped her fist across his face. She jumped up and pushed her legs into his chest pushing him back into the wall as she flipped off him and landed unfazed.
Spike came back at her and she ran up the side of the wall next to the bar. She ran up it and back flipped landing behind Spike and she kicked him in the back throwing him down. Conner came back at her.
The Mysterious Girl turned to Conner. He went to punched her from the side. She was behind him and he didn’t notice because of her speed. She grabbed his arm and twisted it behind him. She grabbed the other one from behind and then pulled back, she kneed him in the back and flipped forward landing in a crouching position. He was flung over her as she landed and he slammed to the ground.
His ribs made a cracking sound as he hit the ground. The Girl pulled away and turned around looking at Angel automatically.
“Stop fighting us,” said Angel grabbing her arm.
She punched him in the chest, bones making that cracking sound they way they do, Blood rolled down Angel‘s chin from his mouth. She took her hand off his.
The Girl looked him in the eyes sharply, “Stop that,” she growled, her voice used that tone. Slammed her fist against his face and he flew back onto the ground out of her way.
“Don’t loose her,” said Spike as he stood up.
She jumped the stairs of the entrance in a step and ran out the door. Conner rolled on his chest from his back wincing with pain, coughing a little. Blood dripping down his lips. Angel slowly stood back up. Gunn limped into the room. . Wesley came out of the office.
“What’s going on?” said Wesley.
“Wow, a girl in animal skins just took off out of here, really fast,” said Andrew standing at the entrance into the Hotel.
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