Title: A Tale of TWIN Cities
Rating: T
Genre: Family/Supernatural
Pairing: Buffy/Angel, Connor/Dawn, other family relations
Author notes: Hey…This is a story both myself and True Engel has written, anyone who is familiar with True Engel's story 'Twins in LA' will understand the characters of Connor and Neasa in this story. It is basically using those characters in the future, along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters and combining two completely different stories to make a new one LOL…so be kind and please let me know what you think, comments are always welcomed…just not too harsh :D
Summary: AU. This is a crossover between Angel and BtVS. Buffy's powers are deteriorating, as she contemplates what this means in her life and Angel comes to visit with just one more thing to surprise Buffy…his twin children Connor and Neasa!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel characters or worlds…unfortunately, they all belong to Joss Whedon…a girl can dream can't she?
Sunnydale
It was just like any other day, as Buffy made her way into the kitchen, ready to make breakfast for everyone. Ever since Willow and Tara had moved in, Buffy had enjoyed the extra company and Dawn definitely loved having them here, but the extra food and preparation time was what Buffy hated.
Dawn was upstairs getting ready, she was so excited, today was the day she was to meet her first slayer, over the last couple of years she had been training with Giles to become a watcher, she was a quick learner and had amazed Buffy at her knack for demon languages. I could never get why there had to be so many…and why did they all sound like the demon was chocking? Buffy thought to herself, making a confused face to herself, a she continued to start making toast.
Willow had zoomed in and out of the kitchen still in her dressing gown, grabbing a plate, filling it with toast and took off back upstairs as she shouted back to Buffy "…Tara wants breakfast in bed…talk later" with that she was gone.
"Great, wicca love…there's nothing like it"
Buffy grabbed the jam from the fridge and had no second thought it twisting it as hard as she could, but to her surprise, she found that she couldn't open it. For minutes she tried, using all her efforts to open the jam jar, failing time and time again.
"God dammit! Come on…open" Buffy seethed through gritted teeth, as she continued to battle with the jar, knowing that she couldn't keep hiding this from the guys much more, it would be practically impossible to hide that she can't open a bloody jam jar.
Unbeknownst to Buffy, Dawn had let Giles in and he had just walked through into the kitchen and was stood in the doorway, watching his slayer struggle to open such a trivial item.
"Bloody jar, I didn't want to eat you anyway" Buffy muttered, more to the jar than herself, slamming the jar onto the counter, her strength resuming itself just at that moment, causing her to actually smash the jar, watching all of its jammy contents spill onto the counter, cursing under her breath, she quickly grabbed a cloth and started cleaning up, she began to cry softly, her body soon wracking with sobs, when she was startled by the sound of Giles coughing in the doorway.
"Giles…you scared me…how…how long have you been standing there?" Buffy asked nervously, mentally kicking herself for not being more careful, now she was sure Giles would be giving her one of his speeches about keeping things from him. She quickly wiped the wetness from her cheeks, turning so Giles couldn't see.
"Long enough…" Giles quietly answered, stopping mid sentence as Dawn came bouncing into the kitchen, obviously elated to be meeting her new charge.
Buffy glanced at Giles frightened that he might say something, shaking her head covertly, motioning for him not to say anything to Dawn about what he had just witnessed.
"Hey Buff, what's for breakfast?" Dawn asked cheerfully, sitting herself on a stool around the island table. "Whoa…what happened with the jam jar…did you think it was a vamp and try to kill it Buffy…I've told you about that…" Dawn teased, taking advantage of her annoying little sister role, however her attitude changed when Buffy didn't seem to laugh at her joke or come back snapping as she usually would.
"No, of course not…it just slipped is all...now eat your toast, Giles doesn't want to be waiting" Buffy pried, pushing the plate of toast in front of her sister, resuming to look straight ahead as though deep in thought.
Dawn dropped the topic and ate her toast silently, highly aware of the tension between the older watcher and his slayer. She decided to keep note of this and ask Buffy about it later when she was in a better mood.
"Right G-man I'm ready…let me go grab a jacket and we can be on our merry way" Dawn proclaimed thankful to be leaving the tense atmosphere in the room, her excitement now back in full swing at the thought of meeting her slayer.
"Ok…can you meet me in the car Dawn, I'd like to talk to your sister for a minute" Giles stated calmly, taking his glasses off, cleaning them excessively. Dawn could tell he wasn't happy because he always cleaned his glasses when he was angry. Dawn hurried out of the kitchen tempted to eves drop to find out what was going on, but knew that somehow Buffy would know she was there…she always seems to know Dawn thought heading up to her room in search of a jacket.
"Giles spare me the speech…I'm not in the mood!" Buffy tiredly jumped in before Giles to start.
"Buffy in any other case I'd be happy to oblige, but I think this is a matter of more serious proportion… When were you going to tell me and am I correct in assuming that Dawn knows nothing of this?" Giles asked, his voice still calm, this partly made Buffy feel worse, she would rather him shout at her and get it over with, it was the fatherly concern he held for her that made his reactions harder to take.
"No she doesn't and I intend to keep it that way…" Buffy sniped, staring her mentor dead in the eye, trying to look as convincing as possible "…look Giles I'm sorry…I…it's been hard I don't know…what's happening to me? I'm so scared" Buffy answered barely above a whisper as more tears fell willingly down her face, her usually strong, admirable stance, had now shrunk, as her posture seemingly decreased at the cue of her words.
"I don't know…but I promise you Buffy we will find the answers together" Giles comforted, walking around the table taking the slayer he now sees more as a daughter into his arms, trying to control her violently shaking frame in his embrace, muttering soothing words into her ear, although much to his irritation, being unable to shake the terrible feeling in the pit of his stomach.
LA
"Ness, look at this" Connor passed a bright yellow flyer to his sister. She took it and read it.
"Oh you're takin the ….pistols have been used for many many years. Hi Daddy"
"Nice try Ness I got the beginning of the sentence" Angel lightly cuffed
her around the head. "what you reading?"
"Some kind of mad dance event going on after school on Friday" She
passed the flyer to her father much to Connor's annoyance.
Angel read it and screwed it up. "Not a school event though is it? Anyway
we won't be here we're going to Sunnydale. Put the knife down Ness"
Neasa looked at the carving knife she was spinning around and smiled.
"Sorry" she placed it on the table. "is something wrong?"
"Nothing really bad, Giles wants me to look at some things and…"
"We can stay here Dad" Connor said quickly, "we are nearly seventeen
now"
Neasa grinned. "Like that would ever happen, left here alone, yeah what a
…"
"Impossible thought, yes you are right Ness" Angel smiled.
"How would you like it if I started calling you Angle?" Neasa stared at
her father.
"Sorry Neasa Baby, it's your brother's fault he calls you Ness all the
time and it rubs off on everyone else"
"He's my brother; He's supposed to be annoying"
"Angle, that's quite funny" Connor smirked.
Neasa smiled guiltily at her father. "Sorry Daddy"
Connor walked away laughing to himself and saying "Angle. Which Angle shall I dangle from?"
"It's not even funny" Neasa smiled.
"No it isn't" Angel frowned.
"Now you know how I feel"
"Okay Baby I wont call you Ness anymore"
"Yeah till next time"
Connor came back with a protractor in his hand and stood in front of his
father, holding it before him.
"Connor what are you doing?" Neasa griped.
"Seeing what Angle he is" Connor grinned.
Neasa burst out laughing then went and hugged Angel. "Sorry, he'll never
let it go now. Miss said today at school…Absolutely nothing she said" she
pulled away from Him and began to walk off thinking don't say my name
please.
"Neasa" Angel said it.
She turned around. "Sorry Conn"
Connor shrugged. "No biggy"
"Neasa!" Angel snapped.
"Miss said…Neasa have you any idea why your brother is so mordant and
seditious?"
Connor grinned. "And Ness said…I dunno Miss I'll go home and ask my dad
what them words mean and get back to you"
Angel shook his head. "Mordant means…"
"Harsh I know and seditious means rebellious"
"She was being sarcastic" Connor grinned.
"He has no idea what that means Daddy" Neasa grinned.
"Better be no letters coming back here from school or there will be major
trouble" Angel said.
"Miss likes Ness coz she's brainy"
"Try doing some work Connor you might be the same" Angel snapped.
Neasa dived in to save Connor by hugging Angel again and saying. "Or ya
know we love ya Da. Tell us about Sunnydale and what's happening there"
she gave her brother a sneaky smile.
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