A/N: This story begins post Provider after Angel and Cordy fell asleep together.
Angel looked over at Connor and Cordelia sleeping on his bed bedside him, smiled, and then frowned. He'd gotten so caught up with trying to make enough money to give Connor a good future that he'd left Cordelia and his son vulnerable. They could have been killed along with the rest of his family.
Connor's eyes opened, and Angel could tell he was about to cry.
"Do you really want to be the one to wake Cordy, Son?" Angel asked getting up from the bed and taking the infant with him.
Angel changed Connor's diaper and then paced with him until he fell asleep again. He kissed the top of his son's head and then placed him in his crib. Angel changed out of his clothes and put on his pajama bottoms. Angel then eased into his bed trying not to wake Cordelia. He felt the familiar pang in his chest as thoughts of Cordy, Connor, and him as a family raced through his mind. He wanted to tell Cordy that he'd discovered his soul was permanent after his epiphany, and he wanted to hear her say she wanted to be with him as much as he wanted to be with her. He wanted to wake up with Cordy every morning and make love to her. Cordy was the closest thing Connor would ever have to a mother, and Angel wouldn't have it any other way. He wanted Cordy to want to be Connor's mother too. He wanted so much and couldn't bring himself to ask her. All he could think was that she deserved more than he could give, and he wondered if he even had the right to want that kind of happiness when he'd done so many horrible things. He reached across the bed and brushed the hair out of Cordelia's face. Then he pushed his thoughts out of his mind; determined to get some sleep. He was asleep when Cordy's body began to glow with a faint blue light
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Cordelia was confused when she woke up with a pain in her ribs. There was a ton of long brown hair in her face and when she brushed it away with her hand she could see nothing but darkness. The last thing she remembered was trying not to fall asleep as she and Angel tried to get Connor to sleep.
"Angel, you promised you wouldn't let me fall asleep," she said turning towards him.
Cordy then realized she was no longer in his large bed, and she wasn't in her own apartment. She didn't know where she was. She felt over to the night stand and switched on the lamp. The bedroom was completely unfamiliar. It was a cold white room with white furniture. The windows were covered in white frilly curtains. She looked down and saw she wasn't wearing her own clothes but a long flannel night gown.
Cordy brushed her long hair out of her face and got out of the bed. She paused for a second and grabbed a the long hair.
"Where'd all this come from?" she asked herself.
Cordelia decided to leave the room as quickly and quietly as possible. She tried the door on her left and found a bathroom. She shrugged and tried the door on her right and found it locked. She went to the window and opened the curtains. They were nailed shut and Cordy couldn't see outside because shutters completely blocked her view. Cordelia looked around the room looking for anything she could use to possibly pick the lock or use as a weapon. She spotted some personal items on the desk. School books Cordy recognized from high school were neatly stacked next to a day planner which had the words "Anna's Day" written on the cover. She opened the drawers in the desk and couldn't even find a pair of scissors that could be used. Cordy then walked into the bathroom.
She looked in her mirror and yelled, "What the hell?"
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Anna woke up and was surprised to find she wasn't alone. She was in a bed in an unfamiliar room with a man. She sat up quickly and eased herself out of the bed terrified she might wake him. She realized suddenly that the man looked familiar. He was Buffy Summers' boyfriend. She'd seen him looking hot and mysterious sitting with Buffy and her friends in the Bronze the night she'd dared to go out when she'd been ordered to stay home. Anna had fantasized that he'd notice her from across the room and ask her to run away with him. Her father had been out of town on a trip, and she figured she could get away with just one little adventure. She'd only gone out for an hour, but she still got caught. Her father had been waiting for her in the Bronze parking lot.
She shivered at the remembered pain of what followed. He hit her so hard she passed out and when she woke up she found herself locked in her closet. He left her there and then went out of town for his business trip. She wasn't really certain how long she'd been trapped in there. She was unconscious when he returned. She just remembered waking up and finding the closet door open. She remembered her father hoovering over her as she cleaned up the mess the closet had turned into while she lived in it. That's when she made her vow to find a way to escape no matter what it cost her.
Anna hugged herself and returned her thoughts to the present. Obviously the spell she attempted the night before had gone wrong and taken her someplace. She went through the first door she found hoping it was the way out, but it was just the bathroom.
"Oh my God!" She exclaimed when she saw the familiar face in the mirror wasn't hers but Cordelia Chase.
But it was all wrong. 'Cordelia must have cut her hair after school' Anna thought running her fingers through Cordelia's now short hair. The spell was supposed to take Anna away from her father and make her happy and popular like she knew Cordelia Chase was. Anna had wanted Queen C's life, but she hadn't expected this.