Angel walks into the hotel clutching tightly to an infant. "Your not supposed to bring the demons home." Says Cordy, with a slight laugh.
"Ha ha, you're so funny, take him!" Angel says thrusting the baby towards her. "The demon monster whatever he was,"
"Anapostol" Wes chimes in.
Angel shoot him a glare, "Whatever it was, it killed his mother. Therefore, I couldn't leave a baby there by itself."
"So you brought it to us?" Cordy raises an eye brow.
"I'm sure you can find the father!" Angel says, "Just do your, ya know, investigating."
"I'm sure we can find the baby's father in no time, however telling him that we kidnapped his child and this it's mother is dead might not be the best move." Wes says looking deep in thought.
"We hold the kid ransom" Cordy lightly suggests.
"I'm sure that would go over so much better." Wes's voice drips with sarcasm.
"Well, I could see what I can hear on the street." Gunn says, "See if anybody's missing a baby."
"And I can find out if the baby's a demon!" Fred looks slightly delighted.
"I'm sure the baby isn't a demon Fred, but you could help them find the father." Angel says gently.
"I could do more research on the demon that took it's mother's life." Wes says.
Just then the doors to the hotel open, and in walks a redheaded young girl, about eighteen. She smiles brightly at them, "Gonna run up and change" she says, not seeming to notice the baby.
"She's been out with a boy." Cordy tells Angel with a slight smile.
"I don't like it." Angel says brooding a bit.
Just as the girl get half way up the stairs she turns back around, "Um, Cordy?" she says.
Cordy who's still holding the now motherless, kidnapped baby, "What Alex?"
"When did you have a baby?" Alex raises and eye brow.
"Before I came to work," Cordy rolls her eyes. "Angel kidnapped him."
"I didn't kidnap him, I saved him" Angel says looking rather annoyed.
Alex looks from one to the other, "So...what are planning on doing with him?"
"Well, we plan on finding it's father." Wes says.
"And hope that the demon hasn't killed it as well?" Alex nods as though understanding.
Everybody looks at each other, nobody had thought about that. Everything is quiet for a moment while the seem seems to digest Alex's latest stake in their plan. "The father's gotta be alive. I mean somebody's gotta take care of this kid right?" Cordy says.
"Yeah, somebody." Angel agrees adding upon Fred's look, "And it won't be us."
"Right, because having a baby in such danger is not a good thing." Fred says quietly.
"Right," Angel agrees.
"Well, let me know if he like sprouts horns or something," Alex smirks, "Otherwise, I'll be in my room."
"We need your help ounce you've showered." Cordy says.
"Oh I don't do babies!" Alex says running upstairs quickly with a rush of 'oh yes you do!' and 'you better come back down here young lady!' and her personal favorite, 'you'll be down here, or I'll stake you!' Alex loves her family, weird as it may be they are her family.
Not surprisingly it takes Alex nearly an hour to rejoin the group, by which time they've found the baby's father, and he's on his way. As luck would have it, he's actually quite versed in Demonolagy.
Sunnydale...
Buffy flops down on the couch, "I'm ready to crash." she says.
"But you kicked some serious ass tonight!" Willow smiles broadly at her.
"At least we don't have to worry about Warren anymore." Xander says.
Tara sets down next to Willow, "I'm just glad it over." she says quietly.
"Me too Baby," Willow says putting her arm around Tara.
"I say we celebrate," Dawn says.
"I'm to tired to celebrate." Buffy says.
"I saw we put in a movie." Xander says standing and striding over to the movies. "How about this one?" he holds up a particularly gruesome horror film.
"Oh I like that one!" Dawn jumps up and down.
"Isn't it enough that we see this stuff every day? We have to come home and watch is too?" Buffy says.
Dawn rolls her eyes, "I don't see if every day because somebody won't let me go patrolling with them."
"How many times to I have to tell you that you are two young?" Buffy says exasperatedly.
"I donno, until I'm old enough?" Dawn shrugs, "Put the movie in, I'll make popcorn."
"I'll put the movie in!" Xander calls after Dawn, "Extra Butter!"
"This isn't a movie theater Xander, you get microwave like the rest of us." Buffy says finally succumbing to the argument.
"So what movie did you pick?" Willow says raising her head from Tara's shoulder.
Xander busies himself with putting the movie not answering Willow, finally Buffy rolls her eyes, "Wrong Turn" she answers.
"You mean about the freaky looking mountain men that attack the people who get stuck in the woods? That's a good movie." Says Dawn coming back with popcorn.
Faith walks down the sidewalk. Sunnydale is disearted. She's holding a stake, on alert. There's a disturbance a little ways up from her, she quickens her step hoping for a vampire to dual. It's kids, just kids. With a sigh of disappointment she yells at them to get home. The kids stand up to her, and Faith advances, attitude written across her face. As she raises her hand, she falters. Her senses seem to tell her what she's about to do, "Get out here, now!" she yells, and the teens scatter for fear of her angry voice. Faith steps backwards a couple steps, startled by the fact that she could so readily raise her fist to another human, again. Flashes of her mother hand raised is outrage, for no apparent reason flashes before her eyes. It's the one thing she swore she would never do, raise her hand to a innocent child. And yet here tonight she had. She runs...she doesn't know where she's going or why she's going there she just runs. Before she realizes it, she's standing outside Buffy Summer's door.
Co-Written with Sabra (you rock girly!)