Chapter 3: Who's Connor?
Title: Reunion time.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that English is not my native tongue so you may find some spelling & grammar mistakes, you're more then welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
Disclaimer: Angel & Buffy's characters are not my creation (wish they were) they belong to Joss Wehdon and David Greenwalt. Other characters that are not familiar from the show do belong to me.
A special thank you to Sigma for reproof reading my story. I hope you'll see the difference. As of that the upload of the chapters may take longer.
Buffy turned and kicked one of the vampires who flew in the air, past a tombstone, and thudded to the ground. Then, as the other vampire ran toward the group of people, she ran at him, jumped on his back, bringing both of them down. She quickly recovered with a flip that left Gunn looked amazed and Fred a bit worried. The vampire regained his feet and turned to face Buffy, but, before he could do anything, she staked him, giving him a little victory smile as he disappeared. Then she heard a growl behind her: the other vampire had woken up. She ran at him, used one of the tombstone as a bouncer, flipped in the air, landed in front of the him just as he got up, and dusted him.
The scoobies stayed back, looking pretty calm. They even continued eating their ice cream. Angel watched from the side, ready to jump in if she needed him to. Cordy just looked bored; she had that *I've seen this act before* look. Wesley was impressed, but not surprised. Only Fred and Gunn seemed amazed, even shocked. Gunn was really impressed.
"You rock! Girl, those moves you did were unbelievable! I never could have…" he stopped, smiling, "...you are incredible!"
At that point Cordy pushed her elbow in his ribs. "Hey, Cor, what's..." he saw the look on her face she glanced at Fred. Quickly he recovered, "But that's nice for a slayer, you know".
Buffy just smiled and sat on the nearest tombstone.
"So what's up? What's the big bad? What did you see, Cordelia?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know. It's not very clear." Cordy answered.
"So, why did you come here? What makes you sure it's happening here...besides this being hellmouth and all that? Why do you think it's so bad? I mean if you're not sure..."
Fred interrupted Buffy. "Hey, back off! Let her explain before you charge in!"
"I'm sorry I don't mean to...it's just that I like to know if bad things are coming my way." Buffy tried to explain; she was surprised when Cordelia didn't say anything to her. She seemed different...not the Cordy she remembered.
"It's ok, Fred, she wants answers. We all do. I'll explain everything, but right now, I really need to sit down. I'm getting really dizzy..." Cordy trailed off as she staggered.
Angel grabbed her quickly, supporting her. Buffy was amazed. The closeness they had it remained her of how she and Angel had been three years ago.
"I'm fine" Cordy reassured the A.I. team, who all looked worried. She sat on the ground, telling them everything about the visions, about how she was half demon, and about her recent visions, although she left out the Connor part. She thought it be best if Angel tells them that part.
When she was done, everyone just sat quietly. Scoobies asked question one after the other, trying to get a clearer image on this unknown threat. When all of the questions were asked and almost everything explained, they all got up.
"We need to tell Giles; he'll want to research." Willow said.
"No, I'm really not in the mode for: 'Xander read volume 13 and don't drool on it'. " Xander said, trying to imitate Giles.
"Me, too. Besides, we have plans for tonight. Sex plans". The A.I seemed shocked by Anya's last remark, but the Scoobies looked indifferent.
"Anya, honey what did we say about saying the 'S' word in front of people? Especially people whom we've known for 5 minutes." Xander tried to stay calm, but he was obviously embarrassed.
"Fine, but half of them you already know! One you even dated." Anya defended herself. That last remark made Gunn & Fred look at Cordy with a smile on their faces.
"It was ages ago." she mumbled but they still smiled. "Like 4 years ago. Ages."
"We need to go. It's getting late and I need to get home to Dawn." Buffy said suddenly, which made everyone look at their watches. She was right; it was almost midnight.
"Connor!" Angel gasped and started running towards the parked van, Cordy and the rest A.I. team following.
"Where are they going?" Willow asked, confused.
"Who's Connor?" Xander frowned.
"Lets find out". Buffy said and they ran after the others.
When Xander caught up with them, he stooped, lowered his head, and supported him self by placing his hands on his knees. He was breathing heavily. "Did you guys need to go so fast?" He gasped, but no one answered. "The least you can do is answer meeee....oh my sweet Jesus, Cordy has a baby?!?" he yelled, seeing her holding Connor.
"Honey it's not Cordelia's baby. Its Angel's". Anya said with a smile, while stroking his hair.
"Well," he sighed, "that makes a lot more sense...WHAT!!! He can't have a baby!" Xander was losing it. "He can't have a baby! I know I don't know a lot, but I know wood, fire, cross, holly water and cutting of the head will kill him…sorry vampires, no, I mean him, and that HE CAN NOT HAVE A B-A-B-Y!"
"Stop pointing at me and calling me "HE" every second" Angel growled, losing his remaining patience.
"Xander, sweetie, take a nice, deep breath". Anya tried to calm him.
"See my point? Can't breathe, can't have babies. Simple math." Xander continued.
"How is that a simple math?" Willow wondered.
"Well, it is in my mind! What's going here, Buffy?" There was no reply.
"Buffy? Are you even here?" Xander called and started to wave a hand in front of her face when she didn't answer, just stared at Connor.
"Stop it." she said, pushing her hands away.
"Just making sure you don't go schizo on me like last time you got some bad news."
"I'm fine. I mean, I think I am. I…I just don't understand this..." Buffy said while pointing at Connor.
"Stop doing that! Y'all are scaring him!" Fred yelled.
"We're making him scared? How about vampire baby making us scared?" Xander was freaked.
"He's not a vampire! He's human and he's normal. More then I can say for you." Fred answered angrily.
"Buffy, are you all right?" Willow asked, putting her hand on Buffy's shoulder. Buffy jumped.
"Are you ok?" Willow asked, getting even more worried.
"I'm fine. I'm just a bit shocked that's all."
"As are all of us." Xander muttered from behind her.
"Ok, that's enough!" Cordy said angry. "Lorne, hold Connor for a second." She turned to face the Scoobies. "This is not a devil child or vampire child or whatever else you're thinking. He's human and sweet and his name is Connor. And if you stopped being idiots for 5 minutes, we could explain to you what happened. But if you don't want to know, fine." She stopped and then looked straight at Xander. "But if you don't want to mess with a brand new demon who's learned a few moves of her own, you'll back off and stop scaring Connor!" Cordy grabbed Connor.
Xander was just about to say something when Cordy turned back to him, "Watch it, Xander. Even the slayer can't protect you from the fury of a mother."
Everyone quieted down.
"So what do you say?" Cordy looked at the scoobies waiting for an answer.
TBC.
