Title: A Brush with the Future
Author's Name: Elizabeth McPherson
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Author's Note: This is a companion piece with Dreams Do Come True. This is an AU story and has really no spoilers. Set after everyone came back from Plyea. Angelus is no longer a threat and Angel and Cordy are married and have a 3 month old daughter named Alexandra.
Feedback: Would like but if you don't have any thing constructive to say about how to make the story better then don't send me any feedback.
20 years in the future
"Uncle Wes are you sure that this is going to work?" Alex asked.
"It should I have been researching this for months now and had consulted every contact that I could get a hold of" Wes said.
Alex, Wes, Lorne, and Fred were in the middle of the Hyperion Hotel's lobby getting ready to cast a spell.
"What do I tell them when I get there?" Alex asked.
"The truth, after everything is done and this demon is stopped then things should right themselves automatically" Fred had said.
"Lets get this thing over with I have some plans with a few friends this weekend" Alex said.
"Alex we are trying to get your parents back not going to the doctor's in another state. I swear sometimes you act like your mother and sometimes like your father had times to" Wes had said.
"Sorry Uncle Wes but still can we get this over with?" Alex asked.
"Yeah lets go" Wes said.
Fred, Wes, and Lorne had started chanting in Latin while Alex stood in the middle of a circle that was drawn on the middle of the lobby floor. There was a bright flash and Alex was gone.
The Present
Angel and Cordelia were in bed with Alex in between them when they heard a crash in the lobby. Angel got up and got dressed then headed downstairs to see what was going on. When Angel got down to the lobby he could see Wes, Fred, Gunn, and Faith staring at a body that was in the middle of the lobby floor.
"What is going on down here?" Angel asked.
"I don't know. One minute we were in Wes's office and then we heard this big crash" Fred said with a little bit of her Texan accent coming through.
Angel rushed over to the body to see if she was alive or not. Cordelia came down the stairs with Alex in her arms and was staring at Angel and the body and was wondering what was going on.
"Angel what happened?" She asked
"I don't know it seems that she is alive but just barely. Fred said that they had heard a crash and came out in to the lobby and found her on the floor" Angel explained.
The girl on the floor started to become conscious enough to have screamed and the whole AI team turned to look and Alex started to cry.
"Angel, take care of Alex and the rest of us will take care of the girl. Gunn, you and Wes pick her up and put her in my old room across from Angel's and my room. I will come up and help you and when she wakes up we can find out what had happened" Cordy said.
"Alright Cordy, come here sweetie come to dada" Angel said.
"Sometimes I wonder about him. OK, Wes picks her up on her right side and I will take the left. On three 1...2....3" Gunn said.
When they got up to Cordy's old bedroom they put the girl in the bed and she had woken up and had looked terrified.
"W...what is going on here? Where am I and how did I get here?" She had asked confused.
"You are at Angel Investigations you somehow you ended up in the lobby. But first can you tell us your name?" Cordy had said to calm her down.
"My name is Alexandra Elizabeth Angel. I can't believe that it worked thank you Uncle Wes" Alexandra said.
"That can't be, Alex is with Angel" Cordy said shocked.
As Cordy had said this Angel was coming through the door with Alex in his arms.
"What is going on? Did you get any information out of her?" Angel had asked.
"Angel this is our daughter. But that can't be it is impossible because you are holding our daughter in your arms" Cordy said.
"Where did you come from and how did you get here?" Angel asked.
"I'm from the future about 20 years from now and I was sent back to give you all a message to be careful in the next couple of months because in my world I was left to my Aunt and Uncle who work here. Their names are Wesley and Fred. They sent me back to see if I can change the outcome of the events in a couple of months and also get to know you guys a little bit more. My real parents you Angel and you Cordelia. I am going to tell you this now. In a couple of months you will all go up against a very powerful demon and lose. The only to survive the attack are Fred, Wes, and Lorne. The only reason that Lorne survives is because my mom told him to stay here and watch me while the rest of you went out to fight this demon. My mom had a vision what she saw was a demon that comes to the hotel to attacks them and takes me then kills me, so in order to stop the vision mom, dad, Wes, Gunn, and Fred go find the demon and kill it before it kills me. Dad had told mom to stay here but she was stubborn and wouldn't listen" Alex had explained.
Cordelia was in tears after Alex had finished with her story. Angel went over to Cordelia and hugged her. They took baby Alex back to their room and put her to bed and sat on their bed and started to talk.
"I don't know what to make of this or how this could even happen" Cordy said.
"I don't know either but what we do need to do is to have Lorne read her and see if what she says is the truth. For now Cordy, I want you to be extra careful when we go out to fight demons do you hear me" Angel said looking Cordelia in the eye.
"I don't have to like it do I?" Cordy asked.
"No, but you still have to promise that you will take it easy for the couple of months until whatever this thing is alright?" Angel said.
"I promise I will take it careful the next couple of months if you promise to do the same thing" Cordy said.
"Alright I will take it careful for the next couple of months. Besides we have our daughter to get to know and how her life is like. She can get to know us and we can get to know her" Angel said.
Angel and Cordelia went into the bathroom and ran a hot bath for the both of them. By the time that they got out they could hear baby Alex wake up from her nap and wanting something to eat. Angel went to go get baby Alex while Cordelia got situated on the bed to feed her daughter.
"Have I ever told you that you look gorgeous when you are feeding the baby? There is nothing more beautiful then when a mother is feeding her babies" Angel said.
"You have to say that you are my husband, and all husbands have to say that when a woman is nursing her baby" Cordelia stated.
"No it's true. If you want I can get Wesley or Gunn up to tell you the exact same thing" Angel said.
"No that is quite alright I really don't want Wesley or Gunn up here looking at my breasts, thank you very much" Cordy said.
When Alex was done feeding Cordy asked Angel to put her back into her crib so that Cordy could get dressed and go down stairs to see how big Alex was doing.
When Cordelia came downstairs Alex was telling the rest of the AI gang about who she is and how she got there.
"Hey what is everyone talking about?" Cordy asked.
Alex ran up to her mom and gave her a great big hug. Cordy hugged her back and then they both sat down. After a few seconds of silence which felt like hours Alex spoke up.
"Is it alright if I called you and Angel, mom and dad?" Alex asked with a bit of hesitation.
"It would be an honor if you called us mom and dad. Now tell me if you prevent this from happening will you go back or will just stay here?" Cordy asked.
"I am not sure; Uncle Wes is looking in to that right now. I told him what book he was looking at and found the spell that sent me here" Alex stated.
"Eureka!" Wes said from his office.
"Looks like he found the answer" Cordy said.
When Angel came downstairs he saw that everyone was in Wes's office.
"Hey guys what is going on?" Angel asked.