After The Forgotten Day

Disclaimer : I don't own anything exept, well, a bit of the plot and some characters. If you don't recognize them from Buffy or Angel, they're mine.

Feedback: Yes! This is my first posted story, so I'd like to know what you guys think of it. Read&Review please!

Thanks to my beta, Sara. I really appreciate it.

A/N: English isn't my first language, so bare with me. I haven't seen the Angel episode "I Will Remember You" either, so bare with me there as well.

Rating: T, just for safety.

Part One - Consequences

"So, what do you choose?". Angel walked to the closest wall and let his forehead rest against the cold, grey, stone wall. His thoughts were a mess, all of him was a mess at the moment. The two oracles who floated in the air, looked down on the dark clothed man, who stood with his back upon them. The female oracle let a hand ran through her red hair that floated slowly in the breeze. She looked a bit worried, but she knew there was nothing she could do. The male oracle who floated beside her, had a face that was expressionless.

Angel turned himself around. His body seemed to weight 100 kg more than it had when he had arrived here. His deep brown eyes looked at the two oracles. He couldn't choose. When he came to the Oracles lair, he knew what he was going to say, but not that anything of this could happen.

"Can't you just turn me back?" he asked annoyed, even though he knew that they already had told him that they couldn't.
"What is done cannot be undone," the male said, repeating what he had told the ex-vampire not ten minutes ago. "But what is not yet done can be avoided," the female said, also repeating herself. "Which means that we can't make you a souled vampire again, because you have become a human," the female said.

Angel let out a frustrated sigh. "I can't stay like this, even if I want to. If I do, Buffy will die. I can't let that happen!". The male oracle closed his eyes. "I wonder if you have listened to us at all". "We were going to let you choose. You can still live as a human, with this girl and all, but she's going to die. The other option could have been that we swallow the day, you became vampire again and you could've protected this girl," the female oracle told Angel, who was pacing.
He stopped his pacing and looked confused. "Could have?"

"We can't swallow a day when it's taking someone's life," the female oracle replied. Now Angel was really confused. "If we take back the day, someone close to you is going to die," the male oracle replied as he opened his eyes. The man looked up at the two oracles, now he didn't understand a thing. "No one close to me has been in danger, except for me and Buffy, but who else," Angel said , mostly to himself, but way loud enough for the oracles to hear. "Your child will die, " the female said sadly.

Angel looked at her with eyes filled with confusion. "I don't have any children, I've been a vampire for 200 years, so." he started to say but slowly he got the picture. "Except today. Buffy," Angel whispered.

Angel couldn't believe it, Buffy was going to have a child. His child, this was unbelievable. "So, you finally got it? At last," the male oracle said, starting to sound a bit annoyed. "So, you will receive two new choices" the female started. "You can, as we said earlier, still live as a human with this girl and all, but she's going to die, no matter what you do. And the child as well, " the male said calmly, as if it was the weather he was talking about.

"Or, we'll take back the day, the girl will still live, and you'll take your child, " the female oracle added.
"Can't she have the child? I can tell her to stay away, hide somewhere until.." Angel started, but he realized that it was just nonsense. "If you want to be a vampire again, you have to take the child. Besides, your girl will have a lot of troubles if she is going to raise a child now" the female oracle replied with compassion.

"So, what do you choose?" the male oracle asked again. Angel looked at his Claddagh ring and he realized that there was nothing he could do. A dead Buffy or a living Buffy, it was an easy option; he had to take the baby. "I'll do it. I'll take the baby," Angel said quietly, but stood tall up. "The decision has been made. You have one hour to say goodbye to Buffy, after that hour, the day will turn back and she and your friends won't remember ANYTHING, just that you killed that Mohra demon," the male replied. "Now, go. The baby will be lying in your bedroom after the girls departure" the female said. "Your friends will know the baby, but not it's mother, but they won't think about that". Angel nodded. "Thanks," he muttered before he left the cold place.

A/N: Sooo, what do you think? Read&Review :)
Also, if you know any good Irish, Scottish or Celtic names, I will be really happy I do have some names for the baby, but I'd love to get some suggestions as well.