He d never thought he d have such a life as to be allowed to have a wife, Children. A family. He d felt so grateful to feel things that he d never felt in his life. Especially this kind of love. He d felt like he was one of the lucky ones as he d never believe that he d ever lead a normal life as he wasn t a normal man. He was a vampire with a soul but he d gotten the chance to live again. The chance to be happy and have something he d always believed was forbidden to him. Alicia was the light of his life. He d met her one stormy night in Lawrence, Kansas. He d been at some old school diner drinking a cappacino and there she d been. Just as beautiful as ever. Long, soft brown-blonde hair and dark blue eyes-Blue eyes the color of the ocean. But if there was one thing that he could ve told from the start with Alicia was that she wasn t delicate. He d found out that her parents had died and she was staying with friends of the family. Their daughter, Mary was her best friend. They were taking care of Alicia until she graduated high school. At first, Angel remembered he hadn t really felt worthy to be around her. Felt as if it as part of his redemption to distance himself from her because he was afraid. Afraid that if he got to know her, Angelus could come out and if that happened, Angelus would destroy her. He d even tried to push her away at first. Tried to tell himself that he was doing it for her. That in the long run, he was saving her life. But until that first night when he d met her he hadn t believed in Love at first sight-But that night made him a believer-. He couldn t stop thinking about her after that night and even though he hadn t been the one to break and go after her he d wanted to. Alicia had never been the type of woman to do whatever anyone else told her to do or accept dire circumstances. Sure, Samuel Campbell who had stepped in to finish raising Alicia after her parents had died in a accident knew about who and what angel was and he wanted Angel to have no part of Alicia s life. You re parents would roll over in their graves if they knew you were hanging around with the likes of him , Samuel Campbell had declared bluntly. But it didn t matter. Alicia didn t do what people expected of her or demanded her to do. She did what was right for her and that included when her parents had been alive-Atleast that s what she d told him years after they were married-. Their married life and just plain knowing her was the best experience he d ever had in his entire existence. Instead of him going after her, She d come after him not taking no for an answer. He d even told her what he was in the beginning thinking she d run out of that diner scared out of her mind. But she d done nothing of the sort. You seem like a nice enough Vampire to me! you may have guessed already..I have good instincts when it comes to these things , Was her bold and cocky reply. That in itself had amused and shocked angel at the same time. That hadn t been the reply he d been expecting. She wasn t afraid of him. Even when she d learned about the things he d done-and ofcourse about Angelus-. You have a soul. Angelus is you without a soul..So it s not really you now is it? , that was a tricky situation. It was him, yet it wasn t. But he still had alot to atone for whether it was him or wasn t him. But Alicia had made feel so much more worthy. Worthy to have her and there children in his life-Worthy to be more than just a vampire with a soul-. But in a sense, Even back then it seemed like it went against all the laws of what he was and what his destiny was supposed to be and yet again it felt right-It felt good-. It had taken alot for him to realize how right it really was and go with it. It had taken him what seemed forever for her to put a ring on her finger but it had happened. But there was alot he hadn t known about then. One thing being the secret life that Alicia had had up until she d moved in with the Campbells and her parents had died. There was a reason Alicia had come off different than alot of girls-Not in the least bit a delicate flower-. But she was beautiful and it was the kind of beauty that was inside out. It came to be as though they all become friends with Mary in her fiance John. John had been Angel s best man on their wedding day and angel had been John s best man on his wedding day just as Mary had been Alicia s Bridesmaid and vice versa. They had stayed pretty close for a while. But life changes and they did too. Mary and John wanted to stay in Lawrence and raise a family there. Mary had just given birth to a son they d named Dean . Angel and Alicia had been named the child s god-parents. He was a beautiful baby boy with soft light brown hair and dark, yet happy eyes. But it wasn t too long after that when John and Mary Moved into a nice 2 story home afew blocks away from this garage that John had become partners with an old buddy of his-they were going to run the garage together to fix and repair cars-. But it wasn t long after that when Angel and Alicia had learned that they were pregnant too. The truth was that it had taken a while for them to actually make love. Sure, it was always making love to Angel. Maybe he had an old soul. It was just how he looked at things. But one day she d convinced him, He didn t know how she was able to do it, but she did and there was no Angelus afterwards. It was pure bliss and there had been no consequences except a month later when Alicia told him that she was indeed, Pregnant. Angel had thought that at that moment he was the happiest man in the world. Who knew that a vampire with a soul would get to be a husband and a father and be blessed with such good friends. At that moment he d been on top of the world. He d never felt such happiness in his life. And just as Mary and John had named the two of them god-parents for Little dean who was just starting to crawl when Connor entered the world, Angel and Alicia had named John and Mary the parents of Connor. It was really a sweet , Beautiful honor. But it wasn t long after that they decided to move away. While Mary and John would probably never leave Lawrence, Kansas Angel and Alicia had wanted to move to a different town and they d chosen a small town in North Carolina about twenty miles outside of Charlotte called Tree Hill .

Tree hill was a wonderful town. The perfect town to raise a family in and everyone seemed really friendly. Sure, there were your busy bodies who stuck their noses in everyone s business but out of the bunch Karen Rowe was the Gem. She was one friend that he and Alicia had in common in town. Even if Karen had been just his friend he didn t think Alicia would ve minded in the least as she wasn t the jealous kind. Besides, Karen was a single mother raising a little boy who just acouple of weeks old, She d named him Nathan. with dark hair and dark blue eyes, she said he looked just like his father. But that was a very hurtful thing for Karen too as everyone knew that Dan Scott had left Karen and the baby to have a career in basketball but even that had gone wrong. But he was trying to be a father. He was trying to do the right thing irregardless of the fact that now he had a newborn son with another woman-angel hadn t met her but he d heard Karen talk about her-. Said her name was Deb. Angel really commended Keith who happened to be both babies uncle and was staying by Karen s side to help her raise baby Nathan. But To tell the truth, Angel didn t have an opinion of Dan one way or the other. While he had a rather big opinion of Victoria Davis who had just given birth to a baby girl and was just so nasty about it. she d stopped into Karen s Cafe , which was just a little restaurant that Karen ran out of her home going on about how since little Brooke s birth her life was over. Now I m plagued by that little brat ..Victoria had said. Just the mere sight of the woman infuriated angel. Alicia had to remind him over and over throughout the years that there s good in everyone.

It had been Karen who had helped them prepare the nursery when Alicia had gotten pregnant again. It was a beautiful nursery. A nursery which would be used not just for this baby but for others to come. It was a room with plush sky blue carpet and pure white wallpaper with dancing Teddy-bears and a white crib and green,white,red, and blue Teddy bear bedding with a matching changing table and toy box. It had been a little baby s dream nursery. Karen, Keith , and a month old Nathan as well as their own son, a 2 year old, Connor were there to welcome the new baby into the world. Alicia had given birth to a little girl that night, A little girl with light brown hair and dark hazel eyes, A little girl they named Haley. Haley was just as beautiful of a baby as Connor was as everyone did the obvious oohing and awing when it came to every baby that was born.

Haley was a very playful child who loved to play with toy musical instruments as she got older and would bang on pots and pans with a wooden spoon for hours. Alicia had said that she was going to be a little Beethoven when she grew up. A while after her 1st birthday they started to prepare again for their third child. 3 days before Christmas Ethan came into the world. Ethan looked like an identical match to what angel must ve looked like as a baby..Soft light brown hair and dark, sensitive hazel eyes. He looked absolutely beautiful blue, especially baby blue. By this time Haley and Nathan had started to become best friends and even though they were barely a year old and couldn t say much when angel took Haley to Karen s cafe they d sit at a little baby table Karen had set up in the back and they d play with their toys until angel would come and get Haley and take her away. Everyone would just swoon to hear that little Ethan was a December baby . Karen had started to talk about getting more involved with Keith. She loved being a mother. Especially a mother to a 1 year old and eventually she wanted more children than just Nathan. Ethan was more of a quiet little boy in which seemed more sensitive and complex than most small children were. Alicia had claimed that he was little angel through and through. while most of the other kids were more full of excitement and rambunctious most of the time, But not Ethan. Sure, he had his times when he was playful. But he wasn t an outside person and he didn t like to travel much.

When Connor was almost five, Haley was 3, and Ethan was 2 Alicia found out she was pregnant again and they prepared for another baby. their fourth child. Now Keith had finally popped the question to Karen and she d said yes. They were officially engaged to be married. He wanted to adopt Nathan as his son. But where they stood Dan was a father to Nathan and he did take him on the weekends and give Karen money and he wouldn t have his brother adopting his son when he was a good father even though he was with another woman didn t mean he was less of a father. But Now Karen wanted to be a mother again. Now with Nathan just turning 3 years old she knew he was growing up fast, Too fast. But she wanted atleast three kids. sometimes she was a bit jealous of Angel and Alicia with their almost four children. She was happy for them though. Alicia had told her ahead of time that they were going to make her and Keith this baby s god-parents and she d been so happy about that. That had meant the world to her.

It had seemed that baby Elizabeth had come into the world with an opinionated smile. As you didn t get anymore opinionated than Elizabeth. with soft light brown hair and dark blue eyes she was a beautiful baby and everyone about fell over each other to tell them how beautiful little Elizabeth was. There wasn t a time in her first few months when she didn t laugh or giggle. Those wonderful months leading up until the night of the night she was six months old, that had been the night that had changed their world, Destroyed their world forever. That had been the night when everything had been destroyed. and Yet he d been so naive. He d done the one thing he d feared he d do, the one thing he d never wanted to do. He d forgotten. He d forgotten about all of the things that went bump in the night and all of the innocents that depended on his help and most of all: he d forgotten how calice and malicious evil; True evil could be. He d been foolish, for on that night he d been reminded about how cruel and horrifying those monsters could be and yet he d become an innocent. He d become a normal man with a family and that was the one moment in time where he d become the biggest prey of all. He wasn t untouchable anymore and neither were any of the people he loved. The echo of that night is still as powerful as it was when he d lived through it the first time, An echo that brings pain and tragedy in a wake of deep and unforgettable,Revenge.