Blissful Revelations
By: chocolate rules
Obviously,my fave epi w/ babe Connor was Dad', so I'm using most of that plotline. I'm just about sure of their names down so it'll all soon be over. And soon, They'll start being real character :D...
6
The next morning finds Fred hunched over at the laptop. Cordy walks over to her with two cups, setting one down besides her.
"Thanks," Fred replies smiling at her friend's gesture.
They hear movement at the stairs. Fred looks up at the stairs just as Angel is coming down them, a baby an arm.
"Oh-oh, we still haven't traced the websites."
Cordy pats her on the back as she too looks up to the stairs.
"Relax," she tells Fred with a wide smile. Angel I can handle.
She walks over to meet Angel as he reaches the bottom of the stairs.
"Get any sleep?"
Angel's looking down at the babies, and doesn't take his eyes off of them as he talks.
"Nah, I was up all night watching them."
"You know," Cordy tells him, trying to be gentle, but it's Cordy. "if you'd let us take shifts between all of us we could…"
Angel's shaking his head. "No, I wasn't watching them like that. I was just watching them."
Cordy smiles at the babies, and then looks up to Angel. They're making him so cute. Cute?
"He looks a bit like me, don't you think?"
Cordy looks at the babies, but they both look the same to him.
"And he's?"
"This one," Angel beams, slightly lifting his right arm.
Cordy moves in and takes a quick look at the boy.
"Oh, yeah. Look at that brow. He's a miniature you." She looks over to angel and then at the two babes. "Why don't you hand them over for a while, catch some shut eye."
Again, Angel starts shaking his head.
"No. I'll sleep - when I know they're safe."
"Well, technically, no one really knows about the twins," Cordy observed.
Angel looked up to her for a second as he responded. "Holt's knows." He looked back down at them and then walked towards the couch. Newborns or not, carrying them around twenty-four seven was going to be tiring.
"I want them safe. Then, I'll rest," he repeats as eh settles down.
Cordy scoffs as she steps in front of him.
"Which will be when? Around, oh never?" She lowers her voice at the glare that Angel shoots her. "Angel, I understand you wanna protect them - but you gotta let go a little. Let them breathe. Share part of the responsibility. You can't be everything for them. We're here for you, for them."
"I'm their only family, Cordy. My job now is to be everything for them."
"Really?" Cordy says sounding offended. She reaches over for his arms and then tried to pull him to his feet. "Okay. Follow me. Come on."
Once he's on his feet, Cordy grabs at Angel's elbow and leads him towards the garden court.
Angel allows her to lead him without looking up from the babies.
"Cordy? Where are we going?"
"Come on," Cordy says tugging slightly harder trying to draw his attention.
Cordy leads them out of the hotel. Angel halts before they leave the hotel's shadows.
"Cordelia…"
"We're going outside, where your son is gonna wanna run around and your daughter will throw tea parties. Where you have to rush them to the hospital if he scrapes his knees or she catches a cold in the daytime. But, you know what, I see your point. You can't go outside during the day like other parents because you're not like other parents. Angel, you are a vampire." Taking a deep breath, Cordy looks at him and goes in for the kill, so to speak.
"You can't be everything for them, Angel. Even if you weren't a vampire, you can't. They'll need doctors and teachers and friends. You can't be all that. No matter how hard you try."
Angel glances down at the babies. He then stretches out one hand into the sunlight.
"If they have to get to the hospital at noon," smoke starts to rise from his hand, "on the sunniest day of the year, they'll get there." Angel looks over at Cordy with his hand still smoldering in the sunlight. "Even if I don't"
Cordy sighs. "Angel," she starts. She pushes his hand back down into the shadow and looks pleadingly back at him. "Stop, Angel…"
Angel just turns away and walks back into the Hyperion.
tbc..Soon:D Review!