They arrived in Shadow's room at the Hyperion Hotel with a thump, Shade landing sprawled out on the floor. He sighed, feeling quite comfortable on the carpet, causing Angel to roll his eyes in amusement before telling his son that he was going. Shade just lazily waved his hand at his parental figure before he rolled over onto his back. He stared at the ceiling, cracking a smile as he remembered the fight he had had with Angel to redecorate his room. He did get to redecorate, after being told to go find another room seeing as he chosen a room on the unsafe side of the hotel. It was totally not his fault that he liked it on that side, it gave him a thrill to think of the danger he was in but it was probably due to the fact that he had grown up fighting demons.

His room was painted dark blue and the carpet was a dark purple. The colours were what happened when he had decided to let Luna choose the colours for his room but he loved it. He had a double bed, a desk and a couple of bookcases as well as the walk in closet and the dresser where his TV was set up. His walls were decorated with different things like photos of him and Luna together at Hogwarts, page that had been photocopied showing cool looking demons and a poster for Lorne's club, Caritas. With a sigh, he stood up and decided he would not be getting anymore sleep tonight and turned on his small stereo system, set up next to the TV and go through some of the more calming fight routines he had been taught.

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He walked on the balcony overlooking the foyer of the hotel around 9am and spotted Cordelia and Wesley argue over the coffee maker. Gunn was talking with Angel who had a geeky looking girl with brown hair sitting next to him. He smirked before walking down the hall again. He ran straight toward the balcony and used his hands to flip him over the edge. He landed in a crouch, left leg out to the side, head bowed before he stood and blocked a punch from Angel. The two began to fight, causing the Wesley to try and get the brown haired girl out of there and into safety. He couldn't take it anymore and fell to the ground in laughter. Cordelia gave a happy shriek before she rushed over to him and wrapped him up into a tight hug.

"Your here!" Cordelia said with a large smile on her face.

"Hello Cordy" Shade said, trying to escape from her hug.

"Leave the poor boy alone, Cordelia" Wesley said calmly, knowing that Shade needed rescuing.

"Hey guys" He greeted Wesley and Gunn once he was free.

"What are you doing here, Mini-Vamp?" Gunn asked, standing next to the unknown girl.

"Can you stop with the nicknames and use mine? Also, I don't want to talk about it" He answered turning away to go to the office where most of the books were kept.

Angel was left with getting curious looks from his team. He raised an eyebrow at them all in question.

"What?" He asked before he walked over to the brunette and lead her to the office.

Opening the door, Angel was amused at how messy Shade had managed to make the office in the minute he had spent in there. Books were piled onto the desk and spread over it. Shade was sitting at the desk, three books open in front of him and was writing at a furious pace. He looked at the two when Angel cleared his throat.

"Shadow, this is Fred. Fred, this is Shade, my son" Angel introduced

"I thought vampires can't give birth" Fred said with a slight frown on her face, causing Shade to snort.

"I'm adopted" He told her before returning to his writing, causing Angel to sigh.

"Come on" Angel told her, taking her out of the office to leave Shade to his own devices.

"I found Shadow when he was still a little boy. I took him with me and he sees me as his dad" Angel explained to her before leaving her with Gunn and heading to the basement, due to the fact that Cordelia wanted to learn to fight.

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That afternoon, Wesley and Gunn left the hotel so they could break into someone's house as he had part of a scroll pertaining to a prophercy. Angel was talking with Cordy and Fred was doing something. Shade was still in the office, going over books and copying different things from within them. He was getting a headache from all the different things that he was reading and, although he wanted to call it quits, he knew he couldn't until he had the answers that he wanted.

It was starting to go dark when Cordelia came into the office and asked what he wanted from the Chinese resturant they were going to order from. He smiled at her and decided that he would go with her and so they both walked out of the office. They stopped still when they saw the blonde haired woman wearing a red top, standing in the foyer and facing Angel. What surprised them the most was that she was pregnant.

"Hello Angel" The woman greeted and Shade noticed Angel's surprised.

"Darla" He replied, causing Shade's eyes to become wide with the relization of who she is.

A/N: Not caring that its short but do apologize for the delay. Anyone have any thoughts on what website I should use so you can see the different images for this story would be great and just leave them in a review or PM me. If you want any plot bunnies, feel free to ask. Loving all your revies, keep them coming, love you all

Mizz