A/N: Alrighty, here is the 10th chapter, hope you like it. I should get a few more chapters up tomorrow, but we'll see.

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Chapter ten-Connor

The room got very tense after Buffy and Angel let themselves be known to Kennedy. Willow didn't say anything to defend Kennedy, and she gave Willow a withering look for it. She absolutely hated that Willow never stood up for her, but she always did it for these yahoo's. She just sat down at the table and didn't say another word to anybody. Willow still didn't understand the sudden attitude that she was giving off to everyone. She'd made it perfectly clear that she wasn't wanting a relationship in that way with Oz, but she wasn't just going to throw his friendship away, either. She'd have to have serious talk about the possessiveness, because Willow didn't like for anyone to tell what to do. After everyone gave Oz a big welcome, they all took seats at the table as well. Buffy looked up at Giles who was at the head of the table. It just felt right that he was up there getting ready to lead them in a very big battle. She knew something hadn't felt right when Faith and her had first arrived, but this was it. Spike was back, Dawn was back, Willow was back, and now...Giles had returned. Everything seemed to falling into place nicely.

" Well, Giles, you got us all together in room for the first time in History, so. What do we have to do?" Giles took a minute to gather his thoughts.

" Well, it's not going to be easy, but then again has anything ever been? As I've said to you before, you can only defeat this demon in the hour of his ascension, but it is imperative that we find him before that. We must have him in our midst before, so we may wear him down. If we find him only a few minutes before, he will overpower us with little exertion." When he finished speaking he looked around to find that everyone looked confused, except for Oz, he never looked confused( or he always did.) Willow raised her hand, which got a few snickers, and a smile from Giles.

" Um, would it be okay to get that again in Xander language?" Xander looked sharply at Willow, but everyone just laughed.

" Hey! Okay, yes, Xander speech would be great." Giles just shook his head in mock frustration.

" Okay children, focus please! We have to find him well before his ascension so we can beat the crap out of him to make him tired." Everyone got it then, but Xander held his hand up and grinned. Giles looked at him warily, as if he wasn't sure Xander was joking or not.

"Come on, people we aren't in school, though I sometimes feel like I'm teaching children." Xander put his hand down then, but looked around the room.

" Does anyone miss Glory,' hey I just want to go back to my world'?" They all just turned and looked at him like he'd gone completely insane. They knew that he was joking, but his "laugh in the face of death" jokes were rarely funny. Willow looked over at him, and said very seriously.

" No, because we had to run away, then there was the whole thing with Tara losing her mind thing, then we lost Dawn, Buffy went catatonic on me, then we found Dawn at that...tower thing, we had to fight a very huge battle, and then we lost Buffy for a really long time. So, I'm thinking no, we don't miss Glory at all." When she straightened everyone in the room laughed at the look on Xander's face.

"Dad, I'm going to be alright, I don't even know why I'm going to Wolfram and Hart, I just know that I need to. There's just something about the place that's making me really want to go inside."

The boys' father lowered his head, because he knew his son's mind was made up. He knew he was going to go, and he was terrified at what he was going to find. The boy had already been through so much, and he didn't want him to have to live through it all over again. He honestly didn't need to relive any of it. He knew that he wasn't his real father, but he sure felt like he was at times. He'd have to warn Angel, of course, he'd known this day would come eventually, he was just hoping for later. The higher ups from Wolfram and Hart had warned him that this was a possibility. He also knew he wasn't supposed to say anything to Angel if this happened, but he was going to anyway, it just wasn't fair to the kid. He hugged his son good-bye, probably for the last time. After he left, he walked over to kitchen table, and picked up the phone.

Everyone was settling down when Fred burst through the door. She had a horrified look on her face, and it made everyone turn to look at her, concerned. Wesley walked over to where she was standing, and put a hand on her shoulder. She sat down and started waving her arms frantically as if playing a very weird game of charades. Fred rarely got this worked up, she was normally very sensible about things. Sure, she didn't like fighting face to face with something, but she was proficient. The face that she looked on the verge of collapsing, was worrying the Angel group. Wesley knelt down in front of her and took hold of her hands. He spoke softly to her, to try and calm her down.

"Fred, you've got to calm down so that you can tell us what the problem is. We're all here and nothing is going to happen to you, okay? Come on now, what's wrong?" She was breathing very heavily, but nodded her head. Then she turned to Angel, and looked at him with a panicked expression.

" Angel, he's coming here...now!" Angel walked up to her and folded his arms as he looked at her. He knew that she was telling him something very important, but he wasn't sure he was grasping it.

" Fred, you've got to calm down. Who's coming where?" She took a huge gulp of water from the glass Wesley was offering her. Then she looked plainly at Angel, and ignored everyone else in the room.

" I was in the lab working on something for one of the cases, when the receptionist from the lobby came in and gave me a message for you. She told me she couldn't disturb you, because you were in a top secret meeting, but since I've been in those meetings before, she'd give me the message." Angel began to pace the floor, he hated it when she went into these very long explanations.

" Dammit, Fred, just spit it out!" She jumped at his harsh tone, but she realized that she was causing everyone to stress out. She took a big breath to steady her nerves before answering softly.

" Well, the message was from a man that was needing to speak with you desperately. He said his son was on his way to see you for some reason. He should be here any minute, and honestly Angel, I don't know how this could happen. This is so bad!" Angel looked very confused, as did everyone else in the room. He had absolutely no idea what she was getting at and why she looked so upset about it.

" A man called, saying his son was coming to see me, and this is top secret how?" Fred looked at him like he was crazy. She jumped out of her chair, and stomped her foot like a child would.

" Angel, don't you understand? The boy who's coming to see you is yours! He's your son!" Everyone in the conference room stilled. Wesley got Fred to sit back down in the chair, and was comforting her. He then looked at her, and asked her very calmly.

" Fred, How can you be sure that the boy the man was talking about is Connor?" Fred rolled her eyes at them and then glared. Honestly, did they think she was completely insane? Of course it was Connor, the man was very specific of it. Well, he didn't exactly say Connor's name, but who the hell else would it be? She looked around the room and stared at everyone like they'd lost their marbles.

"Come on guys, he said the password!" Angel swore and began to pace the room again.

Buffy was completely lost as to what was going on. How did Angel have a son and she not know about it? She looked over at Faith, who was avoiding her gaze. She then looked over at Willow and saw that she had a guilty expression on her face too. How could her best friend keep something like this from her?! It was bad enough that Angel hadn't thought her important enough to share, but Willow knew? She knew that she shouldn't say anything so she kept quiet for the moment. Everyone else in her group looked just as confused as she felt. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore, she walked over to Willow and sat down next to her. She had to know why she hadn't told her.

"Wils...what gives?" Willow gave her a pained expression and looked down. Buffy was growing more agitated, but she didn't want to alert Angel of what she was asking, in case he got mad. Willow sighed and finally met Buffy's eyes.

"I don't know, Buffy, I wasn't sure how you'd react at me telling you. It's the kind of thing that should come from a certain vampire ex of yours and not from me. I thought you 'd be upset and yes, I should have told you, but I didn't. I'm sorry, Buffy, I thought I was doing the right thing." Buffy nodded and went back to her original seat. She was still very peeved, but she couldn't blame Willow for not telling her. It was true that Angel should have done it himself. The Angel group was huddled together, excluding everyone else from their conversation. Fed up, Buffy stood up and spoke loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Okay, maybe I'm out of line here, but you guys standing over there in your little secret circle, is really starting to piss me off." They jumped apart and looked at her guiltily. Angel looked down almost as soon as he made eye contact with her, he knew that he should have told her. Wesley winced at the waiting faces, and addressed the whole room.

"Sorry about that, Buffy, you're not out of line. We were being rude just then, and I apologize. There was some...drama with Angel's son, Connor, and he was sent to live with a family to live out a normal life. His memory was wiped and he thinks the family he's with is actually his. The only one that knows the game, is the father. He was given a password to say in case something went wrong and he remembered. We don't know what's going on, just that Connor is on his way, and we've got little time to prepare. According to the message that Fred got, he still thinks he belongs to the family, but he's curious about Angel. He's not even supposed to know what he looks like, let alone his name." Buffy stared at them like they'd gone insane, but she didn't say anything. She sat back down and seethed silently. She wanted to ask Angel so many questions, but she didn't think that she had the right to know certain things anymore. Angel stepped forward, like he wanted to talk to Buffy, but before he could get a word out, the door opened and a young boy stepped in.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for Angel and I was told he'd be up here. Is he here?" Everyone froze as they stared at the newcomer. Buffy was shocked at how much he looked like Angel, not to mention...how grown up he was. She was so beyond confused that her head hurt. Angel stepped forward and stared at him.

"Hello, Connor."