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Angel grabbed Penn and threw him across the room. Penn growled and vamped out, getting to his feet and blocking Angel's two punches, striking him with one of his own, as Angel kicked him in the stomach. Penn grabbed Angel by the arm and threw him across the room, before leaping after him. Angel growled, blocking Penn's punch, before grabbing him and leaping up, slamming him against the ceiling. They landed as Penn threw Angel down, before stomping on his ribs. Angel rolled away, getting to his feet, as Penn snarled and swung his fist. Angel caught his fist, hitting him in the ribs, then throwing him over his shoulder. Penn got up and kicked Angel in the chest, before taking his chance and diving out of the way. Angel watched him go, before turning to Kate, his vamp face still on

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"I don't understand. I shot him three times. And he still got up," Kate said

"There are a lot of things you don't understand," Angel said

He walked towards Kate, as she whipped out her handgun and held it to his chest

"I shoot you, you gonna get up too?"

"You saw what you saw and you know what will happen"

"No, I don't want to believe it"

"Of course you won't. That's why you'll lose. Because there are some things in this world you're just not ready to face"

During his talk, Angel had grabbed Kate's cross pendant, just so she could hear his flesh sizzle and understand what new world she was facing now. Angel let her pendant go and walked off into the night

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"Damn it, I'm getting sick of these early morning sickness," Cordelia muttered, "No pun intended"

She wiped her mouth and brushed her teeth, before getting her belongings and heading off to work. As she was driving to work, Cordelia suddenly got a strange feeling as an old memory flashed through her mind

"Hope they don't mind if I arrive late," she muttered

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Kate arrived at the local library and headed for the supernatural section, grabbing books on vampires and the paranormal, reading through them, trying to get information and understand the world she was now thrust into

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"So, you've discovered the seamy underbelly of the candy-coated America, have you? Well, you've come to the right place. Here at Angel Investigations, we won't judge, but we will charge. Now, if you'll only tell me how you heard of us," Cordelia said

"From the police, actually," Penn replied with a smile

"Really!"

"Yes. The detective I spoke with was very enthusiastic. For the 'truly human touch,' she said, I should come to you. What was her name?"

"Kate Lockley?"

"Yeah, that's the one"

Cordelia then noticed Penn's coat on the seat beside him

"Is it cold out there?"

"Cordelia, get away from him," said Angel, appearing in the office

Cordelia moved away towards Angel, as Penn got up and backed towards the door, a beam of sunlight separating the two. Just then, Wesley walked into the office

"There has been no sign of our vampire fiend," he started

Penn grabbed him in a chokehold

"Because he's here and has me by the throat," Wesley finished

"Let him go," Angel said

"Yeah, okay. Let's settle this, Angelus. Think of the worst thing ever and I'll meet you there"

Penn shoved Wesley aside, grabbed his coat and ran out of the office

"Stay here," Angel said, heading downstairs

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Kate opened her apartment door, seeing Angel before her

"Hi. Can I come in?" Angel asked

"Oh yeah, you have to be invited?" Kate asked, "Yeah, I've done some reading. And no, you're not invited"

"Listen, Kate, I can help"

"Angelus? That's what he called you. A demon with the face of an angel. A particularly brutal bastard"

"I can't make up for the past"

"Don't worry, Angel, I know what to do. Drive a stake into the bastard's heart. And you better not be around when I do that. Cause I'll do the same to you"

Kate slammed the door in Angel's face, as he turned and walked away

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"Okay, so you all have the picture?" Kate asked, handing out photocopies of Penn around to her fellow officers, "Be warned that this guy is very dangerous-"

"God, the nose is all wrong"

Kate froze when she saw Penn standing in the room, looking at a picture. An officer went for his baton but the next thing Kate knew, all the officers in the room had been taken down and she was being dragged by her jacket out of the station

Meanwhile, Angel and Wesley had arrived in the Plymouth, as Angel was hoping to persuade Kate to let him help her. However, when they arrived, they saw several squad cars leaving the premises

"He's here," Angel said

He got out of the car and headed over to the sewer entrance, slipping into the sewers once he made sure that no one was watching him

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"He shouldn't be long now," Penn said

Kate reached into her jacket and opened up a small bottle of holy water onto Penn, burning his face and causing him to vamp out in pain, just as he was kicked through the air. Angel moved Kate aside, but Penn grabbed him and tossed him aside

"So, you found me, Angelus," Penn asked, "Then I guess its time we ended this"

"Yeah, if you say so," Angel said, "Two hundred years and you're still sticking it to your father. Pretty pathetic, Penn"

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But you know what? You're my father, Angelus. You approved of me in ways my mortal father never did"

He lashed out, but Angel blocked him and twisted his arm, ducking under and kneeing him in the ribs, before dropping him on his face

"Fine. You're grounded," Angel said

Penn got up with a snarl, striking Angel a few times, before kicking him against the wall. Penn then went for Kate, but Angel grabbed him and smacked his face into the wall, as Penn flipped over and kicked him, but Angel then punched him, before getting him into a half-nelson, as Kate picked up a two-by-four lump of wood

"Do it," Angel said

Kate rammed the wood through Penn and Angel, turning Penn to dust, as Angel gasped and fell back, slowly removing the wood from his body, as Kate collapsed beside him

"You missed," Angel groaned

"No, I didn't," Kate replied

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Angel sat on the building edge, overlooking the city, as Cordelia appeared before him

"I was just thinking about this place, how it was similar to where I grew up," Angel said

"Yeah, I can see that," Cordelia said, "Except for the cars, buildings and everything. Look, I've just had a vision. Message came for Angel, not Angelus"

"I know, but Angelus is always a part of me," Angel said, "And there will be a time when I will turn back and-"

"I'll stake you dead," Cordelia deadpanned

"Thanks," Angel said after a few minutes

"Also, I have something else to tell you. Remember when you were human a couple weeks ago?"

"Yeah, I do"

"Well guess what. You got me pregnant!"

"Huh?"

"That's right, bucko, I'm pregnant with your child"

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Seriously? We're gonna have a child?"

"Yes we are"

"Cordy, that's…great"

He got off the ledge and pulled Cordelia into a hug, before kissing her

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