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Chapter 8- Dad

Hyperion

The gang walked into the lobby of the Hyperion as a thunderstorm raged outside.

Cordelia spoke up. "We need to make some little changes for safety. Covers for the outlets, kidproof the locks on the weapons cabinet." She saw the blood spattered equipment that was all that remained of the fight between the Grapplar demons and Wolfram and Hart's swat team. "Right after we gut and remodel the entire hotel."

Fred suggested. "We should be careful. Whatever was in those cages could still be loose."

Gunn and Angel exchanged a look. Fred saw that the cages were labeled: Baby and Mother. "Oh."

Gunn noted. "There's blood over here."

Wesley commented. "Not to mention some bastard's blown a gaping hole in the lift."

"Language!" Matt immediately raised a finger, pointing at the baby as Wesley lamely nodded.

"Got it."

Then they heard someone coming and were about to raise weapons as Angel huddled protectively around his baby but Matt said. "It's just Lorne, guys."

They relaxed as Lorne opened the doors and entered, lowering his umbrella. "Well, this houseguest has had colder welcomes."

"Houseguest?" Gunn asked.

"Well, I figured since you all managed to destroy my club - twice - that I wouldn't be imposing if I hit you up for a place to stay." Lorne saw the mess in the lobby. "On second thought, maybe I should reconsider that standing offer I have from a marginally attractive Mulix demon."

Wesley suggested. "Well, if he/she/it has more suitable accommodations..."

"Or you can stay in my hotel", Matt shrugged as he picked up his cane and glasses he'd dropped during the fight with the telekinetic ninja.

Lorne walked towards Angel, holding out his hands. "Ah, come on, hand over the little nipper. Let Uncle Lorne have a gander." Angel curled tighter around the baby. "Oh, come on, I'm sure everyone else's already had their turn!"

Gunn and Fred peeled the stickers off the cages. Lorne put a hand on Angel's arm, but Angel shook it off. "Wow. I'm sensing a serious 'mama bear' vibe."

Cordy nodded. "Yeah, we're all still waiting our turn."

"I get it. Lookee don't touchee?" Lorne asked.

"No lookee, no touchee for me", Matt quipped as Lorne chuckled.

"I see he's got himself a little scratch..." Lorne reached towards the baby's left cheek, but Angel pushed his hand away.

"Yeah, during the rush to get out of the alley." Cordelia came over. "Here, let me put a little ointment on it."

Angel took the ointment from Cordy. "I-I I got it. I got it."

Angel went to lay the baby down on the counter top. "Easy. Right there. Alright." He undid the blanket a little. "Let your arms out. - Okay. Shh."

Angel carefully dabbed some ointment on the cut and the baby began to cry. "What? What did I do?"

Cordelia told him. "You don't have a woman's touch - whatever your taste in clothing may indicate."

She walked off to sit down on the steps leading into the lobby from the door to the garden court.

"He wet himself", Matt revealed as Angel nodded.

"Ah! Got it!"

Gunn picked up a cleaver-like instrument laying on top of one of the cage and looked at it. "I don't even wanna know."

Matt heard something and pointing said. "Throw it over there."

Gunn turned and saw a demon leaping over the railing outside the glass garden court doors. Cordelia jumped up with a scream as the demon came charging in.

Angel protectively wrapped his arms around the baby when suddenly the Demon's head was chopped off and its headless body fell down, dead, revealing a dark-skinned man in a trench coat wearing shades behind it, and he sheathed the sword he'd used to decapitate the Demon.

"Catch you at a bad time?"

Later

"I was cutting through Mexico, trying to put a stake through some vampire drug production, when I heard something about a vampire birth here in LA. Needless to say my attention was caught", Blade informed them as he paced around. "So I told Whistler I can go faster on my own and arrived here in my charger."

"The Daywalker, fascinating", Wesley noted, looking him up and down.

"Thought you were just a myth till I saw you in that battle", Gunn commented. "Damn!"

"Yes, we've met before during the battle against golden shits", Blade agreed as Wesley and Gunn nodded, then he looked at Matt up and down, sniffing. "So you are him, huh?'

"Yeah, it'd be me", Matt nodded at him.

"I think we should make a list of who's coming after the baby", Fred then said as she went to a dry erase board.

"Put Damaskinos' name on it", Blade told her.

"Who's Daminiostos?" Cordelia asked, mispronouncing the whole thing.

"Overlord of the Vampire Nation", Wesley said, having read about him, as the others were shocked.

"A suckhead that old is bound to involved with something like this", Blade commented as Fred put Damaskinos' name on the top, and then various others including the Scourge (Cordelia growled at their mention and Matt knew why) and some Piper Beast.

Angel arrived, the baby wrapped in a blanket as he asked. "How's the list coming along?"

Wesley explained. "We've divided it into two categories. Column one groups or individuals that we know pose a threat to the baby: Damaskinos, Holtz, Wolfram & Hart."

"Would have added the Vampire cult but the Mark did its job, they wouldn't dare disobey it", Matt then added.

Wesley continued. "Column two are those who could pose a threat once they get wind of the baby."

Angel read. "Order of Phillius, Beltar the Cremator, - Frank?"

Gunn told him. "Local mobster, specializes in kidnapping."

"Ah." The baby began to cry. "What, what, what? What is it? You can't be wet again. I just changed you. Ah-hmm, are you hungry? I got a bottle all ready for you."

He walked over to counter and looks around. "Where did I put his bottle? I had a bottle all ready for him!"

Cordelia hurried over, picked up the bottle and handed it to him.

"Okay." He turned to the baby. "Here's your babba." The baby cried. "Take your babba."

Matt and Gunn grinned.

"You just take it like this", Angel lifted the bottle and made sucking noises, "and you drink, and you're happy."

The baby continued to cry. Gunn came over. "Angel, why don't you let me take him for a little while. I helped raise my cousin since she was about a week old."

Cordy threw up her hands and walked away.

"I-I can handle it." He walked away from Gunn. "Alright, so we got a list. All we have to do is erase everyone on it."

Matt's head perked up as he started getting an idea.

Fred picked up a dry eraser. "I can do that for you."

"Ah, Fred..."

"What?" Fred stopped erasing and turned to look at Cordy. "Oh, you meant erase in a squish and kill violent kind of way. I'll just put that back." She wrote Damaskinos' name back on the list.

Angel was pacing and holding the bottle out to the crying baby: "Come on, it's a nice babba. You wanna stop crying and take your babba, yes you do - please?"

"What the fuck am I watching?" Blade muttered quietly, never having thought he'd see the infamous Angelus, now Ensouled obviously, having a baby with another and trying to feed him milk from a bottle.

And he knew this kid was like him, but potentially better perhaps.

Later, Matt sat down as Cordelia bandaged his fists that he'd hurt while breaking down the hollow wall.

"Next time, don't push yourself too hard", Cordelia requested him.

"Angel needed to take care of Darla, so figured I'd do it", Matt said with a shrug.

"Okay, but now take some rest", Cordelia told Matt as she got up to walk off.

"Actually, I have a different idea", Matt revealed to her. "And I'll tell later."

He got up and walked off to where Lorne was working with the Furies to raise a force field in the hotel.

"How's it going?" Matt asked him.

"Almost done, Devillicious", Lorne told him.

The Furies held out their hands to Matt and went. "Hmmmmm, Matthew."

Matt was freaked as he backed a little behind Lorne as Lorne chuckled and rolled his eyes. "They love young, handsome men, like you and Angel."

Then a blue flash lighted up the hotel as they said. "It is done."

With that, they were gone as Lorne said. "Well, now you don't have to deal with them."

They walked off to the lobby where Cordelia was now looking up a database on the laptop as Lorne said. "Oh, just listening to those Furies gives me whiplash! Thank God they finally left. My head was about to pop off. Which, granted, not that big a deal."

"They just met me and came onto me", Matt sighed while shaking his head.

Wesley asked. "That flash was their spell kicking in?"

Lorne nodded. "Yeah, they put a force field over the entire hotel. No one or thing can get in or out."

Fred asked. "So, the baby's safe? We're all safe. Right, Lorne? I-I mean unless one of those killers decides to throw in a fire bomb in at us like they did at your club, which had a similar safety spell around it as I recall." Angel looked at her. "Sorry."

Angel nodded. "She's right. He won't be safe here for long."

Lorne explained. "Well, we can get out if we have to. I installed an emergency exit down in the sewers. A-a mystical barrier, opens and closes with a password." He turned to Fred. "Pylean word for hedgehog."

"Oh. - Oh!" Fred started to laugh.

Gunn asked. "I'm guessing it means something very different in English?"

"I think I might need to know that", Matt told Lorne.

"And the baby needs to see a doctor", Cordelia added.

Angel was shocked. "What? He's not sick! Does he look sick?"

Cordy read in baby book. "No. But he needs his newborn checkup. The baby book says that he's supposed to have a vitamin K shot and a PKU test after he's born. Uh - are you gonna circumcise?"

Matt turned to Cordelia oddly as the baby started screaming louder.

"I think he heard you", Gunn quipped.

Lorne then asked. "Speaking of hearing things - are there any fluorescent lights in here? I keep hearing this hum. Plus, fluorescent - green light, green skin - it's all bad." All but Matt gave him stares. "I'll take the blank stares as a big fat no."

Matt tried to hear for it and yes, there was a weird hum, coming from whatever he believed was being hidden from him. He'd tried to focus but the thing hiding it was too strong, but now, he had a clearer picture.

He whispered to Lorne. "I think those are cameras."

Now he wondered if the ones who'd installed these cameras knew who he was, because that would be terrible.

Angel was looking at the weapons cabinet. "Gunn?"

"Yeah."

"I'm in a war here. I'm gonna need some serious firepower."

"Won't be a problem", Blade said as they turned to him. "Left my ride a few blocks from here, you want firepower? It has enough for 3 armies."

Angel nodded. "Thanks."

Blade left to get his gear as Angel turned to Fred. "We get into the websites?"

Fred informed him. "Not yet. Normally all we would have to do is hack into the e-mail and track the relays but - they're using re-mailers."

Angel looked at them. "Which means?"

Cordelia started. "Which means there is no direct id, it's going to take a little time..."

Angel said. "We don't have a little time. Are those all the names up there on the board?"

Wesley explained gently. "Working on some other leads. We all want the same thing, Angel. We're doing the best we can."

Angel was looking down at the baby: "Do better."

"Angel!"

"I promised his mother. No one is gonna put their hands on this child. No one." Angel turned to walk up the stairs.

"And no one will", Matt promised as he walked off.

Wolfram and Hart

Linwood watched Angel carry the child upstairs on the monitor. "No one is going to put their hands on this child. Is this meant to be ironic? According to our highly - and I'm now thinking, somewhat overpaid translators, the Nyazian Scroll said the child would never be born. And yet - here he is."

Lilah revealed. "Darla was dusted during childbirth. According to our sources she staked herself, leaving the baby alive and kicking but never actually born. MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped."

Linwood realized. "Clever loophole. We could use some of those Nyazian Scroll writers in Contracts and Negotiations.

Lilah then told him. "I also have an intercept team working on tactical scenarios as we speak.

"Moving on", Linwood picked a picture of Holtz. "I want everything there is on this character. He slaughtered some of our best-trained men. He's gonna be a problem."

Lilah assured. "We're locating him, sir."

Linwood told her. "Preferably before he locates us."

He then said. "And your ex, for a blind man, he fights quite well, doesn't he?"

"I know sir", Lilah nodded. "His mark is being looked into. Once they figure it out, you will be the first to get the information."

Linwood nodded and walked towards the screen as he heard the baby gurgle. "That's a cute little baby. Yes, you are. And your daddy is a vampire with a soul. And sometimes he reverts to a creature of pure, malevolent evil, who could rip your tiny throat out. Yes, he does." He chuckled. "I like kids. The Senior Partners took mine before I really got to know them. Turn it up." Lilah pushed a button on the remote and the room filled with the baby's cries. "Turn it down."

Lilah did as Linwood walked out.

Hyperion Hotel

Angel was trying to distract the baby from crying with the teddy bear. "Teddy isn't crying. Do you see Teddy cry? Teddy isn't crying. Do you see Teddy crying? No, Teddy isn't crying." The baby cried and Angel leaned his head into the Teddy with a sigh. "Come on, kid, you gotta give me something here. Alright. Last ditch effort."

Angel took a deep breath, cleared his throat and began to sing. "Toora-loora-loora, toora-loora-lay..."

Lorne walked into the room behind Angel.

"Toora-loora-loora, that's an Irish lullaby..." Angel broke off, leaning his head against the side of the cradle in defeat as the crying never even slowed.

"Here let me give it a try." Lorne then sang as Angel played with the teddy in front of him. "Ooh, ooh, baby, baby. Ooh, ooh, baby, baby. Mistakes I know I made a few, but I'm only human. You'll make mistakes, too. And I'm crying... " He stopped singing. "He doesn't like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles? I thought you said this kid had a soul."

Angel leaned down over the cradle. "You know what, you're fed, you're changed. I hold you, you cry. I put you down, you cry. What do you want me to do here?" The baby cried. "I'm a terrible father." He picked up the baby. "I can't even get him to stop crying."

Lorne revealed to him. "Yeah, well, it's getting a little tense - your vibe, that is."

"My vibe? What vibe?"

Lorne explained. "Oh, just the incredibly anxious one that's been coming of you in waves ever since he was born. He's deeply connected to you. If you're wound this tight, how do you think he's gonna feel?"

Angel pointed out to him. "Hey, he's not even a day old and he's got an enemies list. How would you feel? Wouldn't you be a little edgy?"

Lorne countered. "Yeah. I'd also be in awe. Look at him."

Angel looked down at the screaming baby in his arms.

"He's more than a mission, bro. Look at him. Look at him."

Lorne turned and walked out of the room as Angel kept looking at the baby, a slight smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. Angel sat down in a chair.

"It's all right. It's gonna be alright. It's gonna be all right." The baby continued to scream. "Hey. Shh."

Angel made a face and silly noises. "Do you like that?" The baby continued to scream. "Well, obviously. Okay. How about this one?"

Angel pulled on his ears, made another face and silly noises. The baby continued to scream. "Okay. I only got one more in me."

Angel sighed and morphed into vamp-face. The baby looked up at him, stopped crying and after a moment its eyes start drooping. A big smile spread over Angel's face.

"Yeah, that's my little guy! You like that, don't you? A bootchee-wootchee..."

Matt had reached the hotel where he'd kept his suit after having gone out of the Hyperion using the emergency exit, and he'd to go through the sewers, unfortunately, but now here he was.

He opened the suitcase, his Demon-Slayer Daredevil suit laid out.

"Erase everyone from the list."

The Scourge were all gathered as their leader announced. "A child has been born, of two Vampires, who are impure half-bloods, and this child is even more impure!"

The Scourge all cheered and howled as the leader said. "And so, we shall exterminate this filth who dared to exist in this world!"

Even more cheers followed when the leader looked up at a higher platform, eyes widening in horror as the others looked up too, to see Daredevil standing there.

"What are you doing here?" The leader now asked with a gulp.

'This is for you kid, and you, Doyle', Daredevil thought to himself before announcing. "I've come to take you to Hell!"

And then he took out his club, dividing it into sticks, and leapt down for battle with a roar.

Hyperion Hotel, next day

Fred was hunched over the laptop as Cordelia brought over two cups and set one down beside her.

"Thanks." Fred looked up and saw Angel coming down the stairs carrying his son. "Oh-oh, we still haven't traced the websites."

Cordy patted her on the back. "Relax." She walked over to meet Angel. "Get any sleep?"

Angel didn't take his eyes off the baby. "Nah, I was up all night watching him."

Cordy suggested. "You know, if you'd let us take shifts we could..."

"No, I wasn't watching him like that - I was just - watching him." Cordy smiled. "He - looks a little bit like me, don't you think?"

Cordy agreed. "Oh, yeah. Look at that brow. He's a miniature you. Why don't you hand him over for a while, catch some shut eye…."

Angel immediately protested. "No. I'll sleep - when I know he's safe."

Cordy then started pointing out the reality. "Which will be when? Around never? - Angel, I understand you wanna protect him - but you gotta let go a little. Share part of the responsibility. You can't be everything for him."

Angel told her. "I'm his only family. My job now is to be everything for him."

"Really? - Okay. Follow me. Come on." Cordy took a hold of Angel's elbow and lead him towards the garden court. Angel wasn't taking his eyes off the baby in his arm.

"Where are we going?"

"Come on." Cordy lead him out of the Hyperion. Angel stopped before they left the shadows of the building.

"Cordelia..."

"We're going outside, where your son is gonna wanna go play. Where you have to rush him to the hospital if he gets sick in the daytime. But I see your point. You can't go outside during the day like other parents because - you're a vampire. And even if you weren't - you can't do everything for him."

Angel, looking down at the baby, stretched one hand out into the sunlight. "If he has to get to the hospital at noon", smoke started to rise from his hand, "on the sunniest day of the year, he'll get there", he looked at Cordy, his hand still smoldering in the sunlight, "even if I don't."

"Angel", Cordy pushed his hand down into the shadow, "stop, Angel..."

Angel turned away and walked back into the Hyperion.

Lorne came down the steps.

"Good morning all." He sniffed. "Is that bacon I smell or did somebody fall asleep with the curtains open?" He draped one arm over Angel's shoulder as he looked down at the baby. "You got to figure a guy like you, a place like this, the only truly safe room would be the janitor's closet."

Angel looked down at his shirt pocket then walked away from Lorne. "Thanks for the tip."

Fred asked. "Were you able to sleep, Lorne, or did you still hear that humming?"

Lorne shrugged. "Oh, I got some earplugs. Put them in and slept like a baby. Cried and wet the bed all night." He was the only one laughing. "Tough room."

Gunn walked in, dropping a duffel bag. "Blade's firepower right here."

"Where's Blade?" Angel asked.

"Well, we got guests, some biker gang I recognize from back in the day-"

"Humans?"

"Yeah. Into extortion and kidnapping. There are also some funky fellows in a van I didn't recognize, wearing hooded cloaks."

Wes joined them. "Lilliad demons. Their fun is making a magical broth from the bones of human children", he turned to Cordy who was about to add them to the white board, "That's two 'L's' in the middle. They probably want to find out how the child born of a vampire effects the recipe. They use strong magic. They may be able to break the furies spell."

Angel asked. "What are they waiting for?"

Wes revealed. "Night. Their power is linked directly to the lunar cycle."

Cordy realized. "So, we're safe for now, but when the moon rises..."

Fred finished. "And tonight's a full moon."

"Blade's dealing with 'em as we speak", Gunn informed them. "But more of them are gonna come, and he can't do it alone."

"Where's Matt?" Angel then asked, noting his absence.

"He went out, said he's going to make the world a safer place for the baby", Cordelia said to him.

Same time

Matt as Daredevil was in a warehouse, battling some thugs. His suit was now damaged at some places but still fine.

As two thugs charged him, Matt leapt up and kicked both back before flipping back as they crashed into a wall, knocked out.

As more arrived, he leapt and kicked one before spinning and punching another down, then ducked the third one's blow and punched him out.

The next one tried to punch but Matt spin kicked him out as well. As another tried to kick from behind, Matt spun, grabbed his foot, head-butted his abdomen, then decked his face multiple times.

One charged from behind with a punch but Matt head-butted his punch, the helmet hurting the guy's hand as he screamed in pain. Matt then threw the one whose foot he'd grabbed away.

Then he turned and punched the one who's fist he'd head-butted multiples times on the chest and abdomen before punching his face thrice, then kneed his abdomen, making him kneel, and leapt on top of him, sending him down at last.

Matt then heard someone charging at him from behind and with a leap, kicked the guy away. Then he leapt and wrapped his feet around the guy's waist, grabbed his collar, and head-butted him multiple times.

One thug tried to punch him from behind but Matt decked him away, then continued head-butting his opponent before spinning and kicking another thug away while the head-butted guy went down.

He then kicked another away before leaping and kicking another, then spin kicked him back as well. He then grabbed the next one by the collar and punched his face many times, then twisted his arm and punched him down.

The next one grabbed Matt from behind but he spun, punched his chest a few times, then grabbing him by the collar, decked his face hard multiple times.

He was then grabbed from behind by the next one who tried to pull him back but he grabbed the one he was fighting, pulling him too, then kicked him away into a chair. Then he flipped, taking the guy grabbing him down, and trapping him with his feet, elbowed his chest multiple times, taking him out.

The next one tried to bring his foot down on him but Matt blocked, then lifting his foot kicked the guy's head twice, before sweeping his feet from under him as he went down, and then grabbing his face, he slammed it on the ground multiple times, taking him out as well.

Then Matt turned to Frank the mobster, who opened his drawer and taking out a gun, fired. Matt leaned back to avoid before flipping, kicking the desk in front of Frank, which slid to him, ramming him into the wall.

Matt then leapt onto the desk, putting his foot on Frank's hand, disarming him of his gun, then grabbing him by the back of the collar, punched him multiple times on the face with absolute brutality.

The punches didn't just give the mobster a concussion, but also brain damage, and his chances of eating solid food again were quite slim.

It was night time now, and outside the Hyperion, Blade was fighting some Vamps that had clearly been sent by Damaskinos.

He'd set one Vamp on fire but it still charged with a roar, though Blade kicked him down as he dusted. He then took out a stake he'd attached to a chain.

As another charged, Blade sliced his abdomen, then dusted him. The next charged but Blade hurled the stake, attached to his chain, and it went through the Vamp's chest, dusting him.

He then twirled it and spinning, hurled it at another attacking from behind, dusting him too. Blade then wiped the stake on his trench coat, shrugging, as more enemies arrived.

"I promise you all, you'll be dead by dawn", Blade snarled when suddenly the Vampire cult arrived and started battling all the other enemies, to Blade's surprise. "Huh? Weird shit."

Daredevil walked into the Hyperion then, his helmet cracked and tears in his suit, nearly collapsing as Wesley and Gunn helped him to a couch, and Angel, Cordelia, Lorne and Fred watched in concern.

"You look like you've just done the training montages of all six Rocky films and both the Creed films as well in quick succession", Lorne quipped, taking in his condition.

Matt then started listing as he raised his fingers. "The Scourge, the Order, Piper Beast, Beltar, and Frank the mobster, won't be a threat to the baby anymore, I made sure of it."

He panted as Angel looked grateful and nodded. "Thank you very much."

"Then I found the Vamp cult and ordered them to attack anyone else coming to the hotel to get the baby, not sure how much good they can do though", Matt panted before getting up. "More are coming, we must be ready."

Later, Daredevil and Blade both stood on the rooftop of Hyperion, waiting as Blade said. "So, Devil of Hell's Kitchen, wearing red pyjamas."

Matt chuckled and shook his head as Blade said. "I like it. The Demons fear you, that's definitely not shit."

"Thanks", Matt muttered as the Vamp cult continued fighting other Vamps as well as bikers while the Lilliad Demons continued chanting.

Matt then heard Angel arguing with the others inside the hotel, since he was running away with the baby, but he smirked, knowing that was part of the plan.

Then the force field went down as Blade took out his sword, twirling it. "Those sticks won't work on all of them."

"I know", Matt raised his hand and clenched his fist, a blade extending from his suit's arm. "I came prepared."

Blade looked impressed as both leapt down and then he twirled his sword, chopping off the heads of two bikers in a spin motion, then twirled and leaping, flip kicked a Vamp away as Matt sliced the chest of a Vamp, then punched his face, the crosses stitched to his knuckles burning it as it screeched, and then Matt took out a stake, dusting it.

He then flipped behind another Demon attacking him and kicked it away as well before using his blade to stab another in the foot, making it kneel, then punched it out.

Blade walked to two guys, kicking them down swiftly, then kicked another hard, sending him flying into a car, before spin kicking two out in quick succession, and kicked one high into the air as he then fell down due to gravity, dead.

He then struck one's face multiple times and hurled him away into a tree while snapping his neck, chipping some wood off the tree.

As another attacked, Blade leapt, kicking his face with his feet as the guy fell down, Blade standing over him, and then he swiftly took down the next two as well, before decking the third's chest a few times, and in a spin motion, kicked him and another sneaking behind him out.

He then kicked another down before hurling two away simultaneously and spinning, kicked another out. As another charged him, Blade decked his face, grabbed his arm, twisted, then turning him around, ripped off his throat, killing him.

The next Demon charged as Blade grabbed his arm, twisted, threw him down, and shot him dead with his gun.

He then took out the stake gun and shot another Vampire leaping at him, dusting it, and he used it to shoot some more. He then took out two stakes, hurling them at two Vamps, dusting them both.

As the next charged, Blade grabbed his arm, spun him, elbowed his face, and then staked him. He then saw various Vampires charging in two lines and taking out a shuriken, hurled it as it chopped off the heads of all Vamps in the first on its flight, then on reverse course chopped off the heads of all Vamps in the second line as Blade leapt on top of a car and caught it on return.

Two Lilliads managed to enter the Hyperion and took off their hoods.

"Where is the child?"

"Upstairs, room three-one-two, why don't you go and get him? Oh, wait. I have a better idea." Wesley aimed his flame-thrower and fired as they screamed.

Matt spin kicked a Demon away before taking out holy water and splashing it on another Vamp's face, burning his face as Blade chopped off another's head too.

One Vamp of Damaskinos saw Angel's car drive by and knocked down another cult Vamp, then saw Hum-vees in pursuit as it hurried into the hotel.

"It's a trick! He's taken the child."

The vampire looked down at the charred and still smoking remains of the Lilliad demons, them looked at Wesley who gave him a shrug before torching him with a burst of flame.

Angel, after a lot of chasing, was in a mine shaft and was surrounded. He looked down at the baby in his arms. "Could be worse. At least you're not crying."

Angel then looked around and grabbed a hold of a rope trailing down from the ceiling.

"Give us the baby!"

"You want the baby? - You can have the baby."

Angel tossed the wrapped baby in a high arc into the middle of his enemies. They all scrambled for it, while Angel quickly rode the rope up to the top of the shaft. One of the vampires had a hold of the baby and unwrapped the blanket to get a look at it.

Angel's car backed out of the mine shaft, made a screeching U-turn and sped away.

The vampire stared down at Teddy, a bomb with the timer almost to zero strapped to it's chest.

"What is it?"

"It's a..."

A fireball rolled out of the mineshaft, its fire casting a red glow over the taillights of Angel's escaping car.

Hospital waiting area

Wesley and Fred got up from a couch as a doctor entered. Cordelia, standing beside the couch turned around, holding the baby.

The nurse apologized. "Ah, sorry for the wait. Let's go."

The three of them followed the doctor through a set of doors.

Wolfram and Hart

Linwood had finally figured out alongside Lilah how Angel had found out about the cameras and that the 'running away' thing was a trick, and then he talked of Holtz.

"It's only a matter of time before our needs and his come into conflict." An alarm sounded. "Maybe sooner than we think."

Angel walked into the office, walked up to Linwood, sliced him across the cheek, and pushed him facedown against the table. "My son has a tiny scratch on his cheek, and now, by extraordinary coincidence so do you. I'm holding you personally responsible for anything that happens to him whether it's your fault or not. Cold, sunburn, scratched knee, whatever happens to him, happens to you, and then some."

Matt stood a little behind, holding his cane and having his glasses on as Angel pulled Linwood back up, pushed him back into his chair and leaned over him. "For not only are you not coming after him, you gonna make sure that he lives a long, healthy life. You just became his godfather, understand?"

Linwood nodded hatefully. "I believe I do."

Guards came in in response to the alarm.

"Sir?"

"It's all right."

Angel started to leave but turned back around before he reached the door. "Oh, and one more thing: College fund? Start saving. I got my heart set on Notre Dame. If you've got any issues, you can talk to my lawyer about it."

Matt then walked forward, pulling out a contract as he put it down in front of Linwood, taking out a pen and handing it to him. "Sir, you need to sign over here."

The blame of anything that harmed the baby would go to the firm, but what Linwood read next shocked him. "Half of my annual salary?"

"Those are my client's terms, take them or…..yeah, you must take them", Matt said as Linwood glared at the lawyer and Vampire with a soul hatefully, then finally signed as Matt took the contract and pen, putting it down in front of Lilah. "We need your signature so that we can say there was a witness to this."

Lilah shrugged and signed, since she didn't care about Linwood's salary, then giving Matt the pen back snarled. "You bastard, you're not even blind are you?"

"Actually, I am", Matt shrugged, deciding not to mention Daredevil since they probably didn't know that much, or she'd have mentioned it.

He then walked to Angel with the contract as they walked out together and Matt jokingly asked. "I thought I was the godfather."

Linwood was going to have his revenge on them both. Then his phone rang and he picked it up, listening to the person on the other end as the color drained from his face.

He put the phone down as Lilah asked. "What's the matter, sir?"

Linwood looked at them all, seeming very pale, and said. "We are not to touch, look, or even listen to anything regarding to Matt Murdock. This comes from the Senior Partners themselves."

Lilah now shuddered herself, wondering what it was about Matt that made even the Senior Partners afraid to cross him.

Her ex-boyfriend really was a special man. Maybe she shouldn't have stopped banging him so she could boast that she bangs a special guy who scares her inter-Dimensional bosses and is amazing in bed.

Hospital

The doctor and a nurse carrying the baby came back out into the waiting room as the doctor said to Cordelia. "I'm happy to report you have a healthy baby boy."

"Oh, great. But I'm not the mother." Cordelia told her.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She turned to Fred. "I'm happy to report you have a healthy baby boy."

Fred said. "Oh. Me neither."

"I'm afraid the mother is, ah, no longer in the picture", Wesley told her.

"I see. Well, his height and weight are in the ninety percentile. We gave him his vitamin K and his PKU and he's doing very well", the doctor said as Cordelia and Wesley shared a smile. "We don't seem to have his - what's his name?"

Cordelia and Wesley looked at each other.

"Connor."

They turned to see Angel walk in with Matt behind him. "His name is Connor."

"Connor", she wrote down. "Thank you. Mr.", she looked at the papers, "Angel." The nurse handed the baby to Angel. "And congratulations."

"Thanks."

The Doctor and the nurse left, as Angel shared a smile with them, then smiled down at Connor. "Hey."

"Connor because its Irish, right?" Matt asked.

"Yeah", Angel confirmed with a nod before asking the rest. "Mr. Angel?"

Fred told him. "Your first name is Geraldo."

Cordelia added. "We had to tell them something."

Fred then told 'Geraldo Angel's backstory. "Geraldo Angel. You're a pet psychiatrist with a small practice in Pacoima. Oh, and you fight crime- We just told them the name part. The rest is me, having fun."

Angel looked at them all happily with appreciation. "I don't know what to say."

Cordelia shrugged. "How about thanks. I appreciate it. You guys rock. Way to go?"

Angel looked up from Connor's face. "What she said."

The double doors behind them opened and Gunn came in pushing an empty stroller. "Got the best one a very small amount of money could buy."

They all did an 'ah' as Angel handed Connor over to Cordelia who put him in the stroller. "Hey, you wanna go for a ride? Oh, goodness..."

Wesley commented. "Connor. That's a lovely name. I don't suppose you ever considered Wes..."

Matt, Angel, Cordelia and Gunn went together. "No."

Fred then asked them. "Not to be negative or anything, but - we're okay, right? Nobody else is coming after Connor or us?"

"No", Angel shook his head. "We're safe for the time being." He turned to Matt. "Thanks to you."

"We all helped", Matt shrugged as Angel turned back to Connor.

"Let's go home. Nice stroller."

"Thank you", Gunn said.

They walked out together, Fred and Gunn on the left, Matt, Cordelia and Wesley on the right, and Angel, pushing the stroller in the middle.

Connor made sounds and played in the crib.

Next morning, Hyperion

"Cameras are all gone, no suckhead's gonna watch any privy time", Blade told the team as they nodded at him in appreciation.

"He's a tiny bit sadistic, but very practical, ya know?" Lorne told the team as Blade shook his head and chuckled, and held out his hand which Lorne shook.

"Honored to fight alongside you", Wesley said as he held out his hand.

"Honor be mine", Blade shrugged as he shook it too.

"Thanks for the weapons", Gunn said as he and Blade shook hands too.

"Don't mention it, kid", Blade assured as he and Fred then shook hands.

"Thanks for coming", she said.

He nodded as he and Cordelia then shook hands. "And for taking out that Demon."

"No problem", Blade shrugged as Angel looked at him gratefully.

"Well, I guess this is it", Matt said as he held out his hand and Blade shook it.

"Yeah, for now Devil guy", Blade shrugged as they chuckled.

"Thank you, for all you did for my son", Angel said gratefully to Blade who shrugged.

"Anything for my fellow", Blade told him.

"Ummm", Angel trailed off, holding out Connor. "You wanna hold him?"

"Oh no, little nippers ain't my thing", Blade said, waving his hand.

"I think he'd love to meet you", Angel insisted, as Blade finally gave in.

Blade took off his shades, then reluctantly took Connor from Angel, looking down on him.

"I always thought I was the only one", Blade muttered as Connor opened his eyes and began to smile up at the Daywalker.

Blade now smiled back at the baby Daywalker, and it was a genuine smile, as some understanding seemed to pass between the only two Daywalkers to ever exist, even if one was an adult hard-ass Vampire hunter and the other was a newborn baby.

Blade then looked up and handed the baby back to his father, before putting his shades back on. "Take care."

They waved goodbye to him as he walked out of the Hyperion.

"Okay, before you go", Cordelia said to Matt. "A picture with all of us."

"Sure", Matt smiled as she took out her phone and held it up with a selfie stick, everyone smiling, with Angel holding baby Connor as Cordelia took a picture, and all of them looked like a happy family in it.

She then put the selfie stick and phone down as Matt picked up his case. "Well, it's time for me to go too."

"Take care, man", Gunn said as he and Matt shared a hug.

"You too", Matt told him before he turned to Fred.

"Thanks for saving us a trip to the hospital", Fred quipped as Matt chuckled, and they shared a hug too.

"No problem."

"Thank you for all your help, Matthew", Wesley said as he and Matt shared a hug then.

"You're welcome."

Matt then shared a hug with Lorne. "Sorry about the club."

"Well, at least you saved us from being part of it, my man", Lorne smiled as they nodded. "And next time you go on a road trip, invite me again."

"Will do", Matt said as they shared a chuckle and then he turned to Angel.

"I don't even know where to start", Angel said to Matt, looking at him with appreciation. "You figured out how Connor came to be, told me I was having a boy, dealt with the ninja, used the Hell-mark to save us from the Vampire cult, protected me from Holtz, then went out of your way to take down the threats to Connor all by yourself."

"What are friends for?" Matt asked as Angel smiled and handing Connor to Cordelia, shared a brotherly hug with Matt, which was longer than all of Matt's other hugs.

Then they parted as Cordelia handed Connor back to Angel and shared a hug with Matt as well. "When you get home, rest."

"I'll try", he said as she chuckled and Matt then said to them. "Thank you to you guys as well for figuring out about the Hell-mark. Sure, it wasn't good news, but at least now I know about it."

They all nodded at him as Angel held out Connor for Matt. "You wanna say goodbye to him?"

"Sure", Matt said as he held Connor. "Well, kid, it was nice to meet you, good thing you finally managed to come after all that hassle."

Everyone chuckled as Matt then added. "And remember, no matter what daddy says, Uncle Matt always wins."

Angel rebuked. "Stop corrupting my son."

"Just making sure he knows the essentials", Matt said as they chuckled again, and then Matt handed Connor back to Angel before walking off with his case, sharing a wave with the others.

"Now Sunnydale", he muttered as he walked out of Hyperion. He and Faith were finally going to try it out.

And we're done. Hope all enjoyed seeing Blade return to help out, and his moment with Connor.

And Matt was so badass here, taking down most of the threats to Connor by himself.

Wolfram and Hart now know not to mess with Matt.

Faith and the Scoobies will return next chapter for a small original plotline, then we'll do 3x11 but Matt won't show up other than a cameo, but another character from his show will. Guess who? *winks*

Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter. Stay safe from the coronavirus ya all!