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Now onto the story information, I promise how Jeff is a vampire will be explained (not completely in this chapter, you'll get a bit about it though). I'm not sure how long this fic is going to be (got an e-mail a few weeks ago asking how long I was planning to make this fic and I don't really know), there are still a lot of things to cover in the past parts and a couple more things that I know I want to happen in the future/present parts. After this chapter though the next couple of chapters will be past so I can get some of that out of the way.

Chapter 13

February 17, 2005

Liz watches in utter shock as her father claws out of his coffin. Her beloved father was a vampire, a soulless creature that she would have to kill. "Daddy." She whimpers a tear escapes sliding down her cheek to fall onto the cool wet grass under her feet.

"What the Hell is going on?" Maria shouts turning away from the flying wood of Jeff Parker's coffin. This was unreal, even knowing about aliens couldn't have prepared her for watching her ex-friend's father climbing from his coffin when he was supposed to be dead.

Spike and Angel move forward to take care of Jeff, Liz couldn't do this, it would tear her apart and neither vampire was willing to let that happen to her. However they didn't expect Liz to stop them, she lifted her arms and grabbed their jackets. Angel and Spike could have pushed away from her but there was a look in her eyes that neither liked.

"Baby?" Spike whispers.

"No," Her chin quivers. "I have to." She was the Slayer; it was her job, not theirs. Besides it was her father or at least his body if she didn't do this it would haunt her. Hell it probably would still haunt her but at least it would be her choice.

"Noo," Spike drawls out in his sexy voice, in a tone that said it was stupid to think that she should do this, "you don't. You shouldn't have to take care of this. Let the Angel and I handle it." The fact that Spike spoke Angel's real name without an insult attached gave Angel pause, even in the most dire of situations he was putting his Sire down, but when it was Liz Spike is all business. It was then Angel truly believes that his Childe would be there for her pseudo sister till the day that he died…again.

Liz shakes her head and releases a shaky breath as her father pushes the cover off of his coffin, her jaw locks and she pulls a stake out from the back of her pants. Her mind blocks off any emotions flowing out, Liz needed to be cold and unfeeling. Feeling, emotions, and crying would come later, but now she had to protect her family and the world from her vampire father. There were times for emotions but now they would only hinder her.

Her eyes turn to ice, the sparkle gone from the depths of her dark brown eyes. Liz's once soft jaw tightens till her teeth are clenched together, a bottom tooth is grinding against a cracked upper tooth and it gives her the physical pain to get through this staking. She turns her head enough to check on Lucas but not to take her gaze off her vampire father, Cordy, Wesley, Gunn, and Fred ran him to the car and are rallied around Spike's car.

Isabel watches Liz give absolutely no emotion to the…thing, there is no other way to put what Jeff Parker has become, that was her friend's father. To anyone with eyes it's obvious that Liz's father isn't in there any longer, but if he isn't Jeff who is he and why is standing when he should be resting comfortably dead in a coffin.

Liz simply stands there no more than ten feet from the vampire, staring at the snarling creature, for a fleeting moment she thought maybe they could curse him with a soul. Angel is cursed and his demon self killed hundreds…thousands of people and he's living a relatively happy life, her father could too…right? But as quickly as that thought came she shook it off, he would hate being a vampire, and Mom is still dead, he'd greet the day as soon as possible.

Jeff searches around with his vampire eyes, everything is brighter, it's like day but at night. Wasn't there a car crash, he turns his neck and hears a loud crack as it pops back into place, the last thing he remembers is a violent pain in his neck and then nothing. No that isn't right, he recalls man ripping off the truck door he had a weird looking face. His mind is fuzzy; he can't seem to focus, he's hungry.

Finally Jeff stares up at his daughter, the power flowing off of her is intoxicating, the blood he smells under her skin with his vampire senses makes him want to drink from her powerful well. "Lizzie." He drawls out softly enjoying the jump in jaw, she didn't like that.

"That's not going to work. You're not my Dad." Angel blinks at how those words hit home, Buffy said those words to him after he became Angelus and they were fighting at the Mall. If only his love knew that Angelus really did and still does want her, he only hurt her that night in his apartment because he had no clue what to do with those feelings.

Even now Angelus roars in his head that his mate is not near, ever since finding out she's pregnant neither Angel nor his demon counterpart can stand being away from Buffy. Both want to keep her near and safe from harm, but Angel seems to have more control over his cave-man side and knows Buffy can take care of herself.

Jeff smirks and nods, "Oh that's right. Besides you're not my daughter anyway, no daughter of mine would leave her family for greener pastures in LA. Boo-who, you fucked some guy, got pregnant with his bastard child and then waited till I croaked to come back to your roots and take everything of mine."

Liz bites her tongue, she refuses to get into a verbal battle with him, even when her father had a soul and was alive he had a wicked tongue that could make anyone cry. When he was mad look out because whoever got in his way became a victim of his smart-ass and sarcastic remarks. Never had he turned those remarks on her…till now.

"I'm sorry Daddy." She speaks in the vampire's direction but she's not speaking to him. As of ten seconds ago she managed to separate the demon and her father completely, her father is in Heaven or some heavenly dimension. It won't make this any easier and it won't make the pain go away any faster but at that moment it gives her the strength to do what she has to do.

Liz pulls out a stake from her waist band, "Now, Lizzie, you wouldn't kill dear old Dad now would you?" Jeff eases forward slowly, Spike and Angel take a step forward as well but are stopped by Liz's raised hand, she doesn't want them getting in the middle of this.

Jeff continues to glide toward his daughter, keeping a very watchful eye on the stake she has resting at her side. She hasn't even raised it yet but that doesn't mean she's not ready to stab him through the chest with it. However the expression gracing the Slayer's face is one of pain and determination, he fights the urge to snort, no way would she kill her own father.

"You don't know what I'll do." Her voice never reaches above a whisper.

Finally within a hairs breath of Liz, Jeff leans down to whisper into Liz's ear, "Just think, no Slayer has ever been turned before, you and I could rule the world. Spread evil and chaos." He licks her ear and Liz has to force herself not to throw-up and keep a straight face.

With a well of tears rising, the staking has to be done quickly, no way would she give him the satisfaction of seeing her cry. "Why does evil always insist on taking over the world." It only comes out in a whisper, a quick motion is all it took the stake slides into the vampire's chest and it bursts into dust. Flakes of the vampire fall on the ground; the wind picks up the rest and scatters the dust through the cemetery.

Liz wobbles and Spike is by her side holding her as she falls to the ground on her knees. The world falls away, all that's left is the buzzing in her head after a slay. Everything, after killing an evil doer is electrified, her entire body wants to let loose so much pent up energy but this time all that's there is the buzzing. Normally her senses are heightened, now she hears nothing, nothing except the buzz.

She doesn't feel Spike picking her up in his arms, she doesn't remember him placing her in the backseat with Lucas and holding her child close to her as if someone would take him away. Liz doesn't hear Spike tell Angel and the rest of the AI team to meet them at the Crashdown, and she doesn't hear Spike tell the Pod Squad and friends to stay away from his wife. All she can hear is that buzzing, all she can feel is her child next to her.

TBC