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Rating: PG-15
Author's Note: This is AU, but it still contains slayers, watchers, and vampires, extra.
Authors note 2: This part deals with Angel's past.
Authors note 3: the song Rem sings to Angel is from a show called 'Outlaw Star' and it's called Melfina's song.
Summary: Buffy Anne Summers is six years old and she is about to meet a part of her destiny.
Couples: B/A as friends, Makoto/Kit
Title: Enter the Slayer: The Beginning
Author: TK
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Part 10
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Year: 1984
"Mommy, what's that?" little four year old Angel O'Connell asked his mother innocently.
"It's a bird you silly," Mrs. O'Connell answered with a laugh taking her little boy into her arms. "You know that," she said tickling her life.
"Mommy, that tickles," said Angel in his little voice.
"It's suppose too," Mary O'Connell told her son with a laugh. "You look so much like your father," she commented getting a far off look on her face all of a sudden.
"Mommy, when is Daddy coming home?" he asked as his mother put him down. "Is he working?" he asked his chocolate brown eyes so full of innocents.
Mary O'Connell smiled down at her little boy. He was so innocent, and so precious. Her husband and she had been so happy when they had finally been blessed with their little Angel. So many people told them that they would never have this. Her sister's friend was a watcher, and he had plain out told Mary that a love between a human and a vampire would never last, and the possibility of ever having children was extremely if not impossible.
Mary had went through so much with her husband, Henry. Henry had been turned by a master vampire two hundred years earlier, and yet he still by some miracle managed to keep part of his soul. Mary had been a powerful witch working with the Watcher's council back then. One night she was attacked by a pair of vampires and saved by Angel's father.
He was the most handsome man she had ever seen. It hadn't matter to her whether he was a vampire or human. She had known from the moment she saw him that they belonged together. It just took a while to convince him of that. They had married three years later at a night time ceremony, and to ensure her husband would burst into flames, Mary made a special necklace that could only be worn by her husband. Its magic allowed him to go out during the day time and protected him against attacks of powerful magic.
"Mommy, look there's Daddy," said Angel full of excitement. "Daddy," Angel screamed as he ran towards his father. "How was work?" he asked when his father picked him up in his big firm arms.
"It was very good, but I want to hear about your day," Henry O'Connell told his son as his wife came up to him.
"Mommy took me to the park, and I made a new friend named Doyle, and then she took me to meet my new baby-sitter Rem," Angel rambled on as his mother gave his father a kiss of greeting and the two smiled at their little boy as he rambled on.
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"Hey, Mr. O'Connell," Rem said the following evening. "I'm Rem," she said introducing herself. "Your wife said that you two were going out tonight, and that you would like me to watch you little boy," she said following the kind man/vampire into the warm loving house.
"Yes, I assume that you know what you are getting into?" asked Mr. O'Connell opening a locked cover that held every type of weapon Rem had ever seen.
"Yes, Sir, Mrs. O'Connell explained your situation to me. I am also a practicing witch, and have connections to the watcher's concuil," explained Rem. "I promise I will take really good care of your son," the fifteen year old promised sitting down on the chair.
"Rem, hi," yelled Angel running down the stairs sounding like a heard of cattle. "You're here," he said running into Rem's welcoming arms.
"I sure am," replied Rem looking down at the little boy. "Your Mommy and Daddy are going out tonight, and you and I get to spend time hanging out like buddies. Does that sound okay to you?" she asked as the little boy crawled onto her lap.
"Sounds great," said Angel truthfully. "Daddy, you and Mommy will be careful, right?" Angel asked as a nervous feeling settle with in his little tummy.
"Of course we will," Mr. O'Connell promised his son. "We're just going to help Aunt Julie and her friend India with some problems they have been having," he assured the little boy gently.
He knew that his son was aware of bad guys that could hurt him lay outside the door at night time, but his son was to little so understand that those bad guys where strong and could kill anyone before they could even blink. Henry O'Connell prayed so many times that his son would never have to find out just how scary the night could really be.
"Are we ready, Henry?" Mrs. O'Connell asked walking in wearing a pair of black flare pants and black tank top.
For a mother, Mary O'Connell could still wear her younger year clothing quite well.
"I love you, Mommy," Angel said getting off of Rem's lap and ran over to his mother giving her a hug.
"I love you too, My Miracle," she replied lovingly. "Be good for Rem, Okay?" she asked.
"I promise. I love you, Daddy," Angel said turning his attention to his father.
"I love you too, Little Miracle," Mr. O'Connell said hugging his little boy to him. "I'll see you in the morning," he promised before ruffling Angel's hair up.
"Daddy, don't," Angel insisted running his hand back through his hair.
Mr. O'Connell and his wife laughed before biding Rem and their son a good night and headed out.
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"Do you see anything?" Julie O'Connell asked her little sister as they walked through the abounded building.
"Not a thing," replied her little sister. "Julie, are you sure that there is suppose to be an End of the World ritual taking place tonight?" Mary asked her sister.
"That's what India said, and you know with her being current slayer, I would believe what she has to say. Not to mention her watcher, my friend, Christy confirmed it," explained Julie.
"Where's India?" Mary asked looking around for the young sixteen year dark hair slayer.
"She's taking the point position, just in case some try to escape. Christy is with Henry on the east side. We're supposed to cover the west side, and let me tell you this is looking like a dead end," Julie commented looking around at all the torn up garbage that lay around their feet.
"Let's head back," Mary said suddenly. "I want to make it home in time to tuck Angel into bed," she told her big sister.
"How is my cute little nephew?" Julie asked following her sister towards the exist.
"As full of energy as ever," answered Mary. "I still can't believe he's mine sometimes, you know?" she asked wearing a bright happy face.
That's when they heard a click, and Mary heard her husband's scream!
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"Tag you're it," hollered Angel as he hit Rem on the arm.
"Angel, it's time for bed," Rem said laughing as she chased after the little brown headed boy. He really was full of energy. "Angel, come on," she said catching up to the little boy.
"I don't want to go to bed, Rem," Angel complained as Rem carried him upstairs. "I want to stay up until Mommy and Daddy get home," he pointed out with a yawn.
"Tell you what," Rem promised the little boy who was currently half a sleep on her shoulder," when your Mommy and Daddy come home I'll tell your Mommy that you wanted her to wake you up and tell you that they're home," she said entering the little boy's room that was filled with every kind of toy a little boy could ever want. Army guys, monster trucks, Ninga Turtles, you name this little boy had it.
"Promise?" Angel asked in a sleepy voice.
"Promise," Rem said before laying the little boy in his green cover bed. "Now sleep and I'll sing to you," she promised.
"I don't know,
What words I can say,
The wind has a way, to talk to me
Flowers sing, a silently lullaby,
I pray for reply,
I'm ready…
Quite day!
Calms me
Oh Serenity,
Someone please tell me,'
Oh…what is it they say,
Maybe I will know one day," Rem sang in a gentle soft voice until the little boy fell asleep.
She only left the little boys side when a knock came at the door and she went to answer it, never expecting what she was about to learn would change not only Angel's life but hers for the rest of their lives.
"Mrs. Riley, aren't you suppose to be with Mr. and Mrs. O'Connell and Julie and India?" Rem asked the thirty-five year old watcher.
"Rem, you better sit down. Where is Angel?" she asked noticing the little boy was know where to be seen.
"He's in bed, Mrs. Riley, what's going on?" Rem asked getting a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"The vampire nest that we went to check out tonight, it turns out that it was a trap, and there were bombs set to go off if anyone was to enter the building with in fifteen minutes. Mary, Julie, and India where inside when it went off and…," explained Mrs. Riley sadly as she wiped tears from her face.
"Oh, no," Rem said feeling all the air in the room get suck out suddenly.
"Their were no survors, and when Henry tried to get Mary's body out of the burning rubble he caught fire and turned… to ashes," Mrs. Riley finished breaking down into tears. "I couldn't save any of them," she cried. "Not a one, my poor young slayer, my friend, her little sister and her brother-in-law, none of them," she cried into her hands.
"Rem, why is Mrs. Riley crying?" Angel asked as he walked into the living room rubbing his sleep filled eyes.
"Oh, you poor baby," Mrs. Riley said engulfing Angel into a hug. "You're so innocent, and now that innocents is gone," she cried rocking Angel in her arms.
"Rem?" Angel asked with fear in his voice. Mrs. Riley was scaring him, and his Mommy and Daddy was suppose to come home when she did.
"Angel, sweetie come here," Rem said softly trying to hold back her tears long enough to be brave in front of this sweet little boy who had just lost everything in his little world. "I need to tell you something," she said gently as he crawled up into her lap.
"Where's Mommy and Daddy?" asked Angel as he noticed Rem's sad face and Mrs. Riley's tear stain face. "They're… They're not coming home…are they?" he asked when he realized that his parents must have been killed. "My Mommy and Daddy lost to the bad people…," he said sadly breaking Rem's and Mrs. Riley's heart into itty bitty pieces.
"I'm so sorry, Angel," Rem said hugging the little boy to her, and let him cry.
"It's not fair," he cried out. "Why did my Mommy and Daddy have to go away?" he demanded upset crying hard. "Daddy promised…he promised he would come home," he cried.
"Oh, Angel, he tried Sweetie," Mrs. Riley said trying to comfort the little boy. "Your Mommy and Daddy loved you very much, and you were the last thing both thought about," she told him, knowing in her heart that she spoke the truth.
"I want my Mommy," Angel cried barring his head into Rem's chest.
"I know," Rem said as she let her tears fall. "I know," she said gently rocking him. "I promise though, I promise that I will always, always take care of you," she vowed that night. "No one will ever hurt you as long as I am around," she told him.
True to her word Rem managed to get Mrs. Riley's help in taking care of Angel until she was of legal age to take care of him herself.
Over the next three years Rem had met the new slayer Makoto and had became best friends with her. Rem learned her magic and Angel was taught by Mrs. Riley how to fight and defend himself from the forces that came out after dark. Soon though it became apparent that maybe Rem should go help Makoto take care of the undead in Las Angelus. Rem had mad solo trips before to LA and sometimes she took Angel when she needed too, but the time came when she knew she was needed in Las Angelus. She wasn't sure about taking Angel at first, but when the now seven year old insisted, and then Merrick, Makoto's watcher said that he and Makoto, Maya, and Kit would help take care of the boy Rem decided to take him with her.
So Mrs. Riley arranged it, so Rem could take Angel with her, and for the time being since Rem was now eighteen she had legal custody of Angel. So forgoing college Rem picked Angel up from England where it all began and took him to the States where her best friend and her best friend's watcher now lived.
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Present: 1987
"I miss you Mommy and Daddy," Angel whispered looking up at the stars in the sky. "I pray that you watch over Mako and she comes home safely,' he prayed before closing his eyes and waited for the sound of Makoto coming home safe and sound, like he did three years ago for his parents.
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