Lizzie
knocked on her father's door, "Dad, come on, get up. We have to train."
It had been
a long time since she had been up before her father. Even when he had gone on all night cases he managed to get up to
train her. Of course Lizzie knew very
well why her father had slept late but this was pay back for sending her to
bed.
"I'm
coming," he called back, "go down to the kitchen and I'll be down in a minute
to make breakfast."
Angel was
the kind of guy that once he was awake he was ready to go. Angel gently untangled himself from
Buffy. She rolled over and gently
grabbed his arm.
"Where are
you going," she asked sleepily.
"It's six,
I have to go make Lizzie and Heather some breakfast before they train," he
responded.
"It's six?
Jenny and Davey should be up soon," Buffy said as she stretched while she
watched Angel put on his work out clothes. 'Man does he look hot,' she thought to herself, 'to bad we can't stay in
bed all day.'
"I'm going
to have a shower," she said aloud, "I'll be down once Jenny and Davey are up."
She stood
on her tiptoes and planted a kiss firmly on Angel's lips and then headed for
the shower. Angel sighed contentedly
before leaving his bedroom, their bedroom, and heading down to the kitchen to fetch
the girls their breakfast. He entered
the kitchen to find the two girls chuckling to themselves.
"What's so
funny?" he asked.
"Nothing,"
the girls chorused in that voice which definitely meant something was up. Lizzie had been telling Heather about the
payback she did to her father.
"Whatever
you say," Angel said, knowing very well that it was something and probably
something about him. "How 'bout
scrambled eggs and sausages for breakfast?"
The girls
nodded. Just as Angel finished cooking
the sausages Buffy came down the stairs. She held a sleepy David in her arms and Jenny, who seemed to be
wide-awake, trailed a few steps behind her.
"Good
morning Daddy Angel," Jenny said cheerily as skipped up to him and gave him a
hug.
"Good
morning Jenny," Angel said returning the hug. His eyes welled up slightly at hearing her call him Daddy. "How 'bout
some breakfast?"
The young
girl nodded. Angel doled out eggs and
sausages for the girls, himself, and Buffy, he also made up a plate for
Davey. Davey was clinging tightly to
his mother. He was in strange
surroundings with strange people. The
last thing he remembered was falling asleep in the car.
Davey
pointed at Angel, "who dat Mama?"
"That's
your new Daddy, Davey, and this is where we are going to live now," Buffy told
her son.
"Oh, who
dat?" he said pointing at Lizzie.
"That your
sister Lizzie and that is her friend Heather," Buffy answered her son's
questions. He seemed to be taking the
news fairly well.
Angel sat a
plate of food down in front of Buffy.
"Hey little
man, would you like some eggs and sausages," He asked the small boy.
The little
boy nodded enthusiastically, "thaw-tha-ges are my faaaaavorite."
Angel laid
a plate in front of Davey just as Kate and Jordan walked in.
"Jordan,
would you like some breakfast?" Angel asked his newest trainee.
"No thanks
I already ate at home," Jordan responded and sat down to wait for Angel and the
girls to finish their breakfast.
A while
later as everybody was finishing up Angel looked at his watch. "Ok, you three
it time to get to work," he said to his trainees. He turned to Buffy, Jenny and Davey, "I'll see you guys
later." He ruffled Davey's hair and
kissed buffy lightly before following his three charges out of the room.
After her
kids finished breakfast Buffy took them to the rec room so they could watch
sesame street. She then returned to the
kitchen to talk to Kate. She didn't
know much about the ex cop so she decided that kids was a safe topic to start
off on.
"So Jordan
just started training, for being a member of the agency, I mean?" She asked, it
seemed like a safe enough question.
"Yeah,
today's his first day," Kate answered, "Actually I want to see how he's doing,
want to come?"
"Going in
to the room during training will distract them," Buffy stated, "I know that
from personal experience."
"We're not
going into the training room," Kate said, "come on, I'll show you."
She led
Buffy down a hall and into a small room. There wasn't much in the room, just some video recording equipment, an
old couch and a couple of chairs. One
of the walls was made of one-way glass. Through the glass Buffy could see the kids and Angel training but she
knew all they saw was a mirror.
"Angel uses
this room to record each training session," Kate explained, "at the end of each
week he and the kids review the tapes together and analyse them for
re-occurring mistakes and things they need to work on. Sort of like a pro sports team does."
"Good
idea," Buffy said impressed. She turned
her attention to the four people training in the adjoining room. Watching Lizzie train reminded Buffy of
herself when she was first called, actually Lizzie was better than Buffy was
when she was called.
