Eve sight and looked at her laptop. The science lab was due Friday, and nothing was done. It really wasn't her fault, she stayed up all night worrying about Dawn and Sunnydale and half her time at school Sleeping. Something had to go and school, well there was only a short three weeks left.
She typed up the lab for about 15 minutes before she moved to the English Lit. paper. As she typed, Eve wondered if her teachers would let her take exams early. She would need a note, whish would be easy enough, but the prep would have to be crammed into only a few nights of hard core studying.
The next day, not in hand, Eve went to the guidance office and handed in the required note. By the next Wednesday, she was home free, boarding the next Greyhound bus to Sunnydale to help out.
That summer was not an easy one. And once BuffyBot was destroyed, Eve knew it was time to return home to LA. Sunnydale was not home, and although she helped, she was not welcomed with open arms once the learned who...or what...she was.
But going home also brought surprises. A baby's cry greeted the teen when Eve walked into the Hyperion's door.
"We're a baby-sitting service now?" Eve quirked an eyebrow.
"Don't let your dad hear you say that about Conner," Fred told her, passing by.
"Angel-cakes isn't very happy with you. He's rather protective of your brother over there," Lorne told Eve, following Fred.
Eve blinked for a bit and went to go find someone to give her answers…who wasn't her father.
"Doyle!" Eve spotted her prey.
"Aye Princess, you're da's been looken for ya. Says he has to explain some stuff to you," he said to her.
"Like the kid who was crying before?" Eve asked.
"Like the babe that was crying before," Doyle confirmed, "He also isn't too please with the likes of you runnen off," he nodded and walked away.
Eve sighed. This wasn't going to be fun. She was planning to lay low for a few days, hoping her dad would forget about yelling at her. But now he wanted to talk to her…great.
"Okay, what's the deal?" Eve barged into her father's office/room. If it looked as if she wasn't scared, the batter it was.
"Shh, I just put Connor down," Angel cautioned, leading her to a chair.
There's that name again! Whose Connor? What happened, I was only gone for he summer!" Eve cried.
"That's right, only for a summer! Connor is your brother, the child of Darla and myself. He's part of a prophecy, but he's my son the same." Angel snapped. There was something new in his eyes, something Eve had never seen before. Looking closer she saw something he never had shown her, fatherly pride.
Eve didn't know what to say or do, so she ran, but her father caught her arm, making her spin around and face him. When she looked up, the human mask was taken away and the face of Angelus was all that was left.
"Don't scare your son," she hissed and ran out of the room, down the hall, and out of the hotel.
She spent the days out in the sun and nights at human friends' houses. She did not want to go back to a place that did not feel like home.
"So when are you going home?" Mel asked, playing with her hair.
"When my dad is human once more? Eve smirked as he settled on one of her friend's overstuffed chairs.
Mel rolled her eyes and reached to her Playstation and flicked it on, bringing noise to the silent room.
"So how's your possessed kitty?" Eve asked after the little beeps and buzzes of the video became unbearable.
"Chasing the unseen demons like usual," Mel said, her eyes not leaving the screen.
They sat in Mel's living room until Eve couldn't take it anymore. "I'm outta here. Call ya later," she told her friend and walked out the front door into the night; she was going to find something to do.
She was walking down East James Street when she heard someone walk up behind her. She tensed, but continued to walk. Finally a person sighed, and it hadn't been Eve.
"Just stop it will you? I know you know I'm following you, so just turn around," the cocky British voice said, "I don't bite."
I do not own any characters you recognize. Also, I don't think East James Street exists…I just made it up…Review please.