Part 2 - The Confrontation

A/N: Thanks for the positive reviews. I changed the format a little so that it's easier to read. Please R&R. I need a few beta readers if anyone is interested in the job just pass along an e-mail.

Buffy: "Hey Will what's with the suitcase?"

Willow: "Hiya Buffy. I've got to go out of town for a couple of days."

Buffy: "What's going on?"

Willow: "Family thing out of town, tell Xander I'll be back in time to help him with his paper."

Buffy: "I think that our college boy will be ringing you up every five minutes. Ever since he enrolled and Sunnydale U he has been like a man possessed with the studying."

Buffy turns around and notices that she has been talking to herself and the front door is open.

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Angel: "Hey Cordy, do you know where the Robinson file is?"

Cordelia: "Would that happen to be the case that we finished yesterday?"

Angel: "Right, scaly demon file. Sorry about that."

Cordelia: "You know you are acting a little strange today Angel. Wanna talk about it?"

Angel: "Not really. I'll be in my office if you need me."

Cordelia: "Ok"

At this moment the door opens to reveal a rather angry Willow.

Cordelia: "Hello Willow".

Willow: "Hey Cordy, Angel." she replied curtly.

Willow: "May I talk to you in private Angel."

Angel: "Sure just go through there and take a seat."

Cordelia: "What's with the bitchy witchy."

Angel: "I don't know Cordy, but I'm going to find out."

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Angel enters the office and shuts the door behind him.

Angel: "So you wanna talk about it or do I have to guess why you're acting like this?"

Willow: "Gee dad it thought it would be obvious?"

Angel: "How did you find out?"

Angel looks at Willow with a look of shock and surprise.

Willow: "Mum apparently kept a very informative diary. It would have been nicer if one of my parents had actually told me to my face. How would you feel to find out secrets that have been buried for twenty years?"

Angel: "I know you are very hurt and angry about this. But you've got to understand that it was our choice. We thought that you would be safer if you didn't know. We both had enemies that would do anything to get their hands on you. Your mother was a slayer, not to mention a natural witch and I'm a vampire. Like it or not that is a pretty formidable combination. You know what you were capable of, and what you are capable of today. Did you know any other kids that could slay three vampires in under a minute? Or that could teleport themselves throughout the house? That's why the watcher's council stole your sister. They thought that she was you."

Willow: "Was my sister your child?"

Angel: "Yes, little Isabella was mine, but she didn't display any of your abilities.

Willow: "I miss her. I don't even remember much about her, except the necklace that she wore around her neck. I remember mum bought it for her because Bella was totally obsessed with cats. She would meow around the house and drink her milk out of a bowl on the floor.

They both share a laugh over the memory before being washed over with despair at their current situation.

Angel: "I tried so hard to find her. I tracked her down to a little town in Boston a few years ago but she had already gone."

Willow: "How did you know that it was her?"

Angel: "Whoever had her made her leave her stuffed blue cat behind. She wouldn't go anywhere without it."

Willow: "Do you ever think that we will be together again?"

Angel: "Every night I hope that we will be family again. But we will never me a complete family with your mother gone. I just wish that I knew if she was alright. Thirteen years is a long time to worry about someone.

Willow: "You didn't love mum did you?"

Angel: "Of course I did. She was the only woman I ever loved until Buffy."

Willow: "But you never lost your soul."

Angel: "Your mother cast a spell on me that bound our souls together. When she died the spell was broken."

Willow: "I better go this is a lot to take in right now."

Angel gets up and puts a hand on her shoulder.

Angel: "Please, stay here at the hotel for a while. There are still a lot of things that need to be sorted out."

Willow: "The first thing being what are we going to tell everyone?"

Angel: "I just don't know."

********************************************************************* Sorry to leave it there guys but I have a lot of homework to do over the weekend. I'll try to have the next chapter out by Monday. This is really Sunday for all you non Australian readers.

Kim