AN/ Nothing of any substance to say here…Just please R & R! Hope you like!
Chapter One
"So, he just POOF?" Faith asked Fred and Gunn. She had woken up about an hour ago, and she had started to talk to the girl, and the Gunn joined in on the conversation.
"Yeah…He went to meet Cordy and we haven't seen either of them since…" Gunn answered.
"So, so, you, umm, think that maybe they, ya know…I mean, you said that Angel was really happy before he left. So do you guys think that maybe-"
"NO," Fred cut her off, "Cordelia wasn't that stupid…Something happened to them. We have a couple of ideas about who may have done it."
"Wolfram and Hart?" Faith asked, she shrugged off the looks they were giving her, "they hired me to get rid of him once…It didn't work. Do you think maybe they had something to do with it?" She asked.
"Its possible…They really wanna get their hands on Connor. And he did have a run in with them earlier that night. They are our only suspects at this point."
"What about Connor? How has he taken all of this? I mean, he gets back from a hell dimension and his dad disappears…"
"He isn't taking it too bad…I mean, he hadn't really gotten to know Angel. I think he is a little more upset than he is asking, though," Fred answered her.
"Huh," She let herself say, "Well, I am gonna go upstairs…Maybe get ready to go out or somethin."
*****
She went up to the room they had given her. It was right across the hall from Connor. She peaked through the open door to his room. He was reading an old book. It looked like something Angel would have been reading.
"What?" He said, looking up to notice that she was starring.
"Nothing…" She said, shaking her head.
"You wanna come in?" He asked her.
"Sure," She sat down on the bed next to him. They sat for a moment before she asked him what had been lingering in her mind, "Why aren't you helping them look for your dad?"
"What?"
"Well, Fred and Gunn down there are using all they have got to try to find Angel, and you are up here reading."
"Well, I, uh…" He couldn't think of how to answer her. For some reason it wasn't as easy to lie to her as it was to lie to Fred and Gunn.
"It sounds like you two got along pretty well, in the end at least."
"Yeah, well…"
"What?" She asked.
"Can you keep a secret?"
"From them? I guess so, yeah."
"Angel killed my father."
"But I thought Angel was your father?" She questioned his statement.
"That THING was NOT my father!!! Why do people keep saying that he was my father!?" He demanded.
"Well, he was…"
"No…He was a thing!!! He was an evil thing…"
"Wait…Angel killed someone? That Holtz guy? That's impossible…" She said in disbelief.
"Well, he did. I saw the body…"
"No…Angel is the one who helped me. He helped me! There is NO way he did that…Oh my God…" She said, realizing what was going on.
"What?"
"It was you…You did something to Angel, didn't you?" She asked.
"What?" He said, "You think I hurt my father?" He said, trying to jump back into his lie.
"Don't give me that SHIT!!! I invented it…Connor…What did you do?"
"Nothing he didn't deserve," Connor said, forcefully.
"Connor, I understand that you thought you were doing the right thing, when you did whatever you did. But Angel is a good guy…He is the only person that believed in me…He helped me change."
"Change? What were you like before?" he asked.
"I was a fiend…I hated the world…I was terrible, and your fath-Angel," She said, remembering what Connor had said earlier, "helped me become a better person…He helped me get redemption."
"He is still a monster."
"Fine. Have it your way. But I am telling them that you know what happened to him…That is, if you don't tell them first," She said, walking out of the room.
*****
"Guys," Faith said, walking back downstairs to where Fred and Gunn were.
"Faith? We thought you were going upstairs?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, I was…Look, you guys should know something."
"What?" Gunn asked her.
"Umm, I was talking to Connor, and umm," She tried to force out the words she knew she wanted to say. But she remembered what he said about keeping a secret, "Never mind…" She said, walking back up the stairs.
'He's got two days…' She thought to herself.
End Chapter One